Kevin's eyes widen, and he scrambles into the corner of the treehouse closest to the direction that the sounds are coming from. Specifically putting the wood of the treehouse wall between him and whoever's throwing the stones.

"Who's doing this?!" Like Corey, he says it probably a bit louder than he needs to, caught up in the fear and excitement of the moment.

Kevin and Pesky looked outside of the Tree House, just in time to see two kids running away. One was a girl and another, a kid with a backwards hat on. They both scurried behind some bushes disappearing from sight.

Pesky saw the glimpse of a boy ballcap duck into a bush, along with a girl about the same size.

Ducking his head back out of fire, he turned Kevin and said, "Who the heck is that?  Do you know those kids?"

Kevin lets out his breath as he sees them running, then frowns a tiny bit as he tries to calm his mind from the excitement, enough to run through his memory of the kids at the baseball game.

OOC: Making use of eidetic memory. Does he recognize either of them?

Gary followed Kevin over to the tree house window. "They they are!" He yelled, pointing the two figures out for everyone to see.

[Private to Kevin: Kevin recognizes the the two running away as Sara and Jimmy, two kids on the block that Kevin had seen, though he isn't quite sure of the their relationship to the rest of the kids in the tree house. ]
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"Oh great! Just great!" Corey lamented, as if confirmation of two kids having thrown things at the tree house was exactly the kind of thing that he expected. As if it was the worst thing that might totally ruin everything.

Edith's reaction was quiet but when she spoke there was a silent fury in her voice.

"Who...is...it?" She fumed, each word sounding like a separate knife-jab as she spoke it.

"One way to find out," Pesky said, and dropped quickly down the ladder.

"Who's there?" he asked, approaching the bushes.

Kevin answers Edith after a couple of seconds, "It was Sara and Jimmy." Of course by then Pesky had already gone down the ladder.

Kevin looks where his new friend went and back to Edith, "Do you guys know them? I only know their names,and know they live around here. Maybe we should back him up?" After another second he seems to decide the answer is yes and starts after Pesky.

Gary was half way down the ladder following Pesky down before he came back up and stuck his head through the latch again "Jimmy!??" He said incredulously.

"But he's one of us! He's hung out in the tree house before." he said with a slightly wounded voice. The voice of someone who had been betrayed.

"It doesn't surprise me." Corey said with dour pessimism like he had seen it all before. "Everyone here knows that Jimmy likes to run around and cause trouble. Don't any of you remember the time that he shot those fire works at mailboxes? And remember when he got in trouble in gym class last year for throwing the dodgeballs too hard in gym class?"

"Jimmy..." Edith said, planting a fist into her open palm and squinting her eyes.

"Never mind him." Edith concluded. "Sara is from Main Street. She might know what's going on over there. Jimmy is just a distraction."

OOC:  Sorry, I've been in and out for so long with my dad...  Do I know Sara and/or Jimmy?

When Pesky heard the names 'Sara and Jimmy' something clicked in his brain. He knew Sara was that girl that lived on Main Street. The one who might know about things going on with the kids and their disappearances there. The exact kind of information that Edith and the kids from Rodeo Drive needed.

As for Jimmy. He had spent many days inside this same tree house. Chatting with Pesky and Edith. But he was always in trouble. In trouble with Edith and the others for not taking the investigations 'seriously.' In trouble at home for using 'potty words.' And most of all, in trouble at school for fooling around and causing trouble.

"Jimmy!  I know it's you.  Quit bein' a spaz and come out of the bush!"

Kevin's eyes widen as he hears that Jimmy was one of the group. He comments to Corey, "Throwing rocks his way more bullying than dodgeballs. Doesn't sound like a friend if he's doing that."

After what he does says, he bites his lip, looking thoughtful, and then says, "She's probably not gonna tell us anything after she's been throwing rocks at us. But we can try!"

If the ladder is now clear, he continues on down to catch up with Pesky and Gary.

OOC: Teamwork Roll - Pesky is the primary actor.

Kevin Must Roll Intelligence + Survival

  - Any successes will be added to Pesky's upcoming roll

23:56, Today: Kevin rolled 1 success using 3d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s.  Intelligence  + Survival - 1 (Unskilled).

OOC: Pesky Rolls Intelligence + Survival + 1 (Kevin had 1 success)

08:46, Today: Peter 'Pesky' Eskind rolled 2 successes using 5d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s.  Intelligence + Survival + 1.

Pesky's feet slipped outwards on the wet autumn leaves as he rounded the corner, the cold evening air shocking his throat and lungs as he inhaled deeper, faster. With each footfall Kevin felt the jarring impact of the earth as he followed the path through the fallen, wet leaves on neighbors' lawns. Pesky's heart was beating frantically as he followed the footprints.

Two pairs of foot prints. One looked like Converse and the other one maybe Keds or some other kind of sneaker.  They both followed a path around the corner and cut through a neighbor's lawn. Somewhere up ahead, a dog was barking.

It wouldn't be long now before Sara and Jimmy were found.

"Wait up!" Gary yelled, trailing from behind. He wasn't very good at any of this tracking, but he wasn't complaining about it, just eager not to fall behind

Pesky continues running, chasing Jimmy, quickly running out of breath.

"Jimmy, ya spaz, come on!  We know it's you.  Just come back already!"

Kevin follows after Pesky, wanting to keep up but also keeping an eye on the ground. Following those footprints, and indicating to Pesky to the other boy lose track of the prints.

Of course, the run is leaving him a bit breathless as well, but he doesn't stop. It's as much, now, about just the fun of finding their targets as much as the confrontation and questions that are to follow.

Pesky and Kevin moved in between the bushes and cut through a neighbor's yard. A dog was chasing at rabbit, the rabbit ducking underneath the latticed woodwork of the deck and disappearing from sight.

When Pesky and Kevin rounded the corner, they saw Jimmy and Sara talking to each other.

OOC: Pesky and Kevin join Sara's thread titled

Sara: It's Time For Shenanigans, Says Jimmy