That's presumptuous. [ but he doesn't sound mad about it. ] A lot of this stuff exists, but it's not like we get to do stuff that often. We're usually pretty busy either training or on quests or trying to at least catch a break when we can. But every now and then isn't bad. As long as the world's not in the middle of ending.
[ which is about all he gets to say before there are suddenly comics on display. ]
[First of all, hey, Ty, I'm so sorry for the delay -- was too busy dying and with university, so now that there's no constant influx of threads I'm catching on, finally.
Second of all, I can't believe I really had to read Nico recommending Montero to Will. When was this written, golly.
Were this on Tuesday, Sigrun would know more about Tartarus, having seen Will's memory. She'd even know that river was likely the Cocytus. She'd be fully aware of how treacherous and difficult the trip is. But even without that context she'd get the next day, she can tell this is no picnic. That Nico and Will managed to survive there was...well, it wasn't a stroke of luck, it was Nico showing a lot of power, but that can't have been easy at all. Wow]
It wasn't called the River of Pain for nothing.
[Just casually finding out a whole bunch of memories while watching this, that's so much. Sigrun, stares up at where the pages were, mulling it all, until she glances at Nico]
Can you casually do that kind of thing these days or would it still drain you so much you pass out?
[Well, 'these days' when they're not in Oceanside]
[ all good! also the book came out in may so that's why haha.
anyhow, this...isn't the worst, he guesses, even if he looks a little annoyed by things being on display again. ]
Definitely not. But everything in the Underworld is pretty aptly named if you think about it. [ you know. it's fine. but he shrugs a little to her question. ] That was...only a few weeks ago. So yes and no? There are things I can do that aren't as draining, but being down there didn't really help matters either. We worked with what we had.
Don't take it the wrong way but your current power seems like a severe downgrade from your past one. I wish you could summon skeletons.
[The practical uses of doing that eludes her, but hey, Nico is the one with the powers, he probably knows all kinds of tricks. He pretty much proved it in that memory!]
[ he sort of just. laughs? it's not really humorous but more like a tiny bit incredulous. ]
I, too, wish I could summon skeletons still instead of having what I have. [ he does not elaborate on why that rubs him the wrong way to hear though because that delves way too far into things of the past nobody really needs to know about people he loves and misses. ]
But until this place relinquishes my original powers, this is where we are.
[ she's doing her best and i support her. but that question is a little easier, at least. ]
Rescue mission mostly. [ it's easier to call it that than to say "we had a prophecy we were fulfilling that involved going down there to figure things out while rescuing a friend who was trapped." ] He'd been calling out for help for some time, so...I decided to go and find him and Will wasn't going to let me go by myself. We were gone for about a week.
[In graveyard a couple days ago she stepped on Ace's metaphorical toes three times in the span of like eight posts, with a different topic each time, I felt bad for Ace, haha]
Of course he wouldn't have. Not surprised to hear it.
[People who care always find a way to get involved in things for the sake of others, really. Sometimes they drag a bunch of other people to tag along, too.
Usually it's all for the best because one having been alone would have ended in disaster, really]
So, did...the rescue work? A week is a long time to be in a place like this Underworld.
[Nico doesn't seem...too torn up right now. Maybe that's a good sign, but at least Sigrun sounded a little hesitant when asking, as if preparing for the possibility of 'nah he died and we barely got out of there alive'. It's no rarity, when it comes to rescues, at least in her own experience]
[ he decides not to mention how much will really didn't actually want to go because tartarus is a horrible place where like 98% of the people who go there die. but he nods because yeah, of course he wouldn't have. ]
...yeah, we made it work. All of us got out of there and returned to the surface world right before Will and I arrived here. Last I heard our friend was going west to decide what he wanted to do next. And Will and I were going to stay at camp and just recover from everything from this last summer. It's just that coming here sort of put a damper in our plans.
Good thing that rescue mission was successful. Was he fine? Unharmed?
[...this Underworld is as ominous as it gets, and truthfully, Sigrun has doubts it's all barren and empty. There has to be further danger, perhaps population that could prove harmful]
Yeah. Very, very recent. [ the thing about it is that the underworld itself is fine? nico kind of loves the underworld. that's home. it's the darkest part of the underworld in tartarus that he would love to never return to ever again. but with bob rescued, and only nyx remaining, he can only hope he won't have to. ]
He was okay by the time we got him out though. He helped us escape and we all took a boat out of there. I don't fully know how we got out, but he's someone who knows the area a little better than we do. It was easy to trust him to navigate for a while.
[Gosh, I should read the Percy Jackson series and related works, sounds like a fun time]
Your friend...a demigod too, I bet. Someone with that kind of origin you and Will have. The sort that even though he's really capable doesn't mean he can do everything by himself.
[...apparently Sigrun formed a whole mental image of this friend Nico and Will rescued, based on this little bit of information and she imagining who would be around in Tartarus and still be...well, at least relatively okay by the time they found him, okay enough to guide them all out of there. She probably is jumping to conclusions -- and answers would be a tad forthcoming once she sees Will's memory, not that she'd know what a Titan is, hah]
[ please do, they're middle-grade books but they're a fun read if you like mythology at all (the main series is about greek + roman demigods, and then there are two other series in the same universe for egyptian magicians and norse demigods.)
but there's a bark of laughter at that. ]
Definitely not a demigod, no. He...actually was an enemy at one point, but he's changed. We're friends now. I would've done whatever we needed to do to save him. He could survive down there a lot longer than we could but...he kept calling for us. Couldn't really ignore that.
[ sometimes your titan friend truly only survives because he believes you and your boyfriend will come save him :') ]
Sounds to me like he knew exactly who to call! I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever get stuck at horrible pain river.
[As if she'll one day wander into Tartarus. Fortunately, no, only place she'll get to is a limbo in this murdergame.
She was going to say something else, but unfortunately for her she made the choice to take a sip of her beverage, and that was all the universe needed to throw something here]
[When the memory happens, she barely glances, it's not like she has anything to hide. It all goes, depicting a scene from being out there in an apocalyptic world. Nico, being who he is, probably would be able to see the spirits, even though it's clear Sigrun couldn't back then, and definitely notice these spirits were dangerous after all.
Now, looking at that memory, she just took a look to see what moment it was, and took another sip, although her hand goes to where she had received that bite -- same arm where she got accidentally shot by Ryuki]
You know, before all that I really thought the dead were only kinda sad but nothing to be alarmed about. It's all got me kind of wary of old remains now.
[Things were bad enough with trolls and the such, she didn't need to also be concerned about wrathful ghosts too, geez]
[ so he reads over these panels. he's absorbing them, reading over everything and looking back and forth between sigrun's reactions and the rest of her team. it's a little funny how there's a cat alarm for her, too, but he doesn't say that.
rather, he comes to the end and when she speaks his eyes lower to face her rather than the panels that were above him to read. ]
There're always vengeful ghosts looming around, Sigrun. Those who've died wrongfully, or painfully, or unjustly mostly. Betrayed souls, that sort of thing. [ but he hums. ] Though I would say yeah, maybe be wary of old remains if you aren't sure what you're doing. Has that happened again since?
It sure isn't happening anywhere in the safe areas or near them, so I haven't encountered them again.
[...still, she grimaces]
But I have a feeling many places in old world are full to the brim with them, we found at least three locations with these. All these people were killed by some kind of faulty cure for the illness that destroyed my world. Apparently that faulty cure got distributed around in many places back then...
[And it also doesn't help the ghosts can move, if they get motivated to! These ones, coupled with another bunch from not too far away, pursued them across Denmark. There's a decent enough possibility of resentful ghosts attacking any crew who dares enter the Silent World]
That would do it, I think. People who thought maybe there was a solution to a problem they were desperate to fix. [ ... ] What was faulty about the cure? Do you know? Was it something on purpose?
Dunno the details about what it was made of, but it's not like it was made bad on purpose. We did find out proof it was knowingly given around even though it was faulty.
[With the excuse that death was better than suffering the Rash or becoming a troll]
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[ which is about all he gets to say before there are suddenly comics on display. ]
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Second of all, I can't believe I really had to read Nico recommending Montero to Will. When was this written, golly.
Were this on Tuesday, Sigrun would know more about Tartarus, having seen Will's memory. She'd even know that river was likely the Cocytus. She'd be fully aware of how treacherous and difficult the trip is. But even without that context she'd get the next day, she can tell this is no picnic. That Nico and Will managed to survive there was...well, it wasn't a stroke of luck, it was Nico showing a lot of power, but that can't have been easy at all. Wow]
It wasn't called the River of Pain for nothing.
[Just casually finding out a whole bunch of memories while watching this, that's so much. Sigrun, stares up at where the pages were, mulling it all, until she glances at Nico]
Can you casually do that kind of thing these days or would it still drain you so much you pass out?
[Well, 'these days' when they're not in Oceanside]
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anyhow, this...isn't the worst, he guesses, even if he looks a little annoyed by things being on display again. ]
Definitely not. But everything in the Underworld is pretty aptly named if you think about it. [ you know. it's fine. but he shrugs a little to her question. ] That was...only a few weeks ago. So yes and no? There are things I can do that aren't as draining, but being down there didn't really help matters either. We worked with what we had.
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[The practical uses of doing that eludes her, but hey, Nico is the one with the powers, he probably knows all kinds of tricks. He pretty much proved it in that memory!]
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I, too, wish I could summon skeletons still instead of having what I have. [ he does not elaborate on why that rubs him the wrong way to hear though because that delves way too far into things of the past nobody really needs to know about people he loves and misses. ]
But until this place relinquishes my original powers, this is where we are.
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So, why were you two going in there? I know there was a good reason for it. Neither of you seem like the random thrill-seeker.
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Rescue mission mostly. [ it's easier to call it that than to say "we had a prophecy we were fulfilling that involved going down there to figure things out while rescuing a friend who was trapped." ] He'd been calling out for help for some time, so...I decided to go and find him and Will wasn't going to let me go by myself. We were gone for about a week.
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Of course he wouldn't have. Not surprised to hear it.
[People who care always find a way to get involved in things for the sake of others, really. Sometimes they drag a bunch of other people to tag along, too.
Usually it's all for the best because one having been alone would have ended in disaster, really]
So, did...the rescue work? A week is a long time to be in a place like this Underworld.
[Nico doesn't seem...too torn up right now. Maybe that's a good sign, but at least Sigrun sounded a little hesitant when asking, as if preparing for the possibility of 'nah he died and we barely got out of there alive'. It's no rarity, when it comes to rescues, at least in her own experience]
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...yeah, we made it work. All of us got out of there and returned to the surface world right before Will and I arrived here. Last I heard our friend was going west to decide what he wanted to do next. And Will and I were going to stay at camp and just recover from everything from this last summer. It's just that coming here sort of put a damper in our plans.
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[Sigrun nods, smiling]
Good thing that rescue mission was successful. Was he fine? Unharmed?
[...this Underworld is as ominous as it gets, and truthfully, Sigrun has doubts it's all barren and empty. There has to be further danger, perhaps population that could prove harmful]
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He was okay by the time we got him out though. He helped us escape and we all took a boat out of there. I don't fully know how we got out, but he's someone who knows the area a little better than we do. It was easy to trust him to navigate for a while.
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Your friend...a demigod too, I bet. Someone with that kind of origin you and Will have. The sort that even though he's really capable doesn't mean he can do everything by himself.
[...apparently Sigrun formed a whole mental image of this friend Nico and Will rescued, based on this little bit of information and she imagining who would be around in Tartarus and still be...well, at least relatively okay by the time they found him, okay enough to guide them all out of there. She probably is jumping to conclusions -- and answers would be a tad forthcoming once she sees Will's memory, not that she'd know what a Titan is, hah]
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but there's a bark of laughter at that. ]
Definitely not a demigod, no. He...actually was an enemy at one point, but he's changed. We're friends now. I would've done whatever we needed to do to save him. He could survive down there a lot longer than we could but...he kept calling for us. Couldn't really ignore that.
[ sometimes your titan friend truly only survives because he believes you and your boyfriend will come save him :') ]
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Sounds to me like he knew exactly who to call! I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever get stuck at horrible pain river.
[As if she'll one day wander into Tartarus. Fortunately, no, only place she'll get to is a limbo in this murdergame.
She was going to say something else, but unfortunately for her she made the choice to take a sip of her beverage, and that was all the universe needed to throw something here]
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Now, looking at that memory, she just took a look to see what moment it was, and took another sip, although her hand goes to where she had received that bite -- same arm where she got accidentally shot by Ryuki]
You know, before all that I really thought the dead were only kinda sad but nothing to be alarmed about. It's all got me kind of wary of old remains now.
[Things were bad enough with trolls and the such, she didn't need to also be concerned about wrathful ghosts too, geez]
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rather, he comes to the end and when she speaks his eyes lower to face her rather than the panels that were above him to read. ]
There're always vengeful ghosts looming around, Sigrun. Those who've died wrongfully, or painfully, or unjustly mostly. Betrayed souls, that sort of thing. [ but he hums. ] Though I would say yeah, maybe be wary of old remains if you aren't sure what you're doing. Has that happened again since?
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[...still, she grimaces]
But I have a feeling many places in old world are full to the brim with them, we found at least three locations with these. All these people were killed by some kind of faulty cure for the illness that destroyed my world. Apparently that faulty cure got distributed around in many places back then...
[And it also doesn't help the ghosts can move, if they get motivated to! These ones, coupled with another bunch from not too far away, pursued them across Denmark. There's a decent enough possibility of resentful ghosts attacking any crew who dares enter the Silent World]
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[With the excuse that death was better than suffering the Rash or becoming a troll]