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[jotun]

WHO || Loki Laufeyson & Natasha Romanoff
WHAT || Kidnapping.
WHERE || Moscow, Russia
WHEN || Night of June 7th onward.
HOW || Actionspam

[ The teleportation spell brings them to a chilly, but recognizable destination. Though it isn't exactly the same as the city that Natasha may recall, the Kremlin is impossible to misidentify, and that's precisely where Loki is headed.

Natasha's free will is returned to her the minute they arrive, leaving her slightly disoriented, and potentially questioning why she had even listened to his demands (pending a reasonable wisdom check). They touch down 500 yards from the front of the Kremlin. ]

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[asap]

[Welp. Now that they know where Loki is it's time to... try and free all of Russia, get Natasha back, and defeat Loki. Easy?!? Hahaha. Anyway, it's time for our resident sneaky-ass speedster to try and zip around the castle unnoticed and see what she can scope out. Her move silently is a 20, and her search is 5 action point says 19! She's looking to find Loki and Natasha's positions, the evil pitcher, and maybe some uniforms so the less speedy members of the team can sneak in too.]

[jotun]

[ There’s good news and bad news.

The good news is that Andie manages to speed straight past the guards and into the room where the pitcher is being held. The bad news is that room is adjoined to the presidential office, so she has to speed right past Loki and Natasha.

And she’s not quiet or quick enough to dodge his keen senses (22).

He casts close on the door of the adjoining room where she finds the pitcher, shutting Andie inside and getting to his feet. He looks to Natasha and remarks, ] My, my. You do have a way of attracting quite the persistent group. It would seem your friends haven’t forgotten about you, after all.

[asap]

[Craaaaap. Well. At least he's locked her with the thing she was trying to get at anyway. The pitcher is in a locked display case, but Andie's been working on her lock picking (open lock 23). She starts working the lock, hoping against hope that she can... at least smash the pitcher or something before Loki gets in here.]

[jotun]

[ That opens the case! ]

[asap]

[Hooray! Andie's gonna grab it and drop it... hopefully this will cause it to break.]

[jotun]

[ clunk thunk.

it falls to the ground, undamaged. ]

[asap]

[Gdi. Time for plan B. If she can get past Loki, at least. She picks it up and... tries the door.]

[jotun]

[ It opens, and Loki is standing


right in front of it. :) ]

Leaving so soon?

[asap]

[Oh crap. Andie looks up at him nervously, letting out a frightened little giggle.] Well, you know how it is. I'm a really busy person and I'd love to stay and chat but... um... bye.

[She dives past him (tumble check 24 to avoid attacks of opportunity), rolling back to her feet and running to grab Natasha's hand.]

Comeoncomeoncomeon...

[She can't help it. If she can make a rescue attempt, she will.]

[jotun]

[ Actually that tumble check was under 20 and therefore

a failure. :) Thanks for rerolling.

And Loki will step in before she gets to Natasha, grabbing for Andie. While she lashes out at him, he dodges easily and secures his hand around Andie's throat. He uses that grip to pin her against the wall with a particularly rough slam. He leans in close, gripping her jaw. ]

I suggest you tell me how many are in your number and precisely what it is you plan to do here.

[asap]

[She gasps, eyes wide as she looks up at him, but there's a certain firmness to her expression (will 16). She still looks terrified, but her resolve is gathered.] We're here to overthrow you. Maybe you should just run now while you have the chance.

[jotun]

Ah, yes, dashing heroics. I might have guessed. But how?

[ He presses her harder into the wall, and leans in.





Intimidate 39. ]

[asap]

[idk why I even bothered to roll against that I mean I guess she could have nat 20'd but her 10 sure didn't do jackshit. She lets out a little whine.]

BysmashingyourstupidcupletmeGO!

[And she's gonna try to wriggle free (escape check 27).]

[jotun]

[ Bless. :')

He lets her wrestle away, looking startled and then thrilled by some new development. He begins to chuckle. He's not quite through with her yet. ]

And when you have exhausted your futile efforts to destroy the work of your gods, what then? Will you fight for your trinket? Die for it?

[ The laughter persists as he wheels to look at her, raising a hand and uttering a command. ]

Take what you need here, return to your companions, and tell them nothing of this encounter. Agent Romanoff and the decanter will remain until you return to me: once you do, you will insist it remain here, at all costs.

[ Oddly enough, his words seem perfectly reasonable (to Andie, at least). There's no way they could destroy the decanter, so what's the point in taking it away from him or trying again? It seems more important to bring the others back and explain everything once they're here to see for themselves. ]

[asap]

[That all seems pretty clear. Andie nods.] ...ok. [And off she goes, dropping the pitcher and runs off to find the soldier uniforms.

Then she runs out to meet everyone, looking like everything's normal.]

[ambitionist]

[meanwhile, the rest of the team is waiting in a cafe in red square because ... them huddling outside the kremlin would probably be suspicious as fuck??? and some of the team needs coffee in the morning to function. (spoilers: it's this one.) he looks up at from his phone where he's probably ... sexting piffy or smth lbr to see andie rejoining them.]

Did you get lost? [it's a joke because she's a speedster!!!! HA HA SO FUNNY.]

[godoftableflips]

[ thor is seated at the table, looking ridiculously out of place and drawing a lot of stares. yep. he looks up seriously when andie appears, leaning forward: ] What news?

[generaldavideus]

[Yeah, they asked all the questions, David's just going to evaluate that Andie's here and she seems to be fine. But Alex isn't wrong, it had taken a while for Andie, which means his spidey sense was starting to tingle.

Or maybe he's just antsy.

But for right now, he'll stay quiet and just wait for her to talk.]

[asap]

[It really hasn't taken a noticeably long time. Maybe a full minute. For Andie, every single second might stretch to make the difference. For other people, it would be negligible. And there was a lot of palace to search.]

I got the stuff! And Loki and Natasha are in the presidential office. We'll find them easily!

[She drops soldier uniforms on the table.]

[ambitionist]

[he would have said the same thing if she was only gone 5 seconds ... he just enjoys giving people shit ok. he looks down at the uniforms she drops down on the table with an eh expression.]

What about the decanter? Did you see it? I guess he probably has it up there in the office with him.

[generaldavideus]

[This is going to be another tag of silence from David as he waits for Andie to answer, but he will reach forward and take one of the uniforms to get a better look at it. It's not the kind of subterfuge he's used to, but it'll have to do.]

[asap]

Yep! It's with Loki. [She bounces in place a bit, grabbing one of the uniforms.] Come on, let's change and go!

[Other questions can wait. She's off to the bathroom to speed change.]

[generaldavideus]

[David goes to speak up, but she's already gone. So he takes a deep breath before nodding.]

Let's get ready.

[He's not really catching on that anything might be wrong. Probably because this mission has gone so sideways already that he doesn't think it could get any worse (wisdom 3).]

[godoftableflips]

Do you wish me to remain nearby, for a signal of some manner?

[ambitionist]

[alex grabs a uniform before asking] Someone wanna give him their phone?