[The waters of the River Styx closing over Zagreus' head is a familiar feeling by now, although he doesn't normally feel like he's fallen quite so far. What isn't familiar is staying alive once the river's taken him.
He blinks as he slowly descends and realizes a few things all at once. One is that the water isn't blood-red; it's clear, like the pools he's seen on the surface. Another is that his chest feels awfully tight and strange, and he isn't quite sure why. The third is that he has no idea how to swim--he's usually dead in the water by now. Literally!
He sort of flails about uselessly for a moment, until some sort of...creatures (what are those?) appear and buoy him helpfully back to the surface of the water, where he gasps in an enormous breath and immediately squeezes his eyes shut.]
Augh, it's so bright. Say, I don't suppose any of you can tell me what's going on? Is this the surface, or...?
[Unfortunately, the creatures don't--or can't--speak. Instead they ferry him to solid ground and then slip back off into the water, as Zagreus cracks one eye open and then the other, holding up a hand to shield them from the...]
...is that...it can't be the sun? Does it really get this bright? And here I thought it was hard to look at before...
[He gets to his feet and shakes himself much like Cerberus might, but unlike the Styx's water, this doesn't seem to want to just evaporate within seconds. So this is...new. He hugs himself and shivers as he just keeps muttering to himself.]
There's no snow here, but it's still cold. This must be the surface, somehow. I could have sworn Father bested me back there. Well, no sense looking this gift horse in the mouth.
[With that, he hops up and down in place a bit to warm himself up and then begins to jog away from the water. Keeping active will help him get warmer faster, he thinks he's heard that somewhere. He'll just keep going until he runs into someone. Once he does:]
Oh! Hello there. I'd be very much obliged if you could tell me where we are.
B. The Caravan to Camelot
So Zagreus expected to definitely be dead again by now. Strangely, it hasn't happened. Who knows why, but that's honestly one of the less strange things happening at the moment. For one thing, he noticed not long after he left the water behind that his feet aren't fiery anymore, but he's still alive anyway...somehow. For another, he has much more to learn than he ever thought he might.
It's been a bit of a blur, really. The fellow who calls himself Archimedes has said a lot of things, but many of them went over Zagreus' head. Probably referencing surface things that the mortals already know. What he does catch is that somehow he's been transported out of the Underworld to somewhere not only out of the Underworld, but outside Greece entirely. And that he's supposed to learn magic all over again. Well, that part shouldn't be too hard, he thinks.
And although he's been on the surface almost an hour now, he still feels perfectly fine, if a bit hungry. And he's well beyond his Father's realm and influence, it seems, so regardless of the fact that he feels like he still has absolutely no idea what's happening, he's excited!
He taps the nearest person on the shoulder, holding up the so-called 'smartphone' he was given.]
Pardon me. You wouldn't happen to know what this thing is and what I'm meant to do with it, would you?
C. The Red Spring - Inn Rooms
Hours have passed, and Zagreus still hasn't died. Could it be that somehow he's escaped not just the Underworld, but his ill fate, too? He dares to hope.
There's still so incredibly much he doesn't know about the surface and the mortals' lives. It's all quite overwhelming, actually, but he doesn't mind. Much.
He's even hungrier now than he was before, but the nice people at this place to which he's been delivered--an "inn," apparently--have said that he'll be sharing his room with someone else, so he decides to go there first and see if whoever it is might want to eat with him.
He pushes open the door to his room and peers inside.]
Hello? Knock knock, is anyone here? It's me, your humble and extremely confused roommate...
D. Wildcard!
((OOC: I'm open to whatever, but I'd rather stick to events close to the time of Zag's arrival, because almost everything is new to him and he has an awful lot to learn!))
Zagreus | Hades | Elemental | Familiar Undecided
[The waters of the River Styx closing over Zagreus' head is a familiar feeling by now, although he doesn't normally feel like he's fallen quite so far. What isn't familiar is staying alive once the river's taken him.
He blinks as he slowly descends and realizes a few things all at once. One is that the water isn't blood-red; it's clear, like the pools he's seen on the surface. Another is that his chest feels awfully tight and strange, and he isn't quite sure why. The third is that he has no idea how to swim--he's usually dead in the water by now. Literally!
He sort of flails about uselessly for a moment, until some sort of...creatures (what are those?) appear and buoy him helpfully back to the surface of the water, where he gasps in an enormous breath and immediately squeezes his eyes shut.]
Augh, it's so bright. Say, I don't suppose any of you can tell me what's going on? Is this the surface, or...?
[Unfortunately, the creatures don't--or can't--speak. Instead they ferry him to solid ground and then slip back off into the water, as Zagreus cracks one eye open and then the other, holding up a hand to shield them from the...]
...is that...it can't be the sun? Does it really get this bright? And here I thought it was hard to look at before...
[He gets to his feet and shakes himself much like Cerberus might, but unlike the Styx's water, this doesn't seem to want to just evaporate within seconds. So this is...new. He hugs himself and shivers as he just keeps muttering to himself.]
There's no snow here, but it's still cold. This must be the surface, somehow. I could have sworn Father bested me back there. Well, no sense looking this gift horse in the mouth.
[With that, he hops up and down in place a bit to warm himself up and then begins to jog away from the water. Keeping active will help him get warmer faster, he thinks he's heard that somewhere. He'll just keep going until he runs into someone. Once he does:]
Oh! Hello there. I'd be very much obliged if you could tell me where we are.
B. The Caravan to Camelot
So Zagreus expected to definitely be dead again by now. Strangely, it hasn't happened. Who knows why, but that's honestly one of the less strange things happening at the moment. For one thing, he noticed not long after he left the water behind that his feet aren't fiery anymore, but he's still alive anyway...somehow. For another, he has much more to learn than he ever thought he might.
It's been a bit of a blur, really. The fellow who calls himself Archimedes has said a lot of things, but many of them went over Zagreus' head. Probably referencing surface things that the mortals already know. What he does catch is that somehow he's been transported out of the Underworld to somewhere not only out of the Underworld, but outside Greece entirely. And that he's supposed to learn magic all over again. Well, that part shouldn't be too hard, he thinks.
And although he's been on the surface almost an hour now, he still feels perfectly fine, if a bit hungry. And he's well beyond his Father's realm and influence, it seems, so regardless of the fact that he feels like he still has absolutely no idea what's happening, he's excited!
He taps the nearest person on the shoulder, holding up the so-called 'smartphone' he was given.]
Pardon me. You wouldn't happen to know what this thing is and what I'm meant to do with it, would you?
C. The Red Spring - Inn Rooms
Hours have passed, and Zagreus still hasn't died. Could it be that somehow he's escaped not just the Underworld, but his ill fate, too? He dares to hope.
There's still so incredibly much he doesn't know about the surface and the mortals' lives. It's all quite overwhelming, actually, but he doesn't mind. Much.
He's even hungrier now than he was before, but the nice people at this place to which he's been delivered--an "inn," apparently--have said that he'll be sharing his room with someone else, so he decides to go there first and see if whoever it is might want to eat with him.
He pushes open the door to his room and peers inside.]
Hello? Knock knock, is anyone here? It's me, your humble and extremely confused roommate...
D. Wildcard!
((OOC: I'm open to whatever, but I'd rather stick to events close to the time of Zag's arrival, because almost everything is new to him and he has an awful lot to learn!))