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[[Darkness.]]
<<BLEEP BLEEP>>
Person 1: Urgh.
Person 2: Your alarm is going off.
Person 1: Huh?
Person 2: Make it stop.
Person 1: Urrgh.
[[Still darkness.]]
<<BLEEPEEP BLEEP BLEEP B>>
Person 2: Hit snooze.
Person 1: I'm
trying.
I closed the alarm app and I can't... I'll just pop out the battery.
whoops!
<<CLANG>>
[[The light is on. Person one looks over the edge of the bed to see the vent on the floor is open.]]
<<EEP BLEEP BLEEP BLE>>
Person 2: Make it stop!
Person 1: It... fell down the vent.
[[Person 1 types on their laptop.]]
<<EP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLE>>
Person 2: Can you brick it remotely?
Person 1: Trying... I think I fumbled it into airplane mode?
Person 2: The battery could last for weeks.
Person 1: You know, maybe we should just move.
{{Title text: Hang on, I've heard this problem. We need to pour water into the duct until the phone floats up and ... wait, phones sink in water. Mercury. We need a vat of mercury to pour down the vent. That will definitely make this situation better and not worse.}}
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