Tea Time with the Trickster - RPLOG

Participants

• Chessly
• Fenris
• Junes
• Symaro

Date

1/10/2022

Log

(Symaro) Welcome to the Shrine of Odin. As majestic as it'd always been, resplendent aged oak, massive walls with a towering ceiling and gold accepts wherever possible. Truly is the king of the gods revered and beloved by his worshippers, especially were one to take a good long look at the giant golden statue crowning this magnificent temple. Exceeeeeeept... there sprawled out around Odin's shoulders was... a figure. Little more than a shady silhouette. Distinctly humanoud and garbed in some unexpected attire. Looks like Loki had done some upgrading to his fashion sense since arriving here. His lanky figure was garbed in a long void-black cotton coat, a deep-shaded purple undershirt and well-fitted dresspants below the waist. To those most perceptive, they may notice the patterned silver embroidery gracing the figure's chest. With one hand resting atop the statue's head and his legs crossed with one foot swinging nonchalantly off the side, the figure's piercing gaze lazily ganders towards the party, a bone-chilling fiendish smile tugging at those thin lips immediately after. Elsewise, silence...

(Fenris) Fenris saunters into the great hall, taking in the Norse style. He is dressed in the finery of a century ago, wearing a coat, waistcoat and dapper bowler hat, along with a rather staggering mustache.

The burly tanuki taps up the aisle with his cane, more a style thing than anything else, and stops to lean on it, looking thoughtfully up at the statue of Odin and its malevolent, mischievous accessory, a pleasant little smile on his round face.

(Junes) walking in casually a hoodie wearing chimeric hissah entered the hall curious about the tricksters meeting. Seeing the tanuki they waved and walked towards them

(Chessly) From the entrance shuffles out a small cat-boy dressed up in a lab coat with suspenders buttoned up from top to bottom. He looks like a box dragging itself across the floors of the hall. Every step the feline takes towards the statue of Odin the cat's paw grips his notepad tighter and tighter, with one gulp Chessly eyes look up to the man in dark garbs.

Sticking close right behind the Tanuki, and the chimera the cat gives a wave to the God of Mischeif.

(Symaro) For a while, the figure simply continues lazing about upon its father's statue, gaze meandering back towards the ceiling. "How absolutely droll." Comes a hissing voice, strangely deep yet accented in ways as though spoken through the maw of a snake. Loki's words are eloquent, his pronunciation impeccable, his accent exotic in a profound way, yet his words so clear that in all likelyhood even the deaf could understand him. "Aaaaall that effort to invite me over and the first real company I get are the fun police..." He twirls his hand in Symaro's direction. "...Tanuki's favored lapdog..." the gesture then lazily flits towards Fenris "...a kitsune..." one finger flits towards Junes "...and a normie." He finishes off with a gesture towards Chessly. "Dad would be disappointed." He faux-pouts and pats the statue on the head "But I shan't be shedding a single care, you little things are so... interesting." He follows up with a sharp cackling laugh more befitting a goblin than anything else.

(Fenris) Fenris raises his hat and bows when he is mentioned. "Greetings, Loki, Laufeyson," he says amiably, "Your invitation was unexpected, but welcome. It is always a pleasure to meet a supernatural of your stature."

He sets his hat back upon his head and returns to leaning on his cane, watching the trickster god, the thoughts behind his little smile a mystery.

(Junes) Junes looks up at the god but seeing a familiar feline smiled at them with a nod before dropping it and turning back to the famous trickster with a shrug saying "gotta take what you can get, but before questions should we assume this is just an interview or something different?"

(Chessly) Chessly's eyes study every movement Loki does with caution, then quickly the cat's nervousness diffuses once the man's mouth opens up. Fun police? Boring? And Interesting? These were definitely not what the cat expected to hear, but having judgement passed on him gave the cat a sense of safety. Doing a small bow the boy introduces himself. "Please to meet you Loki! My name is Chessly! Sorry for being such a bore on my first impressions!"

Putting the pencil to paper the feline's interviewing process starts, "I've got a few questions, and I heard you were willing to answer them...the nanites do they affect you? Can I take you home to study that body of yours?" The boy's tail sweeps at the floor brimming with excitement at being able to finally satisfy his burning curiosity about the gods. Shuffling closer to the statue, he tries to get a closer look at the god, his cat-eyes dilate, taking in every single detail of Loki's appearance.

(Symaro) "You have the fun police to thank for that." Loki answers crossly and casts an annoyed glare towards Symaro. "I go here, they come sniffing. I go there, they come barking. I try to enjoy a nice soothing beverage and there they aaaaaaare... peeking in through my windows, my mail slot, my chimney... points for perseverance I suppose." The figure *poof* fades into a clump of blackened smoke and reappears behind Symaro, both hands placed on the gator's shoulders, "Look at this little itty bitty morsel, trying his damndest to tie a noose around my neck. He's adorable." *poof* the figure disappears once more, reappearing seemingly right behind Fenris, now wearing the tanuki's hat for himself. "So here I am, in the wiiiiide open." He raises his hands in the air, still smirking that shit-eating grin of his "Exposed, revealed, wide open to your prodding in the hopes that I can have a... a little bit of privacy, moving forward. It may come as a surprise to you all, but I rather like it here. None of the family's incessant dribbling constantly straining my ears for one."

He removes Fenris' hat from his head and flits it dexterously back onto the tanuki's scalp, only to disappear once more and reappear sat down upon Odin's statue, chin pressed against his upturned palm and elbow propped against his right knee. Those vibrant vertically slit irises wander between Chessly and Junes, a sharp snark of amusement parting that feindish maw of his. "An interview? To what? The Fairhaven Circus? Wrong address, you're looking for the building up the path into the East Forest. Enlist there for clown duty." What he'd just described was Arborwatch. The Otherworldly Affairs' main office. Symaro remains silent, but his eyes narrow in agitation. "Come now, take a joke, lizzy-wizzy." Loki cackles sharply, noticing as much. "Ahhh, yes... as for you. Goodness, how forward." He leans to one side and melodramatically flutters his eyelashes. "We haven't even had dinner yet. Afraid the answer is no. As fun as being prodded and poked by some weirdo with cat ears sounds, I'm afraid I'm busy doing... literally anything else." The matter of the nanite influence however seems to have skimmed past his head, that or he deliberately dodged it with humorous jabs.

(Fenris) Fenris does not seem to mind the theft of his hat, and watches Loki's antics without any apparent concern.

"Having people peep in your mail slot is troublesome," he says in a concilatory way, "How can we help you?"

(Junes) seeing as the cats question wasn't answered the nine tailed hissah had an idea, using illusion nanomagic they attempted to poke Loki's shoulder and gauge the gods reaction and wondering if he would feel anything or not

(Chessly) Chessly is entranced by Loki dancing around the group, the poking and prodding at each and every member, causes the cat to giggle with glee. "Fine! Dinner first, but if you're so busy I guess that means you'll have to make time for me," He nods along with Fenris's suggestion, "and if avoiding OA is what's taking up your time I wouldn't mind helping you with that."

A pencil taps against his lips as he stares at the gator, "Jamming OA's comms units, bumping up the security of your place, tweaking with a few gadgets of mine, the possibilities are endless Loki!" The little tinkerers heads fires off solution after solution, he seems ready to cause as much trouble with OA as possible as long as he can get his paws on Loki.

(Symaro) "Well aren't you the benevolent little cookie? You want to help? Help keep your society from imploding upon itself in a hailstorm of party poppers and wasted dreams. I know it might sound strange coming from me, but I like living here. Never a dull moment and your people are so wonderfully perverse. Drama and intrigue around every corner, tasty morsels of all shapes and sizes skittering all over the place, no wonder all the other pantheons are reaching out. They must be bored out of their MINDS! But here? Never a dull moment here, no-no." Loki disappears from his sat down spot atop Odin's statue and reaches out with one finger, manifesting a hand to "Boop." gently nudge Junes on the nose. Had he felt the tap? Or was just just him acting on his own accord? It remains unclear. "You want to do me a favor? Keep me entertained. How to keep me entertained? Don't let your fellow man-beast-centaur-goo-whatever-the-eighteen-hells-have-you fall apart. I would veeeeery much prefer my property values don't tank, bad for morale, you know?" His glance slowly meanders over towards Chessly, one hand reaching up to cover his forehead, a muffled laugh parting his lips. "Sure, sure. Counter-argument... how about no?" He shrugs his shoulders and waggles his brow. "Let's go with no. No suits me fine."

(Fenris) Fenris nods. "Yes," he says, "I would imagine you prefer it here. I mean, considering where you are supposed to be right now. After all, Ragnarok has not come yet, Wolf's Father."

The tanuki cocks his head as he follows the trickster god's progress around the room. "Are you talking about something specific?" he asks, "Is something causing the increased incursions? What do you know about the stability of the veil?"

(Junes) Junes feeling the pressure on their nose is only slightly surprising and they nod but then thinking up a question asked loki "know if there's any stable way to bring magic from another plane here to use for machinery, or if the influence of an entirely different dimension will have repercussions like changing wildlife or botany?"

(Chessly) Chessly's posture deflates from being rejected once again, but the cat's body perks back up, if he can't learn from a personal one on one he'll have to settle for this experience. "No is fine with me, but if you want us to keep things around here stable...assistance and direction will be needed." The supernatural was outside of the cat's forte, but helping Fairhaven was always his top priority. "I'm not a fan of the idea of my city falling apart because of a few lame O's end up ruining everything for everyone."