Mun is late to the party and just saw Sea of Monsters || Potential spoilers in comments

[yearrounder]

...wow. So they just...keep getting it wrong, huh. I know last time I said that was probably a good thing, but isn't it getting kind of ridiculous now?

At least I was blonde this time.

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[ognesperanza]

[so Percy does survive the war. he looks a little relieved]

Gee, I have so many adventures to look forward to.

[yearrounder]

Welcome to life as a half-blood. It kind of sucks, doesn't it?

[ognesperanza]

I already knew it sucks. But this is a nice reminder.

[yearrounder]

At least the murder attempts are mostly infrequent around here.

[ognesperanza]

That is new. Feels almost like a vacation, sometimes.

[yearrounder]

Sometimes. The actual games are pretty terrible.

[ognesperanza]

What kind of uh, game are you in?

[yearrounder]

A really terrible version of the Underworld.

[ognesperanza]

How terrible? The Fields of Punishment are already pretty bad.

[yearrounder]

Aside from the part where the living aren't supposed to even be there, they try to kill us every other week because apparently we're being judged to decide if our worlds are worth saving. Sometimes they actually do kill us.

[ognesperanza]

. . . That is terrible. And what does the Underworld have to do with saving worlds? Sounds like a bunch of crap to me.

[yearrounder]

Something about how they aren't really the Olympians but they're using those forms to make it easier or something. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[ognesperanza]

No, that really doesn't. If it doesn't follow the rules of the Underworld, they shouldn't even call it the Underworld.

[yearrounder]

They've still got all the dead things there, too. Ghosts, zombies, really disgusting vampires, once.

[ognesperanza]

Is Thanatos there? Or Charon and the Keres?

[yearrounder]

No. At least not that I saw. It used to be Hades, Persphone, and Hecate, but then Themis showed up and now we're down to Hecate, Themis, and her daughters.

[ognesperanza]

My father--or someone pretending to be him-- He and Persephone aren't there? At all?

[yearrounder]

No. We, uh... They're dead.

[ognesperanza]

. . .

[WHAT]

[yearrounder]

Sorry. I...probably should have been less blunt about that.

[ognesperanza]

You think? I--How did they die? Gods don't just . . .

[yearrounder]

I don't know. Persephone killed Hades because apparently he was going crazy and then Themis killed Persephone because a lot of stupid people thought it was a great idea. Granted, it gave us the cure for something really nasty, but... I don't think it was the right decision. Hecate is Queen of the Underworld now.

[ognesperanza]

But she's the goddess of magic, I-- That's such a bad idea. All she has is necromancy.

[yearrounder]

I didn't come up with it. But she's still a better choice than Themis. At least Hecate is pretending to care a little about us and The is just wants us all dead for good.

[ognesperanza]

. . . It really is a disaster. Do you think the gods, the real gods, can access this fake Underworld?