5th Floor Common Room, Tuesday Afternoon

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So yesterday there had been an announcement warning everyone to stay the hell away from the lovely new addition to the campgrounds. Which, naturally, meant Toby had had to go check it out frakking handwavily since his player's internet connection went fzzt last night. He didn't see what the big deal was, it was just a rock. A weird coloured rock, but a rock nonetheless.

And then he'd woken up this morning to find that the voices- the thoughts of his fellow students- were particularly loud today. None of his usual meditation exercises seemed to work, so eventually he dragged himself out to the common room, hoping to find something loud and distracting on television to take his mind off, well, all the other minds out there.

Also, he couldn't shake the feeling that he'd forgotten about something important that was supposed to happen yesterday. Oh well. Maybe it'd come back to him.

[ooc: opennnnn. PLZ ENTERTAIN ME.]

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[withasword.livejournal.com]

"Probably the same kind of people who figured that throwing gladiators into a ring with a lion would be the perfect afternoon entertainment." It had a certain similar (if slightly less bloodthirsty) audience appeal.

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"A long and... maybe not so illustrious tradition," Toby mused, wincing as the people on screen started in on the chair-throwing.

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"The Romans would probably disagree." People in her world, would probably disagree, come to that. They were as bad as people in the ancient world had been. Everything came full circle, didn't it?

"Going for the head is never the way," she noted of their haphazard attacks.

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"You spend a lot of time throwing chairs at people?" Toby had to ask.

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"I know how to," Kate corrected, "And people are annoying enough to make me want to sometimes."

"It's not some crazy hobby." No, she had other dangerous hobbies to keep her entertained and expend her energy on.

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"See, now I'm really glad I decided you're not the kind of person I want to annoy, last time we talked," Toby said with a smile. Not that he made a point of annoying people in the first place, but he did manage to unsettle a lot of them pretty much just by existing.

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Aw, so did Kate! Unnerving people wasn't a particularly celebrated talent. Such a shame.

"I'm trying to cut back," she half-joked. "Saving it for the class that grades me on hitting things with chairs."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Is there really a class that does that?" Toby wondered. "...Why am I asking, I take a class on cupcakes."

[withasword.livejournal.com]

"How can they make a whole class on cupcakes?"

Because that wasn't just as narrow specialty as hitting people with things...

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"And what not to do to cupcakes," Toby offered, because that made it better.

[withasword.livejournal.com]

"Lesson one, don't use the cupcakes as projectiles?" she guessed. It said something about Kate that was her initial response.

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"Do you classify everything around you as either weapon or not-a-weapon?" Toby had to wonder.

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Kate twitched her shoulders in a shrug. "It's a habit," she admitted.

"Considering something tried to eat me this morning, I feel like it's a good idea to go with it right now."

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"Something tried to eat you?" Toby frowned, remembering his earlier... episode... when he'd been talking with Sam just a few minutes ago. "Seriously?"

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"Why would I bother lying about that?" she wondered. "It was big, grey, lots of teeth... really ugly."

And she had no clue what it had been, which was definitely bugging her.

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"It's just- I thought I saw- something that looked exactly like that," Toby tried to explain without mentioning that he'd seen it in his head. "Do you think they're attacking, or something?" He'd heard about invasions, and there had been those creepy metal spiders that one time...

[withasword.livejournal.com]

"Where there's one disgusting angry thing trying to eat me, I usually find there's more not far behind." So yes, she didn't think it was a one off. It was just not her luck to avoid that crap.

"It's... the way these things go. Add in the getting sent back here--" It was suspicious.

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Yeah, Toby was now feeling even stupider for going to see that stupid rock. "And we're in deep shit," Toby concluded.

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"Yep." Which is why Kate had kept her distance. You learned quickly in her world that poking the freaky unknown only led to Bad Things.

"I think I'll be starting to carry my sword out there from now on." Until now she'd reluctantly parted with it, but this sort of thing called for arming up.