Into the Light
May01
My office still smells a little as I write this. Last Friday at 4 AM, I was wakened from a dead sleep by the smell of a local skunk trying to move in on the territory of the armadillo who lives under the back porch.
Hopefully, the armadillo won and the skunk moved on.
Nunno, but ascendance into a higher realm sounds like a pretty good deal. Moral obligations to those left behind would be a problem, but that seems to be something the Protector has dealt with before.
Don’t just hope. Better check. Dead skunk would definitely smell even worse.
So far so good. Not really looking forward to ever trying to excavate under that porch.
But once you enter you can’t leave.
Unless you bring myrth with you like Dyonisos or beat the hard head of the King of the Netherworld like Hercules probably did (I can’t recall the details but sounds like him).
They didn’t bring myrth, so it’s head beating time. But first you have to explore the Labyrinth and find the Minotaur or something. Don’t forget to bring some twine.
Okay, so here’s the thing about the Greek underworld/afterlife. If you’re not dead, you are free to visit at any time. Hades does not actually care and is one of the few Olympian gods who is a legitimately nice person. His only negative myth is the kidnapping of his wife, something he did after checking with her father/his brother if that was an okay thing to do. Which, btw is actually standard practice in the Greek culture of the time. The mother and bride get no say; it was all decided by the father and the groom. It only became a problem when Demeter started killing all of the mortals with eternal winter, forcing the hands of the men.
Anyway, to more specifically address Heracles, he literally just went into the Underworld, asked Hades if he could borrow his dog for a bit, and Hades shrugged and said what amounts to, “Sure Nephew, just don’t hurt him since he might not agree to you taking him. Also, bring him back when you’re done with him.”
Cause at that point, Heracles had become fairly famous for his other labors, and the gods knew the king who was tasking him with them was just being a sore loser and making up random ass new trials because he was claiming two of them didn’t count. It was originally supposed to be only 10 labors, and fetching Cerberus was supposed to be the impossible 11th
Only divine heroes actually did, surely a template for the later legend of Jesus visiting Hell (Hades) upon death and returning alive. The Eleusian mysteries apparently dealt with such kind of conquest of death but details are unclear.
I concur with the 10 labors theory, however the total were 12 labors, not 11. This is believed by some why there are two parallel legends of Hercules in the Far West (Hesperides/Atlas and Geryon), in one “melon” (μῆλον) means “apple” and in the other it means “sheep” or “livestock”.
So no head beating? This Hercules is surely disappointing all the time.
It occurs to me this moon-elf demigod or whatever we should call her is strangely single-minded to the point she is ignoring the ‘meta’ aspect she shares with Bree and the other meta beings. Which suggest to me moon-goth isn’t playing with a full deck.
There is a big difference between comforting Paige when she freaked out, and forcibly changing our favorite blue-blade (and her co-spouses) against her will.
Or she simply can afford to do things she wants to do and to not do things she doesn’t want to do… so that’s precisely what she’s doing: releasing moon-elven souls from blades and not listening to anyone’s opinions on that.
Time to promote Moonie to new Moon-goddess… the current is about to be… ‘removed‘ from office
Well, it’s not like they were alive in the material realm. Just give them the ability to travel freely between this place and the blade and nobody will have anything to complain about.
I still say Morgana isn’t to be trusted. Having attempted outright deception with Bree – the gift that wasn’t a gift really, but a ‘trade’ without first specifying trade for what – then forcefully extracting Moonblade from her fellow sword-spirits, then rather sneeringly extracting the other two. Now she is promising a lot of vague ‘puff’ about ‘freedom’, but will she allow them the freedom to choose what they actually want? If so, I suggest, from Moonblade and Kal’s reaction so far, she won’t like their choice. Her promises are too vague and rather suspect. Don’t trust her! Bree wisely keeping more or less quiet for now, rightly letting the sword-spirits make their decision. Not sure arrogant grey goth will approve.
You really don’t like sneering goth moon elves bringing the gifts, don’t you? 😅
Morgana: Congratulations. You are being rescued. Please do not resist.
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I have no idea what her game is, but she has raised so many red flags, so, so many red flags, that this looks like a May 1st parade in Moscow’s Red Square in 1956, but replacing all the people waving the red flags with smaller red flags with little arms and legs. Arms and legs shaped like red flags.
At LEAST.
Hah!
Okay, let’s talk about the serious topic: Morgana’s choices in clothing. On the one hand, she wears a blanket that’s held on her merely by a fibula at her neck. No sleeves, no buttons, no belt, that thing must be a nuisance to wear, why even bother with it at all then? So that’s a minus (off-tangent: why is “that’s a plus” a saying but “that’s a minus” is not?) but on the other hand, she manages to wear both her blanket and the panel borders in such a way so as to keep her most muliebria body parts covered at all times, so that’s a plus. Also, the shape and size of her glasses ensure that she can’t accidentally look at something with her bare eyes which is actually quite smart. She even has those small blinders-like things at the sides of them! Another plus from me, I guess.
But what do you guys think? What about fashion or style? I’ve no idea about those things so please share your thoughts!
I thank you for adding “muliebria” to my vocabulary. Probably not going to be using it much, but good to have available should needs be.
Whaiiiiit a minute, if they go up, will they go to that tavern where paige found the picture of jen and brian ? Will they encounter again that guy who helped then ? That would be so cool
this is seeming a LOT like i just killed you to free you
… If you “hear that quite a lot here”, why the fuck don’t you listen?