Fourth Floor Common Room, Sunday Morning

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

Viki, it must be said, had woken up very glad to still be unstung by her roommate--who was very nice after all, and terribly talented as a singer--but at the same time she was mildly out-of-sorts from several conversations yesterday though her mind shied away from remembering the details.

Who needed details? There had been talk, it had been uncomfortable, and figuring out how the lights worked in the common room just down the hall was far more interesting and important.

Flick on, flick off. Viki laughed as the lights did what she told them to with just a switch of knob. Wasn’t that exciting? Wasn’t that interesting?

If she’d been the wishing sort, Viki would’ve wished memories were more like that. As it was though, she had the lights, and the room, and that was enough to amuse her for now.

Flick on, flick off. How did memories work again...?

[Totally, totally open!]

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela had every intention of doing town exploration today, cold out as it may be. Before she did that though, she wanted a drink at least.

She paused near the girl fiddling with the lights giving her a curious glance. "Are you okay?" It was a more subtle, sociable greeting than 'what are you doing?'.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

Viki beamed at the girl. "Why wouldn't I be?"

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela shrugged. "I don't know, just lots of this--" She made some vague 'lightswitch' gestures.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

"I've never seen it before," Viki explained. "So it's really terribly exciting, don't you think?"

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"I think she's trying to see if you can give yourself a seizure if you do it fast enough." And now Ichigo was wondering if that was possible. His father ran a clinic, technically he should probably know this.

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Angela said slowly, a little smile pulling at her lips. "Hopefully she stops before it gets to that point..."

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"I hope so because I don't know where the clinic is yet and it'd suck a lot getting lost while carrying someone around," he mused, sounding pretty calm about it.

"Hi, I'm Ichigo, by the way."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal gave the girl he didn't recognize (and therefor was most likely new, by all basic logic), a slight lift of his chin in greeting and a "Hey."

Three new people. No way Ino could complain about that.

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Angela twitched her fingers in a wave. "Hi," she returned.

"You know if the caffeine around here is free for the taking?" she asked.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Sure is," Cal informed her with a nod and a little more of a smile. "Thank God." Even though he didn't like coffee all that much. But it went with the whole...image. "And if you're thinking of making some coffee, mind if I bum a mug, too?"

It was only after he asked that Cal realized the nicer thing to do would have been to have offered to make it for the both of them, instead. He probably still could, but...oh well.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Possibly on his way down to a workout or whatever else might crop up in the meantime, Cal figured it was kind of hard to not notice the lights flickering steadily on and off, on and off, in the common room. Considering this place and perhaps one or two too many bad, bad seventies horror flicks, a wise man might have kept walking on. Cal was apparently not very wise today, but it all worked out, considering that it turned out to just be a girl.

"New to lightswitches?" he guessed.

It was entirely possible around here, come on. And he would have thought they were pretty cool if he'd never seen them before, either. His fascination with different doors when they moved into Middlesex left him getting his head stuck in one, even.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

"Is that what they're called?" Viki asked, with a glance at him. "They're very exciting."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Well, he called that one right. But at least lightswitches didn't have the threat of getting your head caught in them. Hopefully. He'd be impressed if she could manage that.

"Yup, lightswitches," he confirmed with a nod. He would reserve his judgment on whether or not they were exciting. He supposed they could be, though. "I take it you're new to here, too?"

There. Two new people within twenty four hours. That should shut Ino up a little.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

"Very new," she said, blinking at him. "How do they work? Is it magic? Or is it like the pulleys and such that people keep reinventing for the elevators back home? How do you use a pulley on a light? Is it trapped somewhere?"

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

In a theme of Jetlags-suck and not wanting to bother is roomie, Ichigo had decided to explore the dorms that morning. The whole lack of sleep thing left him grumpier than usual when he wandered up to the 4th floor and found someone playing with the lights.

"Are you trying to give yourself a headache or something?" he asked the girl.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

"They're lightswitches!" she informed him. "I've never seen them before."

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Either he was getting used to Fandom or he was simply too tired to marvel the weirdness of it all. "Does that mean you're from the past?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal gave the other guy in the room of a lift of his chin, the customary "Hey."

Four new people. Four new people within twenty-four hours. Ino couldn't say a word.

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Ichigo lifted his hand from the armrest of his chair in what might have been a sort of wave, but only cooler than a wave. "Hi."

Way to be talkative.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco was bored, and a bored Marco was never good. Which is why he showed up in the fourth floor common room with a basketball.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

Viki had, really, just gone back to playing with the lights. She didn't notice the boy, or the ball.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco bounced the ball on the floor a few times and looked for something he could use as a basket.

[futureclone]

Hiding in his dorm room, Alex was pretty sure, was not the right way to handle the advent of new students. Therefore he was forcing himself to go be 'social' if by social one meant standing stiffly in the doorway to the common room, debating actually going inside.

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

The lights were flickering on and off as Viki played with the light-switch, and she giggled, a bit, at the shadows it created.

[futureclone]

Alex peered at Viki from behind his (turned off) scanners and asked her politely, "Is everything all right, miss?"