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| [The video turns on a bit by accident. If anyone asks, she'll blame the mechanical dog or Leo.
Anyway, it shows her looking very intently at a polished, bronze knife. The blade part specifically. Piper frowns as she looks at it, eyebrows creasing together in mingled frustration and concentration. Eventually, she sighs and sheaths her dagger, looking slightly miffed. She glances over, notices that the SFC is recording, and hesitates. Tell people she has a magic knife or let them think that she's insane?
Considering everyone else seems to have some sort of magic weapon or whatever, Piper decides to go ahead and spill.]
So, my knife, Katoptris? It can show me things, like people and places, sometimes the future. I can kind of control what I want to see, but if it's visions of the future, then the dagger just chooses whenever and whatever it wants to show me.
[She rolls her eyes briefly in annoyance.]
Anyway, I thought I'd try looking for some things. A lot of it didn't work, but I thought I'd try regardless. It hasn't shown me anything from the future the last few times I've looked at it, but that's probably because of some interference of Vatheon's or something. |
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| [Afternoon, Vatheon. Night is here, although he isn't looking very cheery right now. In fact he actually looks somewhat... ill?]
Does anyone know how to cut hair? I think I'm due for a trim... [Tucking back some bangs, the rest of his hair in a very small ponytail at the base of his neck. A groan escapes him as he runs a hand over his face.]
Ugh... It feels like a truck just headbutted my stomach. That can't be normal, right?
[No. It isn't.] |
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| So. Woke up this morning to a couple of things. Good news, I'm back in my own body.
[As is probably obvious to everyone when they see his face, which looks too sad for this post to be about the curse being over.]
Bad news, Percy and Annabeth are both gone. Checked the list and everything.
[He pauses to sigh and looks away from the camera for a moment.]
Gotta remind myself that at least they've got each other this time.
[He reaches his hand out to turn off the SFC, his hand blocking the camera as he says one last thing.]
I just wish them being gone didn't mean they're free-falling into Tartarus. |
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| [The last thing Percy remembered was taking a really hard fall. A hard that should have ended in darkness and death, but most certainly not anywhere close to any source of water. Lave and instant death, sure, but not this. Or to some weird communicator and a brochure. If anything, this was the nicest welcoming committee he'd seen and that didn't make him any less anxious.
He'd tried reading the brochure. He got some parts of it, but his mind was too wired to make any more sense of it than "Hi,welcome to an underwater city! You're stuck here, have fun."On normal occasions this would be cool, but it's not a normal occasion.
So instead he looks less like his usual troublemaking self and more confused when the Starfish Communicator finds its way on. His ida was get answers real fast and then abandon it, but well...]
Um, yeah. Hi there.
So you'd think I'd be used to this whole being kidnapped thing by now, but just for the questions of one confused kid is there any not text version of this thing. [He means the pamphlet.] Maybe a welcome video? One of these days I'll totally have earned a welcome video--
[A brief pause as he considers before speaking more firmly and less jokingly.] Is there any way to find out who's here? I like playing marco polo, but this important.
--And what are we supposed to be doing here? Admiring the view? I mean it's pretty great, but normally you don't just appear places for no reason. That's normally how it goes.
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| [ Annabeth doesn't usually cry as a rule. Demigods don't have easy lives and most emotions can be rationalised away with the motivation of 'getting on with things'. But for some reason, this time whenever she thinks she's stopped crying somehow more tears come. It's not just that he's gone... it's also what he's gone back to.
 She sits and stares at the jellies outside the bubble until she's sure she can make this video post without crying. Drawing her coat more tightly around her - Hades, it's cold lately! - she shivers and turns on her SFC for the first time since Percy had left. ]So, I don't know how many of you knew Percy Jackson, my boyfriend, but he's gone. Just thought I'd do the courteous thing and let everyone know. [ She wipes quickly at one eye but manages to hold off tears. ]
[ooc: This is a network and action post! Feel free to respond either by SFC or with awkward cuddle curse actions out by the jellies. ] |
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| [Piper is not a happy camper, pardon the pun. It's true, though! It hasn't been a good day and she's really not looking forward to being in a totally new place all of a sudden. She's also soaked, and she's so done with water it's not even funny.]
So...the pamphlet I got is really, uh, nice, but it didn't really say how people got here. Did I miss something while I was reading it?
[Please say Piper just missed something on the pamphlet, she doesn't want to be stuck here while in the middle of an important quest.]
It also said something about there being no exit or something like that? Is that just some sort of joke or typo?
[Or maybe Leo somehow managed to perfect virtual reality and she's suddenly been sucked into Festus' mainframe. Piper wouldn't be surprised. The life of a demigod always takes weird turns.] |
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