[text] there is water at the bottom of the ocean

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[Originally, it started out as a well-meaning adventurous foray for personal edification, yadda, yadda, yadda. Time moves so slowly in Hadriel that Nate has been clawing at ways to occupy it, and since he's exhausted the library of any texts that aren't in gibberish it stands to reason he might seek personal fulfillment elsewhere. After waking up with the usual restlessness he considered the wide expanse of lakeside real estate out his window and thought, yeah, a swim sounds nice.

The swim was less than nice.

Several minor explosions and some (honestly) impressive spell-work later sees him soaked to the skin but otherwise unscathed outside of minor lacerations on one arm - there's really only so much you can do when trying to evade a shark with two fucking heads - scribbling quickly in a notebook with the sort of fervor reserved for the truly mad. Lake-adjacent, blessedly on the shore with a towel slung around bare shoulders, he quickly snaps a photograph of his work with his phone and hits SEND TO ALL.

The message is as follows:]

does anyone know what the hell this is
i found it at the bottom of the lake

Attachment: [monster.jpg]

p.s. don't go swimming in the lake

Comments

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1. the torso was at least the size of a small sedan

2. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT

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1. Excellent.

2. Because I can and there aren't any other bones I can reanimate around here? Having a big monster on our side if things go south can't hurt.

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okay, first: what the hell are you that you can do that

secondly: i'm 99% sure hope would swear off resurrecting us if you turned his crabby pals into revenants

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I'm a son of Hades, a demigod.

What's a revenant?

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no offence but didn't he only father the furies and two daughters? guy wasn't exactly known for sleeping around with mortals

[But what does Nate know? He only inundated himself with Classical mythology at a young age.]

you know

like a zombie

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In my world, he's fathered many demigods throughout the years. The furies aren't related to me. [And thank the gods for that. He also does have a sister that died and a half-sister that's still alive, but he doesn't really want to talk about them, and he's pretty sure that's not what this guy is asking about anyway.] I don't even know how many daughters he's had but it's more than two, I'm sure.

Ah. It wouldn't be like a zombie if it's just bones. But I'll ask Hope if he or any of the other gods here would be offended if I did that, just to be on the safe safe. [He doesn't really want to get cursed or smited or anything like that... or screw anyone else over either.]

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that's...not what i was expecting, but interesting

and kid, you can take it from me, hope is going to be really pissed off if you do that. he's angry i found the bodies and told people about them.

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Makes me wonder if they have something against the dead.

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i think they just have something against grave desecration