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

[seaweedbrain]

Um literal hell?

Sorry my daily subscription for People magazine didn't reach that far.

[sonofacesius]

Ooooooooh you just came back from Tartarus!

Bob says hi btw.

[Except he didn't. Sorry Percy.]

immediately makes this sad ✌️

[seaweedbrain]

[ Hearing — or, okay, seeing — Bob's name should bring him a little bit of joy and relief, right? To see that he's still alive somewhere, and hadn't been completely lost to the depths of Tartarus because of him ...

Except, it kinda doesn't. It still plants something sharp and painful in his chest, the guilt of having to leave him behind after everything he (and Small Bob) had done to help him and Annabeth get out. ]

Yeah, guess we didn't exactly have the time to send out a memo before winding up here.

yeaaaah sorry about that.

[sonofacesius]

[Will feels a little bad. Percy's a good guy. But...he still left Bob and Small Bob down there and Will and Nico had to go and save him. And they Percy and Annabeth had both tried to talk them out of it.]

Yeah. They don't exactly give you warning before kidnapping. But he's fine. They're both fine.

[seaweedbrain]

It's starting to get old except this time I guess I can't blame Hera.

So, you saw them?

[sonofacesius]

Nope, this time it's not Hera. Or any of the Greek Gods I think. Honestly though, I'm still not convinced someone was trying to get you or Nico and ended up grabbing me instead. I mean, you guys are here so.....they kept trying?

And yeah, I saw them. Nico and I got a quest. To....save Bob.

[seaweedbrain]

You guys got a quest?

Wait ... how much time has passed since we got out of Tartarus if you're already being sent on a quest to get Bob? Gods this is confusing.

And if it was because they were trying to get at me, I'm really sorry man. That's really unfair. But we'll figure out a way to get out of here, there's gotta be a way.

[sonofacesius]

Well Nico got a quest. And he wasn't going anywhere without me, that was for sure. So, yeah I guess we got a quest. Maybe I should let Nico tell you the rest.....

But, it's been about a year I think? 6 months with Apollo, a couple months at Camp after since Rachel went on repeat. The wars over by the way, you guys do great.

And thanks. I'm sure we'll figure it out. Especially now that you're here.

Also just to be clear. The flooding. That's not you right?

[seaweedbrain]

I think I offended him kinda bad, not sure he'll be super willing to share stories any time soon. (Sorry buddy! Really!)

But how has it been a year? We just got out ...

[ He isn't even sure how to take 'the war's over by the way, you guys do great' as anything but ... well. It's not a joke, that much is sure. Will Solace, or anyone at Camp really, doesn't strike him as the kind of guy who would make jokes of something this serious.

So is it really true? Percy takes that nugget of information, nudges Annabeth's side to make sure she's seen it too, and files it away for now. ]

Yeah, whatever I can do to help, consider me automatically signed up.

And no. [ Even through writing, it could be construed as a pout. ] Not that I would even if I could but it hasn't been a full week yet ... I still can't hear the horses, and my sandals get wet just like anyone else's.

[sonofacesius]

It's Nico, you know he just gets grumpy. You guys are good friends. I'm sure whatever you did, it'll be fine.

Wait, what did you do?

My guess? Someone like Kronos is messing with time or something. Either your from the past or I'm from the future. Either way, I guess no one at camp's been missing me because I'm not really gone. As far as I knew Percy, you've been. At camp. And home. And at school. Annabeth can probably come up with something a little stronger than that theory though.

We're figure it out, right?

[seaweedbrain]

Uh, I guess call him out again over this network in genuine surprise about his relationship status?

Well, we'd been gone for a while (the Underworld does that) but last I remember, you were where you always were at Camp. No one except the people on quests were gone, so there's gotta be some kind of time mess-up going on here.

I really really hope it's got nothing to do with Kronos or Kronos 2.0 or Kronos 3.0.

But you're right, Will. Whatever happens, we'll figure it out.

Private

[sonofacesius]

Oh. Yeah. That would do it. He'll get over it. Really. Just. Be supportive of him. Not overly supportive Percy. He doesn't need a 'congrats on coming out' shirt or balloon or something.

He probably just didn't anticipate having to have that conversation again with you. In public. Where everyone could hear. You know Nico. He's so talkative.

private (with continued effort) ;

[seaweedbrain]

Canceling my Party City order as we speak.

Yeah, I feel bad about coming in here yelling about it. I had no idea how this thing worked only that it was the first thing I thought. Annabeth just showed me how to focus on this thing to block everyone else out.

Guess this is kinda what mortal social media is like, huh? I gotta say, I don't think I miss it.

And for the record, Will? I'm happy for you guys. Seriously.

[sonofacesius]

I've been here for months and I still don't really understand how this thing works either. If this really is close to mortal social media? It kind of bites?

And thanks Percy. You're a good guy.