Welcome to the Netherworld!

[lazyvassals]

[It is difficult to define what a normal afternoon is by Netherworld standards. In the dark, torch-lit halls of the Overlord's Castle, penguin-suited prinnies totter about pretending to do work, while most other vassals make no effort at all to pretend. No fights have broken out yet, but it is questionable how long that will last with the Overlord being awake. It is just the sort of calm that comes before something unexpected happens, or someone makes it happen out of boredom.

And that is precisely when the first stranger comes through the swirling vortex of the Dimensional Gate.

It doesn't seem so unusual at first, because people use that gate on a daily basis. But more people start to show up, people who aren't demons. The Gatekeeper herself has no idea where they've come from, or how they've found their way to the Netherworld.

Unfortunately, neither do the unexpected guests.]

Comments

[bound_skyward]

Clearly. But could it be the next life for others, as well?

[Though Kain certainly feels alive and nothing like the ghost that he sees before him. It doesn't change what he last recalls happening before arriving here, though.]

[lazyvassals]

This is the Netherworld not the Underworld.

You're also not a prinny, so if you think you're dead or something, you got nothing to worry about.

[bound_skyward]

[If it's the Underworld, where are the dwarves? Kain isn't sure what to think about that.]

It's not something I merely think... I know it happened. How can you be so sure I've nothing to worry about, though... what do you mean by 'not a prinny'?

[lazyvassals]

[But it's not, it's the Netherworld, Kain?]

The only dead humans around here are prinnies. Prinnies contain the souls of humans who sinned in life.

[bound_skyward]

[Whoops, worded that whole thing weirdly, IGNORE. "There aren't any dwarves he could see anyway, for it to be the Underworld- not quite a land of the dead where he's from. But that means a lot to think about given it's some other place etc."]

[He's never heard of such things back home... so it definitely confirms that he's in no familiar world.]

Is that what you are?

[lazyvassals]

[Hahaha no worries! <3 ]

Me? No way!

If you see a blue demon with peg legs? That's a prinny.

[bound_skyward]

[He's going to have to keep an eye out for these things. Although... if he's in some world with demons and ghosts... well... it doesn't do much to make him feel better about his alive or dead status.]

But you're not alive yourself, are you?

[lazyvassals]

Well, I am a spirit.

[bound_skyward]

Did you live in this world before you became a spirit?

[Maybe he can begin to understand more about this world if he gets more answers from this spirit... or so he hopes.]

[lazyvassals]

Beats me. I don't actually remember.

[Yeah, sorry Kain... not gonna get much outta this ghost.]

[bound_skyward]

Then... you probably know of no way to aid me in leaving this realm...?

[It's discouraging, but he's not going to stop looking for answers.]

[lazyvassals]

Not really. If the dimensional gate isn't working, you're pretty outta luck.

[bound_skyward]

Do you happen to know why I've come to be in this place?

[He has his assumption, but still... he'd like to know more.]

[lazyvassals]

[The ghost seems to shrug.]

Your guess is as good as mine. I've never seen the dimensional gate do this before.

[bound_skyward]

Perhaps the first thing to do is determine why it's brought us here...

[It's a direction to take anyway, Kain figures.]