Futurology. Contact.

[selfimage]

username: LOKI

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[selfimage]

[ the voice that comes through is lighter, more feminine. ]

A favor? I'm a rather bold choice.

[wright_idea]

Yeah, I get the ris --

...er, is it just me, or do you sound considerably less... "guyish?"

[selfimage]

Tell me, what entails being "guyish"?

[ guess who's gonna be a giant troll? ]

[wright_idea]

...Are we really doing this right now, or can I get on with the point of my contacting?

[Honestly, considering some of the stuff this guy got up to in the mythology, changing his voice is probably the LAST thing I should be weirded out by.]

[selfimage]

You are the one that asked.

[ she says flippantly. ]

But fine, yes, please get to the meat and potatoes.

[wright_idea]

[Yes, and believe me, I wish I hadn't.]

So you've heard all the info we've got about the Queen's assassination, right? Am I the only one who thinks the King was spinning a line to Riza and Kida considering all the other information we've got?

[selfimage]

Yes, yes and yes—there's quite a lot of sketch involved. Not to mention the queen having herself a good goblin friend. Which, oh, coupled with her failing marriage ...

You can put two and two together, can't you?

[wright_idea]

[Why yes, I am in fact capable of basic math. Thank you, oh kind mistress, for noticing.]

Anyway, I'm thinking we need to find a way to shake out the full story. But with most of the attention on the Order of the Chimera and the goblins, it's going to be hard to get that.

Unless we, I don't know... start spreading a little doubt in the population about the King?

[selfimage]

You mean to deconstruct the narrative that he's given in terms of his wife's death.

[ Loki sounds dubious, but not unwilling. ]

There's only one problem with that.

[wright_idea]

Oh? What's the problem?

[selfimage]

We're outsiders.

[wright_idea]

[He has a point. Or she. Or is it still he?]

You're the God of Lies, though. Can't you, I don't know, find a way to kind of leak it in? Like, a really subtle thing that kind of weasels into your head.

[selfimage]

You want me to write a jaunty tune about the King's indiscretions and sell it to the first bard? What do they call that? Oh, yes—earworm.

[ not a bad way to go about it, but anyone that sang ill of the king may have some retribution in store for them. ]

[wright_idea]

[Wow, way to use my own words against me.]

W-well, I wasn't thinking of anything that blunt. The song's more of a unity thing. But, I mean, like...

[He stops, and thinks.]

What if there was something people already had doubts about? Something which just asking a question would cause people to try and fill in gaps themselves?

[selfimage]

Why Mister Wright, that sounds like treachery!

[ does she sound excited or scandalized? It's hard to tell. ]

[wright_idea]

Gosh, do you think so? I'm just doing what I was told to do. After all, we're supposed to make peace between the goblins and the humans, right?

Never said anything about making peace with the KING.