Third floor commoon room, Saturday night

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

He had been back in town for a couple days and watched his girlfriend leave. This meant one thing: Saturday night vegging in front of the TV with enough popcorn for anyone who might stop by.

Tonight he was watching the Discovery Channel, the big nerd.

[OOC: Open, of course.]

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Peter," Dawn greeted him as she sat down on the couch near the popcorn. "What're we watching?"

[multiplez]

In search of amusement, Z wandered into the common room. "Hey, Peter. What are we watching?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Dawn," Peter said. "Discovery Channel. Something about what life on Earth will be like after a comet hits. You know, something nice and cheery."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Z," Peter said. "Something on the Discovery Channel about a life after a comet strikes Earth. I don't know how plausible it is, but it's interesting."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Have people started eating each other yet? Or frozen to death?" She asked, not bothered by it.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Not yet. They're also not fighting each other over oil in the Australian Outback, either," Peter said. "The end of the world is nothing like what the movies told me it would be."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Lying movies," Dawn said, taking a handful of popcorn, "and the end of the world is usually pretty quick. I liked that one, though. Especially the dome fighting thing."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"That was cool. That and the weird vehicles. It's like surviving the apocalypse makes engineers go insane," Peter said. "More insane, at least."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Are they normally...normal?" Dawn asked.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Educational TV?" Mel groaned as she entered the Common Room. "Jeez. Can't we find a lifetime movie to watch?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Hey, look. People. In his favourite common room with his favourite chair, with the TV on one of his favourite channels (no, they didn't play Carnivorous Kingdom, but they played a lot of things similar to it sometimes).

Chad so came in, had a seat, and grunted a greeting to everyone, a hand lifted in a waveless wave.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"In my experience, they're usually a bit off from normal people," Peter said. "They're kind of messed up in the head, but not necessarily in a bad way. Just in a ... different way."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"This has crappy reinactments of future events, isn't that enough?" Peter asked.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Chad," Peter said. "How are things? Interesting as ever? Maybe even more interesting than that?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

There was a moment of silence from Chad as he considered the question. Or he could have just been taking a while to jump-start the thinking processes. "Depends," he said, finally. "Do you know about Prince Oscar Pedro yet?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"How? I've never met one."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't even look like an re-enactment of my future," Mel said settling down on the couch. "Where's the radiation that mutates everyone in the lower class?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I know one guy who built himself a suit of armor that basically makes him a walking tank, but he's always drunk on martinis. And there's another guy who could probably invent anything he can think of, but he's all stretchy and prefers to do superhero stuff in his underwear instead," Peter said. "Oh, and I hang around on the ceiling all the time."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"It's less important than the new ice age so they're focusing on that," Peter said.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Is he a new student?" Peter asked.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Sure... Ice age. Riiiiiight. I never saw snow and ice before I came here," Mel said rolling her eyes.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Well, that answered Chad's question. "Nope. My new cat. So that's what's new and exciting with me."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Then you might just come from a timeline that didn't have an extinction event like this," Peter theorized. "Or you're from far enough in the future that the ice age cleared up already."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Or this channel could be full of toy."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"That is definitely both new and exciting," Peter said. "I'll have to meet him."

Peter had no clue how much he shouldn't want to see the cat.