Who: Stephen Strange and OPEN to anybody Where: Streets of NYC When: Wednesday, July 23, evening What: Dr Strange investigates an anomaly. Warnings: Low for now... let's see where the scene takes us. Hoping toward some adventure! Status: Open!
After the battle against the Chitauri, the mystic landscape had significantly changed. The portal that Loki had ripped open between the two dimensions using the Tesseract had weakened the membranes that ordinarily kept other worlds safely apart. In the past, there were always creatures and entities coming through, but their appearances were rare and immediately noticed by the Orb of Agamotto. Now, they occurred more often by entities of lesser power who ordinarily wouldn't have been able to make the journey.
Oddly enough, these events would escape the attention of the Orb, sometimes for several days. It made Stephen wonder if something was amiss with the Orb. However, that was impossible, since the only way that could happen was if the source of the Orb's power, the Eye of Agamotto, had been tampered with. But the Eye was safely stored away in the dimension of Asgard, under the careful protection of Odin All-Father, himself. There must be some other reason for this irregularity; Stephen strongly suspected the influence of the Tesseract.
In any case, it made Stephen's role as Sorcerer Supreme a significantly busier. Nowhere in the world was the membrane thinner and the rise of mystical anomalies more frequent than New York City, where the Tesseract had been used. That is why Stephen found himself walking the streets of Queens well past midnight, in a residential area. His Amulet led him here. Something was causing a disturbance. Wearing his Cloak of Levitation as a long coat this evening, as to not attract too much attention, he stopped at an intersection that was by no means quiet. New York was the City that never slept, and the Trinidadian population that lived in this area liked to keep late hours with loud music playing from their houses. In the middle of the street was a manhole cover - the Amulet told Stephen he would have to continue his search below the city.
Looking this way and that, he waited for a car to pass before stepping up to the manhole. With a gesture of his hands, a light shimmered and expanded to pry the heavy plate and move it aside, revealing the entrance to New York's underworld. Again, he looked around to make sure there weren't any witnesses before gently descending, using sorcery.