dictated

[mildcalibrationissue]

--whoah whoah whoah whoah!

[Hiccup sounds mildly panicked. Again. I sincerely hope no one is surprised.]

Uhh - I think I broke the computer Alan let me borrow.

[A pause.]

Odin. [It's spoken like a curse, and then, muttered:] I meant to filter that from him.




Okay, so - um. The screen keeps turning blue. Does anyone know how to fix this? Because, seriously, I'd appreciate it a lot.

[And anyone in the lobby may see him tinkering with said laptop, at a complete loss. When it's not bluescreening, it's filled with popups, because Hiccup of course is the only person in the castle who could infect his machine with spyware without ever connecting to a network.]



[And then, added later:]

Soooo. Hey.

Comments

[notanthea]

[She's walking by when she hears this. She pauses, a tiny smile flitting about her lips. Poor kid. Technology doesn't seem to agree with a lot of people here.]

Here. Let me see.

[mildcalibrationissue]

[Yep. He definitely looks a little relieved. His hero.]

Iiif you're sure you don't mind, go ahead.

[notanthea]

Computers agree with me.

Dictated

[is0latedthinker]

[Alan's a little worried at first. All those 'whoas' paired with his memory of the explosion in Hiccup's room generally mean Hiccup's 'broken' is a little different from Alan's. At least there was no bang over the journal...

He's not quite sure how he feels about Hiccup wanting to filter it away from him. It's a response he's seen before in Sam - when something goes wrong, kids get scared and try to cover it up.]

Everything alright? Nothing's exploded?

Dictated

[mildcalibrationissue]

Ahaha, yes, things are fine. I mean - not perfect, but fine. I just kind of wanted to get it fixed before telling you I broke it.

[mildcalibrationissue]

Must be nice.

[He is not being sarcastic. :T]

[notanthea]

[She sits down next to him and takes the laptop. Arching an amused eyebrow, she notices the spyware after restarting the system.]

What were you working on?

[mildcalibrationissue]

Videos.

[A pause, and he realizes how vague that sounds.]

Uh. I build things, and I haven't been able to draw since coming here - thanks a lot, Paradisa. So - video journals, I guess, of what I do. Plans and stuff.

Dictated

[is0latedthinker]

Good.

Yes, Sam would've done the same thing. I'm not angry.

That sounds like the blue screen of death - a stop error. You've probably picked up a virus.

[notanthea]

Oh.

[She doesn't say anything else. Quietly, she finishes what she started and finally hands it back.]

Computers get bugs just like everything else. It should be fine now. [She adds in teasing manner:] Just don't click on any ads that might pop up, no matter how intriguing they sound.

Dictated

[mildcalibrationissue]

[He wasn't angry. Whew. That was actually a bigger relief than Hiccup had realized it would be.]

-- I made the computer sick?

[mildcalibrationissue]

-- you fixed it?

[Ha. Aha. He clicks on a folder on the desktop - even after several months with the device, he's still very ginger about all of it.]

You fixed it. It works!

[notanthea]

[She laughs. Pulling out her cell phone, she stands up to leave.]

Dictated

[is0latedthinker]

That's one way to put it, yeah.

You probably clicked on something or went to a site that had bad software for the computer. A lot of the time, viruses pretend to be something that will help you.

[mildcalibrationissue]

[He blinks. Waaait, hold up.]

--hey, who are you, anyway?

Dictated

[mildcalibrationissue]

Oh. Oh, so like - programs. The things that run on the computer. Some of them are bad, aaaand... okay.

Huh.

I guess... you learn something every day.

[notanthea]

Hm? [She glances up from her phone.] Oh. I'm Helena.

Dictated

[is0latedthinker]

Yes. I should've mentioned it sooner.

Do you want me to come and take a look?

[ex_battleaxe109]

[ She didn't know what a computer was, so she definitely wasn't going to comment on that. Nope. And she didn't know how to filter anything, he should have just been proud of her because she knew how to do the dictation. ]

Just hey?

Dictated

[technohap]

[There's just some growling from this journal. Henry is trying to explain about the blue screen but as he's currently stuck as a HAP he can't talk!]

[mildcalibrationissue]

Well - thanks, Helena. I'm Hiccup.

Dictated

[mildcalibrationissue]

Someone - a girl named Helena? - fixed it, I think, but if you want to take a look to make sure...

[mildcalibrationissue]

[Well, she's getting there, at least.]

Yeah? Er - is that bad? Hello? Greetings, fair maiden?

Dictated

[mildcalibrationissue]

[And Hiccup will...

growl right back.

He's used to dragons, okay. :T]

Dictated

[technohap]

[That makes Henry pause in his speech. He doesn't understand dragon growling.]