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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] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-02 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
The turn of the century?

[ Orpheus looks up at the Balladeer, brows furrowed slightly. ]

Are you from the future, too? [ In addition to being from what sounds like the strangest play in the world? ]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like it?

[Just given this conversation, but:]

When are you from?
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-02 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
It's Skirophorion of 678.2. Or at least, that's what I remember it being? Someone else said she was from 2007.

[ He pauses, something occurring to him suddenly. ]

She didn't include the Olympiad in the year, though? But that's still a really long way away, whether it's 2007.1 or 2007.4.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I have no idea what any of that means. I'm from...

[Well, that's complicated. How long's it been since that off-broadway premiere?]

...early 2000s sometime? What's the Olympiad, though?
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-02 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
It's the number that tells you where in the cycle of years you are? Like next year will be 678.3, then 678.4, then 679.1. Do you not do that?

[ Are they from so far in the future they're using a completely different calendar? That's even more confusing. ]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
So it...goes up by .1 until it hits 5?

[oh no this is a conversational black hole]
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-02 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ it SURE IS ]

Yes! I don't know why it doesn't count all the way to ten, but that's how it is.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Well, I guess I don't know why our calendar works the way it does, either.

[So like, fair enough!]

I'm probably not from your future, then. Just a different place altogether.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-02 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Like... a different country? [ Orpheus sounds sort of skeptical, but that's the only thing he can think of that that could mean. ] I would've thought you were from the US. If your play is about our presidents.