Teaser The Return of the King - 11 December 2024
Added 2024-12-11 11:49:04 +0000 UTCProud citizens of the Republic of Madness!
I find myself unable to resist the calls of the Muse, which is pushing me to increase the word count of the current chapter of an Impractical Guide to Godhood!
At which point did I begin to have suspicions? Oh, when we were past 30K words and the scenes were far from done...
Now, things have progressed so well (for a definition of 'well', of course) that I am worried the Tyrant will have his wish, and we will beat the 40K threshold once more...
Maybe the madness of Kairos Theodosian is contagious after all...
Anyway.
It is the eleventh of December, let's hammer the red button of escalation once more!
Comments
I guess I have just missed the limitations Perseus is operating under. He has so consistently been able to pull off bullshit that I just assume if he wanted to, he could pull off more. His diplomatic immunity is guaranteed by the Styx (if Zeus swore on that, I don't recall) and Poseidon and Hades threats of revolt of Zeus attacks Perseus. I would expect all three of them to be willing to let him do what he wanted as long as he could plausibly claim not to have broken the letter of his obligations. He is friends with lots of Gods including most subordinates of Hades and Neptune. He also has a seemingly limitless pile of rare artifacts. The idea that there wasn't something he could have given Jenna and Ellen to give them more options or let them call for help is hard to believe. Failing all that wherever Artemis took them is bound to be near water so why hasn't the member of Poseidon's court responsible for the Amazon river shown up yet to offer Perseus' friends a helping hand? If he can't he can't but he has pulled off so much that isn't willing to spend the resources on Jenna and Ellen seems more likely to me.
Nicholas
2024-12-14 15:26:15 +0000 UTCI...wouldn't say exactly that? It's more like Perseus thinks they're important where potential plans for the Hunt are concerned, but he can't exactly risk the breaking of his diplomatic immunity for them. Furthermore, with Artemis being the one who grabbed them, there was no way he could give them a tracker or something like that. So Perseus has to wait for them to contact him...which in the middle of the Amazonian forest, evidently is easier than done.
Antony444
2024-12-14 10:06:16 +0000 UTCWill likely be corrected in the final version of the chapter before I will send everything to the beta, thanks.
Antony444
2024-12-14 10:04:19 +0000 UTCThanks for the Teaser. Like everyone else it was the section about the huntresses that caught my eye. The big thing I drew from it was the Percy does not think Jenna and Ellen are important. If he wanted them back there is a lot he could have done to help them or give them an opportunity to power up and he didn't do any of it. I therefor conclude that he thinks of them as useful but easily replaced.
Nicholas
2024-12-13 18:50:26 +0000 UTCI found a spelling issue. There is the word condiment instead of confident
blake anderson
2024-12-12 22:19:01 +0000 UTCIn the book Artemis appears at first (book 3 of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books) it is expressedly said that Artemis refuses her Huntresses to be near boys, doesn't tolerate love, and that she is keeping deliberately them eternally young so they don't have funny ideas about sex and the like. Moreover, when a Prophecy is made that Huntresses and Questers must go together, the Huntresses are offended by the thought of them needing males, and do their utmost to get rid of the Questers, before 'tolerating' just girls, accepting 'generously' they just need to remove males. Even a Huntress being taken out by a prank gets the reaction 'oh, well, we will go with one fewer member' instead of you know, getting Percy as the replacement. It takes in canon the son of Poseidon taking down a Nemean Lion for his presence to begin to be tolerated. Otherwise, Artemis is not that bad when she is present, but well, Percy saves her from carrying the sky, and then again from being demolished by Atlas in personal combat. It takes a lot to make sure the Huntresses begin to get tolerant of young Demigods...who have done nothing but existing. And while canon Artemis is more willing to side with Perseus, well, this is not the Perseus she has to deal with in this story. Plus to be honest, most of the time, we see little of the Hunt on a day-to-day basis.
Antony444
2024-12-12 18:09:48 +0000 UTCAs someone who hasn't actually read the original Percy Jackson novels, is Artemis that bad there as well? Or is this just a reasonable extrapolation of what you think she should be like, given the behavior of her hunters? Like Artemis seems almost... cartoonishly bad at times (and thus, so do her hunters). Zeus is in the same boat tbh. Just leaves me curious. I know this is a comedy story and thus stuff is played up for exaggerated effect at times but I've definitely had at least one "are you for real" moment with the huntresses.
Benjamin Mages
2024-12-12 17:32:24 +0000 UTCNo Olympian is a member of the Coalition. Some Olympians are not very loyal to Zeus/Jupiter per se, but they're not stupid enough to work with Prometheus, especially given the previous deeds of the Titan of Crafty Counsel. And no, Artemis has no one impersonating her. Someone who did it would regret it very quickly. As for being rather frugal with her power...you haven't seen her most of the time, so if anything, I'm thinking you're a bit hasty here.
Antony444
2024-12-12 16:37:55 +0000 UTCYep. A certain Goddess took in traumatised young girls, told them males were bad with a capital B, and they have all eternity to 'learn' how one-half of humanity must be kept away at all costs. Oh, and they're also forbidden to love, as in express extreme positive emotions for singular girls in particular. Who thought it was going to end well? And yes, the best antidote is to see what the world looks like outside the cult. The Suicide Squad is a group of crazy Demigods/Demigoddesses, no one is going to deny it. But they nonetheless destroy the 'all men are awful and deserve an arrow in their back' repeated stances.
Antony444
2024-12-12 16:35:10 +0000 UTCWith the arc ending time for some crackpot theories... Jupiter - Is Jupiter potentially a member of the coalition and the mysterious Roman that Commodus suspects? I mean Jupiter has been in control for awhile recently and his actions with choosing Nike as his bride seems to be a way to cement his control. Artemis - Is Artemis we see actually Artemis? Or do the coalition have a trickster ally who has been impersonating her. It is interesting she is rather frugal with her power and really only flexes when it risks the Huntress discovering 'Critical Thinking' and 'Self Reflection'. Could this be why Ellen and Jenna saw her for less than 5 second... to avoid the risk of them realizing it is not Artemis.
Jeremy
2024-12-12 00:41:49 +0000 UTCMan is the cult hateable. But you know what? It's not the girls' fault. Not really. It's Artemis'. She turns all the girls who join into twisted reflections of her own flaws and failings. Self righteous. Misanthropic. Narrow minded. Quick tempered. And the girls who spend prolonged periods of time surrounded by non-cult members? They start to doubt. To see the holes. Gods I hope that someone throws this in their face at some point, I would pay to hear their reactions.
Benjamin Mages
2024-12-11 21:04:42 +0000 UTC
