[Backdated 8/25 - mini-GP open to team demilich or by request] is anyone dead?

[st_ratagem]

Coming back to consciousness hurt, significantly more than Loki remembered hurting in recent memory. There didn't seem to be a single part of his body that wasn't in some kind of pain, and on top of that he became aware, very quickly, of an odd whistling emptiness that said too much magic. He couldn't even have called one of his knives.

All of that being the case, he didn't move. If the fight was still going on, he intended to stay down. For a little while. Until he had something to act with or on. Or until he legitimately passed out again; that seemed horribly likely, with the way his head was swimming and the warm-wet of blood flowing out instead of staying in.

The desert was essentially silent, though, for the definition of 'silence' that included the sounds of wind and ordinary movement. Footsteps. Voices.

He wasn't dead, then. Was anyone else?

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Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_ratagem]

Loki offered a tired return smile. "Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I can stop at K." Sometimes he could predict the exact way Thor would jink before he actually did. But not often, lately.

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_rongernow]

"You get a gold star for that." Clarice said with humor and then dropped her head forward on a sigh.

"When we get back to the Inn and after I've slept for about a month, I'm treating everyone to a we survived this shit alcohol blowout party, because we all deserve one."

Her lips curved, "maybe make a skull pinata so we can hit it again and again."

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_ratagem]

"I will attend that party. And I can make the stick for hitting the pinata look like Thor's axe." Thor would either be delighted or offended, and either way would be entertaining.

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_rongernow]

Clarice laughed and then stopped abruptly. "Okay, no more laughing, but dude that is fantastic. We should definitely have the stick that you hit the pinata with be his axe."

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_ratagem]

“Bonus points if we position the thing so it can bounce off a wall.” Mimicking the portal and barrier combination that had been so entertaining.

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_rongernow]

"Oh, well that goes without saying." Clarice snickered. "I'm all for smacking the shit out of it against the stupid pink walls. I might accidentally on purpose hit the pink wall while missing the skull a time or three."

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_ratagem]

“I sincerely doubt anyone would judge you for such an innocent mistake.” All the better if the exercise turned into ‘accidentally knock down a wall’. It would be repaired! So it didn’t matter.

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_rongernow]

"They'd probably join me." Clarice predicted. "Maybe I'll drag my stupid Buffalo head down from my room for people to hit." She glanced over at Loki, "You have anything in your room you'd like to let the crowd destroy?"

Sure it would probably be repaired and reappear in the room but it would be satisfying for that moment.

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_ratagem]

“My room is shockingly inoffensive.” It was, honestly, a very pleasant room.

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_rongernow]

"Then you're lucky. How did you rate anyway?" At least hers wasn't as bad as some others that she'd seen. "If mine didn't have that stupid buffalo head, it wouldn't be so bad."

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_ratagem]

"I've been assuming the assignments are random." How else would Thor end up with a horrifying flowery child's room? Not that he was upset about it, only that it was a puzzle. "I'm just pleased at the lack of pink."

Re: Clarice and Loki

[st_rongernow]

"Yeah, me, too. Mine's green. I can live with that." Clarice considered it. "Wouldn't it be a kick in the ass if our rooms are tied to some key information about the inn?"