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Who: Karkat Vantas and whoever!
Where: All across Vatheon.
When: Anytime during the week.
Style: Action please!
Status: Open.

[A curse that makes you say the truth no matter what you want is not exactly Karkat's idea of a fun time. He's not much a liar, no, and his worst secret isn't so secret around Vatheon anymore, but that's not the point. What's the point of being open if it's forced from you? And as outwardly prickly a guy as he is, he doesn't want his squishy inside exposed at will.]

[Unfortunately, as is true for every curse, life doesn't stop just because you're inconvenienced. There are groceries to get, his job at a video store to do, the coral to visit, and his usual sickle practice in the park. He tries to avoid people if he can, oh yes, but there's only so much he can do. Even if he evades them outside the hive, he can't exactly send mental waves to stop them from coming to visit him at home, if that's their prerogative. Ultimately, he's bound to run into more annoyance than he'd like. But what else is new?]

(OOC: This is pretty standard! Pick a place to meet him, and feel free to note a specific day if you have one in mind, though the second probably isn't too necessary. If there's any problem I'll let you know.)

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[Leo struggles to keep following the conversation. As ADHD as Percy is... Leo is worse. He just nods his head as he listens, grasping a few things here and there.]

Okay, didn't understand half of that, and I'm not going to ask you to explain it better. But I got video games, death and wanting to avoid that, and that it's now habit. [He really hoped he hadn't missed anything important.] Sounds like pretty good reasons to want to stay awake.

Thank you.

[The last thing he wanted was to be stuck here trying to explain the full details of Sgrub. It took long enough to give them to someone who could actually, miraculously pay attention to the entire thing.]

You've got the important part of it, which is all I even wanted to tell you if not for this stupid Curse going on.

What's that Argo II thing you mentioned?

Cool. [Leo gives a thumbs up.]

The Argo II? It's a spankin' hot war machine. An Ancient Greek trireme - a warship with a bronze dragon masthead. It can go across the ocean like a normal ship, but it can also fly and land on dry ground. Took my half-siblings and I close to 6 months to finish it. [He looks exceptionally proud about this.] It's what my friends and I were using for transportation on our quest.

[He was glad that he didn't feel the need to word vomit everything about the ship. It wouldn't be cool of him to expect Karkat to listen to him go on an on about how unbelievably awesome the ship was when he had zoned out during Karkat's explanation on video games, death and stuff.]

[Karkat's eyebrow lifts at this.]

That actually sounds pretty cool.

[And he's not even embarrassed at that admission. Big flying warship thing? Not as great as spaceships, but still!]

What was the quest about?

It's awesome, dude. I wish I could show it to you.

[Leo was less thrilled talking about the quest, but he did anyway.]

Okay, so you know how the other day I was telling you about how gods are made? Well, the earth, Gaea is trying to rise up and destroy all of humanity and the gods. Our quest is trying to stop her from doing that. We made it to Rome and Annabeth managed to reclaim this 40 foot tall statue of Athena that's been missing forever. Percy and a couple of our other demigod friends took out a pair of giants. That's where we were on the quest before we wound up here.

We've still gotta close the doors to death so that monsters can't just walk right back out of Tartarus, and once that's done... I'm not sure exactly what we've gotta do. Prophecies aren't exactly known for being clear. But the next step after that is stopping Gaea. If that goes well and if we manage to stop the war I kind of accidentally started between the Romans and Greeks then all will be good.

[Prophecies sound a bit like quests in a way, or the overall things Sgrub and Paradox Space had in store for him and his teammates. He certainly didn't know his role as leader would entail cloning them all (himself included) into existence, let alone creating a universe.]

[By the end, his eyebrows have scrunched up.]

Two things. First, what's so important about the statue? Second, how the taintchafed hell do you start a war by accident?

[He'd complain about the 'earth rising up' thing but he already heard about that, and it would probably just lead to another headache.]

You'd be better off asking Annabeth about the statue. I just know it's got something to do with the problems between Greeks and Romans.

[He's got a pretty good idea what taintchafed means and he's not going to ask. But he does raise his eyebrow at the use of the word.]

I was possessed by a spirit called an Eidolon. When I took one of the Roman guys up to check out the ship on a goodwill gesture, the Eidolon took over and caused me to fire on the camp below - the ship was docked floating in the air. It started a huge fight and us questers had to get out of there fast. My friends had to knock me out to keep me from continuing the attack. Some of the Romans followed us across the country and then when we departed across the Atlantic, the Romans headed off to attack our camp.