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(lady) "just a flesh wound" sif ([personal profile] asofwar) wrote in [community profile] poly_chromatic2013-05-10 09:40 pm

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[So, Sif has had the device figured out for a while now, but she's been too busy being stubbornly independent and also camping out in the forest with Thor because rent, what is that; Aesir don't pay rent. But she's had about enough after almost a week of hunting and fishing and sleeping on grass. She's a lady, too.

So, she uses the device to broadcast to whomever gets the message - everyone, as it turns out.]


My greetings, people of this strange land. I am the Lady Sif, of Asgard.

[From somewhere behind her, further into the forest, come the sounds of a serious struggle, a fight between beast and man. She continues nonpulsed.]

Though the forest here offers plenty of sustenance, there comes a time when sleeping under the stars is less reminiscent of youth's days long past, and more closely resembling an unnecessary sacrifice.

[She's making an effort to ignore the sounds of wrestling behind them, still.] I would be grateful for any information on what one needs to do for a warm bed and a warm meal in this place. There is no need to specify the rest - I know that you call this the City, a helpful mortal told me, just as he told me there was no way out. [A beat; she almost looks displeased there, but she's walked it off.]

If we must linger here until we find our exit, then I would not have us do it in the wild. We are civilized. [A wild roar interrupts, follows by laughter. Sif sighs.] Now excuse me, for I must go and finish off dinner.

[ooc; If you've guessed that it's Thor wrestling a bear somewhere, it's because he is. He is wrestling the bear, for salmon. (Permisson from player, et all.) Anyway - give some Aesir a loving home, City? (Loki need not apply.)]
unflagging: ([f] Only equals speak the truth)

[personal profile] unflagging 2013-05-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Money. That's what one needs: money.
coldchaos: (0 to Smile in 5 Seconds)

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[personal profile] coldchaos 2013-05-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
You've spent the past week in the woods? Fighting animals off for their food?

[The corners of his mouth twitch up like he wants to laugh. Then his nose wrinkles.]

I cannot even imagine the smell of you both. How savage and uncivil the Aesir are.
unflagging: ([f] A gusty joy far too wild to be sane)

[personal profile] unflagging 2013-05-10 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, by earning it, of course!
coldchaos: (Long Suffering Sigh Eyeroll)

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[personal profile] coldchaos 2013-05-10 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I've no desire to inhale the stale scent of your sweaty leathers. Though a suggestion- there are those who would enjoy that sort of thing. Perhaps you ought charge them and crawl into civilization. Shake a stick and perhaps Thor will even follow you.

[You mean out of his warm bath.]

Ah yes, let us reminisce about days long gone when I would accompany your lot on their journeys to ensure no one died. Or we could not.
unflagging: ([f] A gusty joy far too wild to be sane)

[personal profile] unflagging 2013-05-10 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Now, that's where it gets complicated.

Basic economics operates on a system of supply and demand, obviously. If there is a demand for either an item or a service, then the one who can answer that demand has some leverage over those who have the demand--that is, over those who are in need. A farmer in possession of a supply of grain has some leverage over those who are hungry and in need of grain.

Do you follow me so far? Excellent.

This market cycle continues almost into perpetuity. It's a great chain of being.

At the moment, you are in need of money. Hopefully there is someone who has a need for whatever services, skills, or items you can provide. You can answer their need. And, in exchange for answering their need, they should (one hopes) provide you with money. Which you can then use to pay for whatever it is you need--food, for example, or shelter. Because there are others who have such things as you need beyond simply money. And they have a similar need for that money, as do you. And so the exchanges will continue.

It ain't love that makes the world go 'round. It's cash.
unflagging: ([f] His eyes danced with high glee)

[personal profile] unflagging 2013-05-10 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the same thing.

Just remember: "cash rules everything around me."
coldchaos: (Don't Start)

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[personal profile] coldchaos 2013-05-10 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, no, no. You've used far too complex models of supply and demand for her warrior's reasoning. And far too large of words.

Speak as though to a particularly slow child. Perhaps throw in a few grunts and threats of bodily harm.
subecho: (brimming)

action? bear?? idek???

[personal profile] subecho 2013-05-10 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ WASTE NO WORRY, Sif, for the mighty Thor returns... from the bushes.

And he brings along a very dazed bear on a makeshift leash, crafted from his own belt. ]


A hard fight.

[ ...he's trying for a smile aimed at the bea, but it seems half his face is no longer. Quite. Operational. From all the bruising. ]

Did you not think so, friend?

[ The bear is apparently too busy pondering its life and its choices to reply. ]
unflagging: ([f] Only equals speak the truth)

AWESOME

[personal profile] unflagging 2013-05-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Have I? My mistake. I guess I'd hoped that it was still clear enough. Or maybe I overestimated my audience.

Bodily harm, you say? All right--I'll bear it in mind.
subecho: (it was not. in the contract.)

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[personal profile] subecho 2013-05-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Enough quarrel, Loki.

Come. Make merry. We have - fish.
coldchaos: (Default)

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[personal profile] coldchaos 2013-05-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Someone thinks far too highly of herself.]

You agreed with Thor in his foolishness and brash lack of care- ah, but I'll not bother to argue this point.
unflagging: ([f] A gusty joy far too wild to be sane)

[personal profile] unflagging 2013-05-10 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Same difference, madam, same difference.
subecho: (hold. hooooooold -)

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[personal profile] subecho 2013-05-10 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I... do not understand.
coldchaos: (Diplomatic)

Ew Sif, dats gross.

[personal profile] coldchaos 2013-05-10 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah Sif, how you accuse me. And yet when I lie, I only speak the language of the All Father himself.
unflagging: ([f] A gusty joy far too wild to be sane)

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[personal profile] unflagging 2013-05-10 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Would grunting help? I'm told grunting might help.
coldchaos: (Diplomatic)

Muaahaha

[personal profile] coldchaos 2013-05-10 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Vastly overestimated.

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