Game Thread Camp Half-Blood

HellzCalling · #1 07-30-2009, 04:53 PM

It was early in the morning, you could hear a couple of the other kids rising getting ready for breakfast. It was the usual routine to say the least. The summer was just starting but already the camp had started to fill up as new Demi-gods showed up at each meal. Never had you seen a summer like this with so many fresh faces, and never had so many been claimed at such a rapid pace. (a mark of who their parrentage was).

It had just been a couple summers ago when Kronus' army had nearly wiped out the entire camp, and all the demi-gods, let alone crushed Mount Olympius (Which was conveniently located on the 300th floor of the Empire State Building), and dethroned the olympians.

You surmised you best be getting up soon, Dionysus had not been in a good mood lately, well rather he had been in a sorry mood ever since his

though being stuck here once again did not help things, and he was never in that much of a good mood to begin with.

The Hephaestus cabin was one of a kind, well each of the cabins where, but you took pride in yours. Metal made up most of the interiour, the bunks were made of metal, the trim work was metal, the floor was even metal in spots. It was a recent renovation, on that you had under took. The far back wall had a fully functional forge, and though it created a deadly heat in the summer, it was comfortable for you "kids."

"Hey... Hey Nick... You up yet?" you vaguely recognized the voice, and looking through sleep encrusted eyes didn't help much either though you guessed correctly at it being the newest half-brother of yours, Dixon. The poor kid was no older than 13, though he had just watched his mother and father, well his step-father though you weren't going to tell him that, be blown to smithereens.

He had instantly stuck to you, and as Cabin head you wouldn't have much of any other choice anyways.

uncanny · #2 07-30-2009, 09:23 PM

Damon rolls over in his bed. Trying his best to block out Dixon's voice. He pretends to be sleep but the kid was persistent. Finally grabbing his pillow with one hand he hits Dixon in the face with it. "The name's Damon fool" To be honest Damon probably could have been nicer to the kid but it really wasn' his style. Grabbing a snickers bar he had hidden under his other pillow. The Hephaestus cabin leader unwraps the chocolate snack and takes a huge bite. Looking over at Dixon who looked as though he might cry "What you want a apology well you aren't gonna get one from me, but I tell you what you can get a snickers bar." Damon holds the candy out for Dixon, but when the kid grabs for it. Damon pulls the candy out of the boys reach. "for about a buck fifty." A few of their other half brothers share a laugh. Using the oppurtunity Damon lumbers out of bed and quickly slips on some steel toed boots. Walking towards the back of the cabin he grabs two metal objects from the forge and clanks them together stomps hard on the metal parts of cabin waking up his fellow cabin mates. "Get up you lazy bums breakfast don't wait for nobody"

Once everyone is dressed Damon leads them out of the cabin and towards the mess hall, but not before having a quiet word with Dixon. After all he was bully but he knew what the kid was going through. "Don't take it personal kid i'm just not a morning person, just remember my name is Damon, and give me a few extra minutes of sleep in the morning and you'll be alright"

HellzCalling · #3 07-30-2009, 11:10 PM

The group gets up slowly, there was about 12 kids in all including yourself and Dixon. Most of them grumbled, they weren't exactly happy, but they knew better than to cross you and especially to upset Dionysus.

As you pull Dixon aside as the group leaves the cabin, you see him quickly wipe away some... grime... from his face. "Ahh... oh... oh ok. Sorry Damon, just thought it was Nick is all, not sure why."

He follows you closely as you trudge the familiar path up to the mess hall.

"So... You're dad's Hephaestus too? I mean, all of them, them too right? So that makes us, like... like brothers? right?"

uncanny · #4 07-31-2009, 12:03 AM

"Yep we are all the kids of Hephaestus which makes us half brothers. All twelve of us although since I've been coming to this camp I've seen plenty of us running around. I guess Hephaestus has been a pretty busy guy which is weird because I've always heard he was ugly"

Leading the rest of the group inside the mess hall. The cabin sit at their own table to eat. The nearly obese Damon of course having the most food shoved on his plate. He has a stack of fifteen pancakes coated in maple syrup while he tries to enjoy his meal he notices Dixon has many more questions to ask. Inbetween bites Damon obliges the young kid feeling in a somewhat better mood after he had some food in his stomach.He even asks the youngster a few questions of his own. "So Dixon were you from?"

HellzCalling · #5 07-31-2009, 01:22 PM

The open aired mess hall was just north of the cabins, which where no longer a U and more of a large oval. The mess hall sat near the edge of the long island sound and fireworks beach. To the east of it was the Euros Creek which separated the serious part of camp with the light hearted part. Though the serious was still very much fun, it was always with purpose compared to the silliness that could be attributed to some of the activities east of Euros Creek. Your table was long and square, on the other side was the Athena table, cousins of yours, on the opposite side was the table that was occupied by kids of Ares... More cousins... They were loud and routy infighting and starting mini food fights with themselves.

Up at the head of the hall, was the big table, sitting here where a couple figures you hadn't seen before. One spoke to Dionysus the other to Chiron, both seemed very serious and had an air similar to Dionysus. You figured them to be minor gods. Those had been popping up just as often as new demi-gods these days. Ever since that Percy kid made some pact with Zeus, new Gods had been showing up, erecting cabins, then leaving. No more than a week later a bunch of new kids would show up and start living in that cabin.

For Example, Enyo sister to Ares, as close to a twin as you could get without being twins. She even dressed like him. She raised a cabin with the help of the Ares cabin, which was weird enough as it was. Not to mention, it looked eerily similar to theirs as well. There where now 5 Demi-gods living in that cabin, and every time you had war in the woods, Enyo and Ares were on a side, making it very difficult for the Athena campers.

Next to the big table was the hearth, the place where you sacrificed a portion of every meal to the Olympians, before you sat down and enjoyed the rest for yourself. It was an honored ritual, and those who forgot seemed to find things going very wrong for them. You had noted that for being eternal, it was very easy to get under their skin.

When you speak to Dixon he talks through a mouthful of toast.

Uuumm Fron Heree." He says, spitting out a number of bred crumbs.

uncanny · #6 07-31-2009, 04:58 PM

As Raymond enjoys his breafast and notes the new renovations to the camp he had been coming to for the past few summers. He countinues his small talk with his younger half brother Dixon all the while taking into account the growing number of cousins seated at either side of the Hephaestus table. When something Dixon said catches his attention.

"Wait a minute your from New York.., I'm from Harlem which borough did you grow up in"

HellzCalling · #7 08-02-2009, 12:05 PM

He takes a rather big swallow, coughing a bit before clearing his throat. "Not here, I was trying to say Jersey. Though it was hard with that toast, it was rather dry. From the south shore of Jersey though. Some goat kid found me and brought me here, not before we got chased half way down the George Washington Bridge by a seal like dog."

uncanny · #8 08-02-2009, 12:39 PM

"Hmmm... You were brought here by a satyr by the sounds of it. Did you happen to catch his name?, As far as the seal beast I can't help you out with that one. Just know that you will always be hunted because of your dei-god status." Damon shrugs his shoulders at the kid while he finishes off his pancakes. After downing half his glass of orange juice he countinues. "But they have people at this camp who will teach you how to defend yourself, and since your a kid of Hephaestus you should have a natural talent for creating things such as weapons and such."
Damon swallows the rest of his juice then waits for the other at the table to finisih up.

HellzCalling · #9 08-02-2009, 04:47 PM

The meal goes slowly, though there is never enough time to eat for the kids at the camp. Dixon remains quiet the rest of the meal, perhaps he was thinking about the seal creature, or trying very hard to remember the satyr's name.

Either way soon enough the cabins where raising from the table for their general duties. The Hephaestus cabin would need to be cleaned before anything else, but soon enough you'd be back at the forge crafting up some items. As you where headed down the well trodden path to the cabin oval you were intercepted by a blonde haired girl. She was much shorter than you but older than most the campers. You knew her well, she was Annabeth. Friend of Percy and child of Athena, head of the athena cabin as it were.

"Hey Damon, what would it take for the Hephaestus cabin to team up with us at tonight war game?"

uncanny · #10 08-02-2009, 05:36 PM

Damon waits for Dixon to answer his question about the Satyr but the kid goes all non reponsive. It mattered little to Damon who was merely speaking with the boy just to be 'friendly'. Honestly Damon wasn't the friendly sort and the fact that he had been made head of the cabin baffled him everyday. He never thought of himself as a leader and hated anyone in a place of authrioty, But the powers that be had spoken and the Hephaestus cabin was his to lead.

After his brothers finished thier meals Damon lead them back to the cabin. "Alright you maggots back to the cabin. You know what time it is we have to clean the cabin. Hey don't look at me like that if you weren't such slobs it wouldn't be such a big deal." Hearing one of his brothers say something under thier breath causes Damon to respond "So what if half of the mess in the cabin is from my candy wrappers. You all still have to clean it up"

After he spots Annabeth and she asks him her question. Damon strokes his chin deep in thought. This was part of the job that he was still getting used to the politics of being a cabin head. He wasn't blind he saw how the new Enyo campers had been making it hard for the Athena cabin. Enyo & Ares cabin had consistently tag teamed up on the Athena's during war games. Damon had to think of the possible ramifications of his decision to help annabeth. Fortunately for her Damon didn't care for the Ares cabin much.

"The Hephaestus cabin will team up with the Athena cabin for war games tonight, Whatever you wanna give in return me and my boys will appreciate"

HellzCalling · #11 08-03-2009, 11:54 AM

She looks you over suspiciously, before peering into the cabin.

"I suppose your just in a rush to try and get back to cleaning this place before inspection. Alright I've got something for you. You team up with us, and I'll give you the plans to an automaton from Daedalus' laptop."

Suffice that would do, she turns and walks cross the way to the Athenian cabin, which was sure to be spotless, as it always was.

uncanny · #12 08-03-2009, 08:25 PM

Damon felt sure that Annabeth would offer to go easy on her cabin inspection duties. So when she offered the plans for the automaton Damon was uttertly shocked. As she walked away to her cabin the chubby demi god began to realize how desperate she was to win.

Walking up to his cabin he could see through the doorway that most of his brothers were busy clowning around other then actually cleaning. It wasn't until they saw Damon enter the room that they began to seriously tidy up the room. "Hurry it up you knuckleheads we don't have much time until Annabeth does her inspection, by the way you snot nosed punks should know we are gonna be in tonights war games teamed up with the Athena cabin."

Letting the news sink in Damon shakes the crumbs from his sheets before walking to the back of the room to tidy up the forge. He thinks about the automaton from daedalus labtop wondering what it'll look like and how long it'll take him to build it while the rest of the cabin cleans up.

HellzCalling · #13 08-03-2009, 11:15 PM

The cleaning goes rather quickly as the entire cabin works on it, though most of the mess is shoved into chests, or under mattresses, what mattered was that it appeared clean.

The forge was probably the neatest part of the whole cabin, and like wise another good reason for you to choose it to clean. It was simple enough, move the cooling scraps into an orderly row instead of a messy pile, and place the hammer on the anvil... Not much else needed fixing.

Soon enough Annabeth came back around, she quickly looked through the cabin before making marks down on her clip board, nodding to you and taking off. "Good enough Damon. We'll see you for crafts later, we can speak about strategy then."

With the Cabin inspection over with, it was time to start up with some chores. It was Hephaestus' duty to muck the stall this week. Lucky for you, you had to supervise the armory and would not be required to help.

uncanny · #14 08-04-2009, 12:04 AM

Damon nods to Annabeth as they make plans to meet later and make more... plans?

Once she leaves to inspect more cabins Damon arrogantly tells his half-brothers. "Time to put on your aprons ladies and muck those stalls, perphaps the workout will give Dixon enough time to put on a bit of muscle before the games tonight." Grabbing a few candy bars which he stuffs into his pockets Damon sets out for the armory

HellzCalling · #15 08-12-2009, 05:28 PM

It doesn't take long for Damon to reach the smithy. Passing by a few stragglers who where rushing back to their cabins, mostly kids from the Hermes cabin. You notice a few wood nyphms as well. They were usual sight on camp, they often went to visit Dyonious while he dallied in the mess hall.

Reaching the smith you were greeted by the warmth of the fires. Scraps of metal mountains high stood on the near wall, while hammers and anvils lined the opposite wall. The far wall had great fires and billows to beckon them ever greater.