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.]
deathsdoctor: (Curiousity | what's over there)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2013-01-11 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[It's like you chose that TO LURE HIM IN. Like so long ago with the Konoha simulation, Law's invited himself in to look around.

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?]
handing: (looking over the world below)

[voice]

[personal profile] handing 2013-01-11 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow. Of all the things to ask about that place. Then again, for Pepper so much more bad than good happened in Vaskoth.]

Just--for the sake of curiosity. Why are you asking that?
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (is that what you really think)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2013-01-11 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Are you fucking kidding me.
mikangirl: (huff)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2013-01-11 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[There's no response, just her journal being snapped shut.]
dangerouswind: (Default)

[personal profile] dangerouswind 2013-01-11 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Welcome to the place formerly known as Azzip's. Temari's actually out and about - and meaning to check on a certain ninja neighbor of hers. So, you know. One stalker showing up at What-Was-Once-Azzip's, leaning against the door way with her arms crossed.

Hi.]
tsuntrader: (...Right.)

[v...oice...]

[personal profile] tsuntrader 2013-01-11 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[For a moment, anyway.

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.
deathsdoctor: (Neutral | shifting to look at you)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2013-01-11 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Shinobi went to all sorts of places during the Great War. Trafalgar thinks Toshio was at a place similar to this. There's a lot of forests out in that world.

Law finds a fallen tree to sit. No need to say anything; Shikamaru's already picked up on him by now, or will very shortly. Instead a raven croaks to break the silence for them.]
tsuntrader: (Hmph.)

well okay [action]

[personal profile] tsuntrader 2013-01-11 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[The Pokémon, of course, have better senses and don't have their face buried in a talking book, so they have the chance to acknowledge Shikamaru's presence before settling down without any issue.

Silver on the other hand nearly jumps at the sound of Shikamaru's voice and spins around as if he's about to get hit by something...

...But it's just Shikamaru.

He closes his journal.]


That's what you meant, right?
deathsdoctor: (Neutral | You sure?)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2013-01-11 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
There was a race? [Lightly, as something black flutters out of the trees to land on the branch of a another fallen tree.]
tsuntrader: (You have something on your face)

[action]

[personal profile] tsuntrader 2013-01-11 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think they developed the things in their enclosure themselves? [Was it that? Was it the Mallies? Did they just have better organization as a whole? It was dark. There was too much to take in. He couldn't cover all of the details.

...They had cars. Cars. Roads, cars, a giant amount of farmland... Structure.]
frost_jewel: (wish)

[voice...for now | filtered]

[personal profile] frost_jewel 2013-01-11 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
It will be hard to think of something I liked about it. [Though. Apart from being a war zone and then a plague city, it was...it was probably better to go through this out loud.]

It was like us. A little bit. They had...the feeling of this village but also the life of somewhere...grander.
deathsdoctor: (Neutral + Pleasant | Chilling out)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2013-01-11 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaa... [You were expecting him. Understandable, given his track record of letting himself into these kind of simulations.] Where are we?
tsuntrader: (...Right.)

[action]

[personal profile] tsuntrader 2013-01-11 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Luceti could be that one day. [Is that what he's trying to imply here?]

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