xp_logs | Doug and Tandy (Backdated to April 2nd)

Tandy goes to see Doug to help her with some important documentation as she is no longer 18. They talk about Asgard and their own time there.

"Doug?" Tandy knocked on the door to the other man's office. "Hi. I was wondering if I would have a moment of your time." The blonde said as she took a step forward into the office. "I was told you could help me with a number of things. By a reliable source."

Doug looked up from his computer. "How reliable a source are we talking here? I mean, some people in this mansion are liable to sell you a bill of goods. Not naming names, but his initials are 'Robert Drake'." He grinned at Tandy. It was good to have at least a few of the missing-and-presumed-dead from before discovered to be still alive.

"Is he the one that control snow?" She grinned back at him. "No, My source is Adrienne. I believe she is a reliable person." She walked in further. "I had a few questions about my life here. How much do I need new documents to prove I am me?"

"Snow, ice, practical jokes..." He might not be the same Bobby that Doug had known, but some things stayed the same. He tapped his fingers together. The question wasn't entirely unexpected. He remembered the problems that the time dilation of Attilan had caused. And he was certainly well-versed in fabricating identity documents. "Well, you'll need at least the usual - an updated drivers license and the like. But that's no problem, really."

Tandy let out a word of relief in the Asgardian Langauge. It might not be so difficult after all. "May I hire you for your services?" She asked. "Just so I can prove I am me and people won't question how I grew up so fast."

"I take payment in large quantities of Reese's peanut butter cups," Doug replied with a twinkle in his eye. "~How was Asgard?~" he asked her in Asgardian, having caught the instinctive use.

"This is not the first time I have paid someone in chocolate." Tandy smirked, large quantities of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups would be easy enough to get her hands on. She was caught off guard for a moment when he spoke. "~Not dull. I don't think there was a day that went by when I wasn't doing something. I didn't know you spoke it.~" She remember Amanda saying that her and others had gone to Asgard but they were only there for several months.

"You weren't the first to get spirited off to Asgard. Maybe not for quite so long, but still." Doug remembered the time he had spent there fondly - he wondered what had ever become of Arnbjorn, or the skald Hugaldr who had been kind enough to give his patronym to Doug.

"Amanda told me this but not who." She sat down nearby. "What was it like for you? I mean when you went."

"We weren't sure if we'd be able to get back, and we were all scattered everywhere, so it was a lot of work just to find everyone that was there." Doug remembered the effort it had taken to get Amanda back from the Enchantress' spell. "But even so, there were some good times."

"I can see why it would had taken awhile to get everyone together. Asgard isn't exactly tiny. Plus Odin is pretty gun-ho about not using the Rainbow Bridge. Or so I hear. I've meet him once and it was terrifying. I ended up with Bald'r, one of his sons. I have stories for days." Tandy smirked at remembering her time there.

"Marie-Ange always has some rather sharp things to say about Odin. Especially about the ravens." Doug smirked at some of his own memories. "We were all quite shocked to find out that Amanda was blonde, since she'd been dying her hair black the whole time she was here. And Jubilee got turned into a pixie."

"They look like they peer into your soul his ravens." Tandy nodded. "Amanda dyed her hair black? That is new. And a pixie? That is pretty cool. I meet just one pixie there, he wasn't very nice. Meet my fair share of goblins..." She lifted her shirt barely to reveal the nice scar. "Got that one during a surprise attack. And there is another one but I would have to take off my pants for that one."

"And knowing my luck, Adrienne would walk in right then and murder me," Doug said with a chuckle. "My one scar isn't there anymore, but Amanda had to cut me right over the heart and swap some blood with me to get us home." Being absorbed by Mastermold might have taken away the physical scars he'd gotten before then, but he still carried the memory of them inside. Good and bad.

"Nah. Just say we are swap war stories or something." Tandy smiled at Doug but it faded. "Blood magic? There is another way to get home from Asgard? Weird." She paused for a moment. "At least all of us made it back alive. And in one piece."

"Not exactly. More like the runic thinger that we used had to be powered by a man - something something the patriarchy. So Amanda basically transferred enough power to me to make it work." When he thought back, Doug realized the sheer number of gambles he'd been involved in that somehow managed to work out. "Here's to being alive and in one piece," he agreed, toasting with an imaginary glass.

"Sounds very complicated." Powered by a man? That was strange. "Amen." She mimicked him. "One more thing, I see you have several books over there on languages. May I borrow those? I have found that I have a fascination with it."

"Certainly. Just be aware that the late fees in the Doug Ramsey Lending Library are in Reese's Cups, not money." Doug grinned. "And everything in our lives is complicated."

"No money, only Reese's Cups. Want to know a secret, my middle name is Reese. Don't know what my mother was thinking." Tandy nodded. "Complicated and uncanny. If I questions on how to pronounce can I ask you? Also will pay extra in Reese's Cups."

"Certainly. My door's always open." Doug paused for a moment. "Well, unless Laurie's over."