dormheads | WINTER COMMON ROOM

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.)

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

... I don't know.

[and that frustrates her too. her brow furrows and some of that anger continues to simmer.]

Could there be something we're missing? In the clues you've all been given. The idea that this is some kind of show... but - there is no cast or crew. No lighting. And the idea that we're scripted into following certain plotlines goes against information that other murders are premeditated.

After all - nothing could have compelled Crow to go along with a script, right? What Byleth described still sounded very... like him. And at present you all sound like yourselves - from what I can gather.

So I wonder if there's another way to look at it. It's not the first time I've been inserted into a work of fiction, but this is a much more sinister genre.

[

...............

]

You did know what NecklacexEvil was! Iris! [ HOLY SHIT SHE'S AN ISEKAI ]

[

she covers her cheeks and looks away, flustered]

I-It's a good game.... I haven't been able to talk about games in so long...

[ STOP THIS IS THE CUTEST THING IN THE WORLD

he just takes her hands off of her face and squeezes them in a moment of pure nerd solidarity ]

We're gonna have so much to talk about when you crack this thing.

[STOP THIS IS FLUSTERING HER WORSE]

I - alright?!

[SHE'S BEEN AN OJOU-SAMA FOR LIKE 6 YEARS, BEING TREATED LIKE A WEEB AGAIN IS SO STRANGE]

[ ichiro goes for the doki doki reaction

kon just looks dead inside ]

Why are so many of us issekai-adjacent if not outright issekai'd..?

[squints]

[ whispers ]

Remember when Kon was trying to pretend like he was from ancient times the first week...?

Man, we're all huddled up around Iris, I can hear you.

[ punches him in a not beat up spot on his arm lightly ]

I was trying to save your dignity.

(no subject)

refate - 2021-07-04 17:40 (UTC) - Expand

steelo - 2021-07-04 17:47 (UTC) - Expand

Ancient... was he?

[you're saying this to the girl who just learned what japan is like four weeks ago]

I'm from a world more in line with Wiwaldi, but looked and seemed like I was from one more like Sakyou's. I got pulled to Wiwaldi while I was in a video game, basically.

[ this is the most simplified way he could explain this but they can get into the semantics later. ]

Edited 2021-07-04 17:34 (UTC)

disreguarded - 2021-07-04 17:36 (UTC) - Expand

refate - 2021-07-04 17:43 (UTC) - Expand

commandertoolbelt - 2021-07-04 17:39 (UTC) - Expand

refate - 2021-07-04 17:42 (UTC) - Expand

commandertoolbelt - 2021-07-04 17:46 (UTC) - Expand

I caught him playing video games in the game room at 2 AM like a pro the first week we got here.

[ goblin ]

I - it. What? What do you mean -- holy shit are you an pre-Wiwaldi isekai?

[BEAU, FOCUS]

[ elbows her like an excited child ]

[elbows him back stop you nerd]

[she nods]

Yes. I've got about three lifetimes worth of memories now since I have Viola's too so - I hope that you'll be patient with me as I sort through them all.

[snort.] Yeah, no, I don't blame you.

Uh... fuck - anyway. [she thinks.] We've all seen everything that's gone out so far, I think. The scripts, the daycare sign in, our fill in the blanks thing...

It's all - it's all really appropriate, is all. [a long pause.] Molly's death was almost fucking cinematic.

[ . . . . ]

.... it's a cruelty when we begin to treat the things we go through as if they're spectacles that don't hurt us. I'm sorry, Beauregard - but we'll make sure his return is just as grand as he is.

Let's continue to go over the hints - I wonder if there's more to them than what can be gleaned at first glance.

Edited 2021-07-04 17:43 (UTC)

[she kind of just... takes a second. it all... worked, it all worked out? but he's still gone.]

Yeah - yeah, right, okay. [she's got pictures of them, so.] With the text that's written over the red sheets, did we figure out who that is? It can't be the Bear.

[she looks at some of the theorizing and smiles]

That's true. Principal Bear can hardly type, let alone hold a pen... but he is a very interesting being to converse with.

At least, that's what my memories tell me.

We've got copies of everything, right? And at least notes on the stuff we don't. Let's lay out what we can.

[ thinking... he's gonna peer over kon's notebook while they're talking. ]

So... the first script was all about making things more "exciting", right? Even that's why the principal's a bear. And that fit with the ad-libs, too. It said "DRAMA" in giant handwriting on a part of it. And it said "cancelled" on it, right?

The second hint we got was...Leo's. That was the cast list. That's how we got the Dorm Heads' names. Plus the professors, the blank spaces for the students - that's us - and then it being the first draft.

And then today's was the fax from the bear. Which - we already got a lot from.

Edited 2021-07-04 17:59 (UTC)

[ kon is here and will flip to where they need to go in the notebook, staring down at it for a minute as ichiro goes over it. this is snow's note to himself to actually put the cast list in here OOCly. ]

The handwriting matches across all of the information we have, as well - at least that we're able to see. [ see: their weekly hints purchased from dorm heads. ] Even the daycare. It's all consistent with one person.

[ ... ]

Do you think that might be our "bigger problem"?

refate - 2021-07-04 18:07 (UTC) - Expand

steelo - 2021-07-04 18:09 (UTC) - Expand

refate - 2021-07-04 18:12 (UTC) - Expand

[she looks at all of their theorizing and just

smiles]

Good progress so far! Let's keep at it.