FALL COMMON ROOM - WEEK 5

[dormheads]

common room.

The common room of the Fall Dorm has soft, dimmer lighting; plush carpet over wood; and several comfortable chairs and sectionals. A few big windows overlook the dormitory area of campus, but there is also a single, cozy bay window on one side.

A television and bluetooth surround-sound are here for Fall students who are more inclined to be tech savvy. In the cabinets under the entertainment stand are an assortment of board games, but the television does have a generic "free tv" app for shows and music.

Above the enormous center fireplace is a moody painting.

This week, there's something else.

specialty room.

Through a door on the first floor, there is an antigravity room. Stepping just a few feet through the doorway will lift everyone up into the air. The seating and most of the rest of the room remains somehow rightfully in place on the floor and will not move. Students, however, can grab pillows and blankets, cups or bowls, or other small items to bring into the air with them.

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Comments

[foreversweaterweather]

Uhhh...wax statue murders, sometimes? Mostly just...monster mysteries...or like, conspiracy stuff, I guess.

[lifeless]

Like those ghosts that possessed you at the grocery store?

[foreversweaterweather]

Uh-huh...he's the one who figured out how to defeat them.

[lifeless]

So you've been with him for just about everything.

[foreversweaterweather]

Uh-huh...everything! Our whole lives!

[lifeless]

You must have lots of experience then. Conspiracy things, mysteries... Even if your brother was the one solving them, you were right there watching him do that, weren't you?

[foreversweaterweather]

I guess...but I was never any good at that part of it. He's always been the smart one, and I'm the silly one.

...although lately, I'm not any good at that either.

[lifeless]

You don't have to be good at anything. You can just do what you like. That's what I do.

[foreversweaterweather]

But...I wanna help fix stuff! And bring people back!

[lifeless]

Then you can do those things.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ shakes her head again ] I've been trying, but nothing is working... I never end up doing anything that helps anyone.

[lifeless]

So you're giving up then?

[foreversweaterweather]

No!

I mean...

I don't wanna...but I don't know what to do! I feel like I just mess up everything I try.

[lifeless]

Mabel. Everyone messes up everything they try. But we keep on trying, regardless.

[she sighs, looking pensive.]

We're all just as sad and tired as you are. We keep on making stupid mistakes too. Remember when I volunteered to be expelled? That was a pretty big mistake that ended up getting Lila killed.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ hmm!! there's. there sure are a lot of feelings there when Manwol brings that up, and she knows how to interpret and handle them not even one bit! But I do, so I'll just say it's a very disquieting mix of guilt, resentment, and angstbrain desperately trying to find a way to justify Manwol's mistakes over her own.

she neither knows how to express this, nor thinks expressing them would be a great idea right now! so she mulls over that silently for a little bit. ]

...then...how do you get better at it?

[lifeless]

[Maybe if Manwol was better with words, then she'd have a perfect answer on hand.]

Personally, I don't think that I have. ...But when I feel like I'm making a mistake, I try to ask someone else for help. It's hard because I hate asking. Sometimes the people I ask can't even do anything about it, and sometimes they can.

But they usually listen. And I find that helps a little.