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| Tartarus | |
| By: Kaya Mitsume Date: July 25, 2012, 4:18 pm | |
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| A place of punishment. It's a well deserved place of judgement. | |
| #Post#: 21577-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Tartarus | |
| By: Kaito Ishihara Date: July 26, 2012, 6:14 pm | |
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| Zagreus had just stormed out of his father's palace in one of | |
| the forms he more passably got away with here in the Underworld. | |
| An infernal looking creature, reptilian in body but with the | |
| wings of a blue macaw and razor sharp teeth. Talons allowed it | |
| to grip onto rocky surfaces, trees, most anything but not | |
| without leaving a mark. Zagreus prided himself in his ability to | |
| alter his form so freely but this was not suitable to his needs | |
| as he traveled to where he thought it most likely he would come | |
| across Thanatos: the great prison of the Underworld, Tartarus. | |
| As he neared the entrance to the dreadful place, he let his | |
| wings ease up and began his descent. As he landed down on firm | |
| ground, he brought his body to shift into a much smaller and | |
| less noticeable form. His grayish green scales began to blacken | |
| and his wings shrunk back into his skin. The reptilian tail | |
| curled up over his back while all of his skin covered in scales | |
| hardened shrank. Within mere moments, he was a pure black | |
| scorpion the size of a normal man's fist. And down here, he was | |
| hardly threatening. What little lived on in the Underworld | |
| tended to remain undisturbed. | |
| He scurried along the ground for a while before getting more | |
| comfortable going along the walls, navigating the way as he knew | |
| it. As the son of the ruler of this domain, he knew it well. | |
| Still searching for any sign of Thanatos, he ran along the path | |
| while contemplating the argument he had just had with his father | |
| and what he'd be willing to do to prove to Hades once and for | |
| all exactly how much he was worth. | |
| #Post#: 21625-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Tartarus | |
| By: Kaya Mitsume Date: July 26, 2012, 9:01 pm | |
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| The target seemed to be drifting through Tartarus. He bathed in | |
| the sounds of the suffering that echoed and bled around him. The | |
| smell of blood and sweat is in the air. Of pain and fear. Here, | |
| there would be no rest. There would be no reprieve. | |
| Thanatos moved from victim to victim, because make no mistake, | |
| that is what they were. His victims. His sacrifices to his need | |
| for suffering. Every soul that came here should suffer. The | |
| mortal thread only learned in their pain and agony. Lessons | |
| should be taught in flesh and blood, terror and dismay. | |
| He stood beside a man, nameless to him. and watched a sort of | |
| death crawl over his face. It was the death of hope, of peace, | |
| of any and all stillness. The man laid, eviscerated and bleeding | |
| out slowly, eyes dull. They rolled to meet those of Death | |
| himself, and even this close to the end, the man knew to be | |
| afraid. He had no air left to scream his fear. But the | |
| expression brought ecstacy to the Underworld's executioner. | |
| #Post#: 21644-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Tartarus | |
| By: Kaito Ishihara Date: July 26, 2012, 9:35 pm | |
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| Zagreus came crawling upon the scene and froze in place. | |
| Positioned far behind the embodiment of death itself, he could | |
| observe what Thanatos himself observed. The young God had a | |
| small appreciation for this. After all, he was quite used to | |
| sacrifices being made in his name, often times human sacrifices | |
| and occasionally tortured beforehand. Not exactly proud, but | |
| used to it. | |
| He scuffled a bit closer high upon the wall and wondered to | |
| himself if Thanatos had his way of things, would this be the | |
| norm for every soul down here? | |
| #Post#: 21653-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Tartarus | |
| By: Kaya Mitsume Date: July 26, 2012, 9:59 pm | |
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| His steps took him away from the eviscerated. Such things bored | |
| him quickly. There was no art to this. The blood, the gore. It | |
| was all shocking. But he'd seen millenia of this. And so, he | |
| moved to a different section of Tartarus. | |
| This section held those that emotional or psychological torture | |
| would suit. Mnemosyne's waters were a curse in this place. Those | |
| that visited her pool left behind their memories. Here, they | |
| were used against the damned. | |
| Thanatos wandered this area, watching over the shoulders of | |
| various individuals. Their happiest moments played again and | |
| again, reminding of what they'd lost. What they'd once had. | |
| #Post#: 21721-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Tartarus | |
| By: Kaito Ishihara Date: July 26, 2012, 11:51 pm | |
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| He followed Thanatos further, not yet satisfied with his | |
| findings. He would not return to the Black Palace after that | |
| outburst he just had empty-handed. | |
| But in the meantime, it was nice to finally be here in Tartarus | |
| when not being tested on his memorization of the pathways or | |
| being lured into becoming the Titans' after-dinner snack. He | |
| enjoyed observing Thanatos in his work. If you could call it | |
| work. | |
| He had taken to clinging to the rocky roof over Thanatos' head, | |
| better to stay out of his view. Though his perspective was | |
| skewed from his upside down position, Zagreus observed those | |
| being punished with a slight mix of sympathy and entrancement. | |
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