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[ferriswheelsandfootball]

Who: John Sheppard
Username: Pegasus
Warnings: Blood, injuries, violence, guns, cruelty/violence to sea animals, explosions, will add to list if anything else comes up


So apparently there’s a river of blood in Dogtown.

Me and McKay went in the southwest entrance and there’s this blood river there…which is apparently a thing that just happens…with what looks like something big living in it.

Anyway, there’s a building on the other side—has anyone been there? Do you know what it is? We haven’t been that far in so I don’t know if there’s another way around. If there’s not, we might have to figure out a way to take out whatever’s swimming around in there.

By the way, I really don’t recommend going in the way we did. If you have to, don’t make any noise for about a quarter of a mile—then wear earplugs.

Comments

[aelwyn_aberration]

The River Styx, also known as the River of Blood, is a never-ending river of blood that travels through Hell, the Abyss... Hades - which I believe you call the Underworld? And a few other realms that I don't believe Earth has any equivalent to.

When you drink or touch the liquid, it erases your memories and sense of self, permanently. You become a moldable puppet for the owner of the realm to use and reshape into whatever they want. A demon, normally.

[She considers... a domain in Hell or the Abyss or Hades or whatever isn't outside of the realm of possibilities, but perhaps more likely and more pressingly.]

If the River bled into Dogtown, there might be a hellgate nearby...

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

Somehow that doesn’t surprise me. At all.

[His tone is very dry. He’d been jokingly suspecting that there was something hellish about this place but now that someone has actually suggested it too…]

Where I come from a lot of things from what we considered legends and mythology are real—-built by who we call Ancients. If there really is a real River Styx, Hades, or Underworld, I wouldn’t be surprised. In most cases it would have been an actual planet that you could get to. Rodney would know better than me about anything more than that, like if we’ve got alternate dimensions involved.

I want to cross that river, though. Preferably without becoming a demon.

[aelwyn_aberration]

You can get to them in our world, but you need a special kind of transportation ship. [Although she does faintly remember hearing about some elaborate theory that all the planes are just different planets. It's unlikely, she thinks it might have even been disproven, but who knows.] There are adventurers that tend to travel between them for various reasons, and adventurers are the highest export in the country I've lived in for the past ten or so years.

You can cross, I'm fairly sure. You just need to do it without touching it. A makeshift bridge should work, provided you're extra careful.