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[abandon_hope]

[ The video shows an incredibly gangly young man in a black aviator's jacket and dark clothing. Black and skulls are all the rage for this kid, and he tops off the aesthetic by having a long, black sword in view of the camera, albeit set off to one side. He could be intimidating, perhaps ... if not for the array of miniatures also set in front of the camera. Nico is just a big ol' nerd.

He's slightly red when he addresses the camera; the color looks odd on his pallid cheeks. ]

My name's Nico di Angelo. [ A beat. His eyes track offscreen; he's clearly reading off a notecard of some kind. ] I'm a half-blood - or a demigod, whatever you want to call it. Son of Hades. [ Better to get that out of the way now before making this kind of request. ] I was here a while back, so if you met me before I'm the same guy. And ... um ...

[ Gods, just get on with it. Why is it so hard to ask such a simple question? ]

Does anyone want to get a roleplaying campaign together? I - er - I'm mostly familiar with Myths and Mazes, but I can build stuff for any kind of d20 based system. I like making up that kind of stuff. I've got three people so far but I can take up to three more.

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Text; Network ID reads "Queen of Heaven"

[purple_reign]

I thought Hades only had daughters.

[ACTION]

[pummelgranite]

[ She's nearby, still working on her Underground. Growing it, more precisely. ]


Tell me if you get anyone interesting.

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[abandon_hope]

[ Inanna's text is audible in Nico's video response; it's clear he's using some kind of text to speech function on his phone. ]

Melinoe is Zeus' daughter. [ Said a bit flatly. Not his favorite god in the pantheon. ] And I'm not sure if Macaria is really his or not. The only siblings I know about for sure are all demigods.

[abandon_hope]

[ Nico leans over and shows her the post. ]

Just this one girl so far.

Audio for now

[purple_reign]

[That's interesting. Inanna switches the mode over to audio once he notices the text-to-speech happening. His voice is anything but feminine—low, sultry, and strangely appealing even over a tinny phone speaker.]

Interesting... You certainly seem to know your history, but I've never heard your name before.

[abandon_hope]

[ Oh. Much better. Nico heaves a faint sigh of relief on camera when Inanna switches - though he also starts a bit when he realizes he's not talking to a girl. ]

There's no way to avoid it. I talk to dead people more than I do living ones.

[ A beat. He can't think of a polite way to ask about Inanna's gender, so instead he says: ]

Um - who are you?

[pummelgranite]

[ The cacophony of digging vines halts all at once. ]

[abandon_hope]

[ Huh? Nico looks back at her now, utterly confused. ]

Persephone? What's wrong?

[purple_reign]

[Inanna can't help but laugh, albeit a little bitterly, like Nico's hit on some secret inside joke.]

Really? I bet The Morrigan would love to meet you; if she ever came here.

I'm Inanna.

[abandon_hope]

Inanna. [ Wait, he knows that name. Both those names in fact; he'd had a Mythomagic card of that goddess. ] As in the Sumerian goddess?

[ There's an extra note of questioning on that last word. ]

[purple_reign]

[There's a definite lift in his tone now that he's been recognized, a pleased note to it.]

The one and the same.

[abandon_hope]

[ Huh. He wonder if this Inanna is a deity more along the lines of his own world ... or something more like Persephone's. ]

Nice to meet you, I guess. [ A beat. ] You're not the first goddess I've met here.

[Voice]

[thegriffinofdeath]

Hades. The...greek god of death, right?

[Ana had made a point of looking through this world's religions when she had arrived for death gods.]

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[abandon_hope]

[ Nico nods on screen, his countenance becoming gloomier. ]

Yeah. That's right.

[ Best to scare off anyone who thinks that's a bad thing. Or that death gods are automatically evil. ]

[purple_reign]

[Not the first? There's something much more intent to his tone when he speaks again.]

Who else do you know? Maybe I've met them too.

Audio the same way!

[thegriffinofdeath]

Mm.

I admit I haven't looked very hard, but I didn't think he was real. The people here treat old gods like that as myths.

[abandon_hope]

[ Hmm. That's true enough. But are the odds that this new person is an enemy and not a friend? Nico bristles protectively. ]

You tell me who you think it is first.

[abandon_hope]

They might be myths here. If there's an Underworld, I can't access it. So Father isn't here either.

[thegriffinofdeath]

That must be very strange. And hard. I'm sorry.

The absence of my own goddess here has been, uncomfortable...and we aren't family. Not in the same sense.

[purple_reign]

[There's a long pause. Of course he wants to ask about Laura—she's the one who'd been here when he left before. The problem there is he has no idea which goddess she is. Even divination can't give him an answer as clear-cut as that.]

...Her name was Laura when I knew her.

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[redhott]

How's recruiting going? I got one more on the hook. John'll campaign with us!

[abandon_hope]

[ Slowly, his hackles go down a bit. ]

Which goddess?

[thegriffinofdeath]

She is called the Mother Namtaru. She is...an aspect of the Dragon God Asha. None of which means anything here.

Similar to your father in some ways, from what I've read. Though also very different.

[abandon_hope]

[ Not even a flicker of recognition at that name. Nico knows she was human before, but ... ]

I haven't met anyone calling themselves that.

[abandon_hope]

[ Indeed, there's no recognition in Nico's eyes. And Nico is a huge mythology nerd. ]

You mean she deals with death?