[AQ] A UFO Sighting [Elijah/Juon]

[Elijah (Eli)]

A UFO Sighting
+ Description: Rumors have been talking about a mysterious light flying over the park; could it be a UFO? Or, more likely, has someone lost their Heart’s Egg?
+ Go UFO sighting: +3 Guardians, -1 Faberge
+ Help the lost egg return to its owner: +1 Guardians, +3 Roost
+ Break the lost egg: -2 Guardians, -1 Faberge, -2 Roost, +5
+ Requirements: If helping or breaking the egg, tag for X-mod

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The more he heard about these UFO sightings, the more interested he was about then. He kept hearing that there was something over the park that was quite small, but no one was sure of what it was. It excited him to know, somehow, that a little park could imitate a dark and dreary forest full of unwelcoming things. Lights through the trees, whispering voices, strange colors and hallucinations. It gave him a chill and a slight adrenaline rush. Boy, was he excited...

He stood in the park and looked at the sky. At first glance, one would think it was normal--but he'd been standing there for a long time as if he were really waiting on something. He was willing to wait into some obscene hour just to see it....

[Juon]

"Is it going to be aliens?"

"I don't know."

"Are aliens real?"

"I don't know."

"Can we profit off of them!?"

Juon had decided it best to leave his Guardian Character at home--or, at least, make the attempt to do so--when he'd decided to go out and see about all of the mysterious lights that had been popping up in the park.

While he wasn't exactly interested in that sort of thing, he was more interested to see if they could photograph--particularly, to see how they would photograph on older cameras. Being a collector of antique cameras, even if not much an actual photographer (he preferred the mechanics behind it, and the overall engineering; he wasn't an art kind of person, really), he enjoyed trying them out when he could get himself film, and the idea of making such an attempt and possibly comparing them to photos of old was potentially interesting.

He only had film for one camera at the moment, though; he only tended to bring one or two from home for a semester, and even then, it wasn't super old--it was mid-70's and the lens cap was missing, and the shutter button often got stuck, but it was still something.

Upon arriving at the park, there were less people around than expected; the atmosphere was eerie nonetheless, though, what with the sky dark overhead and only a few of the park's lights turned on, as it maybe was a bit too late into the evening. He did spot one other person around, though, who seemed particularly fixated on the sky--it was likely, then, that they were there for the same thing.

Crouching down a bit as he approached from behind, he peered through the camera, tinkered a few settings, and hit the shutter, snapping a picture of the guy silhouetted by the stars above. The shutter button got stuck, though, and the distinct click of the camera ended up going off three times before the button popped back up. Hopefully the guy hadn't heard--after all, he seemed to mesmerized as it was.

"You look like you've already been abducted," he called in greeting, though, approaching from the side.

[Elijah (Eli)]

It didn't occur to Elijah that anyone was around. He told his mother that he had some "after school activities" that were "intense" enough to fall into the later hours of the evening. His mother trusted him (enough) and as long as he got home on time, that's what had mattered the most. To Eli, he'd been fantasizing about making contact or possibly even shaking the hand of an alien. Even just to see a UFO hovering over him was enough. There was no need for him to get any solid proof that any of it existed. He knew it existed. There was no way that out of the billions of planets in the solar system, that Earth was the only planet that could sustain life.

It excited him enough that he barely heard the other speaking to him. A few moments passed and from his peripheral vision, he caught someone clad in the same uniform standing next to him. Just a little taller, but not by much. Elijah grinned, "After the same thing, huh? Hah, I wish I was abducted!" He turned to the other and blinked a few times. What was he doing with that old, rusty camera? It looked like something sitting in a cafe shelf next to a bunch of books. "You've heard the rumors, I take it- I'm thinking it's a UFO. Some people think it's a ghost, but if it's light from above, it's definitely a hovering object."

Elijah lifted his gaze to the sky, "Because I honestly think that we aren't alone."

His thoughts began to circulate again, fishing in his pocket for a piece of paper with some hoaxed (but not hoaxed according to Elijah) "alien language" writing, allegedly saying, "Hello, welcome to Earth." He opened up the small paper with some kind of hieroglyphics and flashed it at the other, "This is gonna be my note to them if they happen to fly down! I should've drawn it on posterboard and held up a sign, but I think a lot of people would be a little afraid." There were a lot of circles... triangles, dots in different formations, much like crop circle shapes. "What do you think?" Elijah somehow assumed that since the other had a camera, he planned on doing some documentation on the subject...

[Juon]

Oh boy--so this guy was actually after the alien aspect of this. A full believer? Really? Wishing he was abducted; Juon had seen enough alien horror movies to know that this kid did not have the right ideas in his head.

"I don't really care what it is, I just wanted a picture of it," he offered in reply to the other's very excited musings. As he'd stared off into the sky--a dreamer, it seemed, in a town devoid of imagination--Juon attempted to join him, but he couldn't keep so fixated and interested for anywhere near as long. "But uh, I'll take your word for it."

As the piece of paper had come out with the 'alien writing' on it, he found himself squinting at each individual symbol with a confusion that rivaled his confusion of trying to imagine how this kid (well, he wasn't much shorter than Juon, but he was aware that he was not tall as it was) got such an idea about the nature of aliens and whatnot.

"Well, at least you're considerate," he offered, scratching his head, still trying to make heads or tails of the message. "Where did you even come up with that language, anyway? It's all..." he made a wavy, triangle-like hand gesture as he failed to find the right word. "How do you even know this stuff?"