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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.
feudalladyshandmaid: (Sure?)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-01 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Well... If you asked me...

[She's just gesture to Mumble's very human form. Because obviously that's what he is, right?]

I mean, I was a bird at one point...
prophetpriestandking: (need more than they)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-01 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
You were a bird?

[He’s not dismissing her as ridiculous - instead, curiosity!]

How? What kind?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Hm)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-02 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Uh... For like, an hour or two?

[How long was it? Felt like one duet's worth of time.]

I was turned into this sparrow-type thing. I had to learn how to fly and everything.
prophetpriestandking: (TO A PENGUIN WHO HAS LAID TOO MANY BETS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-02 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mumble listens with an encouraging smile.]

Really? How was it? Was it nice, flying?

[A good portion of his childhood was spent staring into the sky, to the world beyond, and to be able to just lift off and go there...]
feudalladyshandmaid: (Grin)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-03 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Cassandra thinks about it.

Slowly, she breaks into a slight smile. One of her first in this place.
]

It was. But I don't think I'd ever want to risk getting bird brain to do it again.
prophetpriestandking: (need more than they)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
Getting bird brain?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Sure?)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-08 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. A weird side effect that erased your mind and turned you into a... A, uh... A bird.

[Is that offensive?]
prophetpriestandking: (uh uh uh uh)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-08 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Maybe a little bit.]

Don't...birds have minds where you come from?
feudalladyshandmaid: (Unsure)

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-08 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. But it wouldn't be... my mind. It's a bird's mind.

[Y'know???]
prophetpriestandking: (YOU SAY YOUR PRAYERS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-09 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Birds still have minds, you know.

[...]

I mean, you're kinda talking to one.
Edited 2021-06-09 09:05 (UTC)