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[bacondivination]

[ Loki is leaning a bit too close to the terminal screen when he starts to record his little post. He seems a little too bright-eyed given the circumstances, and there’s an odd rapidity to his speech when he starts talking. ]

I have to admit, I am disappointed. [ He holds up a touchscreen phone so his audience can get a look at it. ] These Starkphones are simply not designed for the rigor of interdimensional travel, and the lack of service is a failure I cannot abide. How will I chronicle my doings without the aid of Instagram and Facebook? Nor can I go on to spread knowledge of this failing with a review!

At least the natives of this realm are accommodating, though I don’t think this makes for an adequate replacement of my phone.

[ He pauses only briefly before switching gears. ] Now, moving onto more important matters… I have a few questions about the quality of native cuisine and where the best breakfast can be found.

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[bacondivination]

No dinosaurs?

[ It's said as if he didn't expect that would be a restriction. It wasn't murder when they had a chance to make it, right? No, he was doing it wrong again, he supposed.

He swipes the picture he was looking at off screen and brings up Angry Birds. ]

I suppose you're right. Luckily, it's not hard to track one's way to any number of candidates that wouldn't put kedan on the menu. Power to get them there would be an issue, but that's just a matter of details after they're toppled.

[manofiron]

No dinosaurs.

[ Tony waits a beat for it to settle in, then smirks. ]

It's hardly humane to trick the poor things into eating our enemies for us.

[ And he's not a murderer. Not anymore. Perhaps never was, the whole cloning business taken into account. ]

Power's a problem, but a solvable one. Organizing a fallen regime, on the other hand... How many good organizers of potentially questionable morality do you know?

[ Because from the way everyone acts about the kedan, he can't imagine the people he's familiar with would be down with ousting the kedan from power. ]

[bacondivination]

You have no idea, but be glad that I doubt most are here.

[ It's said very dryly, but there's a smile on his lips. He likes this Tony Stark, though it's clear that there is something terribly fascinating about him. He almost wants to get to the bottom of it.

Or he's trying to get his 'evil' plan out of him. If that were the case, the joke was entirely on Stark. ]

You want someone good, or, at least, close enough so to pass scrutiny. Charismatic, and equally pragmatic. For Asgardia, it would involve someone that could wield a battle axe and take the heads of their enemies to present to their people. Among humans, compassionate natures might win the day.

It would require a little shopping. Many people from many worlds, and there has to be someone with potential to be queen among them.

[manofiron]

[ The cloak and dagger stuff has never appealed to him. It requires too much pointless subtlety and maneuvering. He doesn't have the patience for it, and because he doesn't play the game, he doesn't have any good suggestions.

Natasha Romanoff, maybe. Nick Fury. But one's not here and the other isn't someone that he's sure he can trust with something like this. Neither is Loki, in point of fact. But given the track record of the Loki he knows, he thinks he would probably enjoy overthrowing the world order. ]

Shame there's no Craigslist, Turtleworld edition. I'd say we put up an ad, but I don't think that's going to pan out.

[bacondivination]

Again, true. It sucks that this wicked plan of heroism has so many flaws, but there's no helping this damnable beast's lack of conveniences.

[ That last sentence turned into something of a jumble, but he keeps on as a little red bird screams in defiance while flying across the screen. The comical crunch of wood and glass make him smile, and the pigs grunt their dismay as they're destroyed. Truly an epic battle. ]

Oh, three stars. [ He flips the phone around to show off his score. ] A proper omen if there ever was one, and a good note to end on.

[manofiron]

[ These days, it's the little things. Like fixing a broken phone. Kicking around the idea of a rebellion. ]

Tell you what. Give me a couple weeks, the material here's pretty hard to come by, and I'll see if I can't come up with a more challenging form of that game for you.

[ In the moment, he means a competitive version of the game. In the end, it will likely involve much more than that. ]

[bacondivination]

My thanks. We're going to have fun, I think. [ His smile is surprisingly honest, not that anyone else could tell the difference. ] And you'll be seeing me around.

[ He shimmers faintly green, and narrows his eyes as if in thought. The translation of the spoken word here makes the inherent meaning of his next softly spoken word completely clear: ]

Elsewhere.

[ And light suddenly collapses in on a center point as he vanishes entirely. ]