video || UN: Ozymandias

[dendera]

[When the feed starts, it's clear that the man using it doesn't fully understand the technology, as he's holding it very far away from his face. It doesn't seem like it will be an issue though, seeing as he's basically yelling once he starts up talking;]

People of Riverview! Your blighted gatekeepers have informed me of the situation I have been summoned into, and I shall say this! [The feed swings around to a side view as he gesticulates,] Truly, though it is not what I am usually called upon for, rebuilding a civilization is certainly a worthy cause for I, the man upon whose works stand all the temples of the world! However!

[And now, the view zooms in rapidly, TOO close, on this weirdo's face. He's still yelling. This is just a bad audio-visual experience all around.]
What merits can you claim, that you should call yourselves worthy of the aid of I, Ozymandias, King of Kings!? [He's very emphatic about this. He's certainly proven to not be King of Volume Control.]
I am not so generous as to lend my mighty power to any motley assortment of fools! Prove yourselves worthy or incite my wrath!

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[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki blinks. ]

But the city is not broken.

[dendera]

Not broken, perhaps, but truly your standards must be poor if you think this is enough. Where are the temples? the grand monuments?
[Because these are important and necessary things, apparently.]

Clearly they realized how lacking it is, and that is why they summoned me. After all, my temples are grand and strong. Even now, three thousand years after it's construction, the inscriptions of my army's victory in the Battle of Kadesh still remains on the walls of the Ramesseum!

[dothelokimotion]

[ That's hilarious, considering Loki's standards, but Loki isn't here to spoil the joke. ]

Mortals don't worship gods anymore, much less deceased kings.

[dendera]

Certainly, however it is my understanding that they still appreciate the works of my people and I?
[Obviously one of his first priorities when he was first summoned was figuring out how Egypt was doing.]

These "skyscrapers" they are so fond of are intriguing, but they are not nearly so majestic as they surely could be. I can fix that.

[dothelokimotion]

To a certain degree. Not enough to stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

[ But that's not Loki's problem anyway. ]

How do you plan on doing so?

[dendera]

You ask this as if there is a simple singular solution for each one.
[SCOFFS. You know nothing about how to build things that historians will call "ostentatious and tacky even for the time period."]

No, each one requires different things to become truly great. I will decide as they come to me.

[dothelokimotion]

Solutions always present themselves. Though I would not call them simple.

[ He shrugs. ]

How . . . convenient.