Library [12/9]

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

It was a normal day in the library. Well, as normal as a day in the library at Fandom High ever got, given... well... things. (Hey, it was what it was.)

She swept a stack of books up off a table and dumped them on a cart, proceeding to move through the library and clear off the rest of the tables in the same way. It was one of the more "typical library duties" days of things, as opposed to the "Fandom library duties" days. Sometimes there was a rather clear difference.

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Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

Riley, being the hacker boy that he was, opened up his laptop and immediately started trying to tap into any WiFi signals or any other weird computer networks this Hyperion company had set up.

He wasn't having any success but while he was searching, he was doing some digging too.

Re: Researchers!

[solarhippie]

Yeah, Karolina was no good at this computerized research thing. Time to get polite and ask for help.

"Uh, excuse me? Can I ask you a question?"

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

It took Riley a moment to figure out she was talking to him. And then when he looked up, he glanced over his shoulder like maybe there was someone else she was asking.

...right, he was an adult here. He cleared his throat. "What's up?"

Re: Researchers!

[solarhippie]

Well, if it made him feel any better, he didn't look too much like a grown up and an authority figure, because that could've swayed her away from talking to him. Mostly, he'd looked like he knew what he was doing with a computer.

"Hi," she said. "Um, how do I search for things that aren't... really on our internet?"

This multiverse stuff was difficult.

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"Depends," Riley said after parsing her question out and processing it. "What exactly are you looking for?"

Re: Researchers!

[solarhippie]

Karolina chewed on her lip.

Okay, she could probably just come out and say it. "The... weird guys hanging around the island?"

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"Then, we're looking for the same thing," Riley said, pointing to his laptop where about twenty different searches were occurring. "Pull up a chair and I'll show you a few quick tricks for finding stuff that's typically not on our internet."

Re: Researchers!

[solarhippie]

Oh thank heavens, someone who knew what they were doing. Karolina pulled up a chair for herself, almost looking relieved.

"I'm not very good at this computer stuff," she offered, with a wry little smile. "I have friends who do that."

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"And where I'm from, I am that friend," Riley said, sticking his pen behind his ear and pulling up a basic search engine.

Then, he went into a real quick spiel on how to go from that to several searches on networks that weren't readily available on their current internet. He made it as easy as he could.

"Wanna give it a try?"

Re: Researchers!

[solarhippie]

Honestly, she was still kind of frowning at the computer half confused. "Well, I can try."

But it was still a learning experience, and hey, that'd distract her from her nerves, maybe!

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"Not that hard," Riley said, turning his laptop towards her. "Go ahead and try it on mine. I'll watch and won't help unless you need it."

Re: Researchers!

[solarhippie]

"Okay," she said, and gave a little chuckle to her own skittishness. She reached for his laptop, and a moment of very focus later, she... had found some other company called Hyperion.

They sold shampoo.

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"I don't think that's them," he said, scratching his cheek. "Unless they're really serious about shampoo."

Re: Researchers!

[tigerundercover]

After offering the thing up in general to the library, Raven spotted one of her teachers and figured, well, he wasn't Doom, so he wouldn't be overly nasty about it all, and he wasn't the Ice King, so he wouldn't be completely incompetent.

Sorry, Riley, but confidence in the teaching staff in general wasn't super high with this one.

"Mr. Poole?" she asked as she came up. "You know some stuff about gadgets and things, right?"

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"I like to think so, yeah," Riley said, leaning back and looking up. He would have been glad to rate over Doom and the Ice King, if he'd known. "What's up?"

Re: Researchers!

[tigerundercover]

"I, uh." She probably shouldn't mention stealing it, should she? "Found this, out in the woods. I think it belongs to the weird guys around town." She set the ECHO communicator on the table near him.

She might have forgotten she was still mimicking the yellow helmet. It was easy to do, when it didn't weigh any more than the rest of her head usually did.

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

Riley didn't immediately notice the hat because he was sitting up again to reach for the ECHO communicator so he could take a closer look.

"This looks like the weirdest walkie talkie I've ever seen," he said, running his fingers over the device and taking stock of the buttons and dials. "You found his?"

He glanced up and tilted his head at the yellow helmet now that he saw it.

Re: Researchers!

[tigerundercover]

Why was he -- ohhhhh yeah. Raven shrugged. "Apparently, some of the workers are really irresponsible."

Baker, for instance, was apparently quite the slacker!

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"They leave their helmets around too?" Riley questioned, turning his attention back to the thing Raven had found. He tried to push a few things but nothing really happened.

He turned the communicator over, looking for a power source of some kind.

Re: Researchers!

[tigerundercover]

"No," Raven said, pouring on the sarcastic inflection. "I transformed the top of my head to mimic their helmets."

Sometimes, it was best simply to present the truth as ridiculously as possible.

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"...riiiiight."

So, the sarcasm worked because Riley didn't believe her.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone that you found a helmet. Have you heard or seen this thing do anything since you picked it up?"

Re: Researchers!

[tigerundercover]

Well, if he was going to be cool on the whole stealing thing. . . .

"Not since I've been carrying it, but it worked for one of the guard guys. You know, before he, uh. Dropped it."

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"What was he doing?" Riley asked, putting the communicator down in front of him and giving it a look. "Talking into it? Listening to it?"

Re: Researchers!

[tigerundercover]

"Yelling at it, mostly. But it yelled back. He held it about like this." Raven held up her hand to demonstrate how the worker she'd seen had held the communicator to yell at his coworker. She'd paid attention, since she was going to be mimicking the movement in a moment, anyway. "I'm not sure what buttons he was pushing, though."

Re: Researchers!

[1stinkinpercent.livejournal.com]

"So, it is some kind of walkie talkie," he said once he'd watched her mimic the movements. "Not uncommon with a construction project but still..."

He thumbed the communicator again.

"This isn't like anything I've seen before and I've seen a lot of tech."