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[Video] | Tuesday afternoon

[Hey, look who's found his way onto the network again! Finally! Thor is smiling cheerily, and maybe a little bit like he's going stir-crazy, at the camera on his phone. He's also not in his armor, but a rather nice blue tunic with some gold embellishments. Somebody did some shopping while across the ocean.]

At last, we are again in range! Hello, my friends in the Old City! It is Thor Odinson, and we are on our return trip. Apparently we will be arriving at the end of the week, but we are not to speak of that until we strike land again.

[And Thor, while a bit of an airhead, is still trying to abide by the rules.]

Have we missed anything of import? Is everyone still well? Please, regale me!

[And keep him from being bored. Please.]

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[Aw, Stark, he didn't do anything wrong, c'mon now.]

Apparently we are not to speak about the location of our arrival, nor the exact date? There has been some worrisome news from our previous ship, or so I have been told. I cannot think that a brief mention such as that will be too dangerous for us.

[Look at him, trying to be vague. He's not really very good at it, but he's trying! Subterfuge is not Thor's strong point.]

[And this is why Tony likes you, Thor. You actually make him look capable of subtlety.]

Sure, if they haven't figured out how to work out the location of your signal.

Wait. You're on a different ship?

[Yup. That'd be a good reason to keep thunder gods around, all right.]

We are. It is underwater entirely, they call it a submarine. We took this for part of our journey last time, as well. There is only a very small portion we are allowed in.

[He doesn't comment on what's going on with Sabine's ship. Perhaps because he thinks that's the important part.]

[Submarine, what.]

Good thing we didn't send the Big Guy after all.

[There's a marked pause, and Tony's expression darkens.]

He's gone, by the way. Our merry band's fading fast.

[Though Thor doesn't get the reference to a merry band, it makes enough sense in context that he's not really curious, either. The news leaves him dismayed enough to ignore even that, anyway.]

Oh no. Pepper Potts mentioned he had not been seen, before we went out of range. He is back in that ship, then?

[With Jane? That's doubly sad, though maybe that means they can both come back....]

Yeah. Which is better than vanished or dead, but not a lot.

[He runs a hand through his hair, standing it briefly up in spikes before it resettles.]

I haven't seen much of the Wonder Twins, either, but I have it on good authority they're still around. Which reminds me. How good are your brother's illusions?

[Confused by the unexpected change in subject, Thor tilts his head at Tony's image on the screen and frowns before answering.]

They are quite good. He is a master sorcerer. They have no substance to them, however, and are visual and audible only. That is the true way to determine what is an illusion and what is not.

[He pauses, follows the train of thought to its obvious confusion, and asks,]

Do you have reason to worry about Loki's illusions, Stark?

You mean aside from him apparently being on this planet, and wrapping your Number One Fan and her genius friends around his little finger? Curiousity.

[Thor might have guessed that was where Tony was headed with that line of questioning, but it still somehow takes him by surprise. He sits up sharply with wide eyes and an expression both hopeful and worried.]

He is there? Is he well? Has he caused no trouble? Did the tesseract come with him?

Aside from people disappearing and turning up dead where they weren't even supposed to be?

[Okay, so there's no proof that Loki's involved with any of that, but he finds the timing suspect.]

[Look at all this dismay and disappointment, Stark.]

Is he responsible for their deaths, then? What has he done?

[He fully expects Loki, if he's responsible, to have announced demands and plots for world domination or something by now. Apparently if he can't have Earth, he'll have Verdana?]

No idea. The ren faire idiots have been hiding him. Which makes me wonder how they remember to breathe, but that's really not the point.

You do not know where he is?

[More dismay! And concern, too, because this does not sound like his brother at all, not the way he is now. He might hide for a little while, but not for long, and not when people who are trying to "hide" him.]

Have you spoken with him? Seen him?

Since we just established that he's a master illusionist, "have I seen him" probably isn't the most helpful question.

[Because he could be a dog. Or a tree. Or invisible. Or a teenager, apparently.]

Something's up. We're just trying to figure out what.

I will try to find him upon my arrival... if he will let me find him. Perhaps in this place, if he has not made any pronouncements of attempting to put himself up as king, he may be more amenable to my words.

[They will be lone Asgardians trapped here, after all. With potential enemies arrayed against them both, to boot. That has to count for something.]

It's a small city. Finding shouldn't be a problem. Containing if he goes nuclear - now that's going to be fun. [In the actually not at all sense of the word.]

Why do you mortals continually use that word for something that is the opposite?

[Usually Thor would call a good fight fun... but not one against his brother. That's dead serious. And generally unhappy-making.]

Regardless, we will do what we can. He is not as powerful without that scepter, and his magic is more in trickery than in offense.

Because contemplating how not-fun things are is just depressing.

And the legion of crazy people convinced his life is at risk are making me think trickery's enough - but we have a few options, if we need them.

Who all is doing this? Hiding him?

[He hasn't gotten any names yet, only derogatory descriptions in vague terms. If Sigyn is one of those people, though... hmm. He isn't sure what he'd make of that, really.]

[He could answer. Or he could just send along copies of these messages.]

Not to mention anyone else they've roped into playing along. The complete lack of any actual justification for the threats is a nice touch.

[Guess who doesn't know that Clint actually did go after Loki? Not that Tony would blame him at all.]

[Thor is quiet for a minute-- allowing Tony to listen to those messages, himself, second-hand-- and frowns thoughtfully.]

The Lady Sigyn, I believe, speaks out of loyalty to myself. We vowed to aid each other and support each other, and she may view this as part of that vow. I do not know this Fa Mulan. Her reasons are unknown to me.

[Though she reminds him a lot of one of his dear friends. That does earn her a plus, in his book.]

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