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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[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]