OOC DISCUSSION POST: Putting an End to the End

[asgardmods]

About halfway through the events of the E.T. Phone Home catastrophe, the gods will push a message (which may or may not have been penned entirely by Freyr) en masse to all bracelets connected to the network. It will cut through the static and network malfunctions to read:

The World Tree is dying. You are resourceful heroes, Travelers, and you've saved this world once already from Thiazi. Now, please: help us save it from itself.

Our resources are at your disposal. Let us work together from now until the end, whenever that might be.

Currently, Asgard has a "stock" endgame in store, but how the events pan out (and what exactly those events are going to be) can be easily influenced by the Travelers interested in doing so. This is a post for OOC discussion about things to do and try, and also a place for handwaving IC research/investigation.

Think of this a little like Dungeons and Dragons: since it's not feasible to expect someone to RP "sitting in the library for two days researching X topic," HERE is an example of how the handwaving will go. Are they writing a letter to the dwarves? Pestering the dragons? Poring over books from the forbidden section of Vanaheim? Let me know, and we'll work out what they find out, and how it could be useful! There is no "right" answer, or certain "revelation" that I'm looking for in particular. If you think your character might get involved, go ahead and post under that heading! If you want to start some non-handwaved IC discussion between characters, you're welcome to do that on Mimir's post when it goes up at the end of the event to invite interested Travelers to Vanaheim. Otherwise, if you'd like to start some OOC discussion with fellow players or me about what there might even be to look into, go ahead and do it here!

Comments

[asgardmods]

This could potentially happen - but not until Surt's surrender! So long as the Fire King continues to fight, so too will his underlings. Because you guys decided to approach this almost evenly split between killing him and entreating him, the event will sort of reach a middleground between the two wherein he will be weakened to the point of defeat, but urged into captivity instead of death. Details on this will be forthcoming.

After that point, the Travellers will be able to attempt speaking to the Fire Giants, and they will be met with varying degrees of - well, confusion. They have been bred to follow Surt's lead, and so they will show gratitude that their King's life was spared, but some may show enmity, thinking that it is dishonourable to admit defeat over dying with pride. But most aren't that smart and will generally think ??? King surrendered, so ... we do too??? At which point it will be easier to discuss anything you'd like with them.

The Fire Giant's interpretation of the prophecy is the idea of dominance, that they should be declared the supreme race of the land as all others are purged in their flame. They don't see this as "death" but as "purification"; that is, the return to the Mother by the strongest hand, the element of life and death both. It's not meant as something sweet, not hardly the deliverance of the Tree by their hands, but rather the establishment that they are the truest of Her children and the rest will yield to them, and they should be the last to die with pride and honour.

Basically: they wanna blow shit up and y'all should just accept it. That is their entire philosophy. They're really, seriously, not all that bright.