[TOY] Plaything

[skinstealer]

POLKA DOT: Well…
POLKA DOT: Willow and I are planning an adventure.
TIMOTHY: Oh?
 

His ears perk right up.

TIMOTHY: Outside the city?
POLKA DOT: Yeah…
TIMOTHY: …you don’t sound excited.
POLKA DOT: It’s…important to Willow, and the two of us will definitely be going at some point.
POLKA DOT: But…
POLKA DOT: I did some digging and found out where we need to go, and it’s not pretty.
POLKA DOT: Feels like if I ask people to join up with us, it’s just asking people to go on a suicide mission…
TIMOTHY: But getting a party together minimizes risks, yeah?
POLKA DOT: Yeah, exactly.
TIMOTHY: Mmm.
 

He leans back in his chair and crosses his arms, closing his eyes to think.

TIMOTHY: How bad are we talking?
POLKA DOT: Uh….
POLKA DOT: Curses, monsters that take the form of your deepest fears…
TIMOTHY: Eesh.
POLKA DOT: Yeah. The works.
TIMOTHY: That…really doesn’t sound great, no.
POLKA DOT: Nope.
TIMOTHY: But…
TIMOTHY: If you’re going out somewhere dangerous, I’d feel awful not coming along, especially not if it helps Willow too for me to tag along.
TIMOTHY: I’m guessing we’ve got a lot of prep to get together.
POLKA DOT: Yeah, and I’ve got some old plush willing to help out and give us gear.
POLKA DOT: …you got a weapon recently, right?
 

Tim nods vigorously and very carefully reaches under the bottom of his sweater, startling you as he pulls out a plastic pistol, likely from some kind of action figure.

TIMOTHY: I figure most of my friends have melee weapons, so…
TIMOTHY: If something like this were ever to come up, it’d help to have some range.
 

You can’t help but shake a weird feeling just being around the gun, but now’s not the time for that. Or ever.

POLKA DOT: Works for me…I don’t know how close I want to fight stuff that’s based on fears, anyway.
TIMOTHY: What else do you need?
POLKA DOT: Do you…know anyone that’d be good to recruit?
POLKA DOT: Willow says that a party is ideally, like. Four to six people.
TIMOTHY: Hmm…
TIMOTHY: Well, I know that Devo’s been practicing his knife skills.
TIMOTHY: He doesn’t have the most physical strength, and we’d definitely have to support him along the way…
TIMOTHY: But he’s capable of helping, I think, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving him behind.
TIMOTHY: And if we’re bringing Devo…
TIMOTHY: I mean, we should probably ask Roulette too.
TIMOTHY: I still don’t know it very well at all, but I get the feeling that it’s really nice!
TIMOTHY: Just…hard to open up to people.
TIMOTHY: Devo vouches for it, anyway, and I can trust that.
TIMOTHY: We don’t exactly have a big friend group or anything, but…
TIMOTHY: Between the five of us, I think we could make a pretty well rounded party.
TIMOTHY: Or, at the very least, one where everybody knows and trusts somebody, instead of taking on anyone who we’re iffy on.
 

He takes another moment to think.

TIMOTHY: …this could work out for me too, actually.
POLKA DOT: Oh?
TIMOTHY: Yeah! I had a favor to ask you, but it looks like it’ll be in your best interest to help after all!
POLKA DOT: If you’re coming with me, I’ll do pretty much anything in exchange.
 

His ears perk up again, eyes smiling.

TIMOTHY: Then come to this party with me!
TIMOTHY: It’s at a partner of the Place’s house, so it’s confirmed safe…
TIMOTHY: Devo and I wanted to check it out, but we wanted to bring some backup friends just in case.
TIMOTHY: Yknow, like you and Roulette.
TIMOTHY: It’d be the perfect opportunity for you to ask both of them to come with! We could even have a sitdown talk about it!
TIMOTHY: I’d ask if Willow could come too, but I don’t want Roulette to feel, like. Out of place, yknow?
TIMOTHY: I already worry about that with me and Devo being there together as boyfriends…