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[voicelog]

Display Name: iron man
Profile Photo: just a tin man going ✌️ while he's freefalling through the fuckin' sky nbd
Notes: +1 shitpost

the sky just vomited me out
please confirm if this world has coffee

nvm
just confirmed it myself thank g

[...]

sorry
got distracted catching a brat

where was i?

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Thanks. I thought it was pretty tactful myself. [ he isn't even a little bit sorry. ]

A room here? At the Diadem? [ he waves at their current surrounding as he starts to follow him. ] Sure, I have one. But I was thinking that I could move in with you. [ he motions at himself with a cheeky grin. ] I'm already all packed.

[ he doesn't have much to his name here — or at least none that he personally made for himself. ]

So, Peter. [ time to talk serious. ] You know that trip to the Americas that Thor was arranging? Well, he decided to sneak off to it without telling us. And from my best guess, it has something to do with a boy. [ he sounds far more amused than mad about it tbqh ]

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[ Oh, he's already planning on moving in, is he? Color Stephen exactly 0% surprised, as the look on his face shows when he levels it Tony's way - trying for non-plussed, stumbling at the hurdle of wry amusement. ]

And here I thought you might want to try fending for yourself for five minutes.

[ There's an edge to it but it's an edge of play as he winds through the hotel's clientele toward the elevators. They can deal with an official move once they've managed a little privacy - and once Tony's had a chance to decide whether Sunset Falls is really his vibe. ]

I do not know that trip to the Americas that Thor was arranging. I also didn't know Peter had a crush significant enough to elope with to the New New World.

[ What in the heck did he miss. ]

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And miss out on the chance to continue being roomies? No way.

[ it's a novelty for him, in all honesty. he grew up spending so much time alone that he isn't exactly rushing to go back to that lifestyle just yet.

ask him again later though, once he finds out that one of the lokis is the new mayor of sunset falls. ]

Right. [ got two months on stephen. ] Recent events, you're not aware of them. So, Thor launched an expedition to explore the Americas. Neither of us were going. Didn't expect Peter to want in, but... well, he's been wearing a leather jacket that his friend, Kon, gave him and I don't know about you but the kid's pretty much an open book. It isn't hard to connect two and two, especially since I know for a fact that Kon is going on that trip. Guess he thought that we wouldn't let him go on his own, so he took matters into his own hands.

[ he's kinda impressed. ]

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[ Kon. There's a brief moment of hesitation as he tries his best to put a face to that name... ultimately doesn't succeed. It rings a bell, but not a very loud one. ]

The kid's fought in a space war, he can handle an expedition.

[ Apparently, Stephen's not hugely worried. But yikes, Peter. Swept off your feet and all the way to the Americas by a cool leather jacket? Ah, to be a teen.

Making it to the elevators, Stephen steps aside to leave Tony to hit the button for the appropriate floor. ]

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And if he can't, then he'll have Thor and Barnes to watch over him.

[ stepping into the elevator, tony presses the button to his floor before he leans back against the adjacent wall, looking over at stephen with folded arms. ]

so, what are your thoughts on the guilds here? [ he sends the message via the neural implant, ironically the safest measure of communication now that they're in a different dimension. who woulda thunk? ]

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[ Will it looks weird to anyone who happens to enter the elevator on the way of to see two grown men lounging on opposite walls staring at each other with vaguely serious expressions? Possibly. Is this where the rumours about their relationship to one another begin anew in a whole new world? Possibly!!

But here they go all the same. ]

I think they're well intended, but I've done my best to keep out of it. That's becoming more difficult as time goes on. Tensions are running high

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[ they will never escape the throes of the rumor mill. it's their fate. ]

a natural trajectory given the state of affairs

anything of immediate concern though?

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[ Hm, what to do here. Spill the current pressing government conspiracy before Tony's even been here a day?

Eh. He had even less time to acclimate in New Amsterdam, so what the hell? ]

There may or may not be a cult that hates us with members hidden in all major power structures

[ Ah yes, hated by the government. How many bells does that ring? If his expression reads a little like it might be a joke - well, it is an in joke, isn't it? For them. ]

It's a relatively new piece of intel, hasn't made it far yet.

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[ it isn't like tony won't find out eventually, so may as well save him some time and trouble, right? ]

does this cult have a name? [ or some kind of insignia. cults do love their symbolic markings. ]

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The Battlements of the Shining God.

[ If a text could have tone, this one would be saying so much. As it is, the look on his face probably does the job.

Cults sure do love their subtlety, huh? ]

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well, i've heard worse

[ the elevator smooths to a stop at his floor, doors sliding open for them to exit. he steps out first, leading the way towards his assigned room. ]

do they pose a threat or is it still too early to tell?

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[ Stephen exits the elevator to follow Tony's lead as he sends the following: ]

Definitely a threat. They've murdered before, consider those of us from other worlds enemy number one, and apparently they may be embedded in just about any position of authority going, excluding the guilds.

[ Everything's great here!! Welcome! ]

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are any of the guilds taking action against them?

[ unlocking the door to his room, he waits for stephen to enter first before closing it shut behind them. ]

Help yourself. [ he waves toward the hotel-provided snacks and minibar in one corner as he plops down into one of the chairs. noticeably, the guild's card can be seen abandoned on top of the counter below the TV. ] And have a seat.

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Thanks.

[ And Stephen doesn't consider himself a particularly paranoid person, but as he helps himself to some water from the minibar and moves back across the room to take a seat, it's still through the implant that he answers Tony's question. ]

Not to my knowledge, but I'm not aligned with either so I don't have any insight. We do have concerns that there might be some level of looking the other way on account of whatever relationship the guilds have with the government, but nothing concrete.

You really sure you want to give up the city?

[ The Diadem is a sweet deal, and Central City may not be New York but it's a damn sight closer to it than Sunset Falls, not that Tony knows what he's signed himself up for yet. ]