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Klavier Gavin ([personal profile] rocksthecourt) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2010-12-04 05:14 pm

Day 53: Music Room

Well, if it wasn't his favorite time of the week. They say distance makes the heart grow fonder. Of course in this case, distance makes Klavier feel like an abused, neglected animal who was only now being allowed a taste of actual food. These people were such savages. It was still absolutely absurd that they were allowed access to this room so rarely. But the tactic was also brilliant on their part, sad to say. Klavier was always at his quietest and most obedient on Music Room days. The perfect model patient. He would give them no excuse to deprive him of this precious time.

Today was going to be a little different, however. Not only was he given access to music today, but a bout of entertainment as well. Apparently that band that had been setting up tryouts for the last week was ready to get the show on the road and start their auditions. Normally, this was the sort of project he wouldn't hesitate to take part in. But aside from the injury to his left hand and shoulder, there were three critical factors keeping him from doing so:

1. The band was named "Sex Bob-Omb." Klavier may have missed the band scene, but he had no intention of attaching his name to some Tom Jones cover band.
2. There weren't many actual instruments in the Music Room; certainly not enough variety to form the type of band they want. The one who made the poster said something about improvising instruments through whatever means necessary. A noble goal, but again, Klavier was not so desperate yet as to reduce himself to playing with a box of tissues strung up with rubber bands. That was too pathetic an image to ever place himself into.
3. The person who had posted placed up a sample music sheet of one of their songs. Klavier had no idea how many people here could actually read music enough to know what it was they were looking at there, but he had been able to decipher it perfectly. Their music... it was kind of god-awful.

In short, this was basically a disaster waiting to happen. The hints were enough to tell him this was likely going to be something akin to nails on a chalkboard... amplified by five. So honestly, he should be as far away from this room as humanly possible.

But he was not going to let these people ruin his rare access time to the Music Room. No, instead he took one of their old CD players and a carefully selected CD of choice (for the sake of his sanity) and took a seat at one of the tables, turning the chair so as to get an optimal view of the show. Why not? No harm in indulging in a little "entertainment," yes?

[free to anyone who wants to watch this train wreck with him :D ]

[identity profile] highvoltagegirl.livejournal.com 2010-12-09 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Just when Elle thought there couldn't be many more horrible things left to uncovered in Landel's, she got to behold the worst of them all.

The music room.

She knew was music was, and the banging and clashing taking place in this room … definitely did not qualify. It was almost enough for her to wish that Sylar would come out and kill her. Put her out of her misery. Or that Isaac's giant mutant spider would come out and devour everyone. It was getting pretty close to nighttime, right? There was still hope.

But since neither event looked like it was going to occur any time soon, she resigned herself to sliding over to the corner with the walkmans and CD players. She grabbed a CD without as much as looking at it-- it had a bright and shiny cover, and whatever happened to be on it had to be better than the racket the other patients were making and insisting upon calling music.

It was after a few seconds of fiddling with the volume that she came upon a horrific realization.

It wasn't going to go all the way up.

There was no way to drown out the noise. She didn't bother taking the headphones off-- some barrier between her and the music was better than none-- but she did sulk like a five year old who was just told that there weren't going to be free pony rides at her birthday party after all.

[For Jooooo :> ]