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Room 307, Tuesday Evening

Apr 24, 2012 18:31

So for Topher, today had been noteworthy due to a variety of circumstances, the most obvious of which being ( Read more... )

person: billy kaplan, event: shadow of the hegemon, person: kenzi, person: ben skywalker, person: dave nelson, fact: gaming eases heartbreak, place: 307

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selfhelphero April 25 2012, 00:22:35 UTC

One of the nice things that went with being a good student who rarely got into trouble was that when Billy wanted to know someone's birthday, the people in the office were usually willing to give it to him. Topher's birthday was one of the ones he'd made sure to find out, so when the evening rolled around, he made his way down to Topher's room with a small box, and knocked on the door.

dollpocalypse April 25 2012, 01:48:49 UTC

Topher looked up.

Topher contemplated the inherent sacrifices involved in pausing his game.

Topher decided it was probably worth it.

"Come in?"

selfhelphero April 25 2012, 01:51:41 UTC

Billy pushed the door open a little and peered inside. "Hey, can I come in?" he asked. "Or are you busy? I can come back later."

dollpocalypse April 25 2012, 01:55:17 UTC

"Oh!" Yeah, if it was Billy, ut was totally worth pausing the game. Topher put down his phone, which was good, because one of the T-shaped blocks was about to descend and he had nowhere to put it. "Hey. Um. Hi. No, I'm not busy. Just, uh--" quick, sheepish grin-- "Tetris."

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iwishiwasbig April 25 2012, 00:24:30 UTC

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.

dollpocalypse April 25 2012, 01:51:15 UTC

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

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

iwishiwasbig April 25 2012, 01:54:37 UTC

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

dollpocalypse April 25 2012, 01:55:58 UTC

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

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

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regretiz4suckas April 25 2012, 01:22:07 UTC

Kenzi had no idea it was his birthday. And she had other things to talk about. But she had brought Mountain Dew and a bottle of booze.

"So... that happened."

NFB dollpocalypse April 25 2012, 01:53:00 UTC

Topher was still a little too weirded out for booze. But he scooted backwards on his bed to make room (and to check that the hallway was clear of squirrels), because wow did he want to talk about that right now.

"Yuh-huh," he affirmed, setting his phone down.

Re: NFB regretiz4suckas April 25 2012, 01:57:36 UTC

Kenzi had already given them the *other* bottle of booze.

She handed over the Mountain Dew and said, "So, did you expect any of that? 'Cause I'm..." Yeah.

Re: NFB dollpocalypse April 25 2012, 02:07:14 UTC

"The part about him being him or the part about whatshisface being an asshole?"

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momslilassassin April 25 2012, 01:59:30 UTC

Ben poked his head into the room. "Hey," he said. "Peter's not a fox still, right?"

dollpocalypse April 25 2012, 02:12:51 UTC

If Topher was on edge, it... well, it showed. Because he was, a little.

Look, he wasn't used to having to choose his words particularly carefully, but after today, he really, really had to.

"Noooo," he said carefully after a minute of... looking a little shifty. "He's. No. Nuh-uh."

momslilassassin April 25 2012, 02:20:14 UTC

Ben arched up an eyebrow. "Have you seen him today?"

Trained cop, Topher. Be afraid.

dollpocalypse April 25 2012, 02:21:37 UTC

...

"Yeeeees."

Damn it, this was hard. Damn Ben and his judgey eyes that made it look like he could see into your soul.

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