"You already said all that, I guess you can leave now." He said with distain in his voice. Michael just wanted to get the stupid fleece back and go back to normal life, and the goddess of Hecate or anything she creates is far from normal. Michael sat back down on the couch and wait for some privicy so they could continue there discussion uninterrupted.

Val sighed and muttered something spanish about boys being egotistical idiots. She set her back pack on the table, moving the crystal out of her way so she could work on the armor Shay was letting her make for him. She took her tools and a pair of unmodified cuffs out and began working on them. She cursed when the crystal somehiw goy in her way. "Madre de dios! keep that damned thing out of my my way you hijo de putas! If you mess me up, you could ruin the whole set! Maldito!" She growled at them and went back to work.

As Seth walked off, Nevea quickly discussed how the Hephaestus cabin could use the ice constructs, including mechanising/weaponising them. She didn't have the mechanical knowledge necessary to make something too complicated, which is why she would work with them to create the constructs. As she finished discussing what they would do, she made her way to the Big House and took a stroll around it, listening as she did so to see if she could make anything work for her. She heard what Seth was saying and quickly figured out his plans, chuckling inwardly at how perfectly conniving he was being. She would definitely get to know more about him.

As she listened, she decided that there wasn't much she could do to boost her standing with the campers through the quest. Thinking a bit, she set upon using her defence of the cabin through her ice constructs. She would, of course, make sure that those that helped her would get some credit, so that nobody would seem suspicious. She finished her "stroll" and went off to her cabin to prepare a new look for starting to plan the constructs.

A dress was not good for the setting, so she settled upon a sky-blue blazer over a snowy-white long-sleeve, which had buttoned cuffs. Both the blazer and the shirt had faint swirls of wind. She also put on white dress-pants. This was one of her "business-as-usual" outfit sets, although she frequently interchanged pieces. She changed her make-up from casual to formal. She kept on her light, thin shoes, but removed the designs she had formed on it out of ice. She tucked her hair between her blazer and shirt, so that it faded into the blue, and satisfied with her look, she walked out of the cabin and toward the Hephaestus cabin, where she waited for Seth so that they could begin planning.

Lucas left waited outside the main cabin, he felt bad that he had trivialized the defense of a the camp and suggested a party, but still he wanted to see the quest go-ers off. Maybe play a little uplifting music while they went on their ways. He realized he had left his Lyre at his cabin, and decided he would just hum on whichever way they walked. While it was just humming, his way had a bit of magical power behind it, and he was sure they would like it.

Austin nodded," sounds good." He paused, thinking he heard mention of something that could be used to defend the camp as a bunch on bustling Hephaestus kids crossed by. He said," should you or me go check out what they are talking about? Because if it is defensive stuff, it could effect our border patrol." He glanced towards the Hephaestus cabin, spotting Nevea just waiting there in front of it. Now that wasn't normal.

Shæ laughed at Val. "You really have a potty mouth. Spanish or not you know how to swear." She laughed again.

Val laughed with her. "You can blame my nana for that. she swore a new curse around me every day. I think she was trying to teach me a how to curse like a sailor." She smiled as she worked.

"I've got other things I need to attend to anyway," Seth remarked as he looked at a clock nearby. He had spent a longer time here than he had originally intended to, but really, what could he have expected? The demigod stretched his hand out towards his creation and caused it to levitate off the table and returned it to its original place floating in the air.

"Use it carefully, if you do. Make sure you all succeed and come back alive, it really does suck when anyone is lost on these quests."

Seth had said the last bit with some actual sincerity in his voice, but before anyone could respond if they wanted to, he was already out the door and walking towards where he'd expect Nevea to be at. He rotated his neck and shoulders a bit to relieve some of the tension that had built up.

After a few minutes of walking, Seth finally saw the Hephaestus cabin come into view. He could see Nevea standing out there waiting, and was pleased to see she was prompt at getting to where she needed to be.

"Nevea," he called out as he stopped next to the cabin. "Wait, did you just-"

He could have sworn the girl had changed her style at least twice already. And he thought only Aphrodite's children did that.

"Nevermind, we should get started on discussing what we need to."

The demigod waited for her to begin speaking.

SomeoneSomewere said
Austin nodded," sounds good." He paused, thinking he heard mention of something that could be used to defend the camp as a bunch on bustling Hephaestus kids crossed by. He said," should you or me go check out what they are talking about? Because if it is defensive stuff, it could effect our border patrol." He glanced towards the Hephaestus cabin, spotting Nevea just waiting there in front of it. Now that wasn't normal.

I'll deal with this, for now I need you to deal with organizing our guys to a fighting force in case we are attacked" Angelo then patted his brothers back as he went towards neva to see what was wrong and then see about talking to the campers in hephaestus cabin

Val sighed. "Are we gonna get going or what? We are supposed to be on a quest." She ooked over at the wine god. "Hey Mr.D can i have a bag of those cheetos por favor?"

IC: "I really am sorry for him," a quiet voice spoke from the door, the girl in it watching as Seth walked away. She'd meant to catch up to him earlier, but there had been so many injuries... "He means well, but speaks badly."

She turned her head to face the others, a little fire in her eyes."He is right, though, and you people just smashed him for it. There's no way you'll find that fleece without some kind of tracking device or clue, and right now his crystal is your best bet."

Morning's fingers twitched inside her gauntlets and she bit her lower lip. "I may be able to remove the darkness and just leave the tracking charm, but there's no guarantee that it won't explode, and honestly... After the way you treated my brother... Not feeling oh so giving right now."

Michael stood up and grabed the crystal out of the air and placed it back on the wood of the table. He then slammed both his palms on the table and the center of the table morphed and a small wooden box lay there around the crystal. "I'm not takin that or touching it ever again... its evil, andi don't trust that kid one bit" Michael thought to himself that the boys sister wasn't all that bad bjt he was a royal prick. Michael walked out of the cabin and stood out front to wait for the rest of the campers to deside what they wanted to do. He saw a boy standing here looking at the main cabin expectantly.

Val looked up from where she was working and said to the girl "Im sorry señora but when he stole my fire it unnerved me. Even if hes you brother I'm allowed to decide whether i trust him or not. Maldito, you people sure like misunderstandings dont you?" She slipped her cuff off, put the other one on and pressed the button. Armor slid up to her shoulder with a click. Val grinned. "Yes! It works!" She looked at the girl in the doorway. "This is cool sí?" She laughed. "This works very well. lightweight, flexible and easy to wear. This is the best I've done sofar ." She pressed the button and the armor slid down again. She tossed the cuffs to Shay. "If you wear both and press the button both will click into place." She told him.

Michael stoped grabbing back at his shoulders "I hope you know what your doing Val for Shay's sake, I've never seen retractable armor that's on size fits all he said then small tinges of gree and blue swirled from th box and the wood blackened and petrafied and the green and blue flew into Michaels fingeertips. Michael sat down on the steps of the main cabin and tried to make sure hey weren't gonna get any more evesdroppers.

"Okay, to make it clear, I only took one year of Spanish." Vic motioned jokingly towards Valen. "I have no idea what she's saying. I just know she's cursing a lot."

Her eyes gazed at the crystal, something she in fact didn't inspect earlier. No person just randomly does that. She thought. But how Valen and Michael seemed to react, should they really take the risk of even touching it again? Nobody just randomly turns nice, even for people going on a quest. She sighed, and turned her attention back to the Zorya. "Okay. I'm guessing either two things: One. Your bother's a demon. Two. He just wants to help so he can get some cred."

"I'd rather know which one is correct. Because right now, I'm going with the latter."

Val smirked at Vics comment. "I may speak fluent conversatinal spanish but i like cursing in spanish more. As for the cuffs, I've never failed to size someone right. If it doesnt work and hurts Shay i will bang my head on the table repeatredly all the while screaming in spanish about how stupid i am. I'll call myself a hijo de puta. That is the worst curse Nana taught me."

Val smiled. "Put one on Shay. I need to know if its a good fit." She twiddled with a few scraps and turned out a bronze owl the size of a pen. The owl lit on fire and flew around the room going back to land on Vals Hand.

SomeoneSomewere said
Austin nodded," sounds good." He paused, thinking he heard mention of something that could be used to defend the camp as a bunch on bustling Hephaestus kids crossed by. He said," should you or me go check out what they are talking about? Because if it is defensive stuff, it could effect our border patrol." He glanced towards the Hephaestus cabin, spotting Nevea just waiting there in front of it. Now that wasn't normal.

Nevea noticed Austin looking at her, but made nothing of it. He wasn't her focus right now, her focus was defence, and subsequently boosting her reputation. Some could say she put safety after standing, which was nearly true, but could not be proven satisfactorily. She was later found to be the unfortunate victim of a certain rare and misunderstood disease called "caring what other people think". She, of course, thought this completely and utterly absurd.

Krein said
"I've got other things I need to attend to anyway," Seth remarked as he looked at a clock nearby. He had spent a longer time here than he had originally intended to, but really, what could he have expected? The demigod stretched his hand out towards his creation and caused it to levitate off the table and returned it to its original place floating in the air."Use it carefully, if you do. Make sure you all succeed and come back alive, it really does suck when anyone is lost on these quests."Seth had said the last bit with some actual sincerity in his voice, but before anyone could respond if they wanted to, he was already out the door and walking towards where he'd expect Nevea to be at. He rotated his neck and shoulders a bit to relieve some of the tension that had built up. After a few minutes of walking, Seth finally saw the Hephaestus cabin come into view. He could see Nevea standing out there waiting, and was pleased to see she was prompt at getting to where she needed to be."Nevea," he called out as he stopped next to the cabin. "Wait, did you just-"He could have sworn the girl had changed her style at least twice already. And he thought only Aphrodite's children did that."Nevermind, we should get started on discussing what we need to."The demigod waited for her to begin speaking.

Ah, there he was, Seth. Her eyes turned to him as he came toward her and she waved him over, with a slight smile on her face that fit perfectly with her business air. She had completely expected his next question, and as he cut short, she quickly responded, "Yes. Yes I did." She did not care to explain, for it was a very lengthy and tedious description of the reason for her constant changes of outfit. This is that description:

She liked to be perfectly dressed for every occasion.

You can now see just how boringly long it is and understand why she didn't like to explain. Most anyone would get bored after the first letter, that was how long it was.

"So let's get to business," she began, with a slight steeliness in her voice that also added to the business air about her. She also adjusted the tones in her voice when she changed outfits, in case it hadn't been noticed yet. She was thorough to a fault. Not that she made any. "The Hephaestus cabin is ready to hear me out on weaponising my ice constructs. And of course you can add what you will to the conversation." That was the end of it, so she opened the door to the cabin and walked in.

Immediately, she felt warmer. That was not good at all. She was not comfortable with warm temperatures, not at all. So, she quickly cooled herself down, making sure that the temperature effect wouldn't go much farther than half a foot away from her. "So, we're here because of defence," she began, to strike up the conversation. "Particularly mechanising and weaponising my ice constructs."

((If you could play the Hephaestus kids, that would be absolutely peachy.))

Trey, a 15 year old spoke. "And how do you prpose we do that? Do you even know what kind of defense you're wanting to use?" Trey studied her. "Like traps and hidden alarms and things?"

((like that you mean? just random kids?))

Angelo walked over to nevea and he hard about her idea for ice constructs for defense so Angelo though it would be a good idea to work with that. "Nevea, I'm Angelo from Zeus cabin and were trying to work on a defence for the camp to. My campers are more organized and are able to follow orders. My guys can set up a defensive perimeter until you can get those ice constructs in place then we can set up an alarm system if you feel we can work on this together" Angelo offered knowing that she didn't have the manpower needed to both defend and construct the defenses

IrishAngelQueen said
Trey, a 15 year old spoke. "And how do you prpose we do that? Do you even know what kind of defense you're wanting to use?" Trey studied her. "Like traps and hidden alarms and things?"((like that you mean? just random kids?))

((I was talking about Krein.))

whizzball1 said
Nevea noticed Austin looking at her, but made nothing of it. He wasn't her focus right now, her focus was defence, and subsequently boosting her reputation. Some could say she put safety after standing, which was nearly true, but could not be proven satisfactorily. She was later found to be the unfortunate victim of a certain rare and misunderstood disease called "caring what other people think". She, of course, thought this completely and utterly absurd.Ah, there he was, Seth. Her eyes turned to him as he came toward her and she waved him over, with a slight smile on her face that fit perfectly with her business air. She had completely expected his next question, and as he cut short, she quickly responded, "Yes. Yes I did." She did not care to explain, for it was a very lengthy and tedious description of the reason for her constant changes of outfit. This is that description:She liked to be perfectly dressed for every occasion.You can now see just how boringly long it is and understand why she didn't like to explain. Most anyone would get bored after the first letter, that was how long it was."So let's get to business," she began, with a slight steeliness in her voice that also added to the business air about her. She also adjusted the tones in her voice when she changed outfits, in case it hadn't been noticed yet. She was thorough to a fault. Not that she made any. "The Hephaestus cabin is ready to hear me out on weaponising my ice constructs. And of course you can add what you will to the conversation." That was the end of it, so she opened the door to the cabin and walked in.Immediately, she felt warmer. That was not good at all. She was not comfortable with warm temperatures, not at all. So, she quickly cooled herself down, making sure that the temperature effect wouldn't go much farther than half a foot away from her. "So, we're here because of defence," she began, to strike up the conversation. "Particularly mechanising and weaponising my ice constructs."((If you could play the Hephaestus kids, that would be absolutely peachy.))

Seth dismissed her first statement since it wasn't exactly of importance to him she had changed her outfit, or how many times she had done so in a single day. He was amused by it really and figured that Nevea did so to try and appear "appropriately" for each situation she went to face.

"Straight to the point then? Good."

He was thankful that she wasn't the type to drag things out. After the long and vexing conversations he had had with the idiots in the Big House, Seth wasn't in any mood to talk with anyone else. Furthermore, he knew they should set up their defences fast.

The Hephaestus cabin was hot, though that was expected seeing it belonged to children of the forge god. He allowed Nevea to start off the talk since it was her ice constructs they'd be using. With her finished, a kid named Trey responded and asked what kinds of things they'd be wanting to create, and that's when Seth did begin speaking.

"As I'm not sure Nevea's capable of producing an entire wall of ice around the entire camp in one go," he said as he spotted a map of the camp and placed it on a table, "My suggestion is that she and I form ice and crystal 'turrets' along the border. Let me show you."

Small crystal formations began to rise on the map as Seth's magic energy condensed. They were blue and red to indicate that they'd be fusing their creations together. The exact places where the crystals formed where at the main entrances of the camp, and other separate mini constructs rose along places where monsters might try to breach for surprise attacks.

"With my crystals ensuring her ice has a greater chance of staying intact, they should have no problem in releasing a chilling aura to and from each other to create a pseudo barrier. The cold should ideally slow and weaken most of the monsters that try and get through, and deter any lesser monsters from even trying."

Seth then remembered the mention of traps and weaponizing Nevea's ice. Since his crystals had the tendency to become volatile when fused with Hephestean creations (at least when they were fused in the first place by amateurs), using her ice would be safer.

"I'm sure you Hephaestus kids can rig up traps to place along the borders. However, my siblings and I can assist you in creating rune traps. As for Nevea's using ice... perhaps she should explain that part herself."

Seth now turned his attention to the recent arrival, Angelo. A child of Zeus obviously, but he didn't particularly have a significant problem with him or his siblings. As Angelo had said, they were organized and disciplined, and more mature than other halfbloods here.

"Your siblings will be good in further securing the perimeter. It shouldn't be too hard to fight off anything that might get through the pseudo barrier, especially since it'll be weakened if it does cross. Another thing you all should take care of are the crystal-ice constructs. They're more durable now they'll be fused together, but not entirely unbreakable from constant and heavy damage."