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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video; un: bewitchy (lmk if anything he says it out of line wrt fourth walling!)

[bastardofipswich]

Oh yeah. His heel's famous.

[ Helpful, Chase. ]

audio, s.uris

[stantheman]

[ the voice that comes across is quite young but serious enough. ]

I don't remember who won the Trojan war... but Achilles died.

[ Stan remembers the story being read to him when he was younger and he never had much mind for a lot of it but he remembered being sad when Achilles died. It's one of the few details he remembered aside from the horse and all. ]

You were really there? I thought it was just a story...

[ Then he realized that if this person is really from then and knew Achilles...He imagines someone told him Richie died just like he had... ]

I'm sorry.

video; un: ghostking

[deathkid]

[ omgods, it's patroclus. patroclus from the stories. and not only that, but he's asking about achilles. his two heroes. okay, he has to remain calm. breathe in, breathe out. ]

Um, hi. I'm Nico and I'm a Greek. [ if the dark, shaggy curls and high cheekbones don't give that away. ] Or, I should say, I'm a Greek demigod. I can tell you for certain that Achilles isn't here. He's been, um, guarding the river Styx.

@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?