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. ]

Comments

[sheriffing]

It is. Destruction's the go-to because it takes more effort to fix something than to break it.

[ she'd know, looking for the easy way out isn't anything new to her.]

[scarredhorns]

Is that why people were suggesting we just put the Taraxa-controlled Qorral out of their misery back in Perdition's Rest? Because some people believed they were beyond help?

[sheriffing]

They believed they were beyond help and that it was safer to protect everyone else.

[ the same logic that she remembers getting glimpses of in Woodhurst.]

[scarredhorns]

Back home, a friend of mine once told me that you can't just give up on someone because it seems easier. He believed that there was always a way to help without deadly force.

A-And I overheard it's possible that there might be something wrong with Zymandis' machine? So if someone could fix it, maybe it will find another way to save the multiverse that doesn't involve destruction?

[Nyuu can't help it if she sounds so naive, but even if she was aware of this, she probably wouldn't care. To her, violence was never the answer.]

[sheriffing]

Yeah, someone else suggested that. They need to be able to justify a change in the plan.

[ which is more complicated than Emma can grasp right now, but she's trying.]

[scarredhorns]

I can't even begin to understand how that would work... Technology in my world, or my time rather is not as advanced as what I've seen on some of our missions.

[It's around the early 2000s in Nyuu's timeline.]

I hope I can help some other way when the time comes, though.

[sheriffing]

We've all pitched in before. I'm used to it being more advanced than home.

[ the magic, the technology, all of it.]

[scarredhorns]

I can only hope that Lucy is willing to help as well if she's in control at the time.

[There's a sad tone to Nyuu's voice.]

[sheriffing]

You don't think she'll help?

[ the end of the multiverse is a pretty big deal.]

[scarredhorns]

It's not that... She wants to go home and she knows by now that the only way for that to happen is if she does her part. It's her methods I'm worried about. Lucy doesn't seem to believe that she's good at anything else besides killing.

[A sigh.]

Even though I can't control what she does, I still feel partly responsible for her actions since this is my body too.