Board Thread:Konoha General RP/@comment-26021384-20170813220230/@comment-26021384-20170814203010

Shien stumbled back half of a step as he was embraced in a hug, his eyes shutting and opening several times. "Oh--I--wait, handsome?" He stammered out, obviously caught off guard by two women giving him such a kind round of compliments while he was just meeting with them. His arms were in the air for a good four seconds of that hug, nervously deciding it was best to return it as he gave the hug right back to Cairi.

"Right--about that. I was looking to try and expand my business, but I have run into a few problems with that." He stated while taking a seat across the table from Cairi, moving a hand back to brush his hair out of the way so that it wouldn't be tugged or sat on. He looked at all of the relics, admiring their ornate nature. "You must like history huh? I've been looking into trying to research how the world looked fifty years ago, a hundred years ago and all that. Making an atlas would be a nifty side project." He was going off on one of those mental tangents again. Much like whenever he spoke with Hayato Sarutobi or Michirama Senju, Shien was prone to just drifting from one track on the railway of the brain to the next.

He took a look at the military landscape charting when she spoke up, snapped back to reality. "Well I sent for my employees to bring some supplies here to set up a stall. They will be here later today or early tomorrow. So I can show you my work by hand then. But I know plenty of my own work to recognize the difference between this map and mine." He moved his hand over to the chart and looked for a pen of some sort, when he found one on the far end of the table, Shien started to look at the map. The first was one of the Land of Fire in general. "See this is the big problem with not having a dedicated cartographer doing this work. You've got a good map here, but stuff happens every day in this world of ours." He stated while making notations on the map. Changing a lot of the landmarks and making notes on the map. When there were too many to list, Shien flipped the chart over, retracing the shape of the Land of Fire on the back to mirror the front. His art work was quick and efficient for drawing these kind of things as Cairi would be able to tell.

"Like in the coasts toward the Land of Seas, a lot of that has eroded, changing from slopes of sandy beaches to a sudden craggy mire of stones that drop a good fifty feet or more in some places to a rather flat beach line.  It's become a set of many alcoves and cave systems over there.  In the southwest of Konoha, toward the bordering minor lands, there are forests with a lot of strange rocks growing up their sides, but you can't see that from the world map.  But there was one forest I encountered during my map making for Konoha that the biggest tree was turned into a shaven wooden spire due to a battle I had to encounter." He drew those things onto the chart, changing what the map looked like. When he was done, that chart had been defaced and marked up with many different things. "I made my survey of the lands just about a week ago, so even now I can't be sure if this is one hunred percent accurate."

"The biggest problem, again, is the world is ever changing, and maps are only a moment of that time.  I've been trying to look up some way of making an array of a long ranged jutsu that can spread to maps my people have made, changing them remotely so that people do not have to keep coming in to buy a new map and wasting all of this parchment paper. That's my current project. And we have a few prototypes coming with the employees that will be here later or tomorrow. If you would be willing to wait.  We use a special type of ink for it to be honest." He rubbed the back of his head with one hand, scratching the back of his noggin with his pen, sliding the map forward to show her the expert work he had done to the map. "They should be here by three at the earliest, and it's about twelve now I believe?"