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 Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:36 pm
Kids of Apollo, eat here.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:53 am
Snow sat down after scraping some of her food into the fire. She was all alone.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:10 pm
 ƐɭǐɀȧƄȅƫȟ Ʀǒȿȧɭǐȵʠ ßȧɾʠʠȧụǥȟƫȅɾ ǒƒ Ãҏǒȴȴǒ... ♫... ☼... ♫... Elizabeth made her way through the mess hall, crowded with sleepy demigods, with a plate of scrambled eggs. She'd already scraped some of the food into the fire for a sacrifice. There was already a bowl with dog food for Charlie near the table, likely provided by Chiron, so she didn't need to worry over that. Sighing, she sat down and racked her brain for things that Charlie could do without opposable thumbs. "So, what are we going to do after this?" she asked, not thinking of many.... ♫... ☼... ♫...
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:20 pm
CHARLIE JOHNSON
{Son of ATHENA}
DOG
"I dunno..." Charlie said, "We are a bit limited aren't we?" He began munching on kibble, occasionally pausing to lap up some water. Only now did he realize he was starving. "I could be 'playing' with Jezebel right now, but you hadta go and ruin my fun." Normally he wasn't as immature as this, it was the puppy talking. "I guess if all else fails I can chase my tail for three hours, collapse in a dizzy heap, and sleep for the rest of the day. But that really doesn't help you at all."
((Just say no. If Liz goes alone we can just make it a single post. Wheras if Charlie were to come we'd have to actually move to the Aphrodite cabin thread.))
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CaptainSpaz00 Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:49 am
ƐɭǐɀȧƄȅƫȟ Ʀǒȿȧɭǐȵʠ ßȧɾʠʠȧụǥȟƫȅɾ ǒƒ Ãҏǒȴȴǒ... ♫... ☼... ♫... "If you plan to collapse in a heap and stay asleep for the rest of the day, I'll call Theo," Elizabeth said, pausing between bites of egg. "He loves playing fetch and you might as well benefit someone else. Really, though, there's got to be something we can do as a group. We could all spin around in circles together and see who collapses first." She appeared to give the idea serious contemplation before dismissing it. "Nah. There has to be something better than that. We could work on convincing Theo that revenge on Jezzie is perfectly safe once she's human again; you're on my side on that matter, I trust."... ♫... ☼... ♫...
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:48 pm
CHARLIE JOHNSON
{Son of ATHENA}
DOG
"Nah. He's pretty stubborn. It's one of the things I respect about him. I'm starting to think maybe this whole 'spend a day as a dog idea' wasn't a good one." Charlie said with a slight groan of boredom.
((I'm thinking I will change Charlie back for a while. Possibly go to the Arena and have him fight somebody. They could go swimming. After all Charlie hasn't seen Theo's fins and I'm sure he'd find those fascinating. I'm having an epic brainfart as to things he could do as a dog.))
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CaptainSpaz00 Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:54 pm
ƐɭǐɀȧƄȅƫȟ Ʀǒȿȧɭǐȵʠ ßȧɾʠʠȧụǥȟƫȅɾ ǒƒ Ãҏǒȴȴǒ... ♫... ☼... ♫... "You should probably change back. There really isn't much around here for a dog to do," Elizabeth said calmly. It sounded a great deal better than YES! CHANGE BACK INTO AN ATTRACTIVE TEENAGE BOY! "Once you do, we can meet up with Theo, Camille, and Annie. We can go to the arena or something--Theo still owes me a swordfighting lesson."... ♫... ☼... ♫...
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:05 pm
CHARLIE JOHNSON
{Son of ATHENA}  To an outside observer with no eyelids, it would have appeared that everybody in the mess hall suddenly blinked at the same time. Charlie figured it was to prevent them from seeing any disguisting half-transformations. When they opened their eyes, everything was the same except for a distinct lack of canines. Charlie stood (fully dressed, he had the good sense to get changed before he had transformed in his cabin last night) where a beagle had once sat, and somewhere acrossed the field came the hoots and hollars of a suddenly human Jezebel. Charlie made a mental note to investigate why she had regained human form along with him later. Pulling a package of gum out of his pocket (more foresight on his part) he crammed a stick into his mouth. Something had left a nasty aftertaste in his mouth, which he attributed to his suddenly rearranged tastebuds. He offered a stick to Liz, out of common courtesy. "That oughta be interesting," he said, imagining Theo trying to teach swordfighting.
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CaptainSpaz00 Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:28 pm
ƐɭǐɀȧƄȅƫȟ Ʀǒȿȧɭǐȵʠ ßȧɾʠʠȧụǥȟƫȅɾ ǒƒ Ãҏǒȴȴǒ... ♫... ☼... ♫... Elizabeth took the stick of gum from Charlie and nodded. "He's only seven, but he's already a better swordfighter than I could ever hope to be," she said. "Let's just hope that it doesn't end with him getting annoyed by my lack of progress and drowning me." For a moment, she listened happily to Jezebel railing at her siblings...then realized that Jezebel was yelling in a very human voice. "What do you think happened to her?" she asked Charlie.... ♫... ☼... ♫...
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:27 pm
CHARLIE JOHNSON
{Son of ATHENA} "Oh I can imagine he's Colessium worthy." Charlie said with a chuckle, although he was dead serious. As for the question of Jezebel, Charlie responded with a rather blunt "I don't really care, as long as she stays out of my hair, fur, or whatever other similar mass of follicles she could get into, no matter which form I'm in."
That sounded stupid.
"Err...anyway," he said, trying to glaze over that incredibly awkward, vaugely nerdy statement. Would he ever get the hang of talking to this girl? He doubted it. He started rubbing his index finger and thumb together. One of these days he'd really have to get out of that habit. Especially if he planned on ever beating the Hermes kids at poker. It's no good to have a tell. While his brain went off on this little, partially-ADHD induced tangent, he was reduced to standing there without much to say. Proof positive that it takes more than a British accent to be as smooth as James Bond.
Maintain eye contact, Charlie.
Eye contact. His arch-nemesis. Sure he had managed to keep eye contact in a romantic atmosphere, but in a casual one? He struggled, a lot. When your mind is absorbing every detail of the world around you, focusing on a single person just starts to feel uncomfortable, because you're terrified you'll miss something else that's going on.
Focus! FOCUS!
What was going on? It was nothing new, Charlie actually had this happen often. More often, he suspected, than most demigods, or even ADHD-diagnosed mortals. He'd have brief periods of time, he called them episodes where he couldn't concentrate no matter how hard he tried. Then slowly he'd regain his focus, as he was now. The whole process was typically followed with a dizzy spell. He'd timed the delay between the episode's end and the dizziness. It had averaged out to be about four seconds.
One, two, three...
There it was. Charlie reached out behind him and braced himself against the edge of Apollo table wall his world careened and twirled like a drunken ballet dancer on a crab boat. He tried to breathe normally, but ended up gasping a bit, like an elephant was sitting on his lungs. Then, as quickly as it came, it was gone.
"So," Charlie said, taking only a brief second to get himself back up to speed, "what do you think we should do?"
((Made everything from the first paragraph break on down up in about 15 minutes. It started with some typical ADHD problems, then it kinda grew. I guess you could call it anxiety, meets asthma, meets epilipsy, meets I don't even know.))
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CaptainSpaz00 Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:37 pm
ƐɭǐɀȧƄȅƫȟ Ʀǒȿȧɭǐȵʠ ßȧɾʠʠȧụǥȟƫȅɾ ǒƒ Ãҏǒȴȴǒ... ♫... ☼... ♫... Elizabeth ignored his question. "Are you okay?" Unlike some of her siblings, she'd never liked all the medical stuff--it was too mathematical and precise, too different to her from the sweep and flow of music for her to have given it much thought. But she knew that what'd happened to Charlie, whatever it was, wasn't normal even for a demigod. "Well, of course you're alright," she said quickly, suddenly, for fear that she'd offended him. "But what just happened?"... ♫... ☼... ♫... ((Is there a limit to the number of times I can blame short, uninspired replies to grand, sweeping posts on writers' block?))
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:54 pm
CHARLIE JOHNSON
{Son of ATHENA}
Dang. She noticed. Try to cover your tracks.
"What do you mean?" Charlie said with a grin. He felt bad for lying, but at the same time he didn't know if Liz should be bothered with this.
Even if it was the third time this week.
"Nothing happened, Elizabeth." He knew she wasn't fond of being called 'Liz' by anyone other than Theo. And even then she could be iffy. A small detail in and of it self, but it would help to distract her. "I'm absolutely fine."
What are you doing? Her dad's the theater god! You think she'll fall for some basic flattery?
He noticed more and more that the little nagging voice in his head that tried to fix his many relationship mistakes was beginning to sound like his Grandad. He decided to start addressing it as such,
"Being a theater god's daughter doesn't make you a lie detector, Grandad," he thought to himself, "That's called being a good detective."
Charlie shook his head a bit to get his bangs away from his eyes. He kind of needed a haircut. "Anyway," he said with a casual tone, "I feel fine and dandy, so what do you say we go awaken a certain young Roman?"
((It's not a problem. Writers' block is what prevented me from writing in this plotline sooner. When I read Charlie's posts in my head the first voice that comes to mind is Cary Elwes, who played (among other things) Westley in The Princess Bride))
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CaptainSpaz00 Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:02 am
ƐɭǐɀȧƄȅƫȟ Ʀǒȿȧɭǐȵʠ ßȧɾʠʠȧụǥȟƫȅɾ ǒƒ Ãҏǒȴȴǒ... ♫... ☼... ♫... Aww, he called me Eliz--FOCUS! "Something weird just happened to you," she insisted. Was amnesia a symptom of anything like that? She'd have to go look it up. "You ended up hyperventilating or something.... Tell me what it was right now or I will go back to my cabin and spend the entire day reading medical textbooks." Elizabeth batted her eyelashes slightly and tried to look innocent and cute. "You wouldn't want to sentence me to twenty-four hours of mind-numbing boredom and struggling, would you?"... ♫... ☼... ♫...
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:50 am
CHARLIE JOHNSON
{Son of ATHENA}
Man she was good!
"You're right, I wouldn't want to sentence you to that. And I won't have to. Because nothing happened." He said sternly, not angrily, just sternly. "Besides, I think it would be funny to watch someone with your personality read medical textbooks. After all, medical textbooks bore me to tears, and few books have the honor of saying they can do that."
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CaptainSpaz00 Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:43 am
ƐɭǐɀȧƄȅƫȟ Ʀǒȿȧɭǐȵʠ ßȧɾʠʠȧụǥȟƫȅɾ ǒƒ Ãҏǒȴȴǒ... ♫... ☼... ♫... "Funny for you maybe. Not for me," Elizabeth said, frowning. "I know that there's something you're not telling me...." Her voice trailed off. Had she imagined whatever it had been? Charlie wouldn't lie to her. It must have been that. "Never mind. I trust you, nothing happened. So, what are we going to do today?"... ♫... ☼... ♫...
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