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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-06-13 01:55 am
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Week Three

[Last week, some shit went down! Salieri's scene went off without a hitch, but the good mood didn't last. The first motive was a bit of a doozy, and yet it didn't even have anything to do with the eventual accidental death of Mumble Happyfeet! At least Sissi was already pretty much dating Death anyway, right? She's probably fine, wherever she is.

This week, new menus have been posted in the cafeteria. But, more importantly, it seems that other new information has emerged. Everyone wakes on Sunday with some new memories - or are they old ones? - floating around in their heads. Maybe there was something to your discussions of time travel after all. Maybe there was someting to the Wizard's knowledge of the future.

Regardless, you're still stuck in here. At least there's some new places to explore this week. Maybe you'll find something helpful.]


Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday


(( Be sure to submit your memory regains and your AC for this week! Hester's office hours and the merch booth also remain available! ))
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-14 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Elsa is... looking rough. Which isn't really surprising, considering all that they've seen over the past few days. But since the trial, Elsa's been trying to keep herself together, for the sake of the others, but it's clear that it's not just what happened on friday that shook her up.

Monday morning in Rodgers Dorm isn't pierced with a scream, exactly, but if any of the early early birds are still lingering as others begin to awaken, they'll see Elsa startle awake with a choked gasp, one hand clutching the front of her shirt so tightly it's almost as if she's about to tear through the fabric. The hand flattens out, like she's trying to feel her chest, her heart, before she takes another deep, shaking breath. She looks down at her hands - still unmarked, but she doesn't look.... happy. It's like there's a shadow cast across her face, and she stares at her hands for a good long time before she even attempts to get out of bed.


Later, she'll make a stop by the vending machine. While most of the things she receives are the typical junk inside, something she pulls out seems to shake her, in a good way; a long maroon shawl, which she immediately wraps around her shoulders. She presses a bit of the draping fabric against her face, breathing deep like she's trying to inhale some familiar scent, and just... stands there for a while. It's clear that this item has a lot of meaning to her.


For the rest of the day, Elsa doesn't take the shawl off. Which is fine, because she doesn't really putter around much. She'll stay curled up in the library, thumbing through a few books but not really reading them.]
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Rodgers Dorm

[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-14 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus is already up, per usual, and looks away from the window where he'd been staring out at the neighboring building and watches Elsa as she jolts awake. ]

Elsa? Are you all right?
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-15 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[If it was possible, Elsa would look even paler. She's still fidgeting; examining her fingers, pressing her hands to her face, just.... moving, like she's trying to shake some kind of stiffness out of her limbs.]

I don't... I'm... [She can't even choke out an I'm okay. Instead, she just shakes her head.] I don't know. I had the most vivid dream....
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-15 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus pales, eyes going wide. ]

Oh, um. You too?

[ That's... not reassuring, given his own dreams, but he can put that aside for now. He steps over to kneel next to her bed so as not to be standing over her awkwardly. ]

You don't have to tell me about it if you don't want. But I'm here. Do you need anything? I can probably get you a mug of cocoa or tea or something.
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-15 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
]"Too"? Did they all have nightmares about home? That... can't be a coincidence, can it?]

Cocoa, yes... something warm. I think that would help.

[Another shaky breath, and she rubs her hands nervously against her sheet-covered legs.]

I think I just need something to settle my nerves, that's all.

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Vending Machine

[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-15 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, you get something good?

[The Balladeer did! He's got his guitar - actually his, his one from home - and he's sort of idly strumming it as he sits at one of the tables nearby. The woven strap is new, but he still recognized the instrument itself. Thus far, though, he hasn't made much of that difference; the old strap was pretty darn old anyway.]
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-15 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[No matter how bad things get, the feeling of her mother's shawl around her does wonders to clear the fog of despair from Elsa's head. It's not enough to completely rid her of that gnawing feeling, but it's enough that she can manage a smile when the Balladeer approaches. She opens her mouth, about to respond-

And then her thoughts grind to a halt when she notices the strap of the guitar. That... there's no way. She knows he can't be from her world, so how....?]


Where did you get that???
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[personal profile] tellthestory 2021-06-15 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
From the machine! It's mine from home.

[The Balladeer can see that something is happening here, but he's got no idea what.]

Maya got it, actually...?
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-15 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[... Right, perhaps she should have been a bit more specific.]

No, the- that strap. Where did you get that before here?

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vending machine

[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-15 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
Elsa?

[Cassandra tends to notice now when someone has gone to the concession's stand; typically, they stand outside it, admiring their newly received boons... unless they're buried under yet another pile of trombones. It's part of why she's held off on spending her own coins.]

That looks new.

[She nods towards the shawl wound around Elsa's shoulders - something so deeply maroon stands out immediately against Elsa's red uniform.]
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-15 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[This was a desperately needed lift of her spirits. It's not enough to really make Elsa feel better, after the trial and her dreams, but it's nice. Like a balm on an angry wound. So when she turns to face Cassandra, there's actually a smile on her face - a somewhat tired smile, but a smile all the same.]

It's not new new. It's... something from back home. [She spreads her arms out, so Cassandra can get a better look at the shawl.] This was my mother's.
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[personal profile] feudalladyshandmaid 2021-06-16 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[A smile was the last thing Cassandra expected to see. It's almost uplifting in itself.]

Your mother? [Ah. That's it. Her mother, Queen Iduna. Cassandra knew scant few things about Arendelle's former queen, but everybody knew how she had met her end, going down in the north sea with the king, never to be seen again.]

You look happy. It must be nice, having a piece of your parents back.
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-18 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's important to me, in many ways.

[Sometimes, if she can remember all those years ago, before she'd been too afraid to touch anyone, she can imagine the shawl is really her mother's arms. Wrapping her up in warmth and safety, shielding her from the harshness of the world...]

It's a special memento, and I can't help but feel calm, whenever I wrap it around myself. Like a piece of my mother is still here.

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Library

[personal profile] samefacesyndrome 2021-06-15 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's not like Rina didn't know who Elsa was. They'd been in the same dorm for two weeks now and have been at some of the same gatherings (including... that awful trial). She'd read the yearbook several times so she knew everyone's names... at this point it was hard to not know who everyone was. But it was like in that way you eventually learn the names of everyone in your class. Just because you're around each other and know their names, doesn't mean you really know them. And just like with her actual classmates back home, she had struggled to approach everyone.

...But it shouldn't stay like that, should it? She hadn't talked to Mumble or Sissi either and now they were both gone. She didn't want to regret not at least talking to the rest of her dorm more. And she had a special tool now to make it easier to talk to others, didn't she?

So spying Elsa in the library she makes the decision to approach her, one of her expression sheets up. ]


H-Hello... Are you feeling any better, Elsa-san...?

[ She had caught a bit of what happened this morning when Orpheus talked to her, on account of being used to getting up really early for school but had kept to herself in bed and tried not to listen since she didn't want to be rude and eavsesdrop. Still, it was hard not to worry a little. ]
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-15 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's easy to know of someone, but not know them. That was the case with Rina; she seemed like a nice enough girl, and Elsa smiled and waved when they passed each other in the halls or settled in for the night in the dorm. But she feels a similar way - two of their number are gone, when they were so sure that nobody would die that week. How could she go for much longer, not talking to the others? They can only rely on each other right now, locked away from the world as they are...

When she looks up, she manages a smile, huffing out a little laugh at the sheet held up. How charming...]


A little, yes. [She can't say she feels totally better, but. At the very least, she's not about to lapse into a panic attack.] Has the day been treating you well, Rina?
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1/2

[personal profile] samefacesyndrome 2021-06-16 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good... I've been okay. It's been pretty quiet without incident...

[ ...

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fret fret fret ]
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[personal profile] samefacesyndrome 2021-06-16 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She lowers the paper down enough so her eyes can be seen, suddenly worried that she may seem disingenuous saying this with her face hidden away. ]

Um... I-I'm sorry I haven't talked to you much before now... I um... was just kind of nervous talking to anyone...
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-18 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Elsa gets it. Really, she does. She knows how hard it can be to approach people, to really talk to them. Before her coronation, and even during the party itself, she'd been so nervous she might've been spooked by her own shadow. With everything that's one on in this place, too... that doesn't help much either.

When she looks at Rina, she's careful not to look straight in the eye, for fear of spooking the girl. It's like the trick of looking slightly to the left; look at someone's ear, or their nose, or just over their shoulder, so that you're paying attention but not looking straight at them.]


I understand. It feels like everything's sort of happening all at once, doesn't it? [And god, is it tiring.] Sometimes it feels like it's barely been a few days since we all woke up here, but it's been weeks now...
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library

[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-15 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, hey. Didn't see you there. What're you reading?

[He's holding a copy of Hamlet, for the record.]
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-16 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, Elsa doesn't even know what she's reading. She'd been skimming the words, but not really taking anything in. She closes the book, checking the cover-]

Ah... The Crucible. [Oh no.] Honestly, my attention's been drifting a bit... I can't recall a thing about it right now.
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[personal profile] yourattention 2021-06-16 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sometimes I disassociate through an entire book and can't remember any of it. Something on your mind?

[He sits down at the table near her.]

Not that you have to talk to me about it, but. [He shrugs.] I feel like I have to pay people helping me out yesterday forward, you know?
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-18 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Dissociating??? What are your strange future words???]

Just... the trial. That... sham of an execution. Dreams that happened after. [Elsa lets out a slow breath, setting the book aside.] It's one of those days where my head feels so full there's not enough room to think.

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library

[personal profile] howtheworldwas 2021-06-17 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Eurydice will join Elsa in the library, trying to read her own books. Most of them are histories. It's probably good to have as much information as possible.

But focusing is hard, today, and eventually Eurydice sets aside her books, muttering to herself. ]


Ugh.
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[personal profile] defyingfrigidity 2021-06-18 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[It's sort of funny, in a very morbid way, to think how any of them can expect to get anything done today, with how little focus they have. Was that part of the plan, then? To not just break them emotionally, but break their focus? To make it easier for what happened the other day to happen again? Elsa hates to admit it, but it just might be working...

So lost in thought, she almost misses Eurydice nearby, and starts a bit when she hears the ugh.]


Is something wrong?
howtheworldwas: (talk)

[personal profile] howtheworldwas 2021-06-22 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
No. [ Eurydice says, on instinct. But that's not true, nor is it a convincing lie. She sighs. ]

Yes? I'm not in mortal danger [ hah ] right now, but it is really hard to get anything done. But we don't have the luxury of waiting around, either, so. Ugh.

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