01 🍎 Pleased to meet you; hope you guessed my name

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

[Video]
[It’s a new face, but a transmission that’s been made scores of times. This time the speaker is a dark-haired young man with great cheekbones, wearing sunglasses and a bewildered expression. He’s standing on the deck a healthy distance from the chapel, and when he speaks his voice is British, clipped, and dry.]

All right, when’s the next stop? I want to get off. Getting shanghaied onto Twilight Zone Cruise Lines is bad enough, but the maniacal holiday displays and the church are starting to make me nervous. I am not sitting through a Christmas sermon or anyone’s rendition of “Away in a Manger.”


[Deck/Greenhouse spam]
[Crowley had mostly been blowing hot air on the network; in truth the decorations delight him. They spark up an idea, and as soon as it flashes through his mind it takes hold and he knows he has to do it – it’s too tempting. There are cut trees everywhere, and a Greenhouse.

A smirk grows on his lips.

He wrestles an especially bright small tree through the Greenhouse door, dragging it to a spot directly in front of an array of orchids.] Pretty, hmm? [he asks the plants around him. He enjoys talking to – or rather threatening – greenery.] So shiny and delicate. Enjoy it, take a good look. [He tipped the tree, letting the water from the stand drain out.] Someday, this might be you.

Comments

[Video]

[tricksandmischief]

I am Loki.

[Video]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Just Loki? In the no-second-name sense.

[Video]

[tricksandmischief]

None that I care to give.

But I am known as the God of Mischief.

[Video]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

So you're that Loki.

Hi.

[Video]

[tricksandmischief]

[He smirks.]

Indeed I am.

But I would advise you not to believe everything you may have heard.

[Video]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

That's good advice regardless of the subject. What should I believe?

[Video]

[tricksandmischief]

I could say you should believe what I tell you but then I am a known liar.

[Video]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Then let's play "two lies and a truth". You're the expert, you can take first turn if you like.

[Video]

[tricksandmischief]

Very well.

I have many children, including a snake, a horse and a wolf.

I am so jealous of all the other gods in Asgard that I only wish for their demise and all I feel for them is hatred.

I will likely be on this Barge for a very long time.

[Video]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

You don't have to make it so obvious.

[Video]

[tricksandmischief]

No? You do not believe certain tales?

[Video]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Certain tales yes, but not all of them. Most are so exaggerated they're laughable.

[Video]

[tricksandmischief]

True and yet many believe them.

[Video -> Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

No one ever said people aren't foolish.

My turn, yes?

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

Go ahead.

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Okay. Let's see.

I caused the Spanish Inquisition.

I caused the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

I created spam e-mail.

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

Are these things from... Earth?

[He never paid Midgard enough attention to get those references and hasn't yet done enough research or reading here.]

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Obviously. [A pause.] Do you not work over there?

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

I have spent very little time on Midgard.

... Earth, to you

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Shame. It's a nice realm.

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

Asgard is much better.

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Why aren't you there, then?

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

I was brought here against my will. There are ways they have to make people stay, even gods.

[Private]

[sauntervaguelydownwards]

Unfortunately, not impossible.

[Private]

[tricksandmischief]

Obviously.