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036 -- [Voice]
((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.]
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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.
[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.]
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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.
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Want me to just show you?
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That would probably be best. Do you want to meet at the Med Lab?
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Who's all there right now?
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You can come over here instead. [Although all the medical testing equipment is there... but meh. She trusts her waterbending over blood analysis anyway.]
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[You'd think people missed him or something, wow.]
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Shikamaru. Nice to see you. Come on in.
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Keeping busy. Did you find out what you wanted to from the journal yesterday?
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Not quite, but I've a few leads...
[Once he can talk to Albert, though that's a few weeks from now, he'll have what he needs.]
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[Anything he found out was probably pertinent to whatever symptoms he was experiencing.]
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And you're sure the benefits are worth the risk?
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How much of an edge can it possibly give you?
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If you want. I can show you.
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In here? Or out there?
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[She might be okay with it - and if you're watching closely you can see his shoulders lose tension with her answer - but he still remembers Aang's look after Vaskoth.]
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[She gives him a small smile and automatically moves towards the door, grabbing her jacket and slinging on her waterskin in almost simultaneous instinctive movements.]
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