Chouji's gone home.
[He says this casually, as if he were talking about the weather instead of his best friend. The feed remains open for a little while longer and there's a weight to this pause that wasn't in his words, like there's something else he wants to say... but it's gone, by the time he does speak again in his usual lazy drawl.]
How long has everyone been stuck in this place?
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[Anyone looking for Shikamaru isn't likely to find him today, keeping away from all of his usual haunts. If you find yourself at the Battle Dome today, however, you're likely to spot him. He's only been here a few times before, actually, and never to use it's training facilities. Up until now, he's avoided that like the plague. Now that he is using it... well. He doesn't seem to be going with the traditional use.
Anyone observing will find a scene featuring
another village, with more trees spotted throughout it than buildings (and there are a lot of buildings, packed closely together), the ninja version of Mount Rushmore as it's backdrop. His enemy? The oh so fearsome army of... over-sized leaves. The console called them
Holly Boys. Such terror. He doesn't go out of his way to find them, but it turns out they're more than happy to cross his path on their own. To which he responds by stepping on them and going along his way. 8| Rather than fight them, however, he spends most of his time walking along narrow streets, or sitting on a rooftop with a bag of chips and a silver lighter in his hands.
Yeah, he's basically the guy treating the fancy training facilities as a means to a mini-vacation. Hopefully traffic through the Battle Dome isn't heavy today - he'll be here for a while, resetting the scenario on the hour.]