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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

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[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.