Second floor common room, Saturday

[unusual_sith]

It was a quiet day today, so Lana went to the common room and got some tea, then set up the new laptop computer she'd just acquired and started looking up things.

Including how to get the thing to do some things it apparently didn't. Honestly, why was all the display technology here so...flat?

The TV was on in the background, but she was ignoring it.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine has planned on just grabbing a drink from the fridge, but now she had to actually stop. "New toy?"

[unusual_sith]

"Mm." Lana nodded. "I can use the ones in the library, and this doesn't seem too different, but - I mean, it's touch-controllable, but only partly, and the colours are wonderful, but it's all flat. I really can't figure out how this world's tech developed."

She shook her head. "How have you been?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Pretty good," she said, and she actually meant it for once. "The last round of weird stuff missed me, and I've been working a lot. Can't complain. How about you?"

[unusual_sith]

"Well, the last round of weird did not miss me, but it wasn't too bad, apart from taking forever to get anywhere. The Force came in handy. I got eyed over by a Jedi Master at that party the other week, but she didn't try to slice me in two, so I suppose that went fairly well. And classes have been interesting. Although still no shooting," she noted with a grin.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I'm hoping for shooting next week as penance for the animal thing," Sabine said with a little sigh, coming back from the fridge with a Coke. "It's only fair."

She was maybe being a little dramatic about the animal thing.

[unusual_sith]

"That animal thing was...very strange," Lana said. "I can only hope it never actually happens to me."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"It's not entirely terrible," Sabine conceded. "Except for the lack of opposable thumbs, and changing back."

[unusual_sith]

"Has it happened to you, then?" Lana asked.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I was a bird for about a week. Flying was fun. You get some really great perspectives that way."

Of course that was how she looked at it.

[unusual_sith]

"I suppose you would." Lana nodded. "Still, the opposable thumbs and ability to talk are something I'd miss."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Yeah... not a lot of fun trying to tell your roommate you need something-" Or that you really were her roommate, please stop trying to shoo her out. "-when all you can do is chirp."

[unusual_sith]

"I wonder how it chooses which animals to make us," Lana said. "And if what we were in class will be what we are later on."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I was the same thing as before because I was too lazy to look for an icon," Sabine said, "but it's Fandom, so I think it does whatever it wants, whenever it wants."

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Good day for playing with toys in the common room," Vette announced. "Where's yours?"

Vette, those would be explosives. Those were not a common room toy.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"You really don't want me doing that here," she told her. "I can supervise you guys, though."

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Make sure I don't raise some kind of unstoppable droid army?" Vette grinned. "I probably need all the supervision I can get."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Now that you've said that, I should check: is that still your first droid?" Sabine (half) teased.

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Oh, no, this is at least number twenty-three," Vette replied, completely full of it. "I lost track somewhere around the time my fifth Annihilator T4-1D went completely off the rails."

A wistful sigh.

"Now I wish I really had an Annihilator T4-1D. I'd take it for walks."

It would murder everything.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I'm not even sure what that is and yet it feels like a bad idea. In general." The word 'Annihilator' was a clue.

[chirpchirpchirp]

"They're security droids," Vette offered. "Four legs, two arms, lots of guns..."

They were horrifying, Sabine. Just trust this.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"It's a bad idea," she confirmed.

[chirpchirpchirp]

"It's a terrible idea," Vette agreed brightly. "That's why this guy is a probe droid processor that I'm gonna try to rig up some kind of cheap probe or mouse or gonk chassis for, assuming I can even get it to function again. It was in pretty rough shape. It's no wonder it was scrapped."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"How's bringing it back to life going?" she asked, peering at it.

[chirpchirpchirp]

"I still need to swap out a lot of wiring," Vette sighed. "And there are some chips that I can't just replace using things from Earth. I don't have the tools to build those from the ground up. I'd have to go spelunking through scrap back home, I think."

She picked it up and held it out for Sabine to take a peek at.

"This stuff is probably all ancient by your standards, anyway. The dean says I'm from a few thousand years before everybody else."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine took it to look it over. "And you haven't found anything comparable at the scrapyard?"