Fifth Floor Common Room [Tuesday afternoon]

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

After her one class of the day, Dany found herself without entertainment, and with a belly full of food threatening to put her to sleep. (While she had yet to learn the term 'food coma,' one was not raised a princess -- outcast or not -- without having to keep from falling asleep through a feast or two.) She made her way up to her room to retrieve the dragons, and while a ride out on her silver sounded appealing, she simply felt too lazy to go through the effort.

Perhaps later. For now, she wandered out to the common room with her three dragons trailing after, and prodded at the buttons on the television until they produced something she, at least vaguely, could understand.

"I'd like to buy a vowel," requested the woman on the screen, as Dany stared, transfixed, at the brightly-colored wheel.

She had not known that there was any instance in which language might cost money, but as she watched the lovely woman in the long gown press the small squares and reveal a series of Es amongst the blanks, she understood. "It's a puzzle!"

Of course, when the answer was, "FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY-FREE SHIPPING," she was at a loss again. But she clapped along when the wheel began to spin the next time, at least. Perhaps this next would make sense.

[common room is open, method RP is in effect. Shut up, I love the Wheel.]

Comments

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla wandered into the common room with (thankfully...) baby boy Jims on her hip. "Oooh, look at the letters," she crooned to him. "That's an A!"

Jims didn't seem remotely interested.

"Hello, Dany!"

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Rilla," Dany replied warmly. "And hello, Jims. He's...not quite old enough for word-learning, is he?"

Dany had no idea. If Rhaego had lived, she'd be trying to teach him the Common Tongue and Dothraki alike by the time he was gurgling.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Not just yet," Rilla said. "Oh! But he does have a new trick."

She placed him on the floor on his back and Jims stared at her for a moment, perplexed, before flipping onto his stomach.

"See?"

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"He's got a great survival instinct, this one," Dany said wisely. "Good job, Jims! Does he crawl?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"He gets up like he wants too," Rilla said fretfully, "and then just rocks and gets frustrated."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps he's feigning," Dany suggested with a giggle. "I certainly wouldn't mind being carried about all day. Why learn otherwise?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Good point," Rilla admitted. "He gets every whim catered to--food, entertainment, wet diapers..."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"Everything anyone could ask for, at a moment's notice," Dany replied, raising a brow. "I'm royalty and I'm not treated half as well. Jims, you really ought to learn to fend for yourself. Trust me."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Or at least start doing chores or something," Rilla declared merrily. "I don't want him growing up spoiled."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"It is a terrible way to go," said Dany, who knew from experience. "You could attach some sort of cloth to him so he might clean the floor as he rolls around?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"And he does so love to drool," Rilla said, "so it's also helping people not to slip."

[wasthecuteone]

Petra returned from a trip into town with her arms full of groceries. "Hey, Dany," she said over her shoulder as she made a detour to deposit them on the kitchen counter, where they could just wait for now. "What're you watching?" she asked as she went back to flop into a chair.

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"Jims does seem very safety-conscious," Dany said with a solemn nod.

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"I have no idea," Dany admitted, her eyes wide as she watched the screen. "There are puzzles, and a wheel, and I believe money is somehow involved. And there's clapping!"

The clapping was really the part that she'd followed the easiest.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Jims was currently trying to eat his fist.

"Oh, absolutely," Rilla replied, nodding back. "What show are you watching, anyway?"

[knowsnokungfu.livejournal.com]

Chuck had always been a big fan of the food coma. It was an afternoon plan he could always get behind. His bag of Cheetos alone probably wouldn't get him there today, but neon orange snacks were good enough in his opinion that it didn't matter.

"How is anyone supposed to get that?" he wondered from the doorway. "You'd think they don't want people to win." Which they probably didn't, from a financial point.

[wasthecuteone]

Petra listened to all of this, and ventured to guess, "Wheel of Fortune? Man, is that show still on?" Of course, in Petra's world, it had probably been canceled years ago to make way for What Would You Do to Be Famous?

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"I thought it was just me not knowing the phrases of this world," Dany replied wryly, glancing over her shoulder with a smile. "One would think that they'd make them a bit easier for the general public. It doesn't seem as though the competitors are exactly brain trusts, either."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"There's a wheel! And fortunes!" And yes, if Dany paid attention, it said as much every now and then on the screen. "Why does that woman press the blocks to change them to letters? Is it witchcraft, or electricity? If it's electricity, why is she needed?"

The questions no one ever asked about Vanna White.

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

Freddie was out and about mainly because he was testing a new app on his PearPhone.

"This is so cool," he said, wandering into the common room. "This app can tell me exactly how high above sea level I am. He hopped up and down. "See, it changes!"

He was sometimes too nerdy for his own good.

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"There are puzzles and money and a wheel," Dany said, frowning a bit at the screen. "And beyond that I haven't quite figured it out. I think the object is to solve the puzzles for the money, of course, but it does seem like a lot of legwork."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"I have no idea what you said, aside from 'above sea level,'" Dany said, amused, "but wouldn't looking...out to the sea tell you?"

That was how they did it at home, anyway.

[wasthecuteone]

"It's electricity," Petra said, "but I think..." she trailed off, digging for a memory. "I think maybe when, like, I was a little kid, they had to turn the letters by hand? So, like, she actually had a job."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"And now she's just an old relic of times past?" Dany wondered wistfully. "Poor thing. So this has been on for ages, then. I thought I'd found something new and exciting -- though, well, it still is to me."

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"Well, I guess," Freddie said. "But this gets it down to the centimeter." He held out his little pear shaped phone (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110613220823/victorious/images/4/48/Pear_Phone.png) to show a white screen with the current above-sea-level displayed in big black numbers. "Takes out all the guess work."

He paused. "Though now that I think about it, I'm not sure why I need that."