ORB - RD9

[fun_vee]

[For a second Tony just stares at the orb, trying to figure out what exactly makes it tick before deciding whether or not it's a good idea to soliliquize into it. But being as communication with his people is more important than puzzle solving at the moment, he pulls it back and begins to speak]

When I was in college my friends and I went to King Richard's Faire. I hated it then, and I haven't gotten any keener on the idea. We live in a modern age, people, quit pretending you're artisan craftspeople working to outfit your quaint medieval village and appease your king. News flash: you're all investment bankers and lawyers and teachers. Sorry to be the one to break the bad news. But from what I can tell, that 'going back to your real job' thing isn't really going to be much of an option here. Which is..really, it's peachy. It's like unwanted forced vacation. To a war zone.

[an obviously frustrated Tony takes a slight pause.]

Anyone else here I know? Aside from Robin Hood and the jolly blue frost giant.

Comments

[wheresmycoffee]

Heaven forbid people enjoy themselves, right? [[said with about as much dry sarcasm possible]]

[fun_vee]

Just me, but when I think castles I think of wall torches and plagues. Mutually exclusive concepts, here.

[wheresmycoffee]

[[a snort]] Because castles all vanished with the invention of plumbing. There plenty of them still around in modern time as there's this little thing people do where they take bits of the past and modernize them so that they don't suck.

[fun_vee]

Like I said, just me. I've yet to find a castle that made me want to leave my airy and well-lit apartment for, even for the afternoon. I'm just not a medieval kind of guy.

[wheresmycoffee]

Sucks to be you then, huh? [[looking amused as he takes a drink from his mug. Such sympathy]]

[sorcerous]

[ ... ]

The what?

[fun_vee]

Sorry-- 'jolly' might've been an overstatement.

[sorcerous]

Reconsider your words, and your disrespect.

[fun_vee]

[he raises his eyebrows slightly] Clearly someone's not in a joking mood today. [he bites his tongue on the 'or ever' he so wants to add in]

[sorcerous]

It is not a joking time.

How do you know me? Who is your master?

[ladysarmour]

[ this man is very strange ]

You are fortunate to already have companions here.

[fun_vee]

Probably. Unfortunately, the companions I do seem to have are...well. Unfortunate.

[ladysarmour]

Still, we are all of us strangers in a strange land. Already this place holds much uncertainty: the familiar is a blessing.

[thoreal]

Stark? [Okay, seriously, what be going on here?] Did Fury send all of you?

[fun_vee]

So that's two votes for Fury, though I'm not sure Clint's really counts for a full vote since he keeps jumping back and forth. [It is nice to see the big guy, though. Known allies = good.]

[thoreal]

How did you-- [All right, wait, that's not important right now. Thor isn't sure what part of Loki is "jolly," but there's no doubt that he's the frost giant in question (and who told Stark about that?), and that means Thor needs to repeat the conversation he had with Natasha:]

Belay that for now, for I have words of great importance. Stark, my brother is here, and you must not tell him what you know of him. He is from our past, not the Loki you know.

[toxic_tsarina]

[Tasha has her arms crossed as she regards the Orb with a face void of emotion. It's becoming eerily convenient that her teammates are showing up.] I blamed you.