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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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[jotun]

[ Guard 3 collapses to the ground, dead. Super dead. To his side, guard 5 also slumps to the ground, unconscious.

Guard 1 takes another shot at Andie, missing by a mile (atk 16).

Guard 2 continues to try and stab David, staggering straight past him because he’s worthless (atk 9).

Dodging Natasha’s kick, Guard 4 whips around and fires off a shot at her (atk 16, dmg 7). ]

[godoftableflips]

This is no story, Loki. Why must everything be a game to you? [ still, loki's not making a move, so thor hefts the hammer in his hand, stepping five feet back as well as if to start circling him. he does have an action readied, however, to trigger if loki attacks. if he does, he gets to make an attack of 30, dmg 29+6 electricity if it hits. ] You let these people's lives be pawns for your entertainment.

[jotun]

Why are you so protective of them? What have they to offer you?

[ ... "That I don't." Why do you love humans more than me? This is some Paradise Lost shit. As he begins to circle back, remaining opposite Thor as he shifts, Loki fans out into 5 Lokis again, making it impossible to see which is the original. ]

[ambitionist]

[alex doesn't really give enough of a shit to coup de grace guard 5, so he just moves right on to guard 4. while guard 4 is busy facing natasha, he places his left hand against the back of the guard's neck and does some of his psion-esque shit. (concentration 26) he's using stun, and rolled a 6 for dmg. so he ... bursts the guard's ear drums and makes him deafened. in addition to 6 dmg. yep. that happened. and prob hurt a lot.]

[asap]

[Andie's gonna continue fighting guard 1 in her zippy, obnoxiously movementy way (tumble 29, atk 19, dmg 7 if it hits).]

Isitjustmeoraretheyjusttalking?

[Cause she realizes she's not really good at measuring other people's speed but... it looks like Thor and the Lokis are having a pretty chill conversation. Also Thor and the Lokis would be a great band name.]

[bowtimeandspace]

[ The Doctor continues to not be wanting to do the fighting thing, so he merely shifts out of the way, moving closer towards one of the Loki's in the process. Is this wise? Probably not. This has been a tag. ]

[generaldavideus]

[If Natasha is going to go (to his) right, then David's gonna go left. He turns to face Worthless Guard #2, turning and slashing his sword up (attack 26, damage 5). Is it taking it easy on him because he feels bad for how much that shot sucked? Maybe. But he's still going to try and get so that he can help Andie out regardless.]

[krasnayapautina]

[She takes a step back after she's shot at -- maybe the Doctor has the right idea here JUST SAYING -- but then she tries another time to go after Guard #4, this time with a punch to the face, because he was just able to dodge her kick ... and she doesn't do a super awesome job of it (attack 5; damage 8 but I don't even think I needed to roll that because lol 5?).]

[jotun]

[ The good news is that David, Andie and Alex hit.

Guard 4 lets out a scream of agony at the “stun,” which bursts his eardrums and leaves him deafened, bleeding down his uniform—but still standing. Barely. Strangely enough, he is still fucking terrified after the Doctor’s shout, and that continues to translate given that Alex just ruined his poor Russian life. On the other hand, he still manages to dodge Natasha, taking a five foot step, and this time fires off a shot at Alex (atk 20, dmg 9). For Mother Russia!!

Guard 2 is fucking pissed at David for being the first person to hit him, so he knifes the guy (atk 19, dmg 2).

Guard 1 leans back, Andie’s attack barely scraping him before he steps back to fire at her, startled by her speed enough that he misses the shot (atk 19). ]

[godoftableflips]

[ thor looks left and right again, scowling at the loki-palooza goin on here. he's not very smart, ok, he can't tell the difference. he stalks in a slow circle, watching them for differences??????? 23 spot check idek. you decide how that works out for him. ] You know fully well why I would fight for them now. I thought you had changed, Loki. [ and he will punctuate that word by deciding that one of them looks faker than another one(????) and actually go for a fake loki, not one he thinks is real. hopefully. i mean that wouldn't really be horrible, he's been hitting loki with hammers anyway this whole time. but he will attempt to use his SHATTER SPELL strike with his... fist actually i guess, it has to be unarmed. (atk 28??? if it hits it counts as a greater dispel magic with a caster level check of 23??? ] That you understood!

[jotun]

[ Some families would say that it’s the thought that counts.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case for this family. When Thor winds up and hammers his fist into one of the Loki’s, it … turns out to be the real deal, and shatters the illusion projecting images around him with a crackle of green energy. He staggers back five feet, reeling more from the destruction of the spell than the hit itself (-2 dmg).

To be fair, he does realize that Thor was going for the fake images (sense motive 20 total), but this is Loki, after all. He’s less interested in admitting when he’s wrong, and more interested in causing the biggest diva fit possible. Rather than admitting that he knows it was a genuine mistake, he retaliates, stabbing forward at Thor with his icicle dagger (atk 31, crit on 19 so dmg 20 + 5 ice damage). ]

Oh, make no mistake, brother. I understand quite well that your loyalties lie with these apes. You plea ignorance, yet you decry my place in Asgard, my place on Earth!

[ambitionist]

[yeah well fuck you too, guard 4. he follows the guard's steps, then lunges at him with the knife still in his right hand. atk 24 (with an action point bc fuck that guy), 8 dmg.]

[jotun]

[ it's goin' down

i'm yellin' timberrrrrr

you better move

you better crash dramatically to the floor and drop your gun because your name is guard 4 and you're unconscious. ]

[asap]

[Andie yelps as she dodges the bullet, then makes what I'm assuming is a much less successful tumble check (tumble 17) before jabbing forward with her blade again (atk 20, dmg 4 if it hits).]

[bowtimeandspace]

[ Yay there are... Less Lokis. This possibly makes this easier for him. Or not. Who knows. Looking over, he tries to see the decanter (spot 17) and in the commotion runs towards it. ]

[generaldavideus]

[David just looks at that stab of nothing with a "that's the best you've got" sort of expression, before slashing back, clearly not deterred (attack 27, damage 5).]

[krasnayapautina]

[Oh hey thanks Guard #4 how nice of you, Natasha will just be picking up that dropped gun now. So, picking it up off the ground, Natasha aims at Guard #1 and takes a shot. (attack 18; damage 12.)]

pls specify in your tag which guard you are hitting! i know there's only two but it helps me.

[jotun]

[ While the Doctor can't spot the decanter from where he is, he does spot the only reasonable direction to go from here: a door off to the side of the room. It'll take him his full turn to get to the (closed) door, but next turn he's free to go inside.

When Andie hits Guard 1, it knocks him out of the way of Natasha's blow easily. He winds back up, ignoring Andie and fires off a shot at Natasha (atk 18, dmg 5). That's what you get for drawing his attention.

Guard 2, meanwhile, winds up and takes another stab at David (atk 22, dmg 4). ]

[godoftableflips]

You are the one who has forsaken your place among your people! Your lust for power will never bring you what you seek! [ winds up and batter up: atk 39, atk 28, dmg 40 and 43 ]

[jotun]

[ Loki takes advantage of Thor's betrayed fury, allowing him to barrel straight through an illusory duplicate, shattering it while the real Loki teleports 10 ft away, snickering as if he holds some great secret. For all intents and purposes, he appears perfectly unfazed, composed even. Certainly unapologetic. ]

My people? My people are dead.

[ At the very least, he tried to kill most of them. Who knows how successful he was. Maybe there are like 5 frost giants hanging out somewhere who weren't destroyed when Loki fucked the Bifrost in the ass. ]

You have no idea what I seek.

[ Rather than lunge forward to attack, Loki casts a spell. sending an arc of fire from his fingertips to scorch Thor for 27 damage (ref 19 for half). The flames leap from where Thor stands to Andie, dealing 4 fire damage to her (ref 19 for half). Another 2 fire damage hits David as the fire spreads to him (ref 19 for half, also). ]

[ambitionist]

[well shit son. alex is going to take this moment to ... drink his other potion how that there aren't 50 guards on his dick. even tho his teammates may be on fire. w/e. +7 hp for him.]

[asap]

[Owww Andie liked this outfit. But her reflex save of 36 means she's definitely just taking half.

Andie's wis 13 means she realizes where the Doctor is headed since there's... only one door and she remembers what's behind it and NO HE CAN'T. She breaks away from her fight and beelines for the Doctor, heedless of any attacks of opportunity she may provoke. Then, she sticks out her leg and hooks it around the Doctor's, trying to trip him up (atk 22, opposed str check 5).]

Stop! You can't!

[bowtimeandspace]

[ All limbs that he is, and quick as Andie is, she actually does manage to trip him, gdi Andi (str 4), but he rights himself and looks towards her. But as soon as she speaks, he frowns. (sense motive 18). ]

What do you know? What aren't you telling us?

[generaldavideus]

[David manages to stamp the fire out quickly, just in time to follow Andie's mad dash after the Doctor (reflex save 19). He's still got a guard in front of him, so it's not like he can go after her, but he can yell, at least.]

Andie, what the hell!?

[Unfortunately, it leaves him distracted so when he does try to attack Guard #2 again, he misses, slicing just past him with the sword (attack 17).]

[krasnayapautina]

[Whoa hi fires. Since there are enough people 'wtf'-ing at Andie by now, Natasha doesn't think she needs to join in on that right now and will let those already there take care of that issue while she continues to try to take care of the issue of Guard #1 by shooting right back at him again (attack 19; damage 13). After firing the weapon, however, she takes a chance to do some yelling herself:]

Seriously? [Because really wtf.]