SPRINGLE - WEEK 0

[dormheads]

common room.

In the 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 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.)

This week, there is a welcome basket near the bowl.

specialty room.

Past an entrance in the common room, a mini coffeehouse has been set up, with express machines for those who just want their coffee now and slightly more advanced equipment for aficionados. It offers a variety of strength levels and flavors to accommodate tastes all across the spectrum, along with a teapot and packets of caffeinated and non-caffeinated tea for those who prefer a different drink. There's a sink if you want to use your own mug, but otherwise, disposable cups are provided for you to use.

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Comments

[modissty]

[Team's tryin real hard man. Sakyou's grimacing and looking like he wants to just wholeass hit this window, but he has witnessed table crimes.]

None whatsoever. [(anna voice) tch] I take it the upstairs is much the same?

[goalsides]

Everything's sealed up. I can see a little more of campus, but it looks the same as ever. [which is weird, and he looks a little unnerved the longer they're locked in their dorm.] Mollymauk said the phones aren't working either, so...

[they're fucked, basically. he will reach forward and, like, knock on the window as if that'll help.]

[modissty]

[GRIM. He watches Taichi knock and just looks like he wants to punch the window himself for a second or two. He will spare his own hand, though.]

...Then - what. We wait? We can't be made to stay in here indefinitely.

[goalsides]

[sir, your hand.]

Of course not. [sharply. he's staring out the window before beating a fist against it. ow. whatever.] Shouldn't there be like, I don't know, an emergency exit or something?

[modissty]

[Don't worry about it. also i forgot to mention this in the toplevel but he's had bandaged hands since Tuesday it's fine.]

What would an emergency exit look like? An extra door? [He doesn't know what the heck one is and yet he's spot on, good work.] There's nothing of the sort.

[goalsides]

Uh, yeah, actually. It'd be another door that's easy access for people to get through if the building was on fire or something. [WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR HANDS SAKYOU??

he's eyeing them, unsure of what to say.] ...I can keep looking then. If the windows aren't budging, let's try something else. [don't damage your sword...]

[modissty]

[LOOK DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.]

...Right. I'll look with you, then.

[He also doesn't want to damage his sword, but it's a tough sword, it can take a beating. He doesn't move to sheathe it just yet either, in case bears suddenly attack.]

Has anyone looked in that tea room yet?

[goalsides]

[SIR????]

I don't think so. But we should just to cover our bases, shouldn't we? [come along, let's not ruin more windows.]

[modissty]

[IT'S FINE he doesn't seem to have any trouble at all with gripping his sword which is what is truly important.

He will dutifully stop bullying the windows though, beginning to make his way to the specialty room.]

If we can't find anything there, shall we try the upper floor again? The third floor?

[goalsides]

[every tag i get from you continues to be so fucking concerning. but taichi will follow him.]

Not a bad plan. Sieghart and I checked the second floor, but we didn't get to the third before coming back down to check here again. Think it's still locked?

[modissty]

[STOP everyone in this dorm is doing great.]

It might be, but it couldn't hurt to try.

[And then Chad gets bearnapped.]

[goalsides]

Maybe since everything else locked, the third floor unlocked? [wouldn't that be wild. he can dream.]

[modissty]

[AS IF ANYONE HERE HAS LUCK THAT GOOD... But he'll nod anyway because yeah sure why not, a little hope never killed anyone.]

Stranger things have happened.

[He says, looking under the cart where all the tea shit is like a trap door is gonna be under there.]

[goalsides]

[it's fine he's busy flipping switches on the espresso machines like it'll reveal secret panels in the walls.]

...nothing like this has ever happened to you, has it?

[modissty]

[wouldn't that be funny if a secret panel really did open up]

No. [SOMEWHAT FRUSTRATED. Granted he's never been kidnapped to the future, either.] Shall I take it to be the same for you...?

[goalsides]

[...flipping more levers.]

It's new enough. And annoying as hell. We're just as clueless as before.

[modissty]

[NEW ENOUGH. WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR LIFE, LAD... Sakyou glances over briefly and mentally tabs that away to ask about later, when they aren't trapped.]

Yes - no one seems to have gained any definitive information between now and the time of our arrival. I can't say this makes me feel keen on believing any of it, anyway...

[WHY ARE THEY TRAPPED. He frowns, lifting up... a pot...]

[goalsides]

[it would be nice if a key fell out of the pot. but here they are.]

Yeah. Instead of answers, all we're getting is stuff that makes this whole thing feel even more planned and less voluntary.

[not that he believed it was voluntary to start with but damn.] Doesn't help we can be watched at any time.

[modissty]

[handshake emoji, people who have been sus this whole time even if they haven't said much aloud.

Anyway he doesn't even know about video surveillance and he agrees, just because spying was still a thing in the 1600s and also, maybe the bear is magic. Who knows!! Dry as hell:]

Well, hopefully they've had an entertaining time watching us. [BINCH. He'll fight them, whoever "they" are.] --Any luck? I'm not finding anything here.

[goalsides]

[it's fine!! also the bear's probably magic if it can talk and also sort them for the war. it's fine.]

I'm sure they are. [just as grimly.] I've got nothing. There isn't much else we can check in this room, so...let's head up to the third floor and check.

[modissty]

[Magic bear... bear magic.......bagic.

BUT WITH A SIGH he'll move away from the useless pots and shit, turning toward the stairs instead to start moseyin on up. As he goes:]

And if the door isn't unlocked and won't give?

[Where to next, he means. PLANNING AHEAD!!]

[goalsides]

[stop it. he will follow up the stairs though.]

Then we check our rooms again one more time. That's all we can do, isn't it?