Option A: 27th, immediate arrival [Noh-Varr would have taken any mission that got him off the base, no matter how dangerous. The tensions mount, and the talk turns decidedly unfriendly; he can see where the train of thought will lead, and he wants no part of it. He has always tried to do what he thought was right. He can see the ways, now, in which this hurt many people, but at the time, he made the decisions he felt were the only ones he could make. It is both sobering and kind of painful to watch a rebellion from an outsider's perspective. He sympathizes; he thinks they are right to distrust, and his own anger about kidnapping is intense and intensely private.
So first he stands there and inhales the cold air, letting his body and his insulted uniform acclimate to the sudden change in temperature, and lets all the tension drain from his body for that one, brief moment.
And then he runs off into the snow, kicking up great sprays for this one brief moment of fun, and then plops down right in a bank like the world's biggest kid.]
Loki should have come. We could have kicked butt with snowballs.
[Even if this is a serious mission. What he really means as well is, he could have kicked Loki's butt at snowballs.]
Option B: 28th-30th, outside the city [He doesn't move on to the city right away. His endurance, his speed and stamina are beyond human, but even Kree would get worn down in the piles and piles of snow. Still, he's thorough. If they're out to scout, then that's what he's going to do; for his own information, if not for others. He still has not decided how to feel about the Initiative.
Sitting down in the snow, it would be hard to see him, with his white hair and the white-patches on his uniform. It blends in, a bit! But he's working intently on really drawing a map, marking out terrain as best as he can, elevation, territories occupied by penguins (he has never seen a penguin before; he hopes no one ever witnessed the moment where a sudden lunge startled him and left him slipping on ice before he could get his feet properly gripped, knowing that someone will probably totally have seen).
But really, he's not trying to startle anybody. He's just trying not to be noticed, by the wrong people, and when you can walk up structures and trees without really needing to climb, you can get a lot of strange places without getting detected.
If he takes someone by surprise by dropping out of a tree unexpectedly, it's not to be a troll. Mostly.]
Option C: 1st-4th; the city
[His curiosity about Earth culture hasn't really diminished, since coming to Exsilium. If he hasn't had a whole lot of time to look into it, whatever has changed in a thousand years has to be fascinating, right? Do they still have pop music and a new equivalent of Miley Cyrus? Do they still do clubbing, even in wartime? What do they do for fun?
He doesn't intentionally do alien. He just is too curious to resist asking questions.]
What is the popular music genre around here?
[It's a stupid question, he knows that deliberately. But it's better if people think he might be an idiot, if he pretends to be stupid, because then they may be less on guard when he asks the more technical questions, like-]
How does this work? [Which he could solve for himself, but better they explain, and point out where he needs to go, and who he needs to talk to.
And whether or not he can surreptitiously find one of those solar panels and get a look at its inner wiring and construction.
open over duration; choose your own adventure
[Noh-Varr would have taken any mission that got him off the base, no matter how dangerous. The tensions mount, and the talk turns decidedly unfriendly; he can see where the train of thought will lead, and he wants no part of it. He has always tried to do what he thought was right. He can see the ways, now, in which this hurt many people, but at the time, he made the decisions he felt were the only ones he could make. It is both sobering and kind of painful to watch a rebellion from an outsider's perspective. He sympathizes; he thinks they are right to distrust, and his own anger about kidnapping is intense and intensely private.
So first he stands there and inhales the cold air, letting his body and his insulted uniform acclimate to the sudden change in temperature, and lets all the tension drain from his body for that one, brief moment.
And then he runs off into the snow, kicking up great sprays for this one brief moment of fun, and then plops down right in a bank like the world's biggest kid.]
Loki should have come. We could have kicked butt with snowballs.
[Even if this is a serious mission. What he really means as well is, he could have kicked Loki's butt at snowballs.]
Option B: 28th-30th, outside the city
[He doesn't move on to the city right away. His endurance, his speed and stamina are beyond human, but even Kree would get worn down in the piles and piles of snow. Still, he's thorough. If they're out to scout, then that's what he's going to do; for his own information, if not for others. He still has not decided how to feel about the Initiative.
Sitting down in the snow, it would be hard to see him, with his white hair and the white-patches on his uniform. It blends in, a bit! But he's working intently on really drawing a map, marking out terrain as best as he can, elevation, territories occupied by penguins (he has never seen a penguin before; he hopes no one ever witnessed the moment where a sudden lunge startled him and left him slipping on ice before he could get his feet properly gripped, knowing that someone will probably totally have seen).
But really, he's not trying to startle anybody. He's just trying not to be noticed, by the wrong people, and when you can walk up structures and trees without really needing to climb, you can get a lot of strange places without getting detected.
If he takes someone by surprise by dropping out of a tree unexpectedly, it's not to be a troll. Mostly.]
Option C: 1st-4th; the city
[His curiosity about Earth culture hasn't really diminished, since coming to Exsilium. If he hasn't had a whole lot of time to look into it, whatever has changed in a thousand years has to be fascinating, right? Do they still have pop music and a new equivalent of Miley Cyrus? Do they still do clubbing, even in wartime? What do they do for fun?
He doesn't intentionally do alien. He just is too curious to resist asking questions.]
What is the popular music genre around here?
[It's a stupid question, he knows that deliberately. But it's better if people think he might be an idiot, if he pretends to be stupid, because then they may be less on guard when he asks the more technical questions, like-]
How does this work? [Which he could solve for himself, but better they explain, and point out where he needs to go, and who he needs to talk to.
And whether or not he can surreptitiously find one of those solar panels and get a look at its inner wiring and construction.
Shhhh, don't tell.]