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

[exequte]

[Akane has been blissfully happy for a large portion of this. That was hard, so much of it had been hard, but now she's here, and everyone else is here, and there's a lovely garden full of flowers next to a bright, clear river.

She is usually holding a hand as she wanders, and tries to cook something in this little house for a celebration party, or trailing a finger in the water above the heads of curious fish.

It's enough.

It's over.

They are safe.

And, just for now, that means they can rest, before the problems of home surface once again.]

[superstylishsquid]

[By the time Alastor arrives, he's dismissed Lucifer's wings and wiped the blood from his mouth. He's been uncharacteristically quiet during the walk, followed by a metallic dragon slowly shedding Red Orbs as the demonic blood smeared on its body crystalizes and falls.

The devil had been saving a special looking something that he'd bought from Charon. To those who know Latin, the label of "Sanguis Virginis" should be warning enough as he pours himself a glass of thick, red wine. Maybe someone is daring and wants to try it? But everyone knows the devil's tastes well enough by now to know it would only appeal to him more if he smelled blood in the vintage.]

charon-bothering

[strangerpeople]

[He's here. He has unloaded the formerly-dead, and is Here for the bothering. He is keeping Pandora, thanks.]

[pegasinister]

[As the plants heal and the river flows, Hubert goes and sits next to it with a heaving sigh. Thanks to Eva's healing he feels better than he has, physically, in weeks.

Still, it feels wrong somehow, being here. Alive.

He's still not sure, exactly, what he plans to do now. But for the moment he can just... sit, and exist]

[pegasinister]

[Hubert gives him a bow]

Thank you again for your assistance, Lord Charon.

[exequte]

[She leaves him to his thoughts for a little while, but not forever. Eventually she comes over and sits down next to him, though she's content for that to be in silence, right now. She is simply here to make sure that he has another person next to him, so that he is not alone.]

???

[strangerpeople]

[In amidst the returning greenery, quite a few other objects rest as if they'd just fallen from somewhere inside of a very big tree, which is absolutely a metaphor and totally not exactly what happened.

And consciousnesses are stirring.]

[pegasinister]

You have much to do still, after this.

[exequte]

Yeah, eventually.

[strangerpeople]

Hhhhrrrrhhhh.

[Charon holds out a ball of yarn.]

[somuchshipping]

Preface (Non-Interactible)

[Hermes is running around randomly! He finally has actual proper SPACE to run around! It feels so GOOD to run around again! Hermes is running around and laughing happily. Let him have this.]

Back at Tartarus

[There are... admittedly... a FEW people he feels compelled to visit. The real Hermes, of course, but...

He also wants to find and talk to both Hades and Thanatos. Of course, while he's there, any other god may approach him.]

The Garden

[Hermes appears to be hanging up a certain Final Shipping Chart. The pairs are as follows: Power x Blood, Kaito x Akane, the color blue x the letter H, A big red X over a picture of Kira, Alastor x Roland, Val x Lolo, Heart x Brain, Hermes x "Choices of his Own", and finally, Zagreus x "Zack Jr.".]

[pegasinister]

Ah, this is the thread you mentioned before?

[Not literally, he assumes, but still]

[superstylishsquid]

[He offers a small bow to Charon. Polite, but not deferential.]

Thank you for everything you've done for us. I know a lot of this went outside the scope of your duty...Zagreus must be a close friend of yours.

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes approaches Charon and somewhat awkwardly rubs the back of his head.]

Heh... I, Charon... I guess I hafta stay here longer than most here... I still have a debt to fill.

[exequte]

[Akane notices that he is hanging up the shipping chart again and wanders over to look it over with mild interest.

Some are expected (the fact that she and Kaito are paired makes her blush slightly in pleasure) but the one that leaves her happiest and most excited is where Hermes has added himself.]

So you decided that making your own choices is okay, I take it?

[superstylishsquid]

[Morose as he is, curiosity is still heavily embedded in Alastor's nature. He sets his blood wine aside for a moment to instead investigate one of the nearest objects. In a garden favored by at least one god, surely it isn't your typical birdhouses and garden gnomes, right?]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[It's over.

It's finally over.

As flowers begin to bloom around them, and life slowly returns...Moriarty seems almost a bit at a loss, looking around them with a clearly...well. Not sad, but...contemplative, almost.

That ending...And the things he'd done...

Without thinking, he lifts a hand - studying it closely, as if seeing it for the first time.]

...It appears I am still incarnated after all of that. How odd it is, to be in a living body once again...

[And then he makes a face.]

...And find I am absolutely sick of it.

[...MORIARTY????

Or, after that, he'll be quietly sitting far away from the rest, staring from a nearby cliff out into the ocean. Thinking, as always.]

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes startles a little when asked that question.]

...I mean. It's going to take a lot of time to get used to... and it'll still be reaaaaaally terrifying... but... I... I want to.

I want to have control over my life for once... Being the entertainment for other people can wait.

[15unknowns]

[Watch out, Hermes.

Mr. Grumpy is at his desk, looking incredibly displeased.]

You. What do you want?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Once Moriarty is done with his naval gazing?

He'll go and find Hubert, also sitting down next to him silently and watching the river in silence.

...]

[somuchshipping]

[thump thump thump thump]

[Those are the familiar sounds of a certain robot's footfalls.]

[Hermes approaches, but stops, still a bit of distance, then sits and calls out.]

...Moriarty...?

[exequte]

[She tracks him down, eventually, though he'd been keeping his distance from almost everyone before, after, during all of this. Ever since he had been given back what had been taken from him, even if it wasn't all of it, or wasn't in apparently the way he'd choose. It's enough, for her, for now, she hopes, and she comes to find him, eventually, to sit down next to him and lean against his shoulder.]

Missed you, Daddy.

[But she's happy as she said it, and that radiates through her voice, contentment and peace.]

[somuchshipping]

[Wow... This... definitely looks a lot different than his own Hades. Hermes will offer a friendly smile and a footclaw for a handshake.]

It's sure really nice to meet you for real! I'm Hermes! NotYourHermes ButOneFromAComputerGame! My boss there is also a Hades!

[exequte]

Good!

I'm proud of everything you did, Hermes. You changed a lot, and.... I think it's good.

[superstylishsquid]

Back giving you trouble after all that? I could help, if you'd rather be a zombie or possessed trinket.