Hm indeed! Much like there are worse worlds they could’ve ended up in, there are worse companions Strange could’ve chosen. It wasn’t precisely premeditated, but it’s a good call regardless; the sorcerer is the type to use whatever tools appear at his disposal and within reach. And it shouldn’t go wrong, but he’s not discounting the idea that it could go horribly go wrong.
“Somewhat particular, yes. I used to have monitoring spells all over the Sanctum — probably similar to the monitoring that Tony installed at Riftwatch to detect an opening rift — and they used to be able to alert me for any extradimensional incursion, an energy spike coming in from another plane, or visitors with too much magical power. The stink of magic in a place where it shouldn’t be. Any activation of the Bifrost — it’s a rainbow bridge across the stars, don’t worry about it — was like a screaming fire alarm whenever it hit Earth. So, you’d think this would have worked for the Sealing Stone, no?”
He keeps talking while they walk down the hallway. He’s a master at the walk-and-talk. Aaron Sorkin would be proud.
“But my scrying hasn’t gotten anywhere. Pooling their magic together, however, multiple sorcerers can boost their spells. So I think it’s high time I called in the big guns. The big guns, in this instance, being Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme — you likely know him as that grumpy guy who hogs the TV room and refuses to do any of the cooking, no matter how nicely I ask.” As Mobius juggles that globe in his arms, Strange adds, “The globe’s to help mark where the artifact is. Hopefully. That’s the theory, anyway.”
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“Somewhat particular, yes. I used to have monitoring spells all over the Sanctum — probably similar to the monitoring that Tony installed at Riftwatch to detect an opening rift — and they used to be able to alert me for any extradimensional incursion, an energy spike coming in from another plane, or visitors with too much magical power. The stink of magic in a place where it shouldn’t be. Any activation of the Bifrost — it’s a rainbow bridge across the stars, don’t worry about it — was like a screaming fire alarm whenever it hit Earth. So, you’d think this would have worked for the Sealing Stone, no?”
He keeps talking while they walk down the hallway. He’s a master at the walk-and-talk. Aaron Sorkin would be proud.
“But my scrying hasn’t gotten anywhere. Pooling their magic together, however, multiple sorcerers can boost their spells. So I think it’s high time I called in the big guns. The big guns, in this instance, being Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme — you likely know him as that grumpy guy who hogs the TV room and refuses to do any of the cooking, no matter how nicely I ask.” As Mobius juggles that globe in his arms, Strange adds, “The globe’s to help mark where the artifact is. Hopefully. That’s the theory, anyway.”