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[deathkid]

thank the gods these things come in greek

i need:

α) directions to the nearest graveyard from the communal housing

β) a place to buy some good cheeseburgers, fries, and dt. coke.
(or animal blood if cheeseburgers are hard to come by)

γ) a prism or some other kind of clear crystal for rainbow making

δ) cooking lessons.



oh, and how many people here are mortals/human or gods/demigods

Comments

Video @the.boneless

[ragnarsson]

[Ivar's using the text-to-speech function on his phone. Hmph. Why does everyone insist on writing? It's not like he's ever needed it before coming here. While those sound like a group of odd requests, he can at least help with two of them.]

Sunset Diner makes a good chili burger.

For your last question, my family is descended from Odin on both sides. [He sounds just a little smug, but hey, it isn't often he gets bragging rights on his family lineage.] I'm whatever you'd call the grandson of a god.

[deathkid]

[ "the boneless" interesting choice of a name. nico keeps it in the back of his mind. and really, he doesn't mind switching to video. he probably wouldn't use the text function at all if it didn't come in ancient greek. ]

Odin... He's Norse, right? Did you know that Loki is here?

[ and he notes that smug tone, lifting a brow as he tilts his head. ]

Is that so? Then you'd be a legacy. My father is the Greek god of the Underworld. Hades. In that way, I'm a demigod.

[ragnarsson]

That's right. The All-Father of the gods. I met him once.

[Not under circumstances he cares to remember. His father's death had been a terrible blow to the young Viking warrior.] Yes. We're living on the same floor. Technically, we're like distant cousins.

A demigod. [He repeats the word. That's not as surprising as some of the things here he's heard.] Greece is along the Mediterranean, right?

[They've only just discovered it in his time.]

[deathkid]

Family on the godly side tends to be a bit complicated like that.

[ a nod. ]

Yes, but now I live in the United States. It's... across the ocean, to the west of the Ancient Lands.

[ragnarsson]

My family in general tends to be complicated.

[They're kind of weird, even for Vikings. Just ask about how everyone was sleeping with everyone else.]

The place they call America?

[He's been hearing about it lately. Someone made him a crude map, so he had a rough idea where it was.]

[deathkid]

You should meet mine some time.

[ for many years, he had a crush on his cousin, the son of poseidon. thinking about it now makes him feel a bit awkward. ]

Yes, that's basically it.

[ragnarsson]

We can compare them and see which one is worse.

[Families were always terrible and ones with divine heritage doubly so. Ivar's was full of complications, murder attempts, and brothers who did things like all sleep with the same woman.]

[deathkid]

My step-mom is also my cousin and niece... I think. My uncle and aunt had her and then my father married her. He lured her to the underworld and then my aunt-slash-step-grandmother? got kind of pissed about it and caused the earth to experience six months of winter.

[ and that's not even counting how nico eventually starts dating his second cousin (?)... greek gods are full of incest, rape, and murder. nico heaves a sigh. ]

Demeter keeps trying to get me to help her with farming or eat more cereal but, ugh.

[ragnarsson]

I think I'd need a little chart with everyone's pictures on it to keep that straight.

[He suddenly feels both simultaneously better and worse about his own family.]

[deathkid]

Tell me about it. Imagine living with all your family's kids in one place too. Camp is just... weird sometimes.