strangetrip | Check-In: Not-Mother Hen

Kitty sat at the bar with a cup of coffee and her notebook, watching the 'welcoming committee' make themselves busy. Liz was here, as she'd promised Kitty she would be and Kitty gave her a quick smile of encouragement.

One of the worst things about Check-In Days was that you never knew whether it'd be a whole long day of no one arriving, one spectacular fall from the ceiling and dropping dead after another, or anything in between. It made it hard to know what to do with yourself. After awhile, you got used to it and just kept on with whatever you'd do otherwise, and know that if you didn't step up for a new arrival, someone else would. But for someone not used to treating it like a responsibility to be here, especially someone with Liz's anxious need to be perfect at it, Check-In Day could be emotionally exhausting.

So Kitty made sure to have milk warmed for hot cocoa and her plans for the obstacle course handy in case Liz needed something to do with herself. Otherwise, she was working on a modification of Cerebro to see if she could start detecting new arrivals.

[ooc: Regular check-in day gathering post. If you want Kitty, ping me.]

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Thor follows and listens, taking in whatever tidbits of knowledge Kash can offer. Free food and drinks -- good. Helping the community? Probably good and probably a good distraction. Pretty blonde with welcome basket. He can't see how that wouldn't be a good thing.

After Kash has finished speaking, Thor directs a finger at the inn. "If you don't own it, who does?"

Seems like important knowledge to have. The other being what kind of sorcery is this, but since Kash said he did not know, Thor doubted that anyone else would. Anyone who knew would probably be long gone by now.

"No one." Not as far as Kash knows anyway, but he's not going to add that part. "It was here when the first four showed up with no one but the shades that run it. Everyone does their part to keep it running."

Kash really hates welcome duty. He hates talking this much.

"Should probably introduce myself. I'm Kash. I'm a healer. If you're looking for answers, Stephanie and Sam have been here the longest." And Snow, but no way he's unleashing this guy in Snow's direction. Her mama will have to scrape her off the roof with how shy she can be.

"Thor, son of Odin," he says. "What do this Stephanie and Sam look like?"

He can probably keep an eye out for them while he's running around the inn. He'll have this place explored backwards and forward by bedtime.

"Stephanie's blonde--" He lets 'Thor, son of Odin' draw even with him and gestures to his chest at about Stephanie's height. "And about this tall. You can find her in the spa or with Vax, pointy ears, long black hair, wears black." The way he said 'with Vax' was a distinct and deliberate warning that Stephanie was off-limits, but in case Thor, son of Odin wasn't a good listener, he ads, "Best with a dagger I've ever seen and his twin sister's best with arrows." Which reminds him. "If you see an armored bear, leave him alone. He's family."

And then, hm. "Sam's the younger, taller Winchester brother. Almost as tall as you and almost as broad across the shoulders. Hair's longer. He's probably out helping build the temple or calming down an upset ghost." Which was still fucking weird.

Anything Kashaw said after pointy ears goes in one ear and out the other. Thor watches as the other man talks and manages to exhibit enough self-control to let him finish.

"Pointy ears?" he repeats. "Is he a dark elf?"

"What?" Kash looks at Thor, puzzled. Why would that be anyone's first thought? "No. No, they're not drow. They're half-elves, and touchy about the elf half. Their human mother raised them."

"I have a lot of experience with elves, dark and light," he says. "Mostly good with the light elves, mostly bad with the dark ones."

A beat, and then:

"Are they from Alfheim, then? Or are they from some other place, too?"

It was probably better for Thor that they weren't.

"Now's the part where I tell you people here are from dozens of different worlds, and the twins are from mine. There's no Alfheim in Exandria," he says and makes a mental note to warn the twins the big guy might have an axe to grind with elves.

He doesn't seem like he's going to go on a genocidal rampage, but he could be a good liar.

"Exandria," Thor says, musing to himself. "I don't think I've ever been there."

He's been to many different worlds, but not that one.

"I'm from Asgard," he says. "It's part of the nine realms." He says this as though Kashaw might have heard of it. He has no reason to believe he hasn't.

"Never heard of it," Kash tells him as they're nearing the doors to the lobby. "Lillith or Zahra might have, if it matters."

He shrugs as he gestures at the glass doors. "Exandria doesn't have anything like this. We use oil lamps and torches and magical light, for one."

Most of the worlds Thor had visited in the 1500 years he's been alive were more technologically advanced than Earth was, even though many of them made use of magic and technology in tandem. Based on Kash's description of their tech alone, it was unlikely he had ever visited Exandria.

"I'm going to check the place out," Thor says, smoothly directing two digits at the doors; it's clear that he intends for them to go their separate ways. "I appreciate the escort." A beat. "And the intel."

"Sure." If he hadn't caught him, someone inside would have. But whatever. He'd been there, and honestly it's probably better that someone with half a chance of defending against him is who he met up with. Kash is pretty hard to intimidate.

"Catch you for a drink sometime." Which is less of an invitation and more of a certainty. Thor looks like a drinker and there's not really anywhere to do that he won't eventually run into Kash.

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