endgames: (Plots)
Nara Shikamaru ([personal profile] endgames) wrote2013-01-10 05:13 am

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.]
frost_jewel: (you've crossed a line)

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[personal profile] frost_jewel 2013-02-06 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[If he could see her face. She hasn't turned this color or worn this expression in quite a while.]

Thank you, but I would rather not.
frost_jewel: (hm?)

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[personal profile] frost_jewel 2013-02-07 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's more complicated than Shikamaru knows.]

Why is it 'too nice' to ask how you are? Apart from it being somewhat important to my work.
frost_jewel: (to the goddess of rainbows)

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[personal profile] frost_jewel 2013-02-08 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It is also full of people who say they are fine even when they are not. And you aren't in the clinic anymore, are you?
frost_jewel: (of Imil)

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[personal profile] frost_jewel 2013-02-08 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen worse. [It wasn't all him, either.] I wasn't asking you because I thought you were lying.

['I was asking because I cared.' But she stops herself.]
frost_jewel: (concentration)

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[personal profile] frost_jewel 2013-02-10 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[With him? She's not sure it does half the time.]

Did the two of you resolve things?
frost_jewel: (contemplation)

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[personal profile] frost_jewel 2013-02-10 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
That's fair enough.

[Far be it for her to get in the middle of something so prone to exploding. Again.]

Please take care of yourself. [It's an end to the conversation if he chooses to take it.]