endgames | 035 -- [action

[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.]

[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)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Whatever needs doing that I can do, I'd be happy to help. As long as you need hands doing it.

I'll definitely let you know, then. Sounds like people are getting interested about it.

Well, it would be nice to have paved roads...so I think that's not surprising.

Interested enough to chip in themselves is what we're going for.

Then I think you hit the mark.

I guess there's enough people to make the proposition more seriously, anyways. I'll outline a plan for it over the next couples weeks and rally more helpers. If you think anyone else you know might be interested, you should tell them.

I'll tell Katniss and Richard about it, at any rate. I think you've got at least one of the people I'd tell covered, though.

Yeah?

[He wonders if she means Chouji, or someone else.]

Well, it's not surprising. You're friends, right?

[ She meant Chouji, apparently. ]

[LOL. Bingo.]

Heh. Chouji's already on the case, yeah.

It'd be hard to imagine him not volunteering, really, even if you weren't friends.

And you guys still get along?

[ Prim sounds more than a little startled. ]

Why wouldn't we?

[ ...The whole shift aside, they'd been friends before that. At least - Prim had always liked Chouji. ]

It's hard for me not picturing anyone not getting along with Chouji. [To appease for startling her. He doesn't mean anything like that-- or maybe he does. It's hard saying.] I like knowing he has other friends, though.

[ Granted, there was that whole experiment thing, but. ]

I think he gets along with most of the people at Seventh Heaven, too.

That doesn't surprise me. That guy with the tail still works there.

Rin? I think he's sort of our boss. Kind of.

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