My plan for the contacting the Egyptians was mainly hijacking Luke's canon quest by faking prophetic dreams so that we could use camp supplies and official permission to travel to either the first nome in Cairo, Egypt or depending on when we do the quest there's also the twenty-first nome in Brooklyn.
Didn't know that the norse were dead but don't they have some way of interacting with the living, I remember vaguely Magnus talking to his cousin and being trained by Percy.
My plan for the contacting the Egyptians was mainly hijacking Luke's canon quest by faking prophetic dreams so that we could use camp supplies and official permission to travel to either the first nome in Cairo, Egypt or depending on when we do the quest there's also the twenty-first nome in Brooklyn.
Didn't know that the norse were dead but don't they have some way of interacting with the living, I remember vaguely Magnus talking to his cousin and being trained by Percy.
But I'm pretty sure that Luke got his quest from his dad and it was meant to be a sign that he cares even if they couldn't interact like a normal family, how would we be able to get that? Also faking a Prophecy is kinda hard since Demeter doesn't really have anything to with visions and The normal Prophecy method is kinda obvious. We wouldn't be allowed to travel to Cairo since Theres a sea full of monsters between it and the US but most non Greek Pantheons stay in different Dimensions and to help avoid monster attacks. also Brooklyn is pretty big its pretty hard to find a place without a address.
To come back to Earth they'd need help from a Valkyrie but most don't since the Norse don't really have Quests outside of Train for Ragnarok and Find people who died Valiantly to train for Ragnarok. And While Magnus is Annabeths Cousin hes kinda Homeless in Boston and doesn't meet Percy until at least after the first book.
[X][Blossom] Approach her
-[X][Blossom] Try and befriend her like a normal classmate
[X][Preparation] Practice imbuing plants with qualities they shouldn't have and sometimes qualities that shouldn't exist.
[X][Preparation] Have your dad teach you how to survive on your own. Not just in the wilderness, but in cities too.
[X][Preparation] Train your Chlorokinesis
You find time later in the week to approach Blossom. It's not terribly hard to find her alone as you actually haven't seen her with anyone else for the whole week you've been stalking observing her.
She grimaces as you approach her, "You're the new kid, right?" You nod. "Come to ask how I got these?" she points at her foot, sounding bitter. "Who put you up to this? Was it Cindy? Karen?" You'd be a middle-school bully too if your parents named you Karen.
You look up at her face and strikes you for the first time, even though you've been trying to find time to approach her for a week. Blossom is pretty, like comic book pretty. She's the kind of kid that gets picked to star in the female lead's tragic back story as the young female lead. She has red hair and large, expressive green eyes on her oval-shaped face. Her high cheekbones lead into a smooth jawline that has hints of baby fat still on it.
"Uh… no?"
"You can tell me who it was. I won't tell them you told me."
"I uh, I don't know who those people are."
She examines your face. "Wait, really?" You nod again. "Ugh, sorry. I'm Blossom, it's nice to meet you."
"I'm Sam. Is that how you greet everybody?" You wince internally right after you say that.
"No, it's just… Ugh. Surely you know what it's like to be an outcast, what with your genius and all."
"I never stayed in a single class long enough to really know."
"What? How?"
"I completed 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade last year."
"Oh." You didn't intend for that to come across as braggadocious as it did.
"So… Uh…" you trail off awkwardly, trying to find a topic that doesn't involve her social status or her crippled legs.
"You know, I don't really mind talking about them, my legs that is. It's just that Cindy and Karen have been commenting on them lately, and I thought you were their patsy or something."
"Oh, umm, sorry."
"It's ok. It's not your fault. I'll explain, to clear the air. When I was 4, my dad got in a car wreck. My mom died, and I broke both my legs. They never healed quite right."
How do you even respond to that, "I… uh… I'm sorry for your loss?" it comes out as more of a question than condolence.
"Also not your fault. So what's it like, being a genius and all, that is?"
You grin, "It's fun."
"Fun? Didn't you just say you never stayed in any grade long enough to get to know anybody?"
"I mean, it's kind of hard to relate to people my age when I'm so much smarter than them. Plus, I get all the perks, and the teachers love me."
As it turns out, Cindy and Karen are bullying Blossom, and they've organized a whole ring of girls to do it with, from what you can tell through stalking your observational skills. You tried asking someone about it, but they denied that it was happening, and you were unsure what to do about that. The bullying was mainly verbal, with the girls loudly whispering about how Blossom was "broken" or "a cripple" with fake pity. That was sometimes followed up with a confrontation with Cindy and/or Karen wherein they would tell her to "just go die."
If you had to attribute a motivation for this, it would probably be jealousy. Cindy and Karen were the social ringleaders and the most attractive girls in their grade, barring Blossom. Of course, it's actually probably because 11-year-olds are malicious little shits. And yes, you are aware of the irony of saying that when you're not even eight yet.
Of course, when you started hanging out with Blossom, there were subtle 'warnings' that you shouldn't. Then they moved on to the bullying, calling you a "freak of nature," "a weirdo," and "a midget." Truly, middle school insults left a lot to be desired.
Some people might have stood up to them, and insulted them back. Those Gryffindors can kiss your Slytherin ass. You turned on the waterworks and went straight to the nearest teacher. The look on their faces when they got detention twice a week for a whole month was priceless, like they'd sucked on a lemon, your dad would probably say.
Your friendship with Blossom took off quite quickly. The cynical part of your mind told you that it was because neither of you had any other friends. The optimist in you told you to enjoy it.
Blossom was… not the best academically, and you spent quite a bit of your time tutoring her. Then there were the offhand comments she'd make about her home life. She'd always change the subject whenever you tried to press for details. You let her because you could tell it was a sore subject for her.
"So, Algebra?"
"Yeah, I can't figure out why they started putting letters in math. It's stupid and it makes no sense," Blossom pouted. You weren't old enough to have hormones, but if you did you were certain they'd be going into overdrive.
You set about teaching her the wonders of solving for x.
"Thanks for the help. I'm glad I got this down now since it'd be a lot harder to focus at home."
"Mmm?" you try not to sound interested.
"It's nothing. I've got to go home now. Meet up later, by the park, north-side?"
"Sure."
Surprisingly, the topic of her disability doesn't come up often. She seems used to it and doesn't require help moving around or navigating with her crutches. She also doesn't really seem to want to talk about it, though she seems more willing to speak about her legs than her home life.
You continued to practice your chlorokinesis at home and occasionally at the park with your dad. The survival training continued whenever he had time to train you, though you did notice that you spent all of your time learning how to survive in the wilderness.
"What if I ever need to survive on my own in a city?"
"Well Sam, in a city, shelter is much easier to find, though food can be a bit more difficult. The biggest difference is that the dangers of a city are different, though I'm not sure how that works for you," he says, referring to your demigod heritage.
"What do you think I should do about food?"
"You've been practicing growing plants a lot, right? Take some seeds and grow them in any patch of dirt you can find. You won't get the best food, but it'll be food nonetheless."
You also spent some time practicing your new power. Well, learning it. You definitely theorized that you should be able to imbue plants with abilities that they should not have, but it was one thing to think it was possible and another entirely to actually pull it off. You ran into your first roadblock when you were staring at a common dandelion, wondering what sort of quality you should imbue into the flower. Your first thought is to turn into a tree, like some sort of Hashirama Senju reject, but that doesn't seem quite right. For one 'Tree-like' isn't a specific enough quality to imbue, and for another, shouldn't you try something that doesn't normally occur in plants.
[][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of suppression. It certainly won't suppress anything significant, but it might make your opponent weaker
[][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of durability. That way it will be harder for you enemies to break free from them.
[][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of nutrition. You won't need to find too many edible plants if you ever need to forage for food.
[][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of speed. The plant will certainly respond to your commands more quickly, and may even grow faster.
You think your dad was glad that you had made at least one friend, and you even ended up inviting her over for Christmas Eve dinner at the end of the first half of your year. You were done with sixth grade and were now moving onwards to seventh in the spring.
"So," your dad begins, "What do you normally do in the way of Christmas traditions?" he asks Blossom.
Blossom looks like she's about to change the subject, but something gives, "We don't have any."
"No?" your dad can tell that something's off.
"My dad hasn't been the same since mom died. I think he blames himself for her death, and for me becoming like this," She motions to her legs.
Your dad looks slightly dumbstruck, probably matching you, but Blossom isn't done pouring out her emotions, and pour they do, coming out with her whole life's story along with them. She wraps her arms around herself. "He… he never even looks at me anymore, and he's always drunk. I taught myself how to cook because I got bored of eating the same thing and now he doesn't even bother coming into the kitchen. I can't take it anymore!"
Stunned silence follows.
"I'm sorry… for ruining your Christmas eve" she mumbles.
Your dad hugs her gingerly, "It's ok," his face contorts. You can tell he's angry, but not at Blossom. "If you ever need anything, you can tell Sam and I'll be happy to help, ok."
Your seventh-grade half-year is only notable because you now share classes with Blossom. Her bullies have backed off somewhat since you started hanging out around her. After all, the teachers are basically all on your side. Being a genius comes with perks after all.
There is one thing that's bothering you though. Blossom has another friend. Normally, you'd say that it was great, or at least you hope you would, but said new friend, who apparently bonded over their shared leg problems and is an eighth-grader seems to always leave just before you show up.
You suspect he's a satyr, but if he is, then why is he avoiding you? Or maybe he's just an ordinary kid with leg problems. You still feel faintly embarrassed in your own mind when you think that your only friend was made because you thought she was a satyress. Also, she seemed to be certain that her new friend, Trent, wasn't avoiding you. The brown-haired boy did always seem to coincidentally leave before you could start talking to Blossom though.
There's also the matter of the zombies. They haven't stopped watching you, but they also haven't attacked you for almost a year now.
There was also your eighth birthday, which was a small affair between you, your dad, and Blossom, and Blossom's thirteenth birthday, which was largely the same. Also, you're pretty sure your dad ended up giving Blossom the puberty talk. You don't know how to feel about that.
All in all, it was pretty normal, except that on the last day of school, you saw Blossom and Trent go to a bus station. Which was odd, because Blossom always walked home. Your first thought was that he was manipulating her somehow, but that seemed too ridiculous. Instead, you walk up to them like a normal person.
"Hey, where are you all headed?"
"Oh, Trent works at this summer camp and he wanted to give me a tour!" Blossom says excitedly.
Ok, now you're starting to get suspicious that these two are both utterly mundane and some cosmic force is just fucking with you.
"I can probably fit in an extra if you want to come?" Trent suggests. You could probably shoot off a quick call to your dad, but who knows what will happen on the way there. Trips to Camp Half-blood usually turn out to be quite dangerous, from your limited sample set. It could also be an utterly mundane summer camp, which would be boring.
[][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know
[][Trent] Decline ("Maybe some other time")
[][Trent] Write-in.
Over the course of one year, you have gained 15 EXP Points in Survival, 15 EXP Points in Chlorokinesis, 10 EXP Points in the Concept of Growth, 5 EXP Points in Social, and 5 EXP points in Gardening.
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Votes for the next chapter:
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of suppression. It certainly won't suppress anything significant, but it might make your opponent weaker
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of speed. The plant will certainly respond to your commands more quickly, and may even grow faster
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
UGH, I'm so conflicted about the Camp! On one hand, our friend is apparently going? Could spend time there, train and such. Plus, be there and support our friend! On the other hand, independence! Staying with our dad! Not going to camp so young!
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
So yeah both look to be fairly supernatural themselves but ive been wrong before so we'll see i guess.
May we try imbuing it with other concepts? Maybe 'Fortune' or 'Fate' would be too much, but 'Foresight' to make tea-leaf fortune telling possible might work.
Im not sure i understand this argument for cons of going.
independence? if you mean making it entirely on our own then i mean i guess that could be a path but we'd miss out on a whole lot for it.
The camp's not gonna force us to leave dad permenantly and itd probably be a weight off his shoulders knowing that we have a safe place to go if need be/during breaks if need be.
also yeah i just straight dont see why going a bit young is an issue, it helps establish ourself there better if anything.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
-[X] Be on guard. Something about this doesnt feel right. A sudden summer camp out of nowhere and a friend of yours, on whom your scent may have rubbed off? Yeah, you are sticking close just to be safe.
EDIT: If we can write in an aspect to imbue then lets amplify a dandilion's natural attributes. Dandilions carry a natural toxin (like most plants) that is in such a low dose it cannot effect humans unless they eat more than enough to make their stomach burst.
That toxin is why dandilion greens are so bitter.
Lets amplify that innate toxicity to a level it is actually dangerous.
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
So our friend is a child of aphrodite, wonder if her mom will decorate her crutches when she claims her also she probably won't be happy about the whole faking death thing.
Part of the reason Luke was so quick to jump gun and join Kronos was due to that quest and his subsequent failure, i'm hoping that by faking prophetic dreams (which is a thing that's happened in the books to demigods and even humans sometimes) we could set in stage some sort of quest to take Luke on before his father sets up his canon one so he doesn't decide to support Kronos.
As for the Egyptians, assuming we remember the books we could always follow the path they took to get to the nome which we should be able to see as it's a mansion on top of a warehouse on the east shore, up the East River, past the Williamsburg Bridge. Optionally we could just go to their school which canonically several half blood children also go to.
When we're high level enough at the Concept of Growth could we grow a plant with healing potential and then make it into a potion. Or grow one with the concept of Vision to give Dad Clear sightedness?
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
So our friend is a child of aphrodite, wonder if her mom will decorate her crutches when she claims her also she probably won't be happy about the whole faking death thing.
Part of the reason Luke was so quick to jump gun and join Kronos was due to that quest and his subsequent failure, i'm hoping that by faking prophetic dreams (which is a thing that's happened in the books to demigods and even humans sometimes) we could set in stage some sort of quest to take Luke on before his father sets up his canon one so he doesn't decide to support Kronos.
As for the Egyptians, assuming we remember the books we could always follow the path they took to get to the nome which we should be able to see as it's a mansion on top of a warehouse on the east shore, up the East River, past the Williamsburg Bridge. Optionally we could just go to their school which canonically several half blood children also go to.
Honestly unless the qm says otherwise I don't think we can change Luke's destiny The Riordanverse is pretty fatalistic and the great prophecy was predicted before our time.
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
[X[Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of durability. That way it will be harder for you enemies to break free from them.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
I'm not actually expecting to change things in a larger scale with my plan, my main hope is that Kronos would be forced to find a different host or set back his plans.
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of durability. That way it will be harder for you enemies to break free from them.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
Honestly unless the qm says otherwise I don't think we can change Luke's destiny The Riordanverse is pretty fatalistic and the great prophecy was predicted before our time.
Why is everyone so grim and fatalistic about our chances? Sure things happened a certain way in canon and might still happen if we choose not to take an active part in Percy's life. But do we want that? To rehash canon, except add one more character? To look from the outside in? And who even knows if the prophecy hasn't changed with us just existing? It's possible.
Like let's trust the QM to tell a good story. We've not been disappointed so far or at least I'm not.
[X][Imbue] Imbue the plant with the concept of piercing, since you want to stab things with your plants.
[X][Trent] Accept (call your dad and let him know)
