asgardmeridiem | Seeking Truth [Active

Who: Maribelle, Tohru Adachi, Seimei Aoyagi, The Fourth Doctor, Soushi Miketsukami, Kirigiri Kyouko, and Naoto Shirogane. Also, any questioning volunteers, witnesses, and people who want to meet and talk after!
What: The questioning begins.
When: D504, morning - afternoon
Where: Everyday Sunshine in the Sigyn District
Rating: G for now.

They were ready. They'd discussed their process earlier, gathered ideas and chosen their partners, and now it was time to properly get to work. They'd all arrived at the Everyday Sunshine building bright and early, and after placing a sign-in sheet for the volunteers, went into their assigned spaces. Each volunteer was allowed a witness, if they so chose, and there were breaks scheduled at regular intervals so that those with special abilities could rest and recharge as much as possible.

Now, all they had to do was wait.

Room 1: Adachi and Maribelle [OPEN]
Room 2: Seimei and Soushi [OPEN]
Room 3: The Fourth Doctor [OPEN]
Room 4: Kirigiri and Naoto [OPEN]
After: The Sigyn District [OPEN]

[ooc: Everyone is available for questioning in their individual threads. Volunteers can go in a thread of their own by responding to a comment by the investigators so they don't have to thread hop. Also, please try to spread out volunteers between the questioners, so we have less chance of power drain. Thanks! ♥]

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[This time he doesn't ask about what he sees. The fact that someone who's fairly non-human comes to mind as one of 'her own' doesn't bother him any, and an axe doesn't really mean much to him. Not the same way that a golden apple does.]

I'm not entirely certain he is happy, all that often. At least, not going on the few occasions I've managed to speak him.

[...Admittedly there'd been good reason for Odin to not be happy with him, the once, but Four figures that's neither really hear nor there, just at the moment.]

Yeah, that's a good description. He had a good reason to be ticked off, but I'm not apologizing for taking initiative. It needed to be done. [She shrugged.]

Next question, though. I think that's far enough on that. You... don't need to know more on this for now. He was pretty clear we should stay quiet on the details.

And best someone do it.

[He can't blame her for that. Not when he himself had help spearhead a trip out of the city, without the gods being aware of it until they'd well and truly gone. It might not make the gods happy with them, but better to have something done, than not, in all cases.]

But something else, eh? Let's see... ah, yes. The war of the gods. The war that we're supposed to be fighting. Could we win this, do you think? Are we supposed to win?

[What flashed in her minds were visions of the first sieges, dragons raging against the city and the like, a brief flash of her fighting against some shadow-wielder in a mask allied with frost giants.]

"Win" is a strange word. We're here to help make sure Ragnarock happens. To me, that means that this world is going to die and be reborn. The people? They may be spared or reborn again normally. Some of it will linger, but what we're fighting for is a pyrhhic victory.

It isn't about winning. It's about making sure that it happens right so this world can go on normally.

[He's not certain he much likes the idea of a pyrrhic victory, and his feeling on it are briefly easily readable on his face. He knows what's meant to happen during Ragnarok, but what of the people who aren't native to this world? Do they deserve to see their own world fall to ruin (if it hasn't already) simply because one world needed to have Ragnarok happen?]

This world, maybe. But what of the others? Or the people like you and me, who aren't really of this world to begin with?

[And then there are people like the various versions of himself, which gets terriblyconfusing, if there's nothing for them to go back to after is said and done.]

I don't believe this world's tied the way that they claim it is, but I believe it's tied. If this world dies 'naturally,' I don't think there should be a backlash in our worlds.

At least, that's my hope.

[It was pretty clear, from the thoughts flickering of a few faces he'd never seen on the network below, images of cities on earth that might or might not have been familiar, that she agreed with him.]

Ragnarock not working properly here and them calling us here, that's what I think has this whole situation such a mess. As long as we can get it back on track...

An incentive, maybe? Something to keep us from questioning why we can't just leave and get back home? Other than the fact that there isn't any apparent way to do that unless we could manage to figure out how we'd gotten summoned here in the first place?

[But the flicker of faces that he's fairly certain he's never seen on the network and the places that are very definitely not Asgard are a good start.]

But hope is good place to start. On the other hand, if we do need to restart Ragnarok we'd better have our stories right. It wouldn't do to start the wrong kind of Ragnarok.

If you'd asked me in the old days, I would have said definitely a carrot on a stick. [She shrugged.] I've seen the inside of Muspelheim and spoken with the voice beneath the waves at least once. If this is a ruse, they've gone to a lot of lengths to get everyone in on it. I think they 'think' this is the world of worlds. I don't think they understand our worlds half as well as they think they do.

But in the end, it doesn't really matter. Like you said, it needs to be the right kind of Ragnarock, not Thiazi's.

The voice beneath the waves?

[He might know of Ragnarok, but a voice underneath the waves is a new one on him. But he can certainly understand that it might be a long way to go for a simply ruse.

Besides, he's know people to be wrong about things before. That the gods of Asgard are called gods doesn't mean that they can't be wrong all the same.]

And at the right time too, no doubt. Which this might not be, if Thiazi's responsible for most of this.

You weren't here when we went to Salt side, I don't think. There's a cave deep beneath the ocean, where you can speak with what I think is a very old voice in this world, if it isn't the world itself. She's spoken once to everyone since then.

[The visions flashed an image of the disembodied voice preaching the destruction of all life in this place several months back.]

As for right time, though, I don't know that anyone ever truly knows for sure if it's the right time for the end of the world.

No, I don't think so. I'd have remembered otherwise, and I don't. But it sounds terribly interesting. Not many worlds have voices that will speak for them, regardless of what they might say.

[Voices that speak of destruction are distressingly normal, on the other hand.]

Not usually, no. But if it's something that ends up written in history, sometimes that can help. If one ends up traveling back in time, anyway.

...I'm not one for traveling in time. [She shuddered. For some reason, there was a picture of a silver-haired girl with yellow tinted sunglasses there for a moment. Nobody he'd seen before.] Too many complications.

We'll figure it out one way or another, and make do with what we have. That's the only way I know how to operate.

It's not really for everyone.

[It does get complicated sometimes, and he's used to the fact, but sometimes it can be hard for even him.

(The sight of silver-haired girl is surprising, but he puts it out of his mind. Another time traveler isn't much out of the ordinary, and he doesn't expect they'll ever cross paths anyway.)]

It can be terribly hard to plan things like this, sometimes. So making do with what we have is probably for the best.

Basically, yes. [She looked at him for a moment.] But to the point of this little exercise, did you find what you need?

I think so, yes.

[In bits and pieces, yet, but he thinks has a pretty good idea on her opinions and that's a pretty good start.]

I mean, unless there's anything else you want to tell me. I could have the wrong idea, after all.

We're not perfect, none of us. But, no... I think I've done more than enough sharing for one day. Thank you.

[She got up to leave and waved over her shoulder.]

Good luck with the others.

[No one's entirely perfect. no. But he'll take what he's got all the same, and simply offers a nod as she turns to leave.]

Of course. And thank you as well.

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