Thunder shrugged.  "Hey, I'm all for kicking butt, but we don't actually know where we're going yet.  Any butt-kicking we did now would be purely recreational, not productive."  He glanced over at Astrid.  "Not that that bothers me, but if there's anything we can do to pursue the plot hook while we're at it, we probably should so the Storyteller doesn't get pissed at us."