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🐻 ([personal profile] dormheads) wrote2021-07-12 07:08 am
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WINTER COMMON ROOM - WEEK 5


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.

steelo: (19.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
... a voice led us through our whole thing. We couldn't see it, but it was powerful enough to change everything. Even made my mic work. And the whole... everything we went through was about a bat and a dog that we adopted from a pet store. They were... the voice was trying to convince us they were cursed.

[ felt kind of relevant. ] Ichinose called him Tanaka. Dunno why.

... that voice was the reason they were fucked up, though.
Edited 2021-07-16 03:02 (UTC)
disreguarded: [ᴄʜᴇʀʀʏsᴘʟɪᴄᴇᴅ] (70)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-16 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
A bat... and a dog? What?

[i'm so confused]

Does... Tanaka mean anything?
steelo: (253)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Mabel had the dog. Miku.

[





listen. ]



That was where we woke up, in that pet shop. We had to adopt the dog, and then Tanaka, I guess, talked us through. We went through a city where all the people were completely invisible, and everyone kept trying to take the dog from us. Kept saying he was cursed.

[ and then shakes his head. ] No... it's just a last name. You'd have to ask Ichinose, we weren't with them most of the time.
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[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-16 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[i see]

What the fuck is that supposed to mean. [is this a game or something. is this sonic the hedgehog? is this based on a canon??? WHAT IS THIS CYOA]
steelo: (19.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know.

[ he frowns, then, looking down at his hands. ] It just kept telling us stuff. "You should go play in the park. You should go home." Like we had whole lives, there. Bad shit - someone pulled a gun on us, we saw someone get crushed by a bell - would happen, and Tanaka kept telling us to ignore it.

... I couldn't. [ shocking no one. ]
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[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-16 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

You couldn't. [she murmurs.] I don't like how half of these feel like you've been living there your whole life.
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[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
I had to help. The kid who pulled the gun on us got jumped by an invisible crowd. I tried to get them to fuck off.

[ he had to. ichiro can't just stand by and let people get hurt, ever.

... not that he was any good at that. ]


I guess... ours with Riku was based off of him, and his memories. But this... it feels like it was based off of this place, instead. Especially with that vibe. Tanaka kept - at the end, he made Miku and Hector both sort of.. mutate? And it made them both really angry. He was the one who did it to them - then kept saying we needed to put them down.

[ so that's fun! ]
disreguarded: (13)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-16 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hector?

[did i miss a name]

That sounds sort of similar to what the thing from earlier was talking about. The words, or voice or whatever that Lucretia and Kon saw.
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[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I think it was probably the same.

[ hector... he pauses, and shakes his head. ] I think Mandricardo brought him back. Their pet bat - Hector. We brought Miku back, too. Gave them an actual burial.

[ francy killed the dog ]
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[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-16 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[FRANCY?]

... Huh. [she rubs her face.] Okay. I'm gonna be honest, I'm - too tired to figure this out right now, but maybe we can try to piece things together tomorrow.
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[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
...yeah. I, uh. Feel like my head's a little fucked up.

[ ... like last time, a little, maybe. he can't place his finger on what's wrong, but something's wrong. ]

's probably the blood loss.
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[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-16 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[well. very carefully, she's going to shift closer, and tug him into a hug?]
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[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ god. he made beau worry so much. seriously, he couldn't have just kept it together?

... he accepts the hug, though. after a moment, his good hand comes up, and he gently squeezes it in the back of her shirt. ]


....'m okay. It's gonna be okay. [ quiet, reassuring. that's all he has, just like usual - his strength. ]
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[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-16 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Don't reassure me.

[she mutters, holding him a little more tightly.]

I'm not the one that just got fucked up by a wolf, I don't want to hear it. I've got you.
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[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ too late.

there's a beat and then ]


... I won against the wolf, so... who was the real winner. [ HE OUT ALPHA'D IT anyway this is a joke. ]
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[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-16 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[STOP I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT A/B/O EVER AGAIN IN MY LIFE]

You, thankfully. That's dope.
steelo: (317)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ but flurry

he would've been a teen wolf ]


...yeah. It was pretty cool. [ a little 'heh' laugh. it's the little things. ] ...can't wait to tell my bros.
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[personal profile] refate 2021-07-16 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Did it sound kind of... distorted? [ kon doesn't really know how best to describe it. he didn't think to try and record it with his personal phone - it was omniscient and weird, it probably wouldn't have worked. ]

Whispery. Echoey. [ that one's not a word but he's tired and so am i but we both want plot while he's aware of who the fuck ichiro is ]
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[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
It was hard to tell what gender they were, or - really anything. It was a little distorted, but it was pretty cheerful.

[ so! there's that. maybe the same one? who knows. ]

And it kept telling us to do stuff. Kind of an asshole, too. It got pissed at us when we didn't listen, took it out on us. I think.
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[personal profile] refate 2021-07-16 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
That checks out. We couldn't tell the gender, but I don't think it was cheerful, when it talked to us. Lucretia and I didn't really want to give it the time of day, though, outside of wanting its information.

[ he's banking on it being the same one. he rests his cheek against the edge of the stolen bed, looking at him. ]

There wasn't a voice, on ours, but there was something compelling us on that first day. It got more insistent the longer that we ignored it.
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[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It was like that.

[ ... ] Like, once we got Miku, we showed up in a park, and it told us to take her to play. So, we did - went to a playground, and passed all these like... invisible people. Like, they were there. We could feel them, and hear them, but we couldn't see them.

When we got to the park, a kid like - maybe Leo's age? Showed up. We couldn't see his face, kept getting forced to look away. He told us we were on his turf. [ and like. this, at the time, was kind of funny? because like, are you really going to challenge Ichiro Yamada Hypnosis Michael to a turf war. ] Said we had to give him Miku for payment.

The voice told us to get rid of him. I tried to get him to chill and back up, and he pulled a gun on us. Shot at me - just clipped me - but I tackled him and got the gun from him, and while that was happening, all those invisible people started gathering way too close around us, trying to get pics - you know how a fight goes.

Mabel managed to clock him with a grappling hook, and I got away. Tanaka-san started yelling at us, said we were ruining it. Said it wasn't fun anymore.

[ ... ]

The crowd started curbstomping the kid, and I couldn't - Tanaka-san told us to leave and go somewhere else, but I couldn't just let that happen. [ even though the kid pulled a gun on him and literally shot at him not seconds before.

that is just the kind of person he is. can't stand injustice, can't stand the idea of the world breaking others down, no matter who they are, or how they act. ]
So I ran back in and tried to fight them off of him. And the crowd turned on me real quick. Chanting for blood and killing, and shit.
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[personal profile] refate 2021-07-16 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ kon sits and listens to him like that, watching, eyes a little sharper than usual. he's going to write it down, the same as he has the other trips, but this seems more - intent. like he's even more dedicated to committing it to memory right now, while he still can recognize ichiro as his dormmate and friend.

especially with the experience that he went through. because this place, it's -
]

Said it wasn't fun anymore. [ oh he fuckin HATES THAT. ichiro is obviously feeling a kind of way after his field trip, so kon'll just let him keep talking, instead of fussing over him actively. ] I'd say this thing is escalating, but it's always been bad - it does sound like it's something that manifested more, though?

Like we weren't punished, we were just compelled. And overwrites and rewrites happened on pretty much every field trip between then and now. But this time - this time compulsion had a voice, and decided to punish you for not doing what it wanted. It's getting tired of us fighting back and not going with what it wants.
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[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-16 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It was more passive aggressive than anything - it's not like it forced us to do it, but it was more suggested, and it would comment on it if we didn't.

[ fucking tanaka. he doesn't seem to mind talking about the trip at all, or - well, maybe it's helping, to be able to give out details. something to focus on, something useful. ]

A lot of it felt like - ridiculous plot shit, like here. Someone accused our dog of murder.