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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.]
[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.
[/end voice]
[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.
[/end voice]
[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.]
[Action]
Yes. It g-g-g-gets t-tedious.
[Action]
[Paperwork. It is the bane of all existence. 8|]
It's a separate subject matter, then? When you arrived, you said the Malnosso were interested in trading information.
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If you're not comfortable saying, I don't care.
[Action]
It's n-n-not that. I couldn't t-t-tell you even i-if I wanted t-t-t-to.
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This does toe the line of secret. ]
... c-c-call it a coincidence o-o-o-of birth.
[Action]
[If you watch closely, you can see things clicking in his head - or at least so far as he thinks he's on the right track. His expression changes, from brow creased in thought to a wide-eyed look.
Here. You were born here. Or if not this place, than another enclosure?]
[Action]
But she does give her wings a snap. They are, again, bigger than those of the normal residents - but not as large as he will have become used to seeing on, say, cultists. They are a medium size and unkempt, still. A few feathers flutter to the ground behind her when she snaps them like that. God, they itch.
She does not otherwise reply. ]
[Action]
With the latter, he remembers seeing a few with wings not quite so big; wings like hers. Maybe it's for that reason he'd assumed she'd have been born outside like them.
He frowns.]
Would you be interested in an information trade; one off the record? Just between you and me?
[Action]
[ Takes some more popcorn. ]
[Action]
[Laying the grounds so she can choose her own question accordingly; equal exchange and such.]
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There's a secret room in the tunnels. At least it was secret until recently. Have you seen it?
[Action]
W-W-Why do you ask?
[Action]
[And in his mind's eye, he can see it clearly now, reproduced with a photographic memory.
It zooms in on messages in childish scrawls; drawings of happy families.]
Aa... really it came to mind just now.