Obadiah wants to end his life. The mere mortal, after slogging on through 22 years of journeying, has no one. His family is dead. His town hates him. And his cat ran away. Just as he is about to do the deed, a royal messenger appears. He soon finds himself blackmailed by the very king he despises into going to the land of demons with two young undead knights. (30 yrs before DS2)

Percy Jackson lives a less-than normal life as an assassin, using his near-superhuman abilities and skill to make a living. But when a routine double-assassination goes wrong, a game-changer occurs, leaving Percy to venture onto the criminal underworld of New York to take down swathes of henchmen, crack jokes, and face off against colorful characters before all hell breaks loose.

When the Doctor invites a drunk man to a road trip across time and space, things go horribly awry as expected.