dormheads | WINTER COMMON ROOM

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!

On Suite One's Door, a sign has been placed on the front. 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.

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.

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I'm not sure how a second ladder would work out when you guys have been partying?

Maybe just try summoning it. We don't exactly have a pulley system for the roof.

... could I use a ladder right now...

[the answer is no

BUT SHE WANTS TO GET ICHIRO THIS CAKE - so she'll reposition herself so she's sitting more securely on the roof and do her best to summon the cake from kon's hands!!!]

Iris, my dear, probably not.

[ fondly. but he will come closer and hold the cake up high with both hands in an attempt to make this a wee bit easier for her.

please do not let this fall on his head, comical as it would be. ICHIRO NEEDS THE CAKE. ]

[NO!!!!!! she's tipsy but she's very very intentional about this. and that's how she'll be able to conjure the cake from kon's hands, letting it land in her own]

Got it!! Now come up here please, we need to sing!

[ oh thank fuck. he's so proud of her? and so relieved. but kon will tiredly clamber up this fucking ladder so that he can join the party, and thus participate in the games. ]

Sing to Ichiro, first, and then we can sing to everybody whose birthdays we missed.

Quit it, you don't gotta do that. [ please ]

[ hup, throwing his leg over the edge of the roof, then the other, sitting there. ]

No, fuck you, we're singing happy birthday to you.

[ take this love and affection and serotonin, depression boy. ]

[humming happily as she sets out the cake, summoning up plates and forks while she's at it]

Happy birthday to you. ♪

[she can carry a tune]

[he enthusiastically joins in on the birthday singing

he has only heard it once, when lux sang it badly for him (and it may have also been a wholly different version)]

[ leo probably can carry a tune but you can bet he is deliberately messing it up for this because that's just the more fun thing to do? birthday songs aren't meant to sound perfect!! ]

[she's laying the floor somewhere but she will happily yell whatever birthday song you want]

[ Kainé just hasn't been around here for some reason, but sure, she can be here for this. ]

All of us?

[nodding!!]

Yes! All together.

[it'll be very bad bc they're so high and glittery and drunk]

[he is definitely joining in some happy birthday singing but watch the birthday tune from exandria be super different or something]

[ the absolute CACOPHONY of this is really just endemic of what winter is about and kon will be wheezing midway through ]

[ well, when this is done he's very! he's red cheeked, and starts laughing halfway through

and then he's just crying, just laughing and crying at the same time

what a fucking day ]

[ takes one of the plates iris has summoned, slapping the biggest slice onto it and holding it out while ichiro is laughcrying. ]

Happy birthday, bro. Now eat your cake before I smash it in your face.

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steelo - 2021-07-26 05:56 (UTC) - Expand

refate - 2021-07-26 05:58 (UTC) - Expand

[WHAT A FUCKING DAY

she's just going to come give him a hug and then summon up a pack of tissues for his tearsies]

You'll make the cake salty...

[but she's clearly teasing]

steelo - 2021-07-26 06:17 (UTC) - Expand

azuta - 2021-07-26 06:22 (UTC) - Expand

Ooh, good idea!

[he is here for this]

[this is terrible no one is good at this but it's so cute]

[ his head just appears over the edge of the roof ]

Oh, cake?

No singing, no slice!

[KON MADE THIS CAKE]

No singing, no slice!

[ no this checks out, this is a good payment system. ]

I’m trying to not sing off the edge of a building, give a guy a break. [ he sticks his tongue out at kon. he’s a mature adult, hello?

but he will swing himself up onto the roof. ]

refate - 2021-07-26 05:49 (UTC) - Expand

chevaliered - 2021-07-26 05:56 (UTC) - Expand

azuta - 2021-07-26 05:51 (UTC) - Expand

Can I actually climb up on the roof before you deny me cake?

[ iris, please ]

azuta - 2021-07-26 05:52 (UTC) - Expand

chevaliered - 2021-07-26 05:54 (UTC) - Expand