Fifth Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

[scary_jeff]

There was a Jeff watching movies in the common room.

This Jeff was watching very bad old horror movies.

This was a Jeff with a purpose. A Jeff with a plan.

This was a Jeff who was going to win a Film Off, yes.

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[flowering_mind]

Ino slipped into the common room, in search of entertainment, and grinned when she saw her big brother watching movies, "Hi Jeff! What are you watching?"

[fat_halpert]

"Hey," Jim said. "Have we met?"

[flowering_mind]

"Huh?" Ino looked at him, then shook her head, "I don't think so?" She grinned at him, "I'm Yamanaka Ino, though."

[fat_halpert]

"I didn't think so. I'm pretty good with faces," Jim said. "Jim Halpert. It's nice to meet you."

[flowering_mind]

"Likewise!" Ino said. "I can't believe how many people I haven't met yet - and I've been here since September."

[fat_halpert]

"You know, I've been here since January and I'm still finding people I haven't met, too," Jim said. "But part of that is that we keep getting new people. And it always happens at the beginning of the semester. It's so weird."

[flowering_mind]

"Everything is weird around here." Ino laughed, "I've learned that really quick. But really? You mean every semester the number of people I don't know is just going to go up?" That was a big difference from home. "It's a lot different from home."

[fat_halpert]

"Well, most of the people here are actually just robots," Jim said, joking but seeing if he could take terrible advantage of a newish person who could potentially be terribly gullible. "So every semester after they learn a certain amount, they get sent out to the people who ordered them and a new batch of robots replaces them. So, yeah, there's a constant turnover every few months."

Jim wasn't sure why he did this to people. Well, yes, he did. It was entertaining.

[flowering_mind]

"... what's a robot?" Ino asked, frowning. Most of the people she'd met seemed pretty... people-like.

[fat_halpert]

"It was a joke," Jim admitted. It was no fun if he had to explain it. "Robots are machines that walk around and do stuff. They're pretty awesome."

That was the problem with Fandom. Not everyone knew about robots.

[flowering_mind]

From that description? Ino didn't really want to know about robots.

"People do stuff too," she said, "and here almost everybody is interesting."

[fat_halpert]

"Oh yeah," Jim said. "Definitely. Whoever they have sending out brochures does a good job to get all these people coming here. I think the mail guy has to be psychic or something to manage that."

[flowering_mind]

Ino looked at him, not sure if he was joking or not, "My Dad sent me here, but I don't think we got any brochures."

[fat_halpert]

"Really? It was a great pamphlet," Jim said. "You're missing out on color pictures, big, simple to read text, the whole shebang."

[flowering_mind]

...

"I think I'll manage without it." Ino said, now looking amused, "I doubt it explained Fandom fully anyway."

[fat_halpert]

"No, but it did have very nice pictures of things you can see everyday," Jim said. "I mean you can live without it if you can call that living, but I dunno..."