[Action/Voice]

[mikangirl]

[Well, at least this experiment gives Nami plenty of ways to vent and keep busy. In between running escort duty and interference in the Ganglands area for both Nojiko and Good Spirits, there's the small issue of her mikan grove now being part of the searing desert... so she's up there every night providing cool, sweet rainy relief for the mikan trees, the grasses, and the crocodiles.

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Get out! OUT! OUT!

[Why yes, she is chasing a bunch of crocodiles out of her grove back to the river with a crackling quarterstaff, why do you ask. Anyone for fried crocodile meat? >_>

Catch her either in the plaza in her ganglands finery beating up on the local thugs or drinking or maybe just. You know, having a cupcake in a quiet period. Or up at the orchard in the evenings, dressed like an Alabastan dancing girl and basking in the extremely localised rain. Such is life.]

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[On the third evening, she makes a post as something occurs to her, walking through the orchard and swinging her staff casually on crocodile patrol.]

[Voice]

Is there anyone else who's got a garden stuck in a desert area? If you need it I could provide you with some extraaaaIEEEAAA--

[Thud. Crunch. Slide. Mud everywhere. Small, pathetic sound of pain. You try falling right through a sinkhole into a tomb and see how you feel.

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...a tom--]  KYAA!   Someone get me out of here! There are tombs everywhere and scorpions and something glo--

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..../crickets. Singsong voice.]

Never mind!

-- [Journal slam.]



[...SO BASICALLY Nami is lost in a tomb but she doesn't care because there's GOLD in them there crypts, but you know. She probably needs a rescue anyway. Or company. Or someone else who fell in. Or someone who just got...hopelessly lost... heck, while we're down here may as well see if there's any of those scavenger hunt items, right? Amidst the monsters and the booby traps. Aheh. 8D Come on down.]

Comments

[Action]

[wise_maiden]

[At some point during Nami's Nile Escapades, she will overhear someone running around the tomb areas, accompanied by bursts of occasional laughter and long rambles that may be difficult to make out pertaining to the various properties of the tombs and are those ancient writings??? It's difficult for her to stay in one place.] This is marvelous!

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[hiken_ace]

Was I? [Maybe that would explain the crick in his neck.] Sorry about that!

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[mikangirl]

[SIGH.]

I can't believe you're just sleeping down here. Haven't you seen the traps and the scorpions and things?

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[bluemikan]

[ ...Okay, she knows that laugh, but still. ]

So you can get out of there? [ She's edging closer, and hoping the ground is more or less stable. ]

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[corrinesbell]

So you're saying that all we really need to make you happy is some fake useless gold.

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[gavemyword]

[He looks and is... not all that impressed, honestly. But he'll humor you.]

That's a lot of scorpions. [/not-bad obama face] What did you do?

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[hiken_ace]

Yeah! They're pretty cool huh? [Nami, you seem to be forgetting Ace is not normal. He chuckles.] It's like this is straight out of a book or something.

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[fierybluebird]

Whoa... that's pretty impressive, eh.

[Holds out a hand as if to check the moisture in the air and covers it with blue flames, just in case.]

Guess you don't need any help keeping pests out of the area then, eh? [A small laugh.] Can't say I've ever been fond of crocodiles either.

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[mikangirl]

I wouldn't go that far. But it makes for a great distraction.

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[mikangirl]

Huh, what do you--

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[mikangirl]

[Oh.

She hadn't even thought about that.]

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[mikangirl]

...I'm sure there's a way up somewhere! People have to get into tombs the regular way, right?

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[corrinesbell]

You're not stuck in a hole you can't get out of, right? A foolish lost pirate who needs to be rescued?

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[mikangirl]

[Dot dot dawt.

That is true. How does she get out?]

...maybe later.

[Action]

[mikangirl]

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....okay, keep away from the gold and the ruins are yours. FAIR DEAL.]

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[mikangirl]

I don't know anyone I like who is. [Of both kinds.] The orchard's pretty big for just one person, though. If you're minded to keep an eye out, I'd appreciate it.

[mikangirl]

Oh, only a couple of hours. [She looks faintly relieved.] Well, no harm done. Ahh, but I haven't found a way back up yet.

[Not that she's been looking.]

[mikangirl]

Scaring you so badly? [Oh it's only Perona. 8D Who's claiming-- oh you did not.] I'm not the freak rising out of graves and pretending I'm dead! And for your information, this is right underneath my orchard and that makes the place mine by default!

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[mikangirl]

[Forgetting various people aren't normal is something Nami is constantly guilty of. Just look at how much she yells at her crew.] It probably is. I bet one of the Malnosso just read up on Alabasta or something and went "Oh! Neat idea!"

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[mikangirl]

[...uh. She screws up her face and crosses her arms, glancing away.] Nothing that any other normal person wouldn't have done.

{There was this golden scorpion statue on a pedestal, see...]

Anyway, we need to get out of here.

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[fierybluebird]

Aye, your captain did me a favor in stopping Crocodile from attacking Pops, I guess the rest of you have a history with him too, eh?

Ah, I'll do my best. Although I've been spending a lot of time over in that gun-land. It's more fun than it sounds, eh? You might like it. Ace likes kappaland, and I'm guessing Robin still hasn't come out from exploring all the pyramids? [He just looks amused at that, of course.]

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[hiken_ace]

Well hell, I can't argue with them on that. [Seriously, this dude misses home a lot.] And I think they read up more on other places, too. They've got samurai here. And aliens.

[Action]

[mikangirl]

[Crocodile from attacking-- that cnofuses her greatly for a moment, before she runs through the few parts of what she remembers of the Marineford catastrophe and remembers Crocodile's name in the papers.] He attacked Whitebeard? In the middle of a situation like that?

[She'll get to that second part later, she's busy being astonished and outraged at Crocodile's apparent jerkassery and stupidity. :|]

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[fierybluebird]

Oh aye. Crocodile's loathed Pops for a long time now. [Enough to make you seem really really young.]

Buggy almost did too, but Pops is a genius. He figured out how to get him to use the escaped prisoners against the marines instead.

[Laughs softly and rubs the back of his neck.] He was always good with people like that.

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[mikangirl]

[Buggy. Are you serious.

...though oddly she has semi-fond memories of Buggy. Weirdly. Possibly because that's when she met Luffy. 8|]

To answer your other question, I've been down to the ganglands area. Nojiko and the bar are there. [It's almost as much stress relief as the crocodiles are.]