EARTH-11 ♔ JUST ISN'T HOW I ENVISIONED IT

[jotun]

WHO || Wanda, Malina, Caroline, Jordan, Alex, Loki, Jane, Darcy, YOU
WHAT || The Knights wake up after a mission in Saudi Arabia with the worst kind of hangover.
WHERE || Earth-11
WHEN || End of 2016
HOW || As you like it; mission in individual top-threads, actionspam.

It's hard to notice right away. For the most part, everything looks normal. The toilets flush in the right direction. The sky's still up. The buildings are still scraping the clouds. But something about it feels wrong, and the details come in waves.

The first wave is that no one is in the castle, or in England, or even in Saudi. It's hard to tell where they are, except it's close to the equator. Warm. Sunny. And a city. Maybe they're lucky. Maybe someone's there to greet them, if not in this bed that isn't theirs, then in this apartment that isn't theirs, or this house.

But out in the streets, things get stranger. Gone are the gleaming glass and metal frames of the skyscrapers, replaced with statuesque marble shaped into hellenic curves. Everything is bright colors and bronze. The metal coins people trade for currency have a wolf's head stamped on them, valid only in the Republic of Midgard.

The world is wrong. And no one but those in the room with Loki and Jordan seem to remember why.


[ ooc note; WHILE THE SAUDI ARABIA MISSION wraps up their encounter with Loki, everyone is invited to play in the whackadoodle AU that Loki created by making Jordan grant his wish to rule a world full of all the things Loki desires, where Thor is nowhere to be found. Consider this your dystopian/framework/everyone's dead AU event. Please note that only mission characters will remember the events of Earth-11, as they've only been transported to a parallel universe. Everything you play is for fun, not for character arc. ]

Comments

[bredinthebone]

Okay. Let's go see if we can talk to him.

[And she'll push a hand against Alex's back gently.]

C'mon tall person. See what you can see.

[Sorry, Alex.]

[ambitionist]

[he glances down at malina like can't u see i am trying to see those abs ma'am but it's fine. he looks around for some sort of side door or service entryway but ... it's a crowded fuckin place, ok. (spot 13) ]

[hammersexual]

[ yeah no sign of how to get there, but thor is heading down a tunnel that seems to vanish underground or some shit ]

[highlyemotional]

Trust me, you're the only thing I trust right now.

[hacker]

[ the van veers off the road in their direction, rumbling to a stop. the process of putting it into park feels excruciating, waiting for whoever's inside to step out. but the doors fling open, and a pair of grunge-y looking ex-knights hop out. ]

Caroline, right? [ she looks at Davin, confused. ] Uh. Don't take this the wrong way, but ... [ who dis? ]

[highlyemotional]

He's with me, end of discussion.

[ in case there was going to be a discussion, there isn't now. ]

Who are you? [ SHE DOESN'T SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE COMPUTER LAB SORRY ]

[ambitionist]

[for malina (and everyone else's) benefit:] I'm not seeing anywhere that's gonna get us backstage besides exactly where Thor's going.

[starprince]

We're the closest thing around here to the White Hats, I guess you could say.

[hacker]

Daisy. This is Peter. [ she nods her head up the road where they'd come from. ] You were at the castle?

[innovates]

Well, then let's go check it out.

[As she just starts....heading that direction in whatever way she can, trying to spot a way to maybe get down there without being seen (spot 17)]

[hammersexual]

[ while a lot of focus is on the way thor is going down, on the opposite side of the arena, there's another entrance - the one the giant used, presumably. ]

[innovates]

[Her head turns from one end of the arena to the other, pondering something, before she heads in the direction everyone isn't looking.]

This way.

[Maybe people will follow her. Maybe they'll do their own thing. But she's going for it.]

[highlyemotional]

We were taking a romantic stroll through the English countryside. [ guess what, caroline can't lie to save her life. but STRANGER DANGER. although, admittedly, they both look vaguely familiar. ]

[recycling]

[ davin ... doesn't even try to lie, tensing up ] What do you want?

[hacker]

Easy, big guy. We're here to help.

[ is that patronizing? unclear. ]

Malina and Alex gave us your description. By the time my exploits got through to the castle security system, though, they were already gone. I thought we'd come provide vehicle service.

[ and do at least something right. she can't stay out of this fight completely. there's too much pain wrapped up in it. ]

[highlyemotional]

[ caroline squeezes davin's hand, reflexive, at the mention of malina and alex, but she doesn't leap into accepting any help from the pair yet. first of all they were with a bunch of other people. ]

Prove it.

[starprince]

One time Alex applied to be on a Dutch reality show that was gonna be on Mars.

[ a beat, as he clearly expects this to prove everything ] What?

[highlyemotional]

...maybe something about Malina because I don't care about Alex.

[ u tried ]

[ambitionist]

[alex doesn't need to be told twice tbh. away we go.]

[bredinthebone]

[Yep, Malina will follow right behind them, wanting to get out of this crowd.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ the crowd is starting to disperse a bit, but there are still some people in uniforms pacing about the edges of the arena as they get close to that end ]

[hacker]

Malina's on her way with the rest of them to try to pull Thor out of the arena because she believes this world isn't real. That there's a better one waiting. One where Loki isn't the all-powerful overlord.

[ Daisy's sense of humor may not be completely gone, but her patience is thin enough right now that she's not fuxxin with it. ]

If it's true, I want to see it. She's probably going to need your help to make this crazy plan work.

[innovates]

We're going to need some kind of distraction.

[She glances over her shoulder at her new 'friends']

Anyone capable of that?

[They had a freaking genie or whatever with them, maybe someone can conjure up something else. Otherwise she'll play it by ear.]

[bredinthebone]

[Yep, she can do that. Malina pauses for a moment, ducking a bit behind Alex to stay out of view, then flexing her fingers out in front of her before casting ghost sound (will save DC 15) in the direction of the guards.

As she does, the sound of a fist fight breaking out between about ten humans on the opposite side of the arena from them. Something the guards should probably go investigate.

If that doesn't work, maybe they can con their way in, but this avoids them actually having to talk to people. Malina is not in the mood.]

[highlyemotional]

[ bristling with frustration: ] It is true! Look at me, do I look like I spend a lot of time in a garbage wasteland of that greasy haired loser's over-compensating fantasy dream land?

[ spoilers, she does not. she looks cute and pastel, if still mildly damp. ]