Study Hall -- Friday, November 18th

[principalconnor.livejournal.com]

Pool table, puppies, kittens, pizza, drinks, and loud music. Study hall is pretty chaotic today.

There is also a mechanical device spread out in slightly charred pieces of Sarah's desk. Anybody who looked at her badly scribbled notes might think it was a very crude amateurish attempt at a time machine.

Sarah is nowhere to be seen.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders laughs. "Any new work lined up for ABC?"

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Seeing Bridge and Anders together, Beka headed over just in time to catch Anders' comment. She smiled pleasantly. "I might be in a position to help with that."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders looks up, blinking for a second. "Oh, hey. This is about the interview thing for the paper, right?"

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"Hey," she said, putting out her hand. "Beka Valentine. We haven't actually met that I can think of."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Hey. Anders. And I don't think we have," he replies, squinting at her a little bit as he shakes her hand. "Might've talked to you once a while back, but I'm not sure. Know your name, though, since Cally mentions you a lot." He smiles. "Anyway, hi."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

She purses her lips and screws up her face a bit, clearly thinking. "Hey, yeah. Study Hall. Some assignment you had about Greek gods or something." Nodding now as the memory came clearer, she continued, smiling. "Yeah, Cally talks about you a lot, too."

"So," she said, pulling out a notebook. "The paper wants me to do an article about ABC and your competitors. I'm not sure I'll get a chance to interview them and since Cally's BFF I'd like to give you guys a leg up anyhow, but we could put something about you in this week's paper."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Does she really?" He blushes a little bit. "Anyway, yeah . . . I'm not really the tech guy in the operation, but I guess I can tell you a few things. Looks like Bridge is kinda caught up in tinkering again, but -- well, what do you want to know?"

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. She does." Beka grinned. "Maybe you can tell me about why you started the business. And what sorts of jobs you take. You know, just the general who you are and why people should come to you stuff."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Well . . ." Anders scratches his head. "It was Bridge's idea, really. I always saw him tinkering with stuff in study hall or the common room or whatever, and then one day I asked him if he could build me a custom door lock. Which is really cool, by the way -- anybody who doesn't have a programmed code and tries to get in will end up in the basement or something. Also, it dispenses gumballs. I'd give you one, but I ran out."

He tilts his head thoughtfully and grins. "Anyway, I guess he figured that other people might be interested in stuff like that, and he talked to me and Cally one night about teaming up. We figured it was a good idea. And we're right here in the dorms, so it's pretty convenient if someone needs to drop something off or pick it up, especially after curfew." Hastily, he adds, "I don't really do much of the fixing unless it involves hitting things with a hammer hard, or lifting stuff. But, you know, that frees up Cally and Bridge to do the rest."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka jotted down notes as Anders talked. "Lock that dispenses gumballs. Handy if you're running low on food, I guess. Thanks for the offer." She scrunched her nose.

"OK, so, you'll fix pretty much anything the students bring by. What're your rates like? Do you have any promo material I could look at?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders scratches his head again. "Hmm. For rates you'd have to talk to Bridge, he handles most of that. Though I think, from the cut me and Cally got out of the last job, basic stuff like coffee machines and things is around twenty to thirty dollars. And so far for promo material, all we've got is the posters in the dorms (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/231146.html) so far. I was gonna work on some flyers or business cards, but . . ." He laughs sheepishly. "I keep getting distracted."

[OOC: Guh. Meant to respond hours ago but got wrapped up at work and then went out to see Goblet of Fire. Also, yes. I can type. YES.]

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Oh! Yeah, um, Rory Gilmore? The girl with the puppy? She asked us to fix her laptop. Shouldn't be too hard, I think."