FALL COMMON ROOM - WEEK 3

[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

[ghoststrums]

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.

[silentscout]

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

Let's think of a nickname for him.

[ghoststrums]

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.

[silentscout]

Even if we tell him it's a nickname?

[ghoststrums]

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

What kind of nickname did you have in mind.

[silentscout]

...

[...]

Harmaalta?

[I don't know if the automatic translator will affect names, but it's a form of the word 'grey' used when describing an object as grey in color. But it can also mean 'gloomy/dreary' in the same sense too, as if describing the quality of a person.

I googled this shit for a stupid fucking pun.]

[ghoststrums]

... You can use it, but if he says he doesn't like it, just go back to "Luke", alright?

[silentscout]

Okay.

Ukko-Pekka wouldn't be bad either in this situation.

[ghoststrums]

... Why wouldn't it be bad?

[headsplitter]

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. ]

[ghoststrums]

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

[headsplitter]

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?

[ghoststrums]

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.

[headsplitter]

...

That sucks. I think I get how he feels...

[ Memshare has been seriously doing him in. ]

[ghoststrums]

Right. So anything personal from his life... there's no point in mentioning that to him. The only life he remembers as "Luke" is the one they implanted in him.

[headsplitter]

Funny. [ What is? Eh. ] Alright then, sounds like you've got the plan anyway.

[ghoststrums]

[ WHY IS EVERYONE LISTENING TO YAMATO HE'S JUST OBJECTING OUT OF PRINCIPLES ]