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[ifhebeworthy]

[The screen of their communicators flickers to life with a fluorescent glow. Initially, there's only a hint of someone there-- thick red fabric, chain mail, a hammer.]

I had prayed to come to good tidings. Greet friends, and assuage fears. To bolster thy strength with mine own.

Instead, I come here haunted by past misgivings I thought requited, by a name all too familiar to me. If you know him as well, I would like to speak to him.

[It doesn't sound like a request. The image swings up high to a broad faced man with long blonde hair. A winged helmet. His eyebrows are drawn down across a brow rigid as though it were carved from stone.]

To my friend.

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[helpline]

Then it's a good thing nobody in the story was a true Asgardian.

[ says the man who is 100% up for running as a solution. ]

See, the problem with my stories is that none of them involve actual gods. It's just WOTAN the computer or Garm the robot dog things or beings from pre-universe time called the Gods of Ragnarok.

[ifhebeworthy]

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family:vivaldi;>Stories are only as interesting as the person telling them, friend. You should not underestimate their value. Although, our stories and celebrations have been known to last for weeks on end, and so perhaps there is still truth to what you say.</span>

[helpline]

If that's the case then sorry. I'm not all that interesting.

[ oh that is a DAMN lie. ]

[ifhebeworthy]

For a man who defeated a warring race with eels and a puppet, I am as skeptical as you are of my divinity..

[helpline]

Skeptical of the boringness? You shouldn't be. Interesting people know they're interesting and they'll tell you up and down that they're interesting. I'm just an old man who's met some Vikings.

[ never mind the fact that the Viking story spun out like twenty other questions.... ]