Jester Lavorre- So we should TOTALLY introduce ourselves...! I'll start first!
Tony Stark- Good grief she's so sugar-high
Loki Odinson- I tire of you mortals. I've already made my introductions, you can refer to our previous conversation
Loki apparently logged off as I walked out of the bathroom, the panel of light that was the Multiversal Chat hovering before me. My vision was still swimming slightly but the effects of whatever I had just been through were slipping away into normality.
Shiroe of Log Horizon- He's delightful... Anyway, I'm Shiroe, guild master of Log Horizon. My main class is Enchanter and my sub-class is Scribe. I can make all sorts of contracts magically and I can also debuff enemies
Tony Stark- Magic... Again... Anyway...You may, or may not, know me as Tony Stark, the billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. I used to make weaponry for the military but have since turned over a new leaf and am now working towards clean energy
Jester Lavorre- I said I'd start first! Hmph!
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Sorry Jester, please go ahead...
Jester Lavorre- Jee Thanks! Now, I don't know what 'clean' energy is or what a phil-anythy thing is, but I DO know that I am a CLeric of the Traveller!
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Interesting, a class I haven't heard of... What is a Cleric?
Jester Lavorre- Welllll, a Cleric is a believer of a GOD. Clerics gain power from those gOds, that power is usually spells!
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Oh! So a priest!
Jester Lavorre- W-well yeah! But we're way Cooooler!!! Trust me!!
Tony Stark- I'm going to sleep. Goodnight, snowflake, glasses, blueberry-cupcake
With that Stark left as I quickly walked through the hallway, the din of people echoing in the foyer beyond. I remembered that I'd just wanted to have a piss before chatting with my twin for the first time in a while. Heh, as if that had worked out. Now I didn't know how she would take my changes. Especially given the fact that she was a telepath and quite a powerful one at that.
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Good night Stark
Jester Lavorre- Nighty night, don't let the bed bugs bite! ✨✨
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Seriously, how did you find the emojis straight away?
Jester Lavorre- These? ✨✨?
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Yes
Jester Lavorre- Tee hee, its a secret!
I almost rolled my eyes at the exuberance of Jester as I stumbled into the foyer of the New York Continental Hotel. Immediately I was spotted by my guards, their eyes widening as they put their hands on their holsters.
Both of the men, ex-special forces, rushed up beside me. One quickly checked over me whilst the other scanned the room, his eyes swivelling left and right.
"Sir, what happened?" There was an edge of nervousness in his voice.
"My, my sister tried to kill me." Both bodyguards shivered slightly and then nodded gravely, the one closest to me scooping me up in his arms as his colleague rushed ahead of us.
I struggled to pay attention to what was going on around me as flashes of history speckled through my mind's eye. The suit of the man being ironed by him and cleaned in his local laundromat. A hazy impression of duty and lust as a scene played inside my head, it was quite the saucy video; if it could be called that. I didn't know Devon had it in him to have sex on the job.
Shaking my head I was surprised to see that I was already placed in the back of my limousine, Devon rushing to the other side and calling the backup team no doubt. Meanwhile Jim, my driver and the other spec-ops guy besides Devon, started a voice call with Emma for me. Honestly, it was more than a little reassuring that they knew what to do in this moment... I was still shell-shocked.
*RING-RING*
The screen at the front end of the limo abruptly turned on as my taciturn sister stared me down with her usual glower of disapproval. I couldn't care less at this moment however as I eased the collar of my suit and sipped on a glass of water.
"Drinking water instead of whiskey, my how the mighty have fallen..." Her tone was so droll and sarcastic that I couldn't help but bark a laugh right at her face.
"Hah, well, give a guy some leeway." She frowned somewhat, her emotions hidden behind that god-awful mask that she'd had to create for father's schemes.
"Why should I?" I rolled my eyes.
"It's not every day that a man's sister kills him." Emma, well, she froze... Pun intended, fuck you. It was obvious she wasn't prepared for that kind of excuse.
"Tell me everything."
"I don't really want to speak about it, but, Adrienne did kill me with a garrotte wire... Luckily it takes more than that to fully kill me." This entire conversation felt weird to me. I knew my twin sister like the back of my hand but I could also acknowledge that she hadn't been my sister for more than half an hour.
"... She's now dead Drake..." Her voice was sombre and her delivery even. She wasn't truly sad at our elder sister's death, she was more saddened by the fact that I almost got killed by the chess game between them. Technically the other me did die but she doesn't need to know that.
"Oh, that's good. Bitch deserved it. My throats never been this abused and I've had oral sex with one of your friends..." She huffed.
"Oh shut it, my friend was giving you pity, you should be happy that she even let you touch her."
"Me!? Pity!? Nonsense. She was just salivating at the chance to touch me and have me touch her... If anything I did you a favour touching her."
We stared at one another for a good, long, minute before we both broke out in chuckles. Emma was always a hard ass and emotionless with people outside of her personal bubble, but when she was with those people she dropped the façade somewhat and just let loose a little. Fortunately I was one of those people.
"Tsk, well, come to the manor as soon as possible. We'll discuss the continuation of the family from there."
I narrowed my eyes somewhat. "Is dad dead as well then?"
She just nodded.
"Good, fucking prick. I'll see you there... And you better have a doctor or something present as well, this fucking bruise hurts." Shaking her head she just laughed before hanging up.
I settled back into the limousine, finally able to just relax and pay attention to the MCR, the Multiversal Chat Room.
Jester Lavorre- WAIT, you said the world your in used to be a game!? Like a card game???
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Ehhhh, sort of... It was a computer game
Jester Lavorre- What's a comp-tuer?
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Oh, damn, um. How d you travel around the world in... Wait i don't know the name of where you're from...
Jester Lavorre- With a cart and horses, obviously! And it's called Exandria, or more technically, Wildemount
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Hmmm, so the world is known as Exandria and the continent you are on is named Wildemount... Well, the continent i'm on is called Yamato and the world is still Earth, I guess
Jester Lavorre- Wait! WAIT! You said your world is called dirt!?????
Shiroe of Log Horizon- It could be considered as a synonym for dirt
Jester Lavorre- HAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂😂
Drecarios Frost- My world is called Earth as well, I think Tony's might be as well... And we already know Loki is from a place called Asgard
Jester Lavorre- 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Shiroe of Log Horizon- She's getting too much out of this...
Drecarios Frost- 😑
Drecarios Frost- Yes she is...
Jester Lavorre- Ouch, Beau just punched me for waking her up
Shiroe of Log Horizon- I'll have to thank Beau if I can meet her
Jester Lavorre- 😣 Not nice SHIROE!
Drecarios Frost- Jester, you mentioned that you still travel by horse and cart?
Jester Lavorre- AH! Yeah! It's the only way to travel of course!
There was a brief pause as I tried to remember lessons in my past life and current life about the medieval age. It wasn't a good time period and was rank with combat and petty squabbles over nobility, rank and political influence. Not that much had really changed these days, the violence just became quiet and the squabbles adapted to cultural cat-fights over who was more sophisticated or powerful.
Jester Lavorre- Hold up, Caleb just said that there are also spells capable of teleporting people... Oh! And there are these things called air ships, they're so cool, and they FLY!!! Like C'mon!!!
That threw me for a loop. My entire image of her world crumbled into dust. Medieval peoples having aircraft and the ability to immediately move vast stretches of land in an instant was pretty impressive. Certainly more than the modern world could really do... I mean we had planes and fighters, but teleportation was still sci-fi for the most part. Though given the fact I was in Marvel now I'd have to accept that really powerful shit was going to keep on popping up left right and centre.
'Oh god, I'm in Marvel... Fuck me...'
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Hmmm, we have the capability to teleport as well, though we can only transport ourselves to pre-set cities along the continent. Not to mention that we don't die...
I froze up; hehe.
Drecarios Frost- You don't die...
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Indeed, when we die we instead go to a liminal space where we are resurrected after a short time and appear back in a settlement.
Jester Lavorre- See I told yah frost guy! Resurrection is common!
Drecarios Frost- I'm having one hell of a day...
Jester Lavorre- You're tellin me!? Hehe 😈😈
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Should I mention we have mounts as well?
There was silence in the chat.
Shiroe of Log Horizon- I guess I'll go back to my paperwork then, chat with you all tomorrow if this doesn't turn out to be a fever dream.
Jester Lavorre- Night Shiroe~!!! ✨
Drecarios Frost- I'm going to get some rest as well, good night you two...
The rest of the short chat was several wishes for good nights. It was after saying goodbye that I sat there and wondered how my life was going to go this time around. The thoughts exhausted me enough that I fell asleep instantly, my head burrowing into the soft leather of my seat.
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Tony Stark was working in his house in Malibu, the newly discovered material he'd made fitting nicely into the arc reactor below him. Badassium, Starkanium as it was actually know, was a massive break through in his search for a safe alternative for Palladium. He was no longer in danger of dying to palladium poisoning or the shards of shrapnel that still fought tooth and nail to kill him.
It was when he finally closed the casing over the completed arc reactor that his greatest creation spoke up.
"Sir, I have run a general search as you requested."
"Result?" He stood and wiped off his hands on a clean towel nearby, the various robots in the background rotating and moving to safely deposit the arc reactor on his 'complete project desk'.
"Loki Odinson is a Norse god of trickery, chaos, fire and lies. The stories vary between the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. Germanic cultures also influenced Icelandic and Nordic interpretations further, it is unclear precisely what this 'Loki' figure could represent."
Tony narrowed his eyes and sat down at one of his desk, Jarvis summoning up varying images and depictions of the Norse Gods, including Thor and Odin.
"What of Shiroe of Log Horizon?"
"No one matches that name sir. As far as the internet can tell, he does not exist."
"Jester...?" His query was more whiny now as he wanted something to make sense about the 'Multiversal Chat Group'.
"There is the definition meaning, sir. There are thousands of jesters across the world, but fewer than a hundred actually bear the name Jester. Without more details regarding her appearance, it will be difficult to determine if she exists in this world."
He reached for his glass of bourbon and slammed it down, asking his final question pertaining to this topic.
"And Drecarios?"
There was a slight pause in the AI before his calming British voice resounded one more.
"Well Sir, that is where..."
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