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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.
tellthestory: (♪ cantilena ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It could represent peace?

[But, uh. Probably not.]

Do you see many plots against Earth?
mcfife: concern (☀️clouds beneath)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, many. Don't you remember Zargothrax taking over all of the kingdoms within Caledonia? Just before that, I chased him from another dimension where he was trying to take over the entire universe.
tellthestory: (♪ glissando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I don't really get out of America. We didn't have Zargothrax there.
mcfife: (🦄 the land that I once called my home)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That's...good. [That's the point - that there's no Zargothrax anywhere.] I suppose news doesn't travel too quickly.

[It is the distant past, after all.]

Well, I'm sure you have wicked plots in America. It could be a plot against against multiple countries.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh - yeah, of course! I know a lot of wicked plotters! All dead or in jail now, of course.
mcfife: heroic (Now it's time to)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-31 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[A nod. As it should be.] Then you must be aware that danger always lurks during times of peace. There many be a new force that has just begun their plan.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-31 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
A little out of my league, probably. That was all...I don't know. Local stuff? Only a few of them actually had co-conspirators, Booth was the only real plotter.

[So yeah, other people are probably gonna want to take point on whatever this is!]
mcfife: heroic (Now it's time to)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-06-01 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Who the hell is Booth?]

Your experience will help regardless. If we are caught up in another attempt to control the world and become a god, I can count on you to help. Will you aid me if this happens to be the case?
tellthestory: (♪ gaudioso ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-01 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[.............]

Yeah, sure. If you think I could help.

[well what's he gonna do, say no???]