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vatheon2013-05-13 11:46 am
ex_knowledge575) wrote in vatheon2013-05-13 11:46 am
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Plan 1 → [closed]
who: Annabeth, Leo and Percy
when: May 13th
where: Their base on the island
style: Prose
status: closed
Annabeth flips open Daedalus' laptop, fresh from Leo's restoration work. It feels much better to use now without the sickening crunch of sand that had accompanied every key press. Opening a fresh document, she titles it "Vatheon - Important Notes" and miraculously the machine keeps working past the ten or so seconds it had lasted before.
Looking up, she grins at Percy and Leo who are also sitting around their base, eating their lunches. "All right guys, I officially call this meeting to order. Now's a good a time as any to regroup and catch up on what we've learned so far, since they've said we can go down to the bubble now.
"Leo, do you want to start?"
when: May 13th
where: Their base on the island
style: Prose
status: closed
Annabeth flips open Daedalus' laptop, fresh from Leo's restoration work. It feels much better to use now without the sickening crunch of sand that had accompanied every key press. Opening a fresh document, she titles it "Vatheon - Important Notes" and miraculously the machine keeps working past the ten or so seconds it had lasted before.
Looking up, she grins at Percy and Leo who are also sitting around their base, eating their lunches. "All right guys, I officially call this meeting to order. Now's a good a time as any to regroup and catch up on what we've learned so far, since they've said we can go down to the bubble now.
"Leo, do you want to start?"
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"Okay, so. I found out a lot of things, but I'll start with our marks. I learned that there's a lot more mojo to them than you told us the other day." He took a deep breath and looked seriously at the both of them. "There are periodic curses that happen here and they occur through the mark. Dirk said they do things like turning them into kids or giving them cat ears, or turning their bodies into other things. Nothing to harm you, but still not cool. Nothing so bad as the curse on Hephaestus cabin..."
Leo trailed off, waiting for the others reactions.
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"Curses? A few people I talked to hinted that strange things happened around here a lot, but...what? How often do things like that happen, do you know? And what else is going on with the marks?"
None of this was making any sense.
"I learned that time at home isn't passing while we're here. But at the same time that there are people who have been here two years and longer."
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→ We're in Limbo - time's not passing at home but some have been here 2 years or more.
"So they can use the mark to... control us somehow, like a god would?" It's the only way Annabeth can make any sense of it.
"Well at least our friends aren't in trouble waiting for us to turn up again, but still. Two years." She can't believe it. They were expected to wait in limbo that long?
"The big thing I learned was that we were brought here for some kind of experiment. Apparently they're... harvesting our emotions somehow, although I don't know how or for what reason. King Arthur knew about as much as I did." She sighs. "But at least we know why we're here. Yay?"
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"I'm not sure. I should have asked for more details, but I don't think anyone really knows more than that. I also heard about the being stuck in limbo bit. Dirk said that people leave and when they get home they don't remember this place. And that sometimes they come back. It's hit or miss on if they remember this place when they return. He also said stuff about people from our world might arrive from a time before or after ours. So they might not know everything we know or they might know more than we do."
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"This place seems so...random," he said thoughtfully. "Like we're a jumble of people who are kind of important where we came from. Like...someone's collecting us or something." He shuddered. "And apparently doing experiments on us."
"Most of the people I've talked to seem pretty jaded about the whole thing. They've been here a long time and are resigned to it." That was not really sitting well with Percy.
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→ People from our dimension might arrive from different timeframes than the one we've come from.
→ Collections? Experiments? Investigate further.
→ Some people have been here a long time. Resigned and jaded.
Annabeth shook her head in amazement. They'd met such a colourful array of people here in the past few days. It would be harder to believe except, yeah, demigod life was never dull that way. "Yeah, it's the King Arthur! No knights or Guinevere though, although that doesn't seem to bother the king. I'll introduce you both." Annabeth doesn't even notice that she's been careful with her pronouns. She's too busy listening to the rest of what the boys have to say.
"Huh, more mention of experiments. Guess that's something to do with the harvesting of emotions. Maybe that has something to do with the coral deity?" Annabeth can't think what or how though. "No wonder people don't remember this place when they leave."
She can see that Percy's uncomfortable with the lack of fight shown by the residents, which she completely understands. "So they've just stopped trying to get back at all?"
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"I don't like the idea of being part of anyone's collection, but I don't think we have much choice until we're able to leave."
Leo tried to think back to everything else Dirk had told him about this place. "Oh! These things," he pulled out the Starfish Communicator, "they can work like cell phones, too. So we can use them for phone calls and text messages, not just for using the network."