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[plight_of_the_navigator]

From: Njord
Date: August 15, evening-- after the new arrivals show up

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[Nami wastes no time. As soon as she finds herself back at this familiar place, as soon as she learns who her shinki is, as soon as she has the opportunity, she opens up her device to the BBS and fires it up to record the following message of utmost importance:]


WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?!?!?!?!


[So we need answers, are we clear on that? Good. Next items of business! Tone shifts from outraged to worried.]

Zoro, are you still here? You better tell me you’re all right or I'm going to kill you!

Yata, where are you? I’m coming to find you.

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[deniles]

He's fine, don't worry.

[plight_of_the_navigator]

I'd like to hear it from him if it's all the same to you.

[deniles]

Not sure where he currently is. I'll let him know you're looking for him.

[plight_of_the_navigator]

You mean he's missing?

[Lost, would be the more fitting word choice she wagers. All concern drains from her and she punches back furiously.]

That idiot!!!

Thanks, if you should see him let me know.

[deniles]

Not missing. Just probably training or something else.

[He doesn't keep tabs on Zoro's life.]

Will do, though.

[thevanguard]

[ It's not often he hears his voice yelled out of his device and he almost drops his phone before he realizes why that voice is familiar.

And then he just... stares.

Is that...? did she just...? ]

Nami?!

[plight_of_the_navigator]

Yata!

[Oh thank god. And it hurts, the look on his face in the way that he stares at her. She's been needed here, hasn't she? And something happened-- what, she doesn't know-- but whatever it was, she was home again for a while. And now she's back and she can't decide whether she's upset she's back again or upset that she ever left.]

Are you okay? What happened?

[thevanguard]

I... [ A lot? ] You... vanished. A while ago. You're back?

[ That could happen? ]

...Sorry? [ This probably wasn't a place people dragged here as gods wanted to come back to, if they'd had a choice. ]

[plight_of_the_navigator]

Where are you.

[That's not a question. And she's just ignoring all the rest of that. Yes, clearly she's back and apologies for not being here for everything in between are better saved for in person.]

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[justclaws]

Nami? You have returned?

[Yes, Kija. Yes, she has.

[Perhaps he should be more helpful. She did, after all, have a question.]

What is the last thing you can recall?

[plight_of_the_navigator]

Kija!

[There's another familiar face.]

From here? I'm not sure. It feels like a dream. I know it happened, and I remember your faces... and I remember the most terrible spider I've ever seen at some temple ruins! Ahhh, it must have been bigger than my hand...!

[What can she say, some memories just stick with you.]

[justclaws]

Spiders?

[Yes, that is a tone of absolute horror.

[Kija may have lost all ability to focus on absolutely anything else Nami just said. Quick and cautious he glances to one side, to the other: does he need to vacate the premises? He cannot tell. He cannot see anything. But why is the cat staring so intently at the ceiling?!]

There... but are there any here?

[IS NAMI ALL RIGHT]

You do not have spiders, do you?

[plight_of_the_navigator]

I better not!

[She practically shrieks in rising panic. Checking all around her in paranoia just to be sure. Kija asks a valid question indeed.

Okay, nothing blatantly visible and coming towards her. She even checks over her head this time! Won't make that mistake again.]

I don't see any right now.... ughhhh but it was so creepy!

In any case, my clearest memories are from home. Some things happened and...

[And she doesn't even know where she was going with that thought.]

And now I'm here again...

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[wadoichimonji]

Yeah, I'm here, so no killing lady.

[plight_of_the_navigator]

[Nami sighs.]

I'm glad you're okay. I guess you've got another god now?

[wadoichimonji]

Yeah, she's pretty badass. I think you'd like her.

[He pauses for a moment.]

What made you disappear so suddenly?

[plight_of_the_navigator]

[Zoro sounds approving of her. That's good to hear.]

I'm not sure. I don't remember anything about leaving. I just know I'm back, and that some time has passed in between. What happened when I disappeared?

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[nibelungvalesti]

How do you know Zoro?

[plight_of_the_navigator]

Why does that matter?

[nibelungvalesti]

I am his god, and therefore have a responsibility to him. I must be certain you have his best interests at heart. You might be an enemy of his, taking advantage of his lack of memories. You might be a friend who remembers as a god what he does not as a shinki, and might thus endanger him.

[The Valkyrie speaks with no judgment or rancor, merely calm, cool, imperious, matter-of-fact sensibility.]

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[plight_of_the_navigator]

If you can't already tell what my sentiments towards him are I don't know what to tell you.

[Nami sighs a bit.]

But I suppose it's just as well you're asking. I'd have come looking for you to confirm the same. [Her voice softens.] You don't have to worry about me causing him harm.

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[handsome_genius]

That's kinda generic a scream, isn't it?

[Hello he remembers her.]

[plight_of_the_navigator]

If you're expecting me to find a more convoluted way to ask that forget it. Clarity trumps originality here.

[Sigh. Okay sass done (for now).]

I don't suppose you have any ideas about the answer?

[handsome_genius]

I know who Zoro is, if that's what you're asking. I remember a guy named Yata too. Other than that, I don't know what else you mean by 'what happened'.

[Straightforward enough answer, right?]

[plight_of_the_navigator]

I mean how and why I disappeared. I'm not aware of any action I took to cause it. If the authorities here decided I wasn't to their liking, I don't see why I should be back.