023 -- [Accidental Post]

[endgames]

[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]

Comments

[markofthewise]

But you'll probably come out on top, right?

[endgames]

Thinking about it like that is dangerous. There's too much at stake for me to accept anything short of victory, so long as I'm here.

[markofthewise]

A positive attitude is good! And frankly, comparing worlds here, most of the time the 'good guys' seem to be the ones that come out on top. So while mathematically speaking it might mean that yours is more probably to be the one to not have a good ending, I'm inclined to think the Malnosso intentionally put us here because we're winners.

[endgames]

If that's the case, you'd be off on the math. One thing's for sure, you can leave it to them to have a formula for everything.

[markofthewise]

As long as they remember to carry the fours. [Shikamaru is an attentive guy, so he's sure he'll pick up that little observation about Bil's calculations.]

[endgames]

Really hope they have more than one guy on that, otherwise I worry for the village's plumbing.

[What with Bil in a coma still, last he'd heard.]

[markofthewise]

[Yeah, that's one detail Sokka doesn't know about. Communication in this village sucks.]

Well the plumbing here doesn't follow conventional standards. There's no central sewerage system or water source connecting everything together. Wherever it all goes and comes from, it's not in Luceti.

[endgames]

Hence my concern. They screw up someday, where's it gonna go? Same for the garbage.

[markofthewise]

Maybe they sent it all to where the cultists live. Which would explain why they hate us so much.

[endgames]

Maybe it's 'cause I'm lacking in empathy for them, but I say better them than us.

[markofthewise]

If not, it would be an effective form of warfare.

[endgames]

It would. Then again, it's said the Third Party beat them at this Shifting business, so it's probably the Malnosso themselves who are more at a disadvantage for that.

[They'd have better luck doing it the old-fashioned way. Dump it a TP water supply.]

[markofthewise]

Always a reassuring concept, that.

[endgames]

Ehh. They've had ages to work it out.

[markofthewise]

Yeah. [But they could speculate about that until they're ears turned blue. If ears do, indeed, turn blue when talking.] Anyway. Nice picture.

[endgames]

Thanks. [Simply, this time. He's getting over the embarrassment.]

Good luck with the rest of that alchemy training.

[markofthewise]

Thanks. And good luck with... not having to do anything.

[endgames]

...right.

[He does stuff. 8|

But closing the journal now, with a smile that doesn't look as forced as it is. This doesn't sting like it did with Kiba nearly a year back.

Better for everyone to think he wastes most of his time.]