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Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: Camp Jupiter: Barracks to Caldecott Tunnel
Skills: N/A

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"Honestly, we can just use my Uber account guys. I have one set up for when I go to the city. It is even tied to a bank account, I promise. Dad likes to make sure I don't have to rely on public transportation all the time. Besides... I never liked it down in the Subway. It always feel like there was something down there. In fact, New York and I have never really agreed for reasons that made a lot more sense when I realized what I am." Marco sighed a bit as he gently pet Milo in the little papoose. He knew that most of the others might not have a working Uber account, but he did.

He turned to head towards the Caldecott tunnel and sighed a bit as they walked that way. It had been a while since he left the camp, and even longer since he had really seen his father. He did talk to him weekly, that was the least he could do for his dear old dad. His hand slipped into Em's and he made sure to keep pace with her even as she took point as they headed to the tunnel. He pulled out his cellphone and started to pull up the app they would need. He mentally cursed his dyslexia for a moment as he tried to find the Caldecott tunnel on the map. He spelt it several interesting ways first before finally landing on the correct one. What kept bugging him more was that spell check kept insisting it was wrong.

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

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Location: Feast Hall of the Slain
Skills: N/A

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Lara had barely sad down and gotten a much appreciated answer from Arnora when Runa, the new girl, asked Klara and Arnora to talk with her in person, as well as asking them to go talk in private. She sighed a bit at that as she looked up at her friends. "If you need any assistance, I am here to offer it. As well as to bind any oaths if needed." She sighed a bit at that point and then turned to Nadia and offered her a small smile. "Meeting up in thirty to introduce myself does sound like a good plan. I do know too well how overwhelming it can be here."

She looked to Arnora again and nodded. "She should have more time to adjust than what has been given to her. However... this is ominous..." She was aware that this could end poorly for all of them. The once dead god... back in the realm of the living. Lara was glad she had not brought any sharp implements to the table with her, otherwise she would be carving out chunks out of the wood with worry. She did look up as she saw Beth and Dalisy go to approach the Thanes's table and inwardly groaned. Were those two looking to add more trouble and chaos to the dinner already?

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: Camp Jupiter: Area Between Barracks -> In front of Barracks
Skills: N/A

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Marco was picking up quickly that none of them really knew how to drive, which did make sense. Him and Emily were pretty much living there year round, and it was not like they offered a New Rome Driving school. Maybe if they survived this quest he would figure out how to petition so they could make one. It was a handy skill for people in this day and age. His thought train was derailed when Madalyne started cooing over Milo and Marco couldn't help but swell with what was akin to fatherly pride. "He really is the cutest little thing ever, aren't you Milo? Well... after Emily. Second cutest thing." He smiled, even as the little sugar glider just looked more confused as another strange person cooed over him again.

Marco did pull out his cell phone at the mention of it and smiled a bit. "I've gotta be able to keep up on my fashion trends even when on a quest. But seems Waverly has Uber already. I do agree we should at least put some distance between us and the camp before ordering an Uber. I mean... this place is a secret from mortals. We can't have them come here... so we head for the nearest town?" Marco knew they were going to be an odd looking group, that was for sure, but thankfully the Mist would at least cloud the mind of whomever got the honor of being their Uber driver.

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

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Location: Feast Hall of the Slain
Skills: N/A

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"Well, thankfully you are not in her shoes but poor girl. It's never fun to die and then immediately get tasked with a quest... especially one like that." To be tasked with something like that... it most likely meant a trip to Hel's realm to retrieve the poor god, if she was only so lucky that was it. However... she couldn't just let the poor girl just suffer... so she got up and looked at John for a moment. "Interesting is one word for it. Ragnarok arriving sooner is another term for it too." She went to walk over to Runa and paused as she saw Arnora, Nadia and Klara with the new girl.

"Hey... how is she doing?" She looked towards Arnora as she asked that, and slid in next to the little group there. If any of them asked, she would reply honestly. She was there to offer her hand in help to the new girl. She could see just by looking at Runa that she didn't look like she was having a good day. Dying and then being told to go retrieve your dead father would probably put Lara in the same state as Runa. She would wait for Arnora to reply before she would speak to Runa as she didn't want to overwhelm the girl anymore.

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

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Location: Feast Hall of the Slain
Skills: N/A

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"I'll introduce myself later... seems that dinner and the reviews of the deaths are going to start soon..." Lara trailed off a bit as Helgi began to speak and address everyone there. She sighed as she looked up at the recountings and then smiled a bit. A US Soldier was saving children, another and another... all Heroic efforts. Lara did smile and bow her head to the soldier. She had always appreciated Soldiers when she saw them, as she felt a sort of kinship with them. Of course, in one way or another, they were were all fighters, and soldiers. Some on one side of the war, some on another. Goodness knew she had seen a few fights break out for the first decade or so after she had arrived. She had even been involved in some of those...

She was recounting with fondness of a time she had punched an ex-Italian fascist soldier in the face after her arrival at the hotel when the girl she had noticed before death was played out. The weapon in her hand... was a toy? One she didn't know well. (She had never bothered keeping up with pop culture sometimes, but she knew that toy was a popular weapon in some science fiction series.) The rune however, that caught her attention. She was not sure she had seen a child of Baldur in a good long time. Heck, she wasn't sure she had even seen a child of Baldur arriving herself since she had gotten there. That was then when she remembered... he was dead. At Loki's hands. And last she heard, he was still in Hel's realm.

Her heart dropped into the pit her stomach was forming and she pushed her food away and then shivered as the Norn's surrounded the new girl, Runa, and spoke prophecy. A quest... to bring back the god of Light himself. The silence that had crept over the hall was soon broken by yells and cries as everyone was surprised to hear that the long dead god was to be brought back.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: Cohort 5 Barracks -> Area Between Barracks
Skills: N/A

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"Waverly, not that I'm doubting your power darling, but at least take a breast plate. Trust me... magic does not always work against some of the Immortals..." Marco shuddered a bit at that as he thought. Ever since the talk of another war his mind had been flashing back to that day... the weeks leading up to it... He had thought he was going crazy when he saw a giant man in those storms and then... when Lupa had informed him the Giant man he had seen had been Typhon... father of monsters. He had gotten a perfect view of the monster being dragged into the Hudson that day and it had shaken him to his core.

"Huh? Oh yes, I do believe if we have to go there I will entrust another to care for Milo. I don't want my little baby to have to suffer through that." He cooed as he thanked Emily for the papoose and gently tucked Milo into it before strapping it around his chest. He then found a spare shield that he had been borrowing and strapped it to his back, as well as an Imperial Gold dagger that he enjoyed using. It was better to be prepared for a fight and not need the knife, than to walk into a peace conference and find everyone else was out for blood. Especially given whom his mother was. He was well aware that given whom she was, sometimes he had a target painted on him, even more so when his charmspeak became apparent.

He finished packing up and gave Milo a little grape and then walked out and paused when Emily and Niah mentioned taking buses to Mount Tam. "I don't suppose we can just rent or borrow a car and drive there instead? Or borrow a van? That might be something we need to talk to Nancy about... because I'm pretty sure it's not... that far from San Francisco and where we are."

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: The Augery -> Cohort 5 Barracks
Skills: N/A

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Marco also waved to Alexandra at that point and sighed as he heard the click. He didn't blame her for wanting to be alone at that point... his own mind was still reeling and his thoughts were in a cloud of conflict. He did nod his head to Niah as they passed her, and she informed them that they would be meeting up once everyone was done packing. As he headed into the Cohort, there was a familiar chattering sound that perked him up instantly as he dashed over to the little cage near his bed. "Hey little boy, yeah, daddy's here..." He cooed as he went to open the little cage and then gently held Milo, his sugar glider, in his hands. "I missed you too." He smiled as Milo seemed to relax and then he paused in realization. Besides Em, there was no one else he could trust to watch Milo, and since Em was coming with him on the quest...

"Em, love, do you know where I left the little carrier for Milo? You know, the chest snuggy one?" Marco went to start picking out things to pack, like his knife and the message compact, but also started grabbing some of Milo's food and the little blanket the sugar glider liked to nap in. Even if the praetors had issue with it, he was going to bring his little baby with him on this quest. "Armor couldn't hurt, Waverley... though make sure it is something easy to move around in. Just in case."

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

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Location: Feast Hall of the Slain
Skills: N/A

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"Sure... Sunshine is the word I'd use for her." Lara was too painfully aware her relationship with Dalisy was strained. They were not friends by even the broadest of terms, and they were not enemies either. "No, just leave here... others are arriving to keep her from doing anything else too blatant." Lara did brighten up a bit when she noticed Arnora and Klara, and they entered with Nadia and... someone Lara had not seen before. That wasn't uncommon. Even for all her years there at the hotel she did not know everyone. Sometimes it had to do with floors, and sometimes it just had to do with the sheer number of people in the hotel.

However, Lara watched as Nadia steered her towards the front table. Maybe a new death perhaps? That did make sense. There was always at least one these days it seemed... there use to be more but it seemed that either there was less of them, or people were not dying as nobly as they might have in the past. "Looks like we might have a few new people tonight. How interesting."

🌳 Hotel Valhalla: & the Gods of Asgard 🌳

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Location: Feast Hall of the Slain
Skills: N/A

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"Not now... maybe after dinner I'll try to catch up with Elizabeth and see what's going on, but not much sense in trying now. It's only getting more crowded, and I'm pretty hungry." Lara's eyes followed Johns to see Magnus Chase and Alex Fierro, who were pretty famous, well them and their floor mates. Lara couldn't help but be worried for a moment, as children of Loki were always... Tricky. That was part of her issue with Elizabeth sometimes. It honestly wasn't their fault, just the problem laid more in what one of their siblings was. The Fenris Wolf. The very wolf that had taken her father's hand, (which yes he had offered willingly,) but it did not make it easier for her swallow that fact.

She did wave softly when she noticed another one of her siblings near Alex, T.J. She rather liked him, and had spoken to him at least once before. She was still looking around the room for some of her other friends and frowned as she noticed that still neither Arnora or Klara was there yet. However, her attention was diverted when she heard someone shove a sword through another person and groaned. "Would be nice to go a meal without someone getting stabbed, but that isn't happening here now, is it?"

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

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Location: The Augery
Skills: N/A

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Marco could sense Emily move into his arm, and knew that she could pick up what was going through his mind, and it made him smile a little. Em sometimes knew him better than he did himself, and he was thankful for they had. Sure, he sometimes got eyerolls from his siblings about what he and Emily had, and he knew full well how his mother felt about relationships in general. "Better to have love and lost, than to have never loved at all." What a load of crock that was to Marco sometimes.

Waverley's voice pried him right out of his own thoughts, which he was thankful for. First dwelling on the Battle of New York, and then his mother were not the things his mind needed to dwell on for the moment. "I am guessing we will need to be mindful of Atlas's guest then, as well as the monsters. That was not unexpected. Isn't that tree there with that creature in it?" Marco had remembered hearing about the golden apples once, or reading about them before. Hercules had been tasked with getting one if he remembered right. "Thank you for your help, Alexandra. I guess it is time to pack. Shall we head back to Cohort 5 and pack up ladies?" He gently took Emily's hand again, as it would be easier to walk hand in hand rather than arm in arm.