SING, O GODDESS

[strangerpeople]

SING, O GODDESS


[The place that Zagreus brings them to is an abandoned house. Like the rest of Greece, at first the grass and plants are dead, withered. But only at first.

As everyone files into the garden, it starts to slowly come to life. flowers begin to bloom. Fruits and vegetables start to sprout from the soil. The trees begin to grow once more. Wheat stalks slowly pop up out of the ground. Wherever this is, it's clear that life is returning-and the gods are awakening.

It's probably best that they don't return to the underworld, to the House of Hades-but, if anyone wishes to, Charon has arrived with the dead from the previous rounds-now alive-and little baby Ayame. If anyone wishes to go there-though, why would anyone ever willingly go back to the House, knowing you-know-who is probably awake by now?-they can.

But for those who stay here, there is food and drink, wine and bread, fresh meat and ripe crudités. Talk. Plot. Say your goodbyes before you are SHIFTed back to your homeworlds.

Who knows? Maybe there are still some surprises left to be had. But, either way...it is a good day. The new moon will pass. The sun will rise.

The Game-or at least, this variation of it-is over.]



((OoC: And with this, Round 7 is complete! Thank you everyone who participated-we hope you enjoy the aftermath, and stay tuned for the SHIFT Meme and HMD!))

Comments

[somuchshipping]

[Hmmmmm....

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Hermes doesn't usually do janitorial, buuuuuut...]

[Congratulations, Hades! You now have ONE (1) speedy boi helping to clean up this mess!

But make no mistake. This isn't just Hermes following orders. This is Hermes making a choice to help out.]

[15unknowns]

[Well, while he's cleaning, here comes a head!]

O-oh! You're the metal man, right? And...you're here to help me. That's perfect! This cleanup will go much faster now that, well, someone has hands~!

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes gets a look of surprise.]

Oh...! You're alive.

[15unknowns]

A-ahaha, you're funny! Um, so, I'm Dusa. I work on cleaning the House so it's to the specifications the Master likes. And, um, well, it's definitely not clean right now, so I'm hoping we can get this done before the sigil to Chaos is fixed or Miss Nyx will be very disappointed!

[somuchshipping]

I'm Hermes. Based off of the real Hermes! I'm from a computer game. And I'm not really a janitorial type of person, but I still wanted to help. After all, it's good to have things look good under the hood. AndOverIt,Too!

...

Also the tree was kiiiiinda an outside problem, so... an outsider like me should help fix things, right?

[15unknowns]

O-oh yes, very much so! I mean, look at all the piles of roots that are still here! Most of them seemed to disappear, but there's still so many, and they made such a mess!

Honestly, whoever did this r-really will probably have to answer to Miss Nyx before they get sent away to their punishment!

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes frowns, still cleaning alongside Dusa.]

...Given what I saw and heard... I think she's been punished enough. I wouldn't want Nyx to have to deal with four pissed-off people.

...Buuuuut then again, if Eva stays here, then her three sons and Alastor can come and see her again.

[15unknowns]

W-well, that's up to the Master, honestly! Not that I'd argue with him, obviously...I guess you'd have to look at her record when this Eva gets here, whenever that is! I guess Charon's pretty busy lately with these roots too-there aren't a lot of shades around right now!

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes will make a mental note to himself to look up Eva's file later on. Still cleaning!]

Understandable. I've had to follow my fair share of orders from Zeus and Jupiter.

[After a moment, Hermes decides to do some very controlled firebeams at the small roots to hopefully get things done a little quicker.]

...Zagreus told all of us about your murdergame thing you did.

[Hermes doesn't sound upset or disgusted. Just... suspicious and confused.]

[15unknowns]

O-oh, he told you all about those? Well, I guess they were all right. The Master never really understood why the Prince did it, and sometimes I kind of, you know, wondered if the Prince knew why he was doing them?


But, well, he stopped doing those, so I didn't think it was what big of a deal, right?

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes shifts uneasily as he cleans.]

That's the thing... He just bought it up one day out of the blue... AndHeSaidHeNever SawAnythingStrangeOr OutOfTheOrdinary...! We were forced to go through the murdergames ourselves. That's how so many people were shades here.

Sure, it worked out in the end, but I can't stop wondering... Where did the idea first come from? Inspiration like that doesn't come out of nowhere. I would've bought it up with Hades right away, but right now, he's too grumpy, too stressed out.

And even more... Akane and Roland said they saw these white creatures that wanted to form contracts with Akane. She told us they were looking for young girls with enough karmic potential to help change the world. Why didn't Eva work with them? Why did Eva hate them and just kill every single one of them on sight? There'sWayTooMany UnansweredQuestions!

...I guess what I'm trying to say is... I'm worried about all of you. I just wanna keep a close eye on you. Not forever! Just until I feel you're safe...

[15unknowns]

U-um w-well, thank you! Y-you didn't have to worry, w-we're fine...

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah why Hermes, she's just the servant!!]

W-well, I don't know where Zag-er, the Prince got the idea from? He just kind of...got it one day. Maybe the Muses? B-but I don't know and I-I don't want to gossip! Really. It s-seemed to me like just kind of came abruptly.

Um...hm, white creatures making contracts with young ladies? I've never seen any of those. Maybe the Master has? But I haven't.

[somuchshipping]

Abruptly, huh...? I don't think that's normal. It's like if I wanted me and my ship to be painted completely pink for no reason. Definitely as strange as the things that happened on the ship. Friggin milkshakes raining down...

And good. As long as those things stay away, that's fine by me.

...

You woildn't happen to know what a computer is, do you?

[15unknowns]

Milkshakes? What are those? And, uh...what's pink?



A-ah, no, I don't know what that is!