halfbloodhill_logs | HALLOWEEN PARTY

Who: The entire camp!
What: Mr. D has moved up his festival of Apokries to coincide with Halloween! It's time to party! Where: All around the camp!
When: Thursday, October 31st
Why: Because, why not?

It was decided earlier in the month that to coincide with the holiday of Halloween, and to give campers a bit of fun after all this nonsense, that Mr. D would be holding his festival of Apokries early! As such the entire camp has been decked out in all sorts of spoooooky decorations.

It's as though a carnival has been set up over night, with music and food all around. There are satyrs and nymphs handing out candy at cabins (smarties for Athena, warheads for Ares, ect.) for any people wanting to trick or treat, and campers running around in costumes.

The ampitheatre has once again become a designated dancing spot, and Apollo might have returned to DJ, the arena miiiight have been transformed into a bit of a Haunted House (with special thanks to Hecate), and Demeter has set up a corn maze for campers to navigate through!

It's time to have some fun!

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[And with an absent wave of his hand, the son of Poseidon takes advantage of the puddle of spilled drink near the cabin - the liquid surges up in a little wave, running across the ground and picking up the candy wrappers along the way. Laziest use of demigod powers ever.]

[And Percy snorts at that.] They want to forget me. Even Dad was kind of annoyed with me for that stunt, and since then most of them have just gotten worse. About the only ones that haven't are Hestia and Aphrodite.

[hello, KitKat. Goodbye, KitKat.]

I don't regret turning them down, but sometimes I've gotta wonder if it might've been better for me to say yes, just so I could keep an eye on them better. But they wouldn't've let me have two rewards.

[And he knows he picked the right one. They wouldn't have a cabin to sit outside of right now if he hadn't.]

[Nico shakes his head, but makes no comment. He's pretty sure Percy is fully aware of his laziness.]

They never will, though. Someone like you will turn up again in the future and cause another big change.

[Another shake of the head.]

If you had, we still wouldn't have an Oracle, not to mention all these other cabins. Besides, I think you'd be too bored with an immortal life.

[It's Halloween, he's allowed to be lazy. Not that he's any great hand at cleaning anyway, as his results on cabin inspections show.]

We would've ha- Huh, no, you're right. Hades did say until he and his children were accepted, right? [Momentary lapse of memory; so much had gone on that day that it's not surprising that some stuff's a jumble.] But you're probably right that I'd've been bored. I mean, the gods haven't grown up in two thousand years - you're not allowed to make a crack about me "fitting right in." But you saw Ares, and you've seen Mr. D, even Zeus some - I couldn't deal with that day in and day out forever.

[He has a really low tolerance for idiocy, and unfortunately the gods aren't the best at keeping their idiocy contained. Nico's seen first-hand how dealing with the gods can piss him off, even if he does actually like some of them. But they're in the minority.]

Maybe if I could really change things... but I think I did the best I could for that anyway.

[Nico doesn't answer the question. Accepted yes, but that doesn't mean he feels like there's any acceptance or a sense of belonging. His expression darkens at the mention of Zeus.]

I've seen enough of Zeus.

[He doesn't hold a grudge against the god, not like Hades had, but thinking about the incident with his mom does leave a bitter taste in his mouth. Nico's pretty sure it'll fade given time, though.]

It has gotten better, but it'll take some time for it to really sink in. You can only change so much all at once.

[Be fair, Nico, a large part of that is because you haven't tried. Will it be difficult? Yes. But you built your cabin and pretty much just ran away from camp, so almost no one knows you but Percy and somewhat Annabeth. Give it a chance - stick around. It won't happen right away, but it'll happen.]

Same, but I can't get away from him. I don't know how Annabeth managed to go up there almost every day to rebuilt Olympus and have to deal with the gods day in and day out. She's got some wild stories about how big their temples had to be and how their homes all had to be better than everyone else's.

[And, amazingly, Percy seems to have consumed enough candy for the time being, as he drops his bag next to his feet without pulling any more out.] Yeah - but I'm a stupid mortal, you know. I wanted it to change faster than that.

[He doesn't want to try because he's afraid to. He shakes his head.]

Annabeth is good with diplomacy, normally. It's a lot of politics when you deal with gods like that.

[Whoa, he'd been sure that Percy was going to eat the whole bag.] Patience is a virtue, Percy.

[He needs to get over that, then. Can't succeed if you're not willing to risk failure.]

And we all know I suck at politics. [Okay, he doesn't suck all the time - he can usually be polite when addressing the gods, or at least not so disrespectful that they vaporize him. But it's never his first thought.] And we all know how good I am at patience.

You have your moments, but yeah, mostly, you suck at both politics and patience.

[He will take whatever punishment Percy throws at him because that is such a well-deserved comment.]

[That's gonna get him a punch on the shoulder, though not a very hard punch. He admits it himself, after all - the punch is mostly for form's sake.]

That's why Annabeth deals with all of that and I never do except when I have to. At least I don't make things worse. Most of the time.

[He rolls his eyes up to the heavens.]

He says he doesn't make things worse most of the time. Gods give me patience.

It's true! Things just get worse on their own without any help from me. You've seen it. It's not my fault!

Uh huh. Whatever helps you sleep at night, Percy.

[Totally doesn't believe him.]

HALLOWEEN PARTY

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