Voice // Nobody's real, everyone go home

[espio]

[Okay so. After wandering around aimlessly for several hours, paying attention to such things as pamphlets and holograms, Espio has decided that this is clearly not a third strange reality he has been tossed into and instead come to the conclusion that unreality is a thing again. ... well, shit.

At least his memory seems correct this time - correct enough for him to realise the place was wrong, anyway. That almost qualifies as a plus! It means he can appreciate the goodness of temporarily having things like hot showers and electricity while he remembered he'd lived for a year without.

Unfortunately, it seems that his nice little self-powered smartphone has been replaced by a clunkier walkie-talkie thing that doesn't even do him the decency of having everyone's contact details. How the hell does one get hold of their favourite idiots like this? Network post?

...network post. By voice!]

Well, I'm lost. And not a soul I know out there, looks like. Unless everyone's just spread out, which'd be just typical.

Has anyone seen Dominic? Or Monty? Or someone else useful?

... this does actually connect to something, I hope...

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[espio]

[Ah... he... he doesn't know. He's still convinced you're all not even real.]

I don't know what I'm going to be doing.

[orangeoutlaw]

Well you can have my room if you decide to. I'm not around much. [he prefers to be generally everywhere else.

Then he notices the maiter'd coming toward them. He's sort of...garnered a reputation]

Want to go take a walk? [or a run?]

[espio]

[ACE :T WHY DOES HE ASSOCIATE WITH PIRATES AAAAA. Screw you guys.]

I get the feeling I'll regret it if I don't.

[orangeoutlaw]

Good feeling to have.

[he gets up and gives a cheery wave to the guy before starting to walk in any direction. Better catch up unless you wanna pay]

[espio]

[Espio decides to take the liberty of vanishing when he gets up to follow Ace, giving him an irritated look before he does so and walking alongside him.]

Honestly...

[orangeoutlaw]

Huh? [invisible? Ace can hear him and Ace can see him but] Where'd you go? [feels around a bit, also to grab him if they do have to run so he can haul ass]

[espio]

[Yup!]

Right here.

[Right next to you, mate.]

[orangeoutlaw]

[is kind of amazed at this] Is this a lizard thing? Chameleon? [still searches around and finds a head that he intends to ruffle!] There you are!

[but then oops! the maiter'd is saying: stop right there!]

Time to get going. [and Ace will attempt to grab at him]

[espio]

Chameleon - hey!

[Whoa wait no, don't grab at him! Espio can run himself, dammit! Plus, he's quite sure the 'enemy' can't see him...]

[orangeoutlaw]

[well whether he grabs him or not, Ace is on the move. Vaulting over a fence. Climbing up on a roof. Crashing down into an alley]

There's got to be a better way to do this.

[espio]

[Like, for instance, paying so that you don't have to do this in the first place?]

Maybe you could learn to fly.

[orangeoutlaw]

[who has money?]

I mean I can [kind of] but Marco will be pissed at me if I start a fire. [well he doesn't want to risk it anyway. He's jogging now though just lightly but is kind of annoyed]

Are you still going to be invisible or what?

[espio]

I think everyone'd be pissed at you if you started a fire.

[But he drops the invisibility once Ace has lost his pursuer, perching atop a fairly low roof. Ah... this should be fun. There's actual heights in this place.]

[orangeoutlaw]

Yeah probably. [which makes it hard sometimes but eh, he can deal with it. He's glad to actually see the guy again and hops up on the roof beside him]

So what are you going to do around here?

[espio]

Dunno.

[What, he's expected to have a plan? His plan is pretty much "wait until the illusion breaks and he can go back home to Dominic". But really he should take some advantage of it while it lasts, he supposes.]

Don't really know where to start.

[orangeoutlaw]

It's not that hard. You just... exist. [it's kind of boring is what he's saying]

It's not going to be like where you were with Marco. [if that was really even real]

[espio]

No shit.

[Honestly, Espio is kinda questioning that as well. From what he hears, reality had ended some time before he had wound up in the Garden, and what was there had been some kind of illusion.

But then, with all the timeline differences floating around? Who the hell even knows?]

At least it's better than the other place. For a start, I bet you get running water.

[orangeoutlaw]

Yeah. [which is great... but boring] And a great beach, too. Wanna check it out?

[metachrosis]

[Beach? Espio seems to perk up a bit at that. He likes the coast, after all, and it's been so long since he's been near a body of water that isn't completely stagnant.]

Depends. Is there seafood?

[GIVE HIM SHRIMP.]

[orangeoutlaw]

We can catch some. There's nothing interesting though. [no sea kings or monsters or anything that will last him more than a snack]