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 [Somewhere on Route 3, a bewildered Paprika has just woken up with a Swellow in her face.  With a particularly undignified noise, she rockets up from her sleeping bag, waving her hands around until she stops at the realization that maybe this is still her Pokemon.  Oops.  As soon as Robin begins preening her, Paprika's belated realization is confirmed.

Robin?  Robin, hey, what the heck happened to you when I was gone?  You got, like, freaking huge.

[Robin squawks something in response, but as Paprika has no clue what it means, she wriggles out of bed and goes through a quick morning routine, rubbing her head occasionally as if it aches.  Eventually, she sits back down and turns on her Xtransciever, Robin immediately fluttering down to perch on her Trainer's shoulder.  Suffice to say, it doesn't work quite as well as when she was a Taillow, so the screen is quite cramped between the two of them.]

Hey, so, I'm not sure if anybody else watches this thing, but my group's just kinda gone and I'm pretty sure some really trippy shit just went down, 'cause last time I checked, I was still with N and Dragonite and Hilda.  Like, I went to sleep, and it was like I was back home, but I'm pretty sure it was legit, 'cause I'm wearing the stuff I wore last night at home instead of what I was wearing back here.

[She smiles, and there's a definite hint of sadness in it--she only realizes in hindsight that she'd just seen her friends and family again for the first time in months, though no time had passed in her own world.  Robin trills again, prompting Paprika to point to the awkwardly placed bird Pokemon on her shoulder.]  

Oh, also, Robin just got freaking huge--like, not even fat huge, just really big.  Not sure if this is a prank or the Entralink being all douchey, but this shit's pretty crazy.

[She moves like she's about to say something else--perhaps a request that the rest of TSA show up rather promptly, but she seems to think better of it and instead turns the feed off.]

((OOC: Ahaha sorry for the TL;DR there.  Basically what happened is that the AU event brought in a Paprika who was born and raised in Unova, so AU!Paprika took OU!Paprika's team into her own hands and leveled them up quite a bit while OU!Paprika was back home for the two weeks, unaware that she'd ever been at U_O.  I guess since N went feral and whatnot, TSA was separated, but they don't have to be too far away.))
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 [Welcome to the most mundane dream ever.  Opening a little wooden door leads into a kitchen, rich with the aroma of cooking foods.  There are dozens of cupboards and pantries that lie open, but rather than food, they're filled with staircases.  No matter which stairs you take, you'll wind up in what appears to be a teenage girl's bedroom--most likely because it is.  It's a bit cluttered, with papers and knickknacks scattered everywhere.  A plastic tank on one shelf contains a disgruntled-looking Croagunk in the place of its usual resident, and everything is floating on a thin, pale red mist, the same kind that appears should one look out the window.  Paprika herself is flopped down on a cushion of said smoke, staring up quizzically at the ceiling.]

Man, this is tripping balls.
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[Paprika would like to think that she's getting better at this Pokemon business, having just successfully chucked a ball at what she really hopes isn't just a regular old bird.  So she's feeling pretty awesome about herself now, walking along Route 2 back to Accumula Town to go show off to her mildly socially inept travelling buddies.  Old Man trundles along behind her faithfully, given that she still has yet to figure out how to put him back into his ball, and he doesn't seem too interested in going there, oops.]

Y'know, I think I'm getting the hang of this, man!

[Feel free to come along and gently break it to her that no, she really isn't.]