FALL COMMON ROOM - WEEK 0

[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.

On one of the tables is a welcome basket.

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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Please use this as an open post for members of Fall 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.

Comments

[ghoststrums]

Mm. It looks like we've all been transported to one somehow.

[silentscout]

Then there might not be Trolls here after all.

[He sounds like he's not going to bank on that though.]

[ghoststrums]

Maybe. What are those, anyway?

[silentscout]

You probably won't like the description of a Troll. Are you sure you want to know?

[He's going to briefly describe a rather horrific zombification process if Yamato asks, just as a warning.]

[ghoststrums]

Yeah. If they show up here, it's good to know.

[ he doesn't think he'll mind....... foolish ]

zombie plague talk in here

[silentscout]

Alright.

[He did warn him, so.]

When someone non-immune catches the Rash, they get sick and a rash slowly spreads over their whole body, starting from the infection point. If they're not lucky enough to die first, the rash eventually starts to mutate their body into a a monstrous form that is unaging, undying, and exists only to eat people and spread the Rash further.

Humans who have changed like that are called Trolls. Other mammals that change are called Beasts.

[ghoststrums]

[ ....... ]

Zombies? [ what the fuck???? this is 0% useful to this conversation he just needs to say it ]

[silentscout]

I just told you, they're called Trolls.

[He's never heard of zombies before. But Yamato is right, they're zombies.]

[ghoststrums]

... R-right.

[ ah. ]

Well. Hopefully, there's not any here, then. That sounds. Bad.

[silentscout]

Mmm. It's better if they're not here. Especially if we don't know who's immune and who isn't. Even one tiny scratch is enough to pass it to someone who isn't immune.

[ghoststrums]

How do you even become immune anyway...?

[silentscout]

You're born with it. You have to have the immunity in your family for you to have it too. My grandmother was immune, but I was the only one of her grandchildren that is immune too.

[Recessive genes eyyyyy]

[ghoststrums]

I see...

So there's no cure, either?

[ he's thinking entirely in terms of zombie movies, not that lalli knows that ]

[silentscout]

[LAUGHS IN CANON TRAGEDIES]

No. They've been trying to make one for decades, but it's never worked out.

[ghoststrums]

So the immune have to fight the infected, I'm guessing?

[ AGAIN JUST GOING BY ZOMBIE MOVIE LOGIC IM SORRY ]

[silentscout]

Sometimes. It's better to just stay in the safe areas and patrol outside the fences to make sure the trolls stay far away.

[headsplitter]

Ohh, just like Day of the Living Dead. Do you get money for killing them?

[ Suddenly I am here. ]

[silentscout]

...I guess? Unless you're someone who just goes out and does it for nothing, the military usually pays people to be Cleansers.

[headsplitter]

Neat, just like Living Dead then! A buncha zombies, undead dudes come crawling outta the ground so we can earn prizes for killing them good.

[silentscout]

You make it sound like it's a game.

[Lalli sounds offended by this.]

[headsplitter]

Isn't it?!

[ For him it sure is. ]

[silentscout]

No. It's not.

[headsplitter]

Why not? They're not so scary and you're doin' 'em a favour by putting them back down in the ground!

[silentscout]

It's just not!

[And now Lalli is pulling up the hood of his cape and covering his head, probably to try and ignore Caiman.]

[headsplitter]

Maybe life would be easier for ya if you could just see it that way?

[ Looking down at his hooded head. What's up dude? ]