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"Well, you are a bit of an arrogant asshole, and shouldnt have scared Runa at all for being new for one." Nadia said looking at Elizabeth, from what she could see so far Elizabeth was a bit annoying, she didnt really care if it hurt her feelings or not. "But for the quest we can work together." Nadia said as she looked at Runa as she said to get the quest started right now, and nodded towards her. "The sooner the better sounds good to me." She said and nodded towards Lara. "We should meet in the lobby for anything that we may need from our rooms then." Nadia said.

Arnora shook her head slightly as Nadia spoke insulting Elizabeth, true the girl was a bit like that, but Elizabeth had good intentions for everything. "Then the groups should be Klara, Nadia and Runa going for Baldur, and Elizabeth, me and Lara to sabotage the launch of the Naglfar and whatever else Hel has planned." Arnora suggested looking over at Runa, they could easily do this if they all worked together. "I'm going to go and get my things then." Arnora said as she started to make her way towards her room.

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Runa wasn't really comfortable with people asking her permission to go off and do things. She was the least experienced of them all. They had known they were demigods for a long time and they had gotten used to things in Valhalla. Runa only really brought to the table her knowledge of Wicca and its slight correlations with mythology - although, she supposed the myths weren't really myths now. Her only qualifications for this were that she apparently was the child of a missing god and she had been designated via prophecy for this effort. Her one and only encounter with the supernatural had resulted in her death. The mission seemed doomed to fail.

The universe was going to end and Runa could only blame herself.

"Erm, please go ahead?" she told Lara. Arnora reiterated the plan and Runa tried to have confidence in it, rather than a horrid sense of overwhelming anxiety. There weren't any belongings that she needed to get. She had the only two possessions she owned on her - the jacket that doubled as armor and the magic staff. She had no idea what else they would need. Did dead people need to eat? She supposed they did, since they were feasting, but maybe that was just out of a sense of routine? Would they need changes of clothes? A GPS? "... I have no idea what supplies we need..." she then added quietly, looking at Klara.

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A look of scorn crossed Elizabeth's face for a moment, before softening. Runa, at the end of the day, was right. She was trying to make things about herself, and that wasn't what had to be done right now. She just nodded silently, before turning over to Nadia and shrugging. This wasn't her show, and it was time she stopped trying to make it that. It was Runa's time to shine, it seemed, and prove herself. It was only fair to give her that chance, though doing it in a time of crisis like this was hard to cope with. She was just going to make things more difficult if she kept trying to seize control.

Personally, she thought she should go with the Baldur crew, her blindfold kind of made her idea for sneaking around places, and this would definitely be a stealth mission. She initially opted not to argue though, and just rolled with it all. This wasn't how she would divide the teams at all; her ideal division would be Arnora and Elizabeth on different teams, split up the milenia of experience between them on each team, keep Runa on the team to get her dad, but pair Elizabeth with her. That would leverage their resources more optimally, and she pursed her lips for a moment, before holding to her decision, and keeping her mouth shut.

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"Three and three works for me, especially since I'm not in the same group as Elizabeth," she said with a bit of a shrug. Those groupings seemed perfectly fine to her, all that mattered now was for them to get going. Though they would need to gather a few things before they left in order to stand a better chance of not dying, so that was something somewhat important to do. She glanced over at Runa, hearing her comment about not being sure what all they would need to grab in order to be prepared to go.

"Well I mean, it all depends, since we are going outside of Valhalla, obviously weaponry and such would be important since we can technically die outside of this place... Which honestly would be a very very bad thing, but how about we just go see if we can find anything around that we think we might need. Who knows, anything could probably have some use if you use your imagination enough, how about that?" she suggested to Runa, "You can come with me to my room if you want to, I might see about grabbing a few more throwing knives that I have stashed there."

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"Thank you." Lara did feel a bit of color rise to her cheek when she heard Arnora say that they would be in a group together, with Elizabeth. The groupings did make sense, as Lara, it seemed, could tolerate Elizabeth the longest out of those gathered. "I'll meet up with you all in a bit then." She headed back to the Elevator and hit the summon button and stepped in. Her finger gently pressed the button for Floor 233, her floor. She leaned up against the wall and sighed a bit as she pinched her brow a bit at that point. She had mostly come along earlier in case they needed her skills and now it seemed she would be going on a quest to the one place she never wanted to go. Hel's Domain.

She didn't want to see her loved one there... if she saw Levi there... she wasn't sure she'd just jump in to join him even after all these years. Yes, he could also still be very much so alive. Gods knew he could even be elsewhere. He hadn't been of the same faith, goodness knew that.

Her thoughts were derailed as she heard the ding as the elevator reached her floor and she stepped out and headed to her room. First things first, she would have to change. If she was about to go on a quest, she was not going to wear uncomfortable clothing. She tugged a sports bra, some fancy work out leggings, and a big baggy shirt that said: Tulip Festival 2016 on it onto herself. She then tugged her long hair into a ponytail and then looked at herself in the mirror and nodded. Next, she grabbed the necklace and bracelet she had from her jewelry stand and smiled a bit. "You guys ready for a fight?" She was aware her weapons couldn't really speak to her, but she couldn't resist.

Next to come was her packing up her bag with extra clothing and some food, while she tried to keep her thoughts from derailing too much.

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"I think we just need a few changes of clothes, which should be in your room as well, I have some hiking gear in my room as well we can share." Nadia said looking between Runa and Klara giving the two of them a smile, she didnt mind sharing her things as she watched some of the others starting to walk off. "I think Hunding will probably provide us some food before we leave as well to, just let me grab some of my things." She turned around and started to make her way over towards her room opening the door and stepped inside looking at her room, she always did feel really content and comfortable there.

Nadia grabbed her pack of hiking equipment, as she looked through it seeing what was inside she was glad that it also contained some mountain climbing stuff to. She also packed up a few changes of clothes as well, she didnt really like the clothes that the hotel provided but they were still comfortable anyway. As Nadia turned and made her way back into the lounge area of their floor looking at the two of them. "Ready to get whatever you guys need, dont worry about the hiking gear I have that covered." Nadia said smiling.

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"I'll see you guys soon then." Arnora said as she turned and started to make her way towards her room and grabbed some things as well as a change of clothes and spotted her spare weapon and shield, she picked them up as well, before leaving her room and went towards the elevator and pressed the lobby button. She didnt really have to much on her, she was both a bit excited as well as nervous for the quest as well, she knew that every time she snuck out of Valhalla it might be her last.

As soon as the elevator doors opened Arnora made her way towards the lounge and sat down and stretched out slightly was she watched the other einherjar talking amongst themselves and doing their own thing as well. Arnora leaned back in the seat resting her feet on the coffee table in front of her.

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Runa was happy with the team she was assigned to - as happy as she could be given the circumstances. She trusted Nadia and Klara - Nadia was very sweet and Klara seemed immensely capable, probably since she had been dead for centuries. Runa still couldn't quite wrap her head around the idea that after failing so epically earlier that day that she had died, she was now the prime candidate to save the universe. It felt like a sick cosmic joke - akin to when the kids in school would invite her to a party, only to throw eggs at her the minute she arrived with glee. Was that going to happen when they went looking for Balder - would the others in the hotel pop up and egg them?

"I'll... I'll go get some clothes then," Runa said quietly with a nod. She didn't want to intrude on Klara's personal space. And having a minute to breathe in her room - it didn't really feel like hers - would be nice. She tried to force a smile but she couldn't quite manage it as she retraced her steps to her assigned room on the floor. Inside, she found what looked to be the closet and she threw a few outfits into a bag. She didn't want to bring too many, as it would be too much to carry and would just slow her down. Everything she picked was black of course - she even found a pair of fishnet tights that would go fantastically with some denim cropped shorts. She dared a slight smile looking at everything in the closet. She loved clothes.

She then left the room, not too sure how exactly she was supposed to lock it, before awkwardly rejoining Klara and Nadia in the hall.

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"Alright then Runa, I'll see you both back here in a few minutes," she commented to them, giving both Nadia and Runa a smile before she headed a little ways down the hallway and eventually found her way back to her room. She opened up the door and stepped inside, feeling something furry brush up against her legs and she reached down to pet the cat. "Well if it isn't little Betty, how are you doing? I ran into someone else with the name of Elizabeth you know, pretty sure you know who I'm talking about," she said to the cat, who began hissing at that, "Yeah yeah, I know you don't like her. She gives everyone else named Elizabeth a bad name... I gotta grab a few things, going on a quest to save the world you know."

With those words, she walked over to a dresser and opened it up, starting to pull out several throwing knives of various shapes and sizes. However, she noticed one missing and let out a sigh, "Okay where did that one go... Did I leave it after throwing it at someone?" she said to herself before she started looking around the room for it, trying to find it. Eventually she did find it, when her cat raced towards her (charging really) with the knife in it's mouth. Klara had to jump backwards to stop herself from getting cut on the ankle, and she couldn't help but laugh about it. "Guessing you want to be my warrior kitty and come with me right?" she said, as the cat set the knife down, sat next to it and meowed at her. "...Oh alright, you can come, just try to stay out of trouble okay?" she said as she grabbed the blade and picked the cat up, moving her to her favorite perch which was on her shoulders, sort of curled and easily able to maintain balance around her neck.

She grabbed a few of her knives, but before she headed out, she stopped at the drawing she had made of her and her family from so long ago. Klara tapped the frame it was in and smile slightly at it, "Guess I'm off on another quest eh Mother?" she said softly, before grabbing the few other things she needed and headed back into the hallway, and she had handed Betty one of her knives again so the cat was holding it in it's mouth as she rejoined Runa and Nadia, "Let's get going then shall we?" she said to them, not even saying anything about the cat.

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Thanks to her backpack, Elizabeth had what she needed on her to defend herself at almost all times. Extradimensional spaces were nice like that, it meant she had no excuse not to be prepared. That thought in mind, she was short of changes of clothes. No point in being prepared for spontaneous adventures after all. Heading off to her room, she wasted no time. She picked out a few simple outfits, her latest journal, her MP3 player, and of course a pair of headphones. Dumping them into her bag rather unceremoniously, she turned back towards her door, and headed back down.

Entering the lobby, Beth tightened her blindfold. All she could hope would be that the friction their group already had wouldn't result in calamity, but that was out of her hands. The route they had opted to go down for conflict resolution was the classic method of not talking about it and hoping it went away, which in her experience seldom worked out well. She supposed however, like most things today, they'd have to hope that things went their way in spite of all things conspiring against them. Her worry, was that this was fate they were dealing with, and leaving absolutely anything to chance would result in failure, but focusing on that wouldn't help.

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Lara's thoughts kept weaving in and out of the present and the past, even as she finished securing a bedroll to her backpack. She double checked to make sure that she had her bracelet on and her other necklace. She found her fingers brushing over the ring on the necklace she wore daily, and sighed a bit to herself. She tucked that necklace back and away, only letting her spear necklace be visible. With one last mental check done, she closed up her bag and slung it over her shoulders, letting it settle in a bit.

Lara walked over to the elevator and hit the button to summon it and waited. Her mind was still reeling from the events of dinner, and the fact that she would be going out on a quest once again. She was still worried as she wasn't sure how they would be getting to Hel's realm but if she believe the stories they might have to go towards water.

Lara couldn't explain why she always had such a fear of deep water. It had nothing to do with her Godly parent, she knew that. It was a fear all her own and it haunted her.

The elevator dinged and Lara got in it and hit the button for the Lobby and then leaned up against the wall of the elevator. It was thankfully a quick ride, and soon she was getting off and waving to Arnora and Elizabeth. "Are we ready then?"

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"So, are you okay?" Nadia asked looking over towards Runa for a moment while it was just the two of them, as she adjusted her pack somewhat full of climbing gear and whatnot. She started to think about the quest as her mind had gone back to home for a moment she really did miss her family. Nadia also started to think a little bit about her cousin as well, remembering her mentioning that she had gone to some kind of special camp which sounded a lot of fun. As they waited for Klara to show up Nadia turned her attention towards her friend, with a bit of a weird sight seeing her cat curled up on her shoulder wielding a knife in it's mouth. "You are bringing Betty along with you?" Nadia asked, it was both funny and cute at the same time as well, seeing the massive cat on her shoulder.

"Anyway lets head over to the lobby now." Nadia said as she made her way towards the elevator and pressed the button once everyone was in then pressed the lobby button. Nadia leaned back slightly as she reached over to pet Klara's cat and looked over towards her for a moment and smirked slightly. "Are you going to bring an army of goats with you to?" She asked jokingly hearing a huge prank had gone off having something to do with goats but it was before her time in the hotel.

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Arnora brought out her axe as she leaned back slightly looking down at it, running a hand over the runes on it for a moment, it was her favorite weapon that she actually owned. Arnora was enjoying the quietness for awhile the quest was also on her mind a little bit as she thought for a moment if they did fail then it would be the end of the world. When Arnora heard the elevator going off, she stood up seeing that it was just Elizabeth and waved at her. "Heya." Arnora said as she waited a little bit more seeing Lara coming out as well and waved at her and smiled. "I'm ready once the others get here we can be on our merry way." Arnora said.

Arnora heard the elevator going off as she saw the last three were coming out of the elevator now as well, she stared at Klara as she brought her cat with her and laughed slightly seeing the knife in the cats mouth. "I'm sure that your cat will be able to prevent Ragnarok from happening." Arnora said laughing a little bit as she picked up her pack of supplies.

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"I'm fine," Runa mumbled to Nadia when they were alone. She was used to telling people that - that she was fine, there was no need to worry, the marks on her arms were from an accident out in the garden, everything was alright. She felt like the Ten of Swords card illustration in reality though - ten blades piercing into her flesh as she just struggled to keep on moving. Everything felt surreal and bleak. The day before, she hadn't even thought remotely about the end of all life - she had been alive, living a (miserable and unhappy) life in Norway. And now, now she wasn't even sure what or who she was.

Runa stared at Klara in shock when she returned. The cat on her shoulders was surprising - she didn't think this was the sort of trip to bring pets on. She also didn't realize you could have pets in the afterlife. Had the cat died a warrior's death and been brought to Valhalla? Had Klara purchased the pet down at the same shop where Runa had received her staff that day? Did the cat just... sneak in or wander in somehow? She had so many questions and those questions only compounded once she saw what the cat had clutched in its teeth - a knife. "Is the cat..." Runa's question died off. She wasn't even really sure what to ask as she got into the elevator with the others. It wasn't long until they were in the lobby where the others were waiting. Runa's courage was rapidly dying.

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"Hey don't diss the cat, Betty is waaaaaay better, not to mention she is the better of the two, wait no three people technically since she was named after my sister, named Elizabeth. Don't be fooled by her cute fluffyness, she is a lot more dangerous then she appears. Also the whole goat thing if I wanted to I'd probably only bring one goat along, just so that I wouldn't get too tired and the image of Betty riding on a goat charging into battle would be amusing. All this little girl needs is some armor and she'd be ready to go though!" she said to Nadia with a smile as she got into the elevator and they headed down to the lobby where the others were.

When she stepped out, she smiled slightly at Arnora and giggled slightly before her eyes flickered around at everyone else, and she glanced at Runa given her comment. "Believe it or not, this cat has more questing experience then everyone else here, well aside from Arnora and myself since we went on our own quest a few years back, and of course little Betty here wanted to tag along too, she's not someone to mess with and won't hesitate to stab anyone so you all just watch yourselves." She typically wandered around with the cat, since she sometimes acted almost as another set of eyes and a sixth sense, since cats tended to be able to detect things before humans could.

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Elizabeth turned her head at Arnora , and just nodded, "I'm ready to headout whenever." She said, stretching a bit, as the group congregated and got prepared to leave. She didn't have much to say on the matters involved, knowing that, anything she might say would probably be met with spite. She wasn't going to try to engage with people if she knew that her advice was likely to be ignored for no other reason than it being her advice. Not now, at least. Hopefully, people would cool down in a bit, and be ready to hear her out when she has something to say.

Elizabeth gathered there was a cat who shared her namesake, and was apparently not one to fuck with. Nodding at the knowledge, she resolved to keep her distance. She liked pets, but she also liked not being eaten, and the latter greatly outweighed the former. The more the merrier, especially when they were going up against a goddess of death and their undead army. Their chances, best she could tell, weren't amazing, and she still wasn't sure how they would clinch this. She may consult the runes on the way for something in the way of ideas, but that would be once they were closer to their goal.

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"You better be nice then, since Betty could easily kick your ass." Arnora said looking over at Elizabeth and laughed slightly as she went over to gently pet Klara's cat remembering the quest that she had gone on with Klara as well as Asha to. She looked over towards Runa and smiled. "Trust me you are going to be in good hands." Arnora said as she went to pick up her pack of supplies and stood up, stretching slightly. "Alright then lets get going." Arnora said as she was about to get ready to head over towards a nearby door, when there was a bright flash of light.

In front of Klara there was what looked like a wrapped box, as Nadia looked at the box for a moment she knelt down to look and see that there was a small tag on it, that said. 'To Betty, From Freya' "Okay I wasnt expecting my aunt Freya to give your cat something Klara." Nadia said looking at Klara for a moment, her aunt from what she knew had a thing for cats, and cats usually led her chariot as well to. "Well lets open it." Nadia said urging Klara to open the package up, whenever Klara opened it there was a set of armor, that looked like it would actually fit Klara's cat.

"Well that is kind of interesting." Arnora said looking at Klara and smiled for a moment, but she wanted to get ready and go onto their quest. "We'll probably go through Midgard first before going our separate ways from there." Arnora said as she opened the door and headed down a fight of stairs, where there was a door that would reveal the massive world tree. Nadia went and started to give everyone else some climbing gear as well.

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Lara took a second look at the cat and then frowned a bit at that. She was suddenly very glad that Klara would be going with Nadia and Runa, instead of with them. Lara had an intense dislike of cats ever since she was a little girl and one had swiped her across the face. Of course, she dare not bring any of that up at the moment, as it seemed that even Freya was blessing the cat with some armor for their quest. It was a little cute, but again, the sooner she was away from the cat, the better.

She followed Arnora and Nadia to the tree and looked up at it in all it's glory. Well, at least the branch of it they were on. They would have to be quick to avoid Ratatosk, and that bark of his. She had heard it once before and even the thought of it sent shivers up and down her spine.

She got into the climbing gear, tied up her ropes and started the climb down the tree, her hands and feet making sure to find purchase somewhere before she would move the next. Each move was carefully made, as the last thing she wanted was to fall into the wrong world.

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Runa blinked rapidly, processing the onslaught of information Klara had given her. The cat had been on quests and knew how to... stab people? Maybe her brain was overheating and all of this had been a construction of her dying synapses, randomly firing off as she drowned. It would make a lot more sense than everything that was going on currently. She just sort of nodded numbly as Arnora assured her that she was in good hands - or paws, Runa supposed. She didn't even have mental space to wonder about if Elizabeth was a common name back in the era Klara had been alive. She flinched as there was a gigantic flash of light, followed by the appearance of a present of some sorts.

She was very curious as to what was in the box, but she had a feeling it would only make her more confused about everything. She walked forward with the rest of them, heading down the flight of stairs. She poked her head out of the door slightly, her jaw dropping as she saw gigantic branches, like they were in a giant treehouse of sorts looking out. "So to get to Earth we... we climb this tree," Runa murmured, trying to decide if she felt totally insane or not. "What happens if we fall?" she asked nervously.

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Klara nodded in response to Arnora's comments, giving her a bit of a smile as she was all the ready to get going, when suddenly there was a bright light and a box popped up in front of her. "Oh? Wonder what Freya is wanting to give you Betty, don't be rude though, it's probably something cool," she said as she picked up the box, before she opened it up. Sitting inside of the box was armor that looked like it was the right size for her very fluffy cat. "That is so cuuuuuuuuute," she said gleefully as she set the box down and Betty hopped down from her shoulder, going up to the box and sniffing it. The cat then looked up at her expectantly, and Klara giggled slightly as she kneeled down.

"Alright, let's put on your new armor right?" she said to the cat, before she carefully put the armor on the kitty, smiling slightly as she did so. The cat was still holding a knife in her mouth and now she looked ready for battle. "There, now you truly are my warrior kitty aren't you?" she said to the cat, before Betty hoped back up to her shoulder and Klara stood up straight once again. "Let's go," she commented as she followed after Arnora down the stairs, "You'll be fine Runa, don't worry too much about falling, we'll help you along, okay?"

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Following after the group, Elizabeth chuckled a bit at the question, "Well, if you fall and survive, Good ol' Nidhogg lives at the bottom." She explained. "He's a big snake... dragon thing. I wouldn't recommend visiting him." She darkly joked, before slowly making her way down the flight of stairs. For a place that was essentially a home for combat veterans, it wasn't very accessible. It wasn't impossible, of course, for a blind girl to make it down a set of stairs, but if they could have elevators to the exit, that'd be nice. Taking careful steps, she eventually safely got to the bottom.

Taking the last step, she continued to say, "I wouldn't worry about it though, if I can do it, you can too." Elizabeth wasn't wrong, in all honesty. She'd take being inexperienced to being unable to see any day. She had her blindfold, so she wasn't fucked, but climbing would be challenging. She wasn't too worried about it though, this wasn't her first time doing this, and she handled herself well enough in otherwise dangerous activity just fine, so she really didn't think there was any real risk for her.

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Nadia smiled seeing Klara putting the armor on Betty the cat looked absolutely adorable with it on and smiled. "Okay that is like really fucking cute and adorable." Nadia said giving her a smile, before turning her attention towards Runa, she started to help put the climbing gear on her. "Just try and ignore her." Nadia said gesturing towards Elizabeth. "Just try and not think about it to much or look down or anything like that, just focus on us." Nadia said reassuring her.

Arnora started to put on the climbing gear as well, and proceeded to climb down shortly after Lara, until she was on the first branch of the World Tree. Arnora knelt down and closed her eyes as she started to track, she started to pick up a trail that would take them down to Midgard. Arnora turned to look at the others who were still up there and waited patiently for the rest of them to get down, while looking at Lara and gave her a smile.

Everyone would start to hear loud barking sounds, as Arnora turned her attention over towards one of the furthest branches and noticed a massive red squirrel it looked like it was starting to stare at the group who were now on it's tree.