the_campus | Have a car thief with no cars

[Do you know what happens when you put a confused Serb Yugoslavian expatriate in the middle of a strange building in a strange place while he's in the possession of his favorite carbine rifle? He skulks through a hallway quietly, looking for a way out.

Niko nears a window with his back to the wall. And off in the distance? That jungle? That sure wasn't Middle Park. Not long before he heard something that sounded like the most fucked up war-zone he's ever been near. More rushing fire, less bullets. So he's just playing it careful until he finds some sort of damned map.

First he finds a soda machine, though. And that soda machine is not a Sprunk soda machine. He ventures closer, pokes it with the gun as if that's going to help anything, and moves to look behind it as if he's searching for the mechanism for a bomb in an obviously fake piece of inexplicable equipment. Surveillance maybe?

He's pretty sure he's not in Liberty State, anymore.]

Oh, here we go. [Traces of his Balkan accent in those sarcastic sounding words he goes back around to the front of the soda machine, not creeping along for the time being and with his rifle lowered at his side. He's ready to hop behind that thing defensively though.]

((OOC: New person, new character. Niko Bellic from GTA IV. Snarky bastard but pretty friendly and easy to reason down.))

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[Kai's watching him carefully, almost waiting for that gun to end up pointed at him. He's relieved when the only reaction he gets is confusion. Doesn't mean he still won't get shot, however.]

It's definitely real. Don't worry though, I only chuck this stuff at people that piss me off.

[He's smiling a bit as he says it, but he's completely serious.]

About the only thing it gets used for these days is cooling soda. Well, and maybe adding icicle spikes to snow forts. [Okay, and freezing monsters solid before he drops them out of portals onto their summoner, but it's been months since that happened. Kai flexes his fingers outward, and the sphere dissipates.]

[Well that's not unsettling or anything.]

So what do you throw at the people you like?

[And then he couldn't stop his mouth. At least it didn't fall back to the previous subject of frosted Russian underwear.]

[The smile widens, and Kai shoves his bangs out of his eyes.]

Cookies. I make pretty good ones, even if they look a little weird.

[Kai does not actually throw the cookies at people. Too delicate. Who wants to eat cookies that've been reduced to crumbs?]

...

You can't make them like that can you.

[He means every word of that question. If Kai can fucking manifest cookies at goddamn will, he wants to see that.]

[It takes him a second to realize what Niko means, and then Kai snickers, shaking his head. Oh, that'd be brilliant. If only.]

I wish! It'd save me a lot of work. Naw, I make them the old fashioned way, with mixing bowls and an oven. There's a girl around here somewhere that can draw them out of chalk and make them real, or so I've heard.

[Really, just snapping your fingers and having a lemon chocolate chip cookie would be the best. He could live off junk food.

Maybe.]

My magic's just stuff like I showed you, and I've been working on Cure and Barrier-

[Kai stops abruptly, his expression darkening for a fraction of a second before he shakes his head, smiling again.]

Maybe I should look into the cookie thing though. Who knows what you can find in the library anyway, I've found magic books from back home.

[That confused look? It's still there, though the focus has switched.] Somehow knowing that you can not make cookies has made the first one less impressive. I don't know why. This bothers me a little bit. Let me know if you figure out how, but ah, yes. No throwing.

[And then he tugs on the next doorknob, which opens.]

[Kai just blinks at that for a second before laughing and going over to the door.]

I'll add it onto my list of things to do. I've already got tons on there anyway, what's one more.

[Really, he's already drowning, but hey, magical cookies are a worthwhile pursuit. He can manage.]

I'll just wait out here while you check things, if you want.

[He does go in to check. But it takes a long time for there to be any sign of him. In fact, there's even the sound of cabinet drawers opening and the clink of a light fixture being poked with a gun.

Finally he pops his head out the door.]

There is no sign of anyone in here.

[Not even with cameras in the ceiling, apparently.]

[Kai'll just lean against the wall with his hands shoved in his pockets while he waits. He's just amused by the sounds he's hearing; it's like Niko's going over the whole place with a fine tooth comb. When the man finally reappears, Kai just shrugs at his statement.]

Then it's yours if you want it. Mine's just down the hall, about... [He frees a hand and points.] seven doors down, in case you need anything.

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