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031 -- [Action | Voice]
[Today is an understated awesome day, ladies and gentleman. To everyone? Okay, maybe not. But Shikamaru sure is pleased as punch. After a month's stay in the Battle Dome clinic recoveries from the injuries he got in his fight with Hidan, Shikamaru's finally cleared to check out today.
Before he gets the all-clear, he can be found in - brace yourselves - one of the Dome's simulation rooms. He's actually been using them for the past week for his physical therapy. If he's going to be doing a lot of walking, might as well change up the scenery.
Namely, he's replicated parts of the Nara Clan's forest. At its opening, the sky is more open, but the further in you go the thicker the trees grow together. Wandering will reveal easter eggs - old statues, broken and ruined, or a path of moss-covered stone lanterns. Maybe a young deer if you're lucky.
Other parts of the forest seem to be swallowed by shadow completely, offering nothing but pitch black that no amount of light will ease and the sense you're being watched if you step into them.
He'll try and clear up some stuff with Law before he goes, but after that he hits the journal.]
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For those of you who saw that Vaskoth place... I figure it's been long enough. Name something you liked about it, if you can recall.
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You must be made of sterner stuff than I.
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[Feels like forever since he's been back in the swing of things. Shikamaru can be found at CH1 of course, in or around his apartment. Throughout the days following, he'll also be at the place formerly known as Azzip's, getting back to turning it into a convenience store.]
Before he gets the all-clear, he can be found in - brace yourselves - one of the Dome's simulation rooms. He's actually been using them for the past week for his physical therapy. If he's going to be doing a lot of walking, might as well change up the scenery.
Namely, he's replicated parts of the Nara Clan's forest. At its opening, the sky is more open, but the further in you go the thicker the trees grow together. Wandering will reveal easter eggs - old statues, broken and ruined, or a path of moss-covered stone lanterns. Maybe a young deer if you're lucky.
Other parts of the forest seem to be swallowed by shadow completely, offering nothing but pitch black that no amount of light will ease and the sense you're being watched if you step into them.
He'll try and clear up some stuff with Law before he goes, but after that he hits the journal.]
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For those of you who saw that Vaskoth place... I figure it's been long enough. Name something you liked about it, if you can recall.
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You must be made of sterner stuff than I.
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[Feels like forever since he's been back in the swing of things. Shikamaru can be found at CH1 of course, in or around his apartment. Throughout the days following, he'll also be at the place formerly known as Azzip's, getting back to turning it into a convenience store.]
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The part of him in which resides Toshio's memories likes it. The rest of him likes it too, but for what remains of Toshio it's a sudden taste of home.
Eventually their paths will cross. But where?]
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As for paths, deeper in there's thick grooves in the forest floor, where the roots of trees spill over like so. Shikamaru's walking there, navigating it without a glance as if reading the terrain from his heart.]
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Just--for the sake of curiosity. Why are you asking that?
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No. I'm not.
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Hi.]
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It's a lot cleaner than the last time he saw it.
He's currently dumping some oddly shaped chairs out of a storage scroll into a particular spot of the room, so he doesn't see her at first.]
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It's an odd question to come back to while checking his journal during a break. His gust instinct lies somewhere between "absolutely nothing" and "what the hell". That draft was terrible, absolutely terrible, and it's not really something he wants to break down and think about.
Then he has to shake out "that I was able to protect people." Even if... Even if- he did. He kept people he cared about from dying- or even worse, turning into...
...But that's not the point. Something he liked about it?...]
Its size.
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Either way, ninja-ing in from the side here, making sure not to spook any of the Pokemon.]
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It was like us. A little bit. They had...the feeling of this village but also the life of somewhere...grander.
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Go on.
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[Some damn cultist got it blown up, though.]
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[Until he also got blown up. Go figure.]
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W-What does that mean?
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I imagine I would be very lonely by this time, if I were in your shoes.
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[Shockingly enough, he still hates everything about Vaskoth and everything it meant.]
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.. Vaskoth? I don't think I've seen any place named that before..
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Humor me and elaborate on either one of those.
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You just got released from the clinic and now you're going to exhaust yourself. Don't come to me if ever your body aches again.
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Jeez... I guess I could go to Sakura...
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[Kotomi is Kotomi, so he could see where she might not have heard, but Green's one of those Pokemon trainers, right? He'd have thought he'd heard from the others.]
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Have itchy feet, do you?
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That was one gorgeous forest.]
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Not that any people will be visible from the deck - the trees seem to be grown to obstruct view funnily enough. Dare to come in?]
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