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[extraordinarymuse]

[When the video appears Kate seems to be frowning, taking a brief moment to realize it's on before she blinks and straightens.]

I'm Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD. I was wondering if anyone had any information as to what this place is. The woman I met earlier was very unhelpful and this letter is absolutely ridiculous. Do you think this is a game? Kidnapping a cop will get you-

[She stops herself, breathing through her nose for a moment before straightening again. Kate smiles , a bit pained but no longer looking like she's about to rip off someone's head.]

The letter called this place Asgard. From Norse mythology, right? Or the Thor comics? And the woman said something about how my room is in the Heimdall House. I wasn't big on the Thor comics, but he's the guy who guards the rainbow road, right?

Oh, and if you see-

[She stops herself again, this time her lips pressing into a thin line. No. She didn't very much care if Castle was here, besides, he'd probably contact her if he saw this anyway. Or so she hoped.]

The letter also mentioned bringing life, color, back to this city, right? [She looks around, frowning slightly.] It looks colorful enough to me. Anyway, if you have any information as to what the hell is going on, that'd be great. Thanks.

[And the video cuts out.]

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[watsowned]

Nice to meet you, Kate. I'm Wendy Watson, solver of exotic problems employed by O.2.S.T.K.

You might want to leave your denial, logic, religion, and skepticism behind, because all they're gonna do is get in the way of any explanation you've been given or will be given.

Because this is Asgard, the Asgard of mythology and the Thor comics, although no attractive, blonde, sex gods have appeared to save the day and flip their luscious hair, so your mileage may vary on that one. What this Asgard lacks in sex gods, though, it makes up for in temperamental ones, who can be nice and also assholes. And when they're assholes, boy, are they ever assholes.

You and me and everyone else with a mildly tacky, Dick Tracy esque communicator bracelet, have been kidnapped, stripped of any previous mutant abilities, given new superpowers, told to bring color back to this world -- despite the recent return of the rainbow, and are also apparently warriors here to help stop the Norse apocalypse. Also known as Ragnorok, also known as we best figure out how to save ourselves and Assholeguard post-haste, or y'know, we'll all die in the Norse apocalypse and no one will ever know because helloooo, Alternate Universe Shenanigans, party of suck.

Lately, people have been exploded and stabbed on the Ides a la Julius Caesar. Color has returned, fog has come and gone, a training place where people can learn to protect themselves has been established by King/Prince/Arthur the royal something or other and the great wizard Merlin -- who are both real, by the way, PSA's about staying away from the Norse koolaid have been made, and I've said this explanation like 500 times in the past few days, so let me know if I missed anything, you have questions, ect.

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[extraordinarymuse]

[Blink. And then blink, blink, and maybe one more time before Kate is just kind of... :|ing at you. But she appreciates the references, really. Especially since she is very doubtful of basically everything you just said.]

So you're saying that we are basically being held in some alternate dimension to bring life to this alternate dimension city while we also avoid Ragnorok, the end of the universe?

And we don't get extremely hot, blond, australian actors playing Norse gods directed by Kevin Branagh?

I don't have any questions, though. So you must have gotten it down.

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[watsowned]

Got it in one.

The end is near, there are no Hemsworths in sight, and I haven't even met a single Australian kidnapee yet. Talk about exclusion.

[ She grins. Positivity is good in apocalyptic situations. ] Excellent. I'm think about just typing up the basics and current events at some point. Some kind of timeline thing, maybe. It'd be easier than getting my monologue on, although talking it out is kinda cathartic.

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[extraordinarymuse]

It's kind of a crappy Asgard if you ask me. I should at least get an Anthony Hopkins.

[This is more of Kate totally not believing anything! But that works too.]

Do people really show up here that often?

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[watsowned]

No such luck. How little respect this Asgard has for the Marvel Cinematic Universe is almost appalling.

[ She things for a second. ]

The gods have a thing for kidnapping at about two week intervals. It's either weird god tradition slash ritual, or they have some freaky, abduction-related OCD.

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[democratize]

It's not normally like this. I don't know what's going on, but it's normally a lot more grey.

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[extraordinarymuse]

What do you mean, grey? Colorless?

What's changed?

[democratize]

Basically. Some of the color was coming back, then we had a weird fog--then the fog cleared and this happened. Something's probably about to happen in the next week, by the look of it.

[extraordinarymuse]

Something? What kind of something?

[democratize]

Don't know. Last time there were ice pixies, and the time before that, a dragon. Do you know how to fight?

[likesavantgarde]

The color is sort of a recent thing. It's usually a bit more... gloomy and gray.

[extraordinarymuse]

Then why is everyone still here?

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[holmes_fanatic]

This city wasn't this colourful when we arrived -- then again, the Giants hadn't declared war on us when we arrived either. The gods aren't exactly great at keeping things up to date!

As for what this place is -- it's been described as the world that links all worlds. According to Odin, what happens here effects all other worlds. It's -- kind of hard to accept but I think that part is true at least!

It's pretty cool to have another detective here!

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[extraordinarymuse]

[Wow he's really cute!]

But if everything is so colorful, why are you still here? And why are people still showing up?

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[holmes_fanatic]

It doesn't really make sense, does it?

But before the colour came back, the entire city was covered in fog. You couldn't leave your house it was that thick. We've had the weather act weirdly before -- and the first time, a dragon showed up after to declare war and the second time we were attacked by ice faeries. So ... this doesn't seem mean but it might not be what it seems.

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[extraordinarymuse]

[Ice faeries? Dragon? She'd roll her eyes but this isn't the first she's heard of it. What kind of place is this?]

So are you expecting something dangerous to happen? Is that what the fog means?

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[holmes_fanatic]

I don't know. It'd make sense but so far, we don't seem to be threatened ... and there was no doubt the last time!

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[deputychief]

I'm afraid it's rather more than a local government matter, Detective. The kidnapping here is on a grander scale, as the others have said.

But I'm curious, what "rainbow road" are you referring to?

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[extraordinarymuse]

More? [She is not very happy about that.] Is there anyone here I can talk to? Someone in charge, maybe?

[And from what she's heard, kidnapping isn't the only thing going on here.

But then she sighs, because really. This whole thing is absolutely ridiculous.]

I don't know much about norse mythology, but back home a movie came out recently about Thor. In the movie the rainbow road was a transportation device used by the gods to move between worlds. Heimdall, in the movie, protected that bridge.

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[deputychief]

Well, Heimdall may be in charge of Heimdall House. But the gods are not particularly easy to get in contact with.

[He shrugs a little at the description of the movie.] If they have a rainbow road here, they haven't shown it to us -- but it's about as an apt a description of what nevertheless takes place here as one could hope for.

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[extraordinarymuse]

Well I guess they'll have to make an exception.

[She sighs, shaking her head slightly.]

This place is seeming more and more unbelievable the more I learn.

[mybffmrhat]

You sure seem to know a lot about comics, ma'am.

And it wasn't always this colorful. It was a lot grayer before the fog...

[extraordinarymuse]

It was a hobby when I was younger. I haven't really kept up with it.

The fog?

[mybffmrhat]

Still! You definitely know more than I did when I first got here.

Yeah, there was a real thick fog a few days ago. Like so thick you couldn't even go outside. But when the fog lifted, it was all bright and colorful like this!

[extraordinarymuse]

Yes well, with what I'm still learning, I don't think my comic knowledge is going to help me much.

And nothing like that has ever happened before?