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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.
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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-05-31 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent choices. You really know your chairs! [And he looks up from-- has he been holding this chair catalogue this whole time?] May as well cover our bases and get both.

If I put in the order now, we can probably expect those in, oh, three to five business days.
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[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-05-31 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Has he? She didn't notice him pulling it out... But they're talking about chairs, for whatever reason, so it only makes sense that he'd have one, she figures.

I've gotten into a couple of bar brawls in my time. [Vardaros was good for those. As much as she wanted to get a move on, she had.. fun there.] But jokes aside, there's got to be something around here I can throw at the doors.
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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-05-31 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll admit, you did strike me as the type. I'm more the "throw tomatoes from the sideline" type of guy, personally.

[Everyone needs a niche!]

I suppose the vending machines are a little too big for the job. But there are plenty of weights in the gym. One of those may do.
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[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-01 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Then that will have to do.

[She thinks for a minute, then draws her gaze down to her hands. They're pale; paler still than the rest of her thanks to always wearing work gloves. She runs one over the other.]

There's an entire gym in here, multiple bedrooms. I saw a kitchen back there. This place is meant to be lived in...

[Or at least somewhere you could survive for a day or two.]

...Wait, what's a vending machine?
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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-01 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
Tall machine - [Just holding his hand up to the approximate vending machine heihgt.] - filled with horrifically sugary snacks that you then pay to send falling to their doom so you can eat them.

Not a thing in your dimension, I assume.
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[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-02 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
In my- what? [You've successfully caught her off-guard, Discord.] Uh, no. We don't have those.

I kind of like the "falling to their doom" part, but the whole thing sounds pretty lazy.
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[personal profile] disharmonizes 2021-06-02 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's all about convenience, of course.

But lots of dimensions don't have them, I've found. Well, yours will probably get there eventually, give or take a few centuries.