022 -- [Action || Voice]

[endgames]

[Filtered to Konoha Shinobi and Temari || 100% Unhackable]

Meeting tonight, at sundown. [What about goes without saying - most of them should know already.] Fourth floor's kitchen. Try not to pull a Kakashi.

[And thus starts off the long to-do-list of Shikamaru's day. The filter goes up in the morning, giving - hopefully - everyone time to see it.

He's decided he needs to talk to Naruto before then. On his way out the building he'll stop by his apartment, or send another filter off to him if he's not around. With everything going on he would be surprised. After he's tracked him down, it's off to the other side of the village to find Tony Stark at his casa, to hand over a project he's been working on for the last several nights. Playing delivery boy again, ugh. No notice this time, though. He's acting like a functional human being again, but he's not up for the sarcastic banter. Once he's done there, it's over to the school to find Katara in the thirty minute window he has after classes let out. Apologies are an order.

Specific things attended to... wow, without Masaomi around this week, he has a lot of time on his hands, huh. Well okay. He goes off to the forest with a bag of coconuts of all things and lines them up at head level when he finds a good spot to sit them for tanto practice - or more precisely: strength training. He's never used his short sword much. The one time he did, he wasn't strong enough with it to do as he intended, so he should work on that now.

And okay, surely by then the sun will be going down... or okay, nope. With a few hours to kill, somehow he winds up at the Seventh Heaven restaurant. In part because he figures it could be a good place to drop off some of the coconuts, and also because he realizes on the way over he hasn't actually eaten yet. Or done much of anything this past week, besides getting Asuma up to speed about Luceti, or working on various projects.

Sooo. Might be nodding off there at the restaurant. Might be napping after he eats, if he doesn't get kicked out for it. SITTING DOWN WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA. Fine, he'll pose a random pointless question to the masses, maybe that'll keep him occupied.]

[Voice]

Wonder why they call this place Luceti. Seems like a dumb name. Does it even mean anything? 

Comments

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[consultsdetective]

More's the pity. You'll have trouble accessing any of the get-togethers for thirty years yet. [ And they would be really fantastic if they got started up. Sit around and smoke and complain about... whatever merits complaining about.

... Luceti is full of a lot of really young people. He has no idea how he got roped into the place. :| ]

[ voice ]

[endgames]

You could write me a special pass, to make up for the lack of police protection.

[ voice ]

[consultsdetective]

I think I could consider that bargain.

[ voice ]

[endgames]

Good trade, man.

[ voice ]

[consultsdetective]

You're on, then. Who knows, might even provide you a better place to fall asleep in the middle of the day.

[ voice ]

[endgames]

Aa. What's the fun in doing that if it's suddenly allowed?

[ voice ]

[consultsdetective]

Really depends on how good the sleep is.

[ voice ]

[endgames]

[He rubs his eyes, chuckling once.]

A true master of the craft can sleep anywhere.

[Ladies and gentleman, this is Shikamaru's inner dork.]

[ voice ]

[consultsdetective]

[ An honor to meet him indeed. ]

Couldn't claim to be a master of it myself. One of those things I never got better at through trying.

[ voice ]

[endgames]

That's the beauty of it. Never too late to get back on the horse.

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[consultsdetective]

I'll have to keep that in mind. Most everyone suggests picking up a hobby around here.

[ voice ]

[endgames]

Nah, that's dumb.

[ voice ]

[consultsdetective]

Not in for competitive thumb-twiddling?

[ voice ]

[endgames]

How do I say this...

Something to do is never a problem. Most of us already have hobbies, and for some reason this place caters to most of them.

Making yourself useful, is what they really mean.

[ voice ]

[consultsdetective]

Ah. Hard to do useful when nobody needs what you can do. [ Hey Shikamaru, help me establish a legal system. ]

[ voice ]

[endgames]

Or wants it. {Except for the Malnosso. Joy.]

'Detective inspector' sounds like something that would have more use around here than most jobs, at least.

[ voice ]

[consultsdetective]

No legal system, no prisons, and the majority of civilians so unordinary it'd take a good team and a better plan to bring 'em in if they decided to go on a murder spree. If any place could use a few police officials, it's this one. [ yeah he's still hoping that murder sprees aren't a Thing That Happens Often. ]

[ voice ]

[endgames]

[He could think of one person he'd like to see in a prison for a long, long time.]

Thing is it has several. It's fault is it's not organized.

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[consultsdetective]

[ True enough. He even has a mini headtilt in his little icon window. ]

It's not organized yet. [ Stubborn, as he should be. ]

[ voice ] Congratulations, you were comment 666!

[endgames]

Found some inspiration, have you.

[ voice ] WHOOP.

[consultsdetective]

Either inspiration, good sense or setting myself up to attempt the impossible. I'll be sure to let you know when I find out which it is. [ He's banking on the third, but you know. ]

They've had this place going for a few years on goodwill and vigilante justice, but no one can really expect that to hold on the long-term. [ That would mean all trust in the decency of humanity as a whole, and he's spent a good stretch of years making a career of the fact that a lot of the time, you can't. ]

[ voice ]

[endgames]

[Why more people don't understand this thinking, he'll never know.]

If you're not ambitious enough to make a prison, I'd point you to the tunnels.

[ voice ]

[consultsdetective]

Tunnels... [ Hold on, he's gotta remember what he read on those through effort and recollection like most normal folks. ]

And that would be where everyone hits even footing.

[ voice ]

[endgames]

Got it in one. No powers, no technology. Takes out most weapons.

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[consultsdetective]

[ Hrrrf. Everyone free to run around above ground blowing things up and bending spoons in half, whatever it is that they do. And a convenient tunnel system below ground that cancels all that out. ]

What's the point in having them? [ Got to be a motive. ] Expect a person could spend a few months trying to reason out everything that doesn't make clear sense, of course.