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

After The Thing, Sunday

[illuminance]

I suppose we should discuss the information I've purchased from Riku.

[ she sets down a paper on, idk, a coffee table or something, for everyone to see!




it's blank. ]

[alitaba]

[ stares at it ]

........I see.

[illuminance]

I think this is promising.

[alitaba]

[ she just nods ]

[txt]

[...

she looks at the paper

looks at lux]

Hey, here's an idea! Why don't you read it aloud for everyone's benefit?

[someone will have to tell her but it won't be ichinose]

[illuminance]

[ no, that works. ]

Alright.

"Lost my phone, sorry for any missed messages. Expelled and injured students signed into the daycare and they are helping get keys to administration building. Good work so far. Need to go into top floor to fix the transcripts so they can return to campus. Please keep other students occupied and happy as emissaries of Wiwaldi Campus. Outside visitors still not permitted in the areas. Construction may be done by end of school year."

Approximately.

[ and of course, while you may all take notes on this letter, you are unable to write it word for word. so enjoy that, everyone. ]

[goalsides]

[squinting tiredly.]

Who's the message from?

[illuminance]

Principal Bear.

[txt]

... "Ni hao, ciao, bonjour, konnichiwa, find the bear keys."

Sounds like we should be paying more attention to the marquee.

[illuminance]

I had thought so at the beginning of the week, but with this letter... Doesn't it sound more as if that's a task being left to those on the other side?

I'm not sure. And maybe it says "not permitted in 'top' areas?" It is difficult to read this thing.

[goalsides]

Very eloquent for a bear. [thanks.] So...that means what, we just aren't allowed wherever the others are but they are okay?

[illuminance]

[ she just. makes a face at eloquent. please this is so hard to read i'm crying. ]

It seems that way. They aren't lost, completely.

[silentscout]

All they have to do is edit their records and they can come back?

[The fuck kind of magic is this?]

[illuminance]

The alerts we get when people die are always classes. I suppose it's symbolic.

[ but also, yeah, what the fuck kind of magic is that? ]

[silentscout]

I'm still wondering how they are bringing back people who are very obviously dead.

[illuminance]

This place took us from our worlds and paused their time, offering an unlimited wish and a pocket dimension of our own control.

I can accept that it can bring back those killed under its terms, too.

[selfestheim]

"Emissaries of Wiwaldi Campus..." was this originally meant for the Dorm Heads?

[illuminance]

I imagine so. I bought it from Riku, so perhaps it was sent to all of them.

[selfestheim]

[ a slow nod... ]

I wonder what the difference between "expelled" and "injured" is. Obviously, it doesn't mean physically injured, since... that would be basically all of us.

[katzepaw]

[Toying with the sleeve of his coat a little.]

Hmm, ah. So injured maybe means those who are. . . killed here? And expelled the ones who disappear after the executions.

[illuminance]

Ah. That distinction would make sense.

[katzepaw]

So they are supposedly, um. Working to get back here somehow.

[ghoststrums]

... So is the marquee... the others trying to contact us?

[ pensive? ]

[illuminance]

At the very least, it seems relevant to what's going on where they are.

[ghoststrums]

... Mm. But the more people end up there, the clearer the message has been...