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]

So you're back to being a regular dumbass, that's comforting

What's the last thing you do remember?

( she missed will's messages about tartarus and, frankly, that's the last thing she wants to assume. )

[seaweedbrain]

[ uM RUDE 😒 ]

Hmm let's see ... the cries and screams of the eternally damned?

The acidic smoke in our lungs? And nearly getting crushed to death by so many of our old pals? Monster hugs are 0/10, do not recommend.

[areou]

( it takes a long moment for her to respond, almost as if she hadn't seen the message at first. but she saw it, alright. and now she's trying not to think about all the horrible shit they must have been through. percy's good at making light of it, but she knows him better than that, knows there's a lot he must be holding back (she'd been the same way after the labyrinth, which, compared to tartarus, may as well have been a pleasure cruise). she won't push him about any of it right now. the network is definitely not the place to have that kind of conversation. there's an itch under her skin that makes her want to barrel through the badlands to get to thorne the hard way. it would probably be suicide — but she's not annabeth. her ideas are usually terrible. )

Yeah, a lot's happened
How much do you want to know?

[seaweedbrain]

[ It's easier to make jokes of an experience so crappy, so hauntingly nightmarish that said 'cries and screams' can still be heard when he closes his eyes at night, every memory of watching him and Annabeth lose a part of themselves seared into his brain so that he feels like he might explode at the wrong word.

It's the kind of Pandora's pithos he'd rather keep locked up tight, and this network thing is, for sure, the last place he wants to metaphorically spill his guts. ]

Great question.

Will the time-space continuum collapse on itself if you tell me too much? I feel like I wanna know everything but maybe I shouldn't.

[areou]

( she has no idea what a time-space continuum is or what that means, so ... )

Look, if I don't tell you, you'll probably just see all this shit in a dream anyway, so would you rather hear it or see it?

( knowing how shitty demigod dreams are, she imagines he'd rather just hear it directly from her. at least she can add some levity to it all. )

[seaweedbrain]

[ Watch a movie, Clarisse!!!! ]

Good point.

But maybe we can take it to a less public place?

[ Percy Jackson? Using some semblance of good sense? Well, dating Annabeth had to rub off on him at some point. ]

private.

[areou]

( okay, where to begin. it's probably easier to give the sparknotes version, but there's still. a lot. )

Well, we won the war, for starters
You and the rest of the Seven defeated the Giants in Greece
Gaea, uh, did wake up, but only for like 5 minutes
Jason, Leo, and Piper took care of that

( should she tell him about leo? maybe it's better to leave out the part where they all thought he was dead for a hot minute. )

Reyna and Nico delivered the Athena Parthenos to camp
Octavian still tried to wreck our shit, but at some point during the battle with Gaea's forces he basically blew himself up, so, whatever, problem solved

Chiron agreed to some kind of free exchange with the Romans, so I guess they're like our sister camp now, but I've been at college since the end of the war in August and only went back to visit briefly during winter break so I can't really tell you how that's been going
Sounds like a great idea in theory, but who the fuck wants to fly all the way out to California?

Anyway, Annabeth stayed in NYC so y'all could do senior year together or whatever
But the fun doesn't end there! I hope you like doing random fucking quests for the gods, Percy
You've got a lot of that in your future if you want to get into New Rome University :)

And then, after all that, Apollo got zapped down to earth as an annoying mortal teenager as punishment from Zeus
Last I heard, Sherman was torturing him during PE at camp, but I guess he's back to being a regular god now