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

[powerdriven]

What an inconvenient way to have a conversation.

[ it's a nice thought, but he's going to have to go listen to all the rest of them after he ends this one... and has probably already asked some repeat questions. ]

So, tell me. Have you gotten any ideas volunteered already?

[selfimage]

A few. Some not too shabby.

One included a fake disappearance report. Another we go snooping again and steal some tax records or something of the like. In another we go around looking to see how legitimate these claims of sacrifice really are.

Lucky us, there are enough people to split some of these duties.

[powerdriven]

[ hm. a report to see how the guards respond, or to see whom else might respond, tax records to pin down the list of disappearances... and what, investigating in the most likely places? well, it's a start. they'll just have to hope they can pull the snooping off without disturbing the peace too much. ]

All right. So unless we're calling this a free for all, it seems to me Riza Hawkeye's list of our respective abilities will come in handy here.

Since you're doing the organizing, I'd like a chance to talk to the participants in person.

[selfimage]

I'm organizing?

[ that takes him a little bit off guard. ]

Oh no no no no no no no no. I figured we could do our own thing- you know, come together, have cookies, bring the infos. What do you think?
Tho I'm not here to stop you if you want to have a chat. Riza's one. [ calling her Hawkeye is a little strange. ]
Dean's another. There are oodles of them.

[powerdriven]

You started this.

[ because of that, it was easy to assume. but he gets it now. drop the info, leave the legwork to them. ]

Imagine how much less time we'd waste fumbling with these shitty bracelets if we could just take the old fashioned route and pool our information together. Fine. I'll talk to them.

[ can you see he's already resigned? ]

[selfimage]

Oh please, I didn't start anything. I was just lucky. [ you mean nosy, Loki. ]
You know, when you put it that way, you sound like a Midgardian grandfather. Do you need a cane to wave at the young people on your lawn? I'm sure I have an extra lying around for your convenience.

[powerdriven]

[ well then. thank you... for your charity, sir. he doesn't need to know anything about Midgardians to get the idea. ]

Seems whacking you with it would be more efficient.

But if you know how to make this system more useful for us, then by all means.

[selfimage]

[ charity especially for you, Levi like the jeans. ]

Where I come from there is the very competitive sport of Loki whacking. There are a few you'd need to contend with, ofc, and they're very good at what they do.

Oh- that's simple-
Offer everyone free breakfast and lure them in.

[powerdriven]

[ there is a pause. perhaps he's taking a moment to press his fingers into his temples. ]

Sure, why not?

Let's throw a party while we're at it.

[selfimage]

Considering the SOTU? It may boost morale.

[ is he serious? he might be serious. ]

[powerdriven]

[ it's a great idea.

no, not really, and he'd been completely sarcastic, but it doesn't take away from the thing he'd really been trying to address. ]

Try to make it more obvious you don't give a shit about this at all, will you.

I don't really care. Get all of us with ideas together in one place and we can call it whatever you want. I just want to see something done about this. Preferably before more people die.

[selfimage]

The people dying thing is rather unpleasant.
As is the idea of our employers using us to decide the outcome of this world- good or bad? We still don't know, do we? Kinda kills the buzz.

There may be more people dying if we ignore the latter.

[powerdriven]

They haven't responded so far. I don't think they intend to.

But if we do nothing, we don't stand a chance of anything good coming from it.