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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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[vryvryfrigtning]

Larxene hadn't precisely been intending to lure anyone to the lounge, but all the same she couldn't exactly say she was surprised to see Silver heading into the room. She had planted at least something of a seed of doubt after all and he'd been oh-so-easy to trick. She'd have to remember him for later.

For now though, she'd just keep right on doing exactly what she had been doing - reading, sprawled out across one of the couches. Let someone else brave the 'myth' of the TV. She was fine just where she was.

[oldglory]

To be frank, America wasn't worried. A little confused, still, but not worried. After all, he was well on his way to figuring out that legal hiccup (yeah, the one where nobody had agreed to appear on the show beforehand), and generally the situation felt under control.

Not that it wasn't weird. First a guy who claimed to live on a space colony, and now a talking hedgehog who thought TV was radioactive? He was pretty sure the first one was an actor (which kind of defeated the purpose of a reality show by itself), but the second one really didn't fit in. A CGI character, in real life? But maybe if they had holograms, it wasn't quite as far-fetched

[stolenhero]

After what had happened, Almaz had the feeling that an explanation was in order. There had been a few others who had tried to explain what a TV was, but the woman had it all wrong (and something about her made him uneasy). The blond man seemed to know a little more on what he was talking about, but Almaz wanted to be sure... just in case.

And he kind of wanted to get this whole killing business settled, too.

Still, getting around was a little harder than he'd thought it would be. Maybe he should have found a map first.

However, he heard a somewhat familiar voice (one of the people who had been talking to the hedgehog-person?) and went in it's direction, finding himself in the lounge with the others. "That wasn't too hard," he said to himself quietly.

[seal_the_gods]

Before he even saw Alfred, Silver caught sight of the woman who'd explained TV to him reading on one of the couches. That didn't make any sense - if she thought TV was so dangerous, why was she in here with a huge one?

But then Alfred was talking to him, and he nodded, trying to remember that Alfred used some weird phrases sometimes and the TV wasn't actually going to explode. Maybe. He didn't think it would, at least. "Alright."

...he'd just stand over here, near the door, in case anything weird happened.

Except now there was someone standing next to him in the doorway - it was the guy that the woman (Silver really needed to start learning names) had accused of wanting to kill him. He glanced at the guy, then over to the woman, then Alfred, and finally at the TV. Life, he was discovering, was difficult when he didn't know who he could trust.

[vryvryfrigtning]

Well. It seemed her little hang out was popular all of sudden. Again, she didn't particularly seem to be horribly bothered by any of it. Or at least didn't do anything more than glance up at the voices that had cropped up before turning her attention back to the pages of her book.

If you asked why she was thoroughly unbothered by being in a room with a machine that was supposedly deadly, you'd get a variety of answers. None of them were guaranteed to be the truth. Or at least, not entirely the truth.

[oldglory]

America pointed the remote at the TV, glancing at the other three (but mainly Silver) over his shoulder, with all the enthusiasm of a school kid showing off a science project - which, to a degree, wasn't inaccurate. "Okay, ready?" he asked, but didn't wait for an answer before hitting the power button.

The screen clicked once and faded to life. By the time the picture, of a solitary cement truck, came in completely, the countdown had already reached three, and was still going.

His face lit up. "Ohh, is this-" he began eagerly, but then shushed himself. The count reached fire in the hole, and with a BANG to rattle windows, the truck on the television exploded. Even America, who had seen it before, jumped, and he quickly turned the volume down a few notches.

[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

[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.