Third Floor Common Room | Afternoon | Tuesday | December 14

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Percy's finals were all later in the week so he really had jack to do until then. He knew he could have gone and bothered Nico or Luke but he'd ended up in the common room instead. From there, he actually started cooking something for his breakfast. Considering the only thing he knew how to cook without burning something down were pancakes, it was an easy choice.

He'd clicked on the television to have some background noise and actually got distracted by some stupid talk show with the pancake batter slowly sizzling away on the burner. He would have burned it if he hadn't snapped out of the stupor.

The pancakes survived Percy's baking attempts and soon enough, he was sprawled on the couch, eating a late breakfast and preparing to watch something stupid on television. Unfortunately, when he went to flip the channel, all he got was a yule log. On every channel, yule logs. The television had just been fine but now...

This island was weird.

[Haven't done one of these in awhile so hey, open, sure!]

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[vanillajello]

Sure there'd been a meal in Kate's last final, but there was no way she was eating anything served up by Professor Farnsworth of all people. So, to her common room she went.

Percy got a lazy "yo" as she wandered in, heading straight for the kitchen area.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Percy said, just as lazily. They'd gone ten whole seconds without arguing. Percy thought that was a new record. "You gonna cook again?"

[vanillajello]

Well, even Kate could occasionally refrain from pushing his buttons. Whther it would last remained to be seen. "Nah, think I'm just gonna make a sandwich," she replied as she gathered up some stuff to do just that. "Not really in a cooking mood."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Hmm." Percy turned back to stare at the television. "You know what's with the stupid tv? Is there something I'm missing?"

[vanillajello]

Kate glanced over her shoulder at the screen, then frowned. "Don't tell that's like, on every channel."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy held up the remote and clicked it so she could see that he was changing channels and that the picture remained the name.

"Answer your question?"

[vanillajello]

Kate groaned and made a face. "Ugh, that's gotta be some stupid island Christmas spirit thing again. It likes doing shit like that before the holidays."

[longislandiceme]

"Hey," Bobby waved a spoon at his roommate from his spot on the couch. "Long time no see," yeah, it was a stupid joke, but since when did Bobby Drake pass up an opportunity to make a stupid joke?

[vanillajello]

Kate rolled her eyes. "Yeah, since we don't live together or anything."

Although, okay, they both kind of had a tendency to just take off for random amounts of time, lately.

[longislandiceme]

Bobby would like to contest that his last instance of 'taking off' hadn't exactly been his fault.

"Every minute away from you seems like an eternity," Bobby said straight-faced.

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted. "Does your girlfriend know you feel that way?"

[longislandiceme]

"She understands," Bobby said with a nod. "It was hard, but she understands now."

[vanillajello]

"Poor Sookie," Kate deadpanned. "Poor you, too."

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

Nico had been heading for the stairs when he thought he caught sight of his cousin's trademark helmet hair and decided to stop in to see what was going on. "Percy...why are you watching that?"

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"It's the only thing on," Percy said, making a face. He clicked the remote and watched as the log just continued to appear. "It's not by choice."

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"That seems just...wrong," Nico replied, frowning at the log. "Why do you even leave it on?"

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I didn't want to sit in a common room and just eat breakfast like some loser," Percy explained, shrugging. "I thought maybe it would fix itself after awhile."

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

"How long has 'awhile' been?" Nico asked, dropping down into a chair.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Few minutes," he said, shrugging. "It was fine when I turned it on to make pancakes but it stopped working when I sat down. You wanna try?"

[longislandiceme]

Okay, so spaceships class had been... cool. Not that it wasn't, usually, but being in an actual non-simulated spaceship was still a novelty (even more so when there was no threat of imminent death). Anyway, Bobby was in a relatively good mood as he wandered in to the common room.

"...Why are you watching a log, dude?" he made a face at the TV.

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"I swear, it's the only thing that's on," Percy said, hitting the buttons on the remote to illustrate that. "The tv's broken or something."

[longislandiceme]

"...That is whole new levels of lame," Bobby rolled his eyes as he rummaged through the cupboards and freezer and came up with a bag of chips and a bowl of chocolate ice cream. "I liked it better when it was raining cookies."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I thought about just turning it off but it'd be kind of lame to sit here, staring at the walls and eating breakfast," Percy explained with a shrug. "At least...the fire on this thing might go out sometime?"

[longislandiceme]

"I guess," Bobby admitted. "It's all the same log, on every channel?" he asked curiously. "There's not like, 'Yule Log in HD', 'Regular Yule Log', 'Yule Log Extreeeeeme' or something?" Yeah, because anyone would've paid enough attention to tell something like that.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Nope," he said and flipped a few more channels, frowning at the television. "Maybe it's just this common room? Did the third floor do something wrong to the island and it's punishing us?"