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WHAT Last chance for timefuck except not really
WHERE Wherever
WHEN Day 127, whenever

[So, you've been messing around with time.]

[Okay, we've actually been doing that, yeah. Quiet Mounds is still a bit unpredictable, with the seasons and the clocks a little haywire. Today, there's another little pulse of magic. Maybe some of you find yourself back to normal? Or maybe more people are suddenly the wrong age or timeline. Maybe Deadpool shows up. I don't know.]

[Last post for deage/age-up/etc event, though obviously you can continue to backthread or play at your leisure after this.]

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I thought all the Valkyries had passed into legend! But you're right here, and you're almost as cool as Mother. I mean, um. I'm Loki, but--ah... You knew that.

[ thor is going to be SO jealous ]

I did. I'll be your guide while you're here, all right?

[ nod ]

I'm not scared, though.

[this better not last long she's already dying]

Well, in that case, do you want to explore?

[ TAKES HER HAND 'v' ]

Yes please!

[help. ok. holds hands with... small child... leading him toward, uh, who knows, just wandering down the street for now really]

It's not a big place, but you won't be here for long anyway.

I asked Heimdall to take me home, but he didn't respond.

[squeezes his hand]

...that's... because you're meant to be here, just for a little while. I can't be sure exactly when you'll be called home, but it should be a day or two at most.

I'm...supposed to be here? Did--Did Father send me away? Why can't I remember?

This place has strange magic. Time is... time is fluid here. Well—you can see that, right? Since I'm here... from a time before you were born. You might find all sorts of things or people from times you wouldn't expect. Best to just think of it as a learning experience.

[ IF THE VALKYRIE SAYS SO IT MUST BE TRUE so he nods very srsly ]

In fact, this whole place is like a little pocket of the future of Midgard. That's pretty neat, right?

[ :O! ]

This is Midgard's future?

Ah... similar, anyway. To parts of it. Midgard's a pretty diverse place... not that I'm an expert.

[get it together don't babble at the child]

Diverse?

Uh huh. It has many, many languages and cultures and styles of architecture scattered across it. So this is just a sample of one.

How very strange. Doesn't that make it difficult for their king?

They don't have just one. They're split into many nations, with many kings.

[ scrunches up his nose as he tries to picture this ]

How do they decide anything, then? Wouldn't that cause a lot of war?

You're not wrong about that. There's a lot of conflict. But they cooperate between themselves in the usual ways, too, through diplomacy, through treaties.

That seems like a very strange way of doing things. Very inefficient. Couldn't they do the same thing with a king and vassals, the way the other Realms do?

Well... there are a lot of them, and their lives are short, so it took them many generations to even have a good idea of the shape of their own world. They're still developing! But I'm really not an expert on Midgard's history. We could find you a book about it?

[ books! lights up ]

That would be most helpful! Midgard is so strange... For a Realm under Asgard's protection, we know so little about them.

A lot of the people who live here come from Midgard's future, so you can find out about their experiences firsthand, too. But let's start with a book. Although we should find your brother, soon.

Could we, perhaps, find Thor first, Valkyrie Brunnhilde?