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

[selfestheim]

Y-yeah, I am...

[ hold up ]

—Wait, he what? Why?

[goalsides]

[yeah.]

Dunno. You'd have to ask Bradley or Nier, I didn't ask for details but it sounded like it was to distract Nier from something? Kind of a weird way to do it though.

[selfestheim]

[ he's about to say that he probably would have done something, i dunno, smarter than that if all nier needed was a distraction

but then he looks down at his leggy

and promptly shuts the fuck up again. ]

[goalsides]

[...headpats.]

At least the moat was beneath you? [not that helpful, but.]

[selfestheim]

Y-yeah, that part I planned...I just didn't consider, you know. Physics.

[goalsides]

You overshot it? [he shakes his head.] I know you know this but stay off of it as much as you can until it's a little more stable. You'll be fine.

[selfestheim]

More like...I didn't think about how the impact would affect me. Obviously, it was always going to be a better option than landing on solid ground, but I would still be falling from three floors up. Velocity doesn't stop being a thing in water.

[goalsides]

[he seems to stare into middle distance as he thinks about something. probably all of the times they've fallen and nearly died in the digital world.]

...next time you have to do something like that, ask us. Alright?

[selfestheim]

...Yeah, Yamato already drilled that one into me.

[ :T he has been lectured enough... ]

[goalsides]

[he has the audacity to roll his eyes.]

Of course he did.

[said like someone who has been on the receiving end of a yamato lecture more than once.]

Then consider that the end of my scolding or whatever.

[selfestheim]

[ slow blink... ]

What, he does it to you, too?

[goalsides]

I'm pretty sure his lectures to you are a lot nicer than his lectures to me.

[but he's only mildly annoyed. sometimes...you're also used to this.]

[selfestheim]

Well...you guys have known each other longer, so that kind of makes sense.

[ yes that is clearly the reason ]

[goalsides]

[that's clearly the reason. but he stares at hope for a second like he's debating saying something...but he grins instead.]

Yeah, probably.

[it's fine, hope is just little-brother-shaped and taichi's not stupid enough to recognize that's what happened there.]

[selfestheim]

...You seem like really good friends, even when you guys disagree. I'm... I think I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little jealous.

[ make a fucking friend you loser ]

[goalsides]

[...hm...he glances at yamato who's in the same room and he pauses before pulling out his phone to send hope a text. yamato doesn't get to know secrets.]

You've got some friends waiting for you back home, don't you? People you're traveling with?

[he uses the word traveling lightly given what hope's told him.]

[selfestheim]

[ aw... that's cute... which is very unfortunate because taichi's follow-up question makes him shift uncomfortably, averting his gaze as he looks in the direction of the tree. ]

I...don't know if I would call them friends. They're all older than me, for one, like...actual adults, so it feels kind of weird to just assume that. If anything, to them, I'm...just a kid who was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

[goalsides]

...[well...]

With adults it's a little harder, but I think adults who don't really want anything to do with you wouldn't let you stick around as long as you have.

[and then, more importantly:] Are you at least making friends here?

[selfestheim]

I've always thought it was less that they want to keep me around and more like... they feel sorry for me.

[ stop, his insecurities... but at taichi's next question, he glances back toward the other boy with a curious sort of look in his eyes. ]

...I don't know, wouldn't you be able to answer that better than me?

[goalsides]

Ah, well...[for a second he looks like he doesn't have an answer to that.] ...my point still kind of stands.

[but then he grins slightly.]

I told Lalli this, but I think it also depends on when you decide someone is considered a friend. We're friends though, aren't we? And the rest of the dorm?