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

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

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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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"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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"Even when it's not screeching at you," Christian agreed.

He tucked the Furby into the back of the fridge, atop some plastic tubs that Christian didn't think he wanted to give a much closer look to, and closed the door. "Do you still hear anything?"

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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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Hannibal craned to see if he could hear something and then took a few steps away from the fridge. "Seems to be okay now. Walk away from it and maybe the ice will freeze its circuits."

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"If they were that attached, they shouldn't have carelessly left it out to terrify passing students," Rilla said with a little sniff.

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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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Christian, feeling as if he'd dodged a bullet, walked back over to the couch. "Thank you for saving me," he said with a half-smile. "They hadn't warned us about those, yet."

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"Don't worry, man," Hannibal said, waving it off. "I knew about those and I'd have reacted the same way you did. I'm Hannibal. I live down in 402."

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"So perhaps shutting it in the fridge would be a needed lesson," Christian said, and went to do just that.

He returned with a relieved smile. "How did the week treat you? Screeching toys aside."

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"I think I'm growing more accustomed to the oddities," Rilla said cautiously. "And yourself?"

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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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"Christian," Christian said. "I'm in ... 402, actually. Either one of us is wrong or we keep missing each other."

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"Also becoming more accustomed," Christian said, "or at least trying to. I'm enjoying the adventure of it all. My professor on Friday had us dress as pirates and walk a plank."