First Report

[not_sasuke]

[Anonymous Video]

[The feed begins, and there isn't a soul in sight. Rather, it appears to be someone's room, but given that there is a bright pink cloth spread over the bedding that certainly doesn't match up with Freya's House colors, it would be difficult to determine anything from that.

However, the bedspread isn't the real eye catcher; in the middle of this is an ancient journal, and it's on these pages that the camera zooms. Much of the text is blacked out, but certain phrases and words do stand out.]

████████████ series of tall mountains and deep canyon near the kingdom of Svartalfheim.

Unfortunately, the Earth Giants no longer exist within that place - or indeed, anywhere in Yggdrasil. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ the fall of Laufey █████████████████████████████████ the end of the Earth Giants. What choice did we have? █████████████ was unnatural. ██████████████████████████ wrong.

There was no other option. We had to abandon the survivors. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

[After focusing on this page for a good few minutes - plenty enough time to read through what text is visible - the feed will end only to be followed shortly by...]

[Anonymous Text]

I received something interesting over the holidays. It's a pity that little battle took up so much time, but now that we have done our part, I thought it would be a good time to bring this up.

It seems the gods haven't been entirely transparent with us, now have they? Based on the other books found in the library, this is most likely referring to someplace called Ginnungagap. You can look it up if you want, but good luck. The gods have blacked out anything important. Or at least... most of what was important.

I can't be the only one curious about this, can I?

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[dragonspeak]

Definitely not the only one.

You said someone sent this to you?

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[not_sasuke]

I believe everyone got a gift around then as part of the festival.

This one is mine.

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[optimistical]

"Abandon the survivors"?

[ That... doesn't sound very good...

Where did you get this journal?

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[not_sasuke]

It was a gift from the winter festival.

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[abhero]

the more time i spend here the more i'm convinced the gods are a bunch of dicks

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[not_sasuke]

I wouldn't argue with you there.

Doesn't paint a very nice picture, now does it?

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[ex_outofcontrol435]

No other choice but to abandon survivors?

Throw in the "unnatural" and that sounds like a load of bullshit.

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[not_sasuke]

Unfortunately, anything about why the survivors had to be abandoned are blacked out.

Presumably anyway.

I'm getting a little curious about this Ginnungagap place, though. It sounds like some pretty important stuff happened there.

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[samantha_grey]

[No anonymous games this time around. Samantha's interest was immediately piqued by this.]

You get used to the fact that they're not up front about anything they don't want us involved in after a while. This is nothing new, and neither side's hands are completely clean from what I've seen.

That all aside, yeah. You could paint me just a little curious. To say the least.

[Not to mention privately glad that she saw two of her co-conspirators chiming in, even if Pyro was being his usual Pyro self.]

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[not_sasuke]

[On the other hand, Yuusuke's just fine hiding behind his little cover.]

Well, a war's a war. Of course neither side will be perfect.

But what I want to know is how an entire race of giants was wiped out. Considering the current situation, it seems like it could be important.

[For quite the variety of reasons, really.]

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[isblind]

Of course there would be things they've kept hidden. It's in the nature of any who hold such influence to conceal all they want, what they think will reflect poorly upon or undermine them, isn't it?

But regardless of what survivors that refers to, whatever might have happened, it can't have been justified. There would be no need for secrecy over standing by that action- inaction, rather- with regret, were there truly no other option.

Words like that don't come from regret. They come of guilt. And no, you certainly aren't the only one who should like to know why there was reason to hide it.

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[not_sasuke]

A real justice-seeker, huh?

I'd really like to know more about all of this. But something tells me sitting around here in the city isn't going to give us any answers if the state of this journal is anything to go by.

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[unchain]

I don't like the sound of this.

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[not_sasuke]

Abandoning survivors does sound pretty terrible, doesn't it?

I wonder what could have driven anyone to do such a thing?

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[asgardstricks]

Your Earth holidays are fucking stupid.

[ Yeah, someone's pissy. ]

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[stakes]

Yeah, well, yours aren't much better. [ Hmph. ] This is serious.

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[stakes]

[ Well. Her faith in Thor is suddenly a little bit shaken. She likes him best of all... And yet. ]

They're hiding things, then. Great. Because that totally helps us fight their battles for them.

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[not_sasuke]

Well, everyone's got their secrets.

It just happens that in this case it's the abandonment of a number of survivors for some mysterious reason that ultimately led to the end of an entire race.

[No big deal, right?]

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[windbreak]

looks like u aren't
but why black out only some of it?

[Sure, especially in light of that "little" battle, the rest of it should bug him more, but...]

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[not_sasuke]

Good question!

I wonder if any of the gods would be willing to answer? I'd like to know the reason for that myself.

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[madeforwalking]

Hope spreading this was worth it. The consequences don't look too promising for you.

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[not_sasuke]

I wonder about that.

It's not like they can stop the spread of this information now. Too many people have seen it already. Cursing me wouldn't do them any good.

And even if they did, I'm sure people would have an issue with that. I mean, I haven't really done anything wrong, have I?

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[secondborn]

Why would they send this to you at all if so much of it is blacked out?

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[not_sasuke]

Probably the same reason for the other journals in the library. They're in pretty much the same state, but those ones don't mention anything about the abandoned survivors or any "wrongness."

It's a record, of sorts. Just not at all complete.

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[asgardspride]

Seriously? Don't even go there, you little...

[Loki isn't the only one who's more than a little pissed off, but when is Baldr in a good mood?]

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[not_sasuke]

Ah, sorry, was I supposed to keep that to myself?

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[asgardsverse]

[ Freyr will simply look pained, and there is a delay following the start of the video before he actually speaks. ]

It isn't what any of you think.

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[granddevil]

And what are we thinking?

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[pmsgargoyle]

Oho, it seems things are getting interesting.

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[not_sasuke]

It does seem that way, doesn't it?

[He's never been above starting a ruckus to get the information he wants.]

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[conquering]

well.

[ just this face. she hates to say 'I told you so' but. ]

finally, the people of this city will see the true faces of their so called beloved Gods. Cowards and fools.

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[asgardspride]

Watch your mouth when speaking of things you can't possibly understand, and don't need to stick your nose into.

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[bloodypocket]

... The sacrifice in exchange for others, is that it?

['Unnatural.' But there were many unnatural things about here, how different was this anomaly?]

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[not_sasuke]

Seems like a possibility, doesn't it?

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[smartwinchester]

[Sam has actually been pretty kind, to most of the gods. He has little issue with any of them personally, but he doesn't trust them. Not one iota. He's been burned way too many times trusting the wrong almighty overlord and he wasn't about to start now.

It's good to know that after well over a year in Asgard, his suspicions, his gut, still has some weight.

Sam hasn't located these books in the library despite the fact that he practically lives there and he's more than a bit miffed about that (some proof of what he's been saying has been underneath his nose all this time, excellent), but he pushes aside his pride to focus on the most important aspect.]

Censorship. That's new. Hate to say 'I told you so', but, well --

[With a soft huff of laughter, amazed. Unbelievable.]

I guess I'll just wait for the oncoming train of 'this isn't what it looks like' and get to work trying to decode whatever bullshit they don't want us to see.

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[not_sasuke]

If you can figure anything out, that'd be helpful.

Although with the state of the journals, I wonder if it will even be possible to figure out anything just by looking at what's here in Asgard.

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[runtothesunlight]

[Welp, sounds like it's time for a SEES meeting soon. Unfortunately, not over a name change.]

Which section of the library has these books?

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[not_sasuke]

Innermost section. It looks like it used to be restricted, but at some point it got opened up.

[ofthursday]

Intriguing, though not entirely surprising. Where did you find this information?

[not_sasuke]

It was gifted to me during the holidays, just like how everyone else seems to have gotten one thing or another.

Mine just turned out to be extra interesting.

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[allpurposescarf]

Received? From whom?

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[not_sasuke]

From whoever kindly distributed all of those gifts during the holiday festivities.

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[livedtwice]

This is unnecessary.

[Harry's frustrated by all the answers that came before, by everyone latching on to this. He isn't a fan of the gods in the way he had been when he first arrived, but approaching it this way is stupid.]

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[asgardspride]

Did someone finally learn the meaning of tact?

[Ahem, this is as close to a 'thank you' as Harry's likely to get easily.]

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[larps]

Yeah, that's not fishy at all. Not just how bad the crap that's blacked out must be if this is what's showing, but why wouldn't they just cross out all of it?

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[not_sasuke]

I wonder about that... Even the other journals in the library have some similar information, but nothing about this "abandoning survivors" business, or even anything being "wrong" or "unnatural."

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[asgardsfog]

Seriously?

I look away for a few minutes and you losers drag up old as dirt stuff like this? [What the hell, gods. Also, pun intended.]

Just drop it. It's none of your business.

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[redhourglass]

You have to admit. It looks bad.

Asking people to drop it now is never going to happen.

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[redhourglass]

[ she's been watching this post. reading it, for a few hours, on the frequencies she can access. for those who have privated their threads, that's probably a good idea. now, she's ready to wade in. ]

it's a leap to think that they'll do the same to us.

or that this has any relevancy beyond telling us what we already know about their character.

it would be a mistake to jump to conclusions.

[ considering how the gods who have reacted have responded, it doesn't seem as though it was a secret. or a mistake. if it had been a secret, why not black out the entire passage? if it was a mistake, why not remove it from the network immediately?

she copies down the passage just in case. ]

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[livedtwice]

Honestly, it's as simple as 'you can't save everyone'. Nothing in these words says 'we were glad to let those survivors die'.