Twin Fury

[engineermage]

Kale watched as his brother paced back and forth in his room. Since Trever's roommate had vanished the two of them had taken to hanging out in there instead of Kale's room. (They'd also started making the still in there as well and Kale had been working on it when Trever showed up in a fury.) He'd not seen his brother so blistering angry in a long time.

It wasn't the good anger either. It was an unfocused rage that was looking for someone to hit, someone to punch in the face, someone to rip their heads off.

But, ever since he'd come back from that conversation with Prim - who Kale had yet to meet. He was only vaguely curious to meet the girl. Kale would be the first person to admit that sometimes he'd rather deal with his machines than people, and a traumatized girl, especially one that got Trever's blood so boiled wasn't something wanted to look for.

While he doubted he'd have quite the same intense response, Trever tended to get angrier easier, berserker blood in him, their mum said, he still would get upset.

"So, are you done yet?" he finally asked after watching Trever punch the wall with a hard thump.

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[reincarnshaman]

"What?" Trever asked, turning to look at Kale, shaking out his fist.

[engineermage]

"Are you finished raging at the wall? I'm not sure that it'll be able to hep your problems though," Kale said. He stood up with a stretch and felt something swipe at his ankles.

He didn't need to look under the bed to see that Veena would hiding under there.

[reincarnshaman]

"So, what do you suggest?" Trever asked. Because really, nothing here seemed to be able to get the frustration out. He'd tried the holodeck, but a part of his mind kept on saying that it was fake... and fake didn't mean much. No real stakes.

However, he also knew Kale and figured that Kale had something up...

[engineermage]

Oh, Kale did have something up. Quite the something up. He grinned madly. It was a very McCallum sort of grin. One that was hard to categorize but involved yay violence and yet being entirely useful in figuring out what's going on here in it. "I finally finished making those modifications on the squirt guns. You want to try them out?"

[reincarnshaman]

".... Yes."

Really, there was no other answer available.

[engineermage]

"I knew you'd say that."

Kale beckoned to his brother to follow him as he headed towards his room.

[reincarnshaman]

Trever followed, bouncing a bit on the balls of his feet. He knew Kale had been modifying the squirt guns to something that a McCallum was more used to using. Sure they might be plastic, but that didn't mean they couldn't improve the spray or how hard it hit.

And, of course, you needed dye of some sort to make sure the loser looked ridiculous. And looked ridiculous for several days.

Everyone had to know their shame.

[engineermage]

After checking to make sure that his roommate wasn't around, Kale opened up his closet and pulled out two super soaker rifles and tossed one to Trever. "I got the efficiency up, of course and I managed to have time to do a pair of pistols, each," he said as he did so.

[reincarnshaman]

"Awesome," Trever said, catching the rifle. He checked it over and noticed that Kale had added a place for dye packets. His had bright green in them. Knowing Kale, his guns would probably have hideous bright pink.

The tanks were empty, which made sense since they were hanging out in Kale's closet. "You've got holsters, right?"

[engineermage]

"Of course. I'm not stupid. We don't have three arms, or are we mum," Kale said.

He put his own rifle down and rummaged around for a moment more before tossing over a bandoleer with holders for refill for the pistols and two holsters for the pistols themselves.

[reincarnshaman]

"Heh. True," He slipped on the bandolier; it didn't need adjusting as it fit Kale. "Rules?"

There always had to be rules. It was never "no rules". At least not at the beginning. Eventually it broke out into a free for all, but for starters...

[engineermage]

"I want to try out my seeker drone, so Cat verse seeker on point. But other than that... have at?" Kale suggested, putting on his own set. Absently he checked the safeties - such as they were - on the pistols before holstering them.

[reincarnshaman]

Checking his own safeties, Trever nodded. The checking had been so ingrained in them, like checking to make sure your shoe was tied before going running, that they didn't even realize they did it. If it was gun shaped, you checked. Even if it was a squirt gun.

"How about we leave from here, go twenty minutes and then start the hunt."

Kind of like hide and go seek.

[engineermage]

Kale picked up the little drone he'd been working on and flicked it on. It hovered up in the air and he held his breath as he set it forward on the little control device which he attached to his wrist. That way he'd be able to drop the control and grab a gun if need be without losing it.

It moved forward, hovering in the air and Kale let out a soft breath of air. It was flying... for now. He had some crawling ones around, but he wanted to put those in the Jefferies Tubes and if he had them out flying during their little game then people would know about them - or at least connect him to them.

Best to wait for that later.

"Sounds good, and I think I'm good to go. Watch check?" Looking at his watch he said, "It's 15:47, so lets' round that up to 15:50 and start chasing at 16:10?"

[reincarnshaman]

Looking at his own watch, which matched Kale's, Trever said, "Sounds good to me..."

Before squirting Kale in the face with a pistol and running out the door laughing manically.

[engineermage]

"YOU CROW BITING BASTARD!" Kale yelled, running after him - the little drone following. He was more upset that Trever shot him first than Trever breaking the rules.

Trever had long gone, darting down a hallway. The twenty minutes had begun

He wiped off some of the green dye on his face as he entered the hallway and start off looking to get away from Trever before really starting the game.