Orpheus

[Malcopool]

Who led Orpheus and Eurydice through the underworld?

[Goonermatt]

Nobody.

Orpheus went into the underworld to ask for his dead wife back. He played his harp to Charon the ferryman and he took him across the river Styx (where no living souls were allowed to go) He played his harp and Cerberus, the three headed dog who guards the gates to Hades laid down and let him pass.

He finally came before Pluto and Persephone, the King and Queen of the Underworld and he played his bloody harp again. They digged his tunes and let him have Eurydice back, but only on the condition that he didn't look back as she followed him back to the land of the living.

He set off up the long steep path, never looking back, but as he neared the top and he could begin to see the light, he forgot his promise and turned back to look at Eurydice. The idiot.

He saw her standing there looking good and all, but all of a sudden she began to vanish and eventually disappeared.

He tried to go back but Charon wasn't falling for his harp trick again and he went back home and sat under a tree before someone offed him.