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[dropkick]

Guess we should consider ourselves lucky it was water guns.



[ooc: some really old tags on other posts should be cropping up in the next couple of days, internet allowing...;_; thanks for patience always...rl is mean haha weep... ]

Comments

[errandry]

Wait, you think people're getting cursed to use 'em too?

1/2

[dropkick]

I assumed as much, yeah.

[dropkick]

You thought they were just...randomly after you?

[ Squints.... ]

[errandry]

[ beanie ability #948958 sensing judgment: activated. ]

I thought maybe the City just passed 'em out! People use the curses all the time anyway.

[dropkick]

[ that beanie is muy accurate...you could sell that kazu! maybe. ]

Some of 'em might've been using it as an excuse, it's possible.

It was easier for me to figure anyone shooting at me was cursed though.

[ read: opportunity to judge him back, read: TOO LAZY to fight back (er...too busy changing his clothes.....) ]

[errandry]

What, were they really old guys?

[ possibly read: you sound like the kind of man to hang around really old guys, Arthur. ]

[dropkick]

Really ol-- what? Why would they be old?

[ WOULD NOT--------------no okay he would. sob. ]

[errandry]

Anybody young's gotta be suspected if you give 'em water guns!

[dropkick]

[ pause. well he hadn't thought of it like that...but...well..hm.

...yeah okay. he clears his throat absently, a shrug that can't be seen... ]

Did you shoot back?

...or throw.

[ balloon or pistol depending 8| ]

[sixwinged]

Don't jinx it.

[errandry]

I shot! The guns're way easier to handle.

[ AUDIBLE OLD-GUY-EVALUATING PAUSE. ]

Did you?

[archivy]

Indeed. [ Not that it would have made a difference for her, but for other people it would have. ]

[ Voice ]

[bettercallit]

S'not as exciting as it would've been otherwise, but it'll do.

[dropkick]

Just the ones who were laughing.

[ He couldn't quiiiite bring himself to dish back to the people who then tried to apologize...even if they then followed that up with trying to bean him again. Hum. Old and young alike 8| ]

[dropkick]

[ Mildly, a little amused... ]

Just so happens I don't believe in jinxes.

1/2

[dropkick]

Bright side, etc.

[dropkick]

You manage to stay dry?

[ Anyone he should bean down in your name, even after the fact... 8| ]

[ Voice ] clinnnnnnnt <3

[dropkick]

Lot safer. Especially considering a majority of the people firing at me were under the age of 12.

...I think.

[ AGE IS SO HARD to discern in this City u_u ]

[errandry]

... yeah, that probably would've been easier. Water wars aren't that bad right now, though!

[archivy]

I did. [ Perhaps she would have liked to participate more, but then emotionally distant also means not joining in on the fun more often than not. ]

[ Voice ] Arthuuuuur. <3

[bettercallit]

It's amazing what a few water pistols can do to a fully grown man.

[ Himself included, to an extent, as he was firing at people from above, holding a water gun like a sniper rifle and throwing balloons at them like grenades. ]

[dropkick]

Definitely could've been worse.

Sticking it to the laughers was the only way I was ever going to get anywhere though.

[ if he'd stopped for every assailant...well...8( suffice to say he quickly opted for t-shirt and jeans today .... yes jeans...yes he knows it's july...shhh sob ]

[dropkick]

That's good. [ And though no mind reader, he pauses, at least familiar enough with Ivy from sheer observation and recurring time spent together to ask, ] ...right?

[ because maybe it's not good, maybe she felt left out. he wonders if that's a thing she can feel, or is allowed to. ]

[ Voice ] <3333 you!

[dropkick]

Even one. [ He agrees dryly and then adds, ] Lot of the balloons just bounced off.

[ Still...people DID seem to pick up on how to chuck them by the end of the day, and WHO'S TO SAY whether Arthur took three or five before giving up and trotting back home to wait it out....sob....he's like I only have so many t-shirts!!!! ]

[archivy]

It is. [ It isn't either good or bad, it just is. That is the way things are. ]

Thank you for asking.