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[loveshishammer]

[After a day of wandering around the island market and learning a bit about this place, Thor has finally borrowed Kaidan's communicator, since he's not about to try making a call from inside a ship that sails under the water! So here he is, looking somewhere between confident, amiable, and concerned. Maybe concerned is a bit more to the forefront than he would like.]

Greetings! This is Thor Odinson of Asgard, and I was told there are people who know me who can hear this message. Stark? Doctor Banner? Can you hear me? I will keep this device on hand, please feel free to reply to my message later, if you cannot hear it yet.

[And that's that. He fiddles with buttons for a moment, carefully so as not to damage the delicate little thing, and then the feed shuts itself off.]

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[Video]

[nodavinci]

[Wait. He recognizes that comm signature. What the hell?]

I think the important question here is how you got out into the middle of the ocean.

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[loveshishammer]

[Aha, and there he is! Thor pulls up a smile for the familiar face, though it's tempered with a bit of uncertainty.]

I wish I knew, Stark. I was escorting my brother home to face our father, when I was wrenched from the tesseract's path and fell into the ocean. I know not what happened, or why.

[He has a couple theories, none of them particularly pleasant.]

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[nodavinci]

[Tony doesn't even bother to hide his grimace.]

Great. Because we didn't have enough would-be world dictators around already.

[Is it possible Loki didn't get pulled off track too? Yes. Does it seem likely? That would be a hell of a lot more luck than they usually have.]

[Video]

[loveshishammer]

I have not seen or heard of him since I arrived.

[It's small consolation. He's still worried.]

There is a metal man telling me he met him, but long ago. And the Major told me your ship has been crashed here for a century. It is possible he will arrive in a future time, or has already arrived and been dealt with. I do not know.

[And trying to plan for all the possibilities makes his deity-like head hurt.]

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[knightoflight]

Asgard? [That sounds familiar.]

Are you a friend of Loki?

[Video]

[loveshishammer]

Loki?

[Thor leans right into the camera on that one, looking both worried and fierce.]

Loki is my brother! How do you know him, metal man?

[Video]

[knightoflight]

[Wing looks delighted, for his part. He's probably the only one here with fond memories of the strange man and his sorcery.]

He healed me, once, when he was here. With his sorcery.

[Wing is pleased he knows that foreign word.]

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[loveshishammer]

[ ... that doesn't sound like Loki at all. Looking puzzled, but still worried, Thor asks,]

When did you see him? When was he here?

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[fotlenke]

[ No.

No.

No.

Odinson. Of all people from home, it had to be Odinson. ]

What are you doing?

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[loveshishammer]

[That is a familiar voice, though he can't quite place who it is. He frowns in polite confusion at the blank video screen.]

I am trying to make contact with my companions. May I ask who this is?

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[fotlenke]

Nej.

[ She sticks her tongue out, even though he is unable to see her. ]

[Video:]

[pepperspray]

[Pepper appears to be down in the Vault of Knowledge, if the stacks and shelves of records are an indication. Of course, for those unaware of what it is, it just looks like a library. Neat and sleek and with her hair pulled back in a tidy bun, she awards Thor a smile that masks most of her surprise at seeing him.]

Prince Thor, hello. I don't think we were ever introduced, but I guess you could say that your brother made a bit of an impression on my home.

[Tony apparently hasn't cornered the market on bad jokes, although Pepper delivers hers with a bit of wry sympathy in her expression.]

I'm Pepper Potts. Welcome to Verdana -- has the Bifrost extended this far?

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[loveshishammer]

[Prince Thor. Been a while since anyone's bothered with that one, it seems like! He offers Pepper a smile.]

Greetings, Pepper Potts. I, uh, would like to apologize for my brother and his rather poor impression?

[Slightly sheepish, there, but he continues gamely on.]

But no, I did not come here on the bifrost. It is, as far as I know, still broken and disconnected from Asgard entirely. I was traveling by tesseract when I was wrenched to this particular world.

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[pepperspray]

[When you run in the circles Pepper runs in, especially with Stark Industries' shift to green initiatives, the odd dignitary isn't uncommon. Aliens, she's working on. Royalty, she's got protocols for.

Alien royalty who teams up with her boyfriend to fight other aliens... we'll call it a work in progress. She lifts a hand, smile telegraphing reassurance.]

Don't apologize -- first, it wasn't your idea, and second Tony was so impressed by the pair of craters that I had to talk him out of getting them capped with glass and kept as part of the room's décor and I'm not sure he was joking about that.

You're the second person I've run into who didn't arrive by the ship -- a woman named Ms. Gard is the first, if you want to talk with her. She's gotten her own communicator since, although I, um, guess you'll have to wait for the boat to get back before you can do likewise.

[Voice]

[chooser]

It appears the walls between the worlds are thin indeed, if you are truly who you claim.

[Video]

[loveshishammer]

Of what do you speak, my lady? I am aware of many worlds, and I have been told there may be many more, but what are these walls you mention?

[Voice]

[chooser]

[There's a long pause, incredulity bleeding across the comm channels, even without a video feed to make it plain.]

If you truly do not know, it would take much more than a few minutes over these devices to make it clear. Suffice to say that passage should not be nearly so simple.

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[frostedoverland]

[He figured since Sigyn could see him, why not Thor? He'll change to text if Thor doesn't see this, of course.]

Seriously? Thor is here as well? Whose next? Loki? Odin? I'd seriously love to be around for that!

[He's not teasing, he thinks this all amazing. They were stuff of legends, really. Though Jack never paid that much attention to it, even if he, too, has a Norse name to call his own.]

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[fotlenke]

Do not encourage the Aesir!

[Video]

[frostedoverland]

[He frowned a bit at Sigyn]

No need to yell, Sigyn. But seriously, he seems like a nice guy, so I think I'll continue talking to him. Whatever problem you got with him, you take it up with him.

[He may have come to accept being a Guardian, with all its rules and deadlines, but he was known as the Guardian of Fun for a reason. And that to do what he wanted.]

[Video]

[loveshishammer]

[Yup, there's a white-haired kid on the screen, for Thor. He offers him a bit of a grin. It's not as cheerful as it might have been before his chat with Sigyn, but hey, Jack seems nice, at least?]

Well, I would not be averse to seeing my brother or father here, but at the moment I am all who has been dropped on this world. Have we met?

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[frostedoverland]

[Yes! Scored another! Well, sort of. Since it's, well, Thor. But hey, the more the merrier.]

I was mostly joking around. Even I don't want the Big Four all up in here, even if it'd be nice. This place isn't something I'd want for them to be in.

[He shook his head.]

Nah. But Wing told me about Loki, once. And then Sigyn's here. So Thor isn't too far-fetched for me to believe. I'm Jack Frost. Or, uh, [Thinking a moment. What did the Norse people call him again? He was told this once before when he found out he hadn't been the first Winter Spirit to take on his duties.] Jokul Frosti? Ring any bells?

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[arrowminded]

[He's gonna try not to feel too bad that you forgot about him, Thor. More important things on his mind anyway.]

Where's your brother?

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[loveshishammer]

[Don't take it to heart, Clint. He wasn't specifically told you were here. He actually looks rather pleased to see the guy, in fact, despite the sober question.]

I do not know. I was taken from the tesseract's path and dropped into the ocean. I know not whether he continued on without me, somehow came to this world as well and I have not found him, or whether his path diverged from mine completely.

[Video, replied on the same channel]

[arrowminded]

[He curses under his breath.]

Well, that's comforting.