11. PJTC Debrief

we hash out the finer details of prophecy and what it would be like to ride in a car that's riding in a car that's carrying a god.

The Sons of Apollo Love You!!

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SPEAKER_06 0:00

Um I'll um there it is on all the way done all weight chapter eleven anyone whoa whoa nightshade uh huh it so she was the one that gave that so I wonder who that dude was.

SPEAKER_11 1:04

Yeah, exactly. I wonder if she was maybe Perseus, like who Percy's named after.

SPEAKER_08 1:10

Oh, OG Perseus.

SPEAKER_11 1:12

I don't know why I'm just pulling that out of my mind.

SPEAKER_08 1:14

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 1:15

But yeah, that's er Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 1:21

So she is Hercules? Yeah, maybe Herc. Maybe maybe Herc, maybe I don't know why the name These is coming in my mind.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

It could be Pitiet. Not to be confused with Thisophit.

SPEAKER_08 1:37

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Sisophysic.

SPEAKER_08 1:42

Uh-huh. There's a lot of them floating around there. But that's wild to think, okay, so Zoe Nightshade is like the daughter of this Pleiony. Yeah, Plaioni. Plaione. Pleone. There was a few names.

SPEAKER_09 1:58

My sisters have to found out they're the sound.

SPEAKER_08 2:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:01

Ledon.

SPEAKER_08 2:03

Yeah, this wild monster. There is some wild.

SPEAKER_11 2:07

I wonder if Le Don is the monster that's chasing right now.

SPEAKER_08 2:13

Ooh, yes. There is. Or if it was kind of just like a little peek out of nowhere into that hole. I did not expect that dream. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:27

I've been wondering because with all this mention of the history of uh Anaculosmos, I've been wondering. Oh yeah, what was the story behind Liptide?

SPEAKER_08 2:39

Yeah. It was so poetic the way Zoe put it back in that dream, just like that that current that comes and sweeps you away, and before you know it, you're taken off by the sea. And it is the truth. And I mean he's torn up some stuff with Riptide. And it seems like Riptide's been tearing up stuff for some time.

SPEAKER_11 3:04

Yeah. Originally a hair pen.

SPEAKER_08 3:06

That's coop. Yeah, that is coop. Because I guess they weren't using pens back in the day, but the mist forms things. And that makes me think like I wonder if depending on who uses the sword, like what it becomes.

SPEAKER_11 3:24

Right. If it's out of the forms in between being the hair pen and the pen. Yeah. The ballpoint pen.

SPEAKER_08 3:30

Oh, knock loose musk. Okay. Man. Percy's a lucky cat.

SPEAKER_11 3:35

Yeah, seriously.

SPEAKER_08 3:36

Comes with the perks.

SPEAKER_11 3:38

So okay, so running it back here, 11.

SPEAKER_08 3:42

So Rover gets a Lamborghini.

SPEAKER_11 3:45

Oh, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 3:46

He was in a Lamborghini. He did have some time spent in a Lamborghini. He got the Lamborghini. He got the Lamborghini. Cool. Okay. Pretty cool. That was interesting when I was talking about him sleeping in the back of it.

SPEAKER_11 3:57

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 3:58

I was thinking, like, how does he what kind of back room? Maybe trunk space or something. Regardless, we pull it off.

SPEAKER_11 4:06

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_08 4:08

So we pick up and they're pretty much just being chased by this helicopter. They're all they made it to the van, it would appear.

SPEAKER_11 4:16

Oh yeah, because they were mobbing because uh security guards and those like skeleton army were chasing after them. So yeah, they're mobbing away from them being chased by this helicopter.

SPEAKER_08 4:32

That was the nine, and it seems like they made it to the car safely and now they're just kind of on the run.

SPEAKER_11 4:37

Mm-hmm. In this van.

SPEAKER_08 4:39

Yeah, and that makes me think like if these what's the transportation method for these skeletals that are chasing Percy?

SPEAKER_11 4:47

Oh, they just mobbed him by foot?

SPEAKER_08 4:49

Yeah. Because it kind of became like, oh, that's yesterday's problem. Yeah. In this chapter, it didn't really talk about them because as we're dropping in, there's like a black military helicopter that's following them. That same one that was from Westover Hall.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_08 5:06

And it's like following the van straight up. And what Percy calls it like it is like they know this van. We gotta ditch this van. Yeah. And does it even necessarily explain what's going on with well, actually, I think remember like the military copter, the van, the, and it was all related to Dr. Thorne. So we know maybe these are people of the general.

SPEAKER_11 5:32

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08 5:33

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_11 5:34

Yeah. People of the general.

SPEAKER_08 5:37

The general's cats. So they know the van.

SPEAKER_11 5:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 5:43

The helicopter is gaining on them. They can't really escape a helicopter. Right. On in a van, you know. Grover's hopeful. Right. Maybe the military will shoot him down. Yeah. Mm-hmm. What the purse's kind of thinking, like, okay, the military's probably gonna think it's one of theirs. Even like, does the general have the military paid for right now? Right. Who knows? But Zoe's kind of getting on like uh mercenaries using them like what do they even see?

SPEAKER_11 6:22

Right.

SPEAKER_08 6:24

And Zoe's kind of saying it almost seems like historically that what people are paid for by these gods.

SPEAKER_11 6:35

Right.

SPEAKER_08 6:36

Mercenaries kinda goes a little bit far back.

SPEAKER_11 6:40

So who are these people that are chasing them right now?

SPEAKER_08 6:48

Does it say okay, so uh what Percy says right there, like the military probably thinks it's one of them. How can the general use mortals, anyways?

SPEAKER_11 6:58

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08 7:00

So it's kind of like these are some mercenaries that are hired by the general.

SPEAKER_11 7:04

Okay, somehow he's manipulated the mist to get these guys to chase down Perse and So we're ultimately just still being pursued by the general.

SPEAKER_08 7:13

Yeah, the general's still hot on the tail.

SPEAKER_11 7:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 7:16

Ultimately. And that's where it's kind of talking like, how do these mercenaries not notice all these monsters that are always surrounding them? Zoe's just like the Mistra works in strange ways. And oh, what is this? Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

SPEAKER_11 7:35

Yeah. Yeah, I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. That's kind of true.

SPEAKER_08 7:42

That is the three. But uh needless to say, they're on the run. This helicopter is coming for them.

SPEAKER_11 7:50

Yeah. Makes a prayer to Thali makes a prayer to Zeus, nothing happens. Oh, Bianca tells them to go to this parking lot. So Zoe shoots across and into this mall parking lot. So okay, they're now the nine is they're gonna get on the subway. Yeah. Going south.

SPEAKER_08 8:08

That's a good, that's a good nine, Bianca. It's a good nine, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 8:11

Especially when you got helicopters above, go underground. So they go under, they get tickets, they get on the train. Um looks like they're in the clear, the helicopter's circling, but doesn't chase them.

SPEAKER_08 8:24

Yeah, they're kind of like southbound, heading out of DC.

SPEAKER_11 8:27

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_08 8:28

And it looks like they've kind of ditched the helicopter from there. I mean, they've gone on the ground.

SPEAKER_11 8:33

This whole nine of like the this is a new subway station. Yeah, that was kind of here before Cordon Bianca. Yeah, and they're all kind of like, that's interesting. Like these are really these subway stations are really old. Like, they're not making new ones, so yeah, how could this not be here 10 years ago and here now?

SPEAKER_08 8:51

And you're what he was saying, like 12 years old. Mm-hmm. So to really think like a subway station 12 years down the road.

SPEAKER_11 9:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 9:01

Yeah. And it kind of they're all just a little bit confused about it.

SPEAKER_11 9:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 9:06

Cause what for because what is Bianca saying when she was a kid, these subways weren't around.

SPEAKER_11 9:12

That specific subway, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's so okay.

SPEAKER_08 9:17

So it's like she did know about subways, but just that subway line wasn't there.

SPEAKER_11 9:22

Yeah, like there are certain subway lines. It seems like this subway line that they're on wasn't there ten years ago, which is odd.

SPEAKER_08 9:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 9:29

So they're about to ask about it, and then they hear the helicopter again. So they switch trains twice. Not really sure where they're going. They finally get off at the end of a line in an industrial area. Um, wandering through freight cars. That's where we got this homeless guy that's standing by the trash can fire. I only get warm up. So of course it's very cold. Yeah. We're all worn up around the fire with this guy.

SPEAKER_08 10:01

Exactly. Good life to live. And that was funny how they kind of say, like, it's a little pathetic to think that a homeless man by a fire is like, hey guys.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

Yeah. You guys look like you need help. So good God. That's a love.

SPEAKER_08 10:16

Oh god. So it is it is pretty uh chilly around the fire, but they're making it dead. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 10:23

So yeah, they're all getting warmed up.

SPEAKER_08 10:25

Bianca's kind of saying, like, dude, we should call camp.

SPEAKER_11 10:28

Yeah, get some help. Oh my gosh. And Zoe, they're gonna help us.

SPEAKER_08 10:33

Yeah, gonna just help us. And that's really how it works on a quest. Like, when you are on the quest, there is no calling.

SPEAKER_11 10:40

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_08 10:40

You gotta push forward. So, and then it's kind of like looming over the fact that like Abeth.

SPEAKER_11 10:50

Abeth, yeah, Artemis, this monster.

SPEAKER_08 10:55

Yeah, gazing at the flames can make you contemplative, no doubt.

SPEAKER_11 11:00

But then, yeah, this homeless guy comes in with like, hey, yeah, we've got friends. You need a train going west, don't you? And uh suddenly they're like, Well, actually, yeah, that's exactly what we need. And then boom blada, we got a train just pulling in.

SPEAKER_08 11:16

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 11:17

And it's all like beautiful and looks like very well kept Sun West line. And uh they turn to thank the guy, and he's gone, and so is the fire. It's a cold empty trash. So interesting character.

SPEAKER_08 11:31

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, kind of just blips out of nowhere, blips out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_11 11:34

Yeah, luckily we see him pretty quickly, kind of find out who he is pretty fast.

SPEAKER_08 11:38

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 11:40

But yeah, so now they're on this train west.

SPEAKER_08 11:42

Yeah, they're just cruising along.

SPEAKER_11 11:43

And it is like uh it's one of those automobile care carriers, like three-tiered. So they pretty much get their pick of the litter of which car they want to chill in. Cool, yeah. So we got Zoe and Bianca on like the top floor in uh in a Lexus.

SPEAKER_08 12:02

Yeah, Lexus and uh Grover playing Lamborghini.

SPEAKER_11 12:08

And then, of course, yeah. Oh, I know, right and her Mercedes, just black Mercedes picking up alt-rock stations. Yeah, exactly. Hot wired it to be alt-rocky, yeah, she's so alt. She's so old. So yeah, now we got some kumbayas with Thalia first.

SPEAKER_08 12:31

She doesn't mind just like joining, let's kick it.

SPEAKER_11 12:34

Right.

SPEAKER_08 12:34

Listening to some white stripes, got a lot of white stripes.

SPEAKER_11 12:38

Thinking about mom.

SPEAKER_08 12:40

Mm-hmm. Thinking about like, dang, I might not even be home for Christmas. I might not even be alive by Christmas. It's kind of a classic demigod peril. Right. So Tali is digging the coat though, digging the dust. Right. That I feel like Tali would look cool. Oh, she's very cool.

SPEAKER_11 13:02

Nice coat. But yeah, here's where we find out. Yeah, so the new mean line was. So it's like when we read that, it was like skunkwang. So maybe it is this Laydon. Yeah, Laidonian? LaDonian. Um, but yeah, so that's not the monster, whatever it is. Yeah, Thalia, we got a long way to go. Yeah, exactly. Like zoned in on Thalia, so whatever it is, it's gonna bring itself to us.

SPEAKER_08 13:31

Yeah, exactly. That's what the general kind of spilled the beans on that one. It wants to battle Thalia one-on-one. Um Thalia's kind of into that notion.

SPEAKER_11 13:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 13:44

I love being used as bait. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_11 13:47

But yeah, we don't know what this monster is.

SPEAKER_08 13:50

Um kind of talking about the San Francisco notion, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 13:55

Half bloods can't live there, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_08 13:58

Um kind of says the mist is really thick around it because it's a big thing. Mountain of Despair.

SPEAKER_09 14:04

Interesting. Titan magic. Titan magic.

SPEAKER_08 14:08

Monsters attracted to it, and uh So what is this mountain of despair? Oh, you really don't know? So you should ask Zoe. Yeah, she's the expert, and it's like I'd love to ask Zoe, but you're right in front of me.

SPEAKER_11 14:23

Yeah, exactly. And if you're gonna talk to me like that, Thalia, then let me just drop the subject. It's like, yeah, I don't need Yeah, no one wants to have a conversation when you're just being taught down to. So it's kind of like, all right, well, I'm just gonna keep my mouth shut. And Sun's coming through. He's seeing kind of like some of the comparisons between Zoe and Thalia, um, ways they're different, but kind of the ways they're the same. They're both just really tough. Yeah, kind of like hardcore.

SPEAKER_08 14:54

They're both OGs, right?

SPEAKER_11 14:56

So, and then that's when it hits him like, oh, that's why you hate the hunters. They tried to recruit you.

SPEAKER_08 15:02

Yeah, yeah. And then she admits it, like, I almost did join them straight up, but it was Luke.

SPEAKER_11 15:11

Exactly. She didn't want to leave Luke, which is like, you could never leave the boy. Well, yeah, and that makes sense because her and Zoe got into a fight. And yeah, Luke would let me down someday. Yeah. And this whole whole thing of how like she wasn't right. Lucas never let me down. It's like interesting, Dahlia. So I just want to make sure you do know that he's kind of who we're up against, right? Yeah. And you know that you might have to kill him because he's the enemy, right?

SPEAKER_08 15:47

I'll do it. I have to.

SPEAKER_11 15:49

It's like, gosh, Dahlia.

SPEAKER_08 15:52

Kind of classic, all she's so punk. And then him just kind of bringing this up. Because he does say, like, straight up, like, you'll kill him.

SPEAKER_11 16:02

Yeah, even if that means killing him, and she's just like, you know what?

SPEAKER_09 16:05

Get out of the car. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 16:08

Leave the car.

SPEAKER_09 16:09

Blah blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

And a bathwater drama. Just do something. Oh, I know. Just think about why.

SPEAKER_09 16:16

That's nasty. Okay, dude.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

That's just straight.

SPEAKER_11 16:21

First of all, I knew that. So doesn't he know that already? Yeah, he saw the the brochure, yeah. So it's like, all right, anyway.

SPEAKER_08 16:32

She kind of just leaves him with that and rolls up the window, just like, what a petty boy thug. And Luke never betrayed me anyway.

SPEAKER_09 16:41

Never betrayed me.

SPEAKER_08 16:42

Zinny. So now he's kind of hanging out with Grover. Yeah, Grovey baby. But Grover's kind of just passed out in the back. Yeah. That's what I was talking about before. Like Grover was asleep in the bed.

SPEAKER_11 16:53

Oh, yeah, I was afraid he was sleeping. Yeah. What is okay?

SPEAKER_08 16:56

But he's pulling it up.

SPEAKER_11 16:58

And then this whole dreams, afraid of dreams. And then yeah, just like that, we got your boy appearing next to him.

SPEAKER_08 17:05

Exactly.

SPEAKER_11 17:05

It's kind of, yeah, I was jumping around between his voices.

SPEAKER_08 17:09

I was trying to figure out that voice too.

SPEAKER_11 17:12

I was because I was trying to remember, I was like, did I do an Engl like an English accent from before? I think maybe I did, but then I also kind of had like a cool guy looking at the colour.

SPEAKER_09 17:20

Yeah, swing a cool guy.

SPEAKER_11 17:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 17:23

Haiku or something.

SPEAKER_11 17:24

Haiku is. Then I also had the like Fran.

SPEAKER_03 17:27

Yeah, exactly. I'm kind of still a homeless. Home or Fran. Fran.

SPEAKER_08 17:35

You know, we'll continually figure that out. Yeah, exactly. Because he was a shapeshifter. Yeah, he was. And he was playing different roles there.

SPEAKER_11 17:42

He's midshifting. But yeah, so yeah, we got a palo on deck. He is, of course, easy to figure out from starting off the conversation with the haiku.

SPEAKER_08 17:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 17:53

It's like, oh, person's like, you're you're Apollo, right?

SPEAKER_08 17:56

Mm-hmm. This has got to be the Apollo daddy classic.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

Call me friend. Come on friend. So that's why I'm gonna use a bunch of different voices right now.

SPEAKER_11 18:08

So but yeah, just this whole nine of how he's, you know, like uh it's a human quest, so he can't interfere, but it's his baby sister. So totally makes sense. Exactly. So that's kind of how this whole nine of this train worked out, which it seems like it might be the like the Don train. Like the Don't be. Yeah, that he's just turned into a train for now, or maybe it's like a you know auxiliary.

SPEAKER_08 18:41

Yeah, when it comes to godly things, you know, he can bend the rules just a little bit.

SPEAKER_11 18:46

But yeah, so he's definitely helping them out get go west.

SPEAKER_08 18:50

Um get a good chunk of America.

SPEAKER_11 18:52

We still don't know where Abeth or Artemis are, they're kind of like clouded from Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 18:58

Apollo can't even see where Abeth or Artemis or even what's going on with this beast. Right.

SPEAKER_11 19:04

It seems like doesn't even know who it is or what it is. Um but he says there's someone that might, this guy Narius, old man of the sea, out in San Francisco.

SPEAKER_08 19:13

Yeah. Apparently he can't see through his own oracle, doesn't even necessarily know what that prophecy or just the nine of like how this guy can Oh yeah yeah yeah.

SPEAKER_11 19:25

How this guy can see things that his oracles can't.

SPEAKER_08 19:28

Oh, yeah, exactly. What is this guy, the the the wizard of the sea?

SPEAKER_11 19:33

Nereus, the old man of the sea.

SPEAKER_08 19:35

Oh, the old man of the sea. Nereus.

SPEAKER_11 19:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 19:40

Because Percy's trying to push back, like, dude, you this is your oracle.

SPEAKER_11 19:44

Yeah, like you are the god of prophecy, right? And he's like, listen first. That's not how art works, man.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Just draw the sketches, it's up to the reader to interpret the meaning.

SPEAKER_11 19:56

So you basically don't know what the prophecies mean, is what you're telling them.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Like, ah, well, pussy, it's been great. You know, on that note, I'm out of here.

SPEAKER_08 20:07

Yeah, it's uh he he almost like puts him down. Yeah, almost but just like snaps his fingers. Yeah, yeah, he really does. Oh, yeah, he does snap his fingers, and the next thing I know, go down, boss. Yeah, and then we're in this dream. Dream. I was kind of wondering what what are we gonna see in this dream?

SPEAKER_11 20:30

Yeah, this whole like tunic, the nehemian line around the waist.

SPEAKER_08 20:34

Um because lately it's been little spies of what's been going on with Abath. Right.

SPEAKER_11 20:39

So I was but it looks like this is a straight flashback into some history.

SPEAKER_08 20:47

And it's so wild that it dropped at this time. Maybe it's the first time he's dreaming in the vicinity of Zoe.

SPEAKER_11 20:54

Yeah, maybe it's that he's got both the yeah, being near Zoe and having both the Nemian Lion and Riptide on him. Because all three of those things were there during that encounter when Zoe first gives Oh because yeah, in this encounter he's got the tunic, but the Nemean lion's like a cape. It's a cape.

SPEAKER_08 21:17

Because it was Herc who killed the Nemian.

SPEAKER_11 21:19

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was Herc or like Argonauts were did Argonauts no, they were the fleece. Chasing the Argonauts were the fleece, so it might be Herc. Yeah, because I'm pretty sure it is Herc that Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 21:33

That's cool.

SPEAKER_11 21:34

But yeah, so we've got this guy, like he's pretty much in this guy's body. It's in this flashback.

SPEAKER_08 21:39

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 21:40

Uh two and ignimian lines.

SPEAKER_08 21:42

He's being pulled along by this girl.

SPEAKER_11 21:44

Yeah, sounds like it's a frightful situation, like a beautiful field. Yeah, everything's beautiful, it's night, it's stars everywhere, and this girl is seemingly like freaking out, yeah, just like hauling him through this field. He'll find us.

SPEAKER_08 21:58

He will find us. Somebody's chasing him.

SPEAKER_11 22:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 22:02

Um, yeah, he's trying to push the phone. I am not afraid.

SPEAKER_11 22:06

Yeah. Yeah, just the way that his voice my voice sounded much deep deeper, much more confident. I've busted a thousand monsters with my bands.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

This one, Light's too strong. You must go around.

SPEAKER_08 22:22

And he does comment, he's like, I felt strong, stronger than I've ever felt before.

SPEAKER_10 22:27

That's cool. Oh, it sounds circular.

SPEAKER_08 22:30

Yeah, sound circular.

SPEAKER_10 22:33

Sounds circular. I think uh okay, we're kind of working this angle. Yeah, you could see it could be a Hercules. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 22:39

Let's see, we'll see. It'll be confirmed.

SPEAKER_08 22:41

Yeah, yeah, exactly. But anyways, uh what she's pushing this like the dawn. Go to my father.

SPEAKER_11 22:48

Yeah, it's my only way. It's your only way. Um he doesn't trust the father. You have to trick the fat you have to trick him. You cannot take the prize directly, you will die. So some prize.

SPEAKER_08 23:00

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 23:01

He's like, Why don't you help me, Pritzwan? Uh and yeah, my bed, baby. Yeah, I'm afraid Lateon will stop me. My sisters, if they found out, they would disown me.

SPEAKER_08 23:12

Oh goodness. So it's like And he's kind of just like, Well, let's go to battle then.

SPEAKER_11 23:16

Yeah. I got this.

SPEAKER_08 23:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 23:19

And oh yeah, she's like, she's basically this is where she gives him the pin.

SPEAKER_08 23:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 23:25

You must fight, take this. My mother Pliny gave it to me. She was a daughter of the ocean. She was a daughter of the ocean, and the ocean's power is within it. My immortal power. So is maybe Zoe Nightshade a goddess? Yeah, or she already an immortal that's cookie cray.

SPEAKER_07 23:46

And did she get her heart shattered by Hercules?

SPEAKER_03 23:49

By Hercules. That's why she never trusted boys. She'll never travel with the boy.

SPEAKER_11 23:55

Never after you fall in love with her. Yeah. Oh my goodness. So, but yeah, she like breathes onto this pin, gives it the ball, gives it to him. Um, and uh yeah. He takes the hairpin and basically it grows into the sword. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_08 24:17

Well balanced.

SPEAKER_11 24:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

I prefer to use my bed, my lady, I'll use it.

SPEAKER_08 24:22

Uh-huh. I'll make use of it. What should I call this place?

SPEAKER_09 24:27

Aneclusmus. Call it anaclusmos, baby. The kind that takes one by surprise. And before knowing you know it, you've been swept out to sea. Just like my heart.

SPEAKER_07 24:40

Oh my god. And then yeah.

SPEAKER_08 24:45

Yeah, and then the mata. And then it looks like shakalaka, yeah. This m or something.

SPEAKER_11 24:52

Later on, I'm assuming. Too late, he is here.

SPEAKER_08 24:54

Trampling sound, a hiss.

SPEAKER_11 24:56

Like air escaping its higher. Interesting. Yeah. Curiously, those monsters.

SPEAKER_08 25:00

And he is here, and then scoon squink. Boom. Boom. We wake up. We're back in the guinea.

SPEAKER_11 25:07

We're back in the guinea. Grover's up. It's morning.

SPEAKER_08 25:10

Getting shaked by Grover. It's time to It's time to wake up, Percy.

SPEAKER_11 25:15

It's Christmas. And so things are, yeah, snowy mountain, pine trees. Something.

SPEAKER_08 25:22

Yeah, he kind of pulls out a cled. Anaklid.

SPEAKER_11 25:26

He looks at uh and he's like, yeah, this is definitely the blade from the dream. And that's when the 9-9 comes out of like, I'm definitely sure of something else. That girl was definitely Zoe Nightshade.

SPEAKER_08 25:38

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 25:39

Quite, quite sick.

SPEAKER_08 25:40

Squonkin. That's a nine by five. Yeah. So to think, and that's okay, now it's really all coming home that Zoe despises boys. Heroes. Heroes. Boys and heroes. Because she even gave a sword and it's still just you know.

SPEAKER_11 25:58

And who knows, maybe like I mean, I'm assuming Hercules probably fucked her over or like broke her heart.

SPEAKER_08 26:05

Oh, yeah. Her just left kind of the classic thing, just like Dionysus was talking about. It's the classic heroes doing the thing and gallivanting around and jumping from one island in the Mediterranean to the next. Yeah. That's crazy. But it does seem like so. What now we're at this? Just look out and it's like a beautiful mountain. Like, where did this train go to?

SPEAKER_07 26:31

Is this some this is like a soul train? They were transcended the tracks.

SPEAKER_11 26:36

Because yeah, if they start out in DC, I'm almost wondering if they're going west to San Francisco. If maybe they're like in like the Rockies, like the auto notions. It's kind of what my thought is, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 26:49

I was thinking similar notions. Yeah. It does make sense. They'd be Rocky Mountain High. But that's cool to think about that. Because when they were looking out the window, it's like it was Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 27:02

It like started to pick up speed, like kind of like the centaurs.

SPEAKER_07 27:06

Oh, totally.

SPEAKER_08 27:15

Straight up. Yeah, once you slip into that mytho speed. Yeah, mytho speed. Mytho speed was traveling at the speed of myth. Yes. Of mist and magic and the sun itself. Sun train. Sun train. What a great time. Love to ride the sun train with Apollo.

SPEAKER_10 27:34

Exactly.

SPEAKER_08 27:35

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_10 27:36

Fred.

SPEAKER_06 27:38

Fred. I'm discovering myself one haiku at a time.

SPEAKER_08 27:47

Uh-huh. So it seems like okay. We're kind of just the journey continues. Nothing really.

SPEAKER_11 27:55

I mean, ultimately, we're still at the same goals, and that we need to get Artemis saved, and Abeth saved, and Artemis to the summer soul or the winter solstice meeting.

SPEAKER_08 28:07

That's really the overarching like we gotta get Artemis to this winter solstice on top of saving her life.

SPEAKER_11 28:14

Right.

SPEAKER_08 28:15

Get some Abeth kickers. And that was kind of just a really interesting peek into Anna Clusmouth, into Zoe. And to it's interesting to see knowing what Zoe knowing. Um to let Percy join, even though he's got Anna Clusmos with him. I kind of totally forgot about that whole zippity on top of things. And with anime and lion, too.

SPEAKER_07 28:41

Like easy, Zoe. You might start crushing on a poor person, but then Mofa just Herky Jackson, anyone?

unknown 28:49

Herky Jackson.

SPEAKER_07 28:53

He does well for himself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 28:58

Yeah, that destiny. Uh-huh. Easter Jenkins. So good times ahead of us. So we're somewhere in the Rockies. We got our coats. Yeah. It's winter time, but um, and I think Apollo's probably it seemed like we're just kind of getting dropped off.

SPEAKER_11 29:16

Yeah, exactly. Looks like the train stopped, and yeah, we're just kind of we haven't even gotten off the train yet. So we'll kind of see what the next moves are from here. Yeah, exactly. Sounds like maybe this is as far as Apollo can maybe get them. Yeah. Because it sounded like he's not gonna be able to take them all the way. Um so yeah, we'll see. If this is in fact Colorado, then we still need to get a couple states over to get to San Francisco.

SPEAKER_08 29:40

Yeah, exactly. We got some moving to do.

SPEAKER_11 29:42

But as we've seen thus far, transportation always comes out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_08 29:48

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 29:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 29:49

If there's a will, there's a way when you're demi-blood.

SPEAKER_11 29:52

Yeah, when you're demi-blood.

SPEAKER_08 29:53

They always figured out doing that. It'd be fun to kind of go on like a little blobbling quest demi-blood style. That'd be good. Just like nothing but a backpack.

SPEAKER_09 30:04

Just like we gotta get on trains, we gotta head west. Yeah, we gotta head west.

SPEAKER_08 30:10

Maybe uh Mint Lonian and then demi blood back west.

SPEAKER_11 30:15

That'd be cool. Even if we just ended up, if all the demibloodtery was maybe like just one, or maybe like two or three train tickets back. Like one train to get us like a third of the way, we stop somewhere, hang out there for a couple days, take another train to like Colorado hang out for a couple days, take a train from Colorado back.

SPEAKER_08 30:39

That's perfect, dude.

SPEAKER_11 30:41

Am Tracky could probably do it all for like 500 bucks or less, maybe.

SPEAKER_08 30:45

Oh, that's easy peasy. That's a cool way to see the country.

SPEAKER_11 30:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 30:49

I don't think I've I mean I've ridden on a train before, like the monorail and stuff like that, but like some real long distance treks on trains.

SPEAKER_10 31:00

It's eco-friendly. It's eco-friendly. You have the infrastructure for it.

SPEAKER_11 31:06

Trains, trains, infrastructure, planes, trains, and demimobiles.

SPEAKER_08 31:12

And the Apollo mobiles. Yeah, and Apollo mobiles. The Sun West Line.

SPEAKER_11 31:18

What a track. What a track.

SPEAKER_08 31:20

All right, well, that's chapter 11. That's it. We're on to the 12th. On to the 12th.

SPEAKER_11 31:26

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_08 31:28

Uh feels good. We're we're probably cruising.

SPEAKER_11 31:31

Yeah, we are. Those stories. We're in the meat and potatoes. Mm-hmm. We're in the meat and potatoes.

SPEAKER_08 31:36

Meat and potatoes, a little mid-journey.

SPEAKER_11 31:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 31:39

I feel like historically we're usually well, actually, Sea of Monsters was more we didn't head west in the Sea of Monsters.

SPEAKER_11 31:46

Correct, yeah. We went off of Miami, really.

SPEAKER_08 31:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:51

So it feels good to be back on the trick, Wiz.

SPEAKER_11 31:53

Yeah, yeah. Because I think the last time we were headed west was in the first one. Yeah, when we're headed to Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_08 32:02

Yeah. Because we had the train stops in St. Louis.

SPEAKER_11 32:06

We had to get to the door to Haiti.

SPEAKER_08 32:08

Mm-hmm. That's where it looks like we're, I mean, we're San Francisco bound. It's really the the true nine. So let's put a little more northern.

SPEAKER_11 32:18

Yeah, it's the West Coast. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 32:19

And it's Mountain of Despair. Yeah. Thinking about like even mountains around. Like I'm trying to think, like maybe Shasta. Yeah, I was kind of thinking Shasta too.

SPEAKER_11 32:30

But I don't know why that would be the mountain of despair. Maybe there's like a volcano. Well, Shasta is a volcano, right? Oh, it is? I think so. I think it's an inactive volcano. Um there's something else. I know there's a few other mountains there.

SPEAKER_08 32:42

Mm-hmm. Coastal mountains. Well, maybe we'll get to chat with Zoe about that.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

Yep. Because apparently she's the aspect. She knows that right there.

SPEAKER_11 32:56

Alright, well, we'll see in chapter 12. Onward and upwards. Onward and upwards. We'll see you there.

SPEAKER_00 33:21

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

Wait.