System Mingle!!

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Who: EVERYONE!!
Broadcast: If you want?
Action: In the current system!
When: ALL MONTH!!!

It's a system mingle! What are you up to? Exploring the surface? Living the best nightlife ever? Fighting off your own allergies? Doing your best to ignore Fred.....?


System Info Here!

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[dothelokimotion]

[ he sighs, dramatic. ]

Why not?

[rebuildyourruins]

[Good enough. Loki may make airs of not being interested, but Thor knows better by now. His brother wouldn't agree at all if he had better things to do.

So as soon as Loki's done with his drink they exit the bar, heading into the street and arguing about which bar looks like the next best option. Too gaudy, not gaudy enough, full of ornamental butterflies, a dress code that requires a tie... if nothing else, Kenn-Tellnic has plenty of variety. After a while they finally hit upon a spot they both agree on: aesthetically classy and not so densely populated, with a much better range of options. The view isn't so good here, but a few drinks in that ceases to be much of a problem.

Thor pokes Loki in the shoulder across the table, setting his glass down.]

How's your ship doing? Are you doing anything for it while we're here?

[Loki always seems to have some project on the go for the First Breath and it's of interest to Thor, both as a frequent visitor and a captain in his own right.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki hums, cradling his drink. ]

Not much. I'll make sure our inventory is up to date, see that everyone has what they need.

[rebuildyourruins]

Yeah, I've started on supplies as well. But it does not seem as though it will be hard to manage here.

[No need to hunt their own meat or collect from out in the wilds. There are stores for every conceivable thing here.]

And it is not so difficult to provision for five, compared to when it was double that many.

[dothelokimotion]

No, but I like it. I don't enjoy labour but it is . . . pleasant to have something to manage.

[ it fills the time and reminds him a little of his brief foray as king. he doesn't miss being the all-father though. ]

[rebuildyourruins]

[Hm. Thor can't help but find it a bit hypocritical, when Loki had torn strips off him not long ago for working too hard on everything. Not enough to say so though. If nothing else he agrees with the sentiment. Often enough, when he's at loose ends, he works on the Blue Fish in some manner to have something productive to do.

He makes an agreeing noise, fetching up his glass again.]

You've grown into it, I think.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki was still right. he may work and be a little anal about his ship, but he rarely drowns himself in it. still he eyes thor over that statement. ]

Have I? I doubt I've changed all that much.

[rebuildyourruins]

If I remember rightly, you nominated yourself as captain just because you could.

[Not exactly a noble intention.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ with aplomb. ]

And yet, I'm still a better captain than the Fleet combined.

[rebuildyourruins]

[Lifting his chin, Thor replies with stubborn certainty.]

Except me. I'm a good captain.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki






takes a sip of his drink. ]

[rebuildyourruins]

[Thor just kicks Loki under the table and has a mouthful of his own drink. It's less an argument than silly needling. Familiar, and not in an unpleasant way.]

I mean it, though. I've seen what you've done for your ship.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki shrugs. ]

They were mostly aesthetic changes.

[rebuildyourruins]

Yes, and? They are changes nonetheless.

[Just take the damn compliment, Loki.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ compliments are hard, but he nods slowly. ]

Thank you.

[rebuildyourruins]

It is worth saying.

[Thor believes that, genuinely. It's been nice to see Loki commit himself to something like this, ephemeral though it might end up being. That's the same of everything in this place though - built on uncertain foundations. Swirling the liquid in his glass, Thor stares into it with the past on his mind.]

The Blue Fish has changed so much in the time I've been here. When I stop to think about it, it seems so stark.

[dothelokimotion]

[ ah. thor does have more friends around. it's not surprising he'd feel the sting. ]

It must be hard. To watch it change so.

[rebuildyourruins]

Yes, but that is the way of things here, isn't it? It's to be expected.

[He pauses. Where he would normally stop, he decides to keep going, itching at the layers of silence that have fallen over him so often.]

And yet I still find myself wanting to speak with them sometimes - Sokka and Riona. Before I remember again that they aren't here anymore.

[dothelokimotion]

It is the way everywhere. Especially with mortals.

[ they never last, after all. ]

You could try the Iskaulit. I made a wall there to . . . relive one's memories of a person.

[ loki almost mentions that he goes there at times. to remember clark and castiel, but he stops himself. ]

[rebuildyourruins]

Yeah... I've seen it. I'm just not sure if-- do I need to think of the right person? It won't show anyone I don't want it to?

[Because there's too much risk, if it does. If it shows people he thinks of inadvertently he could end up thinking of others he's seen die, who still live in the Fleet and have no idea. He could see Frigga or Odin, or Heimdall. When he considers it the list expands far and fast.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ gently. ]

Only the people you choose. It cannot pull anything from your head if you do not desire it.

[rebuildyourruins]

Ah, okay. Then I will go look at it, sometime.

[Maybe not this week, but the next time he's on the Iskaulit for certain.]

[dothelokimotion]

Whenever you like. I hear it helps for some.

[rebuildyourruins]

Is that why you made it?

[It's similar to the wall Loki had created inside the First Breath, just different in concept. There was a pattern there. Allowing recreations of things lost.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ his lips curve at that. ]

That's what illusions are good for.