12. PJTC Debrief

It is a GIFT!!!!!! the sons revel in unexpected Pandemonium

The Sons of Apollo Love You!!

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SPEAKER_06 0:00

Um there it is on all the way the cookwagin.

SPEAKER_09 0:50

Dang, the little pan whisper. Yeah, the little Grover. You could tell Grover was in the entrancement scene.

SPEAKER_03 0:58

Yes, he was in pure ecstasy.

SPEAKER_09 1:01

Yeah, pure unadulterated ecstatic entrancement. That was very enjoyable.

SPEAKER_06 1:12

It is a guest.

SPEAKER_09 1:19

Gravity. Yeah. Some wild stuff. So we got this wild. I wonder if that boar was the um that thing that was supposed to be hunting Dahlia this whole time, too. That mystery beast. There's a lot of interesting things of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

Much bigger, much more ancient.

SPEAKER_08 1:39

Yes. Herculane, in fact.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Yeah, Herculane, yeah, because that's why there's that it bitian Irritian Iron.

SPEAKER_08 1:55

That wild pig.

SPEAKER_03 1:58

Woo!

SPEAKER_09 2:02

That was uh that was some good reading. I enjoyed that.

SPEAKER_03 2:06

That was very fun.

SPEAKER_09 2:08

That was like getting steeped in a good reading. Irmanthian. Irmanthian.

SPEAKER_03 2:14

Irmanthean.

SPEAKER_09 2:15

Irmanthian. Yeah, whenever those come up, it's always like.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

Yeah, you sailed right through it. That was great. I was like, I saw it coming up, I was like, oh shit. And then it said it, and then I was like, okay, yeah, Irmanthian. Yeah, we got it. I know, they're always interesting when they come.

SPEAKER_05 2:39

It's like, oh one.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

Do I got it?

SPEAKER_05 2:45

Yeah. Can I pull this one out? Yeah. Silic. Silva. We've got this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:54

Uh that that wild mom. Nasty. Yes, we've seen some boars up in here.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 3:03

I'm kind of so we're we find ourselves in New Mexico at the beginning of this chapter.

SPEAKER_03 3:08

Oh, okay. Yeah. Cloud crop in Mexico. That's what it was.

SPEAKER_09 3:12

We're landing up in here. It's good to be here.

SPEAKER_03 3:17

Oh, yeah, because they're trying to get to. Is it Narius in San Francisco? Isn't how he told me to see?

SPEAKER_09 3:25

Yeah, Narius, he got that. He had that dream from Apollo.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

Yeah. Because that's what they're doing, is they're really just trying to find. Did they find Artemis?

SPEAKER_09 3:39

We know where she I mean, she's still uh trapped.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

Yeah, so they're trying to free Artemis ultimately.

SPEAKER_09 3:46

Yeah. She's in the hands of the general. That's that's really what this main quest is about, is we gotta head west.

SPEAKER_03 3:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 3:53

And now we know this thing about San Francisco.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

Okay, yes.

SPEAKER_09 3:58

Because we had this little encounter with Apollo again.

SPEAKER_03 4:02

Yes.

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Always stirring.

SPEAKER_05 4:08

Yes.

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We're just kind of arriving here. And uh I kinda just kind of cue in our audience. It has been a while since we basked in each other's glove.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 4:32

So we're all over a month, yeah. Yeah, a little bit, yeah, a little bit over a month.

SPEAKER_03 4:37

So trying to see like there's like this dream in the previous chapter.

SPEAKER_09 4:45

Yeah, we had a dream going down here.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

Oh yeah, Nita does have a conversation with Apollo.

SPEAKER_09 4:55

Oh, okay, because we they hitched that ride on the they were able to get on that car transporting. Oh, okay. And it's because Apollo set them up with that. Yes. And it took them as far as New Mexico.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

Yes, okay, yeah. So then they each had their own like little car. Yeah, that's the thing. Percy was kind of popping on between all of them.

SPEAKER_09 5:19

Uh-huh. Grover had a Lamborghini.

SPEAKER_03 5:21

Yeah, a Lamborghini. And then that's when Apollo appeared to Percy right and had this conversation. Yeah, because I'm reading one of Apollo's stupid haikus. Dreams like a podcast, downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff.

SPEAKER_05 5:44

That's like a little Apollo haiku.

SPEAKER_09 5:46

Yeah, so they tell me cool stuff.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

So yeah, he set him up and then told him to go west.

SPEAKER_09 5:52

Yeah, and told him about this an areas in San Francisco.

SPEAKER_03 5:58

So yeah, so they get dropped off in New Mexico, Cloudcroft.

SPEAKER_09 6:04

Mm-hmm. Um it looks like it's a pretty chilly scene up in Cloudcroft right now. New Mexico can be cold.

SPEAKER_03 6:14

Yeah, it's that desert.

SPEAKER_09 6:16

Mm-hmm. That high desert of chill you out.

SPEAKER_03 6:18

They kind of just walk okay, they're going in the middle of town.

SPEAKER_09 6:21

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 6:22

Umies. Oh, sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_09 6:28

Oh, I was just gonna say he's uh just filling in Grover about this conversation he had with Apollo the night before. Oh yeah. Just touching base, okay. We're looking for Narius and Sam Fran. But yeah, like you were saying, they're out in the boons, and Grover's a little bit uneasy about it. Yeah, there's nothing in there.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

Yeah. No taxis, no car rental, no way out. Coffee shop. Oh, yeah, so then that's when they're like, alright, there's a coffee shop. Zoe and Grover are like coffee. That's a good place to start.

SPEAKER_07 7:06

Yeah, pastries.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

And then um Thalia's like, okay, you you two go get the coffee and such. Percy Bianca and I will check in the grocery store. Maybe they can give us directions. So, okay, they're trying to get directions. 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_09 7:25

Good notion. They're kind of trying to split up a little bit, get it all covered. And then what? Because I guess there was that one uh it hit on that notion like we're kind of hitting on a deadline right now.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 7:40

Because we got four days until the winter solstice. Yeah. That's when everything's gonna be popping. So purse is he's feeling a little bit agitated. It seems like the whole kind of group is, but we're splitting up, so it looks like uh purse's with all the squad inside the store.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

Yeah, inside the store.

SPEAKER_09 8:03

Some comments on the possessions in there.

SPEAKER_03 8:05

You're right, the rubber rats.

SPEAKER_09 8:07

The rubber rats.

SPEAKER_05 8:09

This whole schoon squinking on okay.

SPEAKER_09 8:12

But it looks like a cool spot to chill it. The clerk fills them in straight up that, like, yo, you ain't getting out of here or in here.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 8:21

Unless you got like hundreds of dollars.

SPEAKER_03 8:25

Yeah.

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Or your own car.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

You throw something down like seven hundred. Costs.

SPEAKER_09 8:33

Several.

SPEAKER_03 8:34

Several hundred dollars.

SPEAKER_09 8:36

Seven could be several. I've heard that before.

SPEAKER_03 8:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 8:41

Still several.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

Anyways, this is a lot of money. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_09 8:44

That's a fast text. Demigods don't have a lot of cash, usually.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

Buys himself a rat.

SPEAKER_09 8:52

Yeah, enough to buy a rat though. Polly is in a grumped mood.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

Yes. Seems like she just wants to be alone.

SPEAKER_09 9:00

Polly grumped.

SPEAKER_03 9:02

I'm calling her walk down the streets if anyone else has a suggestion. But the clerk said, I'm going anyways.

SPEAKER_09 9:10

Uh huh. I'm gonna do what I wanna do.

SPEAKER_03 9:14

Talks about this whole thing of how like demi bloods are like, you know, they got battlefield reflexes. So they can't, it's hard for them to sit still to contribute to the attention. Totally spans, attention deficit problems.

SPEAKER_09 9:30

They'd be beep beep pop in regularly.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

So it's like, yeah, he's like, yeah, she just needs some time to blow up some stinks. Yeah. So now it's just him and Bianca, which is kind of like interesting. I haven't had a long time.

SPEAKER_09 9:42

Interesting pairing we go for.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

And he's Percy, Seaweed Brand, kind of awkward. That lovable Percy that we all love.

SPEAKER_09 9:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

But he's like, yeah, just feeling a little awkward.

SPEAKER_09 9:56

Yeah. And especially now she's a hunter, it's like gung guanking.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Yeah, and maybe not allowed to talk to you because I'm a boy.

SPEAKER_09 10:02

Yeah. Oh, totally, totally. But she kind of opens up the conversation nice rat. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

So then they're kind of talking, you know, asking her about how it's like being a hunter. Yeah. Um, yeah, and she's, you know, probably wondering like, is everyone kind of mad at me, you know, for choosing that?

SPEAKER_09 10:26

Oh, totally. Yeah, exactly. As long as you're happy, that's what counts.

SPEAKER_03 10:32

So it seems like she definitely thinks it's cool. Yeah. Maybe not necessarily happy.

SPEAKER_09 10:38

Well, because with everything that's going on with Lord Artemis and everything, it does make sense.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 10:44

But it is it that calmness she speaks of.

SPEAKER_08 10:48

I feel calmer somehow. Maybe it's because I'm immortal.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

Immortality, anymore. Which Danny kind of kind of does that musing of like, oh wow, interesting. Or like, talks about how she does seem more peace, more confident. Um, and then just that notion of how like she's gonna look like this forever now.

SPEAKER_09 11:09

Oh, totally.

SPEAKER_03 11:10

Like someone could have a conversation with her 500 years from now, and she'd look exactly like this 12-year-old girl in front of them.

SPEAKER_09 11:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:18

It's kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_09 11:19

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 11:21

Talking about Nico, didn't understand.

SPEAKER_09 11:25

Yeah, because I'm sure she feels bad about Bro Bro.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

Probably is the biggest thing she feels bad about outside. For sure.

SPEAKER_09 11:31

No doubt, no doubt.

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Yeah, Percy's just like reassuring her, like, yo, they're really good at Camp Half Blood.

SPEAKER_09 11:37

It's a cool spot to hang out, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

It's gonna be cool. They did it for Annabeth.

SPEAKER_09 11:42

Totally.

SPEAKER_03 11:42

Hope you find the Annabeth. Me too, dude. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 11:48

I really do hope we find Percy boaming on himself.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_09 11:57

Oh, classic purse to feel so bad about it. I mean, she went freaking rogue. She did go rogue when you think about it. Hunter's on the nads, and she just jumps on his back. Very uncharacteristic.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 12:13

But that wheat can hope.

SPEAKER_03 12:17

Yeah. So then she kind of, you know, gives him a little perkin and perkins. Yeah, sometimes got a perk purse. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_09 12:25

A little perk purse.

SPEAKER_03 12:26

Tells him, like, no, you are a good person. You're a good guy.

SPEAKER_09 12:29

And he really is.

SPEAKER_03 12:30

He is. And uh kind of having some repartee. Girlfriend Zoe coming out, and he's just kinda like, I kinda don't. It seems like he doesn't want this to end. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_09 12:45

They really are having a little quality, like almost a kumbaya of sorts.

SPEAKER_03 12:49

Yeah, exactly. So while they've still got the time, you know, I was asking her, like, you know, a little bit of backstory. What what what was up with you and Nico? Like, where'd you guys come from before?

SPEAKER_09 13:03

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

Yeah, we don't really know where they came from. And even she's like, yeah, boarding school, I think. Seems like a long time ago.

SPEAKER_09 13:13

Yeah, she's kind of a little bit spigity spacey about it.

SPEAKER_03 13:16

Right.

SPEAKER_09 13:17

And she's only twelve, so it's like, but you got to be spicy about it.

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 13:21

It's gonna delete me.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Ask about the mortal parent, and then she's like, we were told that our parents are dead. There's a bank trust, and basically this lawyer was just coming in and checking out on you know, regularly. Um and then they had to leave that school they were at. And then that's when they traveled a long way, stayed in a hotel for a few weeks.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:49

And then another lawyer came and got them out, and then drove them back to DC, then to Maine, where they started on the Westover. So it's kind of like Apache story, it says Yeah. Seems like she doesn't even really remember.

SPEAKER_09 14:04

Yeah, but Purse kind of just takes it like, well, you so you never knew your parents or anything?

SPEAKER_03 14:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:12

And she just says that's really all there is to it. And Per and Perse kind of knows like being a demiblood. Right. Nothing really.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

It's all kind of a jumble. Sounds about right, I guess, in that sense.

SPEAKER_09 14:26

Yeah, is that and that's the whole thing is purse oftentimes doesn't really push people.

SPEAKER_03 14:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:32

He likes it's a little proud, but it's okay, well, happy to have you aboard. And um, but then he's kind of pushing that notion on what like you took care of Nico for all this time, too. And that's pretty powerful.

SPEAKER_03 14:52

Yeah, and that's when she's kind of getting on that, like, yeah, it's kind of why she wanted to join the hunters was to actually like be able to do her own thing for once instead of having to be a an older sister, 24-7.

SPEAKER_09 15:06

There's power in that.

SPEAKER_03 15:07

Which is understandable, you know, and she does feel bad. She feels like she was selfish. Um, and then, you know, Percy's thinking about how it was like when he got a brother with Cyclops baby, uh Tyson.

SPEAKER_09 15:23

Totally.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

Phoebe spat. And so he's like, you know, PB spat. Phoebe spat, baby.

SPEAKER_09 15:31

And he, yeah, because it's like demi bloods deserve some independence in their life.

SPEAKER_03 15:36

Yeah. So then Percy kind of keeps pressing, and he's like, He does press the forearm just a little bit here. I'm just imagining like Grover and Zoey just slowly walking towards him, and Percy just like one more in. So, what were you and Zoe talking about the other day? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, what are you talking about? Yesterday morning, that thing about the general.

SPEAKER_05 16:00

Yeah, what's going on with the general invisibility cap.

SPEAKER_03 16:05

How dog. You you dastardly demon. And uh, yeah. So I was trying to remember that he did he was like, was he scouting or something with the invisibility cap? And then you overheard them talking.

SPEAKER_09 16:20

I think that was uh, yeah, like around the maybe even before they met up.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 16:28

Before he looked at the general and everything.

SPEAKER_03 16:32

Yeah.

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Because that kind of like spoke some little earlier stuff.

SPEAKER_03 16:35

Yeah, that's what I feel like remember.

SPEAKER_09 16:37

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

So, and just when he's like trying to explain himself, though, and Grover come up with the hot chocolates and puffies and gotta love a good muffin.

SPEAKER_09 16:47

Love it. Percy loves his blueberries.

SPEAKER_03 16:51

And then, yeah, that's when they're like, alright, you should do a tracking spell.

SPEAKER_09 16:56

Nothing like a good tracking spell.

SPEAKER_03 16:58

Yeah, and Grover's like, yeah, she's like, Grover, you got any acorns left? Um, he's chewing on his brand muffin. I just gotta go back to the bottom. I just need to, and that's when he gets like swing, swing, swing, swing, swim, swing.

SPEAKER_09 17:18

The frozen grow. Yeah. He was grozen. Yeah, just that it speaks of that warm ripple breeze.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

Yeah, which when I heard that, I was like, oh, here we are. The bread of the wild. Just that warm breeze. Oh, everything smells delicious and summery and springtime.

SPEAKER_08 17:43

Yeah, seasoned with wildflowers and sunshine.

SPEAKER_03 17:48

And there's the girl with a cup, he dropped his cup, and all the birds that were drawn on his cup came to life. Became a fluffy.

SPEAKER_09 17:56

Yeah, Zundalini. That was a magical moment.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

Flock of doves, tiny doves. And the rubber rat came to life and squeaked away into the forest.

SPEAKER_08 18:06

The rubber rat came to life. Skoonsquinkins.

SPEAKER_09 18:12

So kind of just collapses.

SPEAKER_03 18:16

You just quiving out hard.

SPEAKER_09 18:19

Groaning, eyes fluttering, goes, oh he's channeling the wild.

SPEAKER_03 18:27

Yeah. Just like, oh, Thalia runs up. What's going on? What's going on? Grover. Oh, Grover collapsed, Grover groaning. Get him up, and then she has her spear out because we gotta get out of here. Why do we gotta get out of here? Skeleton warriors.

SPEAKER_09 18:44

Oh, skeletal devil. Those skeletals. Because you can't outrun them.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 18:51

I mean, maybe you can outrun them for a little bit, but they're always gonna find you.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

Yeah, they're always gonna find you because they got skeletal.

SPEAKER_09 18:57

Skeletal devils.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

What are we gonna do with these skeletals?

SPEAKER_09 19:00

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 19:01

Two of them come out wearing New Mexico State Police uniforms. Yeah. And they got guns.

SPEAKER_09 19:08

Ah.

SPEAKER_03 19:09

Zing.

SPEAKER_09 19:10

What are they doing pulling guns on demis? Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_03 19:13

The demi children.

SPEAKER_09 19:14

Yeah.

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And so chink chink.

SPEAKER_09 19:18

Yeah, it's out. You gotta make them pop.

SPEAKER_03 19:22

And rip tied out.

SPEAKER_09 19:24

They are not even flinching at ages.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

Nothing, yeah, which is very concerning. Zoom and Bianca draw the bows. And Grover's just quibbing out hard on the side.

SPEAKER_09 19:38

Not to be any help at this point.

SPEAKER_03 19:40

Bumping into Bianca. And so the art is selling back up, but can quinkin out of the brushes, more skeletals.

SPEAKER_09 19:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:51

Um so now they are surrounded.

SPEAKER_09 19:54

And now, yeah, they're straight surrounded. And Percy's kind of thinking, like, there was more skeletals.

SPEAKER_03 19:59

Yeah, because I think it was like at least a dozen.

SPEAKER_09 20:02

Yeah, I think I do remember a clean dozen skeletals. And yeah, it actually says right there, dozen at the Smithsonian.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

And um and then that's when Yeah, he sends out the signal.

SPEAKER_09 20:16

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

It made me think of the They Live movie.

SPEAKER_09 20:20

Oh, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 20:22

Yeah, it's the the transparency. He found us.

SPEAKER_09 20:28

He's wearing the glasses.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

He's wearing the glasses.

SPEAKER_09 20:32

Oh my gosh. So yeah, he's calling the brethrons, and soon they're gonna have the whole dozen on them.

SPEAKER_08 20:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 20:39

Grover moaning.

SPEAKER_08 20:41

Yeah, it's me. It's now yes.

SPEAKER_05 20:50

Grover, it's here, has it?

SPEAKER_09 20:53

No, the gift. The gift from the wild. So yeah, Grover is feeling the vibration. Yeah. Percy has no idea what's going on, especially because he's like, dude, the skeletals. Yeah. And uh, but Grover's really can't walk, can't fight. And Ollie breaks down, like we just gotta go one-to-one now. Yeah. For them four of us. Yeah, yeah, exactly. We got it.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

So agreed. The wild. And then bloom, just another warm wind. Oh. But he keeps his anti skeletals. Mm-hmm. Alright, he remembers the general. He's doing this because of the fucking general. Yeah. So he charges. Chink. Fires a gun, slow-mo, he gets a little matrixy.

SPEAKER_09 21:43

Dang that who's like- I don't want to say I could see it, but dog, I could feel see it, and I parried the bullet.

SPEAKER_03 21:51

Parried the bullet. Rip tied.

SPEAKER_09 21:55

And just keep on charging.

SPEAKER_03 21:57

Slices off the skeleton's arms. And then cuts them in half. That's and then the bones just and then they just start reassembling.

SPEAKER_09 22:10

Interesting. That is unfortunate for our demi blood friends.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Yeah. Knocks the gun out of the other one's hands. Then the other two skeletals shoot him in the back. And then he's like popping. But I'm not dead. Yeah. And it just felt like actually it didn't even get through. It was Nemean Lion fur.

SPEAKER_09 22:34

Bulletproof vests. Whoa. Bulletproof dust it?

SPEAKER_03 22:38

Bulletproof dust it. Doing dust it? Dude, that's cool. Oh my god. Just chink the bullets. So then Thalia goes, so he's alive. He's living. Thalia charges second skeleton. Zoe and Bianca start firing their arrows. Grover's just in full trance, reaching out to the trees. And then there's this crashing sound coming through the forest. And so they're like, oh shit, maybe it's the reinforcements. The skeletal that he cut in half was already pretty much like fully reformed. So we're in trouble up there. What are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_09 23:21

He's even saying, like, we're firing bows point blank at the skulls. It's just going right through.

SPEAKER_03 23:26

Yeah, just going right through.

SPEAKER_09 23:28

And then there's that little interesting kung quenk. Bianca gets like a bone knocked out of her hand. She pulls out a um hunting knife, stabs this skeleton, burns up and crumbles into nothing but ashes. Right. And Zoe's very surprised by this. Right. How did you and Bianca doesn't even know? Just like a lucky stab and so maybe that means 11 skeletons?

SPEAKER_03 23:57

Which would be cool.

SPEAKER_09 23:58

Yeah, exactly. If we officially reduce the number down, clean eleven. So Bianca's going to like rush some more. Right. And the skeletons are now almost like afraid of her in some ways. And then Percy's like, is this kind of a plan?

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Oh yeah, it was the plan. The trees are going crazy back behind them, behind the skeletons.

SPEAKER_04 24:25

Grover a camp. And then the green boar.

SPEAKER_09 24:36

What is this boar? Thirty feet high?

SPEAKER_08 24:40

Snotty pink snout. Tusks the size of canoes. Canoes. Tusks.

SPEAKER_03 24:46

The size of like the hellcat. Oh.

SPEAKER_08 24:50

Oh my gosh. Yeah, what would that be like? Easily 10 to 14 feet.

SPEAKER_03 24:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 25:01

Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 25:03

And so he knocks out three.

SPEAKER_09 25:08

Yeah, he goes for the soldiers first. Thing of beauty. The gods be pressed.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

Yeah, he takes out all three of them, clatters them. Well, at least their bones are clattered everywhere. Don't know, they may reform.

SPEAKER_09 25:21

Yeah, it might take a little what longer for them to reform.

SPEAKER_03 25:24

Attacked by a mighty gift of the wild.

SPEAKER_09 25:28

Yeah. Uminthian. It's nice that we got Zoe on site.

SPEAKER_03 25:38

Yeah. Breaking it down. Oh, yeah. So now this boar is gonna come at them. Grover's very much like, don't kill it. It's a gift, it's a blessing from the wild. And just as he's saying that, it starts to attack them. So they dive, he pushes Grover out of the way. And this is their blessing. So the scattering, the running from the boar. He wants to kill us.

SPEAKER_05 26:02

Blessing. Grover out to obey.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

So how's that a blessing? Yes, fair question. Yeah. Um it's just tearing through shit.

SPEAKER_09 26:15

Yeah. It is tearing this poor Cloudcroft town, the Rickle Dickle up right now.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

And Percy's trying to do his proper, you know, like Chiron Annabet thing. Search the search the sauce. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 26:30

Remember the sword. Remember the old text. Old text. My training. My training. Training something about Hercules.

SPEAKER_09 26:40

Yeah, so uh we we don't really know what we're doing right now. Yeah, exactly. Zoe's just saying, like, we just gotta keep moving. Yeah. That's the best uh best thing. Grover's kind of trying to dance around the boar. Yeah, pipping his pipes. Pippity pipe, as always. And uh what it looks like, Thalia tries to raise this uh Aegis. Aegis. Maybe Aegis is gonna do something. Right. It looks like it enrages. Enrages. We get enragisted. The boar is now charging straight at uh Thalia with Aegis Perseus on sight.

SPEAKER_03 27:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 27:18

As always. So now they're pretty much just like in a full-blown cheese fest. They're just running, just running, sprinting uphill, trees going past them, which is kind of like a good idea.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

This boar is yeah, it's gotta plow through them, whereas they can kind of bob and weave. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 27:40

So bada boom, it looks like we got an idea here. But everything's kind of buried in snow.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

Yeah, he pulls Thalia along. There's a covered tunnel past that, a gorge. Crazy idea. So he's pulling Thalia. Thalia's reluctant. The boar is hot on their tail.

SPEAKER_09 28:03

Just mopping. It seems like Percy's idea is like, we'll just run across this bridge real quick. Boar won't be able to cross the bridge. Bada bada blank.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

Yeah. That's gonna go down.

SPEAKER_09 28:14

Thalia is freaking out though. She will not go across this bridge.

SPEAKER_03 28:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 28:22

White as ice.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

Yeah, she is just freaking out. He's like, come on, it's probably older way. We gotta do this. Thalia's, I can't, so then he just uh yeah. He's yelling now because the boar is smashing through the tunnel. And then he straight says, you know what, this I'm tackling. Goes sideways off the edge of the bridge into the side of the mountain. Slid on ages, little snowboard action.

SPEAKER_09 28:56

That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

Racing downhill, that was good. But then the boar, he couldn't make the pivot so fast. He hits that thing on full speed, and then boom boom buckle, snap, boar free falls into the gorge, into a snow drift.

SPEAKER_09 29:14

In wedgements.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

In wedgements.

SPEAKER_09 29:16

He is he's buckled in for a time.

SPEAKER_03 29:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 29:20

And it looks like it was kind of a poof. So it didn't even really harm him. Praise be to uh brother Grove. Grove. You know?

SPEAKER_03 29:28

The gifts. The gifts. We lost an arm, the gifts. So this thing is stuck.

SPEAKER_09 29:35

They're at the bottom. They're a little roughed up. They are alive for sure. A little blood. But you know, it's nothing that demi blood hasn't seen.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

Exactly.

SPEAKER_09 29:43

Tali is all pine needled up.

SPEAKER_03 29:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 29:46

And the boar is just like squink squonking, is like, like I was saying, like wedged. Yeah. Seems to be trapped for the time being.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

Right. So, of course, now Percy thinks it's a great time to bring up you're afraid of heights. Say who? Say what? What? She's like, fuck off, Percy.

SPEAKER_09 30:10

Yeah, Percy.

SPEAKER_03 30:12

Oh, that's when you freaked out on a polo's bus, right? Yeah. And she's like, dude, if you tell anyone, oh, it's cool, it's cool. Just kind of crazy ride, daughter of Zeus, Lord of the Sky, afraid of height Percy.

SPEAKER_09 30:28

How are you gonna push the foreign like that?

SPEAKER_03 30:31

You really pushed the foreign. She was about to knock him out.

SPEAKER_09 30:33

Yeah, exactly. He was both. I wonder if he knew like other people were gonna be showing up soon. So he's like, You didn't.

SPEAKER_03 30:43

Didn't get this while I got it.

SPEAKER_09 30:45

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 30:46

So then we got Grover breaking it up. Hello!

SPEAKER_09 30:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

So Grover, Zoe, Zoe, Bianca, they join him. They're seeing the boars struggling, Grover. It's a blessing. A blessing of the book. Zoe's like, we gotta use it.

SPEAKER_09 31:03

Even Zoe's on point with it.

SPEAKER_03 31:06

And Thalia is, of course, pissed off and apprehensive that was this gonna be a blessing. Yeah. Grover, this is alright, West.

SPEAKER_09 31:16

Yeah, it really pushes it. And I mean it makes sense. Like he's saying, the the boar is so fast.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

Right. You know, this is a quick It's a 30-foot-tall boar. This thing would probably be mob. And it's some kind of ancient boar, so it can probably mob.

SPEAKER_09 31:32

Oh, that boar can maybe mob. So But Grover's also talking like that whole thing, it's gone now. But what what's gone? Because he was saying, Oh, I'd want to look around a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

You gotta get on board, but I don't want to look around.

SPEAKER_09 31:46

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_08 31:47

It's gone.

SPEAKER_09 31:48

Grub for some wax paper.

SPEAKER_03 31:51

And then he's asking, What's gone? Grover just kind of like just walks away, jumps on the boar's back. And then he takes out his pipes, starts playing this tune with the apple. He tosses the apple out, and it just pretty much like floats right in front of the boar. Boar's like, just the little apple, 30-foot boar, man. Automatic steering dahlia. Jumps up on the grover. That's cool. Yeah, Zoe and Bianca walk up. And that's when he's like, yo, what, Zoe? Or like, do you two know what Grover's talking about? This wild blessing. Zoe's like, of course, can't you feel it in the window?

SPEAKER_08 32:38

Ooh, the whimsali.

SPEAKER_03 32:40

And I thought I'd feel it again, that presence.

SPEAKER_06 32:44

So strong.

SPEAKER_09 32:45

So strong. So strong.

SPEAKER_03 32:47

It's like, what presence are you talking about, girl?

SPEAKER_09 32:50

And the way it's like stares at me like an idiot. Like, you don't know the presence.

SPEAKER_08 33:00

He's she straight calls him by his name just for a moment. The arrival of the boy. I felt the presence of Pan.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

We got a first Pan whispers. Is Grover gonna be the first Seder?

SPEAKER_09 33:19

I mean, he's probably gotten closer than Ernie Birdie in centuries.

SPEAKER_03 33:24

In centuries.

SPEAKER_09 33:28

That's why he was so frothy.

SPEAKER_03 33:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 33:30

You know, it's his life's work right at his fingertips. But the gift. And I mean, it looks like they pulled it off. So now we're in New Mexico on the back of a boar. Headed west.

SPEAKER_03 33:46

Headed west to San Francisco.

SPEAKER_09 33:48

Yes. Kind of like a little northwest. Yeah. Gonna have to kid cut that. Quite the angle, but oh demi-blood in it. Demi blood. We got a boar. We uh and that was kind of just like a little action-packed it was, yeah. We uh learned a little bit about Bianca. Yeah. Kind of interesting, like, okay, her and about a little bit about our history, that hotel and everything.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

Right. I feel like we're gonna find out more.

SPEAKER_09 34:19

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:20

There's more about Thalia too. At least more about like this, like we know it's an actual fear of heights now. Yeah. Okay. So you gotta figure out the math on that one.

SPEAKER_09 34:32

Yeah, exactly. We won't tell anyone, though. And now, because we know we got four days to get aboard to San Francisco.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

Right.

SPEAKER_09 34:42

Or beyond, possibly.

SPEAKER_03 34:44

Right, they'll probably need more time because they just at least got to get to San Francisco, talk to Narius. Hopefully, Narius will point them in the right direction.

SPEAKER_09 34:52

Oh, totally.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

To free the goddess, I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_09 34:55

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:56

Find the general and free the goddess.

SPEAKER_09 34:58

Find the general. Free Artemis.

SPEAKER_03 35:01

Save Anthem.

SPEAKER_09 35:01

Yeah, maybe say and I mean we know what Percy's really shooting for.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 35:06

He was never on this quest in the beginning, so he's kind of like a little playbath.

SPEAKER_05 35:11

Yeah, Beth.

SPEAKER_09 35:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 35:13

Let's get a Percy.

SPEAKER_09 35:16

Ah. That was a little adventure.

SPEAKER_03 35:20

We're back in it. And yeah, we are over halfway.

SPEAKER_09 35:23

Oh, is that the mark officially?

SPEAKER_03 35:25

Um, I don't know, but I'm just looking at the halves and yeah, I can feel it.

SPEAKER_09 35:31

The journey presses forward.

SPEAKER_03 35:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 35:36

That was a sweet little rag.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

173.

SPEAKER_09 35:40

Yes, it's like our demibloids, they know how to work together. They always figure out something. And if not, then Percy will pull through because this is this person we're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 35:50

Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_09 35:51

But a purse.

SPEAKER_02 35:52

About a purse. Yeah, 312 is the total page number. So we are Oh yeah. Yeah, I think 155th would be the halfway.

SPEAKER_09 36:05

155?

SPEAKER_02 36:07

156th?

SPEAKER_09 36:08

Um, yeah. So we're even further. Yeah. I wonder if there's some little post whispers in the there's post whispers. They always do the post whispers.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Oh, we do the post whispers. We love it. We love a good post whispers. We love post.

SPEAKER_09 36:27

Yeah. Well, it's always a pleasure.

SPEAKER_03 36:30

Always a pleasure. Chapter 15.

SPEAKER_09 36:34

We're coming for you.

SPEAKER_07 37:12

Wait.