Event Ten.

[awashmods]

Little Willie, mean as hell, Pushed his sister in a well. Mother said, while drawing water, "My, it's hard to raise a daughter."

t's pretty dark and miserable down in the well. The cavernous area feels much larger than a well should be, bodies milling about in the darkness and knee deep, frigid water. So you're here -- and you're not alone, and the only way out appears to be the thin circle of sunlight from above, the opening of the well. (And elsewhere, in the Town, everyone's waking up to gifts of various usefulness, but hopefully they remember to check the well today even so!) What now? Welcome to Awash's tenth event log, and the intro log for this month, everyone! All new characters have found themselves waking in the well in the middle of the Town. Hopefully they can get a hand out! For more information, please go here! Meanwhile, the current characters have some new gifts. If there are any questions, please ask them here, and have fun! Thank you!

Comments

[hydrokinetics]

Hard to miss then. If I see her, I'll send her straight to you. [...] What'd you say your name was?

[promissum]

My name is Valvatorez.

[hydrokinetics]

[...why does that sound like a stupid nickname Leo would come up with?]

Percy Jackson. Good to meet you. [He thinks...]

[promissum]

Oh, so you're son of fishermen? Nico mentioned you.

[hydrokinetics]

Is that what he told you? [He raises an eyebrow, not at all surprised. Demigods usually don't go around outing each other, so that sort of cover story adds up. He's about to comment on it when his brain catches up though.]

Wait. Nico told you that. Nico, like...about this tall--[A gesture to Nico's height]--dark hair, sort of looks like he's been sleeping in a cave for the last seventy years?

[promissum]

He said you were a fisherman by blood.

Yes. We had an interesting discussion about different afterlives. He called it the Underworld like you did. ... He did look like he could use some rest.

[hydrokinetics]

He's not wrong, exactly. [Poseidon is...technically...a fisherman. And he talks to fish, so?? Sure.]

He called it the Underworld because that's what it's called where we're from. The Underworld, and there are different parts of the Underworld. Nico knows how to navigate a little better than I do.

[Likewise, he won't exactly elaborate on what Nico knows.] He must have just shown up. [...that's awkward.]

[promissum]

[ Percy is now "fisherman" to him until further notice. Good job. ]

Yes, he said he was essentially a prince of the Underworld. His father is the ruler there. Where I'm from he'd be a demon, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[hydrokinetics]

You haven't seen him when he's angry. [Dryly. But he can't say any of that's false. That's interesting.] ...what else did Nico tell you?

[promissum]

He's a demigod and sinners get punished for eternity. I don't approve, there's only so much space.

[hydrokinetics]

Our Underworld's pretty spacious actually. Three different places and souls are sorted at the door. The Fields of Punishment have plenty of room for people. [There's a hum though.] Surprised he told you he was a demigod.

[promissum]

Is it not something you'll normally bring up?

[hydrokinetics]

Nope. Most mortals wouldn't understand it even if it was explained to them and it's just easier so people aren't put in danger more than necessary.

[promissum]

I'm not a human. Though I can be killed.

[Supposedly??? It's pretty hard.]

[hydrokinetics]

Of course you can. All monsters can be at some point. [Sorry about casually calling you a monster, Val.]

[promissum]

[He looks very steadily into Percy's eyes. He doesn't seem so much insulted as very convinced that's the wrong terminology.]

You may call me a demon or a vampire.

[hydrokinetics]

[Sorry??? Look, it's kind of the same thing to him.]

Is there really no difference between the two? Or are you a hybrid?

[promissum]

All vampires are demons, but not all demons are vampires. Demons can be werewolves, death, succubi or other assorted types.

[hydrokinetics]

So a demon is a class, and everything under that like vampires, werewolves and succubi are sub-classes. [What the hell.] That makes about as much sense as everything else, so sure.

[promissum]

Yes, that's correct. Like in those video games that humans are fond of. [Val, you are a video game.]

[hydrokinetics]

I wish monsters were only in video games. [He shakes his head though, but it's something to consider.] Okay then. I'll keep that in mind.