Fourth floor common room, Wednesday afternoon

[intotheout]

Tip would have gone to hang out on the deck after class this afternoon, but apparently being in space didn't stop June from being about a billion and a half degrees outside, and she frankly wasn't interested in sweating through her clothes while sitting still, just now

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Having decided at the last planet that exploring planetside when the island traveled to a new world was a bad idea, Peridot was finding herself faced with a new and altogether unfamiliar predicament. One, in fact, that she'd sworn to herself would never actually get the better of her.

But here she was. Peridot was bored.

And, in her boredom, she started wandering, looking for something that could grab her attentions. That something came in the form of noise from the fourth floor common room, and after a moment, the sight of a familiar face, staring at one of those audio-visual devices that humans seemed to hold in such high regard.

After another moment of consideration, she walked into the room.

"What are you doing?"

Whatever it was, it seemed to involve gratuitous maple syrup.

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"Hey Peridot," Tip greeted, scooting over a little to make sure there was room on the couch for two. And eyeing the window to make sure there wasn't a whole lot of probability that she'd get shoved out it. "I'm just -- watching a show."

She was going to say 'hanging out', but then she was probably going to have to explain idioms.

"I've never seen it before. It's very dramatic and everyone's name starts with a P. I think they're arguing over who has to team up for a three-legged race."

She wondered how much of that she was now going to have to figure out how to explain. She had money on the three-legged part.

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Peridot hesitated at that, apparently working through all possible replies before settling on one that seemed most pertinent, at present.

"... Do humans possess a third leg that they keep concealed, or do they actually have some shapeshifting capabilities?"

Maybe they kept it a secret from alien species. It would make sense, after all, as shapeshifting did present some advantage that many species lacked. And if their entertainment (frivolous as it was) was created just for their sake, there would be little point to leave that detail out completely.

She hadn't actually started to pay attention to the show, yet.

That would end poorly, probably.

[intotheout]

Score! Tip owed herself five dollars.

"Neither," she said. "It's a pretend third leg. Two people stand next to each other and some one ties their legs together and they have to walk around like they're one person with three legs instead of two people with four."

That was a pretty good explanation, right? It'd probably be better with a visual, but Tip's notebook was all the way on the other side of the chips and guacamole. And also she was still convinced she was a terrible artist, right now. Anyway, she was pretty sure they'd start doing it on the show any minute. Unless they skipped the actual race and just showed the aftermath.

Tip hated it when shows did that.