video; un: urahara

[predomination]

[The magitek isn't pointed at Urahara, but rather filming the area around him, but even if the username didn't give him away, the lilting overly exciteable terrier voice of his does.]

Good morning, everyone~

I know we're all very tired of this maze and whatever might be waiting for us once we get to the end, but it didn't feel right not to show you all this.

[The magitek shows one of the walls of the maze where an engraved bull's head stands out. Yeah.] I thought this might have been a bit of gallows humor from some of the previous inmates, but it's a reoccurring motif throughout the maze around here.

[A dry chuckle as he turns to face the camera, hatless and exhausted looking. Goddamn he misses his hat.] And if you're not up on your Greek mythology... Well, let's just say this situation could get even more frustrating. It's a shame Achilles-san has left us- perhaps he might have appreciated this in an odd sort of way.

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text | un: b.w.

[controlling]

Are we taking bets on what this version will be like?

[predomination]

Well, we're somewhere space, so I'm thinking there will be significantly more tentacles this time.

[I mean

just a guess.]

video; un: white_lotus

[pummelling]

[ALL OF YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING EVENTUALLY]

Guess there's nothing to it but to take the bull by the horns.

NOT HERE.

[trueborn]

[predomination]

[but wait, it gets worse.]

Haaaa~ I'm glad you beat Asher-san to the punch, Jin-san or else we'd be grabbing the bull by something else.

voice | un: unknownrealms

[headlining]

[A chuckle.]

Where's a spool of thread when you need one?

[ex_mettacrusher33]

[In the background of Keats' call comes the distraught groan of a dying man who has been hearing nothing but mythology jokes for the past week.

Urahara, why.

Look what you've done.

He's dying, Urahara.

Oh well. Continue without him.]

[predomination]

[He's so glad to have started a marital spat.]

If only we had thought ahead, we might have salvaged some from the shipwreck.

[He's taking this pretty well. Mostly because it's hilarious.]

video; un: scottmccall

[banded]

I'm not surprised, though I guess I can't say that I'm not a little curious about the bull inspiration. Are Greek myths that well known across the multiverse? [Scott isn't really the intellectual type, but he's trying. This is him trying. Plus, his life basically demanded that he buff up on this stuff.]

Do you know if anyone's tried to turn back the way we've come? That might be a bigger problem.

[predomination]

[points for Scoot!] That is the question, isn't it~ We've seen all sorts of alien creatures since we've been here, so it seems strange for a space prison to bear iconography of an Earth animal associated with mazes!

[Why is he so delighted. Maybe he's going maze crazy. Or maybe this is the most interesting thing to happen to him since they crashed.] I don't think so... It's not as if we had any particular need to.

[But it is a good point, considering there was probably some salvageable items left behind at the crash site.]

video | un; sieglindesullivan

[grunehexe]

An odd sort.

[The reminder of Achilles is a painful one- but she knows what happens when she lets herself linger even a moment on such things. Even a second.]

Do they mean to tell us that even in the far reaches of another world we still might encounter such a beast?

[predomination]

It's either that or someone was just very fond of Earth myths. I don't find it particularly worrisome- there are certainly worse monsters- but it just feels strange.

audio; un: cardmaster

[fateality]

...Yeah, I feel like I'm missin' something. What's a minotaur gotta do with mazes?

[predomination]

You haven't heard the myth about Theseus and the labyrinth?

[don't let him tell you that story.]

audio; un:hound

[ofobedience]

Frustrating? Oh, I don't know. It could be fun. I'm a little bored of the lizards.

/HIJACKS.

[trueborn]

Perhaps the deeper we venture, the larger the quarry will be?

[predomination]

I can't deny that, but it complicates things on an intellectual level, Giovanni-san. Why would a significant Earth myth be relevant out here? Shouldn't they have their own?

It feels like there's a piece of the puzzle missing.

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[trueborn]

What could this be truly, but another beast to be felled?

[ /arrogance. ]

[predomination]

I mean you're not wrong, honestly. [It's a fucking Minotaur. A slice of Greek beef fucked that thing's shit up.] I just find it a little out of place in a location so far away from Earth and its myths.

audio; un: mccree

[flashbanging]

Damn. Wishin' I'd paid more attention in school right about now.

[predomination]

It would have been wise, McCree-san. We might just be encountering the part of the story that just involves a bull.

[Urahara don't be a shit.]

audio; un: fiona

[cachemoney]

Soooo, can you all stop assuming we all have the same frame of reference, or. It's getting annoying. What's a Greek?

[predomination]

[wow the random aliens seem to have the same frame of reference. That or they really like cows.

buuut...] Ah. My apologies. I got a bit carried away~

[shut up, Urahara.]

A Greek is a native of Greece. In this context, it's more or less referring to the ancient Greeks, known for their elaborate mythology. The minotaur was a man-eating beast with the body of a man and the head of a bull that was placed in the center of a labyrinth.

audio; un: man of still

[figureitout]

[ ............. great. just, great. ]

Are you kidding me? We haven't made it this far just to become minotaur food, oh my god.

[predomination]

Don't be so hasty, Stiles-san. There's still a chance it could be coincidence, but... I don't really put much stock in those.