This is Totally Not a Prelude To Mischief - Room 227, Monday Evening

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Following his rather awkward encounter with Cameron in the common room earlier, Anders has spent several hours wandering around campus (trying to avoid his girlfriend, as horrible as that sounds). But now, he's hanging out in room 227 with Bridge, checking out the myriad shiny new techie toys that his best buddy has gotten for Christmas.

They may or may not have a plan to test some of these things out on RIC later on.

The door is open, in case anyone who's similarly not plotting mischief cares to stop on by.

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[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Fully recovered from her earlier hangover, Callisto wandered past room 227. She was not the least bored or in the mood to plot mischief.

"Hey guys."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey Cal!" Bridge said, waving cheerfully, wrench in hand. "Come on in!"

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto looked for a clear patch of floor to sit on. "What are you guys up to?"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Hey, what's happening?" Kawalsky was without his Santa costume today. Thank goodness.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Kawalsky!" Anders waved at him with a cupcake in hand. "Not much, dude, just checkin' out some of Bridge's Christmas loot. Very tools-centric. ABC Damage Control could do a whole bunch of new stuff now, in between what he got and what Cally got!"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Cool," Kawalsky grinned. "Gadgets are always good to have around. Hey, you guys should try building an anti-zombie machine. Y'know, just in case."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Not much," Bridge shrugged. "I got a lot of like, tools and mechanical toys as gifts from people, so we're just messing around with all that stuff,"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"You think?" Bridge tilts his head and contemplates this. "What would it do, though? I mean, like, what's anti-zombie, exactly?"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"I dunno. I think they don't like salt. And I think to really put 'em down you have to remove the 'head or destroy the brain'."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge considers this.

"So um... something that throws salt and maybe has a blade attached? For head-chopping action?"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Or even a baseball bat for bludgeoning them to death.. uh death-again."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Bored, Rory wandered through the second floor until she came to Bridge's open door.

Poking her head in, she said, "Hi. Whatcha doing?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hi Rory!" Bridge says, and gestures at the myriad mechancial parts and tools littering the floor. "Nothin' much, just messin' around with all the stuff I got this week," he grins, "I'm thinking of trying to upgrade RIC, now that I have the proper tools for it."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"A baseball bat? brilliant! You *are* good," Bridge says, impressed.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Cool!" Rory says enthusiastically. She crouches on the floor and picks up something random and shiny. "Like, what'll you make him do?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge thinks hard about Rory's question. "I dunno, maybe he could like, play DVDs or something," he says with a shrug.

At this, RIC trumpets enthusiastically.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I like baseball bats," Anders chimes in enthusiastically, tugging at the new Angels jersey, a present from Cally, that he's wearing.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Spiffy." Rory leans forward and pats RIC on the head. "I'dve brought Vladdie if he weren't all asleep and stuff."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Do you play?" Rory asks, tilting her head curiously. "I thought you were all into that other sport."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"I know my weapons," Kawalsky smirked.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I don't play. Yet," replies Anders, looking up at her and blinking. "Don't really have time. But I got all into it on TV, and people keep giving me books and stuff on it, and I think I could totally get into it. It's fun. And now that I'm not focusing on my Pyramid training so much any more, I might have time. Develop some other skills that might come in handy for Pyramid too, you know?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, non-robot dogs will do that," Bridge says with a giggle. "I heard about RIC playing with Vladdie, that night when he was stalking Angel- uh, RIC I mean, not Vladdie. I'm still not sure what that was all about."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory nods. "Baseball's fun. I've never been really good at sports, 'cause I'm kind of...um, spazzy, but that's one of the few ones I'll actually sit and watch with my stepdad on occasion."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah, I remember that. I think they might've played with that pink bunny of Hamlet and Duo's, too. I wasn't really paying attention at the time." Rory blushes for no apparent reason.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Deciding to get started on the upgrading, Bridge leans over to RIC and flips the power switch.

"Hey, someone wanna hand me the screwdriver?"