dormheads | FALL COMMON ROOM

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.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

... I agree that we should keep calling him Luke and not trying to force him to face reality, but we have to keep the Dorm Heads in the loop. Even if they can't believe us, they've got to be made aware of what's going on. And that includes whatever the hell we all did to him.

[ fuck you he's gonna fight popular opinion, sort of ]

So...where do we draw the line?

We don't have to convince them that we're telling the truth. We just need to be honest about what we think is going on and what we're trying to do.

[ On Hope's visual cue he will redirect his question over here. ]

Do you think we should keep talking about sus stuff in the dorm around him then? Or like, get a table at the cafeteria or library or something?

The Dorm Heads don't know anything unless we tell them, but they're just as affected as we are by all of this. I'm not going to hide anything. As far as I could tell, so long as we're not actively trying to make him recall things from his other life, it doesn't seem to hurt them. Using their real names should be off the table for that reason, though.

I don't want to call him Luke if that's not his actual name.

Let's think of a nickname for him.

No.

[ blunt ]

As far as he knows, when he's like this, his only name is Luke. Forcing a third name on him won't help at all.

Even if we tell him it's a nickname?

[ ... he still wants to say no but he'll allow lalli ONE CHANCE: ]

What kind of nickname did you have in mind.

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As soon as he wakes up? [ Looking down at his unconscious body...

...There's a certain, deeper flavour of doubt and discomfort to him, for some reason. ]

What kind of lie were you planning to say? He'll remember Futaba tackling him to that couch anyway!

I wasn't planning on lying to him! Just, you know!

Do we tell him everything about what he said?! And the memory? Or just that he was acting weird and that he might be brainwashed?

He already knows we think he might be brainwashed. It's not so weird to tell him that much. But... anything about the memory won't serve a purpose. He won't be able to mention it. I tried to talk to him about Sora before, and he couldn't remember a thing.

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[ shoves her face in here ]

A table elsewhere means we could loop in the other dorms in too. Probably not all the time but it'd make it easier to exchange info

I've been trying to keep up with people in the other dorms and exchanging information that seems relevant to everybody. But something easier wouldn't be bad either.

Setting up a specific spot to share info is probably a good idea. Like, a super secret meeting spot out in the open! No one sits there unless there's Very Important Info that everyone needs to know about.

[ how secret spy do we need to go ]

Wouldn't it just be easier to have some kind of community board that everybody can visit and check out? I feel like sitting around and waiting for people to show up would still take forever and also be a pain.

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I agree with this. We must call him by the name he wants to be called, and we must not try to force him to recall things when he is under a compulsion not to. But we can try to bring these things up with him. And if he does not wish to hear it, then let that be a choice he makes rather than a decision we make for him.

[He looks a little awkward, crossing his arms.]

I have been under the influence of this sort of, uhm, memory altering spell before. While you're under it, probably nothing anyone will say will help for longer than a moment or two. And the confusion can be, uhm, distressing and painful. But that does not mean. . . I would not have wanted people who care for me to play along just for only my comfort.

[ hm. he'll pat caleb on the arm quickly as sort of thanks for sharing something he is obviously not super comfortable with ]

Exactly. There's been enough choices taken from him right now. I'm not going to let us add to that by deciding what's easier for him.

[He's not super comfortable being patted, either. It's fine.]

Yes. Comfort is not the only thing in the world.

[ he's slowly nodding in agreement, with a little extra bow of his head to show gratitude to caleb. ]

...Do you mean back home, or did someone cast their altering spell on you here?

Back home. Not here.

[ will frumpkin let futaba scoop him up and put him in calebs arms? here, have your own therapy cat buddy. ]

[He will allow it, but Caleb seems very surprised by this, like he's not sure what to do? Patting the kitty like Futaba just ordered him to?]

[ doctors orders! she even nods when he does as "asked" ]

There you go. Talking about shitty things like this without fuzzy therapy is terrible.