closed ♔ i've lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times

[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. ]

Comments

[jotun]

[ The case inside is locked. Disable device of 20 or higher can open it. Or, you can melee attack to try and break it. ]

I do not belong anywhere.

[ Loki's voice is thick with the admission, giving way to a raw, vulnerable honesty. ]

You would have me imprisoned to put that truth from your mind. Raised in Asgard, but never truly belonging. And you, its faithful protector. Beloved by all. You would game at some illusion of insight into my mind?

[ambitionist]

[alex approaches the case, rams his elbow against it (idr the exact atk roll i rolled it last night i think it was like ... 11???? not very good in any case lmfao.), not expecting the glass to be so sturdy. oww.] So ... [he glances around at his teammates.] Who's handy at lockpicking?

[bowtimeandspace]

[ Luckily, the Doctor has a thing for this. He produces his screwdriver and tosses it in the air, aiming it at the cabinet when he catches it, and watches it open with a satisfying click. Yay. (disable device 36 plus the sonic which insta-opens locks anyway so booyah) ]

Right. Nobody get thirsty.

[generaldavideus]

[David glances back to the arguing Asgardians, before nodding towards the door, shifting Andie in his arms so that he can better carry her out of there.]

Let's just get out of here. We can figure out how to fix the prime minister once we're clear.

[krasnayapautina]

[Before she even starts moving towards the door, Natasha looks over at Andie in David's arms.]

Anyone know if she's going to be okay when she wakes up in ... however long?

[godoftableflips]

I would have you return without chains this time! Is this too much to hope for?

[jotun]

What a foolish notion to entertain, knowing that the time for chains has long since past. [ Loki relinquishes a humorless laugh, sharp and biting. ] As if you could hold me in them. As if there were ever a possibility I might return out of them.

[ambitionist]

[wheeeee going towards the door.] I just knocked her out for a little bit. If she wakes up not okay, it's not my fault.

[bowtimeandspace]

[ He glances towards Natasha ]

Don't suppose you know a back door out, do you?

[generaldavideus]

[David keeps moving, just heading towards the door while he waited for Natasha to give directions.]

[krasnayapautina]

No one told me about any secret passageways that might exist in the walls or wherever, if that's what you mean. But a back door -- or any sort of real exit door -- would obviously mean getting back down to the first floor, first. [A beat.] Unless we're all up for jumping out one of the windows on this top floor. [She says that with a straight face but no, it's obviously not a serious suggestion.]

[godoftableflips]

What other option would you give me, brother?

To see you slain for your crimes? To wield the sword myself? [ i keep rolling every round to see if he notices everyone has fucked off and the answer

is still no. anyway he looks emotionally pained and angsty over here at the prospect of having to put loki down like a three legged family dog. ] You know I cannot let stand what you have done. Ever and again, you grant me no choice.

[jotun]

[ ok like here's the thing loki notices but like

does he care ???

the dice say no. he cares to a degree of 2. and it's not hard to imagine why, given that he has what he wants now: attention. from the one person he could possibly want it from. so he's effectively not following the others at all and they'll just

have no idea what happened to loki at all until they hear about russia on the news i guess. but congrats you got the decanter??

as they leave, loki is still raging. ]

If I've truly tied your hands, then take up that beloved hammer of yours and finish this, brother.

[generaldavideus]

[ ... Natasha, you are being so helpful, thank you. Obviously they need to go downstairs, but the best way to do that is not the elevator.]

Let's take the stairs.

[ambitionist]

It's the fucking Kremlin, of course there are secret passageways. [his knowledge (history?) check was only like 14 tho so that is ... all the information he has to share with the world about said passageways. but he shrugs like ok whatever. stairs. let's do it.]

[bowtimeandspace]

I'm not sure that pair out there would notice the building falling down around them. We should be able to just stroll past.

[ Sadly he doesn't know where those passages are either. ]

That said, someone with a big pointy thing might want to go first.

[generaldavideus]

[Given that he is the one with the big pointy thing, but not going to be much good with Andie in his arms.]

Someone can either take her rapier or take her and I can take point. I'm not picky.

[But in the meantime, he's just going to keep walking and looking for the stairs (navigate ... 9). Someone else should probably take point if this is the precedent we're setting.]

[krasnayapautina]

Yeah. I'll grab the rapier, then. [So she does. She's more confident with that than taking on the possibility of accidentally dropping a teammate at some point. To the stairs they go (navigate 19).]