Now, your Patroclus here was only mostly dead

[aristosmyrmidon]

[Patroclus stares at the camera intensely for a moment, checking to see if the device is working. When he realizes it must be, he leans back. And takes a breath He’s gone over what to say many times over.]

Ah, I am Patroclus. I have only recently arrived.

[Not as confident as he hoped to sound but not as bad as he feared.]

I do not know if any of you are from my world, but I understand that I am from a time in the past for many of you. Have any of you heard of Troy? I would like to know if the Greeks conquered it and--

[He braces himself. This isn’t a question he wants to ask. He knows what the general answer will be-- the prophecy always foretold Achilles’s death. But he needs to know how it happened and if his fame was worth the price.]

If you have heard of Achilles, what became of him?

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@a.parrish; video

[antietam]

[ He generally uses text but he's so surprised and mildly suspicious that he ends up going with video. He probably looks a little wide-eyed. ]

Um, hi. I could probably tell you what happened, I had to— [ read most of it. That's kind of weird to say. ] Well, the Greeks did conquer it in kind of a... [ gruesome and terrible way? but Patroclus was a Greek so maybe not the best thing to say. ] clever way.

Odysseus had a plan to sneak in through the walls by hiding inside a hollow, wooden horse. It worked and, uh, they sort of killed everyone. Mostly everyone.

[ A pause. ] Do you really want to hear about Achilles?

video; un: patroclus

[aristosmyrmidon]

[Patroclus is sure there was much more to it than that to get the Trojans to take in a wooden horse, especially if the plan was Odysseus's.]

A worthy achievement for such cunning.

[Somehow, that doesn't sound like praise.]

It is not a matter of wanting to hear. I need to know.

[antietam]

[ Adam seems mildly concerned about something. He distinctly remembers Achilles' reaction to hearing Patroclus died in the Iliad, surely Patroclus would be upset to hear about Achilles. But judging from his other responses, he seems fairly calm. ]

There are some different stories about what happened. There's the heel one, which most people know, but that doesn't fit with other legends. [ He waves it off. ]

Basically, after his rampage, he was trying to get into Troy and... Paris shot him with an arrow. Some sources say it was guided by Apollo and some say it was poisoned. Either way, it worked.

[aristosmyrmidon]

[This still feels like a strange dream. He died. Hector killed him. He lived. Healers from the future resurrected him. It wasn't the gods or Achilles dragging him out of the underworld. This is the future and another world.

He doesn't react when Adam explains, aside from parting his lips.

Rampage. Shot by Paris, aided by poison or the same god who'd stripped Patroclus of his armor.

Rampage?]

What did he do?