FALL COMMON ROOM - WEEK 2

[dormheads]

common room.

The common room of the Fall Dorm has soft, dimmer lighting; plush carpet over wood; and several comfortable chairs and sectionals. A few big windows overlook the dormitory area of campus, but there is also a single, cozy bay window on one side.

A television and bluetooth surround-sound are here for Fall students who are more inclined to be tech savvy. In the cabinets under the entertainment stand are an assortment of board games, but the television does have a generic "free tv" app for shows and music.

Above the enormous center fireplace is a moody painting.

This week, there's something else.

specialty room.

Through a door on the first floor, there is an antigravity room. Stepping just a few feet through the doorway will lift everyone up into the air. The seating and most of the rest of the room remains somehow rightfully in place on the floor and will not move. Students, however, can grab pillows and blankets, cups or bowls, or other small items to bring into the air with them.

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Please use this as an open post for members of Fall Dorm. You may post top-levels whenever you'd like and go wild. A new post will go up at the start of each week.

Comments

[illuminance]

... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to mock any of the ideas offered.

[txt]

We keep Bain-san front and center?

[One last group photo for the road...]

[illuminance]

[ she's just moody. ]

[alitaba]

I won't stop you if either of you wanna find out.

[headsplitter]

Funeral?

[ Huh... ]

...If he died by magic in my world, he'd come back eventually. Guess he won't...

[lifeless]

He'd probably like that. We can put him on the couch, or maybe one of us could hold him.

[selfestheim]

...

And I probably shouldn't have snapped at you, but...it's kind of a sore subject for me.

[lifeless]

I don't, but...

[she looks at ichinose? who is literally doctor curiosity?]

[illuminance]

[ she shakes her head. and because it's still touch week, just comes over to give him a very quick and light hug. ]

That's understandable. I'm glad that we have some kind of closure, like this.

[selfestheim]

Yeah. It's the thought that matters.

[battling]

Are these... crock things comfy?

[selfestheim]

...I wonder why everyone else just got taken away as soon as trial ended.

[selfestheim]

[ she'll probably feel that he's shaking a little as she hugs him. he does not reciprocate the gesture, nor does he look at her, but he reaches out to touch her hand briefly after the fact. ]

...It's more than we've gotten for anyone else so far. So...we shouldn't take it for granted.

[txt]

Right? We should totally polish him while we're at it. Really make him shine.

[txt]

[She shakes her head, sighing.]

No clue. There was something I wanted to check out last week, but the body was just gone.

[illuminance]

[ even though she just hugged him, she tenses at the touch - but only for a second before relaxing again. ]

You're right.

It's a strange thing to be grateful for.

[txt]

[She just. Smiles back.]

Pass! That's too much, even for me.

[selfestheim]

...To be fair, just about everything here is strange.

[selfestheim]

...do you not have funerals in your world?

[selfestheim]

What were you looking for...?

[ hewwo? ]

[txt]

I wanted to learn where the bodies are taken after trials, buuuut...

[None body.]

[headsplitter]

There kinda is.

Just not a lot of people that'll do funerals for you.

[silentscout]

We could. I don't know what gods he prays to though. We might offend someone.

Sunday because this is fucking stupid

[silentscout]

[Let's assume this is later in the evening after everyone has had time to be sad in PCs.

Anyway Lalli is in the common room, and he is nibbling on some orchard fruit he swiped and brought back, when he suddenly thinks of something.]

Since we had a 'winter formal' and it's apparently winter now, then New Years is long past. I wonder why they didn't say anything about it, that seems like a pretty big holiday to miss.

[txt]

... Winter usually starts just a little before the New Year. Unless it's different in your world?

[the thought of spending the new year here is sending her, though. my god.]