WINTER COMMON ROOM - WEEK 3

[dormheads]

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?

This week, we're getting into the holiday spirit! So pop some bubbly, be a little sweet - it's that time of year.

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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Please use this as an open post for members of Winter 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

[steelo]

[ HELLO?? ichiro is probably just on the couch absorbing everything that has happened this weekend in a starfish so he like jolts up to a sitting position in a scramble of limbs hello ]

Iris!

[azuta]

Hello, Ichiro.

[easily and warmly. her palm is bleeding.]

Not to rush you, but don't you have something you need to give me today?

[steelo]

[ he immediately starts fumbling around in his pockets for his wallet, yeah. give him a sec

here are three vouchers! and then a little more fumbling - and a hello kitty bandaid, also. ] Here.

[azuta]

[



lmao she's very careful to take the three vouchers, and then snaps her fingers and it turns into a sheet of paper. magic trick. this paper is getting dmed to sisi because of plot rules. once ichiro takes it she will politely take the hello kitty bandaid]

I just reopened an old cut - it's fine. Thank you.

[steelo]

What is it you said? It's not about if it hurts, it's that you're risking an infection...


[ scolding (affectionate)

anyway he takes the paper and then starts to scan it then just... makes such a face, and squints, and holds it up to his face??? and then, to the room at large:]

....It's from the bear. Hang on. [ he's gotta fuckin translate ]

[azuta]

[ . . . ]

I might need something bigger than a bandaid?

[that's why she's not applying it, it'll just get soaked. anyway - ]

I believe in you. Please report out once you're done.

[WINTER BITCHES GET SHIT DONE]

[steelo]

[ viola? he gives her such a look??? DONT TASK HIM WITH THIS PLOT AND THEN NEED BUTTERFLY BANDAGES? SOMEONE PLEASE HELP HER

anyway

it takes him a couple minutes, not too long, and then, ichiro's eyes go wide as he's reading, hands tightening on the paper. ] Holy shit. The dead people can come back.

[ he. immediately looks at beau. ]

[refate]

[ immediate: ] So we can get them from the daycare?

[steelo]

Yeah. Hang on. Let me - take notes. Short ones, we don't wanna waste Iris's time.

[ that means no copy pasting everything into your notes, kids! TAKE REAL NOTES ms funk give zeroes on copy pastes. ]

Lost my phone. Sorry for missed messages. Expelled and injured students signed into daycare - we knew that already - and they are helping get keys to the administration building, good work so far. Need to go into the top floor to fix their transcripts... so they can return to campus. Please keep students occupied and happy as...

[ hello ] ...uhhh. Em...emissaries? E-r-m-n-i-s-d-s-a-r-r-f-i-e-s. Is that what that is? It's like, make sure the rest of us are happy. Outside visitors still not permitted in - fuck, the bear signed it with a bigass pawprint.

Permitted in ... T- something - G - E areas. Construction may be done by the end of school year.

There's also like, paint smears and macaroni stuck to it. Maybe the bear's in the daycare?

[refate]

E-r-m-n-i-s-d-s-a-r-r-f-i-e-s has to be emissaries, yeah. We're emissaries to... what?

[ kon is speed writing down the main points of this like he's doing vocabulary definitions. snow is not, he will do that when we're not on a time crunch. ]

[steelo]

"As emissaries of Wiwaldi Campus." [ ichiro learned a new word today! emissary. neat. ]

[refate]

An emissary is a representative of something... it's usually diplomatic. [ squints into the void of his notebook ] So what does - okay, the emissaries are Viola and the other dorm heads. That's part of their scripted role. "Please keep students occupied and happy as emissaries of Wiwaldi Campus."

[ writes down T - ( blank ) G - E areas besides the more coherent notes. ]

[disreguarded]

Occupied and happy is a fucking stretch.

... Keys to the administration building? So - they're doing work.

[steelo]

Yeah. They - Oh, shit.

[ ... ] The marquee. Do you think that's from them?

[disreguarded]

Oh - oh, shit. Maybe? Maybe they're trying to communicate - you know, that'd explain the random sprawl of letters.

Do you think the Dean's List is them too?

[overshaded]

[ There's something that's a little relief that floods through her even if she's still trying to make sense of that. ]

Is that what a daycare is like? T-G-E? Like initials or as a whole word?

[steelo]

I think it's a whole word. I could be wrong, though. There's like a black mark in the middle of it from its claws. "The" or "these" maybe?

[disreguarded]

-- What?!

[sorry she just nearly knocks him over]

What - what, read it, read it.

[steelo]

[ SRRY IT SHOWS UP SUPER BLANK but he's reading it all out loud, yea. gestures above. ]

[commandertoolbelt]

Does it say how? What do we have to do?

[azuta]

[no.

and she just looks relieved]

Yes. That's the most pertinent piece of information from that.

[steelo]

[ he just looks, like. shook, for a second.

and then he starts to smile, a determined, bright, maybe a little bit feral smile of realization and progress.]

Hell yes. Iris, this is - this is great news. We gotta get the keys. And the dead are trying to get them right now, too, that's - great. Do we know if there are any here on campus we can try and hunt for?

[azuta]

[she shakes her head]

Not from what I can tell.... It may be that Principal Bear is enlisting the students in the Daycare to look for those same keys so that they can restore themselves -

Our threat is likely different, but that's only my theory.

[disreguarded]

[mutters about keys and darkness and kingdom hearts]

If that fuckin' rat is friends with the Bear I'm gonna scream. [...] Do we have any idea of what the threat is?

[steelo]

[ nodding. he feels energized, right now, after hearing that. fuck, this is good. tucking the paper in his pocket, though, he grabs the first aid kit that he absolutely just kind of flung to the ground when they got back and proceeded to starfish, then holds out his hand for hers. please let him bandage you. there are butterfly bandages in a basic first aid kit. ]

Makes sense. The same person that's controlling things, right? Whoever or whatever that is. Makes me wonder who the bear's faxing this to. You guys?