Children of The Divine (IC)

[Jay 2K Winger]

Solomon - Location: Outside the Palazzo

The big Aussie turns and gives the tattooed girl a grin. She was the only person he allowed to call him "Sol." "Fi. Good to see ya again." He gestures over his shoulder to the Palazzo. "Some Quislings(1) inside, trying to steal some gem called the Heart of Winter. What I hear, three of our guys caught one of the thieves. But one of our guys is down outside the exhibition hall, and the other's fighting a Quissie with a sword. Go stop Sword-girl, I'll get the coppers off everyone's case."

Once that's said, he fist-bumps with her-- the kind of mutual respect between people who get things done and damn the rules-- and then vanishes into the crowd. It isn't long after before there's a series of gunshots, and a neon sign suddenly explodes in sparks, drawing attention from the front of the Palazzo.

(1) "Quislings" - Children of the Divinity working with the Titans.

[Chanlin]

Fiona: Inside the Palazzo

After the fist bump Fiona switches from staff over shoulder to in front of her and Solomon would see her change into a frail old woman hobbling along with the aid of a cane into the building.

Once inside she keeps up the ruse seemingly ignoring everything around her she hobbles over to the slots that have been sliced through and sits down. She makes as if fishing for a coin, pulls one out, sticks into the empty air causing it to plop to the floor, goes to pull the handle, and then notices that the machine is broken. She then turns to face Sword girl, pointing with the cane/staff, and bellows out in her best old lady voice, "You there, young missy. Why ain't this blasted machine workin?"

(ooc: assume this is after Lupo has had the chance to react to her previous attack)

[Mytical]

Lupo dodges the incoming blow, pushing her off with his feet. Jumping up, he takes a somewhat defensive stance, knowing that he can fight her to a draw long enough for others to arrive. Besides, he is learning a LOT from this fight..which is always a good thing.

[Scorpodael]

Jack looks up at Emmett, and then back at Matt, tilting his head slightly. "You know what? Something occurs to me now... Maybe this goon is just a bit too low-level to know what's really going on." He says, reaching up, and putting Matt's hat on his own head. It... simply doesn't look good. At all. Hey, if he can't scare the man, might as well insult him. "This isn't a fanatic. This is just a man who hasn't been told the whole truth, I think, about what the Heart of Winter is for... Aiden? Please explain Fimbulvetr to the nice man, would you?" He says, pleasantly, before drawing his knife, and heading over to one of the downed zombies, cutting away strips of the pants to make makeshift rope. He'd be doing it to Matt's coat, but he doesn't want to piss him off quite THAT much... yet. He also has a fairly good idea what Fimbulvetr is supposed to be, but he'd still like an explanation in case he's wrong...

[Naamah]

Aiden winces a little. He'd been in a strangely comfortable spot - holding down a handsome guy, listening to a cute accent talk Trickster to them, not having zombies come to eat his brains out. It was almost relaxing - in a crazy, chaotic way.

Then Jack just had to bring him back to reality.

"It's - it's the beginning of the end for the Aesir - and possibly for all humanity, depending on whether you believe one pantheon's myths hold true for the rest of the world, it seems kinda rude if you ask me but... Three years of winter, constant snow. The bonds of family are forgotten - brother kills brother, sister fucks sister - and then, well, theoretically, Götterdämmerung - the actual version, not the opera. And my family is all killed."

He looks away - swallows, his grip on Matt tightens.

[Chanlin]

Emmett: The Palazzo Hall
Emmett speaks his face impassive, "Yeah... gotta love those end times stories. At least you have one." No one is quite sure if that is meant to be a joke or not.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Location: The Exhibition Hall

The Shadowman smiles as Emmett suggests tying him up. "No rush, cap'n, I'm quite comfortable here, me." He looks up and his expression darkens slightly as Jack puts his hat on his head like that. And it does literally darken, the shadows on his face visibly deepening.

"Thinking I don' know what the Fimbulvetr is?" He turns his attention to Aiden, and seems quite amused at how uncomfortable the notion of the thing is to the Aesir-kin. "Say true! Tricksy boy got it right. The wolf-time, the dark-days, the end-times. Special so for the Aesir, mais oui, but we reckon it screw things up royal bad for the rest of the Divine." He looks at the three men present in turn and says, "Ehekatoyaatl will darken the skies of Acopa and Mictlán, Aten's light will fill every corner of Iteru and Duat, and when all is finished, Surtr will burn the nine realms away."

He gives Jack a smug look. "Don' mistake me for some mook like a jotun or cyclops or oni, Childs. Mama din' raise no fool."

Emmett would be able to tell that every bit of that is true. The Divinity have been waging a war in the Overworlds against the Titans' forces, but it's been more or less a stalemate, with neither side getting the upper hand for long. There's every possibility that the triggering of Ragnarök will tip the balance in the Titans' favor.

And then he might notice the way the Shadowman's eyes slide subtly to one side, as if concentrating on something.

Location: The Palazzo

Su swears colorfully in Japanese when Lupo avoids the killing blow and slides into another ready stance-- when the old lady suddenly bellows at her. This actually draws her up short, and she turns to look at the old woman with a look of bewilderment. "Nani?"

Then the shadows around the three start to deepen and move subtly. It's a bit difficult to notice amid the pouring sprinklers and flickering lights, but Su certainly seems to notice it. She swears again and thrusts her sword in the direction of the front doors, and suddenly leaps forward, gliding like a Wuxia fighter once again over another bank of slot machines. She's trying to make a run for it.

[Scorpodael]

Jack returns from the zombie with several strips of cloth, sheathing his knife and tilting his head at Matt. "Good point, good point... Tell me, how do you plan on escaping blindfolded and bound, being shocked at random intervals?" He asks, reaching down to start binding one of those strips of cloth around the Cajun's eyes.

[Chanlin]

Fiona: In The Palazzo

Fi swears under her breath and then drops the illusion. "Don't you ignore ME!" She roars, "You stupid Japanese hussy!" She leaps from her seat twirling her staff overhead she makes a flicking motion with her left hand and would send a series of chairs careening at sword girl's legs. In the mean time she is attempting to close the distance between them and if possible getting between sword girl and the door she's headed for.

Emmett: The Palazzo Hall

Emmett raises his aim just slight so the shot will not kill and pulls the trigger not waiting to find out or even bothering to look at what shadow man is trying to do. "Would you shut up already! And no more trying any funny business."

[Naamah]

Aiden winces and looks up. "Fucking Hel, Emmett, could you not play Dirty Harry here? I'd like not to bleed out from a ricochet, thank you oh so much." It's clear something is putting him on edge - mostly the talk of his family dying. "Please look for the Heart. See if we can give Sol a trail, maybe we can catch it before it gets out of the city."

A pause. "Unless you do have it, Matty. Should I let Jack pat you down?"

[Chanlin]

Emmett: The Palazzo Hall

Emmett just nods and steps off to the side. A few other possibilities occurred to him. "Selene, I need you to check on two things for me. Check the camera feeds from before we arrived and see if you can spot when the Heart vanished. Also, do you have eyes on Sevilla?"

[Mytical]

Lupo swears and is after the girl, but for an entirely different reason. "Think she knows something we don't...might want to get outta dodge!"

[Jay 2K Winger]

Location: The Exhibition Hall

The Cajun just smiles as he's blindfolded. "I jus' fulla surprises, me," he all but giggles, then flinches as the gun goes off near his head. "Soc au' lait! What for that necessary, cap'n?!" He jerks his head toward Aiden. "Listen to Tricksy Boy!" His blindfolded gaze turns to Aiden again, and once again the grin. "Already tol' you, Tricksy, I don' have de Coeur, me. Only thing ol' Pointy there gon' find is maybe I get a lil' excited if'n he do it." His eyebrows waggle. He's telling the truth if Emmett's paying attention, and Aiden would definitely recognize a practiced Trickster in his antics.

When Emmett speaks to Selene of Sevilla, Fred Dutch speaks up. "I don't know everything that's going on here," the security guard says, "but Mr. Sevilla's over there," and he points to the side of the hall, behind one of the other displays, where the fat Spaniard can be seen cowering.

"Stop shooting!" Sevilla shouts. "I'm allergic to gun shots!"

As for Selene, she responds, "Trying to find it. These systems have fingerprints on them. Someone else has been in here. Might have tampered with videos. Trying to find it." A pause, a sharp inhale. "Working as fast as I can."

Location: Palazzo Casino

Su is hit by one of the chairs, going into a tumble from it, but she's up quickly and kicks the chair in the direction of the chasing Fiona. She snarls, "I don't have time for you!" as she hisses something in Japanese and sweeps her sword in an arc before her, and a rush of wind blows out, hard enough to send stools flying.

She curses again as she sees Lupo charging as well, then whirls and is away through the air again.

[Scorpodael]

Jack calmly ties Matt's hands behind his back, too... "Tell me, is this hat important to you? Because if it's not too much trouble, I'd rather return it to you after all this blows over, rather than you snatching it up during your daring escape attempt. It'll save trouble all around." He says, before backing away toward Dutch, and handing the guard the hat, leaning in and muttering quietly, "Hide that hat for me, would you? Somewhere inconvenient to get to in a hurry, if you know somewhere like that."

[Mytical]

Lupo once again underestimated exactly how slippery things were, and as he almost caught up with the would be security guard..he slipped and found himself sliding out past the door cursing. "OW!"