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035 -- [action | voice]
[It's an antsy day, in an antsy week. Every time he gets back from a mission, lately, it feels like that. He's had a project in the mountains the last several days, and with the news from CJ last night, Shikamaru can think of a lot of other things he'd rather be doing. But with Korra on a mission, he'd feel bad for ducking out of work. At least he wasn't here for the experiment, or worse: his birthday.
So he can be found at the convenience store until late afternoon, messing around with a digital camera. He got it last December as a Christmas present from Precis, but he actually hasn't practiced with it any until now. Sorry if you are SUDDENLY BLINDED by the flash feature he didn't know was there, he didn't mean it.
Unless you're Naruto or Masaomi. If you're Naruto or Masaomi, he's doing it on purpose because he's an ass and this is what true friendship is built on.
Later in the day, before work gets out, he'll crack open his journal to make a post. He's been thinking about this for the last week, reading up and practicing how to make asphalt. It's not as difficult as he would've though, and he thinks he has it down now.]
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Hey, Luceti. It's kind of late in the year for it, but the weather's been dry enough... So let's pave the roads. Anyone up for it?
[This might be ill-timed what with recent news, but hey. It doesn't hurt to gauge interest. There are a lot of other things he needs to take care of today, however, so he starts setting up some filters too.]
[Filtered to Cilan | Private]
Yo, Cilan. I got a job proposition for you.
[Filtered to Makie | Private]
...where the hell do you even live. I was gonna go visit you, but I forgot how much walking that takes when you don't know where you're going.
[Filtered to Gai Tsutsugami | Private]
[Flat, but not caustic.] It been enough time for you?
[Filtered to Haruno Sakura | Private]
[A string of scattered dots shows up in the filter before any words do, tappings of a pen. The message itself, when it shows up is anonymous. The handwriting is disguised and the picture in the journal window covered up to hide the identity of the writer. Inserted are a series of numbers: coordinates Sakura could figure out in her sleep.]
Come to the following coordinates at 1900 hours. Uzumaki Naruto is going to test the barrier, and he may need medical assistance afterwards.
(ooc: if enough people are interested in the road project, I'll make an ooc post organizing things for it after the House of M plot is done. right now this is testing the waters. 8|a)
So he can be found at the convenience store until late afternoon, messing around with a digital camera. He got it last December as a Christmas present from Precis, but he actually hasn't practiced with it any until now. Sorry if you are SUDDENLY BLINDED by the flash feature he didn't know was there, he didn't mean it.
Unless you're Naruto or Masaomi. If you're Naruto or Masaomi, he's doing it on purpose because he's an ass and this is what true friendship is built on.
Later in the day, before work gets out, he'll crack open his journal to make a post. He's been thinking about this for the last week, reading up and practicing how to make asphalt. It's not as difficult as he would've though, and he thinks he has it down now.]
[Voice]
Hey, Luceti. It's kind of late in the year for it, but the weather's been dry enough... So let's pave the roads. Anyone up for it?
[This might be ill-timed what with recent news, but hey. It doesn't hurt to gauge interest. There are a lot of other things he needs to take care of today, however, so he starts setting up some filters too.]
[Filtered to Cilan | Private]
Yo, Cilan. I got a job proposition for you.
[Filtered to Makie | Private]
...where the hell do you even live. I was gonna go visit you, but I forgot how much walking that takes when you don't know where you're going.
[Filtered to Gai Tsutsugami | Private]
[Flat, but not caustic.] It been enough time for you?
[Filtered to Haruno Sakura | Private]
[A string of scattered dots shows up in the filter before any words do, tappings of a pen. The message itself, when it shows up is anonymous. The handwriting is disguised and the picture in the journal window covered up to hide the identity of the writer. Inserted are a series of numbers: coordinates Sakura could figure out in her sleep.]
Come to the following coordinates at 1900 hours. Uzumaki Naruto is going to test the barrier, and he may need medical assistance afterwards.
(ooc: if enough people are interested in the road project, I'll make an ooc post organizing things for it after the House of M plot is done. right now this is testing the waters. 8|a)
[Private]
Yeah. A couple hours all right?
[Private]
[Still annoyed, but less so than he was during that locked post.]
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He's listening, at least. He'll do that much for Shikamaru.]
[Action]
Before we start, I want to apologize for my timing when I called you out. I didn't know you'd returned to your world.
[Action]
[Gai stops walking once he's close enough and just shoves his hands into his pockets, eyes on Shikamaru. Hopefully that's enough of a hint that he doesn't really want to talk about it.]
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Before I found out about that, I was intentionally trying to piss you off. A man is most honest when he's angry. You were clearly feeling other things at the time, but I don't think I was that far off the mark.
[Shikamaru turns his head, casting half his face in the shadow of the building. Gai's standing in front of the sun, so it hurts his eyes to keep looking that way. This is a better vantage point.]
The matter surrounding Specialist Davis bothers you a lot. Am I wrong?
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No, you're not. I don't think I've ever hidden that much from anyone.
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That's the problem.
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I'll be the first one to take responsibility for my own failures. That mission was a failure, no question about it. But it wasn't entirely because of my actions.
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[He's quiet for a moment.]
I didn't pay any special attention to it at the time, but this last mission got me thinking again. One of the new Iron Eye recruits was one of those same MSF soldiers from the hospital. She was there because of her knowledge of Shift explosives.
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I'm not here to listen to that. It's interesting, but tell me another time.
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Why are you so invested in the idea that he has no responsibility for any of what happened? We aren't exactly surrounded by trustworthy people here.
[Action]
I don't trust him. Not one hundred percent. If you haven't noticed though, coming from the other side we're shady as fuck ourselves.
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[Because he sure as hell doesn't trust a large portion of the village either.]
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[It's the same loop as it always is. Gai leans one way, Shikamaru the other, and neither one of them come out gaining something from it.
Shikamaru already mentioned that there's a chance Davis wasn't aware of the bomb at the time; there's nothing better to add to it than that anyways.]
Can I get to my point?
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Go ahead.
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People listen to us. You understand that. Right?
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[That's why he'd given the mission rundown in the way he had, in the tone of voice he had-- just a clean, clinical layout of the facts. Impersonal, which he knew undoubtedly made him come off as cold, but it kept things cut and dried.]
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Misconceptions are born easily in this place, and spread quickly. If you make someone out to be suspicious, that's what many of them will remember and they will set themselves against them.
You could turn someone who might have been an ally into an enemy that way.
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