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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Comments

[katzepaw]

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.

[ghoststrums]

[ 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.

[katzepaw]

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

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

[selfestheim]

[ 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?

[katzepaw]

Back home. Not here.

[alitaba]

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

[katzepaw]

[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?]

[alitaba]

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

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