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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: (ichi55)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh that reminds ichiro and he says, very suddenly - ]

I got a communication coupon this week. I was thinking - we might be able to use it to talk to that thing.
disreguarded: [ʟᴇsʟʏ ᴏʜ] (20)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-19 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
You're not doing it by yourself. [she says, immediately.] If you try. Not that I think it's a bad idea.
steelo: (19.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
No - no way.

[ okay he would love to fight god but. some of that immediate heat does soften a little with that, and he nods. ] I don't think I'll get to use it for very long, so I'll have to prepare whatever it is we get to say, and - if it fucked up Kon and Lucretia-san that bad last time, I can't imagine it'll be good for me if I go it alone.

[ he's used to having his brain fucked with by sound but! we're growing and learning lessons in this murdergame. ] I can't be the only one who has one, either. Right?
disreguarded: (26)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-19 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
You're probably not the only one, no. I didn't get one, but I'm sure there are others.

I'll go with you when you do it. Okay?
steelo: i am not a perfect friend (108.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ he thinks about their field trip together, for a moment... and then nods. ]

...yeah. Just like last time, right? [ an unspoken, determined, we got this. ]
disreguarded: (110)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-19 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Just like last time. [she reaches, and takes his hand.]

I won't let you forget.
steelo: (332)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ the scariest part about that memory loss was not being able to know it was gone - that, and not having either jiro or saburo here to confirm that they were alive, that they were important. it had been something that affected him badly, afterwards, but...

looking at beau, at the rest of winter, he knows he can put all of his faith in her. ichiro squeezes her hand. ]


I won't let you forget, either. I'm gonna trust my brothers in your care.
overshaded: (73)

[personal profile] overshaded 2021-07-19 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kainé points at Beau as if to second you're not doing it by yourself. ]
disreguarded: (93)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2021-07-19 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[spiritually high fiving kainé here, same hat]
overshaded: (63)

[personal profile] overshaded 2021-07-19 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ spiritual high five! ]
steelo: (23.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ being bossed around by women (affectionate) ]
katzepaw: (stone)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-19 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
That's very clever, Ichiro.
steelo: as long as we all sing (122.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ weh this gets a small, genuine, if very stressed smile and he ducks his head just a little bit. praise from caleb... ]

...thanks, Caleb-san. I wanna make sure it gets used right, so... whatever plan we come up with for it should be one we all come up with together.
katzepaw: (strip of cloth)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-19 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. There are multiple communication coupons, I think, so we can develop a strategy to use them. With the understanding that whoever volunteers is almost certainly to lose memories for a few days.
steelo: (65.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ he nods, mouth pulling into a grim, determined scowl. ]

...We can't have other people use them, so it has to be the people who have the communication coupons themselves, and then one other person at least, each. I've already - this place already fucked up my memories once. I can handle it.
katzepaw: (white feather)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-19 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I think Mollymauk has one as well, but I don't know how well it would work in his case. From what I understand, he remembers most of what he learned in the daycare, but he goes blank if he's asked about it or tries to recount it.
steelo: and i am not the first one tired (72.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ head too empty for memloss.... ]

...yeah. That happened at the meeting, I remember. [ he looks worried, frowning. ] Is it gonna be safe for him to use it? Kon and Lucretia-san were able to talk about what the voice told them, right? I think they took notes, too.
refate: © ғᴏʟᴋʟᴏʀᴇ (₀₇₄)

[personal profile] refate 2021-07-19 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ +1 to both beau and caleb ]

I like it. But if you do it, yeah, definitely have someone with you. And remember the whole "forgetting loved ones" aspect of it - that includes people from home. Write down everything you want to remember.
steelo: (ichi55)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ ....

his fist clenches a little tighter, and he says, fiercely: ]


I already forgot them once. This place can take them from me again, but it'll never be permanent.

[ never. he'll take that advice, though.] I'll - I'm gonna make you listen to me wax poetic about my bros, man. You better be ready to take good notes.
refate: © ғᴏʟᴋʟᴏʀᴇ (₁₆₅)

[personal profile] refate 2021-07-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Do it in the library or the lab, and I'll type it all down. [ like, legitimately, he is not joking. after having experienced it, and having come in and out of it, he'd do this in a heartbeat for ichiro so that he could hold onto his brothers and the people here.

kon doesn't comment on how very protagonist sounding of ichiro that was, not directly, but he does offer:
] Glad that you're sounding more like yourself, now.
steelo: (23.)

[personal profile] steelo 2021-07-19 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ stop

that gets a little, tired smile. ]
Yeah. Sorry for the trouble - I was cursed to shit, I think. Somebody should really wish up some therapy for Mandricardo when we get out of here...

[ a little tiny bit joking? but also? poor mandi???? ]
refate: © ғᴏʟᴋʟᴏʀᴇ (₀₈₄)

[personal profile] refate 2021-07-19 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
This is why he and I never would've worked out. [ a joke back, but also. ] He's a good guy that I appreciate, and we're friends, but we really ought to have a therapist or counsellor on staff at this fucking school.

Not that fiction ever cares about competent mental health awareness, so why would this story build in that kind of thing.