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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-05-30 12:40 am
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once more with feeling [act 3]

You awake in an unfamiliar bed.

It’s comfortable enough, sure, but it’s certainly not yours. The room, too, is unfamiliar, especially in such heavy darkness. There seems to have been a great effort put into making it a livable space, with fuzzy rugs laid over linoleum, beds arranged as best to fit (and one bunk bed per dorm, rip whoever has the bottom bunk), and a single desk. You've also got individually labelled trunks; if you look inside yours, you'll find a yearbook with mostly blank pages, as well as a few with some interesting information. But even with all these changes it’s clear this room started it’s life as a classroom, every window hidden behind heavy dark green curtains.

To add to the strangeness of it all, your clothes have been swapped for some kind of uniform. It, though fitting your body perfectly, might feel a bit odd to some of you, as the body you have isn’t quite the same as it was before you mysteriously fell unconscious. The other important thing to note is the people in the other beds around you, all wearing the same color-coded uniform.

The hallway outside the dorms is narrow but well-lit, with fresh white walls and some scattered posters advertising some kind of midweek club meeting. The hallway goes on until, for the more contemporary of you, the pieces start to fall together as to your location: a school. Once you leave your rooms you’re free to wander as you wish but pinned up on a corkboard just outside the cafeteria there’s framed information that you might find helpful. If you explore further into the other rooms, in fact, you'll see there's an identical copy outside all of them.

In the lobby there are linoleum floors and fluorescent lighting, and a pair of glass doors that appear to lead outside. You can see out of both of them that the sun is shining brightly and there’s definitely more to see in the distance but the glass is unbreakable; you can't get out that way right now. A rolling metal sheet blocks off the hallway to the west. For the moment, both doors leading outside are locked.

It looks like you’re stuck. But hey - at least you aren’t alone.
themuseabandonsyou: (concern)

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-05-31 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you been kidnapped before? [ he asks, sounding mildly horrified. That's terrible! But she seems really casual about it, again, which is confusing. ] And why only the girls?

[ orpheus you sweet summer child ]
sugarlumps: (that sounds lame)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-01 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? I'm a certified lumping hottie, of course I've been kidnapped. Ice King's a stupid dork, but even he wants to get up in these lumps if he could.

[that's an answer right]

And girls cause we're way prettier than guys and weird lonely people really want to marry us?
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-01 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I think girls and guys are both pretty, [ says Orpheus, absently, as he tries to puzzle through the rest of what the purple girl is saying. ]

You... think we've been kidnapped because someone wants to marry us? Or, um, just the girls. [ He guesses that happens in stories all the time, but usually not en masse like this. ] Who's the Ice King?
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[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-02 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
That's how it usually works? It's dumb, but the loser who's doing this'll get beaten up and then we can all just lumping go.

[She's really annoyed, but aside from looking human this is still kind of Wednesday?]

Eh, he's this dumb old wizard loser, he's always doing junk like this.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-02 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay.

[ Orpheus doesn't really condone violence, but he guesses it's kind of justifiable to beat someone up if they're kidnapping people to force them into marriage - if that's really what's happening here, which he isn't entirely convinced about just yet. ]

Do you think it's him this time? [ It would be weird to have more than one mass/serial kidnapper running around at the same time, right? ]
sugarlumps: (that sounds lame)

[personal profile] sugarlumps 2021-06-09 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm-

[She considers, looking at their surroundings.]

Probably not. Not enough penguins.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-09 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Penguins? [ Wait, wha-oh, no, he thinks he gets it. ]

Oh, because he's the Ice King. Are they a heraldic animal for him?