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TEST DRIVE #6

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OPTIONAL SCENARIOS

01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD.
The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks!

02. THE STATION.
Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms!

03. WILDCARD.
Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

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Teddy! [ Honestly he expected Billy to make an appearance first, but Loki isn't complaining. He slips through the crowd (ignoring a wealth of internal twisting as he buries and re-buries the guilt, since this qualifies as something of an emergency) and holds out a hand to flag him down. ] Did they really bring you here like that? They dragged me in, too.

[ And Loki weighs a fuckton, as we all know. Hey, let's be super casual about this!! ]

All alone?

[ Like the answer isn't obvious. ]

[Oh no, thinks. Oh no no no. Maybe he can slip away, pretending he didn't hear, maybe if he's fast --

But he's not, of course, because before he knows it Loki is all over him. Why this?

Dryly:]

Really? They got a sack over your head?

[Not as surprising as you would think, actually. He thinks about lying, but that would work for maybe five minutes.]

Yeah. It's just me.

[ Teddy, noooo. ]

They were very insistent. [ They totally got a sack over his head, yes, let's not delve into details. ] I went to the Seelie castle, hitched a ride with a teleporter. It's far nicer down south, we should go. Also there's a fairy-ring around something called the Station where the dimensional fabric is weaker between realms, I was going to check it out.

Are we allowed to do that? They are sort of at war.

[You'd think he'd be more open to the idea given his parentage and his life in general dating Billy 'bad decisions' Kaplan. ]

The Station sounds doable, though. A lot less like we'll be on a scale ranging from 'lifetime imprisonment' to 'public execution for trespassing'.

[lord help him, he's doing this. he's going on a road trip with Loki.]

Wait, did you come alone too? You didn't ditch America or Kate did you?

I didn't arrive waving an Unseelie banner and decrying enemy rights with a foghorn as I kicked stray orphans in the teeth along the streets.

[ Give him some credit, Teddy, he has an invisibility coat and, you know, is him. He stills when asked him about the girls, giving him a hesitant look. ]

No, I didn't. [ Technically, he hasn't really seen them for a year. He couldn't ditch them. ] What's the last thing you remember from our reality?

The party.

[This sounds like it's going to give Teddy a headache. He frowns.]

What's the last thing you remember?

[ The party that mattered, is how Loki hears it. Ah. ]

As the good Doctor would put it, timey-wimey shenanigans are afoot. I'm from a year after in Manhattan, I wasn't anywhere near America or Kate.

[A year after, which also means no David. There is an awkward, relieved sag of his shoulders. There's one awkward encounter to avoid. A year, though. A year; Teddy wonders, briefly, if Loki's been avoiding them for a year. He wonders if he should really care (is it petty, to be mad? Is it bad to hold a grudge?)

He raised an eyebrow. He cares, a little bit. Teddy wishes things could be simple.]

A year, huh. You stuck around. We weren't sure where you would go.

[Or where he could go. Frown frown frown.]

I had things to do. I have things to do. I can't always grace you with my presence, Teddy Altman.

[ It's a cover for I haven't called, having veered away from the team out of his stubborn guilt over ... well, over everything. Loki's baggage makes it difficult to travel, he'd say. ]

We have bigger concerns right now, such as fairies.

[ He really did just say that instead. ]

They are bigger than I imagined.

[Like way bigger. Some are taller than Teddy himself. ]

You could drop in once to someone, you know, just so we know you're not in God jail or on the run.

[you big dumb. Teddy gives him a pointed look. It's a look that says 'one day we're gonna talk about our feelings, but I'm still mad at you so it's not today.' It's a very meaningful look. After a moment he looks away. ]

So, fairies. Do you have a plan or was the Station about the gist of it?

[ God jail. Oh, Teddy, if only I could tell you. ]

They're bigger than you imagined because you're not imagining big enough. [ Snerk. ] The Station is a product of the fairies accidentally tying this realm to another, the original one that the Drabwurld derives from. This is basic stuff. If we can open the veil between realms, which I'm usually rather adept at, we can figure out why we're in the renfaire version of it.

[ He gestures as he talks. ]

It's sort of like being in Hel, leased from Hell. You're within one place, but contained inside another.

[Teddy gives him a skeptical glance. ]

Don't take this the wrong way, but are you sure you'll be able to open the veil here? You did get a sack thrown over your head by imps.

[he's just saying. ]

And then get kidnapped by imps. I know you're good at what you do, Loki, but I think we might be out of our depth here.

[ The flattest look ever, Teddy now owns it. ]

I've been to the Otherworld in Britain. I know a place almost entirely like this only not, it's a reflection of its reality. If we find places around the map which relate to real gateways on the other side, we can weaken the walls; the veil will thin out.

[ And just because he's feeling needled: ]

In my defense, you also got kidnapped by the little Guillermo del Toro nightmares. Maybe I'm not right, I doubt I am, but credit me with more experience than you currently have up your sleeve.

Yeah, but I'm not a god Loki. I was eating breakfast oreos.

[bro....... BRO... don't be mad. ]

But cool, okay. Let's do that. Beats going to war, right?

[He can't believe he got Loki to do a frowny face. Amazing. He offers a tiny, totsey smile and a pat on the shoulder. ] I'm sure you're one-hundred percent right. Probably.

[He gives Loki's shoulder a squeeze. ]

Also, just for the record, no pranks. No leaving in the middle of trouble. No half-plans.

[Loki, if you leave him in the middle of the fairy wilderness to do an errand he will hang you off a tree by your chainmail. ]

I mean it.

If you can't have any faith in me then at least trust that I do want to find a way out of here.

[ Huffing!! Anyway. ]

We won't have to go to war and do the killing-people thing if we can disarm or dissuade them. Alternatively, we keep right out of that side of things.

No, I believe you want to get out of here.

[But there's a but and they both know Teddy doesn't trust him. Too many tricks and plans and schemes; Teddy just wants breakfast oreos and spooning, for two days at least. There's always something to interrupt.]

Are we flying or can you take us? My way involves camping and we don't have tents.

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