Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday evening

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce could be out of his room without feeling the need to find a more private place with the first person he saw. It was a good feeling. A good enough feeling that Bruce was willing to actually risk messing with the television in the common room again. But first? Threats.

"If you act up on me, I will end you," Bruce whispered while kneeling in front of the set. "There's a window right there. I will throw you out of it. You will be destroyed. And then I'll buy a new TV for the floor. I can afford something that will make you look like you're a black and white set. Nobody will miss you. So behave, or you'll force me to prove that I'm serious."

Bruce settled into a seat on the sofa and turned on PBS. It worked just fine. "I'm glad we could come to this arrangement," Bruce said with a bit of a smirk.

Good job badgering the inanimate object into working, Bruce.

[OOC: Much like the writing utensil I use exclusively for writing the third vowel, this post is open.]

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[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"No, that's fine. I'm from Gotham City. Lots of crime, rarely in the same state as you make your way through the multiverse," Bruce said. "It's a strange place."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"Strange," Elphaba said. "Wait, multiverse? There are other Gotham Cities?" That was a thing she'd not quite been exposed to.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Some with demons, some with aliens, some in New Jersey," Bruce said. "That's not counting whether it's Gotham in the future or the past, either. It's somewhat bizarre."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"I wonder if it's the same with Oz," Elphaba said. "Perhaps the Oz of the children's story that Kate told me about is just a different Oz to mine."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It wouldn't surprise me," Bruce said. "But when it comes to the strangeness of other worlds, it's getting tough to surprise me."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"It sounds like your own world has enough strangeness of its own," Elphaba remarked. "Not that that's a bad thing, of course. It helps... build character, I suppose."