endgames | 023 -- [Accidental Post]

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023 -- [Accidental Post]

[Earlier, when looking through his father’s book for the first time in several months, Shikamaru found some pictures he’d never seen before being used as bookmarks. It was… nostalgic, to say the least.

He finds another bookmark to replace them; puts the photos in a drawer to look at later. Because haha, he knows how this works, right? He leaves them out, and somehow his journal accidentally records it. Yeah. Hell no. He’s smarter than that and doesn’t leave his journal anywhere near them. On top of that, he takes it with him when he leaves to assist with a chakra training lesson. Crisis averted!

Guess what he sees when he opens up his journal two hours later.

Where’s the nearest wall. He needs to beat his head softly against it while he attempts to figure out how this happened. Feel free to action it up when he’s back at CH1 too, if you like.]

[ooc: original artwork from here]

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[She copies the same pose and forms an X as well before responding.] Chess doesn't use dice? Aa. That's interesting. [Copying stuff is fun.]

Are there cows and sheep too if there or horses? Aa, Yotsuba picks m for my.

[A thumbs-up at the journal window, and there goes an m written down.]

Not in chess, no. Besides the king and the queens, there are pawns. Those are like small soldiers.

Then there's the castle piece, called the rook, and... I don't know what the other piece is supposed to look like, but it's called a bishop.

Prawn soldiers?! [Sounds delicious.]

So all the prawns, the horses and the king and queen live in the rooks! And no one knows what the bishops look like because they're a mystery. That's a good story!

[All this talk of prawns is going to end up making her hungry.]

P for prawn soldier!

'fraid not. And now you're making me hungry.

When Yotsuba gets your name let's go eat prawns. Prawns sound really good now, mm!

[She doesn't care if this next guess is cheating..]

H-U-N-G-R-Y. All of those.

What, together?

One letter to go.

You want to go together? Okay then, let's go get prawns together at Seventh Heaven right now Shokamaru!

[There, that's his name, she got it. Prawns now!]

[Someone needs to teach this kid to be wary of strangers. 8|a]

C'mon, that's not it. You're buying since you got my name wrong.

[You know, if Luceti had money.]

[Oh she is. As long as they point out they're strangers to her. BUT THEY PLAYED HANGMAN SORTA Shokamaru ain't no stranger.]

... Yotsuba has no money. Is all the free shrimp gone? [Sniff. No more free stuff. So sad.]

[That face]

New policy. [Somber nod.] Everyone has to use money again.

[There's a pause and then:] --oh, what's this?

[He strokes his chin, looking at the journal if he's reading something very interesting on his side of things.]

Ohhh...

[Guess she'll have to ask Sanji to start paying up... But wait. What.

What is that.

What's he doing. What's he reading.

What. Whaaat.]

What is it, is there shrimp? Shrimp and money?

[Maybe if she leans forward and smushes her face up against the journal she'll somehow be able to see what he's looking at.]

There's an important looking note here that says if you guess the last letter in my name and get it right, everything will be free once more.

But I don't know, it sounds like a troublesome task for a little kid, even if they'd give you a clue...

[... If she guesses the right letter then everything will be free again? Wow that's... That's a big task. There's a lot riding on this. Maybe she should get some help for this?]

[NO. Even if it's a big task to guess one letter and make everything free again she can do this! There's a lot riding on this letter. There's a lot at stake, and steak, which she might want to go and eat when everything is free again.

SHE NEEDS TO GUESS THIS LETTER CORRECTLY. This single letter. One letter standing between her and all the free stuff ever. And the shrimp. And the ice cream. And not having to go to work and earn money like a boring business person.]

[OKAY HERE SHE GOES.]

X!

[... Wait, what was that about a clue? There was something about a clue.]

Yotsuba wants the clue!

[She can ask for that after guessing right? Do over.]

[NOPE, YOU LOSE. But okay, actually:]

Wow, you even knew that to ask for the clue you had to choose Option X? [SOUNDING SO IMPRESSED HERE.] Maybe we have a chance after all...

You're definitely going for it then? Nothing you say counts until you lock in your decision!

Yeah, Yotsuba knew all about option X, it was a cinch.

[SURE. LET'S GO WITH THAT.]

Yotsuba is going for it, for everyone, the shrimp and all the free stuff! Final answer, locked in and loaded, ready to go to the ranch!

All right! Listen closely, now!

The missing letter appears once in all of these four words.

Pile... like... point... and igloo.

Good luck! We're counting on you.

Pile... Like...

[Those both have an l in them. It must be l!]

... Point!?

[THAT DOESN'T HAVE AN L IN IT.]

Igloo?! Igloooo?!

[But that does! That has an l! But three out of four won't cut it. Hmmm.]

Is it... Is it i?

[Yeaaaah. Yeah, they all have an i in don't they?! Aw yes, she's got this in the bag.]

Yotsuba says it's i, can Yotsuba lock that in?!

You're absolutely confident? A hundred and ten percent positive?

One thousand hundred million ba-jillion percent, that's really really positive!! Yotsuba is full of confidence today!

[Picking the journal up she shakes it around a little... That's how confident she is.]

That confident? Whoa. Then there's really only one option.

Locking in! Now to see if you're right...

[Except you know, this is like a game show now so it's not that easy. Gotta build the suspense with a long, dramatic pause here!

He may also be drumming his fingers against the edge of a table, for a mock drum roll.]

[THIS IS GETTING PRETTY INTENSE.]

[SHE WANTS HER SHRIMP NOW DAMN IT.]

[...drum roll ceases!!]

You did it! Good job, Yotsuba. Everything's free again.

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