Something slightly mischievous stirred.
"Well," began Donna towards Jake, sounding oddly chipper, "if you're worried about being useless when you die, I can reassure you that your mindless corpse will be an invaluable asset for my undead army."
A beat. Then she cleared her throat.
"But other than that, no," she said to everyone else in her normal voice again. "None of my new abilities are anything really… team-oriented."
edited 11th Jul '14 12:29:12 PM by NaomiHansen
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - MeDonna nodded before pulling out her short sword—sheath and all—from her belt.
"Probably should've mentioned that only applied to my powers—I don't think I need to explain how I can hold my own in a fight."
She put her elbows on the table, the hilt of the sword oh-so-subtly tapping near the scar on her face.
"That being said, that's probably not how I'd be most useful. I'm quick, and I know a thing or two about sneaking around and nobody noticing. Bring in my friends, and I can play scout for this little team of ours."
I totally didn't forget to make Donna say all of this previously, this was totally planned, trust me.
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me"Essentially all of my powers are team or people oriented, which I'm not to cut up about." Adam said, in contrast to Donna's comment. "If any of you are in danger or injured, I can help with that. The only thing I can do to hurt people is blind them for a bit, though. I'm also pretty useful in a siege, and can get people to do pretty much anything for me. Oh, and I have a Captain America style shield." Adam added, listing most of his abilities.
"Also I think we should determine our roles in the team. I'm probably the healer sorta guy, Donna's, as she said, probably some sort of scout, Freya's daughter can be our fighter, but I don't know much about the rest of you, so you can decide your own roles." It was good to make everyone in the team feel included, and between listing their powers, and having a set role Adam thought he and Joke were doing quite well at the team-building exercises.
edited 12th Jul '14 2:28:46 AM by Tricksen
If you're reading this you have 5 seconds to..."Kids these days and their Captain America," Munin muttered under his breath, "couldn't tell a spatha from a gladius if someone shoved it right up their-"
"Anyway!" Hugin was quick to butt in. "Once you have the Heart of Winter, bring it to this museum in Oslo." The raven flapped over to a nearby flyer stand and picked out a flyer for the longboat museum in Oslo. "We have someone there who can take it off your hands."
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.First you said "bring it to an ash tree," now it's "take it to a museum," can you make up your mind? buzzed through Donna's head. She hoped that those buzzards just had a lapse in memory.
"And it won't get used. It won't be used—it'll be locked away or destroyed…" she said with a raised eyebrow while slowly reaching for the museum flyer.
edited 12th Jul '14 11:11:31 AM by NaomiHansen
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me"Well I guess not everyone can be a team player," Jake said, looking at the two ladies as he glanced at the flyer. He pulled a leatherbound bible out of his jacket. "But we all have our strengths, it seems. I've been given the power to help others, so I can keep you on firm footing while you do what you do. And for anything where I need something other than the Good Book, I always have this." He set his shotgun down in his lap and patted it.
"It clearly isn't safe on Midgard, so it will be locked away in a vault somewhere," Hugin said. "Like I said, there's a guy at the museum who can take it off your hands. And if you ever need any help from here on out, the self-same destination should provide some answers."
The flyer didn't have terribly much information. It was a tourist guide to the Oslo Viking Ship museum, one of the few museums in Scandinavia to have an intact replica of a Viking longboat, as well as other, non-recreated artifacts from the period.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.Passing back the flyer to the middle of the table, Donna nodded—it would have to do, it seemed.
"I don't know how much time we have, but until Tom gets back here, we should probably assume there isn't much. We should probably start getting ready to head out soon, and he can give me an update on the way," she said to the group, beginning to scoot out of her chair.
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me"Then it's a good thing we cover up for what each other lacks, you hear?" Jake said. He was also wondering how that young woman knew so much about media franchises that were well before her time. "Iron sharpens iron, after all."
"And another thing, anyone from around here? Couldn't exactly take my truck with me overseas, so unless one of you has something, we're going to need to plan our way in and out of the place. Unless you think we can outrun everything comes our way if we have to leave in a hurry."
Iron sharpens iron? But it's the same thing sharpening itself, and we're all supposed to be different. A metaphor that works would be iron sharpening steel and vice versa. Wait, isn't steel part iron? Eh, still an improvement.
"Wouldn't want to take the risk," was what he actually said. "Hugin, Munin, do we have a layout of these mines?"
Just wanna let you know that I messaged the GM about this previously.
That actually made Donna shift awkwardly.
"I… spent almost all my money just to get here," she admitted to Jake. "Didn't have enough for a rental ca—"
She was interrupted by a certain gas-masked ghost popping up by her side. He appeared very transparent (probably invisible to everyone that didn't have her special gifts) as Tom bowed again. "Master."
Donna simply turned to face him more, and nodded. "Tom. Look a little more solid—we should all hear this. What did you find?"
Tom complied, making himself have the illusion of complete corporealness.
"The area in question was deserted of almost all living beings on the surface," he said. "The only signs of previous life were the decaying buildings that were left. But I have some troublesome news."
Donna stiffened at the last part. "Continue?"
"Kimura and I attempted to go further, into the mines themselves, but there seemed to be a protective barrier of sorts on all the physical entrances we could find, and we couldn't phase through the ground to get to them either. Whatever's going on, someone's intentionally blocking our path. Kimura stayed behind to try looking for any holes, but so far, it appears that if you can get passed that barrier, you'll be going in blind. I'm sorry master, but that's all I have."
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me"Well that's a shame," Jake said. "I'm good at makin' wards that can keep people out, but when it comes to taking them down, I'm not so suitably skilled. Don't suppose any of you are? And not just that, I can do it on a place, like maybe a big opening, you know? If someone's managed to make something that can keep an entire mine blocked, that takes a real bit of doing."

Jake whistled. "You know if you're all hoping this leads to a shoot-out, you're going about this all wrong. Right now we don't know nothing about each other, so we don't even know the right questions to ask our feathered friends here. First things first is to know what we all can do and what we're good at. Just because I'm hoping for peace doesn't mean I'm going to be okay with y'all being unprepared for war. If anyone here's got any magical way of helping us not get burned or frozen, that'd be good to know."