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]

[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.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ the guards look at each other, eyebrows raised, and then nod to one another, starting around the exterior of the arena, clearly fooled ]

[bredinthebone]

[She waits just enough to make sure they're going, before nudging her companions ahead.]

The spell only lasts a minute or so, let's move quick.

[innovates]

[Impressed, Jane gives the woman a nod and starts heading quickly toward that entrance.]

[godoftableflips]

[ down the slimy tunnel they go, which winds underneath the arena and into a makeshift 'locker room' if you want to dignify it with that much description.

but there's sure a shirtless thor toweling off. you're all welcome. ]

[ambitionist]

[/stares. what were they supposed to be doing again???????]

[innovates]

[Jane halts her steps and just....also stares for a moment, her heart thundering in her chest.

Finally, though, she calls out.]

Thor?

[Sure, it's probably not smart just to say it, but her wisdom check was horrific and, well, at least it'll tell them what they want to know right away?

Fingers crossed he recognizes her.]

[bredinthebone]

[Malina is just going to hang back because she has no experience with this dude whatsoever. She'll step up if he doesn't seem convinced, but for right now she's gotta hope that he recognizes either Alex or Jane.]

[hammersexual]

[ he stops in his tracks, momentarily, before half-turning to regard them for a moment. his eyes travel over her, but it's difficult to read his expression at first. ] I am Thor, yes.

Can I help you?

[innovates]

[Jane tries not to let her face show her disappointment, instead clearing her throat.]

Yes. Actually, I think you're the only person who might be able to help us. Is there somewhere...private where we could all talk?

[Before someone catches them and kicks them out of here.]

[hammersexual]

[ he looks suspicious of that for a moment, but surveys the group and apparently decides they don't look like they could shank him in an alley before he took them all down. he shrugs and reaches for a shirt, to everyone's chagrin. ] Follow me.

[ there's not much in the way of privacy down here, but he leads them to a small alcove at least. ]

[bredinthebone]

[Malina follows his lead, still staying quiet and shifts to lean against one of the walls. She's got no familiar collateral to tug on here. All she knows is they're probably not going to be able to do this without his help.

Hopefully Jane and Alex will be able to get through to him.]

[ambitionist]

[the spell is broken when thor's shirt is back on and he realizes that they'll probably have a lot of explaining to do, judging from thor's non-reaction to both him and jane. and since jane isn't actually a member of the knights and malina isn't talking, he'll take it upon himself to be the one to do the explaining once they're in the alcove.]

Soooo ... first of all, I gotta ask, what are your thoughts and feelings about Loki?

[godoftableflips]

Loki? [ his eyebrows lift in evident surprise ] He who rules this land?

[bredinthebone]

That's the one.

[She seems less than impressed with him.]

The Douchebag in Chief.

[hammersexual]

What would you know of him? I hear little, and care little for politics.

[ambitionist]

Great. [at least he's not up his ass. that's ... something?] Hear me out. What if I told you that he was only this way because he got some powerful magic in his hands? That there's another reality where things are completely different? Including you.

[godoftableflips]

I would say it seems you've suffered more blows to the head than I have.

[innovates]

It's true.

[How are they even supposed to convince him.]

You don't even remember Asgard, do you?

[hammersexual]

The name means nothing to me. I'm afraid you have mistaken me for someone else.

[bredinthebone]

[She takes a deep breath because this is probably going to get them nowhere. Time to try a different tactic (diplomacy 20).]

Maybe we have. Or maybe we just think you have the potential to be more than King Douchebag's Prize Colosseum Monkey.

[ambitionist]

[whatever malina alex is going for the gold. they don't have time to let thor wade in the kiddie pool of the truth ok.] Uh, that's literally impossible. You're Thor. And while you may just have this whole ... gladiator thing going for you here, where we're from? You're a god. None of this bullshit. You saved my life once. And she ... [he makes a gesture over to jane] actually, I don't remember what your deal with him was.

[innovates]

I...helped you go home.

[She's felt more than that, but that was the crux of it.]

Loki is your brother. And he took everything away from you, he took our lives away from us, and he kept everything for himself. We need to set things right, but we can't do it by ourselves. He's too strong.

[Speaking of Diplomacy, nat 20 (23 total)]

Please, you have to believe me.

[hammersexual]

[ he takes one step slightly closer, his gaze traveling between the three of them, but landing on jane, scrutinizing her face with a strange expression ]

I don't understand what would drive anyone to invent such a tale. But what you say... how can it be true?

[innovates]

Loki has the power of a genie behind him.

[As if that explains everything.]

He made a wish and made all of this possible. Everything, exactly as he wants it. I don't know why it didn't affect us, too.