EVENT LOG: WITH A WHIMPER - THRYMHEIM

[asgardmods]

Who: Everyone going to Thrymheim following Thor's announcement.
What: Bringing the battle to a much weakened Thiazi's front door.
When: Days 540-543 (November 14-21)
Where: To and from Thrymheim.
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please.

DAY 540 (Nov 14-15)

Day 540 starts with a bracelet alert right before sunrise. It is a message from Thor telling all that who plan to travel to Thrymheim to take down Thiazi to meet him outside the Gate of Frost. As caravans are packed for travel, Thor tells the Travelers what they've learned from Tyr: as a result of holding his magic inside of her for so long, Thiazi is rotting from the inside out; she is going to be weak now that she is unable to rely on the strength of that same magic to mitigate the damages it caused.

While he speaks, some of the city guard raises a cry of alarm: it seems as if troops are marching toward the city, but it quickly becomes apparent that for once this isn't an attack. Forces from Alfheim - elves and Tree-people both - have arrived and are prepared to march with Asgard in this push back against Thiazi, claiming they haven't forgotten the fact that the Travelers' intervention when they were being driven out their homes by Surt's forces.

They warn that they encountered a Frost Giant scouting toward the area of Asgard, and while they disposed of him with all due diligence, to be on the lookout: there may be antagonistic forces on the way here, too. When the caravan takes off, several of Alfheim's soldiers and the Bronze dragon remain behind and on guard, just in case.

Once it finally gets started, the trip is rocky as the terrain grows less forgiving and the weather turns steadily colder. They break for camp late at night, and Thor can be found pacing around the fires, alternating between strategy talk and lamenting about having forgotten to bring an adequate nightcap. Weapons are handed out then to those lacking them then (including the medics and support teams, just in case). Following this, Thor draws the Strike Team and the rest of the Travelers directly involved in bringing Thiazi down to his fire in order give their special orders directly. Meanwhile, the Red and Blue Dragons keep to the skies overnight, watching out for an ambush that never comes.

Note: Those interested in having their characters participate in Thiazi's takedown, please read and sign up here. There is no character cap, but if you plan to thread or handwave involvement, please make sure to sign up! Anyone is welcome to sign up no matter what group they are "officially" part of, being affiliated with the Strike Team in any capacity is NOT required. Your character will still need to help fight the battle against the frost giants at large, but they'll simply have an additional task given to them directly related toward helping bring the Ice Queen down.

DAY 541 (Nov 16-17)

After a meager few hours' rest, the caravan sets out again to finish the journey to Thrymheim. They arrive just before sundown and halt at the foot of a jagged mountain near the city to split into groups and to prepare themselves for the impending fight. Thiazi is mad and much weaker than before, but that doesn't mean she and her army will be pushovers.

The city is filled with jagged fixtures of black ice, manifestations of the corrupted magic that is all the Ice Queen has left. Just as when it blocked the Gate of Fog in Asgard, touching it causes horrible, damaging frostbite that can't be healed by magical means. Thiazi's Palace of Ice seems to be the epicenter of these festering magical wounds, as the once beautiful structure is now blighted and scarred over with them.

The fighting against Thiazi's frost giant army begins the moment that the Travelers set foot over the threshold into the city, and Thiazi does her best to remain surrounded by as many of her forces as she possibly can. Their weapons are forged of the corrupted black magic (as that's all Thiazi has left to her) so any injuries will fester and rot immediately -- and like the burns, they are incapable of being cured by magic. The Ice Giants themselves are half-mad with confusion, fear, and shaken faith in their once untouchable Queen, but they still have the home field advantage.

It will be late into the night when the teams who have volunteered to take Thiazi down directly finally manage to begin execution of their plan: as the Frost Giant forces dwindle, they must poison her, trap her, and ultimately make use of the godkilling weapon Samantha and others have spent so long researching and creating.

DAY 542 (Nov 18-19)

A shockwave like the result of a distant supernova hits the city when Thiazi dies shortly after midnight. The ice - and much of the city itself - crumbles and begins to collapse, raining dangerous daggers of ice down onto anyone nearby. Breathing may become a little difficult, too, as the black ice begins to melt and then evaporate in great clouds of gas that may just irritate or outright burn the lungs of whoever breathes it in, depending on how big of a breath they take.

Thor bellows an order to evacuate the city immediately and to regroup in safety away from the destruction. With nothing left to lose, some of the remaining Frost Giants rally and use the chaos in a last, desperate bid to do harm to the Travelers. The majority of the rest, however, will simply turn tail and attempt to flee back into the city.

The night will be noticeably colder when Thor announces that they'll be setting up camp two or three miles outside of Thrymheim to rest and tend to the wounded. The dragons are again be on patrol in the skies, but the god will also ask that people take turns keeping watch throughout the night, just in case any escaped Frost Giants try to seek a sneaky revenge in the night.

Day 543 (Nov 20-21)

It's a long, bumpy journey that takes all of the day and most of the night, and the weather starts cold only to remain that way. A few miles before the caravan arrives back at the Gate of Frost, the sky grows overcast. Half a mile from Asgard, the bare ground gives way to a patchy layer of black snow that only grows thicker as they head into the city. When they make it through the Gate of Fog and begin to unload, Thor congratulates them all again on a battle well won. He suggests a strong drink and a prompt bedtime before he heads back to the castle to confer with the rest of the gods: the remainder of the war still has to be won, after all, but there's no denying that this step is a huge one.

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the With a Whimper event! Thor and Thiazi will be available for interaction in specifically marked threads, but if you want them somewhere else, let me know and I will do my best! Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] along with the time/location of your character in the title of your comment. Let us know if you have any questions! The ASGARD portion of this event log can be found HERE. ]

Comments

[wasbrave]

( it's just an obstacle course, just like the others. only this time everything around them is alive, and bumping into or being hit by anything would have much more serious consequences than scrapes and bruises.

by the time she's run and placed her rune, tris has already recieved a nasty cut along her left arm, but she throws herself back into the fray anyway once this part of the plan is done. there's no backing out now, after all, and no easy retreat. she's a good shot, despite her festering wound, and she'll readily fight back to back with anyone she runs into. )

[fire_punk]

[Kevin barely manages to dodge a giant, yelping as his injured wrist brushes against a piece of ice. He turns and stabs at the giant, reaching his power for its arm and forcing it to slash at its face. The latter probably does far more damage. He turns to Tris.]

You said you had healing, right?

[wasbrave]

( well that's damn hard to miss, happening right next to her. she gives him a tense smile for watching her back, that could've ended badly for her as well. )

Yeah. Where're you hurt?

[fire_punk]

[He lifts his arm. There's no hand attached and it looks like it's been festering for a while.]

Can't fight right like this.

[wasbrave]

Shit. ( the no hand thing is kind of worrying- it's a surprise he isn't bleeding out right in front of her. she reaches out and touches his arm, but already she's shaking her head. anything minor Kevin suffered, any scrape or bruise will heal- but not that. )

That's black ice that got you. I can't fix it.

[fire_punk]

[He nods with a frown.]

Can we keep it from getting bumped that easy? Is there a way to do that?

[He doesn't know much about first aid stuff. For all he knows, that might cause other problems. Not that it matters as long as he can keep fighting for now.]

Looks like they got you, too.

[wasbrave]

They did. [Tris nods, biting her lip. Her head's starting to swim, what with the fever she's getting from her festering wound, but she tries to remember what she can do with what she's got. So she puts away her weapon and reaches into a pocket and pulls out bandages.]

Watch my back, yeah?

[All they have to do is get out of here alive. Everything else can be sorted out later, she hopes. Still holding on to his arm, she pushes his sleeve up to start to dress the stump as well as she can.]

[fire_punk]

[The remains of Maglor's dressing are still there but he's banged it up a lot since then. He keeps forgetting his hand is gone in the middle of a fight, especially once he pulled it out of the sling.]

Yeah, sure.

[He scans the battlefield around them, hoping the giants stay away until she's done.]

[wasbrave]

[It's a start. Or really, it's a hint of where she can start over, but she tries, wrapping it over again without attempting to pull the remains of the old dressing off. She'd have nothing to clean the wound with anyway, and she's already way too preoccupied with struggling not to gag. So she pushes the sleeve up to the elbow and starts rewrapping it over the old banged up material.

The sling, if he's still wearing it, isn't something she will bother with, simply by virtue of him already having slipped out of it before. But she wraps the stump to the elbow, and in more than one layer, given the time.]

[fire_punk]

[He forces a couple giants to stab themselves while she works. The rest stay more by the main fight.]

Thanks. Do you... umm... do you need help with anything?