001 || day 368 || video

[asofwar]

[By some miracle of being better prepared for nonsense because she just took a trip to the land of nonsense not two hours ago poking at buttons incessantly and almost breaking her watch before spotting someone in the hallways operating it and copying them nature, Sif has managed to turn on the recording. But 75% of the population might regret it, when they're treated to the angriest look ever.] Loki.

[You know how some people can communicate with one word things like I was gone for two hours, and you left Asgard go to the dumps, what the hell is wrong with you? Yes.] Am I to believe that in the blink of an eye you have brought so much destruction onto Asgard that we are forced to not only ask for reinforcements, but force them? What trick is this?

Show yourself, and face the consequences of your choices, as a good King would. [There is a pause.] Or is this to be my punishment... [Let's talk about traitors to the Throne, shall we? Aha mhm. Nope.] If this is the result of your reign, then all the fewer reasons to regret my choice.

[One more pause. Hold on. Wait for it. Wait. For. I-] That note was stupid.

[ooc; AND hello.]

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EMBARRASSING

[asofwar]

I am Sif, shieldmaiden of Asgard, and you will cease referring to me as human, before I take a mallet to your head for insolence and disrespect.

hehe, she wants in. App her next?

[alternia_strength]

Ah, you are one of the locals? Apologies Asgardian. Your kind looks like humans on the surface. Mind you, you're welcome to attempt to bring a mallet to my cranial cavity if you are feeling so bold.

It would be an entertaining change of pace. I haven't actually fought one of the Asgardians yet. Just giants.

shush you

[asofwar]

We fight harder. [Appreciation of fighting > feeling insulted.]

I am as much local to this Asgard as you are, it would seem.

[alternia_strength]

Ah, yes. Other Asgards. I had been informed there were such. It gets confusing at times. But, do you now? Tell me, what is your preferred form of eradication of the foe? And please do not actually say that it's a mallet. It's not exactly what I would consider an impressive weapon most days.

[Someone should say that to Thor's face.]

[asofwar]

Pray Thor does not hear you. [Lol, too true, though. Anyone could swing a hammer.]

Anything that cuts.

Switching to Video because he likes to show off his bow

[alternia_strength]

mmm, you are a melee combatant then? Pity. I haven't had a proper test of skill with the bow in considerable time. [He switched to video feed. Gray skinned, a little sheen of sweat, tank-top and horns and broken teeth greeted her, grinning in a snaggle-toothed way as he displayed the composite bow he'd picked up from the gods when he first arrived. It was well cared for.]

And Thor? I presume you are not speaking of the one here. I cannot recall seeing him with a hammer, though he might have one and I simply haven't seen him use it.

He's usually drunk.

[asofwar]

[Scree it's an actual troll. Well. That's.

He's very eloquent. For a troll. Now - ]

I speak of the one I know.

[alternia_strength]

Ah, so he has a preference for hammerkind. Odd, the John-human seemed to have a fascination for them as well, though I never understood it.

[He grunted and shook his head.]

So much greater grace and precision in bow-work.

[asofwar]

Bows are the weapons of those who prefer to stand back from a fight.

[alternia_strength]

I am no coward. I have ample enough physical strength for a fight. [He displayed a set of 'guns' to demonstrate, smiling with broken teeth.] In fact, there is something to be said for the tactile experience of crushing an enemy's skull with their bare hands.

But no, there is just something to the symmetry of archery. The precision of the shot, the accuracy, patience and poise. It is the noblest of combatant forms, a picture of enlightened warfare and the art of the tactician who then leads the troops below as he rains feathered death from on high.

[He almost sounded a bit like he fetishized the whole thing.]

[asofwar]

Noblest of combatant forms? Those do sound like the words of an archer...

[alternia_strength]

Precisely. I see you are familiar with our [Egotistical] Glorious ways by now. I have been working at organization, but there are limits.

[asofwar]

Limits, to the glorious strategies an archer can come up with? Surely not.

[alternia_strength]

The number of strategies, oh my no. Limits to resources available. I have dreamed of the idea of a rain of arrows leagues across to pepper our foes and send them to their makers before they even touch the walls. Alas, I must plan for famine.

[asofwar]

[PEOPLE, please. Sif is trying her best to be upset at this whole Asgard thing, kidnapped thing, and all the rest. But if everyone insists on dropping details and making her keep an unwritten record of all the information gathered, she's going to end up doing something stupid.

Like caring about saving this place. For the true Asgard.] Is there not enough food?

[alternia_strength]

Ample food stores. What I am lacking is sufficient trained personnel for a proper archery brigade. We have some excellent individual archers among the travelers, some I hesitate to say are infinitely better than myself [Not hard to believe. He used to break bows in half]

A full force, though, requires men and women currently assigned more to melee detail. We have forces, but only so much, though this may hopefully change over time.

[asofwar]

Recruit, and train them yourself.

[alternia_strength]

Yes, that would be the current work in progress. It is simply exasperating at points. Very well, Asgardian. I think introductions are in order. I am Equius Zahhak.