Outside tower of babel _____Auriel could not believe she was running late again. If she kept doing this she would never find a group that would pay her at this rate. Light steps resounded down the empty streets as the Pallum did everything she could to at least make it somewhat on time for the third group of adventures going into the dungeon. From her personal notes Adventures came at 4 different times in the morning, and each group of them would digress in kindness towards supports as the day got older. _____Auriel had already slept through the first two groups of adventures, and the third would no doubt be departing soon. Right shoulder rolling slightly to adjust the bag on her back filled with some supplies she could scavenge this morning in her rush out the door. Her memory not fully recalling what she threw into her bag, so she simply hoped it was useful items, the last time she brought junk into the dungeon the party she was part of was not all that happy. Right foot holding it's ground as Auriel spun around a light post and went down the next road to her right. _____Eyes moving upward to see the tower of babel before her before she focused on the fountain area. Just as she feared the place was rather scarce of the third group of adventures she would have preferred to go into the dungeon with rather then the fourth group. But then she failed as usual. Left foot hooking her right foot as she squeaked loudly and fell face first into the stone pathway just outside the clearing. Her face was red with embarrassment as she rose to sit down, left hand rubbing her nose as she looked ready to cry. Anyone looking at her would be able to tell she was wearing H rank armor, but she clearly did not look like someone who could hold her own in a fight. A few more rubs of her nose would transpire before she tried to pick herself up and go to the fountain to look for a group to support.
@Auriel Marzipan was debating whether or not to go in the Dungeon alone again today. She had been doing that a lot more lately, raising her strength from being down into the Dungeon slaying monsters. Goblins were a cakewalk now and kobolds were getting easier and easier to fight. It was alright, in her opinion. She could see her progress and it made her happy that she was able to be there at the top when it came to her strength. Just as the Hume Bunny was heading towards the fountain area when she saw someone trip and fall flat on her face. Blinking in surprise and figuring that it was one of the newer people that came into the Dungeon, she went over to the Pallum girl to check on her. "Hey, you okay?" she asked gruffly, holding out a hand.
Jun patted her equipment slowly checking if everything was tight and right. Leather equipment, check. Weapons, check. Utility belt, check. She slowly walked towards her destination with a sleepy face still plaguing her image. The young runarl made sure to sleep quite late the previous day just so she could finally manage to wake up late and perhaps find a group as she wasn't very used to the exact timespan adventurers flocked around babel and started making their groups for another day of dungeon crawling. With a heavy sigh, Jun turned around on the next road just after a light post. Her expression turned to a frown upon sight of the fountain with few adventurers either looking for group or ready to dungeon-delve. Shruging, she started planning out how she'd dungeon today. Her last time was a bit unfortunate as her very first time was nothing but a fight with another adventurer. As the fox girl was focusing on how to deal with dungeoning, however, someone sped beside the vertically challenged runarl. Her tail abruptly straightened in response to a startled Jun - for a moment, she honestly thought someone would kidnap her or something among those lines. Her eyes scanned her surroundings, then focused on the person that sped up beside her. Jun's face blush was slowly fading away, although for naught. Her tail straightened once again as she saw the (presumably) adventurer trip on their own feet and hit the floor. Was that person really heading towards the dungeon? The same place where Jun's first experience was nothing less than extremely dangerous? She pondered for a moment, until finally getting close enough to get a grasp of whom were the adventurers looking for group; among them, one she knew very well, the same boaz that attacked Jun on her first day in the dungeon. In response to her presence, the man let out a large tsch. The scarce group of adventurers moved on inside the dungeon. Jun approached the adventurer that tripped on their own feet, albeit a little cautiously. Before she could help with anything, a hume-bunny with platinum blonde hair seemed to help her up. Now that the adventurer had someone else to help her, Jun tried to quietly head towards the dungeon unnoticed.
Outside tower of babel _____Auriel did not fully trust herself to take the offered hand from the girl with bunny ears. She always had a habit to drag people down to the ground when they offered her a hand with getting back up. Picking herself up as she rubbed her nose again while looking up to the girl because of the height difference. Another person she could never see eye to eye with caused her not to even notice the white Runarl that was passing by because she was closer to her own eye level. A light breath taken into her lungs before she spoke. _____"No need to really worry about me... I tend to fall on my face about as much as I fall down these days..." She tried to make light of the incident to hide how embarrassed she was about such a lousy first impression. "My name is Auriel... Sorry for making you worry about me and take time out of your day..." Her voice starting to fall into it's normal nervous depression as she bowed slightly before starting to walk away while forgetting to look where she was going. _____If the Runarl was not fully alert like Auriel she would soon be bumped into the girl and would no doubt end up taking her down in her fall with her unless she had better reflexes then Auriel did. The Pallum once more landing on her face causing a small nosebleed to start from the second blow. Slowly lifting herself as she held a hand to hide the blood. "See... falling just seems to be my only way of travel... Sorry about bumping into you..." Auriel spoke first to the bunny girl before looking for the person she had ran into. If the girl was below her she would turn red and freeze up. @Marzipan Loaf | @Jun
@Auriel @Jun The Hume Bunny withdrew her hand with the Pallum stood up. "You sure about that?" she asked as she eyed the girl. She wasn't sure what to make of her. After all, it wasn't every day you were told that falling flat on one's face was commonplace. Was her coordination and balance okay? Probably not and she had no idea how that could be fixed. Still, she couldn't fathom how one could be so clumsy. She watched the girl move on and head towards the Dungeon before running into someone else. She scratched the back of her head with a hand as she watched the clumsy girl move. "Hey," she said as she walked over to the two of them, "You sure you don't need anything?" She looked at the Pallum, scrutinizing her with a frown. She had no idea what to say to really say to her.
Apparently, Jun had managed to sneak away from the other present adventurers without being noticed. For a moment, she wondered if today's dungeoning would run smoothly. Jun could still over hear their short conversation, although she didn't pay much attention as she was busy lost in her thoughts - and because of this, she did not react in time to avoid Auriel's fall. Stuck below the fellow adventurer, Jun helplessly squirming her arms to no avail. "MHHHMH?! MHHMHM!" She tried to communicate but couldn't breathe nor talk correctly. When Auriel lifted herself up Jun increased the distance between them with a quick and desperate roll to the right. The young runarl sit on the ground, rubbing her now reddish nose. With her brows furrowed, Jun glared at Auriel. "You could try focusing on walking right first before saying you can only move by falling..." She was slightly angry about it although she tried her best not to sound too offensive towards the girl. Due to her nose rubbing, however, it would be hard to take her suggestion seriously with such a funny nasal voice. @Auriel @Marzipan Loaf
Outside tower of babel _____Auriel wanted to apologize to the Runarl for tripping over her. But the insult towards her was enough to drag her mood into the gutter as she looked to the ground. "Sorry..." he voice was faint as she slowly moved to stand up. Her drive to go into the dungeon was lost, all she did even before entering was cause people trouble. Turning on her heel as she went to leave the area and go back to the military base to do more paper work or something she did not fail at as much. _____Her focus on the ground as she ran into a group of large adventures who pushed her to the ground. Her gaze slowly rising towards them. "I'm sorry..." The males looked at each other before one picked her up with one hand by her collar. "A Pallum here begging for scraps from real adventures? Weak..." The male tossed her a few feet as Auriel simply looked to the ground again. "I'm sorry..." Auriel would try to get up as another one of the males approach her causing her to freeze up. _____"Wait aren't you that Pallum from the Military? The one who always gets tossed around and pushed into doing everyone's work for no charge? Me and my buddies been needing a Support to carry our gear for no charge how about it?" The male spoke to the frozen up Pallum who could not decline. She feared the result if she even did such, her head slowly starting to nod with agreement because she was unable to allow herself more trouble if she had said no to them. @Marzipan Loaf | @Jun
@Auriel @Jun Marzipan couldn't help but frown as she heard the girl say, "Sorry," and then got up to leave the vicinity, her head bowed and her shoulders slumped. Poor girl looked dejected alright, but what was her deal? She didn't know but she glanced back at the tiny Runarl before looking back to locate the Pallum girl. She saw her in the company of some men that was pushing her around. Her hands balled into fists as she marched forward to stare down the men pushing Auriel around. "Hey, back off!" she hissed, "Shouldn't you be on your way? I won't hesitate to pick a fight with you, you know!" She looked at each of them dead in the eye as she spoke, challenging the men.
Jun stopped rubbing her nose, though she still a blushed nose and cheeks. Watching as the pallum girl lifted herself up once again and leaving made guilt sink harder because of what she just said to her. Her furrowed brows arched in response to what the group picking on her said. Supporter, for free? Something was wrong there. After an inaudible and soft sigh, Jun glared at the men picking on her brows furrowed once again, as judging other by their races displeased the runarl. Jun noticed the hume-bunny’s hiss towards them, issuing a threat. “She’s right. Be on your way already! Your little group already entered the dungeon without you!” Jun pointed towards the last few adventurers entering the tower, her tail wagging faster. Still, the young fox girl was a bit hesitant. She couldn’t run around fighting every adventurer she bumped herself on because doing so would be a bad thing for her reputation on the future, nevertheless, Jun couldn’t just stand still and watch. In any case, she had her bo shurikens ready hidden under her sleeves. @Auriel @Marzipan Loaf
Outside tower of babel _____Auriel did not find any way to talk up until the group of men growled and walked away from them. She kept her focus down trying to find how to thank them. She still could not stand up for herself even after so many encounters when she at least somewhat tried to speak up. "Th... Thank you..." Auriel spoke faintly as she rose to stand back up fully. She wanted to say more but her own fear of them doing the same thing the males had just done to her had grown to drive her away. _____Nobody she knew well enough came to her aid after seeing how weak willed she was around others. Feet slowly moved away from them unless she was spoken to or held from walking away while looking so down in the dumps. Her head hung low and even her shoulders had started to slouch. Auriel was trying her best to look ok on the outside, but that never worked for her. A light sigh escaped her lips as she wondered what pile of papers she would start with today rather then go into the dungeon. @Marzipan Loaf | @Jun
@Auriel @Jun Marzipan relaxed as the men growled and walked away. She sighed. "You alright there-" And then she heard the thanks before she began to head off. "...ma'am?" she finished, scratching the back of her head in puzzlement as she looked at the Pallum girl leaving the scene. ...Well, at least she wasn't being pushed around anymore, right? She turned to look at Jun."Hey, thanks for the help," she said, "You heading into the Dungeon too?" She looked curiously at the Runarl that was much shorter than her. Seriously, she was about a foot shorter than her! How was that possible? And she guess the Runarl had quite a few years on her as well, despite looking a bit like a child.
