4th Floor CR, Saturday Evening

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Christian had just gone into the common room to make himself a cheese sandwich, which was about the extent of his cooking skills. He would have gotten the snack and left had it not been for the ... thing sitting on the couch; he would have assumed it was a toy, except the island was so very odd, and the thing kept humming at him tunelessly in a very not-toy-like way.

"Oh, er," he said, with a wave of one hand. "Hello? Did you ... need anything?"

And that was when the Furby went crazy. Christian covered his ears and approached what he was now desperately hoping was a toy cautiously, prodding at it with a forefinger. He was afraid that anything he did to turn it off would only make things worse.

[OOC: Open common room!]

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"Man, what the hell?" Hannibal asked, wincing as he peered in the common room, having been on the way to his room. "Is something dying in here?"

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Christian waved the Furby through the air by one ear. "Only this thing. I don't suppose you know how to turn it off?"

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"Yeah, I do," Hannibal said, grimacing and wandering in. "You stomp the hell out of it."

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"But -- someone might care about it!"

Not that it didn't sound like a good idea to Christian.

"Maybe I could just drop it gently out the window."

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"We could put it in the fridge," Hannibal suggested. "Make it the next person's problem?"

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"Fridge," Christian echoed, trying to place the word. "You mean the icebox?"

He was already headed for it. With one hand on the handle, he asked -- "I'm assuming it's not alive. Is it?"

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"Yeah, the icebox," Hannibal said, going with that and following behind Christian. "And now, it's AI. It's, um, like mechanical. Technology can be fucking scary."

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Rilla came in, let out a little shriek and jumped back into the hallway. "What is that?"

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"Rilla!" Well, she got a smile, at least. "Don't be afraid. I can say I'm almost certain it's a toy. I just can't find any way to put it out."

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"Is it a windup?" Rilla asked, stepping carefully back into the room. "Perhaps it will just run down."

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"He thinks I should put it in the icebox," Christian said, gesturing to Hannibal. "I don't know what the cold will do to it, but that should keep us from hearing it while it wears down, at least?"

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Rilla nodded. "I was going to suggest a rain trough otherwise," she said.

Though she hadn't seen any around. Strange.

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"My next step was going to be throwing it out a window," Christian claimed. "And hoping whoever it belongs to didn't turn up at my door weeping."

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"Christian!" Leia said, smiling brightly when she saw him in the room. Then she frowned at the Furby. "What is that?"

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"Some kind of toy, I think," Henry said, brandishing it at her. "Have you seen anything like it?"

The Furby started chittering instead of moaning.

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Leia was very familiar with small muppet-like races, but nothing like this. "No," she said. "Can't you make it stop the noise?"

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"There isn't an off switch," Christian said, sounding a bit beleagured. "Hannibal thinks I should put it in the icebox, so I was going to give that a try."

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"At the very least it might stop the noise," Leia said. "I agree, do it."

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"As you wish," Christian said, and took the Furby away to its frozen confinement.

He returned a moment later. "There. Much better in here, isn't it?"

4th Floor CR, Saturday Evening

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Having checked in on Merlin and Arthur's animals in the stables, Firekeeper and Blind Seer went looking through the common rooms for company.

"What," Firekeeper pointed at the object making the offending noise, "is that?" she demanded as she entered the room.

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"A toy," Christian said, forgetting his manners because THERE WAS A HUGE GIANT WOLF IN THE COMMON ROOM. " ... wolf. There's a wolf with you."

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"Yes," Firekeeper replied, trying very hard to conceal her amusement. "His name is Blind Seer," she supplied helpfully.

ooc: I have no idea why lj added a subject line there O_o

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"Hello, Blind Seer," Christian said, dubious but game. "I'm Christian."

He raised his head to face Blysse more directly. "And he's a ... friend of yours? Tame?"

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At that, she did laugh. "Friend yes, tame no," she clarified. "And my name is Blysse," she added, realizing that while she'd provided introduction for Blind Seer, she hadn't given one for herself.

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"That's a pretty name," Christian told her, a bit more at ease. "Blysse."

"How do you have him in the dorms, if he isn't tame?"

[OOC: So sorry, must sleep :-(]