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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?]

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[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?]

( 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??! )

[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.]

( 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. )

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!]

( It's all completely ridiculous, but ridiculous is nice when things have also been ridiculous or home sick making or whatever else has been going on, like, well, sleeping a month straight (suddenly Ella finds her name has become Snow White or Sleeping Beauty). She's quick on her feet, grinning when she also makes that dash for cover. She gets hit in the leg and once on her lower back as she throws her hands out and sort of leap-rolls over to the backside of the snowbank in question.

She doesn't mind following that sort of unintentional order right now, as it is. )

Those outlaws! I've been hit! You'll have to leave me. For the sake of protecting the kingdom, I'll hold them off at the pass, but you must get word of them through to the king! The children are uprising!

[Vash leaps nimbly over the bank to crouch down next to Ella.] A knight leaving his princess? HAHAHAHAHA! Never! What kind of knight would I be if I did that!? We shall stop the children uprising here and make them eat BROCCOLI!

And peas!

( Some child hears this and screeches. Ella quirks up her eyebrows, then holds a finger to her lips. Quiet, Knight, now if they can sneak around to the side... she reaches down, packs a neat snowball in her mittens, and then edges around toward the side. And up. ATTACK FROM ABOVE if they can make it there! )

[Vash blinks stupidly for a moment at Ella's motion for quiet.] Oooooh! [He winks when he finally understands and sneaks along with her. The problem with trying to be sneaky with Vash is that he wears a large, bright red coat. He tends to stand out against all white. He's also not very sneaky at the moment.

Although he does make a great distract for Ella as he jumps up to throw a few snow balls at the kids who've spotted him.] You'll never take me alive! Long live adults!

( It gives her time to slip around the top and rain down a flurry of snowballs on the kids who've gathered around. They toss snowballs back in turn, but between targeting Vash first and being surprised she'd scrambled up that high when she's an adult adults don't DO that means the upper hand, however temporarily, is theirs. )

That's right! Run and hide, hooligans!

[Vash abandons attempting to ball the snow and just starts tossing armfuls of snow at the kids. Making it almost seem that it was a blizzard out with how fast he was tossing.]

Surrender! Or eat all your vegetables!

( The kids take up a cry of "we surrender!" after long enough, considering the other option was eating vegetables, and they all knew that was a terrible, terrible defeat. This way they could lie in wait for another day, defeat adults at a later hour... yes.

For her part, Ella strikes a pose, looking down and tilting her chin up so that her posing is all the more apparent. )

In the name of adulthood, I accept your surrender and claim this berm for adults all over town!