l.odinson | Missive 001

[shiftedshape]

[Loki's having trouble sleeping. The turbulence has his heart racing and stomach dropping with every sudden motion, and while he knows the likely reason why, he's not about to admit it. And while the Navarch's offer of medication is kind, he's not so certain he wants to knock himself out entirely while he's paired with his current inmate.

So he's up. And tense. And looking for a distraction. Perhaps he's not alone.]

Is anyone else awake? I'm not one for pills, unfortunately, so I haven't managed a single wink. And now I am just terribly bored.

Who's up for a chat? We're all still fairly new here, after all. Can't hurt to share the basics with the group, yes?

For example: Why are you here? Or why do you *think* you're here, at any rate. That should get us through the rest of the night on its own, for some of you.

But I also have time to hear all about your tragic childhoods and major regrets, if you'd like. Might as well get started on graduations while we've got the extra time. And what better time for baring your soul during a bout of insomnia?

Comments

c.fraser

[nineteenfortyfive]

You don't want to go first, Loki?

l.odinson

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I thought it impolite to go on about myself if nobody asked.

[A soft lie, perhaps, given he commissioned statues and plays about himself...]

But the short version is that I need to ensure that I go back to my reality with a means to keep it from getting horribly worse. I'm hoping my windfall will help with that. Possibly more than one, depending on what needs solving, I suppose.

And if anyone's going to be a good warden, it's someone who's graduated themselves, right? Hence the Navarch's invitation, I imagine.

[That's a lie. He certainly wants to do well, if only to make his own life easier, but he's also waiting for the Navarch to realize that the God of Lies was a poor choice for an authority figure. Any day now.]

text | jvolkhov

[saklas]

Your reality.

Oh, I can't WAIT for this. This is going to be such a complex roux of bullshit you're about to feed us. I've got Michelin star reviewers waiting on my text whenever you're ready to debut this fucking masterpiece.

[nineteenfortyfive]

[Claire feels mildly agitated. Maybe it's just residual annoyance from chatting with William...?]

That would be the hope. But I imagine every reality has a laundry list of problems, no? You might be here a while.

j.barnes > private

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i'm bored too
convenient

gathering intel i see

l.odinson > private

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Or just creating a sense of community amongst strangers.

Not all of my motives are ulterior.

silco

[kaijuice]

I imagine it has something to do with the murder.

l.odinson

[shiftedshape]

That is likely the first part, yes.

But the Navarch picks specific inmates. Ones who can improve, in theory. Go back to their reality better than they left it.

How are you with change?

text | jvolkhov

[saklas]

u kidnapped me. none of you are my friends. i don't want to chat. build a tomb out of dicks. mummify yourself. die.

majorly regret being fucking kidnapped

l.odinson

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I can't imagine that tomb would be structurally sound. Unless the dicks were also mummified. But that might be less insulting, somehow.

Anyway, you weren't kidnapped. You died. If anything you were rescued from being dead.

[lessandmorethanhuman]

Pretty sure we're likelier to die of dehydration before we mummify unless we take very specific steps. I think I learned about some old, now forbidden, mummified Buddhist monks somewhere though.

text; hayakawa

[spanning]

How do all of you type on these things so quickly

j.barnes

[counterstep]

practice
hand stretches can help
it might be easier to use both thumbs starting out until you can do it with just one

l.odinson 1/2

[shiftedshape]

Practice.

Which I suppose you'll be getting a lot of. These things don't seem to have video or audio features. Perhaps the Navarch could alter yours, if you asked.

text | jvolkhov

[saklas]

[like less than a second after he posts:]

get good

l.odinson 2/2 > video > text

[shiftedshape]

Wait.

We figured it out.

[Ezio figured it out, this is a lie. But Loki switches to audio and gives a quick verbal explanation of the settings before switching back.]

But I'm entirely too exhausted to move anything more than my thumb at the moment, myself.

t.crawford

[sanctus_dei]

I'm here because someone said "do you want to be alive again" and I said yes.

That's it

It was a stupid move on my part

l.odinson

[shiftedshape]

You'd rather be dead?

audio | auditore

[hiddenblade]

Meet me somewhere and we can talk.

[Why the fuck does everyone want to type on this thing all day?]

l.odinson

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What

How

How do I change it

[HOW DID EZIO FIGURE THIS OUT AND HE DIDN'T. Loki is tech savvy! This is humiliating.]

A. Mercer

[lessandmorethanhuman]

Not a fan of the future-tech huh?

Where would you want to meet though.

[It's not an invitation yet. But Alex hadn't actually minded his interactions with Ezio. Yet.]

[lessandmorethanhuman]

'soul baring' is your idea of how to deal with insomnia huh? My go-to was always reading.

[shiftedshape]

It's one approach. Reading isn't off the table yet.
If anything, this is simply multi-tasking.

william.temple

[omniavincit]

Did your communicator come pre-loaded with these?

I'm here to make the world a better place. [ This is...not a lie?? But nowhere close to the whole truth. ]

[shiftedshape]

Was yours? That would make wardening a lot easier, wouldn't it?
That's 90% of the job, right there.

The world being your world, I take it. Any specific plans?

[Is this why he and William never really talked on the barge? Because William is irritating?]