6 - Video

[lacksconviction]

[Video clicks on, and it's Loki! Hi Loki! The bruises he got in the port have all gone down by now, and he's wearing his fancy gazelle helmet. Apparently he's feeling flamboyant today.]

Sad, really. Seeing humanity being exterminated like that. Set upon, and wiped out by alien powers infinitely more powerful, and advanced than it could ever have hoped to have been. Apparently, the distant eyes of Odin and Thor, and any other absent protectors of you Midgardians fell shut in your hour of need. [He gives a woeful little sigh.]

If only there had been someone... some being who might have known how to compete with such a threat. Some watchful ruler, who could have summoned armies from the air in your defense. Who could have spent the many long eons before this tragedy befell mankind, advancing your civilization to the point where you were a world that would stand unassailable.

[He gives a helpless, sympathetic shrug.]

Mistake it not, Mortals, you were made to be ruled. It just so happens that some rulers are more benevolent than others...

[Then he grins, and clicks the feed off.]

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[psychic_hotline]

Nice hat. Not so sure about the speech.

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[lacksconviction]

You are not my intended audience.

[Are you an Avenger? No. This trolling is only at it's peak when received by an Avenger.]

[omar]

So I takes it you take "everything happens for a reason" real literal, then.

[lacksconviction]

Should I not? The universe is a tapestry of consequence upon consequence, after all.

[omar]

Just wondering.

So what was the reason behind the horse baby?

[lacksconviction]

I'm sorry, do you know a better way of procuring a miraculous eight legged horse, swiftest beast of any branch of the world tree?

No?

Well then.

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[wemaketheworld]

..."made to be ruled".

[It's a question, kind of. A "why"?, a demand for an explanation. He's doubtful. You can hear it, even if you can't see it; he's in full-on Rorschach mode right now, never mind that it's quieter than he wants because it hurts too much to project properly.]

[omar]

You could steal one. Seem like a lot less work to me.

[lacksconviction]

How could I steal a foal before it was born?

[omar]

You want to call yourself all Godly and everything, but you can't even manage a thing like that without messing with your own parts? Sound like being a god just downright inconvenient if you not the one they talk about in Sunday school.

[twooutoften]

What, you plannin' on takin' on the job or somethin'?

[lacksconviction]

I did manage it though.

I'm sorry that things which are to me but the natural processes of existence are so far from the grasp of your mortal mind, but it really wasn't a particularly unpleasant or difficult undertaking.

Really, why do you think we called him Sleipnir?

[Because he SLIPPED RIGHT OUT! Oh god, tmi about pooping out a horse right there.]

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[lacksconviction]

Mankind.

[There's kind of a softness in his tone here, because hey Ror, you're like, his problem child and he doesn't want you to reject him any more than you already do.]

The whole dirty, chaotic mess of it. Your rulers are corrupted by power and greed, they fear death, hunger for glory, and pit the continents of your world against each other in wars and conflicts unending...

[Pauuuuuse]

There was a time when I believed that I could end that.

[lacksconviction]

I'm afraid the time for that has passed.

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[useofaswhat]

And ain't you just the cutest little antelope for the job.

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[lacksconviction]

[Yes, as a matter of fact, yes he is.]

Perhaps before my untimely demise, but alas it was not to be.

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[useofaswhat]

Too bad. We really oughtta try surrendering to a slave driver who knows our business better'n any of us do.

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[lacksconviction]

I assure you, my rule would have been infinitely preferable to that.

[omar]

Just saying, Trickster, I did my Sunday church every week while I was alive, and I never heard nothing about that God having to go through childbirth or none of that.

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[useofaswhat]

What makes you so sure of that?

[lacksconviction]

[Tiny smile at being called Trickser. It's a fun title okay! He's missed it!]

Well, some Gods are involved with the material realm, and some Gods don't exist.

[omar]

I wouldn't let my Grandma Josephine hear you say that.

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[lacksconviction]

Because I know my mind? I've no desire to wipe out your species, and your suffering brings me little joy.

I merely wanted your obedience.

[lacksconviction]

I assume you, unless she comes to the Barge and begins a conversation with me on the matter, she never shall.

[omar]

We see what happens when flood season comes rolling back in. I think she take you right out, to be honest.