[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--

[...





..../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!

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

Nami? Are you oka-

[Wait a sec.]

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

[voice]

[mikangirl]

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

[voice]

[corrinesbell]

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

[action] because we don't have enough ongoing threads

[gavemyword]

[Zoro wanders by wearing a familiar outfit and has, since the start of the experiment three days ago, only actually managed to get (close to) home now. He had to help some people out, ok. And then there was all that sleeping and eating and with all those buildings moving around... YOU KNOW WHAT? Whatever, it's been a hard week. He doesn't need to hypothetically explain himself to anyone. B|

In the three days he spent wandering, he'd actually gathered quite a few of the scavenger hunt items. A robot part he'd picked up off the ground, a bone spear from when those cave guys tried to murder him and ended up leaving a few of their weapons stuck in his coat, a katana (that wasn't his), and the tommy gun he'd accidentally stolen after smacking its owner across the face with it during a bar fight. If you counted the Smilodon tooth still lodged in his upper arm, that made for half the list! And he wasn't even trying! Hah. He was going to win this and it would be completely by accident! Because that was something to be proud of, somehow.

It's at the height of his useless self-congratulating that Zoro trips over a rock, tumbles down a sand dune, hits a bigger rock, and ends up falling through a giant hole in the ground. Scavenger hunt items and all.

Watch out for falling moss, Nami.]

[Video]

[toujoursfluer]

[You can probably not see terribly much of Robin, it being dark and somewhat hollow with only a dying torch]

Did you find something interesting?

[Voice] 1/2

[goldenglasses]

[Vash had been trying to avoid Nami lately and give her space, but he can't ignore her voice post anymore when she's suddenly screaming.]

Nami! Are you -

[Voice] 2/2

[goldenglasses]

[Never mind? Wasn't she just screaming and talking about tombs and stuff?]

...alright?

[action]

[hiken_ace]

[Hey, Nami. As you're dancing around in your treasure, you may hear something moving around on another pile of treasure somewhere else in the room.

Along with that stirring, there's also snoring. GUESS WHO FELL ASLEEP AFTER HE FELL FOR THE TRAP :D]

[Action] For Crocodiles because no one else did \o/

[fierybluebird]

Yowza... [Marco jumps carefully over those reptiles and tries to dodge behind a tree for safety. Despite wandering back into the Nile, he's still wearing his Gangland outfit though he glances up at the thunderstorm.]

I guess Ororo is keeping your grove safe from the desert heat? [Points up.]

action;

[bluemikan]

[ Or how about not. B| Nojiko had already gotten up and halfway to the front door before Nami slammed the journal - really, Nami? Really? - and "never mind" wasn't exactly enough to assuage any worries the voice post had originally raised.

She's just going to head out to the mikan grove, where she'd assumed Nami would be, and -

well that certainly is a hole in the ground there. ]

Nami?

[fallenambitions]

[Alexei was thinking the same thing concerning the orchard and they'll likely cross paths a few times. Course he'll be helping out with the crocodile exterminating and also watering the trees since he knows a few ice/water spells.

On the evening of Nami's tomb adventure, Alexei stops by again in his desert-like attire. He finds the hole, but doesn't realize Nami had fallen down there as he never heard the message.

So his first thought was to get it covered...his second was to trick the crocodiles to fall in there and THEN cover it....and he's going with the latter plan. Nami won't be all alone down there soon |D]

[mikangirl]

[Dude, someone report you to the RSPCC. Trapping a bunch of crocodiles down a dark hole in the ground? That's like fishing for sharks using live kittens as bait!

...actually, no, the kittens are worse. But sure. Nami's fresh playtime counting coins down below is interrupted by a couple of large falling reptiles.

Alexei might not know she's down there, but he's going to realise someone is when that siren banshee screaming starts wafting back up out of the hole within moments.]

[Voice]

[mikangirl]

[Even with the lure of cash turning her into a giddy teenager (again), Vash's voice on the journal gives her pause. But she does answer this time, voice even.]

I'm fine.

[Video]

[mikangirl]

[Now that Sheena has called her back to her journal, she just answers with this face.]

Gold!

[voice]

[mikangirl]

[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.

1/3

[fallenambitions]

[Hey, makes them easier to kill off when they're all in one spot! Thankfully he didn't dump too many in there, before he heard that scream.

Who-]

[fallenambitions]

[.....Oh. So she was here in the orchard. Just in a hole that he just...]

[action] never enough (yea)

[mikangirl]

[Well, isn't that handy? Because it just so happens that Nami in her happy treasure lugging shenanigans has accidentally set off a booby trap right at this second and is perched on a top of a still-closed tomb and swiping at a veritable flood of scorpions that seem to have taken over the floor of the room. It's okay! She's got this!

...or she would if somebody large and heavy and moss-haired didn't just fall on her from far above]

Aah!! [NO HER PRECIOUS BALANCE HOSHIT please hold, there's navigator sort of wrapping around you in an attempt to stop you from both falling into a bunch of scorpions. Too dark to work out who this is, she'll just screech close by one ear.] Do you mind?

[fallenambitions]

[He throws his sword in first, which burst into a small area of ice when it hits the ground below. It's meant to stun or at least kill any nearby crocs, and allow Alexei a spot to land.]

Nami!?

[mikangirl]

[My hero! \8D/ Let Nami thank you properly, not!dad!]

WHAT POSSESSED YOU TO THROW CROCODILES DOWN HERE!?

[Action] Excellent \o/

[mikangirl]

Ororo? [Nami blinks as she pulls up short, climatact still in hand. Then she makes a face.] That's my own doing, Marco.

[action]

[mikangirl]

[...seriously, Ace. Seriously.

Nami stares at him. And then leans down to pick up some sort of valuable idol and tosses it lightly at his forehead. Bonk.]

[Action] ~o~

[fierybluebird]

What? I didn't know you were a storm goddess.

[Glances up. No. Seriously. Whaaaat.]