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

[sophos]

Most people don't know they still exist. You could probably make an argument about less belief and less power but they're tied to the West intrinsically.
Their seat of power moved around with Western Civilization. The Abrahamic religions exist too, we just don't really deal with that.

[unwings]

Fascinating. In my world, that’s how it went for them. As belief waned, so did power.

As angels, we occasionally interacted with the old pantheons, but mostly stayed out of each others’ way. I imagine it may have been more complicated if they’d retained their original power.

[sophos]

I mean, don't get me wrong. They're still powerful. They still have control over all their various domains. Giant mysterious weather patterns can usually be chalked up to a pissy god.

[ she's not naming names. zeus. ]

The Egyptian pantheon also apparently still exists, but it seems like everyone keeps to themselves where we're from too. It's probably for the best.

[unwings]

You said most people don't know. Bickering within a single pantheon often resulted in significant, easily visible consequence, how have they managed to keep the world ignorant of their presence?

I imagine territory disputes would be cataclysmic if the pantheons didn't keep to their own regions. Are the Greek gods only active in Greece?

[sophos]

The Greeks have a thing called the Mist. It keeps a lot hidden. The big squabbles usually just come across like natural phenomena and natural disasters. Typhon was released about a year ago, and most mortals thought he was just a giant, freak storm racing across the country.
They don't really want to believe. That probably helps too.

Home base is more like Manhattan base these days. They move around.