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commandertoolbelt) wrote2021-06-07 07:32 pm
commandertoolbelt) wrote2021-06-07 07:32 pm
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Well, maybe if we're lucky, [ he says with a roll of his eyes, ] it'll be the same deal and we won't have to sacrifice any more of our stash. That'd be one of the only good things about this.
Gaea's the goddess who wants me dead. [ pauses ] One of them.
[ anyway ]
Kind of unfair that even the dorm heads don't seem to know anything about what's going on in this place, isn't it? Especially when the bear didn't tell us anything useful in the first place.
[ anyway ]
Kind of unfair that even the dorm heads don't seem to know anything about what's going on in this place, isn't it? Especially when the bear didn't tell us anything useful in the first place.
Right. Lucky.
[but he sounds dry as he says that, too, going along with the joke.]
I talked to one of the dorm heads and they said they'd talk to someone about overturning her expulsion, but... They told me not to hold my breath, either, so.
[but he sounds dry as he says that, too, going along with the joke.]
I talked to one of the dorm heads and they said they'd talk to someone about overturning her expulsion, but... They told me not to hold my breath, either, so.
[after a moment:]
Uhhhh, Leo, why do multiple goddesses want you dead?!
Uhhhh, Leo, why do multiple goddesses want you dead?!
Well, I guess it's good to know that it might be possible, anyway.
[ that it will work, but you know. good to know. ]
The only ones who should be going into that stage are the ones who killed Lan Wangji. We were just - missing something.
[ that it will work, but you know. good to know. ]
The only ones who should be going into that stage are the ones who killed Lan Wangji. We were just - missing something.
[ he blinks as if surprised that that's the thing rupert is hung up on ]
Uh. Well, one hates me because she's the goddess of snow and I have the fire powers, and Gaea wants to prevent a prophecy from coming true, so...
Uh. Well, one hates me because she's the goddess of snow and I have the fire powers, and Gaea wants to prevent a prophecy from coming true, so...
[he nods.]
I'm not really an eye for an eye kind of guy, so I wouldn't have even wanted both of them to get a tie vote or anything, but - if at least one person had to be there, it should have been one of them.
I'm not really an eye for an eye kind of guy, so I wouldn't have even wanted both of them to get a tie vote or anything, but - if at least one person had to be there, it should have been one of them.
You have curse experience and prophecy experience? Speaking from experience, that is a bad combo. Was it, like, ongoing before you got here, or pretty much solved...?
It's not great! Life was way simpler before the whole demigod thing, let me tell you. I mean, technically the curses weren't all on me, but I walked into sort of a collective one?
And the Great Prophecy is still a big storm cloud looming over us. We were kind of in the middle of trying to do something about that when I got blasted here.
And the Great Prophecy is still a big storm cloud looming over us. We were kind of in the middle of trying to do something about that when I got blasted here.
I just hate to see someone innocent get put up for something like that. Like, what's even the point of trying to solve a murder if they don't care who suffers for it, anyway? I'm not going to say there shouldn't be some kind of retribution for who did it, but this isn't solving anything. We don't even know why they did it in the first place.
Wait - there was a before the demigod thing? That seems like something you'd have to be born with...
[sucking in a breath, though, sympathetic.]
Oh, it's a Great Prophecy? Somehow that sounds even more ominous.
[sucking in a breath, though, sympathetic.]
Oh, it's a Great Prophecy? Somehow that sounds even more ominous.
Yep, I just became a demigod one day In a poof of smoke! [ laughing] No, I was definitely born that way. I just didn't know until last year, and monsters don't really hunt us down until we're older. Apparently puberty is more than a just a siren call for zits for us.
And... yeah, it's kind of a big deal. Not in a good way, either, but - prophecies, man. What can you do but fulfill them and hope you live to move onto the next one?
And... yeah, it's kind of a big deal. Not in a good way, either, but - prophecies, man. What can you do but fulfill them and hope you live to move onto the next one?
Oof. Well, I'm glad you got a break from it for a while...? But I'm sorry you have to deal with the monster thing at all.
[a little laugh]
What was it? Maybe we can swap horrible prophecy stories.
[a little laugh]
What was it? Maybe we can swap horrible prophecy stories.
That is definitely a perk. The camp's good for that, too, but that doesn't help when we're out on Great Prophecy business.
"Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,
To storm or fire the world must fall.
An oath to keep with a final breath,
And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death."
...So, yeah, sunshine and rainbows!
"Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,
To storm or fire the world must fall.
An oath to keep with a final breath,
And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death."
...So, yeah, sunshine and rainbows!
Oh, yikes. That one is definitely worse than mine, so now I feel kind of weird saying it? But—
When two princes meet in the hollow upon their eighteenth year, one kingdom then will rise, and only then will the curse be broken. Uh, the curse was about some evil and possibly sentient forest that had been slowly overtaking the world for the last eighteen years.
When two princes meet in the hollow upon their eighteenth year, one kingdom then will rise, and only then will the curse be broken. Uh, the curse was about some evil and possibly sentient forest that had been slowly overtaking the world for the last eighteen years.
Hah! Maybe it is, but it's good to know they aren't all total doom and gloom? Evil forests side, of course.
So how's yours working out? If I were to guess... you and your Amir are the two princes, right?
So how's yours working out? If I were to guess... you and your Amir are the two princes, right?
Oh, yeah. We, like, just figured it out a few minutes before I got brought here, so - good timing! Or I would probably be a lot more stressed than I am right now.
Lucky break! My friends and I were just talking about what ours probably means before I got blasted off the ship, too. So I guess being here means getting some extra time to work out what to do about it when I get back.
I'm getting the idea that the person behind this doesn't exactly care about fairness. But - someone along the way should have realized this was a horrible idea and put a stop to this entire system. It's ridiculous.
Wait - blasted off the ship?
[leo..... but he gives a little shrug.]
Point of advice, then! Sometimes they aren't as ominous as they sound. Like, we had kind of been interpreting the 'one kingdom rises' part as a... conquest type thing, when it turned out to be more about unity. So maybe the part about the world falling means something else, too.
[leo..... but he gives a little shrug.]
Point of advice, then! Sometimes they aren't as ominous as they sound. Like, we had kind of been interpreting the 'one kingdom rises' part as a... conquest type thing, when it turned out to be more about unity. So maybe the part about the world falling means something else, too.
By one of those goddesses who hate me.
Making the world fall probably will be a good thing, if Pipes interpreted it right. It's the "an oath to keep with a final breath" part that I'm worried about. Because storm or fire could be either me or my friend Jason, but it's just one or the other, and the lines are still connected. So... it's not looking good for whichever one of us is left for it, you know?
Making the world fall probably will be a good thing, if Pipes interpreted it right. It's the "an oath to keep with a final breath" part that I'm worried about. Because storm or fire could be either me or my friend Jason, but it's just one or the other, and the lines are still connected. So... it's not looking good for whichever one of us is left for it, you know?
Yikes!
[yikes. but he pauses for a moment while he goes on.]
How are they interpreting it? [his expression gets a little more somber before he goes on.] ...I really hope both of you will be okay. Maybe it's not how it seems.
[yikes. but he pauses for a moment while he goes on.]
How are they interpreting it? [his expression gets a little more somber before he goes on.] ...I really hope both of you will be okay. Maybe it's not how it seems.
The way Piper explained it, one of us should be the one to take Gaea down. But if she’s right about the lines being connected, that means the one of us who doesn’t do that… will probably die to keep some oath we’ve made. We just don’t know which of us that means yet.
[a few hours after everyone has come back, rupert is looking around for leo! by this point, the bandages are gone, because his eye is actually intact again - even if it looks cloudy. the way he walks makes it seem like depth perception isn't all there, but it's fine.
when he finds him in the kitchen:]
I didn't realize you know how to cook.
when he finds him in the kitchen:]
I didn't realize you know how to cook.
[ leo pauses to watch rupert for a second, curious at the way he moves. ]
Well, surprise! Kon isn't the only one of us who can whip up something tasty. You hungry?
Well, surprise! Kon isn't the only one of us who can whip up something tasty. You hungry?
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