5th Floor Common Room, Wednesday night

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It had taken some time, but Jessica was starting to realize that she was a magnet for bizarre gremlin behavior. Or bizarre gremlin behavior was a magnet for her. The basic point was that she saw gremlins being weird far more often than one might expect.

Like tonight, for example. She walked into the common room and saw a handful (not literally) of gremlins with numbers taped to their backs dancing in front of the TV. She eased into the room and slunk around the back of the room at a safe distance from biting and watched as one of the gremlins dropped to the floor out of exhaustion.

A gremlin in a striped shirt ran over and dragged the fallen gremlin away. And that's when Jessica realized that she was witnessing a gremlin dance marathon.

And then she ordered a pizza because she might seriously be here all night watching this.

[OOC: CR is open! Come for the pizza, stay for the gremlin dance party.]

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Sia got to the common room, saw the gremlins dancing, and immediately turned around for the exit with a "No," because she'd been traumatized before.

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"Come on, Sia, it's great!" Jessica called out. "And there's pizza!"

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"I remember how this went the last time," Sia pointed out.

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"Last time it was horrifying sexy dancing. This time it's adorable marathon dancing. Plus pizza," Jessica pointed out.

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"What if it turns into... 'sexy' dancing?"

Because she didn't think there had been anything sexy about that. at. all.

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"Then they'll be dragged off pretty quickly, because it's a very energetic style, which is the enemy of a dance marathon," Jessica explained. "Well, that or the gremlins all start making out and call the marathon off, but that's a thirty percent chance at best."

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Sia sighed, but since Jessica wasn't cowering and throwing things this time, it was probably fine.

"Why the marathon?" she wondered, taking a seat far away from the gremlins, because she wasn't dumb enough to put herself with her tasty Skywalker blood right next to them.

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"No idea. I didn't ask, they didn't answer. I'm here as a silent spectator..." Jessica paused. "As a spectator who is silent except when there are other spectators with her, and then only with said other spectators."

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"I'm not entirely sure you haven't been commenting to them," Sia said, going for a slice of pizza.

Did you know there's a princessy way to eat pizza? There is, and Sia knows it.

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"Only internally. I didn't want to risk getting their attention until I had someone else here to outrun," Jessica joked.

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"Oh, nice try, but I'd outrun you," Sia assured her.

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"You're a good friend, so I'll let you hold on to your dreams," Jessica said graciously.

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"I appreciate that." She paused, watching the gremlins, and asked, "Where do you suppose they learned to move like that?"

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"I have to assume they just watch YouTube all day long," Jessica said. "It's the only thing that makes sense."

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"Really," Sia said. "That makes sense to you."

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"The only thing," Jessica said. "Because they're not learning the Charleston by reading books."

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"I don't know what that is," Sia said. "I have to say that a lot."

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"It's the dance that one is doing," Jessica said, pointing the gremlin out. "It looks better with human proportions."

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"I find that impossible to believe, because I'm not sure it could look worse."

Sia would be a really touch American Idol judge, just saying.

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"Now come on, he's trying," Jessica said. "That's the important thing."

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"Not trying hard enough," Sia told her.

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"Man. Remind me to never join a dance contest that has you as a judge," Jessica said, shaking her head.

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"I shouldn't really have to," Sia pointed out. "What kind of contest would even attempt to get me as a judge?"

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"A very tough one, apparently," Jessica said. "That requires little knowledge of old Earth dances."

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"Bad experience, or just pretty damn weird?" asked Emily as she wondered if there was enough pizza to warrant her talking to someone and maybe keep them from leaving.

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"Why does this always happen when I'm in a common room?" Good question, Tony.

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"Because you always come to a common room when I'm already in it," Jessica suggested. "Because I'm usually the one to find these things first."

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"Well..." Tony stared at the gremlins for a moment longer. "Stop going into common rooms."

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"Stop following me into common rooms," Jessica countered.

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"I do what I want." No, that was Loki.

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"And dancing gremlins is the price you pay for that freedom," Jessica pointed out.

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"And for that," Tony replied solemnly. "I am proud to be an American."

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"And think of how special you are. Most Americans don't get to witness gremlins doing a dance marathon, no matter how many times they vote yes for that proposition," Jessica said.

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"That's only in California." They were such New Yorkers.

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"In New York, it's just considered a natural, unalienable right," Jessica said. Pride, yo.

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"Of course!"

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"Even if we don't have gremlins there. It's still assumed," Jessica said.

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"What does it say of me," started Emily as she helped herself some pizza, "that I'm more interested in the pizza than the little critters?" This island was screwing with her perception of normality.

[ iPod stop being a jerk. ]

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"Probably that you're hungry," Jessica said. "Or you hate dancing."

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Emily considered Jessica's words as she munched her way through a slice. "I'm the most awkward dancer, I'll give you that; never been a fan of people I do t know getting all grabby hands on me." It was just asking to get their noses broken.

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"That doesn't explain the rejection of watching gremlins in a dance marathon, though," Jessica pointed out. "Of course, the fact that you'd be watching gremlins in a dance marathon is enough reason to reject that." For anyone but Jess, apparently.

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"I'm weirdly okay with that, though," said Emily as she inspected the ever dancing gremlins. "That's what worries me; I pride myself of being quick to adapt, but I'm not that good." Not yet at least. "It's not like there's something more interesting on television anyway."

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"I don't think this one's about adaptation. I think this one's all about rubbernecking at the insanity, but at a safe distance from biting," Jessica said.

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"Whatever you say Jess, I just want to be assured I'm not going to feel comfortable about gremlin dance outs every now and then." It was oddly mesmerizing, she had to accept. "Wait, they bite?" She was going to track Victor down and have a talk with him.

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"Yeah, apparently they bite you, you get gremlin venom in your system, and you think you're someone else and do wacky things for a bit," Jessica said. "It's never happened to me, but I hear it's usually hilarious when it happens to other people."

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"Oh, yikes; there goes what little appeal they had. Now I need more pizza," muttered Emily as she looked at the gremlins with newfound terror. "If it ever happens to me, just put me out of my misery, would you?" Emily sounded slightly serious about it.

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"I hope you mean by pointing and laughing. In which case, of course I will," Jessica said.

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Emily smiled, if only a little. "What a friend; at least shove me into a closet of something, I'll be totally grateful if I make it through without going insane." Clearly Emily hadn't realized just where she was. "I would bet you to see who gets bitten first but that's just tempting fate. Instead I'll bet you which gremlin will be the last one standing."