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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] barberic 2021-06-02 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs.]

Not to mention, some of us are a little old for school, no matter how big they can make the suits.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-02 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles.]

That too. I wonder why this? Could've had any premise, I'd think.
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-03 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Premise?" What do you mean?
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-03 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Like...how it's set up, you know? It could've been in any setting. Like an opera house!
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-03 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I... suppose they had to use the building they had available. And then they chose to make it uniform.

[Get it? Uniform?]
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-03 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha!

[Puns! Fun!]

Sure, I guess. Even though half of us are way too old for this. [should've cast all teens, rip]
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-04 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
It must be some kind of mistake, mustn't it? Either that or we're intended to be some kind of faculty, but I don't know what I could teach without my tools here. I'm nobody - just an average barber.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-04 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
I doubt anyone else here knows how to do that!
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-04 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[He concedes a smirk, at that.]

That may be true, but what good is a barber without his razors?
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-04 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[did anyone else hear some kind of dies irae-like refrain with that, or]

Fair enough. At most, I think there's some brushes in the costume room, but it's not like they'd actually be cutting each others' hair back there. [...] What, like real straight razors?
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-04 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Couldn't be.]

Of course, sir. A barber won't get anywhere with a good set of razors. I spent a small fortune on mine, anything else now would just feel less-than.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-04 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Boy, I think I'd be petrified, trying to use those on someone else.

[Or himself, for that matter, but that's not what we're talking about.]

I feel like I've got pretty steady hands, but I just play music for a living. Not usually all that risky.
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-06-05 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
There's no risk once you learn how to handle them. They become...an extension of your arm, in a way.

[His hand feels lighter, incomplete, like a physical manifestation of his general feeling of 'what the fuck am I doing here?']

I should keep exploring. I'll leave a fellow artist to his craft.

[He stands and crosses the room to offer a parting handshake.]

We'll meet again, no doubt.
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-05 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. Good luck.

[The Balladeer's exploration hasn't been fruitful, but who knows? Maybe someone who's more of a protagonist than him could find something.]