The Descender jamming between floors.
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I think both the Boatman and Brother Strange go to the same tailor. They both go for the 'scruffy cowl hiding face' look.
Do you think the boatman is meant to be Charon, the dead guy that rows souls to Hades (AKA Level 3)?
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Yes. In the same way that Festus is supposed to be Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of Hades.
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Hades was both the name of the god who ruled the Underworld, and, via metonymy, was a name given to his kingdom.
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In the book "Sorceror's Isle" the boatman is Charon and the river is the Styx, I have often though that the Dunswater could really be the Styx and the boatman could be Charon.
The idea of level 3 being the Isle of the dead ties in with the level 3 of "Labarynth of Fear" as that is Hell, Hades or Tartarus.
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The idea of Charon and the Styx could be a great one to use in VR. I always thought the Styx was supposed to be a river deep down in underground caverns. An underground Styx as an entrance to Level 3 would be cool.
And a reintroducing of Festus may well be in order. If only we could see him this time...
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(Apologies to the Mods et al for drifting further off-topic...)
The Underworld in Greek mythology consisted of Elysium (fields of paradise), Asphodel (plains of nothingness), and as Pendragon mentions, Tartarus (place of eternal, hellish punishments) - three areas. Possibly not a coincidence that the Dungeon consists of three levels. See http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Underworld.html for more information.
According to Mrs. Grimwold, Festus had three heads before her husband bit one off, and five tails (which he sometimes wagged all at the same time). The number of heads that Cerberus had varies between ancient authors - one source says fifty heads. Cerberus appears in the second KM gamebook, Labyrinths Of Fear.
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I should hope so! That Descender didn't get nearly enough credit. It's a stroke of genius, I tell you!
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