1st Strike [Video]

[godofpancakes]

[The video opens on a large blond man, shirtless, staring with open confusion at the PORTAL. He pokes at the screen, then looks over at the mirror, a frown starting to tug at the corners of his mouth.

He appears to think this is audio, not video.]I have been informed that this is a dream, yet I can not seem to wake up

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[coolexec]

Getting out of the dream city - Promenade, that's what it's called - isn't that easy. The mirror shows a nice first person perspective of whatever you're doing back home although the folks in charge say that this is where we belong and that anything else was a dream.

[Hello Thor, breaking this sort of news never gets easier.]

I can send you some files to look over, help you get ready for however long you're stuck here.

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[godofpancakes]

Anything else--

Impossible. I know quite well where I belong, good man.

[He gives you a nod. Well at least you are being helpful.]

So you live in this little box?

[Guess who never had the time to figure out what a cell phone was, Tony.]

And yes, send what you can. Though if you can, make them larger?

[He chuckles. Oh this is so very interesting!]

I fear I won't be able to read anything as tiny as you.

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[coolexec]

Yeah well don't expect that to matter to the person that brought us here.

[Thor, this is possibly a Loki-like expression. Just a flat stare of 'oh my god could you be more of an idiot?' before he continues talking.]

Okay first off, I don't live in a box, you're just viewing me on the screen of your PORTAL - guess they don't have cellphones on Asgard. The files will be the correct size, they'll come up as something called an attachment and you need to click 'open', think you can handle that?

[There's the sound of typing in the background too.]

Dream up a shirt while you're at it. Don't want you making any ladies drown as the drool.

[And attachments sent:
Stark PORTAL guide PDF
Lavi Information
Dr Glaser Guide PDF]

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[godofpancakes]

[Thor listens, and his face lights up.]

Ah no, we do not. I have seen one before. an...Ah-Phone? But I did not have a chance to use it.

I shall try.

[He chuckles, shaking his head. He's used to dealing with this, now. And he reads, while putting on a shirt.]

That information is quite troubling.

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[aeterno_arma]

[Have a video of a 17 years old teen, that's pretty much male, but it's a bit hard to tell.]

I'm sorry sir, we appear to have no idea how to really leave this place, we are trying. I this might help you.

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[godofpancakes]

[He takes the time to read--and as he does, his face shows all his emotions. Confusion, enlightenment, anger...everything. He isn't very good at schooling his thoughts.

Finally he looks back up]

So you are somewhere else, right now.

[He'll have to apologize to the other man, for assuming that he was a small man in a box.]

So no one knows how to leave?

[Yeah he just repeated your statement back.]

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[aeterno_arma]

[Laurent waits in silence, understanding his confusion and anger.]

Yes, we all were dragged here without our consent. Perhaps the Queen and King knows, but they are not telling us because they believe we belong to this city.

But even them are controlled by someone else, someone we don't know...

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[godofpancakes]

Well perhaps I should simply go down to their palace and speak to them. I am...a future King myself. Perhaps all they need is someone to negotiate our release.

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[redheadpepper]

[Here, have a freckle-faced redhead addressing you, Thor.]

I wish we could leave. As far as I know, no one has yet.

If it helps, I think I may know of someone else here from your world - from Asgard, I mean. At least, he mentioned that name.

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[godofpancakes]

[Hi pretty lady.

At the mention of someone else, though--he ignores everything else she said]

He? What was his name. I implore you to tell me.

[He leans forward. Hogun? Volstagg, perhaps?]

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[redheadpepper]

[My my, what big... biceps you have. Wait. Names? Right! Names. The guy who mentioned Asgard. She glances at her ever-present clipboard, where she keeps lists of the people she meets, because. Well. That's how she remembers names so well.]

He called himself Loki Odinson.

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[godofpancakes]

My brother--he?

[Thor leans forward, looking suddenly very serious, worried--and hopeful]

Is he--is he still angry. Has he tried to do anything?

[thedancingedge]

oOo! * Pounces onto her portal and gives Thor a toothy grin. * It's a City of Dreams called Promenade, Muscles, and there doesn't seem to be a way out. Not yet. Lots of people are looking, but nobody's found anything yet.

[godofpancakes]

[Well aren't you a curious beast? For as upset as he is at being here, he is meeting quite the interesting array of creatures.]

Have this...King and Queen been spoken to directly, over it? A grand misunderstanding could be the cause.

[Once, he would have directly chosen violence as the correct choice. But he's learned. The hard way.]

[thedancingedge]

* Sort of beast? *

I don't know. Maybe. Tao would think somebody would have tried already, ...but she can't keep up with everything that happens. It's just ~too much.

* Well that's good. Promenade def. wouldn't have appreciated the wrath of the Mighty Thor. *

[godofpancakes]

Is Tao your name, then?

[He nods, once]

I am Thor Odinson.

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[forbastards]

My brother, I am cleft in twain.

It makes my heart leap to see you here and know that I am not alone in this land, but I am also wounded to know you are trapped here as well.

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[godofpancakes]

Loki--you are--

[And his face--oh he has never been good at hiding things from you, has he?

There is a mixture of shock, then worry, pain...but then it all fades away to some bright joy. To know you are alive. To know that you are happy to see him--wounded even.

He must truly be dreaming, because the Loki that fell...]

--you're here. Where--where did you come from?

[You fell....]

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[forbastards]

I was leaving my quarters, to go find you, and then I was here.

[He pauses, as if to reign in his emotions. Loki has never been fond of being too expressive.]

I would see you in person, to know that you are my brother and not some new phantom brought here to wound me.

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[godofpancakes]

...really?

[He sounds astonished but--but this is good. Wonderful, even. A second chance to make things right. To fix the neglect and...inequality that he somehow made happen.

He knows nothing of the truth, Loki. Odin still hasn't told him.]

I am right here, brother. Or I could come to you. Whatever you prefer.

[A pause, thick emotion in a sincere voice.]

I have no desire to wound you.