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[big_googoo_eyes]

[a voice post, it sounds like some of it was cut off]

--ttles it. I'm dead. I mean, I have to be dead. The last thing I remember was that column and...Come on Meg, get it together...

[there's a pause and an intake of breath, an annoyed sigh]

...yeah, pretty much nothing after that. Great. I died like I lived, like a damsel in distress. At least I

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voice;

[7thborn]

If you're floating, you're probably in the fountain. Seems like the City's favourite place to drop off the newcomers.

voice;

[big_googoo_eyes]

I was by a fountain before, but now I'm by some sort of...round...animal statue...thing.

[there's a sigh SHE IS SO NOT INTO THIS WHOLE NEWCOMER BUSINESS]

This would have been soooo much easier if I was just dead and in the Underworld. At least I wouldn't be confused.

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[candlejacked]

I'm so sorry...

[candlejacked]

This place isn't "Hades." It's called "The City."

[big_googoo_eyes]

[there is a LONG PAUSE and she doesn't know whether to laugh or just...idk]

Kid...Hades isn't a place.

[candlejacked]

Oh, I'm sorry. Is it a person?

voice; i apologize for slow, lj is fail

[adamantined]

Check for a pulse. If you've got one of those, this is less the Underworld than you're thinking.

voice; holy crap I know, right?

[big_googoo_eyes]

I checked, haven't got one. This is turning out to be one swell day.

voice; /punches it in the head

[adamantined]

Oh.

[awkward pause]

Well I can still tell you that you aren't in the Underworld. Did anyone send you a guide?

voice; LOOKS LIKE THAT WORKED~

[big_googoo_eyes]

Well, I know that much now, thanks for the update. And yeah, some girl named Emma gave me a guide...

[there's a clinking noise]

And money. I think. What a welcome chariot this place has.

voice; Sooooorry I was away all yesterday and today.

[neverendingbeat]

If it helps, if you entered dead, you're a proper body, at the very least. Well, as far as I know, of course. Does where you are look like a pit?

voice; psssssh that's a-okay

[big_googoo_eyes]

Yeah, I'm a proper body all right, but I'm still not a fan of having no heartbeat.

And no. It doesn't. Still deciding if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

voice;

[neverendingbeat]

You'd rather a pit? I could find you a nice pit in the City, if that's really what you'd prefer.

You said Hades. Of course, I don't know whether you meant the god or the realm but either way, I think you have a nice deal here, heartbeat or not. I can't remember every piddling detail about the mythological Greek Underworld, but I do know that it's grim, boring and involves a lot of aimless wandering, if we're referring to the same myth structure.

And it is definitely not boring here.

voice;

[big_googoo_eyes]

I don't think I'd prefer even the nicest of pits.

And I meant the god. Y'know, big blue guy with the flaming hair, an ego nearly as big as Narcissus', and a jealousy complex as colossal as a Coliseum. Yeah, that guy.

Never said it was going to be boring here, but if you're so quick to defend the place, I'm guessing it will be.