WINTER COMMON ROOM - WEEK 4

[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, 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.)

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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]

I don't really think it was really viable at all, and I'm not gonna make any excuses for it. [ muttered, but it's just grouchy, the vibes going protectively sour pretty quick. he gets the reason, he knows the bigger enemy over themselves, but - the idea of people going around and patting themselves on the back for picking the least painful option does make him angry, because he saw how bad at least one of those options was for someone very important to him.

fuck this place. he shakes his head after a second, dropping it immediately. it's not their fault. he knows it. he's just mad. ] I get the logic, and I get what you're saying.

[ but it SUCKS ]

What I don't get is why we've had people compelled, too, on top of this. Was there just not enough carnage?

[refate]

[ jazzhand, except he's furious as he does it, and his expression doesn't change from flat. but ichiro understands, so he doesn't bother expanding on it. it's not a kindness that they're doing, here, they're just delaying the inevitable and still tearing out new, empty wounds in the people that have been trapped in wiwaldi.

he doesn't answer the question about carnage. make it spicier! edgier! i wanna get a scar from getting a cut on that edge!! ]

I want to know what's causing the compulsion. I want to know what state those people are in, when it happens, after it happens. Sieghart's death is the only one we truly have confirmed as falling in that category, but I want to know if others do, too.

[ molly. byleth. ]

[steelo]

[ nodding to this and also to what he said with caleb, too. ]

...I can probably find out. Or - I can ask, at least. I'll try.

[refate]

[ mm... he obviously doesn't like that ichiro knows who killed sieghart, but he doesn't press on it because of the protectiveness that he was giving off. it's also fairly obvious that he's angry at whoever's running wiwaldi for it, not at the compelled person, and you don't even need emotionshare for that. he hasn't hidden it. ]

Whatever they'll share with you will help us. All of us.

[steelo]

[ he nods... ]

I know. If it helps, I think they'll come out and tell everyone, in time.

[refate]

If we can find a pattern, any kind of understanding, something that we can sink into with whatever resources we can throw at it, then maybe we can find a way to stop the cycle of compelled kills.

[ and prevent the deaths from escalating even more in the three, theorized weeks between now and graduation. ]