mikangirl | [Action/Voice]

[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.]

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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.]

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Nami? Are you oka-

[Wait a sec.]

Did you...did you just fall down a hole trap?

[Might want to speak up, Sheena. There's the sound of clinking coins in the background and a whole bunch of cheerful humming.]

Hey! Nami! Quit dancing on your dragon gold and pick up your journal!

[Was that a voice--oh that was a voice. She skips back to pick up the journal before it registers who it actually is. Uh.]

...Sheena. [Their last meeting was a little...soggy. Nami doens't want to think about that too hard. Her smile is sheepish.] I'm okay.

[Years in the future, if Sheena and cell phones ever coincide, she will already have a serious grasp on what it's like to be pocket-dialed.]

Yeah, it sounds like a real party. What're you doing?

Counting.

You only need a little bit of that stuff, right? It's not like the rest is valuable around here.

Exactly. So I'm going to enjoy it while it's actually here.

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

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

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

[Dot dot dawt.

That is true. How does she get out?]

...maybe later.

So that's pretty much a 'yes', huh? Y'know, this is usually my problem. Call or something when you want some tips about not spending the rest of your life in a hole.

Well, I'm sure it's okay. I mean, this is a whole manmade tomb and such, there has to be a front entrance somewhere.

Not exactly. The Malnosso made it, right? Who said they're always gonna give us a door?

[...that's a good point. Okay. Fine.]

Maybe a rope would be wise.

And hey, maybe you will find a door. Just don't be too surprised if you don't.

I'll find a way out one way or another.

...even if I have to build myself a road.

[She's not actually kidding about that. 8|a]

Y'know, I bet you probably would do that. Even for useless gold, huh?

It's not useless. It's a fantastic distraction.

Uh-huh.

Let me know when you decide you need rescuing.

I'll do that.

Gimme an hour.

[That should be enough time to live in denial.]

[Ha ha Egypt joke.]

Gotcha.

See you then.

[She's off to see if it's possible to drown in gold. \8D/]

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