SPRUMMER COMMON ROOM - WEEK 6

[dormheads]

common rooms.

The Summer common room is as bright and open as the rest of the dorm. Beanbag chairs and even more hammocks are situated around for any of your resting needs, because who needs couches? There are a few blankets on the couch just for comfort, but the temperature is never cold enough to need them because of chill. There's also an absurd amount of pillows.

The walls are decorated with paintings that are either modern art pieces or done by kindergarteners. There are also photographs tacked onto the walls as well, of seemingly random things like a vase of flowers, a mailbox, a bird on a tree branch. The photos are less about grand views and feels more like someone testing out a camera.

In the Spring common room, the walls have been painted with photo-like pictures of forests and lakes, and spread across the ceiling is a depiction of the night sky. One wall is lined with bookcases, the books ranging from fiction to non-fiction as well used course textbooks. More bookcases have been used to section off one corner for a study area, with a desk and chair provided.

Elsewhere, there are a few couches (one looks as though it doesn't quite belong) and chairs, most seated around a coffee table and with throw blankets tossed over them if you need the extra warmth. On the table is a bowl of healthy and semi-healthy snacks, regularly stocked. (Nearby is a garbage can.)

specialty room.

The specialty room is an underground tunnel. The tunnel connects the Spring Dorm to the Summer Dorm. It's neatly paved, and there is enough room for everyone to walk through it comfortably. You can vibe in here.

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Please use this as an open post for members of Summer Dorm and Spring Dorm. You may post top-levels whenever you'd like and go wild. The tunnel has a door at either end, and they can only be opened and closed by members of the respective dorm on the other end (aka if Spring Dorm has their door locked, Summers cannot enter Spring Dorm, etc.) They can still hang out in the tunnel though. The doors are locked automatically during curfew and cannot be opened. Also, the actual specialty rooms are still locked to dorms so don't share those.

Comments

[godcards]

[ malik could try to stop him but that'd be weird and suspicious probably so he just lets mandi do his thing. ]

Yes. I know. But I want-- I still wanted to look. Just in... case.

[ wow he's sure getting some ptsd intrusive thoughts of other dark tunnels. not the cool rave tunnel, but like. other ones! ]

[duranduel]

...

[Looking back at the tunnel curiously.]

Do you want more lights in it? I mean, it is a bit dark...

[Maybe Malik's afraid of the dark...]

[godcards]

[ lol ]

Um, no, it's... fine. I'm not going to use it.

[ I can't go, I won't go, I'm not going, I'm not, I'm not, I can't. ]

[duranduel]

...Nobody is going to make you go.

[No thoughts here, just a bit of concern.]

Do you want to show me around, Malik?

[godcards]

[ this interrupts his panic mode at least ]

...It's a dorm, it's not that much different from yours, I imagine, except for the decor.

[ gestures to the room! wow!!! ]

[duranduel]

It's a very different feeling...

[All this outdoorsy stuff....and pointing to the couch.]

Was this...stolen?

[godcards]

Yes. I don't know why we didn't give it back, but it's been here for a few weeks with no issue. I don't think Fall misses it very much.

[duranduel]

So its like...a trophy of war. The dorm war.

[godcards]

I guess? I didn't steal it, so I don't know or care.

[ he's also putting some space between himself and mandi. ]

[duranduel]

[Good job, Malik! Social distancing in effect!]

Hm. Well, I guess it's good no one stole anything from us...

[And just looking around some more.]

Sort of weird without the hammocks...

[godcards]

...Hammocks?

[ HELLO?? ]

[duranduel]

Yeah. [Just gesturing at the space??] We have more hammocks than couches, actually...I've been sleeping in one of the the whole time.

[godcards]

Why?

[ This guy is stranger than I thought... ]

[duranduel]

Oh, because I thought everyone else claimed the beds and when I realized they didn't, I just got too used to it by that point...

[And just kind of glancing away with a light frown at that thought. Yeah, he's strange...]

[godcards]

Wouldn't a bed be more comfortable?

[ I don't really care about his sleeping arrangements... ]

Although, I suppose not, since you haven't changed your mind.

[duranduel]

[Honestly why *would* anyone care about sleeping arrangements? Maybe I shouldn't have brought the hammocks up.]

It is, but...yeah. Hard to break habit, I guess.

[godcards]

Mhmm.

[ An awkward silence settles between them. but malik's thoughts keep going: why is he still here? why did he come here?

of course he's picking up on other thoughts by now but he can't stop his own. so that sucks. ]

1/?

[duranduel]

...

[Yeah this is an awkward silence, alright.]

2/?

[duranduel]

[Which mean it's time for Mandricardo's Internal Monologueville(TM)!]

[Ah, this is so awkward...really shouldn't have brought up the hammocks! But he seems kinda upset, too...shit. Shiiiit. Wait...I really just barged in here like it was nothin', right? That was rude! That was really rude! Like I'm the type of guy who'll like kick down a door and scream GET OUT OF MY WAY, PUNKS, but...no, that's too far! It was messed up from the very beginning! Ah, what to do, what do do....!

[Wait! I can-]

H-Hold on for a second, Malik!

[And he's just running back into the tunnel? Bye?]

3/3

[duranduel]

[Annnnnnd he's back! He's holding....a fireworks sparkler? It's not lit or anything, he's just handing it over.]

F-For you! Housewarming gift!

[godcards]

[ well! isn't this just a whirlwind of confusion! the monologue was one thing, but what is even happening right now. he's just standing here by himself like a loser while he waits for mandi to come back, and-- oh. what? ]

What is this?

[ What am I supposed to do with it? ]

[duranduel]

Uh, you, um.

[Sorry, has to catch his breath, he ran here and back too quickly.]

It...lights up and its pretty. It makes sparks.

[godcards]

[ he tries pretty hard, doesn't he... also accompanied by what malik thinks a sparkler looks like when lit. it's not too far off from the real thing, but he's imaging more like a torch lighting up and producing sparks?? ]

I see... It's just for fun?

[duranduel]

[yeah jerk he tries the hardest!! he doesn't think this, though.]

[There IS an image of what a sparkler does look like!]

Mmm. Yeah. You can wave it back and forth while it's still lit, too.

[godcards]

Hm. Interesting. I don't understand the appeal, but maybe I'll try it later.