Fifth Floor Common Room, Saturday morning

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce was just going to walk past the common room and back to his dorm after his morning run, but a glance into the room meant that he saw one of the more bizarre sights he'd seen recently. There was a disembodied hand holding the remote control. It was channel surfing. Occasionally it would use the on-screen guide and scroll quickly through that.

As Bruce walked into the common room to investigate more closely, another hand went flying through the air. Out of pure instinct, Bruce raised his hand. The second Thing made solid contact with Bruce's hand, making this the first high five Bruce had ever experienced with a disembodied hand.

A small detail, but Bruce noticed both hands were left hands. It seemed strange to have two lefties in the same room, especially under these circumstances. All this weirdness meant that Bruce needed to take a seat and just observe for a while. He couldn't shake the feeling that the second thing was observing him right back, possibly looking for another excuse to high five. The first one, clearly, was too busy observing the TV.

[OOC: Just saying, if I were a disembodied hand, I would never stop giving high fives. Anyway, I'm up early on a Saturday, why not have an open CR?

ETA: Running off for an hour or so, then pinging will be slowish.]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

There was nothing going on in Alex's common room save for two of those...weird hand things playing rock, paper scissors. When he finally found some signs of life three floors up, he was just glad the hands were attached to someone.

"When I'm barely flinching at weird ass disembodied hands running around, I think I'm officially completely used to this place."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"There haven't been body parts like this before, right?" Bruce checked. "Disembodied feet running around kicking things, or some lungs just using air?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"If there has been, I've repressed it," Alex said, wandering over to the kitchen to try and find himself some caffeine. "There's been zombies. Does it count if there body parts come off?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"That happens regularly at the bar, right?" Bruce asked. "It's too common, it doesn't count."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"So, I think we can call this a first," Alex decided, coming away with some cookies and some water. "They doing anything interesting up here?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"That one gave me a high five," Bruce said. "And that one's flipping through channels. I'm curious what it's going to end up watching."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't have eyes." Not that Alex thought Bruce missed that. "You're trusting a hand with your viewing habits?"

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara was not in a pleasant mood as she stalked up the stairs and into the common room. She cast a tight, insincere smile Bruce's way. "I see you've met our invaders."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Once it decides, I'm done here. I just want to know what a hand might want to watch," Bruce said. "It's not a question you get to test most days."

He was hoping it wasn't porn. That wouldn't end well for anyone in the room. Or it might end too well.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex snickered and...hated that he was curious now too. "Well, fuck. Now I have to stick around too. This'll bother me the rest of the day if I don't get the answer."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It's not a very exciting invasion so far," Bruce said as he watched the hand with the remote pause briefly on QVC - presumably for the brief glimpse of a hand model - before continuing on with its march through all the channels. "You look happy."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Feel free. I just hope the lack of eyes doesn't mean it's pressing buttons for the hell of it," Bruce said. "I'd hate to find out I wasted my morning on that."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What if the hand just never stops changing channels?" Alex wondered. "You planning on staying here the entire day?"

[wrongkindofsith]

If looks could kill, there would be some dead hands in the room. "I woke up to two of those in my room, trying to make off with things that didn't belong to them." Her gloves, to be specific.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes you have to do strange things to get an answer to a question," Bruce said, not really answering Alex's question. "I'm confident the batteries will run out before I waste the whole day, though."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"They're all over the dorms, then?" Alex asked when the girl stalked her way in. "That's...comforting."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"So you caught them red-handed?" Bruce asked.

He wasn't much for jokes, but he had a very good sense of when one would go over as well as that one surely would with Cara. And sometimes you just needed to live dangerously.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Let's hope the hand doesn't stop on something that makes me want to gouge my eyes out," Alex remarked, glancing over at the hand again. "I wonder if they're all related."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It's possible. But I wonder if they're clones of the same person's hand," Bruce said. "I might have to get an ink pad and take fingerprints later."

[wrongkindofsith]

"Everywhere I've been this morning," Cara replied. "At least they're only irritating. So far." It was a small comfort considering how quickly something could go from irritant to trying to kill you.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You gonna try and fingerprint every single hand?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow. "Think you'll catch them all?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"They were playing rock, scissor, paper on the second floor," Alex told her, snickering. It might have been irritating but he'd take it over not getting strangled.

"You think they're gonna turn evil?" he asked after a moment.

[wrongkindofsith]

Very punny, Bruce.

Cara pursed her lips before replying. "Considering that they were wearing the items in question?" She held up one gloved hand (her own, just to be clear) and wriggled her fingers. "You could say that."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"A random sample would be enough," Bruce said. "Two or three left hands would give enough indication to draw a conclusion."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce gave a small smile at that. "What did you do to them after you caught them?"