WINTER COMMON ROOM - WEEK 2

[dormheads]

common room.

Similar to the rest of the architecture, the common room in the Winter Dorm is almost more reminiscent of a tea room or parlor that you would find in a manor. A chandelier hangs above, everything in the room glistening in the light that is both welcoming and just a tinge cold. Seating is available for a number of people to gather, adjusting each week to seemingly accommodate a little bit over the number of people assigned to the dorm. A piano doesn't sit too far, and sometimes when the room isn't too full, it's almost like a beautiful classical melody will begin to play itself to make up for the empty space.

Or... is that a showtune...?

Who can say?

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specialty room.

However on the first floor, there's an oddity amidst the serene architecture. One of the rooms opens to a Gaming Lounge, complete with screens that stretch across the entirety of one wall length-wise. Incredible comfortable chairs and couches sit opposite the screen, comfortable enough to steal you away from the outside world for hours upon hours. A series of gaming systems are hooked up to the screens, and a small tower of handhelds sit on a bookcase nearby. Every game you can think of is downloaded and programmed onto each device, though every time you start one up it seems to immediately pull up an otome game or farming simulator. The lighting system changes between a rainbow of colors, and one wall is lined with snacks that are a little less decadent but still just as delicious. The room will adjust based on the needs of the game you play, a wall spinning out to roll out DDR dance pads, virtual reality goggles, or whatever you could need for the ultimate gaming experience.

No, it isn't incredibly reminiscent of Dude Perfect's Game Time Lounge. You're imagining it. (But really, click the link for a better idea of what the room looks like.)

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Comments

[heartlands]

[softly:]

Bark bark growl...?

[but also:]

No idea.

[refate]

[ piping up: ]

It's a place where parents drop of their kids when they don't have any caretakers that can tend to them at home.

Catra, why are you barking?

[heartlands]

Is it usually a good place, or is the word care very misleading here?

[refate]

[ snow: i was put in a high chair too small for me and forcefed mac n cheese when i wasn't hungry, so i now have a psychological nausea at the smell of it.

kon: ] Usually, yeah. Parents entrust the workers employed at the facility to the safety and care of their kids while they work, and then they pick them up afterwards.

[heartlands]

Pick them up afterwards...

[thinking, thinking]

[refate]

[


oh shit, the big brain moment that they have. especially with ichiro's add-on from hope. ]

If the people that have died are at a daycare...

[heartlands]

—Then that's good, right?

[refate]

I want to believe it is. That means we can get them back. We can "pick them up."

[heartlands]

I'll - ask the dorm heads, but if you think that's what it is...

[supercatty]

[stares him STRAIGHT IN THE FACE and just responds with--]

[boof]

[refate]

[


ruffles her hair in sympathy ]

1/2

[supercatty]

[flattens her ears and hisses indignantly!!]

[supercatty]

[and then rethinks that action and growls instead]

[grrrrrrrr]

[refate]

[ softly: ] Oh my god you're broken again.

Who hates you that this keeps happening?

[supercatty]

Who, indeed?

[sulk sulk SULK]

Bark growl woof.

[refate]

This is so weird.

At least you didn't wind up on another field trip.

[supercatty]

Ugh, yeah, no kidding. One of those was more than enough for me.

[though she is a bit stiff as she says that, because. . . the others. . . :(]

[supercatty]

Yeah. You know. Dog noises.

Woof woof.

[OKAY, CATRA?? she is not explaining it]

Well, whatever it is, all of our dead people are "check in" there. Is it some kind of metaphor for the afterlife?

[heartlands]

Yeah, but... Why woof woof...?

[catra???

anyways:]

I mean, I doubt it's just a coincidence that those specific people are listed, so - it must be related to what happened to them or where they are now.

[supercatty]

[his only answer to that is more dog noises. THE MOST INDIGNANT OF BOOFS]

Yeah, obviously. But. . . they're-- gone.

[so. . .? why are they checked into a daycare when they're dead??]

[heartlands]

...Yeah, I know. But—

[after what ichiro and kon say:]

Maybe not forever...?

[supercatty]

[she's been listening, but. . . it looks like she's still trying to wrap her head around this possibility?]

. . . when people die, they're gone for good. Forever. They don't just come back. That's not how it works.

So are you saying that maybe these people didn't really die?

[HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN CORPSES]

[heartlands]

What if... [a beat.] I mean, yeah, that’s true where I come from too, but - what if things here operate on a different set of rules? I don’t know. If not, what do you think it means?

[supercatty]

I don't know. I know this place is super weird, but-- even it can't cheat death.

[a pause]

Right?

[heartlands]

I think your guess is as good as mine on that, but...

[he glances to the sheet.]

We could ask the dorm heads about it.