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END OF ARC 2: PART ONE OF THREE

Who: ANYONE going on the infiltration into Thrymheim!
What: Lots of travelling and also rescuing Freyr's soul.
When: Days 278 - 279 ( June 10 - 13 )
Where: Asgard, Thrymheim, and the road inbetween.
Rating: PG-13. Anything that might go higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!

[ Before even the first crack of sunlight over the horizon on Day 278, every bracelet in the city will give a quiet blip! as they activate with a short mass text from the gods:
The time to act has come. Gather at the Gate of Frost by the Sun's first rays if you will, and be prepared to strike at the heart of ice. There is no room for failure.
Exactly as the message implies: it's time to ship off to Thrymheim. Gear up in your best winter clothes and bring whatever weaponry you need; there are wagons thinly concealed and waiting for you at the southern gate that leads to the home of the Frost Giants. Inside the wagons will be those portable heaters that you guys bought in Utgard, along with spare gloves, jackets and scarves for anyone that foolishly believed summer might touch the kingdom of ice. Travellers can also find food rations to last a week alongside a generous amount of medical supplies that may or may not be a bit foreboding.

The caravan will leave at precisely 5AM, driven by the barest amount of Natives to keep travel at a minimum. Secrecy is of the utmost importance, and a severe silence will fall across the few sitting in the back of the wagons with the Travellers. They know the weight of this mission: if you fail, Freyr's soul will remain trapped forever. It is dangerous and no one's lives are guaranteed, so prepare yourselves for a fight quite unlike any other this far.

As you travel further from Asgard, you might notice the terrain getting a bit more uneven as the wagons move through undeveloped areas. There may be the odd village noticeable in the far off distance, but they are nowhere close enough to make out any distinguishable details because you don't want them distinguishing anything about you in return. These villages are few and far between, and grow even less in number the closer the caravan gets to Thrymheim. The terrain goes from rocky but arable to colder and harder, the temperature dropping increasingly as the earth grows solid and unforgiving, eventually peppering with light snowfall even in the midst of Yggdrasil's summer.

It will take two full days to reach Thrymheim travelling at as fast a pace as they can without wearing out the horses or catching unwanted attention. They will make short stops to feed and brush the horses, switch drivers, and allow for any necessary relief - but these breaks will last no longer than ten to twenty minutes at most. Simple meals will be served by the Natives thrice daily, and Travellers are welcome to attempt sleep on one of the meager pallets stocked up if they think they can manage it. Space is not abundant and neither is time. ]

[ OOC NOTES: This is part one of three for the Save Our Souls plot! Please put the day/location in the title of your comment along with [OPEN/CLOSED]. The second log can be found over here and the third and final log can be found here. Let us know if you have any questions! ]
hollowchild: (something like a girl)

[personal profile] hollowchild 2013-06-21 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I think he was meant to be dead. Well, he is dead. They're just going to...make him not dead. Which is sort of monstrous, that bit, but...

[she shrugs]

I suppose since it was stolen anyway, as long as they have it they can do what they like with it.
marrying: (✞ and she's buying)

[personal profile] marrying 2013-06-21 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Does anyone?

[It's said light-heartedly, but Daphne is quiet and unsure.]

... I fought in Ragnarok -- well. I didn't fight, but I helped.

[She can do this.]
starktomboy: (ponder)

[personal profile] starktomboy 2013-06-21 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arya thinks on that for a moment, wondering if maybe she should be with them, helping. She wasn't so sure she'd be much use against a giant.]

I've never seen a giant. How big do you think she is?
conquering: (❝I'll be dead before the day is done❞)

[personal profile] conquering 2013-06-21 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Big enough; but not as clever as she pretends to be. One could be very small but very sharp and that one would be much more dangerous than a foolish giant. Giants cannot hide themselves and they are not fast in their movement.
likethelight: (.180)

[personal profile] likethelight 2013-06-21 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Allen pauses for a moment, but smiles then (bright, warming) and takes a nearby seat.

He is hungry, after all, and having this sandwich right now sounds like a good idea. Though Timcanpy will probably also get bits of the crust and hovers around him. ]


He belonged to my master.
redhourglass: <user name=megascopes> (i'm working)

ugh, sorry for the late reply. :(

[personal profile] redhourglass 2013-06-21 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
( oh yes, being a responsible adult is gross. the real question is why she feels responsible for these people -- they're not her team, her friends, her family (she's not even sure what the latter two mean). but the idea of sending them off like lambs to slaughter isn't appealing either.

it's her turn to raise her eyebrows. )


Oh, yeah? Immune to cold?

( hey, it wouldn't be the weirdest thing that she'd ever heard of, though she does feel a little bit stupid now. she tucks the extra pair back into her coat. someone else will probably be unprepared. )

Somehow I think the gods might be expecting that.
marrying: (✞ a stairway to heaven)

[personal profile] marrying 2013-06-22 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
You're lucky to have him come with you to this place.

[Warmly, and Daphne extends her fingers hesitantly toward Timcanpy.]
dyingisnotdead: (pic#6182342)

[personal profile] dyingisnotdead 2013-06-22 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose it could be helpful, in helping heal people but--

--demeaning. Even if it can be just a kiss on the hand.

[Normally he would have been offended that she laughed at him--but it was a curious thing, and he liked Morgana well enough. So instead, he provided a small smile.]
historyrabbit: (talk φ If you love me let me go)

[personal profile] historyrabbit 2013-06-22 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
There's truth to everyone, milady, even me. Even you.

Most of the time we're just human, though we like to deny it, gifted with powers or great minds. But human, we have needs and feelings, things that drive us to live. We all have the chance and the choice to do great good or great evil or nothing at all.
historyrabbit: (curious φ And tell you again)

[personal profile] historyrabbit 2013-06-22 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Oi oi oi! Not inferior! He uses it all the time at home and it saves his ass.]

I think they see whatever their cultures have led them to believe. The Chinese believe a goddess lives there with those moon rabbits, the Norse believe that Máni is fleeing from a great wolf bringing Ragnarok, driving a horse and carriage to escape it. It depends on where you go...

Perhaps, but no rice.
prazerbutterfly: (tttthb..)

[personal profile] prazerbutterfly 2013-06-22 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'll get to have all the fun soon enough. I'm impatient. You're impatient. Doesn't matter. We still have to wait.

[Thank god he was on the strike team. He was going to be in the middle of everything down to the very end.] Once it starts, you'll forget all about the waiting you've done.
saving_sound: (Eh-?)

[personal profile] saving_sound 2013-06-22 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ah--

[Wow all this kindness from someone she doesn't... even know that well-?]

U-umm... You don't really have to worry about me so much [because truly she's not worth the trouble!!] but--

Th-thank you, umm... Jack.
saving_sound: (Did I take too much?)

[personal profile] saving_sound 2013-06-22 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Okay...

[Although-- wait a second.]

...You'll be close by and jump up too, right? [She's not sure why, but there's a sudden fear, there. Her own safety is one thing, but she wants to make sure, absolutely certain, that Eyes will be safe as well.]

[personal profile] bowdown 2013-06-22 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
We'll sea. If them giants are gonna be a disappointment, I ain't gonna be happy. [ she likes killing, but she doesn't want it to end too fast ]
conquering: (❝Let her find a way to a better place❞)

[personal profile] conquering 2013-06-22 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Best use your blades, Sir. I doubt there will be time to court the Queen before she attempts to have us all frozen to death.
conquering: (❝how can you ask for me to stay❞)

[personal profile] conquering 2013-06-22 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
You are a writer of history, Lavi, do you truly believe in good or evil? I am no historian but I know that evil to one is good for another. My people were all massacred, burned and drowned and an entire kingdom celebrated their deaths for they believed it was good. History will remember it as good and history will remember me as evil, will it not?

[ she turns to look at the sky, returns her gaze to him. ]

You are a wise man, you must know this truth of me, an easy one; they called me the Usurper Queen, the Witch Morgana and I killed and I tormented and I burned and I took vengeance. A vengeful queen. The Deities have shown me that much.

But I am here still. Perhaps you are right, perhaps one can torment and conquer and enslave or they can free and assist and build. Whatever truth that my world will know of me, whatever truth will be written of me, I cannot change it, it is beyond my control; it lies in your world and in Camelot and in countless of others. I know only one thing of myself.

[ something she had known when she was Uther's ward, long before she was queen, something she has forgotten. ]

I do not wish to conquer or enslave, I wish to punish still, certainly; I wish to punish and tear apart those who had me hide my gifts like they were a disease. But those are secondary now. I only wish to be myself and that is the one thing I seem to have lost sight of.
Edited 2013-06-22 15:13 (UTC)
historyrabbit: (hide φ I'll mend the broken parts)

[personal profile] historyrabbit 2013-06-22 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe in the truth, no matter which face it takes. If the ruler is a tyrant then his dark deeds go down in the ledger, if he is kind and loved by all then it too is written so. My words won't make anyone be seen in a better or worse light, I'm not digging for rumors or making them up. All I write is the truth.

It's the victors that often turn the losers into something more horrible.

Yes, I would write of your titles, your doings, but I wouldn't make them worse than what they were or any lighter. It's not for me to judge or change the truth in any way. But it also doesn't change who you are as a person.

To me, my job aside, you've been kind and willing to talk to a gangly teenager still new to this place. Not many would have patience with all of my questions, not even I would when faced with myself. Yet I cannot write even that, only if I see you acting the same way with others.

But I'm not one to ask on how to find one's self again. I've never found it in the first place.
prazerbutterfly: (zpost exo - join us)

[personal profile] prazerbutterfly 2013-06-22 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Casualties of war happen as well, Empress. [Meaning, that people died theirs or the giants. If she got bored, Tyki was sure she wouldn't care accidentally stabbing a few others on 'accident'. Sure, they'd come back but it was the point that mattered this one time.] But I agree with you.

Hmm, how's the hair now?
likethelight: (『awkward』right...)

[personal profile] likethelight 2013-06-22 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I hadn't really thought about that. [ Timcanpy's just -- always there. He's a constant. ] I guess so.

[ Although Timcanpy goes so still for a second when she reaches for him -- but lets her and will flash the widest sudden (toothy) smile when she does pet him.

Gleeee ]
timaeus_testified: (pic#6176071)

No worries!

[personal profile] timaeus_testified 2013-06-22 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[He could sorta be excused, he'd never meet people other than his friends before and he knew all their names.] I'm Dirk. Dunno why I didn't ask before, I think I got too preoccupied with trying to get answers.

[They had gotten the vaguest answer from the world ever. He'd been a little annoyed.]
timaeus_testified: (pic#6176063)

[personal profile] timaeus_testified 2013-06-22 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dirk stretches his legs out in front of him before folding them up against his chest. He's a bit warmer this way.] They'll say that Dirk Strider was a hard, stone cold motherfucker who didn't give an inch on the battlefield. He didn't last to the end but he carved devastation into the ranks and jammed down a flag of rebellion in the face of opposing forces.

But in the end, the destroyer made one tactical error too many.
feathery: art@askturntechsprite (this is your commentary riff)

[personal profile] feathery 2013-06-23 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Haha, oh man.]

Nah, it's kind of a special deal for sprites. Like, hey, it's time you graduated from human to dubious zoological horror, so we're gonna append your name with a special notif to let everyone else know what's up. In case the missing legs weren't enough of a clue.

[He reaches back over a shoulder and gives the leading edge of his wing a tug.]

These stuck around, though, so I guess the gods don't care so much when it's a useless cosmetic thing.
necrowmantic: (they won't hurt anymore)

[personal profile] necrowmantic 2013-06-23 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
The destroyer! Now there's a pretty cool title. I bet you'll make all the little frost giant children shiver in fear, when they hear your story! ...If ice people can shiver.

I bet your tactics will get you far, though. [Not that he has anything to base it on, but Henry's nothing if not optimistic.] Is that where all your studying comes in?
freezerburned: (Default)

[personal profile] freezerburned 2013-06-23 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
And that's bad, I guess.

[Isaac really doesn't believe much in their 'cause', he just... needs to blow off some steam. And he might want to just try and make sure Sophie gets through alright. Not that he can do much of that, not with their team assignments.]

Right, well. I'm already on board.
bloodypocket: (♭ | lacrimoso.)

[personal profile] bloodypocket 2013-06-23 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Assuming that I am able and it will not hinder a safe escape, yes. [He didn't plan to die, not when there were still people that needed to be protected. People he wanted to protect. But if that was what it came down to, he was willing to throw himself to assure their survival.]

I will be nearby, don't worry about it.

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