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kore_logs2012-11-17 02:03 am
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please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste
Who: Anyone. Everyone.
When: Afternoon of Day 11.
What: Crashing the box opening party, and everything else.
Where: Anywhere. Everywhere.
((Note: Please read the related ooc post before responding.))
If all were right, if the scale were appropriate, the sound would be uproarious. The crack of stone would be deafening, so loud as to be tangible, a kick to the chest. If all were right... but when is it ever?
In the end the growing fissure makes hardly a sound at all. No breeze stirs, no sign at all is made of the immensity of what has just occurred, and if the observers standing about hold their breaths, it isn't because they know. It isn't because they've any idea of what they've done, of how they have so neatly severed the threads of fate, have broken, it seems, a universal constant.
Such an event deserves more than the faint clatter of stone chips on the ground, more than the low grind and scrape as the box begins to unfurl. It gets no more, however. No more than that, as the first rays of light begin to penetrate its inner gloom, falling upon a hand, palm-up, fingers lightly curled. A pale hand and bony, long-fingered, filthy, the nails grown long.
A wrist, smeared with something dark, something that has dried at the edges and begun to flake away, much, very much like dried blood. Blood, perhaps, from what twines sinuously about that wrist, binding it down to the stone upon which it rests: viscera, by the look, by the smell. Intestines, if they are as they appear, glistening faintly as they catch the light.
So on up a thin arm, slow, slow as a wet gasping becomes faintly audible and the fingers of the hand twitch. A figure comes into view, a bare torso, back bent, shoulders and hips tied with the same fleshy coils as the wrist. His head, too, is bound in place, face turned upwards towards a serpent carved from the same stone as the box, arching elegantly above him, fangs bared just inches above the bound man's face.
Man, yes, he clearly is, and for some in attendance he is no doubt familiar, even wasted as he is, even...
At the tips of the serpent's fangs two drops of liquid quiver, poised to fall into what once were eyes but now hardly resemble them. Indeed, most of the surrounding flesh is ruined, horribly burned in such a way as to make abundantly clear the nature of the liquid that grows slowly, slowly nearer to dripping down with each passing moment.
This is no gift. Not just yet. Not as things are now. This is a king brought low, a creature of the most dangerous sort: one who thinks he has lost all that there is to lose – save for his life.
Loki Laufeyson breaks out in gooseflesh as fresh air hits his skin, not from the chill, but from anticipation. So much floods in with that breath, with the light which he can barely perceive through blistered and milky corneas. So much, but it's all wrong.
Thin lips press thinner.
No ice. There should be ice. This is too warm, this is...
Enraging. The wait, the agony, it ought to have paid off, it ought to have brought him in the end to vengeance, to the severance of a lineage and a lifetime that dragged him ever lower, moment by moment. What if this is wrong? What if it's not the time? Too early? Too late?
Loki's hand clenches into a fist and he pulls, and finally, now that the seals have been broken his bonds give, tear with an awful, wet sound and he is free. Free, and he knows what he has to do. Whether or not this is the dawn of Ragnarök, he knows: his is only to destroy.
Bare feet find the ground, and a body which has lain prone for years beyond counting unfolds itself, rises. He's unsteady, soles rasping softly against the floor of the box as muscles remember how to move, how to walk. He can sense them moving, the little things outside his cell, matchsticks, light them up and they burn so quickly – human? Strange.
Some burn brighter than others, though. Some might stop him doing what he has to do. And so his arm shoots out for the nearest and he bares his teeth, a monster, a beast, nothing more than a conduit for the force that brings skull to meet stone.
When: Afternoon of Day 11.
What: Crashing the box opening party, and everything else.
Where: Anywhere. Everywhere.
((Note: Please read the related ooc post before responding.))
If all were right, if the scale were appropriate, the sound would be uproarious. The crack of stone would be deafening, so loud as to be tangible, a kick to the chest. If all were right... but when is it ever?
In the end the growing fissure makes hardly a sound at all. No breeze stirs, no sign at all is made of the immensity of what has just occurred, and if the observers standing about hold their breaths, it isn't because they know. It isn't because they've any idea of what they've done, of how they have so neatly severed the threads of fate, have broken, it seems, a universal constant.
Such an event deserves more than the faint clatter of stone chips on the ground, more than the low grind and scrape as the box begins to unfurl. It gets no more, however. No more than that, as the first rays of light begin to penetrate its inner gloom, falling upon a hand, palm-up, fingers lightly curled. A pale hand and bony, long-fingered, filthy, the nails grown long.
A wrist, smeared with something dark, something that has dried at the edges and begun to flake away, much, very much like dried blood. Blood, perhaps, from what twines sinuously about that wrist, binding it down to the stone upon which it rests: viscera, by the look, by the smell. Intestines, if they are as they appear, glistening faintly as they catch the light.
So on up a thin arm, slow, slow as a wet gasping becomes faintly audible and the fingers of the hand twitch. A figure comes into view, a bare torso, back bent, shoulders and hips tied with the same fleshy coils as the wrist. His head, too, is bound in place, face turned upwards towards a serpent carved from the same stone as the box, arching elegantly above him, fangs bared just inches above the bound man's face.
Man, yes, he clearly is, and for some in attendance he is no doubt familiar, even wasted as he is, even...
At the tips of the serpent's fangs two drops of liquid quiver, poised to fall into what once were eyes but now hardly resemble them. Indeed, most of the surrounding flesh is ruined, horribly burned in such a way as to make abundantly clear the nature of the liquid that grows slowly, slowly nearer to dripping down with each passing moment.
This is no gift. Not just yet. Not as things are now. This is a king brought low, a creature of the most dangerous sort: one who thinks he has lost all that there is to lose – save for his life.
Loki Laufeyson breaks out in gooseflesh as fresh air hits his skin, not from the chill, but from anticipation. So much floods in with that breath, with the light which he can barely perceive through blistered and milky corneas. So much, but it's all wrong.
Thin lips press thinner.
No ice. There should be ice. This is too warm, this is...
Enraging. The wait, the agony, it ought to have paid off, it ought to have brought him in the end to vengeance, to the severance of a lineage and a lifetime that dragged him ever lower, moment by moment. What if this is wrong? What if it's not the time? Too early? Too late?
Loki's hand clenches into a fist and he pulls, and finally, now that the seals have been broken his bonds give, tear with an awful, wet sound and he is free. Free, and he knows what he has to do. Whether or not this is the dawn of Ragnarök, he knows: his is only to destroy.
Bare feet find the ground, and a body which has lain prone for years beyond counting unfolds itself, rises. He's unsteady, soles rasping softly against the floor of the box as muscles remember how to move, how to walk. He can sense them moving, the little things outside his cell, matchsticks, light them up and they burn so quickly – human? Strange.
Some burn brighter than others, though. Some might stop him doing what he has to do. And so his arm shoots out for the nearest and he bares his teeth, a monster, a beast, nothing more than a conduit for the force that brings skull to meet stone.
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He squinted, taking a few steps closer and--Oh, Hell, no.
He pulled out his sidearm and started looking around for any backup he could find. Of course, he also took several steps back until he was against the stone wall of the church, because if it was Loki, Clint could be anywhere with his bow ready. Shit.
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She hurried to the town center, drawing her gun as she heard more sounds from around the fountain. Not shouting, but she'd heard several of those noises during attacks in the city. Streets and buildings being damaged, some things being ruined.
She's barely reached the square when she sees the box - or more precisely, what's left of it - and then sees Loki. She falls back, her brow furrowed as she tries to formulate a plan. Without the top-level Avengers, they don't stand much of a chance.
She spotted Coulson and crept along the perimeter toward him. "Coulson. If you don't have a plan yet, then let's do this. Give the evac order and get everyone to safety. Then we engage Loki and keep him occupied until he's spent. Unless you have a better idea."
While she spoke, she cued up her wristcomm. No matter what happened, they needed the Avengers. "Avengers assemble."
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"No plan yet. Working on that. In the meantime, we might need to give Banner some cover getting out of the way if Loki tries to follow. The last thing we need is two problems." He watched as Banner tried to fall back. Good. At least he knew that he needed to get himself out of that situation.
"Now we know what was controlling Clint, who, by the way, is around somewhere potentially under Loki's control, so watch out for arrows." Phil wasn't really sure if there was a way out of this. Maybe the other Loki will show up, because as far as he knows, the rest of them are all pretty human in comparison to Loki and this is about to be a game of cat and mouse to rival all games.
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She nodded. "You know him better than I do. Can you get him on comms? Feel him out? I'll initiate the rest."
She glanced back toward the square and frowned. "What happened to him in the box? I'm not familiar with that from Norse mythology." Not that Sharon was a specialist in the field.
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"No idea. Not exactly an expert. We might want to ask our Loki that." Assuming that he'd tell the truth, of course. He didn't seem likely to lie unless it was amusing, though.
He kept his gun trained on Loki. "Any orders, boss?"
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"Go around the back. Find Loki - the one who isn't destroying everything - and see if he'll help. See if you can get Barton on comm. If he's sane, get him here, state. We keep Loki contained." She bit the inside of her lip. Or maybe... "When we've got people safe and out of the way, let me know. We'll take this into the woods where he won't be able to hurt anyone." Anyone but them, but that went without saying.
And if they got lucky, they could use Loki to attack whoever's keeping them here.
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The first is to Clint. "Barton, if you're out there and you're you, we could really use some backup here."
Next, he sends one to Gabriel. "Loki, I don't know if you're--of course you're aware. The Loki from my world is here and we could really use your help." He's not really so sure that their Loki's going to want to help, but Phil figures it's worth a try. He's really not a bad guy.
He starts to fall back after that, trying to take stock and see if their Loki is lurking around.
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Still, Loki. That changes things a bit. So does an actual request for help; it's harder to sit back and say 'someone else'll take care of it' when he's been asked. So after a moment of half-hearted internal grumbling, he pops into being next to Phil. 'Lurking' isn't really the word for it, but at least he's there, right?
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After he takes a deep breath and stills himself, it's a little easier to wrap his head around. "You wouldn't happen to know of any good ways to subdue an alternate version of yourself, would you?"
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He looks around, with a slightly irritated frown.
"But since even your Mr Benn-like charms might not be enough for either of those to be very helpful in this situation, I'm gonna say no. If he's actually my mirror verse self, there's not gonna be a lot of people here who can deal with him, so, uh, I suggest praying that he isn't."
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"There has to be something we can do." Phil can't give up. It isn't what he does. He just needs a new angle or a bigger gun. It's always one or the other.
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So long as this Loki really is just a god, Gabriel's fairly sure he could take him. If he's an alternate universe Gabriel though, that would complicate things, especially if he's as insane as he sounds. And either way, he's still not entirely sure it's worth getting into a fight situation. One death is enough, he's not looking to put his neck on the line again, not unless he has to.
"Guess we could try asking him nicely. What's he trying to do, anyway? Are we talking mindless massacre or just a bit of shoplifting, or what?"
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"Destruction and death tends to be his MO and Barton said he mentioned something about Ragnarok. That's your apocalypse scenario, right?" Yeah, that's really all he's got. He's the wrong kind of nerdy for this.
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Luckily, apocalypses and Norse mythology (though perhaps not Loki's world's version of it) are kind of Gabriel's area of expertise. He looks over, sighs. It's always the fragile ones who put themselves in these situations, isn't it? And he really, really doesn't want to have to intervene. At least he doesn't seem to need to yet.
"Son of a... fine. Well, he's not me, that's for sure. I'd know if I was that tall."
Needless to say, that's not the actual reason.
"Crossbow's not gonna work. Probably most of your weapons won't. Wooden stake dipped in the blood of one of his victims is the usual method for this particular brand of pest removal, at least where I'm from. Mistletoe might be worth a shot too, though that is technically Baldur's thing. Or you could try just running the fuck away. He looks kinda pissed off."
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"If I'm going to be one of his victims, would my blood work?" It might be a long-shot, but if anyone would know the answer, it would be, well, Loki himself, right? "A wooden stake could technically be fired from a crossbow, right?" He's already trying to formulate a plan.
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Theoretically, even an arrow would probably do, or at least just the shaft. It'd certainly require less of Phil's blood, which would be a good thing.
"If he's from later than you are or-- however it is that that works in this place, it might. And hey, even if it doesn't, nice big pointy stick through the heart's gonna slow anyone down."
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He starts to look around, but there isn't much in the way of large branches. "Okay, I need a stake and my blood." He starts walking towards the denser trees around the backs of the buildings to avoid Loki's attention. He's not sure if his Loki will follow or how much more help he can expect, but he's already helped more than Phil really expected. He'll owe him for this and that doesn't bother him too much.
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"Planning on slitting your wrists with that thing? 'Cause I'm pretty sure that could get messier than we're aiming for. Especially seeing as how no one with half a brain would bet on this even working."
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"I was just going to slice my palm. You think wrist is a better idea?" He doesn't look amused. "We need to take him out. I can spare a little blood for that."
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"Palm ought to do the trick."
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It seems time isn't on Phil's side, though, and before he can find a decent piece of wood, Loki has vanished.
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