dormheads | WINTER COMMON ROOM

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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[oh... he gives her a little smile, though it's weak.]

Yeah. I think I got off kind of easy, compared to the others. Just... You know. Very bruised.

It's still shitty. You don't gotta downplay it.

You wanna talk about the shit that happened in there? Or no. I can leave it alone.

Oh, you know. Beat up by an invisible force, thrown across a room into a wall, strangled a little, that kind of thing.

[it’s a pretty weak deflection, but after a second:]

...Full story tomorrow, maybe?

[ ..... ]

.... It's because wherever he went was based off of my memories.

[questioning boof]

[JUST. LOOK AT HIM]

[ yeah, he just... he looks at beau, and a thousand different emotions cross his face - anger, and worry, and... upset. there's a rawness to his voice, but he doesn't hesitate to look her in the eyes. ]

I'm sorry, Beau. I didn't - I just found out, too.

[a long pause.]

Don't - fucking apologize to me. It's not your fault.

It's - I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I'm not part of it, it came out of my head. All those injuries and shit came from a mic, and Rupert - he found a bunch of information on me, and people I knew were there.

[ a little stubbornly, but, that's probably not shocking at this point - he's as intense about being angry and hurt as he is anything else. ] I don't know how, or why it happened, I just - they got hurt, and it was my shit they got hurt for.

I talked to Caleb about it, before we came in here, too, and he just... confirmed all of it.

Shut the fuck up.

[angy!]

Shut up. You didn't put them through it, you just got pulled into it too.

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steelo - 2021-06-25 01:23 (UTC) - Expand

[ HELLO?

Ichiro? She doesn't understand this, but still: ]

I fucking hate this shithole!

[ As if she wasn't seething before. She's seething now.

She wants to punch something. She is probably going to punch something. ]

Tell me about it.

[ he sounds furious, too, though it's quiet and cloudy and angry, like a gathering storm.

just hit him ]

Let's fuck some shit up tomorrow.

[ Once they're free of this lockdown. Property damage!!! ]

Yeah. Yeah.

[ don't say this to me i don't trust you not to be dead

he's just kind of jittering where he's standing, now, clearly still angry. ]

[ wow, would i do that to you?

It is touch week, so she reaches over to touch his elbow. ]

steelo - 2021-06-25 01:53 (UTC) - Expand

overshaded - 2021-06-25 02:17 (UTC) - Expand

I'm sorry, what? They can do that?

[ THAT'S

ALARMING? ]

Apparently, yeah.

[...]

I don’t- have to talk about it more if you don’t want me to.

It's okay. [ he says quietly, voice a little rough. ]

If - whatever people need to know to help. You're the one who had to go through it, if you don't wanna talk about it, I - whatever you need.

[well. it's touch week, so - he reaches out to put a hand on his shoulder.]

[ the corner of his mouth lifts up, just briefly, and he reaches up to cover his hand with his, giving it a little squeeze, because it is in fact touch week. ]

...'s okay, man.