After School Detention ([personal profile] detentionroom) wrote2025-07-15 01:32 pm

[KAI-UN]

[You needed an escape.

For a moment– however brief, or however not– you longed to get away. Perhaps you envisioned a vacation upon sunny, beachy shores, palm trees at your back and seagulls floating in the air. Perhaps you envisioned nothing at all, and merely accepted that anywhere but here would do. Either way. . .?

You blink. . . and you wake up slouched on a school desk, arms folded with head resting between. You lift your gaze and realize that you've woken up in the middle of a classroom, seated in one of the. . . uh, very few functional desks that remain. The others have been broken into pieces, with legs and splinters of wood scattered across the floor. Deep claw marks decorate the walls, having gouged the sheetrock with jagged, violent gashes. The window curtains are closed, but they too have been torn and ripped to shreds, with holes showing a dark and unidentifiable landscape beyond the four walls which trap you.

And written on the blackboard, in large, white letters that seem to glow in the midst of the dim room lighting, is a warning]


DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR NAME.

[. . . you are not alone]

[Each and every new arrival awakens dressed in a high school-issued track uniform. The design is up to the players, but each uniform is already color-coded to match the group at large. Somewhere on your body is a new marking: a mysterious floral design shaded the same color as your track uniform. It is glowing very gently. And in your pocket you feel. . . something warm. Further investigation reveals a tiny little omamri, tucked away in your outfit, for safe keeping. Huh! What a nice gift!]

[For now, the front door to the classroom is locked. No matter how hard you try– with physical prowess or otherwise– the door cannot be opened.]

[But hey! You can poke around the area, if you'd like! Maybe get to know your new classmates. . . ? Try not to panic. For now, everything is. . . calm]
gamboler: (052)

[personal profile] gamboler 2025-07-19 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, what a lovely thought. ]

And how would we wake them?
eonsadrift: (023)

[personal profile] eonsadrift 2025-07-19 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Make them realize they're in a dream. Though if it was up to me, I'd just kill them.
gamboler: (067)

[personal profile] gamboler 2025-07-19 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ damn, okay little guy!! ]

Coincidentally, death is the one guaranteed way to wake up from a dreamscape.
eonsadrift: (067)

[personal profile] eonsadrift 2025-07-20 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
How convenient.

The issue is going to be figuring out whose dream we're in, however. Do you know of anyone who dreams of going to school and wearing gaudy yellow track suits?
gamboler: (103)

[personal profile] gamboler 2025-07-20 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wrinkling his nose. ]

Good heavens, I hope not. What a bland dream...it's certainly not mine. Do you?
eonsadrift: (285)

[personal profile] eonsadrift 2025-07-20 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh... I can think of some losers who would dream about something as mundane as this, but it's impossible to tell if they're actually here.

Not that it matters. We can only deal with it ourselves if it's someone in the room with us currently.
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[personal profile] gamboler 2025-07-20 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
And as breaking out seems beyond our capacity right now, the solution — if there is one — must be in the room with us.

[ If is doing a lot of heavy lifting, here. ]
eonsadrift: (023)

[personal profile] eonsadrift 2025-07-20 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
I can’t even fathom what we’re all meant to be doing in here.

…or why we’re together, for that matter. One of the girls and I are both scholars of a sort, which suits the obnoxious theming. You wouldn’t happen to be involved in academia, would you?