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Shounen Bat (Lil' Slugger) ([personal profile] strike_you_out) wrote2011-05-29 02:24 pm

seventeen | but when we start making fires we can't have a soul

[ phone | filtered from: drones ]

Are there any flamethrowers in Mayfield? How do I get one?

Unrelated, someone who has killed their target and is willing to talk, I have a question...


[ filtered to: Pokey ]

Pokey.

...

Pokey?



[ action | Slugger never thought he'd see the day when he would have to use the gift Susan had given him at Christmastime. The surface of the wooden bat was still polished and smooth. He never thought he'd lose his real bat again, either, along with everything else the town had restored to him. Or perhaps the security of having his powers had gone to his head and he simply hadn't wanted to think about other possibilities. Now, with nothing left---not even his golden bat, he wishes he'd thought of it more. Better preparation could have served him well, but for the time being, he'll have to depend on improvisation.]

(A) Backyard at Home; 726 Anderson
[A gunshot rings out from behind the house. Minimal investigation will lead you to find Slugger standing in the yard with his back to the house and a revolver aimed to the ground. On his face is a sheepish look, eyebrows raised and cheeks puffed out. Somewhere, there's a bullet embedded in the dirt.]

(B) A Range of Accessible Public Buildings (school, hospital, dime store, etc.)
[A single swing of his bat shatters the glass casing around a fire extinguisher. Slugger, wearing a protective baseball helmet and an identity-concealing cloth over the lower portion of his face, bolts toward the nearest exit with the extinguisher under his arm. However, there is no indication of a fire in sight.]

[identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com 2011-05-30 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wait, wait. What?]

Took care of it? You killed your target?

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-05-30 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Sure did. Easy as pie.

[He tries to make himself sound pleased, in to the fact that he took care of his opponent, but it's clearly hard for him. Between the guilt he feels, the fact that he lucked out, and the pain killers, it's a weird, wobbly tone that comes out when Pokey speaks.]

This second one shouldn't be any harder.

[identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com 2011-05-30 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Somehow, he isn't convinced. However, you've confirmed his suspicion that once a first target is killed, a new one is assigned.]

What happened? You sound weird.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-05-30 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I shot him.

I don't sound weird, you sound weird! I'm totally fine!

[identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com 2011-05-30 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Relief. At least you won.]

You sound like Edward when he was drunk.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-05-30 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not drunk. I'm just tired.

[identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com 2011-05-30 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you get something back? Josephine?

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-05-31 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Got Josephine back. Next one'll be....be a piece of cake.

[identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com 2011-05-31 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, having Josephine would make it easier, but...]

When are you doing it?

[Assume all this is filtered, btw.]