[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

[hollower]

[SO NAMI. Hope your nerves are thick as steel, because there's going to be someone raising out of that sarcophagus just a few seconds after you so greedily begin to loot the place. Hands first (which are covered in a fine bit of cloth, by the way), jutting out of the top of the ornate coffin, then head, shoulders...you get the idea.

Good luck with that. 8D]

[mikangirl]

[Psh what are you talking about of course my nerves are made of steel. I'm in a deathtrap wiht scorpions and probably rolling boulders gathering moss(heads) a few tunnels back but there is gold to frolic in and SJKDFSDFSD SARCOPHAGUS CORPSE MUMMY THING HOW ARE YOUR EARDRUMS THOUGH--]

Eyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

[hollower]

[FINE BEFORE YOU WRECKED THEM. 8|]

Weeeeeeeeeehhh!

[Jesus CHRIST, woman! Perona all but soars out of that coffin, literally, before she falls right through the floor, gold, sand, rock, and all. She only comes back up to peer through the floor with the top of her head, pale a ghost and shaking from head to toe - even if you can't exactly see. THAT FUCK WAS THAT?]

[mikangirl]

[Meanwhile Nami isn't sure if something came soaring out of that coffin or just fell back in, so she's hastily shoving the lid back on it and sitting on it while waving her climatact around comically because OMG DEAD BODIES

--THAT SCREAM JUST AS ANNOYINGLY AS SHE DOES





Wait a sec. B|--




No screw it, too busy freaking out, please stand by.]

[hollower]

[Oh...oh god. Oh man. Oh god. Oh man.

Okay. Breathing. Breathing is a thing. A thing we are doing. We're breathing. Right now. We are breathing right now.

Perona exhales, then looks around from her hiding spot in the floor, spying the familiar orange mop of the Strawhat navigator. Welp, it's good that she's not some kind of shrieking banshee (or is she?) or a mummy or whatever, but still. Perona's none too happy about being scared into the floor like that. So up from the floor she rises, hovering with her fists at her sides.]

Pirate Woman! What's the meaning of scaring me so badly?! Did you hit your head?! And what are you doing in here anyway, I've claimed this place, and all its fortunes, as mine! [She was here first, get out. B|]

[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!

[hollower]

Oh, is that right? My mistake... I'm sure you can make your way out, amidst the numerous booby traps, poisonous insects, snakes, and ruinous bridges and walkways all on your own as well?

[All while lugging about a ton of treasure? Puh, good luck with that. Perona will just pick off what she can after you're buried in the sands or impaled on some spikey pit or...y'know, whatever. 8D]

I'm sre you don't need a guide who can traverse these halls with little fear of what's to come...

[mikangirl]

Correct. Have a nice afterlife, or whatever you're doing down here. [SHE'S LEAVING. Treasure > traps and snakes > sharing it with you. B|]

[hollower]

[WOW, WHAT A BITCH. But fine, she'll just...go. Or, well, before she does--]

Eeeh... All right, then I suppose I shouldn't warn you that there's a baby scorpion making its way up your hair, then. Horohorohoro...

[mikangirl]

[Psh, she knows you're making that up--

--was that a tug. DID SHE FEEL A TUG. CRAWLING SKITTERING--]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GET IT OFFFFFFFFFF

[COMMENCE THE SAFETY DANCE]