(urth) City on Green

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/31/2010 11:49 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
> On 12/31/2010 10:36 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> Oops, Nessus killed Hercules, not the other way. Well, we might wonder
>> then who is Hercules.
>>
> Hercules also killed Nessus, if that helps. As I recall, Deionara, who
> was Mrs. Hercules? The main squeeze of Hercules? had Nessus help her
> across a river, and then he tried to rape her, and then Hercules killed
> him (with a poison arrow? Don't remember), and, dying, he said to her
> something like, "if Hercules wears a shirt soaked in my blood, he will
> never love another."
>
> So of course she does the Dillinger-hankie thing, and then Hercules puts
> it on, and OOPS AGONIZING DEATH.
>
> Nota bene: I didn't look any of this up, so I could be *totally wrong*.

Technically it was everlasting agony from which the only escape was 
death - though since he was half-immortal, once the mortality was burnt 
away, he ascended.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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