The Park, Sunday Afternoon

[firstofitskind]

From his perspective, he'd only existed for a day or so, and thus Liam didn't know much about being a child, really. But he did know that children were supposed to play, and so he'd found his way to the park. And the park had a playground.

Some of the equipment looked as if it needed two or more people to operate it, so he figured he ought to skip those and start with something he could do by himself, like the swings.

This... wasn't too bad, actually. After he got the hang of it, he even managed to get a decent rhythm going. He could see why something like this might be considered 'fun'.

[ooc: open park is open!]

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[arboreal_priestess]

When Liam swung high enough, he'd be able to glimpse a little girl furiously digging a hole not far from the pond, already almost to her waist.

[firstofitskind]

And glimpse he did! On his next downswing, he jumped off and wandered over to the girl, wanting to get a closer look at what she was doing.

[arboreal_priestess]

Normally, Verity would have noticed someone approaching, but shoveling was tiring work, especially since she was so small. So Liam was able to get pretty close before her head swiveled towards him and she ducked back into her hole.

When she came up, it was with a dart gun pointed at him, but her finger was off the trigger. Trigger discipline was stressed very highly in the Price household, even with toy guns. "Are you a civilian?" she barked. "And you can't lie. That's against the Geneva 'Ventions."

[firstofitskind]

Liam cocked his head as he considered the question. Was he a civilian? He didn't think so.

So he shook his head no, not taking his eyes off that dart gun.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Well then why didn't you get me from far away?" Verity demanded. "You woulda got me fair an' square? I was busy makin' a trap an' not paying attention."

She was already deducting points off her score for it.

[firstofitskind]

Liam scrunched up his nose at her. "Get you what?"

[arboreal_priestess]

"With your weapon," Verity answered. "If you're not a civilian, you gotta have a weapon. Did someone disarm you?"

[firstofitskind]

Liam glanced down at his hands, and the reddish marks on his palms. "No," he said, finally. "I don't think so." He'd never actually used the shaqarava, but he knew they were there.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Well, I'm not gonna shoot you if you don't have a weapon," Verity said, lowering her Nerf blaster. "Shooting someone who's unarmed and doesn't pose a threat is uneth'cal, Daddy says. It's what the Covenant does, not cryptozologists."

[magnusrushesin]

"Has anyone lost a kid?" Magnus called out the part at large. Because there was a kid all alone there. And he sure as hell didn't look like a boy detective to be okay on his own or anything.

[firstofitskind]

Liam just gave Magnus a look. He wasn't lost! He was in the park, which was exactly where he wanted to be at this moment.

[magnusrushesin]

"What? It's not like I just flat out called them a bad parent." It was implied.

[firstofitskind]

"Who?"

[magnusrushesin]

"You know. Whoever left you here."

He judged them.

[firstofitskind]

"Nobody did," Liam said with a shrug. "I walked."

[magnusrushesin]

"...okay," Magnus said slowly. "Cool, cool, cool. Got any parents around here?"

[firstofitskind]

"No."

[magnusrushesin]

"Grandparents?"

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity had built herself a little blind out of bushes in the park, watching. Waiting.

"Closeeeer..." she whispered, watching the grownup walk by. "Just a little bit closeeeer."

And then she flung herself out of the bushes with an ear-piercing shriek, sending a clip of three foam dart in Magnus's general direction. A filthy girl covered in dirt and camo-paint, festooned with brightly-colored plastic guns.

[magnusrushesin]

The three darts smacked right into his armor and he glanced down at them. "Ha! Sneak attacks work better from behind. So you get that sweet, sweet bonus."

He was part rogue. He knew this shit.

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity did not get rogue bonuses, which was total bullshit because he build was totally DPS.

"You gotta go down," she said, coming up from her roll with the blaster firmly pointed at Magnus' midsection. "I got you with the darts, fair and square. So you gotta go down. "

[magnusrushesin]

"But my AC," he grumbled before dutifully flinging himself back dramatically like some Shakespearean shit.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Yay!" Verity cheered jumping up and down. "I got you, I got you!" The she stood over him, her little Nerf blaster pointed at his chest. "You got any 'complices?" she demanded. "Or a base? Where's your base!"

That's right, Magnus, now you were being interrogated. Though she might have Disadvantage on her Intimidation check. It was the ponytails.

[magnusrushesin]

"Yes, yes, and on the moon," Magnus replied.

Let's be honest here, the ponytails gave +5 to her adorable modifier.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Your base in on the moon?" Verity asked, eyes wide. "Are you an alien?"