BOND Campfire Friends

[overworker]

Who: Thyme and friends (everyone)
When: Day 56, evening
Where: Outside, a little ways away from the train

[ Tonight, everyone is invited to a campfire get together. While it was organized by Thyme, friends and new faces alike are welcome to join in. They have all the things you need to make some great s'mores by the fire; including some nicely trimmed sticks for all your toasting needs. ]

We thought it might be nice to get everyone who wanted to come together and tell some stories. For us, this is an official way of bonding. But in general-- I think it could be good for everyone. So it doesn't have to just be us. If you have a story, you're welcome to share it! That goes for any other fun activities you might have in mind.

[ There's plenty of open space-- room for people to improvise if they want to add to the event. ]

The important part is that everyone gets to have fun together after all. So I hope you all enjoy yourselves. If there's anything I can do, please don't hesitate to ask.

Comments

[bowtiedbones]

Zombies are kind of a sore subject for professional necromancers.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Fair point and good to know. It seemed like it'd either by really good or really bad.

I ever tell you about the story of how Faito and I know each other, but not really?

[bowtiedbones]

You haven't and you totally should!

[schrodingerscockroach]

All right.

[Clears his throat.] There was once a young teenage boy acting as teenagers do. Trying to figure out who he was, experimenting with romance and such. Until the day came where he could enlist in the military. Unbeknownst to him, however, is he left a child behind.

The little girl grew up in a fairly typical life for a while. She went to school, made friends, things like that. Until one day she is kidnapped with a strange criminal, a thief in a white suit. They have to go through a series of puzzle rooms to try to escape, but the thief is injured so it's up to her to save them both.

After this, she realizes there is greater injustices in the world that sometimes needs another solution.

The military man returns home well after a decade. He becomes a cop because it's a job he can do and it fits what he wants out of the world. He knows he has a daughter and he hopes it's in the town he got a job, but he's uncertain where she is.

The girl has started a fight club. A place where she could learn how to fight and perfect her own skills when she starts her job as a vigilante. Hunting down the people who kidnapped her and other gangs who cause problems.

The man is often on cases trying to weed out gangs, people who know how to hide evidence, because he has a wide assortment of skills. And eventually, he runs into the vigilante girl. But being a vigilante is still an illegal thing so he has to try and bring her in.

However, fate often intervenes. She might be breaking the law, but she's not a threat, and often when they meet, it's when they have to deal with gangs and people trying to kill them and often things end up in a life debt situation, where one saved the others life and so him trying to arrest her wouldn't be an honorable thing to do.

And sometimes at the end of it all, they're too tired and shaken up to go home and will go to some late open place to eat and drink hot chocolate and get to talking.

Forming a weird rivalry friendship.

Until the day comes where the man finds out the girl is his daughter due to matching necklaces and he can't arrest her then and he becomes a kind of part time vigilante, but also trying to get her to stop.

But justice can never stop, forever cleaning up the streets by whatever means necessary.

[bowtiedbones]

—You're a dad!?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He laughs and shakes his head.]

No, no.

[Pause.]

As far as I know. It's unlikely with probability, but not impossible.

Faito and I knew we knew each other because we showed up here with matching necklaces and because I can fight her without hurting her thanks to muscle memory. Plus some similar habits.

So we started making up what it might be from what clues we could get about each other and ourselves. It was originally Faito just had a fight club until she remembered the weird thief.

But she's remembered her father, who is a cop funnily enough, and then we realized I'm about five hundred years in the future and our necklaces are magic. Which means the truth is probably wilder than what we made up.

[bowtiedbones]

Or something more normal than encouraging teenage fight clubs and vigilantism??

[schrodingerscockroach]

To be fair, I would probably encourage vigilantism.

But we know time travel is involved. And magic. Neither Faito nor I think of magic as a 'common' thing. It existing would be like one of those secret, weird things only a few people know about sort of thing.

And so far the only time we've had time travel mentioned, it was talking about how there was a guy who destroyed all of time and space and my friends and I were trying to fix it somehow, so...

[S-shrugs.]

I'm pretty sure 'normal' isn't something I have in my life a lot.

[bowtiedbones]

Even without that, you two moved off of normal as soon as you arrived here.

[schrodingerscockroach]

We didn't think it'd be true. It was just a dumb story to make up until we figured out what really happened.

....and people don't get scars like we do without unpleasant stories involved. A fun one was better.

[bowtiedbones]

A crime-fighting dad-daughter duo is a cute idea.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Isn't it though? We would have been the scourge of the streets.