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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.
prophetpriestandking: (uh uh uh uh)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-01 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aaahhh...ah. Here we go. Mumble laughs a little bit also, but it's more of an exhale. A little bit more forelorn.]

I don't know all that much about inventing things or tilling soil, but I kinda know the feeling. My Pa'd also be happier if I was a little more like him and [Aha.] a little less like - well - like me.
alchemistake: (Adirite)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-02 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Varian huffs.]

Dads.

[Dads.]

You can't change who you are. Much less who you want to be. That's why I'm gonna keep inventing, and working on my projects. And whatever it is you do- you should keep doing it too.
prophetpriestandking: (so slowly so slowly)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-02 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah! Yeah! Mumble nods in agreement.]

I’ll keep dancing, and you’ll keep inventing, and - maybe they’ll come around.

E-eventually.
alchemistake: (Canardistium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-02 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're good at what you do, they will. ...eventually.

[EVENTUALLY...]

Dancing- that's cool though! I'm not really a dancer myself...at all. I can sing alright, play some music too, but dancing? I'm a liiittle too clumsy for that.
prophetpriestandking: (THE MIRROR STARES YOU IN THE FACE)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-03 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Hah, well - I’m the opposite. I can’t sing at all.

[A pause.]

I-it’s not about being clumsy. Or, not clumsy. It’s just about feeling it...and letting it out.

[You know?]

Just putting one big ol’ foot in front of the other.
alchemistake: (Catalenium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-03 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I guess when you put it that way, it's kindof like singing, right? Even if you're not good at it, it's really more...an expression anyway.

[You don't sing or dance always because it's something you're good at. Sometimes, the body just...lets it out, as Mumble put it.]
prophetpriestandking: (TO A PENGUIN WHO HAS LAID TOO MANY BETS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly! It’s not like there’s a wrong way to express yourself anyway.

[Regardless of what some might say.]
Edited 2021-06-04 10:47 (UTC)
alchemistake: (Ariannium)

[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-06-04 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Be it inventing, singing, dancing...or thinking you're a penguin...

As long as nobody's getting hurt, it's fine.]


You'll have to show me your dancing sometime. Since it sounds like we might be here a while...I'll make sure to get something built so you can see what I can do.
prophetpriestandking: (TO A PENGUIN WHO HAS LAID TOO MANY BETS)

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-06-04 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! [He pretty much shines saying it.] It's a promise.