Room 307, Tuesday Evening

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So for Topher, today had been noteworthy due to a variety of circumstances, the most obvious of which being

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[iwishiwasbig]

After his evening coffee run, Dave returned to the room. With coffee. Of course.

"Welcome back, Topher," he said. "What're you playing? Stargate Defender?"

That wasn't on phones, Dave.

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"Tetris," Topher corrected him. "Fewer aliens, more blocks."

What, so he remembered the game from that ship that time.

[iwishiwasbig]

"Sounds like it's still technically ahead of my time," Dave said. "I'm sure I'll get addicted to it eventually."

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"Wanna try?" Topher offered, in a rare moment of generosity.

And then his phone was sailing across the room over to Dave.

[iwishiwasbig]

Dave ducked. "If the phone's not broken, I guess."

He picked the phone up and brought it back over to Topher to confirm that it was still working.

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Topher poked the touchscreen. It... responded to being touchscreened.

"Pfft," he said, passing it back. "It's fine."

[iwishiwasbig]

"Okay, good. Sorry if I'm paranoid about that, but we still don't even have cell phones back home," Dave said, looking at the game and realizing that he had no clue what was happening. "Actually, my grandparents still have a rotary phone."

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Topher looked at all the blocks that had been piling up while Dave had been going on about the phone and sighed in something vaguely like disgust.

Then the rotary phone comment distracted him, because, well, it was a rotary phone. "A... you're kidding, right?"

No, Topher, because Dave was a dinosaur.

[iwishiwasbig]

"Give me a break, I'm from thirty years ago," Dave pointed out as he started tapping the screen to try to figure the game out."

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"Dinosaur," Topher commented. Was it affectionate? Maaaybe. "Okay, so you want the blocks to... not pile up. Which is what they're doing now. So you move the ones that are falling so that they'll complete a line on the bottom, 'cause once you have a whole line, it blips out."

He demonstrated.

"Like that."

[iwishiwasbig]

"They have some weird games in the future," Dave noted. "There aren't even any humanoids to save in this."

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Oh, Dave, you giant weirdo. "You can pretend you're trying to break down a wall to save some humanoids, if you want?"