036 -- [Voice]

[endgames]

((Backdated to February 4th))

[It's been a long time since Shikamaru's failed a mission. All right. Failure might be too strong a word for this one. He can actually laugh at that. This isn't like when he was twelve. It's a personal embarrassment, not something that's going to keep him up at night, sick to his stomach.

A failure is a failure though, and that makes it a pain in the ass. He'd apologized to the MSF personnel profusely, and requested to be put on a different mission to make up for the screw-up. They'd looked nonplussed about the whole thing and stuck him back in Luceti, but eh. Shikamaru decides to keep his journal close to him anyways, in case they take him up on that. It's for this reason he doesn't go out to do any of the things he probably should. He passes the time by flipping through the journal instead, and thinking over the last mission.]

[Voice]

When I first came to this village, I remember going out. Left or right, it seemed anywhere I looked someone was using that so-called "filial magic". ...Haaa. [He scratches his head, and there's a smirk in his voice.] That's an exaggeration, but you get it. That was years ago, though. It seemed like it was becoming less common until that incident last year, when everyone got possessed.

Anyone learning anything from those guys now? Seems like the kind of thing that would spark interest, especially with one extra spirit hanging around.

Comments

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[It's only been you here for the last several weeks. How dirty could it get?

But he doesn't say that.]

Why not clean it tomorrow? We could hang out tonight instead.

1/2

[generalflirt]

[ Exactly. And as a result, he'd spent very little time in this apartment. If nothing else, it's probably become to collect dust. Though he had lived alone for years before Luceti... very little of his time in Luceti had been alone. It's something weird to think about, in the greater scheme of things. But he had been playing a part and... at that suggestion: ]

[generalflirt]

Fine, fine. As long as you don't vanish on me again.

[ And it's sheepish. Jovial. ]

1/2

[endgames]

[.....

He'll wait to say it, he decides. The MSF might not even take him up on his request.]

[endgames]

[And so rather than wait to hear back on that, Shikamaru shuts the journal and turns himself so he's right-side up again, or close enough to it.]

Awesome. What're you up for?

[generalflirt]

Iiiiii. Am thinking. That we head out and play some games.

[endgames]

Sounds good. Rec center?

[generalflirt]

Yes, but make it a board game. We can draft someone in and try out something neither of us has played. So Item Shop first.

[endgames]

Oh? [It's funny. He was just thinking of how he used to have such a big collection of those in his room, before he went home last year.] Sure. That sounds fine.

[He reaches over to the side of the couch for his shoes, and pulls them on. GOOD LUCK FINDING A GAME HE HASN'T TRIED THOUGH. Fast forward to the shop?]

[generalflirt]

[ HONESTLY, THAT'S HALF THE GAME.

And when they step in, the familiar metal music because of Rogue ]

You know... the sound of this place is one of it's charms.

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[Dry:] Yeah. I could see it charming some snakes.

[generalflirt]

Do you think so? I'd love to see that one happen.

[endgames]

You keep coming in, don't you?

[generalflirt]

... There's like two jokes there, I'm not sure which is the funnier one.

[endgames]

I hereby grant you one do-over pass, no restrictions. Use it as you will.

[He'll slide over to the room where games usually get sorted up, in the meantime.]

[generalflirt]

Well then, first! [ And he holds up a finger, following him] You know that I'm not a fiend who goes for sake, right?! [ And to cement that, he has seven fingers dance up in the air behind his neck to be other heads ]

[endgames]

[That just looks silly.]

If you wanted to make that joke, you should've just said you aren't related to any goddesses to be accurate.

[generalflirt]

Oh come on, that still worked.

[ probably. He lowers his hands. ]

[endgames]

[Shrug. Yeah, it was funny enough. He's smirking a little anyways.]

[generalflirt]

And now two!

... I'm not sure the snake here can be tamed.

[endgames]

[Okay, that one he's not sure he gets. He looks up from a game board he was analyzing (already played it, but he wants to take it home...) with cautious curiosity.]

[generalflirt]

[ ...

He points at his crotch.

Wow bro, wow ]

[endgames]

[What-- oh. Oh.

As if trying to wipe the memory, he closes his eyes and oozes with intense regret.]

Let's never play charades.

[generalflirt]

What if the game we find calls for them.

[ What's this... oh this is just a weird form of Battleship. Next ]

[endgames]

I thought your rule was something I hadn't played yet.

[Throwing out Connect 4. He moves it into the reject pile.]