TEXT | USERNAME: LOKI

[selfimage]

Hello. :-)

Everyone patched up and out of the slammer? Good.

It's been quite a ride, hasn't it? First dragons that were intended to end a world, now political conflicts between parties and the compelling mystery as to WHY??? the whole MISSING SUN thing, and WHO STARTED IT?? thing, etc etc. Oh- and there's also that nagging little question of what's going to happen if we do succeed in the way that we're meant to. (Insert question marks here) But forgot that for now, we can do the whole "share your multiversal anecdotes" later.

[ goblins, humans, goblin-human conflict and everything else in between. there's still fuel on the fire and a conflict and a sun missing. he's wondered if their presence here was enough to sway the tides of fate in ALASTAIR's favor, and that's left him with nothing but a sour taste in his mouth. ]

Alas, here's the thing! Despite the mission, we're still all on our own. :'( But all's not lost! I'm here to offer a little tidbit that I found rifling through some paperwork that someone oh-so-fortunately left out in the open. I just happened to be glancing over. [ "happened to." ]

There have been some very curious disappearances. 4, in particular.

Agatha Belrose
Felix Poirier
Michel Roche
Delia Favre

With all the talk of sacrifice I thought it may be preferable to find these people and, well, possibly who took them and where they've gone. You know, saving them from the whole maybe-but-we-don't-know sacrificial death thing. It sounds very unpleasant, and with a possible worrisome outcome.

[ he's never really been much of a team player, but getting the brunt of the blame if someone's sacrificed generally wasn't in his best interest. ]

Now, where to do with these names? Ideas? Comments? Concerns? I'll leave the floor open.

Comments

[becauses]

And what would you do that is "outside the box"?

I actually had to sit and think about this

[wright_idea]

[He thinks about this.]

[Hmm... I don't have any proof that they didn't get grabbed as sacrifices... but I have no proof that they were, either. In fact, there's so little information that you might as well call the whole situation a huge, gaping hole. Still...]

Reframe the questions, mostly. It's not that I object to looking for the people themselves. It's that I'm concerned putting too much weight on the rumors is going to result in SOME of us deciding the easiest thing to do is knock over more goblins until one of them talks -- which may end up shooting ourselves in the foot on all fronts.

In fact, we have an awfully convenient number of facts about the goblins, but not really about the humans. Why do we only know about a goblin religion? Humans are clearly superstitious here, or else they wouldn't buy so hard into the idea that goblins use magic. And who benefits from the heat being mostly placed on said religion? Are they sacrifices? Are they picked randomly? Or is there something else connecting these people?

All I'm saying is that we have to be careful how we frame this exactly. We've already got one guy who's ready to just genocide the whole other side and call it a day. My personal suggestion is to investigate just as deeply into who these people ARE as into where they went.

[becauses]

Then, for now, your goals and his align: you want basic facts about the people who disappeared. You'll do more to help goblins by helping him do it than by arguing with him.

On that note. Do you consider yourself a talented liar?

[wright_idea]

Er, maybe? I've managed to successfully bluff a couple people once or twice in my life.

[becauses]

[ This reply takes a little while to come, too, because admitting this outright isn't really in Glee's nature. ]

Tricksters have their uses.

You'll need, and ALASTAIR will need, people like him to get what you want. He'll get into places that you can't, and spot different lies than you can.

[wright_idea]

I guess that's the case. I just hope this whole "sacrifice" angle doesn't end up leading us in the wrong direction, though.

[A pause.]

So he actually IS Loki?

[I don't really know why I should be surprised by anything anymore.]

[selfimage]

I'm right here, you know.

[becauses]

Don't let it go to your head.

[wright_idea]

Look, I don't text a lot of Gods from a religion that's mostly defunct in the modern day back home, okay?

[selfimage]

"Defunct."

[wright_idea]

Look, people just don't actively worship the Norse Gods where I come from, okay? Unless they're doing it ironically.

[selfimage]

The religion thing really came after everything else. The nature of the divine isn't all prayer and worship.

Ironically. ;)

[wright_idea]

Har har. Needless to say, most people only associate you with mythology.

[becauses]

"Actually"?

[wright_idea]

Er, do you know anything about Earth mythology?

[becauses]

A practical amount.

[ Practical as in hands-on.

Wrong Earth, though. ]

[wright_idea]

Let's just say in Norse Mythlogy, Loki is kind of a Big Deal.

[Guess that World Mythology course I took in college had its uses.]

[becauses]

Though not the kind of "Big Deal" you mind reading your messages.

[ Interesting juxtaposition. ]

[wright_idea]

I thought it was just a username!

[digophelia]

I was wondering the same thing.

[selfimage]

After hopping dimensions, you think you'd give the whole god thing the benefit of the doubt.

[digophelia]

Hoping dimensions doesn't make me less skeptical. If anything, my odds of running into mad people has increased. How do I know you're not mad?

[selfimage]

After all of this, I have a feeling we'll all go an itsy bitsy bit mad.

[digophelia]

Don't be absurd. It could be much worse than goblins and riots. If that makes someone mad, then they weren't very sound of mind to begin with.

[ Because if she even hears the Cheshire Cat's words, she's going to flip tables. ]