new delhi ♔ but in all chaos there is calculation | dropping glasses just to hear them break

[behindcloseddoors]

♬ Glory + Gore - Lorde

WHO || David L., Alex K., Andie, The Doctor, Natasha, Alex U., Shulin Desai
WHAT || The Knights hunt the Decanter of Dionysus
WHERE || New Delhi, India
WHEN || June 7th, 2014, evening.
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

Talk about a soiree.  The team has walked into what is clearly legitimately a Gatsby party, but with an Indian flair.  Even upon approach, it's easy to see that this place is without parallel:  people are driving cars right up on the lawn of the fabulous mansion, which looks half-modern and half like a palace out of a Bollywood film.  Men and women in bright colors, fabrics, beads and silks move inside en masse, and as the doors are opened before them, they can see the grandness of the interior, with its diamond garland, draped fabrics, giant jeweled elephant statues, indoor trees that arch to the ceilings, twirling dancers, and a tall dramatic staircase leading up to a balcony above where the host himself reclines surrounded by admirers and friends, smoking a cigar.  

Liquor flows freely, and food is carried around on golden trays through the crowds.  It's an overwhelming buffet for the senses, a dizzying spectacle of color, laughter, dancing, and entertainment.  

Comments

[bowtimeandspace]

[ The Doctor pulls out his own phone, and begins sonicing it. It could be described as breaking it, yes, but he likes to think it's more an improvement. ]

Just boosting the GPS signal. We're counting on her phone still being on, and counting that she's got it with her. Bit rubbish, really, I mean she was stolen off by a mischievous God, he's probably not going to be letting her keep her mobile just in case she gets the odd text.

[panaceum]

[ epiphany smirks at Alex, giving him a quick and appreciative once over. ]

Epiphany Greaves. About as un-Russian of a name as they come, but that's because daddy dearest back in England shipped me off here to Alchemy Academy when I was all of ten. What about you?

[ meanwhile, the good doctor gets back an informative message from Natasha's phone: NO SIGNAL ]

[ambitionist]

Alex Karamazov. Which sounds ... incredibly Russian, but I'm American, promise. [/acts like his accent wasn't a giveaway. alex u r dumb.]

[bowtimeandspace]

[ Sigh. Well he should have known that was going to happen. He ducks his head a little and pinches the bridge of his nose. ]

Her phone isn't on. Or it's broken. Either way I'm not getting anything now.

[godoftableflips]

Then Loki is lost to us?

[ambitionist]

[omg this dumb shit is interrupting his game. but he interjects with — ] Can't you do anything with the signal you picked up when we were still in India?

[bowtimeandspace]

[ Well that'd be grand, wouldn't it? But no. So he shakes his head. ]

It told us Russia. It told us here, but that was about it. The phone is outdated technology, even with my screwdriver it can only do so much. So we try something else. News reports? Police channels? Anything strange been reported in the area?

[panaceum]

Like having a god dropped in someone's living room? So far, just me. I keep an eye on the web for you, though. Just need somebody's number. [ looking at u alex ]

[ambitionist]

[yeah don't mind if he gives her his number :) tralala ] You can use it if you ever get bored, too. [grin. (cha 19) dumbass.]

[panaceum]

Lucky for you, it gets pretty boring around here. [ their heads are totally in the game here ]

[generaldavideus]

[David pauses, milling over things for a moment. They can do this the old fashioned way, but having a place to start would be good.]

Is there anything big happening in the city right now? Rare artifacts being displayed, some powerful person in town?

[He's going by Loki's MO so far (stealing powerful shit) and what he's already stolen (mind control wine) so he figures that somewhere in there is what Loki wants.]

[panaceum]

Not anyone or anything I've heard of. You don't know why he picked Moscow?

[ambitionist]

Other than the irony of the person he took hostage being Russian, I got nothin'. [he glances over at everyone else like perhaps one of them will use their thinking caps.]

[bowtimeandspace]

Well whatever it is I'm betting it wasn't a random choice. He's here for a reason, and we're not going to do any good standing around here.

[generaldavideus]

No, we're not.

[He sighs heavily, before nodding.]

Okay. Let's do this the old fashioned way an hit the streets. Do you have a map?

[That last bit is to Epiphany again.]

[panaceum]

No, but I can print you one if your Google-fu is failing you. [ and she turns to get on that ]

[asap]

I could... run around until I see something weird. It might take less time than all this old fashioned way stuff.

[Mostly, she's tired of being still. This is the part of the mission that's hardest for her to deal with. The patiently waiting part.]

[ambitionist]

If you think it'll help. [shrug. /accidentally backseat leads again.] Pick me up a Fabergé egg while you're out.

[generaldavideus]

It's just easier to see the layout from a distance.

[He hates looking things up on his phone. It makes it hard to see a large area at once. He glances back to Andie and mimicks Alex's shrug.]

What he said - minus the egg. I just want to try and see what we're dealing with.

[asap]

The eggs'd probably break if I run into Loki and have to fight or something. Maybe later?

[And she zips out but with a search of 8, she probably isn't finding anything. Probably because the city is 970 square miles and searching it on foot even with super speed is CRAZY. She does find a store that sells chocolate Lenin heads, so she's snapchatting Alex a picture of that.]

[godoftableflips]

[ yeah she's got nothin' :( ]

If Loki does not wish to be found, he has ways to cloak himself from others. But he cannot have come here merely to hide away. He must have known that taking Natasha would draw us after him.

[ambitionist]

So... he wants to go to a place where he would draw attention? [wis 17 motherfuckaaaa. he looks at andie's lenin head snapchat photo and smiles a little.]

[godoftableflips]

Or he was already expecting to draw it, with whatever plan he has.

[ambitionist]

Well, that's fucking peachy.

[bowtimeandspace]

Well we're not going to get much done standing around, are we. Best thing we can do is start looking. I doubt they're going to come to us, at least not here. Now he knew we'd follow, right? Right. So let's go somewhere obvious. Somewhere public.

I hear the Red Square is lovely this time of year.