BEFORE YOU CROSS — a short list, printed for the wall
Compiled by Virgil. Reproduce freely, correct nothing.

[ ] THE COIN
    One obol. Under the tongue, not in a pocket, not in a bag.
    Charon gives no change, extends no credit, and hears no
    explanation. Arrive without it and you wait on the near
    bank for a hundred years.

[ ] EAT NOTHING
    Not a seed. Not half a seed. The fruit down here is said
    to be excellent, which is precisely the mechanism.

[ ] DO NOT LOOK BACK
    If you have come to retrieve someone, you will be given a
    condition. It will sound easy. It will not be easy.

[ ] DO NOT ARGUE WITH THE JUDGES
    Minos hears a life in four seconds and wraps his tail the
    appropriate number of times. There is no appeal. There is
    not even a form.

[ ] BUDGET YOUR TIME
    The dead want to talk. All of them. You will not get
    through a tenth of them. Decide who you came for before
    you land, and walk past the rest.

That is the whole orientation. Everything after this you can
work out as you go, and you will.