Under Averno

Under Averno is a web-series created by August Greenwood, Sushi Soucy, and Cayden Larrosa. The series is made up of several tapes of Rori Svennson and Bo Brandywine trying to discover the rhyme and reason for all of the strange occurrences in the town of Averno, and how they end up uncovering much more than they bargained for.

Major Characters
Rori Svennson

Bo Brandywine

Cast
August Greenwood - Rori Svennson

Sushi Soucy - Bo Brandywine Cayden Larrosa

Season One
(there will be spoilers. duh. if you click on [Collapse] next to the purple box with the episode title in it, the episode summary will disappear until you click it again.)

Episode One: The Swimming Hole
The episode begins with Rori standing outside in the dark with their cameraperson, Bo. They explain the night's investigation as well as their theory that the strange behaviors and blue lights around the swimming hole (and the strange occurrences around town as a whole) are caused by ghosts—and that it's Rori's job to help them find inner peace and bring some quiet to the town of Averno.

As Rori and Bo begin walking to the swimming hole, Rori summarizes two stories, the first of which involved 16 year old girl the summer before. The girl's friends, who went with her to the swimming hole, describe how the girl saw some blue lights that the rest of them could not see. When they started walking towards the lights, the girl went into a "catatonic trance" and began walking towards the water with no regard for her friends that were calling out to her. Upon stepping about four feet into the swimming hole, she spreads her arms and falls back into the water that seems to pull her under. Here, Rori notes that the swimming hole is rather shallow, but it seems to have gotten much, much deeper.

The second story is about a 12 year old boy and his father, who decided to camp by the swimming hole after a long day of fishing. The dad woke up upon hearing a strange noise outside the tent, and when he turned over to find his son, the son is missing. The dad immediately rushed out of the tent with a flashlight and shined it towards the noise he heard, looking on in horror as his son falls back into the hole, once again seeming to be dragged under the water by an unknown force. Once rescued, the boy had no memory of venturing into the hole. Rori says that while the boy brushed it off as sleepwalking, they think that it's something else.

Rori then pulls out a spirit box and asks, "Why do you bring people to the swimming hole,". They pause to listen, then proceed to ask if there's a reason. After a second of static from the spirit box, Bo asks Rori if they hear something and for Rori to turn the spirit box off. There's nothing but silence and the sound of running water, so they continue. This time, Rori asks, "What are your intentions, do you mean any harm?". There's a soft "no" from the spirit box, and Bo lightheartedly remarks on it before asking Rori to turn off the spirit box again. This time, there's running water and soft singing (which has been identified as the "la da da's" from Forest Hymn).

Obviously the two are very confused, and the scene cuts to them walking towards the woods, trying to find the source of the singing. Rori asks Bo to turn off their flashlight, and the scene goes dark. On top of the singing, we hear Bo ask Rori, "Who is that?", and Rori replies that they don't know. After asking if they should run, Bo then says hello rather loudly. The dynamic duo proceeds to tell each other to shut up. Two separate giggles are heard, and Rori asks if they should run. Bo confirms, the flashlight turns on, and they start running and screaming in fear.

The scene here is mostly dark with only blurry flashes of light as they run away from whatever they saw, with more laughing from an unknown source. During this, there are three flashes of a bridge in the daytime. In order, the flashes show a person standing on the bridge, then the same person standing on the railing of the bridge, then the bridge by itself with nobody on it. In the Instagram livestream held after the initial release, it is revealed that this footage was not filmed by either of them, but that Bo couldn't cut the footage while editing.

It cuts to Rori's Review time, where Rori ends the video by saying that they don't know what to say for this episode. They don't know what or who was in the woods, and that Bo has not texted them back since the event, and that they should start looking for a new cameraperson. Despite all of this, Rori remarks that they don't intend to stop searching for whatever is going on, and that next time they won't run away.

Trivia

 * In the end credits of Under Averno, Bo Brandywine is listed as the "Hotty"
 * August said on their Instagram that there may be a spin-off series where Rori and Bo move to Georiga