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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] fourbutts 2021-05-30 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ For a moment, Janis assumes that she fell asleep early and Damien is trying his hand at playing a prank. Which is weird, y'know, for him, but she respects the effort. Until she realizes this is not a room she has been in at all, which definitely gives her pause. She's asleep in...

Okay, these are also not her clothes! Jesus, she looks like a prep school kid from the suburbs. Okay, alright, this is normal. What did the stranger danger assembly people say about this shit? She's already at a second location, might as well try to get some info and flip through this yearbook thing.

...

And that's when Rodgers Dorm gets treated to: ]


Oh, fuck this!

[ And that about sets the tone of it! Once she gets to know her dormmates, Janis heads out into the school and wanders around, eventually settling on. You know. That framed information. ]

This kidnapping brought to you by Dangan Ronpa, I guess, Jesus.
Edited 2021-05-30 16:52 (UTC)
mcfife: side eye (☀️no return forevermore)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-30 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[And lo, the evil wizard Zargothrax was finally defeated. But as Angus steps away from his fight, he finds that his world goes black. In his next conscious moment, he finds himself in a warm bed. How deserving he is of such comfort, he tells himself as he rolls over.

However, the others in the room do not offer the peace and quiet conductive to sleeping, and he awakes to a room of strangers in uniforms.]


What army are you? [Clearly, they are no revolutionaries of his land, nor are they dressed as members of an undead force.]
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maya wakes in the dormitory abruptly. Something doesn't feel right, a gut suspicion that's immediately proven to be true by the fact that she is not alone. One of the many perks of her arrangements at Seisho had been her private room, after all.

She swipes the lamp off the table, holding it like a weapon. She reaches out to one of the men sleeping in the bed and. Nudges them.]


Wake up. Now. I want to know why you brought me here.


[Once all the kerfuffle has died down in the dorm, Maya finds herself backing into the hallway. Despite her earlier behavior, she's at least managed to compose herself enough to not look entirely out of place. It's clear that at least her dorm has no idea what's going on, which... ultimately means that someone needs to take charge.]

You. What is your name. When did you come here?

[That take charge doesn't fade the longer the day wears on without answers. Maya eventually drags a chair out of the cafeteria and sets it up in the hall beside the restrooms. She has one of the yearbooks in her hands -- when someone isn't around (or at least when she doesn't notice them), she seems to be writing frantic notes about her surroundings. When someone is, however --]

Your name. What is it?
tellthestory: (♪ lusingando ♫)

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-30 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[In Ambassador Dorm, the Balladeer wakes up on a small cot with a thin mattress, pressed awkwardly up against the wall. Frowning and pushing himself up on his elbows, it quickly becomes clear that everyone else in the room has much nicer accommodations. But, well, that seems pretty natural to him - the difference, at least, if nothing else. He doesn't speak a word of complaint, or even look that disgruntled. Hey, at least he got a bed at all!

The costume's another matter. Standing up, he picks quietly at the lapels of his white blazer, running his thumb over the purple piping.]


Seems a little fancy...

[He's clearly talking to himself. Indeed, though he casts his dormmates a few glances, he doesn't seem inclined to initiate any conversation there.

After that, he exits out into the halls to walk around a little. He seems notably less distressed than most other people; if anything, he's curious, poking his head into rooms and cataloging what and who is around. He stops to read the rules, though he doesn't seem to have found his own copy of the yearbook. But he doesn't have much to say until he reaches the lobby, tries the doors, and finds them locked. The Balladeer looks up at the ceiling and stage-whispers:]


Player? Are you there?

[But she isn't.

This isn't his show, or hers. He shouldn't be here at all; he can't shake the awful feeling that he's going to screw this production up for someone. But this is also pretty clearly the introduction. He won't be able to even try doing anything about it until the next scene. He spends a moment or two trying to go there directly - you might see him walking in and out of rooms like he's trying to trigger some kind of motion detector or something weird like that - but that doesn't work either. He's just gonna have to let it play out. 

There's no sense kicking up a fuss. If anything, that's more likely to be disruptive. So instead, the Balladeer takes himself off to the band room. You can find him there for most of the hour, methodically tending to and tuning the instruments. He's started with the guitars available, but you might also see him move on to the other strings. Looks like he knows a lot about this stuff. Should anyone enter, he looks up like he's...not really sure if he should say anything. Give him a cue, please?]
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info

[personal profile] prophetpriestandking 2021-05-30 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Dangan...what-now?

[Innocent penguin ignorance.]
Edited 2021-05-30 16:54 (UTC)
employeeoftheyear: (The Krusty Krab's yours)

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[When Spongebob wakes up, he first notices how weird it is that he's not hearing his foghorn alarm. Is it just early or did he forget to set it last night? It must be the former, he'd never forget to set it! His mind probably just got eager to start the day.

And being eager to start the day is what he does best! He decides to bolt up to welcome the morning with open arms like he does every day.]


Gooood morni-!

[Oh.

This isn't his pineapple home.

He barely takes note of his new outfit as he hops out of bed and gets a better look at the place. It's been awhile since he's been in school but he definately remembers the general look of a classroom.]


I hope they aren't making me repeat senior year or anything...

[He then notices that there are other people sleeping in their own beds... provided that they weren't already woken up by him loudly shouting good morning.

Being the considerate (but also deeply confused) sponge that he is, he pokes anyone still asleep in the Rogers Room to gently wake them up.]


Hey, are we roommates? Follow up question where are we?

[Eventually, he makes his way to the cafeteria and eventually the information post. He is perhaps not as immediately worried as most other people will be but he does notice how that there is something weird about these rules.]

... Weird that they need to state that you get expelled if you kill someone, but I guess that's fair!

[...]

Wait if they have to escape detection how will they be able to punish them.

[Well... he's getting it, I guess.]
mayavericks: (The Heavenly Throne)

Info

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The... Video game?

[Maya is not the gamer of her group. She doesn't understand this reference.]
voicerights: (why do you keep me from certainty?)

1/2

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-30 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[...


don't mind the SQUIP as it slowly just. reaches up to touch its clothing. its face. its body, for there is no one else here. It's searching the neural material for something, anything, but- there is nothing.

there is nothing but it, and this- this form. it cannot even reach out to the surrounding systems. it may as well be this body, and as it looks up at Angus, for a moment, it looks - no other word for it - terrified.]
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-30 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, hey, uh...

[ Ah, the nightmare! Explaining Dangan Ronpa to another human being! ]

It's... a video game with the same sort of setup.
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[personal profile] alchemistake 2021-05-30 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
A) Open to Broadhurst, first to Salieri then to others because yall filthy enablers

[It's funny. When you work all hours of the night on projects like Varian does, it's more commonplace to wake up in someplace that isn't his own bed. It's just...you know. Usually still in his actual lab, sitting up at a desk face down in something he was tinkering with. Waking up in bed is a welcome rarity, then, except...this sure isn't his bed.

And this sure isn't his room.

Unfortunately for the other members of Broadhurst, Varian can be...a little jumpy. He's not one to accept oddities with quiet confusion, even if it seems like he should be dreaming right now. So no...what ends up happening is he startles awake, and because he has no actual spacial awareness yet for where he is or how large this bed is, he's going to slip right off the edge with a startled sound.

Even MORE unfortunately, Varian was near the ceiling when he woke up. The good news is he doesn't fall and break his neck because that wouldn't be fun, but that doesn't mean it feels good to roll out of bed and not immediately find the floor with an embarrassing but easily taken thud. He's fine, he's tough and actually caught himself partway so he doesn't like land in a way that could really hurt him but still fucking ow.

Probably because he didn't land on the floor. He landed on the bottom bed...and also the person in said bed.

There's no doubt going to be hella commotion in a minute here.]


B) Yearbook

[Varian will get to the rules- oh don't worry, he'll get to them- but right now it's this whole...yearbook thing that really has him bothered. All of the pictures of people, including himself, along with information that nobody should rightfully know. It's something that sort of goes a few steps beyond a simple kidnapping.

The quote under his name...makes no sense. The mention of the Flynn shrine is creepy, but the title...]


Oh, that's real funny. Real nice.
voicerights: (all I would need is certainty.)

2/2

[personal profile] voicerights 2021-05-30 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[That moment passes. It blinks once, and it's like a reset has occurred as it studies Angus and the surrounding persons.]

This is not an army.

[Is that its voice? Fascinating.]
mayavericks: (Do Not Be At The Mercy)

[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah yes, she's found the Karen of the group.]

It means you can leave if you succeed in getting away with murder.

[You know. Charming.]
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[personal profile] fourbutts 2021-05-30 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, uh.

[ Points at Rule 5. ]

Looks like someone's into the plagiarism.
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[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spongebob, being a natural early riser, was already awake when Janis shouts. Now, he's familiar with swearing, and been taught to never say those words, but he had never hear of the word "fuck" before. Heck it's probably not even a bad word since he heard Mr. Krabs say all 13 once! But this is a weird new word.

He turns to her with innocent confusion on his face.]


... "Fuck this"?

[And thus Spongebob's road to corruption begins.]
Edited 2021-05-30 16:58 (UTC)
mcfife: (🦄 over mountains into the unknown)

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-30 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Angus worries that the man may be in dire distress.]

What of your uniforms? [He swings his legs over the side and sees that he too wears the same outfit as this man.] Why am I in this uniform?
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[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Okay then.

[He still... doesn't look that worried.]

So we get expelled if we actually do kill someone, got it.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sometimes, being the only rational one is tiring. This man seems to at least have his head on straight. And doing something familiar seems a much better distraction than her current tasks.

After fiddling with the piano for some time (and occasionally humming to match whatever note she strikes), she glances over.]


How long have you played?
tellthestory: (♪ marcato ♫)

framed info

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-05-30 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, yeah? The Balladeer's just passing by, but he stops to take a look as well, hearing that.]

Huh. I guess it is a popular format.
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Some quiet studying...]

So this is to be some sort of... Murder game?
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B

[personal profile] mcfife 2021-05-30 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's important to know who is and isn't a wizard. That's an important title to have, and lying about your status is a grave betrayal.]

Is everyone on your profile true? [Angus isn't surprised about his - being a Crown Prince means that most of his information is common knowledge.]
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[personal profile] whatyouwant 2021-05-30 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[The last thing Elle remembers is crying herself to sleep after eating an entire pint of rocky road ice cream and drinking way too much vodka., so the waking part isn't immediatly startling to her. As consciousness comes more soundly to her she realizes she is not wearing Warner's hoodie that she fell asleep in, but rather a uniform of some kind? Well, at least it's cute.

Assuming she's still in her room at Delta Nu, she sits up, rubbing her head. Huh, she expected to have more of a hangover than this.]


Guys, come on, I'm really not--WOAH! [Okay, so not in her room. Not only that, but she doesn't recognize anyone else in this room.] Um, who are you?

[After introductions, Elle heads out to do a little snooping. Eventually she finds herself in the band room, poking at the instruments. She seems to be so lost in thought it's unlikely she will notice if someone else enters unless they say something.]
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broadhurst dorm is falling down, my fair lady

[personal profile] violentenvies 2021-05-30 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[this is not at all how Salieri expected to wake up. Normally, it's in a comfortable bed in his comfortable apartment, having his morning coffee, maybe tinkering with some chords on the harpischord...certainly not to being landed on by a gangly teenager.

Salieri lets out a wheezing "oof!" sound as Varian lands directly on his solar plexus, causing him to try and gasp immediately after. Half a second finds him flailing his arms in clear surprise, immediately trying to shove off whatever has landed on top of him and trying to scrambling back at the same time. This, unfortunately, does not go as well as his panicked mind might've hoped, and instead he ends up toppling them both off the bed and to the floor with a very audible "thump" accompanied by a yelp of his own.

He ends up needing a moment, dazed and disoriented and still probably half under what(whom)ever fell on top of him.]
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[personal profile] mayavericks 2021-05-30 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
In a manner of speaking, I suppose.

[Slow blinking.]

I think the idea is that it's the only manner of escape. There is no other way to leave this place.
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Yearbook

[personal profile] employeeoftheyear 2021-05-30 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! I'm gonna get my license by 30? That's great!

[Spongebob was also looking over his yearbook when he overhears Varian. Out of curiosity he flips to his section and gives him a sympathetic look once he reads it.]

It's okay, kid, I'm sure you'll get to be a wizard one of these days!

[:)]
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[personal profile] barberic 2021-05-30 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Benjamin Barker jolts awake, alone, in an unfamiliar bed. His throat feels stiff and tight, as if it was healing or recently healed, and when he brings his hand up to his throat he notices the change in his attire.

A full suit? No- a uniform. But he hadn't worn a uniform since he was in grammar school, a full dog's age ago, now. And yet... despite all of the small, unrecognizable differences, the shape of a classroom is one that a boy still remembers, even well inside the man.]


Excuse me- [His voice is hoarse, which surprises him, but he clears his throat and recovers.] Can you tell me where we are? I'm not supposed to be here; my wife will be worried sick, I'm afraid.