AUDIO. UN: LOKI.

[selfimage]

[ tap, tap—is this thing on? ]

Well, Audentes, it’s certainly be a trip. [ and he says that with finger quotes. ] Out of the frying pan and into the fire, that should be our motto.

[ for someone stuck in a maze, Loki still manages to find his confidence. ]

As we take a stroll through the maze and await the next hit single of its proprietor, I—or we, rather—would like to share a few words with you. Our Zymandis tag-a-long has spoken with us regarding some of our curiosities.

Unlike ALASTAIR, Zymandis has a fully functional chain of command, all the way from the higher ups to the underlings. Commanders and sub-commanders and the whole bit, going all the way to the tippy top under their leader … you know—Leader. [ he’s just gonna add that right in on there as a good rub. ] They recruit based on volunteers, and have seen their own share of those slipping through the cracks in the multiverse to end up where they are. It seems that this Mavahari is indebted to them through her rescue, and has pledged her life to follow their blah blah blah rebirth narrative blah blah blah.

Not only that, but they believe that the rebirth itself will prevent the next shatter of our dear multiverse. If the entropy is allowed to play out as is, the result will be much of what happens with Surtur gets his hands on something—burnt to a crisp.

Now, we’re not here to start another back-and-forth, however … we still do have the little detail of our Zymandis stowaway. She’s a political assassin, so I’d suggest not doing much to anger her. [ he’s looking at you Thor. ] For now at least.

[ OOC NOTE | please feel free to threadjack, discuss, &c! the thread with the Zymandis agent is here for all who'd like to reference it. ]

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[selfimage]

In the preface of a novel—or, perhaps, as part of a dramatic entrance. Right in the face of a Zymandis agent.

[ he kinda likes this idea. ]

[araigneedusoir]

[She laughs quietly.]

I'd be more likely to do the latter rather than the former.

[selfimage]

And what would the one with the bold grand entrance think of all this?

[araigneedusoir]

I imagine similar to everyone else. We've been presented with quite the conundrum, haven't we?

[Though there's a lot of things here she questions the credibility of.]

[selfimage]

Someone who would parade through a door and exclaim a blunt evaluation of our current circumstance doesn't strike me as someone who's similar to everyone else.

[araigneedusoir]

[That gets a real laugh out of her.]

No, I suppose not. In truth I have to question what you were told. Zymandis seems awfully confident their method will work. And perhaps it will, but if it doesn't a great many lives will have been sacrificed for the same cycle to repeat itself again. Then what? Destroy it over and over until they achieve their goal?

[selfimage]

Well, they hope to conserve enough energy to make certain that the entropy doesn't take hold. They say it would prevent another Shatter, another collapse of all worlds.

[araigneedusoir]

'They hope', 'they say' it doesn't inspire confidence.

[selfimage]

Placeholders assuming there's something other than theory.

[araigneedusoir]

It seems awfully foolish to go off trying to do what they are on a theory.

[selfimage]

And it seems entirely unconvincing to those who would volunteer to fight for the cause.

[araigneedusoir]

Precisely. Which leads me to wonder how they manage to.

[And nothing she comes up with is exactly pleasant.]