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WINTER COMMON ROOM - WEEK 4
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, something else has been provided!
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.
tuesday addendum
ichiro's sitting on the floor in the common room with copies of the documents from thursday laid out for everybody's reference. happy tuesday.
there's also kon's notebook which is open to the pages with the documents from the trip the first week!!!
:thinking: ]
Iris said we were making good progress with these. I wonder if we missed something. Anybody else wanna look?
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The items from last week's field trips point to more than just murder. Gimme my hand back, Kissa... [ he frees himself and taps out certain points. ]
Fall, summer, graduation, spirit week. Spring, fall, summer, winter. Then there's all the handwritten shit on top... the rest feels random, but maybe we're not reading into it right. Or we're reading too much into it.
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I think maybe too much. We always think too much. [ especially based on what beau said. but then he just like scrubs his hand through his hair, emotions mostly feeling like the equivalent of "arrrgh". frustrating. ] Dude, I swear, I've done more thinking here than I've done half my adult life.
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My brain is firing on all cylinders at all times, long before Wiwaldi, but it's tiring out after all this shit. [ he puts his chin in his hand, radiating that bone-deep exhaustion but contrasting buzzing energy. ] It's better to overthink than to underthink, but we're going to over exert ourselves and completely miss the mark.
At least we know spirit week is in fall, and graduation is in summer.
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[she rolls over to sprawl over him.] Mostly, I'm just - I don't know what we're supposed to be looking for. The idea is broader than just murder. So - what. What else is going on that we're not seeing?
Because if we're not supposed to be taking any of this literally, I'm like, struggling to think of what it could be referring to.
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I'm all about thinking outside of the box - pretty great at it, usually - but we just don't have enough of the pieces to this stupid puzzle that it's hard not to default to literal thinking? [ everything is coming out a question, he is so tired of this ] As a theory, I don't hate yours and Ichiro's.
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So - I talked to Hugo. He said we should take things less literally. Not think about this as specifically a show, or scripts, but just think about what the information is implying rather than what's actually there.
I mentioned I thought maybe it was just saying that some of the people who are killing others are given fake memories and motivations. He said that might be the case for Sighart.
[...] He thought it was possible for Caiman to have been influenced like that, but it's equally as possible that Caiman just acted by himself. So.
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Y'know, I wonder if that's why Kon's power really didn't work on Caiman. Like, aside from the fact that he had his own mess going on - if he had fake memories and fake motives, then that'd be hard to get at if you were looking for reality. Right?
Unless dude just straight couldn't see for a minute, but, I dunno how that'd even be a thing.
[ buuut. he nods, after that. ] I think that's what I was getting at, too. Not that we're really starring or anything - like people are just playing parts against their will. It fits in with what happened to Iris, too.
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The Caiman I was trying to pull memories from was unconscious in some capacity, that's why it was blank but I could still feel the sensation of movement. [ there's a brief flare of angry frustration, but he forces it back down. this is why he has the cat. ] Whether it was a fugue state caused by a dissociative disorder, the overwrite compulsion that was put into place... whatever, that Caiman wasn't checked in.
Beau's ki pulled out some aspect of the one that was walking around that night.
So it does fit the bill, to have us playing parts against our will. We have bit parts, but we're not the stars - just the filler entertainment, things like that.