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Who: EVERYBODY
Broadcast: Maybe
Action: Lone Breaker System
When: The fleet will be in this system from 3/10 to 4/14

Welcome to the Lone Breaker System. The planet consists of a single ghost town that replenishes its stock daily, and a desert that does not. There are quite a few points of interest, no consequences, and a mystery to be investigated!

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I'm the only one of my kind. I'm used to it.

Even so.

[she shrugs, setting the jacket onto her pile]

Sometimes. I don't spend a lot of time there. There isn't other beings wandering through like there's supposed to be.

Less lonely and more . . . mm, strange.

[ That makes sense. ]

It must be unnerving, a place like this.

Mmm. There aren't many people here - especially this stop.

I've never seen it so empty before.

Like a void.

[ His gaze drifts before he shakes himself out of it. ]

Yes. Like that.

[all the more reason to only go in there when it's necessary]

[ Loki makes a quiet noise at the back of his throat. ]

That is never appealing.

No, it isn't. Were it not a realm I was familiar with, I'd worry I was beginning to disappear.

A problem where I'm from.

So you work on a system of belief?

That's right. The gods felt that they had too much power that was unchecked, so they handed it over, in a sense, to humanity. So their belief in us gives us our power, and what stories they believe dictate what rules we have to follow.

[she frowns a little] But that was when we would still show ourselves openly.

That seems like a terrible idea. On many, many levels.

It wasn't at first. But the gods didn't think humans would move on so quickly.

[ Loki snorts. ]

Short-sighted of them.

A bit. I've never asked, but from what I hear they regret it. It's caused other problems, too.

I can only imagine.

Mmm. It is what it is, though. Somehow we've managed.

For how long though?

[she shrugs a shoulder]

There are a lot of rules, but there are also a lot of loopholes. And every so often someone slips up or purposes causes an event that gives us a boost of power. It isn't ideal, but there are workarounds.

It all sounds rather complicated.

Is it ever not? Gods never do things simply.

[...] No offense.

[ Loki chuckles. ]

None taken.

Heh. [she lets silence sit between them for a moment or two as she busies herself folding up the clothes she'll be taking]

If I may ask . . . what happened to your Asgard? You don't have to answer if it's too much.

Ragnarok.

[ Loki says it flippantly. ]

It burned.

Oh.

[her Norse knowledge may be lacking, but there's certain words and events that everyone knows. That sure is one of them]

I'm sorry.