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kenselvren ([personal profile] kenselvren) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2015-01-10 06:52 pm

Fifth floor common room, Saturday evening

Jalian could be doing this in her room, especially as she now had no roommate. She probably should be doing it in her room. But she was trying to be more social and learn more about the people around her, and she couldn't do that in her room.

So, she was sitting on the floor cross-legged, with bits of wire and circuitry and a scattering of small vacuum tubes around her, attempting to put something together.

The television was on in the background - she wasn't watching it, but hadn't bothered to turn it off. It seemed to be two groups of males on ice hitting each other with sticks, which was occasionally amusing.


[Open room and post!]
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-11 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, that's a mess," Flick noted when he strolled into the common room. There wasn't anywhere else to be so why not visit? "Something break?"
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-11 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Doorway?" Flick tilted his head on the way to the kitchen. "Don't those usually involve wood and frames? Don't tend to see tubes in a doorway."

He didn't get that it was a different kind of doorway.
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-11 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
"You can build those?" Flick asked, taking a bottle of water from the fridge and glancing over. "There's enough tech around here for you to do that?"
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-11 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Pretty similar," Flick told her, shrugging. "I'm from New York from a similar time. Maybe a few years in the past but not too far. Guessing you're from...well, maybe the future if you're building a portal?"
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-11 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"One of them, yeah, but probably the most well known in this country," Flick answered. "You ever been?"
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-11 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, there are a lot of those on the east coast," Flick agreed. "You like them? Museums? If you do, you should get up to New York sometime. Lots of those there."
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-12 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Not lately but I've been to a few when I get back there," Flick told her, shrugging. "Walking around, looking at old stuff or art isn't my favorite thing to do. I get bored easily."
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-12 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure it has some use if you're into art and art history but for everything else?" Flick shook his head. "It's just a bunch of colors and pictures of flowers. Really boring."
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-12 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"So, are you from a place that isn't this country so the history is totally invalid?" he asked curiously.
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-12 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah." That made a little more sense. "Well, here's a crash course on American history. We can never agree, we like to hate people for their skin color, sexual orientation, gender, etc. We fight wars, we go into debt. Wash, rinse, repeat."
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[personal profile] flickofthewrist 2015-01-12 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Males in charge is a different thing?" he wondered. "Huh. That's actually interesting. The dudes that run this country haven't always done well."