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

[righteously]

What do you mean chill? I am chill.

And trust me, if he were here, he would absolutely not be one of us. He'd probably try to roast you for the comparison.

[divinityfrompain]

Your vibe is not chill. If Zeus is related to them, maybe they don't want to hear about how you shanked a version of him.

If you mean one of us like the Summoned Friendship is Magic, sure, but he'd be limited to the rules of this world like everyone else. None of us have been able to affect this world to the level of these storms. Which is for the best, because drama.

[righteously]

I didn't shank him, and I didn't plan on talking about it.

You're jumping to an awful lot of conclusions, here, Jules.

[divinityfrompain]

Alright, fine, I am, sorry.

I don't want to freak them out, they're new.

[righteously]

They're demigods. I think their threshold for freaking out is probably a little higher than your average Joe.

But I get it.
Good lookin out.

[divinityfrompain]

A lot of us have a higher threshold than most, it's still a sucky situation, especially in the start.

Good looking out on you too.

[unwings]

They're also teenagers.

[ he knows dean is actually chill, but he thinks of claire, and how human youths go from 0 to stabbing at an alarming speed. ]

[righteously]

They didn't exactly announce that part when this conversation started.

( He only figured that out several minutes after this part, a few threads over. )

[demigoth]

How exactly did you not shank him?

Don’t worry. I’m not Zeus’ kid.

[righteously]

It's a long story, and probably not one I should be spilling in front of everybody and their brother.

When you say kid
How old are you?

[demigoth]

They don't HAVE to read it.

Almost 16. Why?

[righteously]

Jesus Christ, are ALL of you teenagers?!

[demigoth]

I'm doing my best to live to see 18. Who asks questions like that?

[righteously]

A concerned citizen that's used to seeing demigods between the ages of 25 and 900.

[demigoth]

I live at a summer camp. Not a lot of adults.

[righteously]

Aren't summer camps supposed to have like... staff and chaperones and stuff?

Also, who just LIVES at camp??

[demigoth]

That would be Chiron and Dionysus. But we outnumber them by the dozens, so they have harpies to enforce curfew and stuff.

Most of the campers go home for the school years. There’s less than two dozen of us year round.

[righteously]

Two adults does not sound like enough adults. I think I'm starting to get the picture here and it ain't a pretty one.

[demigoth]

Two adults is fine. Everyone’s fed and clothed and trained. The camp makes a lot of money from the strawberry fields. I don’t see the big deal.

[righteously]

I don't know how to explain this in a way that's not gonna sound like some random douchebag commenting on your life, so I'm gonna keep my mouth shut other than to say: somebody dropped the ball, and it wasn't you kids. That's all.

[areou]

It's not safe for us in the mortal world
Monsters can and will find us as soon as we step foot outside the magical border that protects camp
And they're always hungry
For a lot of us, there's no other choice but to stay year round and train

[righteously]

This monster problem, is that gonna be a thing here? Are you guys monster bait everywhere, or just back in the homeland? Have you tried stepping out of the city or the barracks to test it yet?

And just- for the record, before you say anything, I'm not trying to be a rando stranger getting all up in your business.
Hunting monsters is my actual job, like, for money. It's relevant. If this is gonna be a thing, I'm gonna have to prep for it.

[areou]

Oh, it's still a problem, and with a Hades kid? Gonna be even worse
But you should see the other guys

( by the other guys she means the giant hyena things she got ambushed by when she stepped two feet into the badlands that nearly bit her leg off. definitely still monster bait. )

Not sure how it affects mortals here, though
Back home monsters just ignore them
There's this whole thing called The Mist... I don't think it exists here

[righteously]

Great.
I take it you know how to fight, how about the rest of your friends?

The monsters here don't differentiate. If they're sniffing around for you, they're gonna be a problem for everyone, probably. The further you venture into the desert, the bigger they get. Do me a favor and don't go out there alone, okay, we're talking carnivore worms big enough to eat houses. It's nothing to screw around with if you're not familiar with them.

Tell me about The Mist.

[seaweedbrain]

You get paid for hunting monsters? That's an actual thing?

Man, all we get for doing it is knowing we survived another day. Maybe the occasional, 'good job on not dying yet but maybe next time' closing remark.

Who's paying you?