Second floor common room, Friday evening

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

Ender had told him about television when he'd been trying to explain the computer and holograms: light that was shaped into things. Hiccup hadn't actually made the connection between the box he'd seen in the common room and television until he'd come wandering in search of food and seen the pictures playing across the glass.

Quest for food forgotten, he dropped to his knees in front of it, eyes wide, one hand on the glass. There were people and animals and machines and some sort of magical liquid that promised to make him irresistible to girls if he sprayed it all over himself. There was even a man on a horse.

Enraptured, Hiccup just kept staring, eyes about six inches from the screen.

[OOC: Open, of course! But you may have to shove the Viking out of the way if you want to watch TV.]

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[notmyownage]

Claudia wandered in.

"You know, they say that's bad for your eyes."

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

"Oh well, eyes, I can get more of those," Hiccup replied off-handedly. No, no he couldn't, but he was having trouble looking away. "Have you seen this?" With a supreme effort he turned around to grin at her. "It's just light, but its trapped in this box and it makes all these pictures!"

[glacial_queen]

"Really?" Karla asked. "Is it the light, perhaps, or the motion, focusing too hard...?"

[hotmugofstfu.livejournal.com]

After walking in the room and toward the noise therein, Blackagar had to pause and see just what held so much interest to the boy. So far, nothing seemed to be of interest.

...other than a man on a horse. Why was there a man on a horse?

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

Hiccup was wondering that himself. But it was was on the television, so he was fascinated. "Have you seen this?" he called without turning around, because obviously television was the most epic thing ever, and, just as obviously, no one else in the world had ever seen one.

[notmyownage]

"Don't tell me you've never seen a TV, either?"

[glacial_queen]

Unaware of Medusalith's plans for keeping her away from him, Karla waved at Blackagar. There was an instant of confusion at his resemblance to Dan, but the unfamiliar psychic scent--the very unfamiliar psychic scent--let her know that he was someone else. "Hi there, I'm Karla."

[nohaircutsplz]

Medusalith came to the common room in search of some of their human food. It might be dreadful, but a girl had to eat. She stopped to stare at the thing with the images. "What is that?"

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

"It's amazing is what it is," Hiccup replied, practically bubbling over with enthusiasm as he threw a smile over his shoulder. "It's called television and it takes light and makes it into all these, these things!"

[notmyownage]

"That's it, I'm making signs."

[hotmugofstfu.livejournal.com]

He would be neglectful to not rise from his seat when Medusa entered the room.

It was, as always, a pleasure to see her.

[notavalleygirl.livejournal.com]

All Kitty had to do was look at the guy's positioning to smile and say, "You're new."

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

"I am new, very new," he replied. The television flashed into another of the small stories and he managed to pull his attention away to smile at her. "I'm Hiccup, mighty Viking, feel free to laugh at the name."

[notmyownage]

Claudia was rather pleased to see someone who looked nicely contemporary.

"Tell me you know what the TV is."

[hotmugofstfu.livejournal.com]

Blackagar offered her a friendly little wave from his spot on the couch. Look, those commercials about auto insurance--whatever that was--and an overly perky woman were very involving.

Would the people submit themselves to this service? Would she lose that smile?

Who knows?

[glacial_queen]

"You are, too," Karla said, giving the unfamiliar female a smile and a wave. "I don't recognize your...you."

Psychic scents were a bit of a shock to new kids. At least until they learned about magic.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"That's real bad for your eyes, you know," Sookie noted, peeking into the common room.

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

"Sookie, hi!" Hiccup gave her a little wave and a big smile. "People keep saying that, but so far they feel okay. Of course, if I suddenly go blind I'm going to feel pretty silly. Isn't it incredible?" He gestured at the television.

[hotmugofstfu.livejournal.com]

That was due to flawed genetic material. Really, people would do so much better to breed those defects out.

And marry cousins. Like on Attilan!

Blackagar waved over at her, smiling in a friendly manner.

[notmyownage]

"That's what I told him. He'll go crosseyed."

[nohaircutsplz]

"That is due to inferior genes," Medusalith said, then realized that was, shall we say, wrong here and said, "I mean. Hello?"

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley was bored. This was typically a bad thing. She wandered into the common room and proceeded to open the fridge before exclaiming. "Why can't I find any decent leftovers, huh?"

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

"I think something in the fridge is eating them," Hiccup replied, glancing away from the television. "There's something green and scary way at the back of it, anyway. Growled at me last time I opened the door." No there wasn't and no it didn't, and his grin probably gave that away.

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

"What's on the talking box?" Christian asked the room as a whole.

He knew what the television was! ... kind of.

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

"Stories! And people made of light and things to buy and a man on a horse," Hiccup called over his shoulder, then pointed. "And look, that dog can talk." The dog on the television was, in fact, talking, or at least it appeared to be talking. "This place is amazing."

[glacial_queen]

It was one of the last times to hang around in a Common Room and watch teevee for awhile. Soon, it would be hanging around the main campfire and watch the flames for entertainment. So, after heading back from Kennedy's party, Karla decided to duck into the Common Room to say hello.

"Kiss kiss," she said with a wave. What? For her it was the same thing.

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

That got Hiccup's attention away from the televison. "Ahh, no thanks," he said carefully.