Week Six

[letsplayamod]

You've survived, for lack of better wording, the latest week of trials and tribulations. This one had been more costly than most: Typhon's machinations have brought your group to nearly half the size it was when Athena first brought you to this island. Whether it ends with him or with you is still too soon to make out. One thing's for certain. Things cannot be allowed to continue as they are.

Speaking of continuing, the next floor has been revealed to you. Just how far down this island goes is a bit of a mystery, but you get the feeling that you're close to something important. Maybe that thing Athena wanted you to find before Typhon does. You can ruminate on that as you watch the waters below. Waves still lap at the cliffs, but it all seems lower than it did weeks ago. Like the ocean itself is shrinking...

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[stringup]

...If you remember a river, could it be something like the River Lethe...?

[ Does this help narrow down whom this other party is? She isn't sure. ]

[rockymountaindie]

...Maybe? Which one was that again?

[stringup]

Where I'm from, it's where ghosts pass into on the way to reincarnation. I don't know if that's exactly how it works here, but if where you are is some kind of afterlife, it wouldn't be surprising for something similar to be there.

[rockymountaindie]

...Huh. Well, it's...real different from what I was used to, so... I'll take your word for it.

[stringup]

Let's just say you generally don't want to bathe in or cross rivers while you're in the Underworld, unless you're ready to move on.

[rockymountaindie]

I am so fuckin' not ready to do that.

[stringup]

Good.

And...thank you for the letter.

[rockymountaindie]

[ Suddenly bashful: ] Ah... You're welcome.

[stringup]

It was kind of you, too.

And...I suppose you ought to know that Ferdinand and I are courting each other.

[ So, you know. Trying to close herself off was a doomed endeavour. ]

[rockymountaindie]

[ Blink. ]

O-oh.

[ ...No this makes sense- ]

W-well, uh, c- congratulations? Congratulations.

[stringup]

It was apparently very obvious.

[rockymountaindie]

[ Mild snort. ]

If Ferdinand's involved? Yeah. I can see that.

[stringup]

Somehow infected me too.

[rockymountaindie]

...Congratulations.

Someone to...keep you grounded, it...it can be really necessary.

[ He sounds and looks sad, but...he's smiling. ]

[stringup]

[ Oh, for some reason, that look feels familiar to her. ]

...I don't know about keeping me grounded, so to speak, but...

Being with him feels like walking a sunlit path again.

[rockymountaindie]

[ His eyes shine bright. ]

I know exactly what that feels like.

Cherish it.

[stringup]

Don't worry, I will.

[ Considering how dour she's mostly been, this is probably the first time Alex has seen her so genuinely happy. ]

[murchada]

Or the Styx, perhaps.

[stringup]

Does that help narrow things down?

[murchada]

The Styx is a goddess as well, so there's that. The deceased are ferried into the underworld across it.

The other major rivers are Acheron, the river of misery and woe, Phlegethon, the river of fire, Cocytus, the river of wailing. And the Lethe, as you said. That's the river of forgetfulness.

[is this cerejeira infodumping or rem? hard to say]

[rockymountaindie]

...Jesus. If it was Lethe, I'm real glad I wasn't in that for a long time, then.

[murchada]

Yeah, that would've been... bad. I think you'd know.

[.....]

I mean. You wouldn't, which is the idea, but, uh. You know what I mean.

[rockymountaindie]

I got you.

[stringup]

And whoever it is, I think we can assume she's also how he broke containment. [ From what she remembers, Athena has told them. ] But...well, now I wonder how much of what he's shown he can do is actually him or what he's supposedly been "given to work with", if he's running on a deficit of some sort.