I wonder if it's clear what fandom you all are in. I think there's enough information in this chapter to confirm some theories while removing others, and I think that you could guess it just from what's known so far, but then again, I have a different perspective, being the author and all. I'd love to hear your guesses.
It was pretty obvious the moment you mentioned the ADHD.
[X][Precocious] Be the mute child. Don't reveal your intelligence by never ever speaking
[X][Occupation] Park Ranger
[X][Name] Samuel Woods
[X][Friends] You had many friends as a child.
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
Kinda disappointed that "zoologist" isn't a popular pick.
As for precocious and oddities, a gregarious mute seems like a pretty interesting character—though I wouldn't mind other combos.
[X][Precocious] Don't bother hiding your intellect. You'll be the smartest baby around.
[X][Occupation] Park Ranger
[X][Name] Samuel Woods
[X][Friends] You were friends with the plants.
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
[X][Precocious] Don't bother hiding your intellect. You'll be the smartest baby around.
[X][Occupation] Park Ranger
[X][Name] Samuel Woods
[X][Friends] You were friends with the plants.
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
[X][Precocious] Be the mute child. Don't reveal your intelligence by never ever speaking
[X][Occupation] Park Ranger
[X][Name] Rafael Reyes
[X][Friends] You had many friends as a child.
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
[X][Precocious] Pretend to be a normal baby by holding back on revealing your ability to speak to your parent. You won't be exactly average, but you can hopefully get close enough to not arouse suspicion.
[X][Occupation] Farmer
[X][Name] Rafael Reyes
[X][Friends] You had many friends as a child
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
@Monk Penguin you said that the Mc will be aware of what world his, in that case, I just want to know did he read all the books and by that I mean did he also read the Kane Chronicles and Magnus Chase books or just watched the movie?
p.s will we for the most part focus on the Greek aspects or will we maybe interact with Roman, Egyptian, and Norse mythology
p.s.s can we do alchemy with plants to make potions or what Ueki from Law of Ueki did with plants?
p.s.s.s what Gods or Goddess would we have gotten if we choose different Concept?
[X][Precocious] Don't bother hiding your intellect. You'll be the smartest baby around.
[X][Occupation] Environmental Scientist
[X][Name] Owen Solus
[X][Friends] You were friends with the plants.
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
[X][Precocious] Don't bother hiding your intellect. You'll be the smartest baby around.
[X][Occupation] Park Ranger
[X][Name] Samuel Woods
[X][Friends] You were friends with the plants.
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
[X][Precocious] Pretend to be a normal baby by holding back on revealing your ability to speak to your parent. You won't be exactly average, but you can hopefully get close enough to not arouse suspicion.
[X][Occupation] Park Ranger
[X][Name] Samuel Woods
[X][Friends] You had many friends as a child.
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
So here's the first chapter of my newest quest. Do you have any ideas about the fandom you're in? It's not Worm, and to give you another hint, it's not one that I've seen a quest for before (not to say one doesn't exist, simply that I haven't seen it yet and I read a lot of quests).
Anyway, here's the fourth quest. I'll probably do some shorter daily updates until you make it out of the intro stage, at which point it will fall in line with the 2 quests a day schedule which I have yet to make.
Originally, I was going to make this a Worm Quest, that was, essentially, a Taylor Alt-Power where she got her powers during summer camp, inspired by Falling Forever (Which you should read). This, though, gives me a bit of space to write something other than Worm.
There is a 'hand-wavey' PJO quest on fiction.live called "Greek Demigod Survival Quest" by fabledranger, sfw, follows an OC by the name of Wade (son of Thalia, the Muse of the sciences). The setting initially takes place in a timey-whimy-haze of events that are around the time Thalia Grace is running to Halfblood Hill. Oh, it's also a long quest.
Yeah, I considered leaving it until next chapter to space them out a bit, but I got impatient. That and I thought that the single parent/powers/dyslexia combo would give it away. IIRC dyslexia is much less commonly written about than adhd.
@Monk Penguin you said that the Mc will be aware of what world his, in that case, I just want to know did he read all the books and by that I mean did he also read the Kane Chronicles and Magnus Chase books or just watched the movie?
The idea would be that he's read all the books, though how long it's been since he has is unclear, and he's also spent three years in universe not knowing which universe he's in, so he wasn't specifically keeping tabs on the information. Of course, it all really depends on how much people are willing to roleplay.
p.s will we for the most part focus on the Greek aspects or will we maybe interact with Roman, Egyptian, and Norse mythology
Personally, I've only read Percy Jackson and the Olympians (and seen the movies) and The Heroes of Olympus, so the story will focus mainly on Greek aspects at first, and then possibly Roman aspects later.
p.s.s can we do alchemy with plants to make potions or what Ueki from Law of Ueki did with plants?
You can grow magical plants, but you are not innately talented in alchemy. That's Hecate's domain. That doesn't mean you can't learn, but you'll struggle.
p.s.s.s what Gods or Goddess would we have gotten if we choose different Concept?
There were a couple of duplicate options, like Wisdom and Strategy both being Athena, or Growth and Fertility both being Demeter. In either case I would have emphasized that aspect more when crafting your demigod abilities and ???? ?????? ???? from ???? ???? ??????. Of the available gods, I think I only had the twenty Camp Half-blood cabins (Post Last Olympian) Minus the non-procreating goddesses and the big 3. From there I'm sure you can guess most of them. I'm happy to clear up any specific ones you have questions about
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[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
[X][Precocious] Pretend to be a normal baby by holding back on revealing your ability to speak to your parent. You won't be exactly average, but you can hopefully get close enough to not arouse suspicion.
Im fairly sure thats almost exactly how the demeter kids helped during the last book. Just a mix of chlorokinesis and magical plants allowing them to basically close off one of the major tunnels cause it was so bad to actually get though.
There were a couple of duplicate options, like Wisdom and Strategy both being Athena, or Growth and Fertility both being Demeter. In either case I would have emphasized that aspect more when crafting your demigod abilities and ???? ?????? ???? from ???? ???? ??????. Of the available gods, I think I only had the twenty Camp Half-blood cabins (Post Last Olympian) Minus the non-procreating goddesses and the big 3. From there I'm sure you can guess most of them. I'm happy to clear up any specific ones you have questions about
[X][Precocious] Don't bother hiding your intellect. You'll be the smartest baby around.
[X][Occupation] Park Ranger
[X][Name] Samuel Woods
[X][Friends] You were friends with the plants.
[X][Oddities] Try and draw your dad's attention to the oddities surrounding you.
When you were three, you threw away all pretense of being a normal child and started speaking in full grammatically correct sentences. If your dad was surprised by your sudden eloquence, he did a good job of hiding it, though it was much easier to get a reaction from your minders, the various high-school-age girls that lived in the same neighborhood as you and needed the money from babysitting. With your new power of speaking in an understandable fashion, you were able to glean much more information about your surroundings.
Currently, you live in Syosset, New York, and are slated to start going to Tobay Day School for Pre-K. You don't actually remember what pre-kindergarten was like, hell you hardly remember kindergarten, but it does give you the opportunity to interact with other children your age.
On the day when you should be going to your first day of school, you make sure you look your best in the mirror. You feel slightly pathetic at being so excited, but you yearn for the intellectual stimulation of your peers. Talking with your dad is great, but no matter how smart you appear to be, your babysitters always insist on treating you like your age, which is awful for you.
You are Samuel Woods, you have lanky brown hair, just like your dad, and brown eyes, which you must have gotten from your mom, or a recessive gene since your dad has blue eyes. You are well, you are a cute kid, from your perspective. You have no idea whether you'll look good when you grow up, but that's a problem you can worry about later. It's time for your first day of school.
You have decided that you hate school. Not because you dislike learning or anything simply because you hate sitting still while the glorified babysitter that is your teacher shows the other kids how to read and tells them stories that you've already read. The other kids are even worse. You had hoped for some sort of mental stimulation, instead, you found children who could barely string together a decent sentence and appeared to be entertained by pushing a car back and forth.
A part of you realized that you were being somewhat unfair to these kids. After all, they were just kids. You had just hoped that there someone that would be even remotely interesting and in doing so placed expectations much higher than your peers could meet. You weren't arrogant enough to believe that you were somehow innately superior to them, after all, you had years of life experience on them, but it did make you less inclined to interact with them. Instead, you interacted with the plants around the daycare. You had started getting better with your plant-based powers, and you could almost tell what a plant was feeling when you concentrated. You still weren't sure whether you were hallucinating all of this though since despite the strange events that seemed to surround you, all your knowledge informed that there was no way plants had emotions.
Still, you came to be familiar with the cheery happiness the flowers of the daycare greeted you with, or the familiarity that the assortment of your plants treated you with. Sometimes, when your dad would let you tag along, you would get to meet some really old trees. They would look at you with a sort of grandfatherly kindness.
Oh yeah, your dad is a park ranger. Not for a specific park, because there are state parks littered all over long island. Instead, your dad has something of a rotation. He visits a certain state park every day for a month, sometimes two, and then he swaps. It's definitely gotten you to see a lot of the parks and you couldn't be happier with how it turned out. Being in an area that's so full of nature just makes you feel calm, serene in a way you never are in the city, except for maybe sometimes in your own room.
You also had worked up the courage to finally ask your dad about your mom.
"Dad, what was Mom like?"
"Your mother was an extraordinary woman," he says, ruffling my hair. "You have her eyes, you know. That warm brown always reminds me of her. She was smart as a whip too, just like you are and you seem to have inherited her green thumb. I may know how to take care of plants, but I'd never be able to manage a garden like yours."
You want to know why she's not here, but you can't figure out a way to phrase it that doesn't sound incredibly blunt, so you decide to just go for it. "Where is she?"
"Sam," he brings me in for a one-armed hug, "Normally I'd wait until you're older to talk about this with you, but you're mature for your age, so maybe you'll understand. The relationship between your mother and I was never meant to be permanent." He holds up a hand before you can ask more question, "You were a bit of a surprise, but I wouldn't trade you for anything."
That just leaves you with more questions. "So I am an accident?" you blurt out, against your better judgment.
Your dad just grins at you, "Nah, you're a miracle, and between you and me, I'm pretty sure your mom planned to have you."
It's one day when you're 4 and a half years old that you finally connect the dots. You're spending the day with your dad at the current park he's visiting. You're literally making all the plants you pass by perk up as you move by them, something that's so obvious that your father should be noticing, except he's not.
You start to wonder how exactly the supernatural parts of this world work and if there's some sort of system to keep mundane people from noticing. Then, you feel as if you've pulled your head out of murky water. Single Father, Dyslexia and ADHD, the power to control plants: you're in the world of Percy Jackson, and you're a demigod. That would make your mother... Demeter?
Shit. Fuck. Shit.
You continue to curse furiously in your head. One of the themes of Percy Jackson is that demigods aware of their divine nature attract monsters like nobody's business. You've probably been coasting off of your ignorance, but you know now, and you can't simply stop knowing.
You elect to abandon the subtle approach and grab your dad's sleeve.
"Yes, Sam?"
"Dad, how come I can make the plants grow?"
Your dad's eyes widen for a fraction of a second before he regains control of his expression. "You're just special, Sam."
Ah, he's probably trying to protect you by being indirect with his answer. Well, you'll just have to break through that indirectness with all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop. "Dad, is my mom Demeter, the Greek Goddess of Agriculture?"
Your dad trips over the root of a tree. You can feel the tree's amusement as your father lands flat on his face. It feels faintly feminine somehow. He quickly gets up and dusts himself off.
"Sam, we're going home." He takes you by your hand and practically drags you back to your car.
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When you get back home, your dad sits you down in the living room.
"I had hoped there was more time," he mutters to himself. "Your mother said you'd figure it out eventually. I just hoped that we would have more time, that you'd maybe be a bit older. You always were ahead of your peers though."
"Dad, am I right?"
"Your mother… Didn't let me know about her true nature for the entirety of our relationship. I only found out when she showed up wearing a crown of wheat and holding you in her arms. She explained a lot to me, most of which I still can't tell you. Suffice it to say that knowing about your mother is dangerous. She didn't tell me exactly how, and I'm not 'clear-sighted,' whatever that means."
"Dad…"
"Sometimes, I hoped that your mother was simply crazy, and all that stuff she said was just a product of her imagination." Man, your mom must really like your dad if she lets him get away with saying that kind of stuff. "I'll… I'll try and help out as much as I can. I don't know how much I'll be able to do, but if there's any trouble, just let me know ok."
Your fears about attracting monster came true on your first day of Kindergarten when you were 5. When you were out playing during recess, you saw a man, sitting on a bench near the school. Not quite on school property, but adjacent to it. That wouldn't be unusual in and of itself, except for the fact that the man's face was rotting. He looked like he had seen far better days, even as a corpse. You had ignored him for the day and told your dad as soon as you got home.
You had tried brainstorming solutions with him. In truth, you didn't have any good options. You could hardly fight off a monster as a five-year-old and you definitely couldn't place your dad in that kind of danger. You could just ignore it, but what if the undead continued stalking you. If you called the police, they probably wouldn't see anything amiss with the walking corpse.
What's a five-old son of Demeter to do?
[][Undead Situation] Ignore it and hope it goes away
[][Undead Situation] Try and fight the monster on your own
[][Undead Situation] Call in mundane authorities.
[][Undead Situation] Write-in.
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Votes for the next chapter:
Your first brush with the supernatural. What happens now is up to you, mainly. There's a couple of different ways you could go about this, but you're quite young for your first monster encounter. Finding out about your divine heritage has done you no good.
So I'm willing to bet that had we chosen to interact with kids more we'd likely be helping them along and encouraging personal growth and development in them making them better then they already were. What a shame at that lost opportunity, I really was hoping to see if that was the case. But people aren't willing to experiment and decide to focus on the plants, when we could obviously do so much more and be so much more.
[X] Undead Situation Write-In: Tell the teachers that during recess you saw some man beyond the fence staring at your class, specifically at the kids in a rather weird manner. Say you'd feel more comfortable if they have the cops investigate and if your parents are called.
(With several family members of mine being teachers and principals, I know this is a valid thing. If students report this, they tend to have several teachers and SRO go check it out while another informs the police department over a non-emergency line upon which they'll send out a cop to check this out and questions the kids reporting it about the appearance so they can keep an eye out.)
Edit: Not trying to come off as arrogant, but when you have a parent and grandparents talking about events like this all the time....
Soooo about the undead, our ma's the mother in law of the god of the dead which leads me to two lines of thought: Either this is demeter having bullied hades into sending someone to watch us while were vulnerable or we could pray to our mom and ask for advice or something to help deal with this.
Soooo about the undead, our ma's the mother in law of the god of the dead which leads me to two lines of thought: Either this is demeter having bullied hades into sending someone to watch us while were vulnerable or we could pray to our mom and ask for advice or something to help deal with this.
So, why would the person who is pretty much the God of Nature at this point what with Pan pretty much being dead, not being capable of keeping an eye on us via the fact that most nature spirits are chill and subservient to her, up to a point? Also, I do have to ask @Monk Penguin can a write-in have multiple options occur, like utilizing the schooling systems own nature to work for us here while also doing the side-piece of praying to "Mom" for help?
So, why would the person who is pretty much the God of Nature at this point what with Pan pretty much being dead, not being capable of keeping an eye on us via the fact that most nature spirits are chill and subservient to her, up to a point? Also, I do have to ask @Monk Penguin can a write-in have multiple options occur, like utilizing the schooling systems own nature to work for us here while also doing the side-piece of praying to "Mom" for help?
I dont know dude, trying to understand the logic of the greek gods can be a struggle at the best of times, im just saying that while unlikely its not outside the realm of possibility.
Also to adress this, my line of thought was normal mortal friends arent likely to last all that long nor should we want to include them in the insanity that is a demigods life. Gotta remember that for a long time it was considered a miracle for demigods to even reach college age.
Also, I do have to ask @Monk Penguin can a write-in have multiple options occur, like utilizing the schooling systems own nature to work for us here while also doing the side-piece of praying to "Mom" for help?
Yup, though remember that the ban from contacting demigod children or interfering directly in their lives is already in place. The only way Demeter can interfere is indirectly. Monsters don't share that weakness.
[X] Undead Situation Write-In: Tell the teachers that during recess you saw some man beyond the fence staring at your class, specifically at the kids in a rather weird manner. Say you'd feel more comfortable if they have the cops investigate and if your parents are called.
I dont know dude, trying to understand the logic of the greek gods can be a struggle at the best of times, im just saying that while unlikely its not outside the realm of possibility.
Also to adress this, my line of thought was normal mortal friends arent likely to last all that long nor should we want to include them in the insanity that is a demigods life. Gotta remember that for a long time it was considered a miracle for demigods to even reach college age.
I mean fair enough but at the same time, experimenting with powers to see if applicable to other people vs continuing doing the same thing with nature. Also, another aspect is the developmental cycle of a human even if reincarnated and now suddenly part god. They still need friends and that social interaction, it helps with certain issues and such. Obviously, the beforehand knowledge of how to interact does cover up the deficit of not interacting with people beyond Dad, teachers, and babysitters while the Godly blood likely keeps at bay the possible mental issues that can be developed from that. It's still somewhat better to have friends... Wow, I've really just psychoanalyzed this beyond a point that was unnecessary didn't I? Ugh.
Yup, though remember that the ban from contacting demigod children or interfering directly in their lives is already in place. The only way Demeter can interfere is indirectly. Monsters don't share that weakness.
I mean, we're pretty sure this is a zombie right? If so aren't PJO zombies not immune to mortal weaponry and stuff? I mean, I would say they are as nothing as proven they aren't aside from the weird as special summoning ritual in book 3 with those skeleton creatures that got created from a t-rex that was actually a dragon?
Also, praying to mom for help in figuring out to do with zombie isn't too bad? Monk, are we capable of talking to and developing a friendship with dryads and such? Because that would seem like a natural thing and we could probably get their help in dealing with it as necessary, especially sinceour dad's a Park Ranger meaning we're likely close to nature.
I mean fair enough but at the same time, experimenting with powers to see if applicable to other people vs continuing doing the same thing with nature. Also, another aspect is the developmental cycle of a human even if reincarnated and now suddenly part god. They still need friends and that social interaction, it helps with certain issues and such. Obviously, the beforehand knowledge of how to interact does cover up the deficit of not interacting with people beyond Dad, teachers, and babysitters while the Godly blood likely keeps at bay the possible mental issues that can be developed from that. It's still somewhat better to have friends... Wow, I've really just psychoanalyzed this beyond a point that was unnecessary didn't I? Ugh.
This happens to me at times as well so no worrys. At the very least now that we've got our divine stink on (please let me never repeat these words) a satyr should be able to find us soon.
I mean, we're pretty sure this is a zombie right? If so aren't PJO zombies not immune to mortal weaponry and stuff? I mean, I would say they are as nothing as proven they aren't aside from the weird as special summoning ritual in book 3 with those skeleton creatures that got created from a t-rex that was actually a dragon?
Also, praying to mom for help in figuring out to do with zombie isn't too bad? Monk, are we capable of talking to and developing a friendship with dryads and such? Because that would seem like a natural thing and we could probably get their help in dealing with it as necessary, especially sinceour dad's a Park Ranger meaning we're likely close to nature.
I really like this line, especially since it makes you just think... well if walking corpses aren't bad, how about walking corpses framed to pretty much appear like a pedophile/kidnapper. Surely the police will see something off with that right? Because now they aren't focused on walking corpse, but rather on the thing covered up by the Mist being one of the two options I presented meaning they should have to deal with it.
This happens to me at times as well so no worrys. At the very least now that we've got our divine stink on (please let me never repeat these words) a satyr should be able to find us soon.
Well if something can be killed with a normal hammer, hopefully zombies can be killed with mortal stuff.
Also, Dryad friends seems like an entirely realistic thing since we're A) Son of Demeter we naturally help stuff grow and make plant life better, B) Well, Dryads tend to be reasonable, especially if you promise to water their trees and make their life just a little more comfortable by fewer pesticides in that area or making the soil better around their tree.
Ugh, I just read through the quest, missed an important vote by a day. Drawing attention to our oddities is actually quite bad. From what I remember of Percy Jackson, Demigods have a Scent that lets monsters track them down.
This scent can be hidden by being close/hanging out with mortals (ie, that was the whole reason Percy's mom married Gabe Ugliano, he was so excessively MORTAL, that it helped cover even the scent of a child of the Big Three), by the child not realizing that their a demigod/that odd things are happening/going about as a mortal (basically, a child of the gods doesn't realize anything is off, they don't put out more of the Demigod Scent. They realize they're a demigod, more of the scent is put out), by putting them somewhere the monsters can't get to them (ie, Nico and Bianca di Angelo were put in the Locus Hotel and Casino for what felt to them like a month but was actually 70 years, yet weren't attacked ever while there and Camp Half-Blood has protections), or by possible godly/magical intereference (not sure about this, but would make sense).
We've basically chosen not to hang out with mortals, not to conceal that we're a demigod, don't have a safe place to go (aside from Camp Half-Blood), and I doubt we can get mother to give us a special treatment to conceal us now that we've revealed we realized everything. We're probably putting out scent like you wouldn't believe, being a child of the Twenty, knowing everything we know, and not acting normal.
So, we need to hang out with mortals, act like everything is normal, try and get Dad to train us (I'm personally in favor of martial skills and such, we know we'll need them, and it's a decidedly un-Demeter like activity so it might help conceal us), either conceal what we can do with plants or train it well (it's concealment vs. getting better at it w/ scent probably increasing).
So, we need to hang out with mortals, act like everything is normal, try and get Dad to train us (I'm personally in favor of martial skills and such, we know we'll need them, and it's a decidedly un-Demeter like activity so it might help conceal us), either conceal what we can do with plants or train it well (it's concealment vs. getting better at it w/ scent probably increasing).
I already stated above why i personally have issues with us hanging out with regular mortals especially when there was a zero percent chance that we wouldnt find out we're a demigod. That said we have like no chance to do what you seem to want at the moment as not only attention already drawn to us but we have already decided to show that we are not normal and far above out peers at the moment to the point where we just dont connect with them.
I am however in favor of learning to fight, not as un-demeter like as you seem to think btw cause as mentioned by QM (i think) shes actually both a warrior and protective of the people she cares for.
Right now if we want to avoid death by monster then camp is probably our best bet but even then it doesnt have talia's tree yet. The series is made for kids mostly but theres a big thing about just how hopeless and bad the life of a demigod typically is.
