WINTER COMMON ROOM - WEEK 5

[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.

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[dormheads]

[ By the piano, there seems to be a series of flower arrangements made. They each have tags, denoting who they might be for, written in Iris' familiar curling script. Each of the bouquets seems to have a major statement flower that makes up the center of the bouquet.

Beau - Magnolias
Caleb - Lotuses
Denji - Peonies
Dimitri - White Anemones
Ichiro - Sunflowers
Kaine - Lunar Tears and White Roses
Kon - White Camellias
Leo - Zinnias

Across one of the mantles, there will be another series of bouquets of white and yellow chrysanthemums, each one reading a different name: Adora, Catra, Crow, Kaoruko, Rupert.

One more note rests on the center coffee table, reading:
We will reclaim all who have been stolen from us.
And certainly, we will strike the enemy at its heart.

But for the time being, allow me to say -
Thank you, for looking after each other.
Even though we only share the one bed and Frumpkin has priority.
Please find a reason to smile today, just as you all make me laugh when I think I cannot.
Yours,
Iris ♥ ]

[katzepaw]

[There is now also an arrangement made up of Irises along with the others.]

monday

[katzepaw]

[So, at some point when everyone is in the dorm, Caleb will try to speak to them. He's tearing a few pages from his notebook and setting them out on a table.]

. . . Hugo's auction item went to Lucretia. She believes she will be able to bring messages to the dead, written on paper. If you have a message for the dead, please write it and leave it for me to bring to her, or bring it to her yourself. If it is personal, you may seal it and I will not look at it.

She plans to deliver these on Wednesday morning.

If there are specific questions you feel we ought to ask, then we can propose them to her as well.

[sawboned]

Does it gotta be like...an important message?

[can he shitpost across the veil, caleb]

[steelo]

[ appears here belatedly but!! ichiro hands over two little envelopes. ]

Here, Caleb-san. This is for Rupert, and this one is for Adora and Catra.

[overshaded]

[ it’s fine if i’m too late, but kainé won’t care who sees this message:

Crow,

You’re a goddamn idiot.

she’s not signing it, but she doesn’t think she needs to. ]

tuesday

[katzepaw]

Plot hole.

[Discuss???]

. . . I was talking to Riku a bit. That if this is all based on scripts, perhaps we need to give them something else that will satisfy what the script wants, other than murder.

Perhaps this is something along similar lines - we manipulate the script not by giving it something else, but creating or identifying the flaws?

[steelo]

[ huh. ]

...so basically roast the bad writing?

[disreguarded]

Plot hole. [she repeats, staring up at the ceiling.]

I talked to Riku too. Wasn't exactly satisfied with playing along, like he suggested. The whole murdering us for our own good thing is all well and great but I'm not a fan.

... Flaws, huh? Do we even know any?

week 5, monday

[azuta]

[sorry this is stupid.

but at some point in the evening, there will be - a few failed attempts at getting in to winter? whomst. though iris finally manages to get the door open, giggling to herself. giggling so much. her face is red and - why does it look like she cried a little - anyway she's a little unsteady on her feet, probably stepping right out of her heels as soon as she's in. please don't trip on them before she picks them up in the morning. she's humming something to herself - before realizing it's dark and then softly going 'sshh' even if it is still meant to be to herself.

though as she's passing by the piano in order to reach the staircase (which will be an entirely different olympic struggle) she'll notice the bouquet of irises and.

sniff a little?

oh no she's tearing up.

she's so drunk. it's a monday. who did this.]

w5 tuesday

[steelo]

[ looking at his phone during this maya fiasco ]

...Guess Maya-chan's coming over, guys. [ and then like

slowly looking at the single room suite....... ] I guess if she wants to sleep over, she can probably stay with Beau?

..... Is Beau really the only person who's in there? [ where's beau ] Do you even sleep there?

[disreguarded]

Nope. [looking up from where she's flopped down on a couch.] I mean, me and --

Uh. I mean, I did the other day, but that was for reasons. [subtle.] I don't like sleeping alone, so like, if we wanna just... rent the room out or something.

[azuta]

[she's hungover. the only evidence of this is her makeup is a little heavier today and she's so tired, so so so tired. but she is, in fact, bringing out pastries and probably bread. maya likes bread.]

I know we were joking earlier but if any of you truly would like additional beds or couches...

[13 people to 1 bed in winter]

w5; tuesday

[repress]

[ Well, after the town hall meeting, Dimitri is just. Asleep on the floor of the common room.

That's it, that's the update. ]

[disreguarded]

[ ]

[overshaded]

[ nudges with her foot to see if he'll respond.

he could be dead? ]

[commandertoolbelt]

[ pokes him gently with a screwdriver. you good, bro. ]

[steelo]

[ am i gonna be the only person who checks to make sure he's actually breathing ]

[refate]

[


kon checks his pulse, at least, instead of nudging him or sitting on him. if he's fine he's putting a pillow under his head. ]

UPDATE

[dormheads]

[The dorm has had a box or two of orbeez dumped down the bathroom drains. The sinks have been left running.]

w5; curfew

[sawboned]

[as people return or are compelled back to Winter Dorm, they might be surprised to see denji already there, curled up on the couch asleep with a red dog(?) cuddled up in his arms

he has a relaxed, peaceful smile on his face, looking the least gremlin-like anyone's probably seen him

zzzzz]

[disreguarded]

[if he sleeps through the whole curfew she will come over here and curl up next to him and wait for sleep death to claim her.]

w5 curfew... 2

[steelo]

[ hey

well! here's ichiro. he got a pretty good heal thanks to hope, but he's still pretty fucked up - he's not bleeding badly anymore, at least, his arm is bandaged, his chest is bandaged, and he's... probably in less bloody clothes? he can't even clean himself up because of this orbeez disaster in their drains so he's just. here. covered in dried blood, laying on a towel, maybe? on a couch? i don't know

everything's fine. he's got his phone in his good hand, and he'll offer it out to show once people are gathering around. ]

...here. [ some info for you! ] 's about wishes.

[disreguarded]

[i'm sorry i don't want to make this the beau angst hour but there's like, a ten minute period where beau goes right to the Suite and closes the door behind her, and doesn't come out! there is probably the sound of something breaking. idk what.

and then she comes back out and sits down with a towel and gently wipes the dried blood away from him with water from the sinks. the drains are clogged and she doesn't care, she doesn't want to see him all bloodied.

caleb's also getting fussing too.]

Well. Guess that's some measure of confirmation.

friday

[refate]

[ at some point in the afternoon, kon appears to be in full possession of his memories - but he doesn't say anything. just puts one of these on the two bedroom doors of the generally empty suite.

there's four options, however, and they're color coded - green with a 👍 thumbs up, yellow with a 👊 fist (for knock first, fools), and red with a 🚫 no entry sign. the fourth option is just black for now, probably to indicate that it's not in use.

initially, the room with the queen bed has the door closed, and flipped to no entry, when he's done. the room with the bunk bed has its door opened, and the sign on black. ]

[katzepaw]

[He's just sitting there watching this happen like. Kon? Kon? Is this the time?]

sunday!

[disreguarded]

[there's a dark brown furred lioness sprawled out on a couch for some reason. seems friendly enough, though! just chewing and clawing at a pillow. sorry iris.]

[azuta]

[pillows are temporary, love for her winters is forever. carry on.

she will make a plate of food for the lioness and make sure there's water out]

sunday

[refate]

[ you know how, usually, kon will play some loud notes on the piano to get attention? he can't clap, so it's a good way to bring everybody together, get everything organized.

he's not doing that right now. he's coming down the stairs at full tilt to get to the common room - might have even come from the second flight of stairs, if you listen close enough to the footsteps thudding across the second floor - and then he's there, a piece of blank paper a little crumpled in his hand as he skids to a stop. ]

Iris is gone. [ hello, everybody! how're you doing, this fine post-expulsion evening! kon is not doing great! ] Viola is back. And I think that voice, the story, is coming for the dorm heads, to use them for the "conclusion."

[ what's up winter he has the plot buy and things are just going to go downhill from here. ]

[steelo]

[ oh do you ever just fucking hate being right ]

I knew it. [ bad. bad bad bad. ichiro stands up from wherever he was sitting almost immediately. ] Were you just with her? What happened?

[ there's an unvoiced is she okay? follows, but, like. he knows she's not? he knows she's not, not if she's viola. ]