Light doesn't reach her eyes. [break][break]

It can be said wherever she goes - and the interdream zone is no different. Whereas he was overwhelmed, she was walking, idly, through the ever-changing landscape. Their surroundings change, and they were briefed on what they were getting themselves into, but she can only imagine how vividly everything must be as he tries to navigate the surface. [break][break]

And some sick, twisted sense of humor finds it amusing. [break][break]

"You sound distressed over there, Tahuna~" she says with a smile, and a chime. perhaps it was because her imagination is filled only of vivid images of her childhood, that the land she walked on seemed a lot more level, and that she wasn't feeling as disorientated as he was. Though, she'll admit, upon entering, she felt.. odd, like a weight has been dropped onto her shoulders. [break][break]

It leaves a bad taste in her mouth.[break][break]

"I couldn't tell you where I was, even if I wanted to." she sighs into the comms, before gently tapping the side of her head, knowing that he likely, wouldn't be able to see so "... But I'm in a pretty calm place?" and Ariadne doesn't realize it, but the ever shifting realm around her envelopes a pocket of peace. [break][break]

"It smells sweet."

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MP TRACKER

170 MP

> Mission: Interdream (1/2) +100 MP
[break]> Postdorm Mission +50 MP
[break]> Realm Mutations +10 MP
[break]> IC Post +10 MP

Inigo del Rosario

☉

In a brief respite from the sights around him, a faint smirk tugged upon his lips as a small snort left him.[break][break]

”Ah, yeah. The blind shit,” he sighed with no shortage of faux disappointment, shaking his head. ”Tragic, honestly. Bet there’s be so much weird shit for ya to see over there, if I’m gettin’ the right fuckin’ impressions where I am…”[break][break]

He narrowed his eyes as his own surroundings seemed to coalesce into a faint, seemingly cosmic cloud, prompting him to draw forth to a gradual stop in stride. Though it seemed to be growing larger in size, it seemed…stationary. Safe enough to watch from a distance, as far as he was concerned.[break][break]

He sighed.[break][break]

”Shit’s literally a fuckin’ acid trip, man…” he muttered, scrunching his face pensively all the while. ”Can’t say I smell anythin’, though. Ya sure ya ain’t havin’ a stroke, or somethin’?”[break][break]

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MP TRACKER (90 MP)[break]

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• Incorporating realm's mutations (+10 MP)
• IC Character Post (+10 MP)
  

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ARIADNE MAUCH [break]
outfit. on the nose, i know lmfao

☉

“Y’know,” she starts a smile to her lips as she leisurely strolls down the path, solid in her steps “I’ll take the loss this time.” she says with a snicker, her hand gently pressed against the earpiece. “It sounds like you’re having a worse time being able to see, anyways~” [break][break]

Still, the lingering sweetness in the air doesn’t go away, and she’ll assume it’s because it’s a dream. Last she recalls, dreams were able to replicate other senses, such as touch, hearing and smell. But he couldn’t smell it? So maybe he’s further away than she thought. [break][break]

“No.. I definitely smell something sweet in the air.” she only pauses to take a whiff, and its familiarity burdens her. She’s walking straight, in the direction she assumes he walked, anyways. He wouldn’t be able to tell if he turned or not, what with the changing surroundings. [break][break]

It doesn’t take long for her to realize, as she takes her strides. “.. Ahh.” comes from her lips in revelation, and she smiles softly. “It kind of smells like the pancakes from back home.”

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MP TRACKER

190 MP

> Mission: Interdream (1/2) +100 MP
[break]> Postdorm Mission +50 MP
[break]> Realm Mutations +20 MP
[break]> IC Post +20 MP

Inigo del Rosario

☉

”Seein’ things? Nah.”[break][break]

He instinctively leaned back a bit, seeing the cloud grow even larger.[break][break]

”...Worried about my safety, though? Yeah. Yeah, maybe a ‘lil bit.”[break][break]

He clicked his tongue in soft distaste and skepticism, alike, all while hues of viridian remained upon the expanding object fluttering before him. His lips pressed flatly against one another within an absentminded pensiveness, though he found himself instinctively shifting his gaze towards what he could only assume to be an outlier within the distance.[break][break]

Fast. Fleeting.[break]
…Maybe not even there, to begin with— but fuck if he’d ever admit he was crazy.[break][break]

Nevertheless, his eyes lingered upon the place he swore he saw it pass through, though eventually began to slowly peer elsewhere within a newfound desire to ensure complete and utter safety.[break][break]

”Can’t fuckin’ believe you’re concerned about pancakes right now, though,” he sighed. ”Shit’s fucked outside. We might get jumped in here. Kinda feel like there’s other shit to prioritize, Cuz.”[break][break]

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MP TRACKER (110 MP)[break]

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• Incorporating realm's mutations (+10 MP)
• IC Character Post (+10 MP)
  

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• IC character post (+10 MP)

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• Incorporating realm's mutations (+10 MP)
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ARIADNE MAUCH [break]
outfit. on the nose, i know lmfao

☉

“Uh huh, I think you need to calm down a little~” her lips curl into a smile as she speaks into the communications, walking in her line, in an environment that only goes serene in her little bubble. Look closely enough, and the wisps of vivid color and lights will have a harsh cut off, sticking out like a sore thumb, or a hole in a coloring book. [break][break]

He’s surrounded by shifting lights and shifting sands and, though she can’t see it, around her would be pitch blackness slapped in the middle of the chaos. [break][break]

Though she keeps the earpiece slightly in her ear, Aria’s hand raises to gently cup the piece in her hand, next to her ear, so she could follow the sound of his voice without the communication. It does help, a bit, and thankfully her own image is clear in the pitch blackness that surrounds her. [break][break]

“Shit’s fucked out there, shit’s fucked in here, but you might not be able to get out if you think too much about it.” it’s a dreamscape, or something like that, after all. It draws from memories, desires and ambitions - it just so happens that Ariadne is a natural at suppressing it with indifference. [break][break]

“Besides,” she starts, continuing to walk aimlessly “I’m more concerned about trying to find y–” she’s about to finish, until she feels herself gently hitting her forehead against.. something. It feels broad, quite hard as well. [break][break]

“Oh.” she says, lowering the communication as she smiles up to what she assumes is a man’s head. “Found you.”


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MP TRACKER

80 MP

> Mission: Interdream (1/2)
[break]> Postdorm Mission +50 MP
[break]> Realm Mutations +10 MP
[break]> IC Post +30 MP

Inigo del Rosario

☉

Though his attention had been split between the conversation and his surroundings, he couldn’t help but stop dead within his tracks at the last words she’d spoken.[break][break]

He immediately looked over his shoulder, narrowing his eyes further into a skeptical and alerted glare as his brows furrowed. His gaze shifted wildly across the clearing behind him, and then around him once more, as if in attempted denial and of the reality he knew had been at hand.[break][break]

With a low growl of impatience and stress, he immediately tapped one of his capsules, wasting no time at all in loosely mounting the Sharpedo that emerged from it before it jetted forward.[break][break]

”That ain't me, ya stupid bitch…!” he shouted, immediately unholstering the firearm from its restraints. He pointed it up into the vast sky of the expanse around him, firing several times in an attempt to give her an audible point of reference. ”Back the fuck up! I’m tryna find ya!”
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MP TRACKER (130 MP)[break]

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• Incorporating realm's mutations (+10 MP)
• IC Character Post (+10 MP)
  

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• IC character post (+10 MP)

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• IC Post (+10 MP)
• Assisting (giving his direction via sound) (+10 MP)

ARIADNE MAUCH [break]
outfit. on the nose, i know lmfao

☉

She could have sworn that it was him. [break][break]

He had a hard build, and a large one, and she doesn't think that she'd find anything else in this scape of shifting ground and skies. But when her fingers trace along an unfamiliar surface, her ears are perked in alertness, and heeds a man's words as quickly as they get through the ear piece. [break][break]

Aria's always been light on her feet - it's the fear of jumping into something unknown that's stopped and restricted her: and it's something she doesn't have to worry about here. God knows what she'll face up against, but the black space holds as the familiar silence is cut through with a loud roar. [break][break]

"Ah, shit." she clicks her tongue, hand immediately reaching for her belt. Gloved fingers prance over three, and out comes a bright, blue light as an aggron stands in front of her. "Protect!" She orders the pokemon, who raises a blue and green shield as what.. ever creature that stands before them attacks the barrier.


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MP TRACKER

100 MP

> Mission: Interdream (1/2)
[break]> Postdorm Mission +50 MP
[break]> Realm Mutations +10 MP
[break]> IC Post +40 MP

Inigo del Rosario

☉

”Fuckin’ figures it’d be the blind one that gets jumped…”[break][break]

A complaint spoken in haste as he sped through, naturally. With his gun at the ready, he continuously leaned to and fro as needed—a means to steer the Sharpedo carrying him along—while keeping a careful eye upon the surroundings blurring rapidly by him. A low, foreign tongued murmur left his lips as he veered to the side once more, prompting another turn around another mass of objects.[break][break]

Just in time, from the look at it.[break][break]

Though distant, the sheen of a barrier caught his eye, holding his focus for only a moment before falling upon whatever thing was lashing out at it. A hasty, ”Tere ake!” left his lips before the scaled beast beneath him surged forth all the more quickly, and with a swift aim forward, he fired a few rounds into the path before him.[break][break]

The Protect would hold, after all— but whether the beast harrying it was either hit or scared off by the sudden noise had been of little importance. So long as it was one or the other, he’d consider it a win, and so as the initial gunfire seemed to pierce the beast for just a moment before it flailed and spazzed with a roar, he’d intended to add further insult to injury by the time they’d arrived.[break][break]

A failed attempt, he found.[break]
Just as his own Pokemon lunged forward with an Ice Fang, it seemed all too intent with evading and flying back off into the unknown.[break][break]

”Fuckin’ weird ass—... Ugh.” He furrowed his brows, only sparing the woman before him a glance before beginning to take a second look towards their surroundings. Safety before all else. ”We gotta get ya a fuckin’ kid leash, or somethin’, man.”[break][break]

He clicked his tongue.[break][break]

”...Hate this place so much…”[break][break]

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• Incorporating realm's mutations (+10 MP)
• IC Character Post (+10 MP)
  

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• IC character post (+10 MP)

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• IC Post (+10 MP)
• Assisting (+10 MP)
• Mission completion (Interdream) (+100 MP)

ARIADNE MAUCH [break]
outfit. on the nose, i know lmfao

☉

The barrier holds, and she isn't too worried as she stands behind the armored kaiju. [break][break]

A gunshot rings, prompting her to turn her head in the direction of the sound. Certainly, it helps her in detecting his location. The sound of a sharpedo dashing through to snap at the pokemon rings louder, though the clashing of its fangs against each other proves the attempt was fruitless as the creature runs off. It's almost a shame; she would have liked to see it. [break][break]

The creature shrieks, sending visualized ripples through mass of pitch blackness as a result of the woman's blindness. Frankly, she thinks that it's not all too difficult to spot her in a realm of twisting colors and mutations. With that scream, she feels the rumbling of an aggron standing its ground slowly fade as the pokemon stands up straight once again. [break][break]

She only gives the steel pokemon a light tap on the back as it lets out a soft, affectionate groan. The pitch darkness around it pulses, slightly, with a hint of yellow that pings outwards. With the content aggron, she smiles, and recalls the pokemon in a red flash. [break][break]

Then she turns to the man with his Sharpedo, though she's only facing in the direction of his voice. "Mm.." she hums, and groans softly, knowing that this was her fault for being as careless as she was. "Mahalo." the word comes out, though it still feels foreign to her. Though she can't gaze out, this time she reaches over to snag at the wrist of the man's sweater. This time, she doesn't intend to get lost. [break][break]

"If it's that disorienting, just stick nearby." the shamed frown is quickly rectified with another casual smile, with the darkness extending past to devour the shifting, disorientating colors whole.[break][break]

It won't be difficult to find a way out now.

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MP TRACKER

220 MP

> Mission: Interdream (1/2)
[break]> Postdorm Mission +50 MP
[break]> Realm Mutations +10 MP
[break]> IC Post +50 MP
[break]> Completed Mission +100

Inigo del Rosario

☉