Room 307, Saturday Morning
Jun. 4th, 2011 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Topher woke up to find his roommate missing and to find himself the proud owner of a killer headache that he suspected had something to do with the coconut-bra antics that had transpired last night. Well, great. He dug one of his laptops out from where he had been storing it under his pillow (shut up) and pulled up some Minecraft.
That would take care of the headache, yes.
The fact that he looked different today? Totally lost on him.
[[door and post are open]]
That would take care of the headache, yes.
The fact that he looked different today? Totally lost on him.
[[door and post are open]]
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Date: 2011-06-04 02:42 pm (UTC)minionfriendfellow third-floor-student lived. It'd be a little useless if he didn't know where to go for his easily-manipulated hacking talent."Topher," he said, sticking his head in the door without looking, "I had an id-- oh, hey."
Crap.
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Date: 2011-06-04 02:44 pm (UTC)"Need me to pull up some more files for you?"
Sorry for the confusion, Peter.
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Date: 2011-06-04 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-04 02:50 pm (UTC)"Dude, I hacked stuff for you, like, yesterday," he reminded Peter slowly, as if he was stupid. Actually it was two days ago, Topher, but good try.
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Date: 2011-06-04 02:52 pm (UTC)... Not dirty.
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Date: 2011-06-04 02:55 pm (UTC)Sighing dramatically, Topher got up, rummaged through a pile that appeared to consist mostly of dirty clothes and food packaging, with some actual food mixed in, and eventually came up with a small mirror. Probably his roommate's. He didn't know he even had a mirror.
"Whoa," he said. "What the...?"
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Date: 2011-06-04 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-04 02:58 pm (UTC)"What the hell?" he wondered, bewildered. "I look weird..."
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:03 pm (UTC)He was crabby because he had been talked to, and he was crabbier because he had no idea what was going on. If Topher's roommate was trying to pull a fast one on him, he'd--
... be better off keeping his cool. Sigh.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:05 pm (UTC)Then --
"Oh my god," he said, struck by an idea. "Oh my god. What if last night I died and someone wanted to preserve my genius so they imprinted someone else with my memories and personality? What if I'm trapped in a new body because I'm dead?"
If it helped, Peter, Topher was probably the only person who could come up with something like that.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:10 pm (UTC)... Oh sure, three seconds later you start thinking about how feasible that is and whether the public would accept it. WTF, Peter.
"Though think about the havoc that could cause..."
Seriously, Peter, quit it.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:12 pm (UTC)"Oh my god," Topher breathed again, totally ignoring Peter. "What if everyone has this? What if instead of dying, people just get imprinted onto other people, and all the people in the world are just an unending cycle of the same personalities, again and again?"
He needed to stop. Soon.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-04 03:17 pm (UTC)"Maybe," he said, unconvinced. Then he shook his head to clear the thoughts that were spinning there and had another thought. "Or it's the island."
Hey, it could move around. Maybe it could change people's faces, too.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:21 pm (UTC)"Sure," Peter said, "You woke up and the island decided to switch out your face--" And then he blanched. "...Give me the mirror."
Please tell him his own face was still the same?
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, he knew Peter looked normal, but getting him to panic for a minute could be fun.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:32 pm (UTC)Then he forced another laugh. "Sorry, man," he said, "You know how weird this looks, right...? I guess it's even crazier having it happen to you."
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:35 pm (UTC)"Yeah," he admitted. "'s pretty weird. But hey, at least I know what technology is capable of!"
He was back to the imprinting theory.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-04 03:43 pm (UTC)This was maybe something he'd thought about a lot.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:47 pm (UTC)(Unless there really was just something fundamentally wrong with him. The thought sobered him as it always did.)
"So that's what you meant when you said you were interested in brains, huh?"
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:51 pm (UTC)Getting excited now, he said, "There's this program I found where you can access a real brain map and see how the system responds if you tweak different things about it. It's awesome."
If you were a dork, yes. Yes, it was.
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:54 pm (UTC)Though Peter was pretty sure that 'messing up people's brains just for my own personal gain' was up on the list of things that made people think there was something fundamentally wrong with you, so he shied away from active enthusiasm about the idea.
"It'd probably be very useful in the medical community," he said instead, finding somewhere to sit the hell down. "Where I come from, it's possible to translate that data into... observable thoughts and emotions, I guess."
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:57 pm (UTC)"Yeah, sure," Topher said, going along with it for the sake of their evil-teenage-boy friendship. "That'd definitely work. Like if someone was dying but he was in the middle of an important project or whatever, he could have his brain transferred into someone else to finish the job."
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Date: 2011-06-04 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-06-04 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-04 08:03 pm (UTC)"Or," he said, holding up a hand, "we keep it quiet, and only let people know it exists if we're sure they want a piece of it."
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Date: 2011-06-04 10:20 pm (UTC)... Peter's fragile ego was firmly at the wheel here, folks.
"Sure, that might work for a couple of years," Peter said, "But one expose - or one good hacker - and you're dealing with a PR nightmare."
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Date: 2011-06-04 11:14 pm (UTC)with the wrong icon, "that anyone believed it."That was important.