[ Opening Mingle ]

[randomly_modding]

[Everyone will wake up suddenly, as if having drifted off -- while sitting upright in an uncomfortable office chair. In one hand they're holding the communicator, and in their lap is propped a clipboard with a job application (standard, looking something like this; it requests up to ten years of job history, ) and a pen. The waiting room is also fairly standard, except for being empty.]

[The communicator's lock screen reads, Complete the job application. Time limit, twenty-four hours.]

[There are magazines, fake plants, and computers. There's a staff lounge with food -- tupperware that might have belonged to some of these nonexistent workers, popcorn and cocoa packets, vending machines -- and restrooms. There are exits, but characters will be unable to use them... or make their own, or escape in any way.]

[So the characters are stuck here, until tomorrow morning. Set up a comment telling everyone what your character is doing, and thinking, whether they're obeying the task or not, at any time during the day. Then tag other people! Be sure to check back later in the week, when people are encouraged make threads for the evening as well as the day! Characters that have been claimed are also welcome at this point to join the community, and will be able to make their own posts, which can be tagged by anyone taking part in the event.]

Comments

[reignbringer]

[ did you ask for an enormous blond god throwing his chair against the wall and bellowing? because that's what you got! ]

What manner of treachery is this?

[ canon point: immediately post-The Avengers. so he is kind of missing one prisoner and one cosmic cube.

it's not a great day! ]

[waytobreakithero]

[ Well, well, look who decided to show up. He's like an un-horned, rabid Arishok. With hair. Her daggers stay in their sheathes for now, but she palms a miasmic flask, in case things get really ugly. ]

That was my favorite chair.

[reignbringer]

[ he has a great sense of humor -- in ordinary circumstances. but these are not ordinary circumstances, so have a completely humorless, baleful stare ]

Find a better chair.

[waytobreakithero]

[ The best she can do is not laugh. She can't help smirking, however. ]

If it was my favorite, wouldn't you think it was the best one?

At least tell me destroying it brought you some sort of catharsis.

[reignbringer]

Nothing here is good. [ flat ]

And it broke very easily. [ so no ]

[waytobreakithero]

You seem to be a man of few, simple words, Serah.

[ Are you pouting? How cute. ]

[reignbringer]

Only when I am angry. And if you mean to imply that I am in any way impaired, you will learn why no one risks my wrath intentionally.

[waytobreakithero]

[ Eyebrow. ]

Threats make such terrible first impressions. Although my first impression of you is you throwing a chair, so perhaps I shouldn't expect much more. [ Pleasantly! ]

[reignbringer]

I would not threaten if you would not insult.

[buymorelifer]

[ OH LORD HIDING UNDER A TABLE. ARE YOU HAPPY, YOU VIKING?! ]

Don't kill us! I swear none of us did anything!

[reignbringer]

You would speak for all here? [ full attention on you, Chuck ]

[buymorelifer]

Y, yes! More or less. I mean, don't think anybody's from here, originally.

So... so nobody should die. [ Death is bad. He is a pacifist. ]

[reignbringer]

I do not bring death, except for our enemies. [ just plentiful wholesome violence! ]

[buymorelifer]

[ You are still scary.

Peeks his head out from under the table. ] Promise?

[reignbringer]

[ THE MOST SOLEMN FACE ] This I swear.

[buymorelifer]

[ That's good enough for him! Gingerly comes out of hiding, offering a weak smile. ]

You must work out a lot, huh? [ Ehehehe. ]

[reignbringer]

I practice frequently to keep my skills sharp, if that is what you mean.

[ pause, remembering ] I do not "body-build".

[howbigcanitbe]

[Hellboy points to Thor's outburst.]

What Fabio said.

fhskdj <3

[reignbringer]

[ torn, for a beat. on the one hand, you agree with his cause; on the other hand, you are doing that mortal thing. Darcy did it, and then Tony Stark did it, and he does not fully understand it. let's try for helpful: ]

That is not my name.

[ just in case you were not aware ]

<3

[howbigcanitbe]

Yeah, I figured since you weren't holding a giant tub of butter.

[After a thoughtful pause]

Or a half naked, swooning girl.

[Yes, he's read a romance novel or two. He spends a lot of time indoors.]

[reignbringer]

[ he is thoroughly blank ] --While that certainly sounds like a pleasant evening, I do not think I am especially known for either of those things.

I am Thor, God of Thunder.

[ no judging. he would probably like romantic comedies if he spent enough time in your realm! also certain kinds of reality TV. and cartoons. books are in general a little less appealing to him; they lack the immediacy of television and movies! ]

He has an abs icon too, Thor!

[howbigcanitbe]

[That gets a snort.]

And I'm on the cover of GQ.

[Yeah. He doesn't believe you, Thor.]

Bachelorette party is next door.

[And he thinks you're a stripper.]

all the abs!

[reignbringer]

[ paaaaause. look, he recently went through an awful lot to teach him the value of non-Asgardian life. it was a whole thing. he's a better person now! he completely didn't judge you for being some kind of runty fire giant.

but. ]

I do not follow.

[ except his tone says he is very sure now that you mean to insult him, and there's an edge of warning in it ]

[howbigcanitbe]

Thor. The god of thunder...he's a myth.

[ but then to some people, so is Hellboy.

mythology was one of Hellboy's favorite subjects when he was younger, so no, he doesn't mean to insult him. he just doesn't believe him. ]

[reignbringer]

[ his lips -- curve up ] That you have heard of me does not make me less real, though I would not put too much stock in the myths.

[ he straightens a little more -- all 6'6" feet of him -- and then he unsheathes Mjolnir ]

Would you care for a demonstration?