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[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.
[Filtered to Molly (NPC) || 100% Unhackable]
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.]
[Voice]
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.
[Filtered to Molly (NPC) || 100% Unhackable]
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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[Which no, not one's spoken about on this post but him.]
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[Like her death.]
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It's honestly a pretty good system. There's those who'd protest about working for the Malnosso, but you see people volunteering to take the place of a kid every draft. I can bet they had similar origins.
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Yeah...buuuuut even if it's all voluntary, it has to be really voluntary, you know? Are you sure this concept wasn't pressured in or anything? I'm not saying that people wouldn't love the idea, but...who came up with the idea in the first place? Because if the Malnosso came up with it first, wouldn't some people feel forced into volunteering just because the idea is right out there in public? Or did they come up with the idea and present it to the Malnosso? Because that has really different connotations, and it'd be evidence of even greater bartering.
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[He's often met people from different enclosures on missions, so there's a chance. Or he could ask around, as he plans to with Molly.]
I am interested in how it came about for them, both as an example and a cautionary tale. [He thinks about the message in the tunnels too, and how Davis was from Luceti.] All the same, it doesn't necessarily denote what we do.
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[Should they ever get the chance, no one's getting draft immunity if there aren't enough people to take their place.]
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Is there anything else about this place, or is that all you wanted to say?
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[Self-sufficiency is good, but he doesn't want this place to feel too comfortable.]
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It was for more than myself.
[With that many people, things were getting scarce.]
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No one could expect more of anyone there than that. If you were helping anyone, you already went one step beyond.
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I didn't really talk to anyone after that. I'm, um, guessing you came out okay, too.
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[Dislocated his shoulder on purpose to get out of a trap - and boy does that feel so far away now - but back alive.
At the time, he was so fed up with things he'd have rather stayed. He's glad now, to have thought past that.]
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This has been a good reminder of why Luceti needs that intelligence agency to distribute information.]
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