Viv DeLaCourte (Harbinger)Neo-Paladin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 9:40 am He eventually looks up, frowning. " Can I help you?" he asks Viv.
Even as his head comes up, so does Viv's phone- there is the almost inaudible click of a photo being taken. Still smiling, Viv held up one finger briefly as she hit a few keys, then dropped her phone back into her pocket. She smiled, dazzlingly- and her voice was light and (almost unnaturally) pleasant, an old friend greeting someone close after a long absence. "Why yes, yes you can. Although you might really consider it to be more helping yourself. You can close up the laptop RIGHT NOW, get up off the bench, and walk over towards the train station..." She paused, pointing helpfully towards the station. "While you're walking there, you can call Mr. Turkel and tell him you're out. And if you do all of those things, we WON'T have to have a very uncomfortable conversation about all of the bad things that could theoretically happen to you. And the ones that already HAVE happened to you. How does that sound?" From another sort of person, her words could come off as a potential threat- but in this case they are an entirely reasonable, even helpful sort of suggestion.
>OOC: Tone, pitch, even body language- Viv is absolutely not trying to Intimidate, despite the implied threat. If anything, closer to Persuasion - she honestly wants to be helpful, though in this case, for him, that means convincing him to leave. Now.