Fifth Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

[godgavemecable]

Tonight, Toby decided, was a 'laze around in the common room with pizza and hilariously terrible movies' sort of night.

Which was why there were a number of pizza boxes on the table, and Cactibear- that made-for-TV classic about a half-bear, half-cactus that killed base-jumpers- on TV.

Aww yeah.

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[dirtiest_skank]

"What is that?"

Olive was actually a floor up from where she belonged and there was food for her to focus on too, but hey let's be honest, her attention was not on much of anything aside from what the hell was on that TV.

[godgavemecable]

"Oh man, have you not seen this movie?" Toby grinned. He was usually the one who hadn't seen stuff. "That's the Cactibear!"

...Way to clear it up, Logan.

[dirtiest_skank]

"Never would've guessed," Olive told him, hissing in a wince and shaking her head. "No, seriously, what is it doing? What is this movie? Why is it real?"

[godgavemecable]

"Well, you see that guy?" Toby gestured to the douchey-looking guy with the parachute on screen. "He's a base jumper. The Cactibear hates them. So he's going around stalking and killing any he can find."

[kirked]

After today, Jim knew the island a little better than he had before. He'd actually gone into town, scoped out the bar (but hadn't gone in) and then come back and taken a look around the dorms a little further.

Creeping around for free food could excused because he was new, right? Whatever, he'd found a guy with pizzas and some movie that he hoped was better than what he'd been watching last night.

"That's a lot of pizza, man," he remarked. "Stocking up for a nuclear winter?"

[godgavemecable]

"Well, I figured I might get a few people wandering in looking for free food," he shrugged. "So, because I am a nice guy, I decided to oblige."

[kirked]

"That is pretty nice," agreed Jim with a nod, taking a look over the various pizza boxes. "Juliet said most dorms furniture smells like pizza. I'm beginning to see why."

And he was beginning to like that reason if it meant free food for him.

[godgavemecable]

"Well, sometimes people go for Chinese food," Toby said helpfully. "But yeah, pizza's pretty much a staple around here. Unless you happen to run in one of the handful of people who can cook."

[abitlowkey]

"Why is that bear spiky?" Loki asked, already perching on the back of a couch. Like a normal person. Perfectly normal.

[godgavemecable]

Well that was- it was pretty hard to surprise Toby, what with the telepathy and all, but this kid managed it.

"Because it's actually half-cactus," he explained. Totally logical.

[abitlowkey]

It was a god thing. Or possibly just a Loki thing. Who knew?

"...that bear must have been very drunk," Loki decided slowly, unable to take his eyes off the television screen.

[godgavemecable]

"Yeah, I'm not sure I wanna know the origins of Cactibear myself," Toby admitted with a face.

[walkswithcoyote]

"Never seen one of those before," Mercy said, finally dragging herself out of her room to do, well, something other than hide out in her room or go to class.

The smell of the pizza might have helped as well.

[godgavemecable]

"Me neither, thankfully," Toby said. He wasn't a base-jumper, so he'd probably survive, but that didn't mean he wanted to run in to Cactibear in a dark alley or something.

[walkswithcoyote]

"It's probably wrong of me," Mercy said thoughtfully, "But whenever I see something crazy like this these days, I wonder if you might find things like that hidden way out in the preserve here."

[godgavemecable]

"Probably wrong because I'm pretty sure the island gets ideas from people saying stuff like that," Toby said with a shake of his head. "You've doomed us all."

[myownface]

"Is that bear a cactus? Oh my god that bear is a cactus."

Why yes, Sparkle was draping himself over the arm of the couch and leaning in to get a better look at the television.

... His room was several floors down, but his pizza sense had been tingling.

[godgavemecable]

"It totally is," Toby nodded. "A murderous cactus, at that." Because those were the best kind.

[myownface]

"Why haven't we had murderous cactus bears around here, anyhow? You'd think the island would get right on that, with quality programming like this floating around the channels we've got."

Yes, Sparkle. Give it ideas.

"But I guess there aren't really places to go base jumping around here. I mean, what's the tallest thing on the island? A tree or something?"

[godgavemecable]

"Maybe the dorms," Toby mused. "Certainly nothing so tall as that," he gestured to the screen, because look! The CN Tower!

... in New York. Yes.