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[truesight]

[ alright, time to be annoying for the sake of rounding up the troops. the demigod troops, to be exact, but it's those particular hooligans that she's been feeling a desperate need to round up and talk to for some time now. too much has gone on, and there hasn't been enough talking about it, as far as she's concerned. so, maybe she's hoping being the resident not-demigod camper might get her some pull for this kind of thing. she'll even get on camera and glow menacingly if she has to, but. hopefully she won't. for their sakes, of course!! that ish is crazy intimidating, and she doesn't actually want to scare them into meeting up. but yeah, so. anyway... ]

Have you ever picked
up an awful habit from
someone you know well?

Apollo always
writes terrible haikus and
sometimes I do, too.

So now I'm writing
to tell my demigod friends -
it's time to meet up.

I don't care where, but
if you say no, I'll never
stop the haiku-talk.

Let's pick a time and
place right now to avoid this
horrible fate. 'Kay?

[ gold. ]

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[oursavinggrace]

[...]

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[oursavinggrace]

[okay for real now.]

Why haikus?

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[truesight]

[ oh great, now you can hear/see her tapping out the syllables with her hairbrush against her knee, just at the bottom of the frame ]

I don't know you'd have
to ask Apollo that, but
it made you look, right?

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[oursavinggrace]

Does he really do that? Apollo, I mean.

[this is destroying his image of the sun god. he could have gone his whole life without knowing that apollo is actually a huge loser if not for this.]

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[truesight]

[ she opens her mouth to haiku at him again, but huff, that's exhausting ]

Oh yeah, he so does. Not like, every time he talks or anything, but boy does he think he's the best haiku-ist in the whole cosmos. I'll give him one thing, though, he is really good at counting syllables in his head. It's impressive.

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[quest]

[ man that was-

that was a thing.

but let's see here, uh- how does it go again. 5/7/5, right? alright. alright, he's totally got this. ]

If I knew that you
would turn into a poet
you should have said no.

Because oracles
shouldn't really need to rhyme
this is pretty dumb.

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[quest]

Alright, I give up.

When and where?

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[truesight]

[ Rachel's laaaaughing when the video feed turns on, the good-natured kind that pretty much happens every time Percy does something that matches her ridiculousness. and whatever, maybe she's overreacting ( maybe it wasn't that funny ) but whatever. she missed him. ]

A valiant effort, I have to say. And- soon? We could meet in my room, I guess, but somewhere bigger might be a better idea unless you guys are into the idea of all hanging out on the floor like a slumberparty.

[ a second later, after she's checked her feed again- ]

Oh, Nico's volunteered his room. ASAP, he says. I knew the haiku threat would work!

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[quest]

[ the laugh has him smiling, mostly out of relief. seeing Rachel after what feels like eons, even just over the network this time- he had no idea how much he missed her. ]

ASAP, that I can do. [ oh. wait a sec- ] Except for the part where I have no idea where his room is.

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[truesight]

[ ............. ]

Neither do I. Let me ask him. Hang on.

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[fell_to_hell]

[Oh, absolutely not. Nico is not talking to Rachel if she's spouting haiku at him. Granted, this is way better than whatever Apollo can do, but he's not going to say that aloud.]

My room, ASAP, just please don't haiku at me. I'm getting flashbacks to the last time I met Apollo.

[truesight]

Alright! Sound good to me. I'll tell everyone.

The last time you met Apollo- [ eeeeesh she can't imagine that going well, but she's curious ] - what happened?

[fell_to_hell]

[He looks mildly amused.]

He gave us a ride on his sun bus...and made Thalia drive it to Camp Half-Blood.

[truesight]

Oh, wow. I thought maybe you saw him again more recently. I remember that. ..I remember seeing that. Why he thought putting Thalia behind the wheel was a good idea, I'll never understand.

Anyway, where's your room?

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[mesmerism]

Wow. That was something.

[ She's not sure what, so she'll leave it at something. ]

I've got nothing but time, so when and where?

[truesight]

Thank you, thank you.

Nico's offered up his room, "ASAP", so... I'm guessing as soon as everybody checks in here, we can all head over?

[mesmerism]

Okay. I know where Jason's room is, so I'll head there and we can walk over together.

[truesight]

Cool. Okay. Good. Good.

[ plans plans plans! she's actually.. really excited this is actually working out. not that she thought everybody would fight her on this, but y'know. heroes. heroes have their hangups. where she's open and talkative, they're... mostly not. but maybe this would work out. ]

So how're you settling in? It's all pretty crazy, isn't it?

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[commandertoolbelt]

do we all have to
speak in haiku or is that
just an oracle thing

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[commandertoolbelt]

CRAP i messed it up didn't i
whatever when and where is this going down

[truesight]

You did! But only by one syllable. It was a pretty great attempt.

Nico's room, "ASAP". Just going to wait on hearing back from everybody, then I'll sound the alarm to go meet up. And by alarm I mean I'll text everyone again.

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[truecaptain]

[ That sure was something. ]

Writing all of that must have taken a while.

[truesight]

Ridiculous haiku actually comes pretty easily to me! It really is just because I've spent way too much time listening to Apollo do it.

[truecaptain]

You mentioned the name before. [ Not that she knows who Apollo is being from, y'know, future earth when everything was destroyed. Not such a big thing anymore. ] Hopefully your friends decided not to go for death-by-haiku.

[truesight]

Oh, they won't, because they know perfectly well I'll deliver on that threat. I can haiku allllllll day.