to: all, with apologies to nico di angelo

[areou]

( the message is deliberately written in ancient greek. for most summoned, the network will auto-translate, but she's hoping there might be others who recognize the original text. )

WILL SOLACE COME RETRIEVE YOUR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT GOTH I'M NOT HIS BABYSITTER

( helpfully, she adds an illustration that no one asked for: )



( then, because nico seriously needs more friends and it's her duty as former head counselor of the ares cabin to embarrass any and all younger campers: )

↖  BTW THIS IS NICO
HE LOVES LONG WALKS THROUGH THE UNDERWORLD AND BROODING IN GRAVEYARDS
HE'S SPOKEN FOR BUT I'M SURE HE'LL BE THE AFTERLIFE OF YOUR NEXT PARTY
CHALLENGE HIM TO A GAME OF MYTHOMAGIC TODAY!!!

ALSO IF ANYONE OUT THERE HAS SEEN THESE DEMIGODS CONTACT ME ASAP
LOOKS LIKE ZEUS IS SUPER FUCKING PISSED AGAIN AND WE NEED A GAMEPLAN

( more shitty doodles follow, this time vaguely resembling percy and annabeth, although this time she labels them: )



— CLARISSE LA RUE, DRAKON-SLAYER, DAUGHTER OF ARES

( she figures she may as well cover all her bases here since all of this feels like a ren faire on steroids anyway.

ooc | threadjacking is more than welcome and, frankly, encouraged. let's all go hog boar wild. 🫡 )

Comments

[areou]

Good thing I've got the god of diseases and healing on my side

I'll think about it, nerd

[areou]

I guess it's not so bad as long as you don't try to turn any of this into a reenacted training video for parents with troubled teens

( she's heard the Stories about the camp half-blood orientation film. she prays she never has to actually watch it. )

"Shining a new light"? Really, Apollo 🙄

( it's easier to point that out than to acknowledge the rest of it. she's never been very good at accepting any kind of praise, despite how desperately she's sought after it her whole life. she might spontaneously combust if apollo actually says something nice about her. )

they reminded themself! this is thought PROBABLY UNNECESSARILY HARD at just clarisse

[tedandroses]

[hey, teddy's not the one who's going to get her on instagram. mostly. maybe when they were under 20. these days? eh. they don't miss it.]

It absolutely is, and you don't need it/whatever the version is where you are.

There are some good ones, like...just games, or music, or identifying birds by their song. Or helping find you your friend, if they, you know, get stuck in a fucking freaking[is essentially written on top of it] laurel hell because they took an inadvisable shortcut. One time. Hypothetically.

Or things that are handy, like translators or maps or, I don't know, text to speech.

But social ones are just different flavors of awful.

(and that's why you guys should think at each other instead of everyone if the conversation gets long! because no one needs everyone to see everything they're saying.
here, this one should go to just you i hope; you can try it back.)

[sonofacesius]

Dad!

He's not wrong though. That's totally Mr. D's area.

[That and wine and partying. Judging from their last meet up Wille, you had that part down.]

....Dad. meet Wilhelm. He's over in Thorne. He helped me out when I spent too much time in Nocwich. It's this place without sunlight.

Thanks for that by the way. Needing to photosynthesize or whatever. Real cool.

Private

[sonofacesius]

[Okay, Will was actually speechless there for a moment. That was. Wow Dad. Way harsh.]

Woah, okay give me a moment to process the massive clap back you just dealt. I mean.....we are related?

[not a good time to joke about becoming their parents maybe?]

I want the argument to stop too. You're right.

[He might have said he wouldn't have been opposed to it being solved similarly to the way Octavian solved his little problem but...he still felt guilty about that. For some reason.]

[sophos]

[ the cat is definitely already out of the bag, so. ]

You seem like you're familiar already; the gods back home function close enough to myth. I've never known them to jump universes, but it's a god. And there are different rules here.

Maybe there's another way to communicate with it. Sorry, you guys are probably already thinking about this stuff.

Can annoying clown man get into the Horizon?

[sophos]

[ what. ]

[ she definitely just stares at the message for as long as it lasts, because it's - ]

[ nice. ]

[ apollo was always a little nicer than the rest, but it's still a very unexpected response to what she's said. you've already done more than enough. it's not something she ever expected to hear from a god and she can't bring herself to trust in it. with athena sometimes it never feels like enough, the expectations of her mother and the ones she puts upon herself in kind. but apollo is speaking to her more like an equal and it throws her. ]

Okay.
Thank you.

[ yeah that's all she's got. ]

[areou]

( i trust you more. no, she's not blushing, that's just the rage leaving her body. obviously. )

Okay, I'm on it

( and, then, because she can't stand this being about her anymore, like she's a moth slowly roasting under a heat lamp, she adds: )

You know it goes both ways
If you guys need anything

( she doesn't mention tartarus, doesn't say if you want to talk about it. because she knows they don't. not this soon, and not with everything else going on. they might not ever want to talk about it, least of all with her, but the offer is on the table, as vague as it may be. she might not have experienced tartarus herself, and she hopes to the gods she never will, but she has seen what that kind of trauma can do to a person. she's seen how it drives men to madness. she doesn't want to see that happen again. )

[kobes]

That's an interesting way to look at things.
Have you found anywhere to stay yet?

[areou]

If you lived my life, it wouldn't be so interesting
Not exactly planning on leaving the barracks
They'd probably frown on it, too, considering I joined up

[sophos]

Don't make me talk to Apollo about it sometime instead.

[sonofacesius]

I mean. Email exists? We have email. The world has email. I just don't have email.

It's complicated.
Okay maybe not that complicated.

If I use the internet back home, I'll get eaten by monsters. Is this an internet thing? Why are we even talking about this?

I'm 16. And no, sadly, the god thing is not metaphorical. If it was my life would be so much easier.

[kobes]

No, maybe not. Still, you seem to be enjoying yourself all the same.

[The network doesn't really communicate just how flat Koby's tone is re: this.]

You did already? What's it like?

[areou]

Please, you wouldn't dare
I'm much less annoying

( hmm. debatable. )

[areou]

I was born for shit like this
Almost reminds me of home, only with more weird ren faire nonsense

( as if her life wasn't already practically a ren faire. you lived in the woods and dressed up in ancient armor with a bunch of medieval weapons, clarisse. )

Honestly, it's exactly what you'd expect from the military
Strict routine, no privacy
It's familiar

[monomachy]

[she has a visceral reaction to hearing amazons referred to as "daughters of ares," but stops herself from saying anything. she knows that ares isn't the same in every world.]

In my world, Amazons were created by Zeus and Aphrodite, raised from the sea when the world was new. But I was crafted by Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and Zeus breathed life into me long after that.

I am saddened to hear that. But I suspect something similar may be true in my own world. When I left the island, the world outside was much different from the stories I learned as a child.

[divinityfrompain]

I'm afraid we really don't understand the gods well enough ourselves to guess what they're capable of, but the emojis and memes really speak to him being connected to a modern earth of some kind. I'm going to assume they can do anything and go backward from there, so there's no underestimating happening.

Hey it's okay, there are no stupid questions or thoughts here, we're all just trying to guess shit at this point. Being new doesn't mean you know less. We don't know diddly squat at the moment.

Yes, he already is in the Horizon. The gods can mess with it, they have access to it. And it's likely they have their own, it is speculated that there were these large bizarre spaces people were trapped in before when in the Horizon, and now people think those were god domains.

[itookashot]

Ask them, they might have one. I'm pretty sure they're supposed to gear you guys up if you work for them.

[divasmio]

Things once familiar
From a diff'rent perspective
Become something new

[divasmio]

[ His eyebrows go up as he reads the text, and he smiles. This... could be nice, actually. Someone else who has been both and understands.

Well, someone who wasn't Dionysus, who would probably be a dick about it if Apollo tried to talk to him about it. ]

I'd be happy to. Where do you live, Julia? Maybe we can arrange something.

Re: Private

[divasmio]

[ Worry suddenly grips Apollo's heart as he rethinks what he said. Had he been too harsh? Was he already sliding down that slippery slope to abuse? ]

I'm sorry. Was that too much? I don't want to hurt you.

[areou]

( blocked. reported. banned. )

Never speak to me again

[areou]

I'll look into it
I'm guessing most people don't join up if you've got a whole welcome squad

[divinityfrompain]

I'm in Solvunn. I assume you're not otherwise we would have already bumped into each other, it's a small community. When you are able to access the Horizon let me know. You'll need someone who has already done it to show you because you lose your memory the first time you go in, but after that it all evens out.

Thanks, though? For being cool about it.

[itookashot]

Nope, I'd say like 90% of people end up in town. Not a lot of military folks show up. You should keep a look out for Jane Shepard, she's space military at her home and she's pretty great. You two might get along. Her boyfriend is also space military of some kind, he's a Turian which is a kind of alien that is very hard to miss.