[meme] Welcome to the Underworld

[lordofthedead]

Welcome to the Underworld

Congratulations! You're (probably) dead! Whether or not it's canon for your string to have been cut or... you ran into some... unforeseen circumstances... You're in the Underworld. But your very generous host has offered you a second chance for life. He'll restore you to your world, all nice and proper, if you do a little something for him.

"See, I'm trying to take over the cosmos. I know, I know, it's so cliche, but that's the scheme of things. I need a little bit of help. I'm not just looking at my corner of the cosmos, I want it all. The other side of the grass, the multi-verse, call it what you want. And if you do a good job I'll also leave your little sunspot of a home untouched. Good, right? You get to live again, and you won't have to deal with me! Unless you want me to take your world... but that's a whole other story... While you work for me, you'll even get sort of a... temporary version of your body. I gotta work to put your complete package back together, but that'll keep you moving while you keep busy."

Of course, if you're really good at your job, he might just... keep you around a bit longer. He'll find a reason ;)

Or maybe you actually, willingly, decided to stick around. Sure, the Underworld's drafty, but it could be better than going home, eh?

Come on, your host isn't that bad of a guy.

I don't know, Hades woke up while I was working. Make a contract with Hades, already have one established; be new or end up stuck there for awhile because your "soul isn't ready yet." He'd ask for things like kill 100+ people or poison a city or burn down an ecosystem or get a lot of really powerful relics for him... pretty much either something awful or gaining powerful shit for him.

It's also completely possible that:

1) Your "unforeseen circumstance" was getting killed by another character that was conscripted by Hades

2) You're not dead, but Hades possesses your soul courtesy of a different deal (similar to Megara, basically)

3) You're a damn goody-two-shoes who's too stubborn to actually work for him :| Ugh what a waste of space!

4) You asked Hades to give you some special power of sorts (whatev you want) to help you achieve your task. He'll grant you that! You'll just have to do an extra task in return :|



Have fun?! \o_O/ Mingle with other conscripts, work with folks to do Awful Things(TM), and I'll try and tag around with Hades (or Pain and Panic lol). As a note for just myself: I'll match style if folk are biased to action posts or whatev. Also for my chars (Hades included) I can use RP-canon, just ask!

killing people is great, it gets him more souls and potentially more willing pawns bahahaha \o/

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Death Emizel | Disgaea 4 | (Grif)

[trademark_skull]

Live visitors probably weren't very common around here, but then again this probably was not a very normal visit either. Lots of weird things had been going on. Some misplaced souls it seemed, judging by the fact there had been more Prinny skins to go around. While this may have been great thing it's hard to believe that the humans had changed around that fast. Not to mention if the numbers kept growing like they have been, it was going to lead to even more problems.

Nope, these souls must have been going somewhere else, and for some reason it was up to Emizel to figure out where. If he actually forced to do it or volunteered though, well, either option sounded pretty likely.

[lordofthedead]

Hades knew the moment someone entered his realm that was very alive instead of very, very dead. That enough was a cause for alarm. At first he wondered if it was Jerkules coming to ruin everything, even though Hades had only been applying minimal danger to Olympus and its surrounding realm--enough to keep up appearances.

So when Hades scouts from a distance with smoke curling under Emizel, some other part of the Underworld explodes in cascade of flame. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING HIM!! THAT little twerp?! In his Underworld?! HIS REALM?!

No. No. He was NOT standing for this.

"PAIN. PANIC!"

The minions, already cowering nearby after witnessing the explosion, crawl nervously around what remains of the doorway. "Y-Yes, boss?" they echo.

"There's a living pest crawling around. Keep an eye on him for me. Find out what he wants, while I..." He rubs at a brow, orange flames very slowly receding. He doesn't finish his sentence, turning his back on them as dismissal.

The pair of imps scamper off, popping up not long after by Emizel, one on either side of the demon.

"Hey!" Pain hollers. "You can't be here! It's called trespassing!"

"Y-Yeah!" the blue imp adds. "The boss is really mad, so just a-hhh, tell us what you want!"

"And then scram!" Pain finishes.

[trademark_skull]

Emizel got stopped almost right away, and maybe a little too fast. Sure he assumed someone might try to step in eventually, but even the most loyal of Netherworld guards would have been that fast...even though these two didn't really look the part. But still, why would someone be that concerned? Unless, they did do something.

...Perhaps Emizel did find his culprit after all.

"Actually I think I wanna to talk this boss of yours," Emizel kept walking and ignored their warning. "I doubt it'll take very long."

Assuming Emizel doesn't find what he was looking for. Then that would be good news for them, right?

[lordofthedead]

D-D-Don't ignore them!! They'll get in so much trouble, don't you understand?! They rush back after the demon quickly, desperately trying to block his path.

"W-Wait!" Panic squeaks. "You really don't want to talk to him!"

"Uhhh yeah, he's really not... all that..." How does he turn the intruder off of this crusade? Without horribly angering Hades if he finds out? "Interesting..."

"YEAH! We're doing you a favor, stopping you here!"

Pain folds his arms and nods along with his companion's words. "But we're sorta like the boss's... heralds. So you should tell us what you'll tell him, and we'll pass word onto him."

"And then he'll judge if you're worth his time!" Panic exclaims.

Which Emizel is, very obviously to them, worth the boss's time. Panic glances towards the direction of the Underworld that Hades most recently exploded. He thinks he can still smell smoke. Or maybe that's just permanently burnt into his senses.

Yeah.

Probably that.

Another explosion distantly rattles the cavernous path. The two imps cower a little.

[trademark_skull]

Less worried about the explosion, more worried about getting crushed by a falling rock. However once it stopped, Emizel recomposed.

"And what do you explain was that?" he looked down at the imps. Okay so maybe he didn't find it that interesting, in fact things going up in flames was pretty standard for the most part for a demon. But it was still something. Granted it probably meant that something was angry.... But Emizel did have a job to do. He'll just have to tread lightly.

"I'll be on my out, after I don't find what I'm looking for."

*side-eyes email wondering where notif ended up*

[lordofthedead]

"Uhhhhhhh..." Pain's stalling at the same time Panic is trying to, well, not panic.

It's pretty difficult.

"OH! WELL," Panic finally says, laughing all the while (he's not hysterical at this point... really...), "It's not everyday someone comes here who isn't, yooou know... dead," he whispers the last word.

Pain punches Panic in the shoulder, then makes a let's go gesture. It takes Panic a moment to realize why, and then he can feel it. Their boss, en-route, very fast.

"You just have fun now," Pain tells Emizel, "try not to anger him, okay?"

Panic's eyes go comically wide. The two imps trip over one another, scrambling in a mad-dash to get away as a mini-comet is suddenly hurling down straight at Emizel.

It was doing that to me awhile ago too, so mean :|

[trademark_skull]

Rather than trying to run that time, Emizel burst the rock with some fire of his own, not a second too late either. At the rate this was going.. geez, maybe he should be really concerned what he was getting himself into. But this was important business, he had to at least try. No future President should be running from some rocks and fire... not after everything else he's been through.

"Alright.." the demon took a deep breath and pressed forward, on the look out for any other hazards along the way. Rocks are pretty easy to spot, but as he got closer to the middle...yeah, gonna have to hope he doesn't get blasted in the face with flames.