[He stops walking and straightens his posture, turning to face Kakashi fully.]
The Malnosso are an organization that's existed for over a thousand years. It's members, even today, are made up of people like us. People who were drawn away from their worlds into this one. They're not the ones doing it, it's the planet itself.
[No, he doesn't know how. It seems no one does, or if they do they're not sharing. What he does know is that there are those among them that, even after all this time, still want to find a way back to their homes.
They've amassed a massive foundation dedicated to finding the answer to this question. Shikamaru promises to come back to this, but for now places emphasis on the science division of the Malnosso.
Some people inexplicably return back to their worlds as quickly as they arrived, so there has to be a way out. But over time, these departures came few and far between. After a long enough period, most find themselves stuck in this world permanently. According to the scientist's research, then, the answer to getting everyone out relies on studying those who are newly arrived.
Enter the enclosures.]
All new arrivals to this world are somehow filtered into enclosures like this one. By my estimates, at a minimum there are two dozen of these.
There the Malnosso's scientists can study them, via experiments effecting the village. Some are benign, others are not [Here he gives examples: people who've been turned back into their child selves, or characters from fairy tales. Experiment that have made them hallucinate, or forget who they are - implanted false memories, or false lives. An amusement park. Altered personalities.] None I've seen have been of the Orochimaru-type variety, and most wear off given a week or two. They utilize something called Shifting to accomplish this.
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The Malnosso are an organization that's existed for over a thousand years. It's members, even today, are made up of people like us. People who were drawn away from their worlds into this one. They're not the ones doing it, it's the planet itself.
[No, he doesn't know how. It seems no one does, or if they do they're not sharing. What he does know is that there are those among them that, even after all this time, still want to find a way back to their homes.
They've amassed a massive foundation dedicated to finding the answer to this question. Shikamaru promises to come back to this, but for now places emphasis on the science division of the Malnosso.
Some people inexplicably return back to their worlds as quickly as they arrived, so there has to be a way out. But over time, these departures came few and far between. After a long enough period, most find themselves stuck in this world permanently. According to the scientist's research, then, the answer to getting everyone out relies on studying those who are newly arrived.
Enter the enclosures.]
All new arrivals to this world are somehow filtered into enclosures like this one. By my estimates, at a minimum there are two dozen of these.
There the Malnosso's scientists can study them, via experiments effecting the village. Some are benign, others are not [Here he gives examples: people who've been turned back into their child selves, or characters from fairy tales. Experiment that have made them hallucinate, or forget who they are - implanted false memories, or false lives. An amusement park. Altered personalities.] None I've seen have been of the Orochimaru-type variety, and most wear off given a week or two. They utilize something called Shifting to accomplish this.