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[goldenglasses]

Who: Vash and all
Broadcast: The Atroma Shopping Network
Action: Planet side
When: Anytime the planet is within range!

The Atroma Shopping Network

[Vash may not catch it, but The Atroma Shopping Network has been selling a few things from his home planet. Namely a few wanted posters with his face on it. Wow, those are a lot of zeros. The broadcaster will smile and talk about how this is an authentic wanted poster from the world of Gunsmoke, or No-man's Land, as some like to call it. See the details of the sand damaged edges? This is just a must have for collectors of western and outlaw memorabilia. As Vash the Stampede may be one of the most dangerous outlaws in the entire galaxy wanted dead or alive for sixty billion double dollars in his planet's currency!

While it's rumored that he's been involved in over 300 incidents of damage and destruction, some of his most famous crimes include: The murder of Count Lebnant Vasques. Causing class G weapon damage. Putting a crater into the planet's fifth moon. And of course the destruction of the major city of July overnight which lead to the death of over a million people. Call in now as supplies are limited!

Anyone is welcome to see this broadcast, but Vash himself has unfortunately missed it. As after he wasn't able to call in to buy a donut maker set he gave up on watching it.]

Planet Side

[Part of the reason Vash missed the broadcast? He's spending just about his WHOLE time planet side. At first just standing memorized by the snow. He's never seen or experienced anything like it before. Hardly even SEEN photos of it before. It's much colder than he though it would be.

Eventually it doesn't take too long before Vash rushes in and starts playing with the snow like a child. At first just grabbing armfuls and tossing it into the air. Kicking it around, flopping around into it, and just laughing at how wet it is. At some point in his play he'll realize the snow can also be packed. Which is bad news for people.

Where you just trying to take a quiet walk? Well TOO BAD. Because Vash has gotten some of the planet's kids in on his play. There are snow forts and the snowballs are flying. So that snowball that just smacked into your back? It totally wasn't thrown by the idiot in a bright red coat, hat, and gloves screaming: OH CRAP and ducking behind a snow fort. Nope. Not at all.

Or a bit of a slower paced snow fun? As Vash will have also discovered the joys of snowman building, although he's not very good at it yet, give him a hand?

And in the evenings he'll eventually drag himself back inside a bar to shiver, drip, and warm up with a strong drink of whiskey or hot chocolate..... spiked with vodka. Join him by the fire?]

Comments

planetside!

[parricida]

[Vash, thank god, doesn't have the chance to nail Garak with a snowball-- it wouldn't have ended well for either of them, frankly. But when he comes into the bar, wet and cheerful, and sits by the fire, Garak gives him a friendly sort of smile. He has his own hot drink-- red leaf tea, which isn't nearly as good as he'd hoped it would be.]

Fond of snow, are we?

[goldenglasses]

[Vash sits with his drink in hand with a huge smile on his face. Snow still clinging in his spiky hair.] Yeah! I really am! It's so cold! And there are so many fun things you can do with it! I've never gotten to experience before where I'm from.

[parricida]

Another desert-dweller?

[He sits up, somewhat interested.]

[goldenglasses]

Yeah, that's right, I am! Are you from a desert too, then?

[parricida]

My entire planet is desert-like, in fact. I do so miss the heat-- winter is charmingly beautiful, but I'd still rather a sauna.

[goldenglasses]

I suppose I miss home, but I've had enough desert for one life time personally. It's so dry and hot all the time. And there's no escape from the suns where ever you go.

[No, he didn't misspeak. He meant sunS.]

[parricida]

[That's okay, Garak is used to three moons. And other planets. With a little sigh he smiles nostalgically, wishing for that heat and dryness.]

It sounds like paradise, frankly, but to each their own, I suppose. Are you human, then?

planetside

[rebella]

( What. Ella looks back to see the perpetrator of the ball of snow that'd just smacked into her back ducking behind a snow fort. She'd seen kids play like this in town before, when she'd gone in with her mother or Mandy, but she'd never had quite the same chance to play.

And now? Come on, that guy just hit her. He's so asking for this! Ella crouches down and uses her wool mittened hands to grab two handfuls of snow and pack them together, rounding them like she'd shape dough for Mandy in the kitchen. Then she sneaks forward, fully intending to throw this snowball as soon as she has a clear shot at Vash. )

[goldenglasses]

[Oh, Ella will certainly get her chance for revenge. As Vash realizes that was a very pretty girl he had just hit with a snowball. He can't help but to pop his head back up to get a better look.

But will she aim for his exposed head which is the easier target or his slightly hidden chest instead?]

[rebella]

( Are we banking on Ella being nice or Ella being opportunistic?

... Darn. Nice wins, along with the challenge, of aiming for his slightly hidden chest, since the snow isn't quite powder, and harder snow to the face sounds like a bad idea. She has a pretty good arm, and a quick and ready grin after she releases her snowball. BUT DOES IT HIT??! )

[goldenglasses]

[A snowball is no bullet which is what Vash is more use to dodging. Then again, snowballs also don't cause death like a bullet hitting would so it's so much more fun to get hit now and then. Not to mention - he kind of owes her a free shot.

So he just shouts in terror of the snowball as it smashes against his chest into a powdery explosion.] I've been HIT! The world! She's going black! [He jumps fully to his feet and grabs at his throat making gurgling 'death' noises.] It's too late for me! Go on without me! URK! [He falls over the edge of his forth in "death" as the kids playing with him start giggling at his antics.]

[rebella]

( It's amusingly endearing to watch an adult man rolling around after a dramatic death, children engaged and finding the situation as a whole hilarious. For her part, Ella arches an eyebrow, setting her mittened hand on her hip. )

Well, are you just going to let him die unavenged?

( ...................... making herself the target of many children with mittened hands. She knows this, but she lets it be comical as if she hadn't, coming to the "realisation" and turning around and fleeing for cover. She ducks around the corner of a building with a cry of: )

Amnesty! Amnesty! Where'd I leave my white flag?

( To a chorus of giggles and snowballs smashing all around her. )

[goldenglasses]

I have your white flag my princess! [Suddenly the dead man is jumping up onto his feet like an energetic teenager. Rushing forward to protect Ella with his own body like a true 'hero'.]

Quickly! To that snowbank over there! You shall be safe there my princess and we shall show these no good outlaws why they should wage war against adults!

[He's grinning like an idiot as he makes a run for cover. As kids start to scream out the new battle terms of kids vs adults!

Which, it had mostly been kids piling snow on the red clad idiot beforehand, but this was a lot of fun too!]

planetside!

[mortalcoil]

[ugh, why do people insist on throwing snowballs at him??

whether Vash had been intending to hit the kid with one eye or not... that is exactly what happens.

Coil gets smacked in the back with a snowball just at the right time to knock his next step off balance. his ankle rolls as he tips to the side, landing him knees-first in the snowbank that he was just trying to cross.

as soon as he falls, he twists around in the snow, trying to see who's responsible for it!]

[goldenglasses]

[He may have intended to have a little fun and hit someone's back who wasn't looking.

Hitting someone who then fell over? Not so much. He stops his tossing right away and bounces over his small mound of snow he'd been using for cover.] Opps. Sorry about that. You alright?

[mortalcoil]

[little does Vash suspect that the first thing on this kid's mind... is revenge!!

as soon as Coil realizes that the tall blonde guy is the one who assaulted him, he's jamming his hands into the snow so he can angrily start wadding up a snowball of his own.

Vash has maybe a second before he'll likely be under fire.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash is actually glad when he sees that his 'victim' is starting to ball up snow.] Oh, thank goodness! I'm glad you're ok-GAH! [Vash covers his head with his arms and retreats back to his snow-fort.] Mercy! Mercy!

[mortalcoil]

[the kid is fast, and he is strong for a little guy... he really winds up that snowball and whips it at Vash as hard as he can.


...and whether or not Vash makes it back to the shelter of the snow-fort in time... the snowball goes sailing right by him. just terribly mis-aimed.

having no depth perception is kind of a bitch sometimes.]

[goldenglasses]

[It does indeed. Vash, however, takes advantage of the missed shot by diving for cover behind his snow mound before popping back up to stick out his tongue.] Ha ha! Missed me!

planetside aw yes

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[in the middle of all this snowball throwing, someone sneaks around behind the madness and takes the chance to... lob a snowball at Vash the second he's not looking.]

[goldenglasses]

[It won't be too hard. As Vash is currently distracted by attacking children.

Or well, the truth is being ATTACKED by children. So his back is WIDE open for the hit and the snowball spatters across his back. A little of it finding it's way down his jacket.]

Gah! Cold! So cold! [Of course this means war! While still jumping about trying to get the small bit near his neck to melt and go away Vash is already balling up some snow to toss in revenge! Better duck because he's throwing them now for his attacker's chest!]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[he stops his dumb grinning just in time to snatch it out of the air with lightning-fast reflexes... except, you know, since it's snow, it splatters all over his hand! that's not nearly as cool as he thought it was going to be and now there's melty ice all over his gloves...

he tries to flick off the ice chunks before getting suddenly and alarmingly beaned in the side of the head with some kid's snowball. he falls over with a startled (overdramatic) yelp.

he is in the snow now. this is not what he had planned.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash looks impressed when the snowball is caught. For all of two seconds as it explodes and Vash starts snickering.

As Robin falls over from the children's attack Vash takes this as an opportunity to scoop up a bunch of snow. Robin has just a few moments to move away quickly as there's suddenly a grinning, laughing outlaw with an armful of snow standing above him.] Revenge!

[If Robin doesn't move quickly he's going to find all of that snow dumped onto his head.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Gkk--not revenge!

[rolls! rolling out of the way!! and then stumbling to his feet, his unsuitable clothes totally covered in snow now.]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash feels better already seeing his attacker covered in snow anyway as most of his armful misses. He doesn't waste any time once it does miss to reach for that snow to start balling up some new snowballs.]

You'd deny me my revenge!? I shall have to get revenge for my missed revenge!