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[seal_the_gods]

Characters: Silver, America, and whoever else wants to show up
Content: Silver is under the impression that television is fatal. America wants to fix that.
Where: The Lounge
When: Sometime after this debacle
Warnings: Depends on who shows up and what they do.

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[blossomound]

Seishirou had slept, finally, after days in that other dimension where there had been no nights to sleep and demons had been present at all times. Awake and interested in the new place, he walked around, finding the lounge eventually.

He proceeded through the door quietly and looked at the other persons there. A man, a woman, and whatever the other breathing brain possessor was. He'd learn that soon, he mused.

Seishirou leaned against the wall and pushed the hood back over his head. It wasn't cold in there at all but he felt more as if he were invisible and also, invincible.

He watched what happened on the TV and grinned. Television was something he knew from many other worlds. As far as he knew and had learned by himself, the TV, whatever its name was in the current dimension, he had the same effect in every world -- it had the power to make whoever possessed at least a little brain to believe it and only those with greater wit where capable of escaping from its exciting stories, prayers and most importantly, adverts.

Seishirou sighed. Better keep an eye on my new 'friends', he thought to himself and decided to stay and watch the scene. Gather information, become superior, win the game, find the Twins.

[stolenhero]

Wow, had he been seen already? It seemed the hedgehog had already caught sight of him, but he wasn't running or trying to fight him or anything, so maybe he realized that Almaz wasn't lying when he said he didn't want to hurt anyone?

Hmmm... That reminded him, hadn't he seen...?

There she was. He supposed he should have guessed that he'd end up running into that woman again. He still couldn't help but wonder where she had gotten the idea of radioactive TVs from. Hopefully he could help her realize that that wasn't what they did (if this wasn't all some sort of elaborate prank on her part, anyway).

And then another person entered the room. This place was getting full, wasn't it? He couldn't see the person's face, but decided to leave him be for now. It didn't seem as though he was ready to talk to anyone just yet.

Almaz was debating announcing himself in the room when what sounded like a loud explosion shook the room. With a cry of surprise, the young man immediately ducked, covering his head.

[seal_the_gods]

Silver hadn't really expected yet another person to enter the room, but he kept his attention on Alfred and the TV, watching as the screen flickered to life and somebody started counting - what was-

Silver didn't even have time to finish the thought when a loud explosion echoed through the room. He yelped in surprise - the TV really was exploding! - and stumbled backwards, throwing his arms up in front of his face for protection. Unfortunately, the guy with the scarf was behind him in a crouch, and Silver managed to trip over him, falling flat on his back on top of the guy.

It was only after he'd been there a few seconds, waiting for light or heat or pain or some other effect of the explosion, that he realized somebody was pictured on the screen, talking about the explosion that had just happened, and that he'd just managed to make a giant fool of himself in front of everybody. Great.

[vryvryfrigtning]

It was the explosion that finally got Larxene to look up from her book. Luckily enough, she managed to catch the last few moments of Silver's rather undignified reaction all the same. It was better than she could have hoped, really. She hadn't said that they exploded after all. Not that she was really surprised at the reactions (and it seemed the young man with the scarf had been taken be surprise too, interestingly enough) - she couldn't have come up with with a better moment to turn it on if she'd planned it.

Mind you, if she'd had a proper heart she probably would have been just as startled, but well. She didn't, quite literally.

[oldglory]

As the volume fell to a more reasonable level, over it emerged the sound of America's voice, laughing. "Wow, that was up loud!" he exclaimed, although presently oblivious to the rest of the audience's reaction.

Still, he took his eyes away from the screen long enough to glance over to see how they liked the show, and was surprised to see Silver and some other guy in the back both pretty much knocked flat. With concern in his eyes, he pointed to the screen with his thumb and said, "Hey, you guys watching? This is a great episode!"

[blossomound]

Seishirou chuckled quietly. "Great episode indeed, scaring two out of five to death," he said.
He went over to the laughing man, the hood still over his head, hiding his face from anyone who might have looked at him. The last dimension he had been to didn't have TVs yet, and he doubted they'd invent them at all.
This world was different and though he didn't need technological advance to amuse himself, he was interested in anything new.
He touched the screen and felt electricity reeling over his fingertips. A nice feeling; it reminded him of using magic.

[stolenhero]

Right about now Almaz was feeling kind of stupid.

It had just been the TV, but he hadn't been expecting there to be an explosion on there as soon as the man had turned it on--but, then again, no one could have. And it had just been so loud besides.

At least he hadn't been the only one to freak out, though he wasn't quite grateful for the hedgehog's landing place... or the heckling. The man who'd turned on the TV didn't seem to be too concerned either.

"I-I'm fine!" Almaz insisted, "But... could you please get off of me?"

[seal_the_gods]

Silver sighed and put a hand over his face. Well, that sure hadn't gone well. He decided that he didn't really like the guy in the hood, and Alfred was...oblivious, at best. Great.

But the TV hadn't exploded (not really), and the hooded man wasn't being transported anywhere despite touching it, and nobody was dead. Everything he'd been told by that woman was a lie, and he was none too happy about it.

But, first things first. Silver pushed himself to his feet and offered his hand to the guy he'd landed on, intending to help him back up. "Sorry about that."

[vryvryfrigtning]

A great episode, was it? What she'd seen so far of it wasn't half bad but it was hard to beat starting off with a literal bang. It didn't look like anything that she'd seen back at either of the castles though. Of course, he web of lies had rather neatly been smashed to pieces between the man in the hood and, well, everything else that had happened, but no matter. It had been wonderful fun while it lasted and she could always try again.

Not just yet of course. Let them have some time first.

"But what's it an episode of?" she asked, asking the question she hoped she wasn't alone in a wondering.

[oldglory]

That, America was quick to answer. After all, it seemed like everybody here watched all the wrong TV shows, and he was only too happy to set them on the path to quality entertainment. "It's called Mythbusters," he explained. "These guys take these urban legends that people send in, and they try to debunk them. With science.

"This is the one where they blow up the cement truck," he added, as if it wasn't obvious already.

[blossomound]

He hadn't heard of Mythbusters before, but with the given explanation it didn't seem to be much of a pity. After all, being a traveler through various dimensions, he knew a) too many urban legends and b) that some were true in one world, while in others they were wrong.
Nothing to be excited about.

Seishirou smiled at the blond man. "Why would someone want to blow up a cement truck?"

There were other questions lingering in him about the other man, and everyone else in the room, but these had to wait.

[stolenhero]

Almaz took the offered hand and got to his feet with a quiet, embarrassed "Thanks."

"Oh, um... don't worry about it," he replied sheepishly. "It was just an accident after all, right?"

The hero looked over at the woman when she spoke up, voicing similar thoughts to his, before his attention turned toward the TV once again. So it was a show all about testing myths? He had to admit, it did sound kind of cool.

"Maybe the person who originally did it didn't have a lot of common sense?" Almaz guessed in attempt to answer the hooded man's question.

[seal_the_gods]

Silver raised an eyebrow at the guy's question. "No," he said slowly. "I don't think it was."

The TV hadn't exploded. It hadn't transported anybody to another world. Nobody had died. In short, everything he'd been told about TV was a lie. The talk about what they were watching went right over his head; he was concentrating on something else entirely.

He looked around the room- there she was. There was that woman. He started towards her, anger rising. "You!" he snapped, pointing accusatorily towards her. "You lied to me!"

[vryvryfrigtning]

A show where they tested myths with science? It sounded more like something Vexen would be interested in, even with the exploding trucks. But even if she'd wanted to see what else (she wasn't really) it looked like she had something else to deal with. Her little lies had borne fruit~. Not the sort she'd been expecting at first, but like that really mattered.

"That's right~" she answered, with a cat-like stretch as she finally put down the book she'd been reading. "It was all~ a lie~."

And oh, he'd been so wonderfully easy to fool. She'd have to remember him for later use.

[oldglory]

The hooded guy's question didn't make an awful lot of sense to America, honestly. They'd just seen it, after all, he shouldn't have to explain how awesome it was. "Why wouldn't you wanna blow up a cement truck?" he asked, since that was the real question.

The sudden argument by the couch grabbed his attention, though. "Wait, who lied about what now?" he asked. (It was sort of butting in halfway through a conversation, but that alone never really stopped him.)

[blossomound]

"Ah, of course. Why wouldn't I," he said. Though if there is no mourning involved I am barely interested in destroying things he added only in his thoughts.

Seishirou glanced at the blond woman and smirked. She seemed to be one of those who liked playing pranks on other, more naive people. Or strange creatures in this case. Though he was sure that for him she wouldn't be a neither threat nor match.

Not serious enough to be a challenge.

He set his smile and pulled the hood back, showing everyone who would now look at him his face. "A lot of confusion. I think the lady may know what we don't."