2. PJBL Debrief

the prot thickens and twists as we get settled back at camp half blood. but things stir in the pools of Poseidon

The Sons of Apollo Love You!!

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SPEAKER_01 0:52

Vengeance? Oh my gosh. Well, I guess if anybody sent him onto this spiraling punk rock identification.

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But how had he cheated death? I guess maybe by not saving his sister.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Cause I guess maybe that, yeah. And Slash, like, he's a demiblood, so he's cheating death all the time. But there's many other people who. But yeah, that would. But I I guess it did. It seals it in stone with that last line right there. It's just like current turkles. He's coming after me. He's coming for me, that punk rock vibration. Coming all the way from the reason.

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He's so punk rock. Dude just huddled over.

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Throwing his mytho magic cards into the flames. Dude.

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Epic. What was that? Aviator jacket? Aviator jacket. Oversized aviator jacket over a black t-shirt. Over ripped black jeans.

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Clean. Yeah, it's clean. I kind of want that to be my fall look.

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Yeah. Little October vibes.

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October.

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Paint my nails black.

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Yeah. Oh. Get back to that.

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Just have like a pack of Pokemon cards in my pocket at all times to throw into any random fire. Just trying to burn my childhood.

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Trying to burn that thing away. Stupid. That was that way. So stupid.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

But that's wild, dude, that he what was this? Talking about a maze or something? He got all the way through some stuff.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

Oh yeah. Did I not lead you through the maze and teach you to use your powers?

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Ugh How dare you.

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Yeah.

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I don't I don't like this. Yeah, this character. Yeah, this this ghost in the shimmer.

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Ghost in the shimmer. I don't know. You can't see him direct on.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Yeah. Only out of the corner of your eye. He's King Quane game. And then he Yeah, exactly. He's like a distant star.

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Yeah.

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Oh. It's a black hole. Black hole. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Wow, this is a skin. Yeah, this is a big lidens, dude. We're already 42 pages in.

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Anyone in. And we started at 18, so yeah. It was a good 24 pages.

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It was a good 24. Yeah, we went so far. I mean. Yeah. Because to think where we started is pretty much like Annabath just like, you suck, Percy.

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Yeah. The underworld sends me a prank call. Fitting.

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Mm-hmm. Yeah, I was trying to remember what that, even where we were like, because we'd gone so far from the beginning.

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Yeah.

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As we were mid-chapter. But gosh, what a what a leap. What a glorious song.

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It was a great ride.

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Yeah, here we go. Book four, man. Where are you?

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Yeah, it was almost like an eerie chapter. It was like, dude, things on the surface look okay, I guess, but like there's a lot of things happening in the undercurrent. And I feel like we got a glimpse of that, of course, with the Grover Council. Yeah. And then just kind of like these questions, who's this quintess character, Quintus characters? Yeah. What debacles does he go with?

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I've done a lot of things. I've been so I've been won many. We got an old demigad? Yes. Who knew they could make it to 50 years? Right. Gives me hope for Perse.

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Exactly.

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Many, many long age. Yeah.

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But yeah, so pretty much it ended off chapter one with purse good high school is exploding. Yeah. Uh Rachel is gonna cover for him. And him and Abeth are hopping in a taxi to go to Camp Half-Led because that's pretty much what Kelly said before she burst into flames was like, Yeah, Camp Half-Led's gonna bane. Yeah, your Campbell Band boy.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

So, yeah, that first line in this chapter nothing caps off the perfect morning. Like a long taxi ride with an angry girl. I know that. I know that. We haven't in the car with an angry girl, but fine.

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Yeah, it ain't fun.

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That is it ain't a beauty. When you're in a car with somebody, like you're trapped right next to them, you know.

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Right.

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Y'all stuck together.

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And that's so yeah, she's definitely pouting. She's you know, not wanting to talk.

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Punched her grandmother.

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Um told her oh no, out of her was that she'd had a monster-infested spring in San Francisco. She came back to camp twice since Christmas. Interesting. Wouldn't tell him why. Yeah. Didn't even tell him why she was in New York, which is keeping it super secret.

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Interesting. Clandestine anyone?

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And she'd learned nothing about the whereabouts of Nico. Okay.

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Okay.

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Any word on Luke?

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Which is always a touchy subject. As we all know about Luke.

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And so then we kind of get a recap on Luke.

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Yeah, former Kim Counselor.

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Pretty much the last we saw of him was that he had gotten cast off of that cliff. Broken body. Broken the body. I'm pretty sure Purse saw, right? His broken body.

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He saw his broken body on the cliff rock. Yeah, and was like No water, no nothing, just clack, clack, clackle.

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But uh, according to Poseidon, he is still alive. Yeah. And he's out there.

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He's somewhere on a demon cruise ship.

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Right.

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And uh kind of cruising with, we get re-reminded about Lord Kronos being reformed.

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Which is our big bad of this whole series, is like he's reforming in the Sarth Gafagit. Luke is pretty much, I'm assuming, keeping it the Tarfat Gafagith safe until he fully reforms.

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He's probably, I feel like he's connected to this Sartapagate.

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That's exactly it too. Something about him is connected to the Tarafak Afogate.

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Yeah.

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Where like he's almost gaining ball.

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Yeah, it's like he's gaining power, but he's also losing ball. Yeah. Because you know, it's like this power comes out of the thumb. Right. It comes out of fame. Is it giving thigh? It is. There's a lot of thigh. Yeah, he's giving a lot of power. But it's and I mean, he's not necessarily that powerful when he was in that sword fight.

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Just yeah.

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But I mean, he can still survive this 50-foot cliff.

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Right. So he must be gaining some immortality or something, maybe? Getting a taste of the immortality. Oh the immortal.

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Exactly.

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Immortality.

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Yeah, no, the immortality. But anyways, yeah.

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He's reforming and then So this is the problem. Mount Tam is still a run with monsters. She didn't go to Oh, but I don't think Luke is up there. I think I would know if he was.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

Come on. Fuck off. The sun do. Not that's not gonna make you feel good. Yeah. But then Pose is like, so what's up with Grover then? Yeah. So he's at camp still, something like.

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And it's like, did he have any luck with Pan? And it's like, well, you'll see. Interesting.

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Beth's not gonna give up any info on that one. She's keeping it kind of close to the chest. I mean, she's she's angry, she's pissed off, but she's still being blended. Yeah. Um, well, we're making a call to mom. Yeah, it's kind of interesting. Which is very unusual. We don't usually be using cell phones. Yeah, it's demibles. So this has got to be something.

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But he leaves a message to mom, pretty much just giving her the deets. Yeah. You know, making sure that mom knows because mom's gonna hear about the explosion.

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Yeah.

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She's gonna be like, what happened to Burzine? Yeah, whatever.

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Best that she knows from him that he's a nice little apology to Blowfist. Yeah, which is kind of in. That's kind of him.

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Yeah. But yeah, they ride in silence. He's looking at the number from Rachel. Under Kun.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Tempted to call her. My gosh, how dare you? You should freaking. I mean, memorize the number, obvi, but get that number off your hand. Yes, sir. Acerps.

SPEAKER_02 9:45

A sirp, don't be sitting next to Abeth with that number on your hand, boy.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

Just start licking it, Doc.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

Start looking. While she's looking away, while she's ignoring you, just get that shit off.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

I mean, he's the god of water. He should be able to learn how to use the water in his body to evate surface uh absorptions.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

Yeah, turn it into A Beth's number. Ooh, now let's go. But yeah, so but yeah, Kelly, she'd exploded, but this whole thing of how, like, do we even know she was really destroyed? Yeah. You know, like if she was, she's gonna reform. Yeah, the way that she blew up was definitely weird. So, anyways, they're driving and they get to the farm road that's gonna take them to Half Blood Hill. Uh Abbeth pays the driver, they go up to the hill, they see Guardian Dragon Peleoth.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

Oh, this guardian dragon. This is a cool little dragon. I love Peleoth. We gotta love Peleoth. Dragons! We gotta dragon cut. So we get the dragon a little Petsy. He seems like a chill boy. That's it. He's doubled his length. Yeah, he's he must be being uh well fed. He's well happy, he's a happy boy.

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And then Camp Half Blood's looking pretty good. Everything's looking peachy keen. Okay, but there is this like he feels this undercurrent, like something feels wrong.

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Yeah, attention in the air.

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Yeah, like just a little hush before the storm.

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There is something brewing under the surface here. So we're kind of what washing down. It looks like the summer session's in full swing. All the campers are kind of getting ready. They showed up last Friday. So, what you got? Satyrs playing the pipes, chilling out, some campers, flying horse lessons, some Pegasi.

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Pegasi.

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That's a cool little look.

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We got little training drills going on, just a good classic day.

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Show them how freshish forges.

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Yeah, forgesh. And uh, but yeah, A Beth right off the bat's like, I need to see Clarice. Which again, Pearce is very like, what?

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Yeah, we try to talk to Clarissals for a while.

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We're trying to hang with Clarice, interesting.

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Trying to be like, what for?

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Yeah, and then she's just like, Well, we've just been working on something. I'll see you later. And he's like, Well, working on what? And she's gown. Yeah, and then she just runs up. Yeah, I'll tell Chiron you're here. He'll want to talk to you before the hearing. What hearing? What? And it's like then she's just off, doesn't answer, so it's like, okay, well, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

So Ice Ice Roy.

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Ice Roy. So he's momming through, saying hi to people.

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Yeah, we're seeing Connor and Travis stole from the city. Yeah, we gotta love the stoles.

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Selena.

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Nice and Balaya. Trying to look for Grover, but not really seeing him.

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Yeah.

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Going over to the sword arena.

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Yep.

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Because, you know, it's always nice. Percy loves to train. He loves to play with his sword.

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And that's when we see the hellhound.

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Oh. Biggest hellhound we've ever seen. This thing the size of a tank. Bigger than a tank. Oh, bigger than a tank. And yeah, I was just chilling there. He goes to like attack it. How's the hellhound even getting through those boundaries? Right. He's like, okay, it's kind of interesting. But yeah, so he immediately just pulls out riptide, like, shawk! Get ready. Blah! Yeah, charges.

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Gets blocked. And uh two clankles. Yeah, the hellhound's like, what?

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What's going out? And that's where we have this uh Shao and O Schnau.

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Show Shao Schau. True. Show Lau Schnell. So yeah, this guy, he's in full Greek armor. He's a swordsman pairing with no problem. Then he introduces her. He's like this hellhound, she's Mrs. O'Leary.

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Mrs. O'Leary.

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She seems pretty cool. She's a good girl.

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Yeah, she's not like angry, she's excited.

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Yeah. You know, she's tearing up the attack dummies, and it's a good old time.

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But he like goes and tosses uh the dummy. Yeah. Go get the greet, chases it down.

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But yeah, we kind of get a description of him. He's in his 50s, short gray hair, clipped gray beard, good shape. He's wearing, you know, like kind of like athletic mountain mountain climbing pants, bronze breastplate strapped over his half-blood shirt. Kind of cool.

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That is.

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Um he's got this purplish blotch, like a birthmark or a tattoo on his neck.

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And uh it's like right under his collar, but it kind of is shifting. It's like hard to see. It's easily covered.

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Easily covered. But yeah, Mrs. O'Leary is his pet. Um, and then he asks who he is, and we get his name. His name's Quintish. Quintish. And so Good Quintias.

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I kind of like got like a Montana Mountain man, kind of Quintil. Quintius. This is Quintis.

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But yeah, we're talking about how he got Mrs. O'Leary. Yeah. It's a long story. But basically, he's the new uh sword instructor helping out Chiron while Mr. D is away, which is like, oh, why is Mr. D away? And uh Yeah.

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Where is he off to?

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Well, he's out visiting some old friends, making sure they're on the right side. So it seems like this war is under full swing. Like the the preparations of war. That even Dionysus is getting called into like recruitment action.

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That the sides are the division line, the broods are brewing. Because I mean, with Mount Orthrath brewing like it is, there's it's definitely the that it's time to brew.

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Right. Um, but yeah, and then Clank, we've got these crates that just jump in, they get delivered. Uh Mrs. O'Leary tries to get at them. Um, but yeah, it's on the side of them, it says Triple G Ranch fragile. This end up. They're thumping and shaking. Open with care, Triple G Ranch is not responsible for property damage, maiming, or excruciatingly painful deaths.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

So, what's in the box?

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What is the danger in the box?

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This is just keeping it so close to the quintess, a little surprise.

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Training activity for tomorrow. It's like, okay, interesting.

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So, what about this excruciatingly painful death part? But he's just like, oh, you guys need more challenges than you've experienced. You know, they didn't have camps like this when I was a boy.

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Yeah, which is like, oh wait, you're a half-blood too then.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Oh, so I've never seen an old demi-blood.

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Yeah, because it's pretty rare, obviously. They usually get killed off early.

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But he does say some of us do survive. You know, not all of us are the subject of terrible prophecies. So he knows about the prophecy. Prophecy drop, you know about my prophecy stop.

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But just before they can get into it, we got Chiron popping into the arena.

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Oh, clippity clopp. Good to see Chiron. He's looking clippity clopp.

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Yeah, he's looking fresh.

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He's looking trimmed up. Trimmed up. He's got his summer cuts. Got his summer cuts on. Hot Centaur Summer.

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And so, yeah, see, you've met the new instructor. Um, so he's gonna pull off Percy now. They're gonna have a chat. Calls him Master Chiron.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Yeah, Master. He's like, uh need to call me Master, but yeah, thank you.

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I am quite the master, but you don't have to put in the title, but I appreciate I appreciate the recognition, is what I'm saying. You know, thank you, thank you, Quintus.

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Uh we all know where my ranking lies.

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But yeah, so anyways, Chiron and Percy walk away. Uh Quintus seems kind of Chiron mysterious, hard to leave. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, okay, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

So, but he is a qualified half-blood, which is and I just wish I understood. Yeah, which is like what's he's draped in mystery, even that Chiron has not unlocked the layers of mystery. Which is interesting. Huh. So that's like who hired him? You know, where did he come from? Right. So, but then just then Yeah, Chiron's like, tell me about these imposse.

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Yeah, tell me about the impossi.

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Uh-huh.

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So we talk about them in the explosion, how they died. Uh-huh.

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And that's where Chiron says, like, yo. Some of the powerful ones can do that. And they don't die. That that impose escaped.

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Yeah.

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These she demons, they're stirring.

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Yes, it's not good that they're stirring. What are they doing here? And are they waiting for me? Possibly it's Maisie Survived. Yeah. You would have fallen under the spell. That's when he's like, yeah, I would have fallen under the spell.

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But Rachel, my tinny on lock. This uh this mortal girl saving, that's kind of interesting. And even Chiron says, like, you owe her a debt.

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Yeah.

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But that imputate thing.

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Yeah, we gotta talk about this attack on Camp. We'll talk about it later. For now, we gotta go to the woods. Grover's gonna want you to.

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Grover wants us in the woods.

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Where? At this at his formal hearing, the Council of Cloven Elders is meeting now to decide his fate.

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Which is like Oh, okay.

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So we've got Grover's on trial.

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Yeah. So what Percy just hops right on the Clippity Clock Chiron's back and they just start mobbing through camp. He gets a quick look at the uh pavilion, and he's like, Oh, I remember what happened at that pavilion.

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Oh yeah, which was where he got stung by that scorpion, right?

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Which uh I don't know if it was there, but it was the thing with Nico.

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Oh, that's right.

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Because that's where he cracked a cracked a marble. Wow. So they kind of plunge into this little wood pocket that they've never seen before. Kind of cool.

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Yeah, they go in this cool way that he hasn't gone, but this little willow cut forest. And then yeah, now we're in this circle of saters.

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A bunch of old satyrs.

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This probably was so much fun.

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So much fun doing their voices.

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Oh, different Seder voices.

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Um but yeah, Grover's in the middle, and he's standing before these three older Satyrs, and he's all nervous as they're approaching. Um looks like he's a little bit bigger. His horns have grown a little bit. He's grown a little bit.

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You can almost see the little spurt derkles out of his horns propping out.

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But he still looks young because they age half as fast as you.

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Yeah, he's got a long sadic life ahead of him.

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So uh purse is taller than Grover now.

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Interesting. So he's grown pretty fast.

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But yeah, we see then Abeth and this other girl that we don't recognize, and Clarice. Uh Chiron drops him off next to him. Clarice, she greets him with a tongue.

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But it's like better than usual. She looks buffer. Yeah, classic buffer. Been working out. I can imagine she's just heavy on the weights all the term.

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And then Abed is consoling this other girl. She's small, petite. She's a small little petite elfish. She wears kind of this Greek, like tunic, green tunic lace sandals, chitin.

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It's going terribly. It's going terrible.

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And like, who is this? Oh, it's Grover's girlfriend. Juniper. Yes.

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He'll be fine, Juniper.

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And uh It's like the Grover has a girlfriend now. Yeah. But then it kind of gets into that, like, oh, this isn't a girl as much as because her eyes are of chlorophyll. She's a tree nip.

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She's a dryer.

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And then we get into the kind of the council of Cloven. Uh Elders begin.

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I'm the one. Do you ex seriously expect us to believe this?

SPEAKER_01 22:08

And it seems like they are really not wanting to buy the truth of fact. Right, exactly.

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Grover's pretty much trying to say, like, yo, I've gotten a lead.

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It's a white hot lead. Mm-hmm.

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And pretty much they're like saying, like, yo, we've been hearing for six months these claims that you've heard Pan speak, which he did. Uh-huh. And they're like, that's crazy. And uh, but yeah, Chiron, he's actually he's a part of the council.

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Yeah.

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So he's kind of intervening just like Meyron. Patient. And Meyron's fisk is like, what? As if the god of the wild would speak to this kid. These elders.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Oh my gosh. Yeah, because it does it kind of describe the elders that like they don't look very impressive. Yeah. They don't look like they've been out seeking. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

They're just dying and fat-bellied goats.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Yeah. Potbellied roats. But yeah, so. And he did. We know Grover heard it.

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But yeah, you know, Juniper kind of gets a little riled up about how they're talking to him. Clarice holds her back, which is cute.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Yeah, wrong bike early. Which is kind of yeah, that is cute.

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But pretty much they're like, yo, for Selenus, the main Yeah. Seems like the main guy speaking.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Salanus, yeah. For six months, we've let you travel around and keep your searcher's license and whatnot, your preposterous claim. Like how found nothing, basically.

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And he's like, yo, I just need more time. They're like, nothing. You still have found nothing.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

Oh my gosh. And uh give the man time. This is a big quest, Doc. But then thousands of years.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

Yeah. But then Chiron kind of gets in and you know starts to intervene, seems like, has some little micro chats with them.

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Uh-huh.

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And they basically say, Alright, we're gonna give you one more chance. One more chance. You get one week.

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One week.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

What? Jesus. That's it. Oh, but now that also maybe just clicked. Maybe that's our timeline for this book.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

You have one week, Grova. One week to find Prince. Let's see if you can pull it off, Grova. That's impossible. And it's like basically, you know, you have this week to find something more than what you've claimed. If not, we're taking your license, basically.

SPEAKER_01 24:41

And that's what's kind of cool to think we've got a little mini sub quest.

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Yeah.

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Because hopefully we'll be able to follow Grova on this. Who knows exactly how it'll pay out? But I want to know what's going to happen in the next week with Grova.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Yeah.

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Oh my goodness.

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So, but yeah, they shut down the meeting. Um, they're gonna have their meal.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

That's kind of funny the like, oh, you could pursue something like they're gonna revoke his searcher's license in a week. Yep. If he doesn't do this, yeah.

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So, but yeah, they shut it down, they're going for the noonday meal. Grover comes around uh towards Peirce. He's pretty dejected.

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Juniper's all like, Grover, they don't know how hard you try.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

Oh my god. Um Clarissa's talking about this other option. Option. Juniper is not a fan of this option. No.

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And I won't let you, she says.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

Yeah. And he says he's gonna think about it. Oh, okay. But we don't even know where to look. So it's like, oh, are they gonna try to do like a separate search or something? What do they do?

SPEAKER_01 25:50

A little secret search, and then the conch cell blows, and it's like uh we gotta get back. Inspection. Yeah, inspection. What is this in okay? Cabin inspection. Yeah. So I feel like this is maybe the first book that I've heard of this whole like cabin inspection where you get certain things because it's like based on yeah. Yeah, you get like it'll delegate your roles for chores based on this inspection. The senior counselor comes around with their checklist, and you know the what does it say? The best cabin gets first shower hour, which meant hot water guarantee. Right. Worst cabin got kitchen patrol after dinner.

SPEAKER_02 26:34

Which, okay, that sucks.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

So, but poor purse, he's a kind of a slob.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

And he's the only one in Poseidon, so it's like if he don't clean it, it don't get cleaned.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

Yeah. And he was there during the winter, and the harpies only come at the end of summer.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

So he's running towards his cabin. He's seeing all the other cabins get ready. Demeter kids, of course, have really nice flowers.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Yeah, the honeysuckle display. That's pretty sweet, honestly.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Hermes cabin scrambling around trying to like hide all their dirty laundry. Aphrodite, of course, we got Selena coming out. She's the main inspector.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Yeah, which could be kind of rigged in its own way, but I'm sure their cabin is beautiful too.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Right. And so he's at Poseidon's at the end of the row of male cabins, so he's running over there, he runs inside.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Thinking he can do a quick cleanup job when we get boo-boom, Tyson. Tyson, Ren Tyson. And he's all in his like cleanup attire.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

Yes, he's already sweeping the floor, dude. He he walks in with the broom in hand.

SPEAKER_02 27:41

So, but we got big hugs from Tyson. He's looking good. Same old Tyson. Love it. Haven't seen him for a year because he's been in the Cyclops.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

It has been so long since we've seen Tyson.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

So, but they're kind of checking each other out, making sure they're both the brothers, uh, they're alive, they're not memes. Life is good.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

Tyson's excited to uh yeah, eat sandwiches and redfish ponies. Oh my gosh, it's gonna be beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

It's gonna be awesome. So, but they're happy to be reunited. But yeah, we gotta worry about inspection, and that's when he realizes oh, Tyson's actually like deuced out the Poseidon cabin to the ninth.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

It is flawless, it looks immaculate, and the little fixtures too. He's got little globes with sea anemones, strange glowing plants. It's cool, and then even that uh those fish ponies up in the uh up in the ceiling, absolutely beautiful. Tyson is like a craftsman, he's not only can make weapons and stuff, but can also do the little small tinkering.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

Exactly. And then it's back to nines. He's got it fully fixed up, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Top to bottom, like completely repaired, even the bronze pictures of the little happenings in the Sea of Monsters.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

And then just then we got Selena come in and boom, she actually approves. Gives Percy a little wink.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

A little wink.

SPEAKER_02 29:08

You clean him nicely, Percy. I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

I remember that very kink. Hey girl. Charms speak me. Oh, yeah. I love it. So and then they get to have pretty much like a nice afternoon. Yep, you know, together, especially after Percy's wild morning. It's wild to think it's the same day. Yeah. That all this stuff continues to happen. So, what they go down to the uh forges of help out with the metal working metalworking. Tyson kind of flexes his skills to what he's been learning. Yeah, what he's been doing with old uh Beckendorf. Impresses him. Yeah, impresses Beckendorf.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Um tells him about the year, tells him about the palace of Poseidon, uh, the sea gods.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

Yeah, how there's this war that's stirring. Yeah, the old sea gods are brilliant, battles raging all over the Atlantic. Oh my gosh. But Pops wants them both at camp. Yeah, because Percy's like, I wish I could be there.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Right.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

But then they go to the says lots of bad people above the sea, too, you know.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

Yeah. But yeah, then they go to the lake with uh Abeth. She's happy to see Tyson, but she still keeps looking at the forest. At the forest.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

This whole God of Pan thing is pretty important because really this is Grover's lifelong goal.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

His father and his uncle both disappeared.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Yeah, died for it. And he knows he heard the voice. I await you.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

Yeah. So but yeah, he's asking Anna about this other way that Clarice managed to. What's up with this other way? And she's like, it's something Clarice scouted out. But it would be too dangerous. Yeah, especially for Grover. What? And then this whole thing about like Tyson being scared of Goat Boy. Yeah, being scared of Goat Boy.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

Why are you scared of hooves and horns? But that pretty much just ends the convo.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

Yeah, so I wonder if we'll find out more about that.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Yeah, exactly. That was maybe just like a little breadcrumb.

SPEAKER_02 31:05

But yeah, then he goes down before dinner to go and spar with Quintus.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

Um great swordsman.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

Definitely keeps Perce on his toes. Um training him very well. So Perce is asking.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

Right. Like you always been a swordsman?

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Right.

SPEAKER_01 31:24

Well, I've been many things.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

Very mysterious. I've been many things.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Um, but they're going toe for toe, and then that's when Persis's like, you know, what's put on your neck.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

He sees the tat again. What?

SPEAKER_02 31:36

And that kind of like shifts Quintus off rhythm. And then he realizes that it's not a tattoo, it's actually like a brand.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Like a reminder. That's all we get about it.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

And then he just goes double hearted for tink tanks.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Can tink rink.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

Tyson's playing with Mrs. O'Leary, it's super cute. But, anyways, at the end of it, uh, they go to shower, and Quintus hasn't even broken a sweat.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

What?

SPEAKER_02 32:02

After all that cat-cha-cha. But yeah, he goes to shower. Anyways, interesting. Yeah, which was strange.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Yeah, hasn't even broken a sweat. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

But yeah, they go to dinner, everyone's lined up, he sees the fissure and the fish.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

Yeah, it's like almost a normal day, but now we're looking at the big crack Tyson says.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

And we of course know that's from Nico and Tyson thinks about it.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

Earthquake, definitely not an earthquake. And that's when Percy knows he can't lie to him, ultimately. And that's what's good about it. He tells him it's Nico.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Yeah, Nico.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

Kind of gives him the whole rundown on it. Like this kid from last winter.

SPEAKER_02 32:43

And yeah, how I was supposed to guard the sister, he failed.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

So then Nico put the category. He blames me now.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

And basically, like, yo, yeah, there's a skeletal army and the ground is flipping up. He said, go. So sick.

SPEAKER_01 33:03

Just swallowed him.

SPEAKER_02 33:04

And then yeah, Nico's the son of Hades.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

I uh the God of Dead people. And Tyson kind of puts it together that, like, yo, if we're not looking for him, maybe other bad people can try to look for him too.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

Right.

SPEAKER_01 33:19

You know, Titans might use him if they knew.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

If they knew, exactly. And so it's like which is kind of interesting, it does kind of comment that like how Tyson kind of seems like he's a di big softy dummy, but he's actually putting it all together.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

He's definitely got it moving upstairs, too.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

But yeah, we're keeping mouth sealed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

And because that whole nine-on, like, if people knew that there was another factor in the prophecy, right. Besides Percy. And you know, because if Percy bites the big one, then it would apply to Nika.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Right. But yeah, now he's trying to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

He's laying. It's hard to go to sleep, though. Yeah. When you're demi-blood.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

And nightmares awaiting.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

So what it's like past midnight and he's still not sleeping, and then he sees the glow from the saltwater fountain. Yep. Glendale Glaunt immediately is up.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

Goes towards it, and yeah, it's already shivering, and basically is like the first collect call.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

A voice says, please deposit one drop, my baby.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

So there's one in the fountain, he picks it up and throws it in.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

Yeah, he's not really worried about Tyson, who's Tyson's ripple out.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

And he's like, Yeah, goddess of the rainbow, tell me what you need to tell me.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Yeah, hit me with the truth.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

And that's when we get this vision of Nico on the riverbank, just crouched over.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

Kintiverink, dude.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

Yeah, just looking all emotion. Yeah, looking emo in the metal AF.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

Gosh, just by the jagged volcanic rock with the fire. Oh my gosh, just tossing the pieces.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

Find out this is River Sticks that he's on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

He's tossing his cards into the fire.

SPEAKER_02 35:06

You know, he's definitely jaded.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

He's j jaded. And I mean, I can't blame him, dude. His sister and stuff, and like the life he's lived. He's the god of son of the god of the dead. Right.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

It's fucking raw. So but yeah, now there's this voice. So this he's talking with someone.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

And uh, so we can't see who it is, but someone's talking.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

A childish game master.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

Um, but yeah, it seems like he's saying, like, I failed, there's no way to get it back. Like, I guess he must have been trying to get Bianca Yeah, totally, totally. You know, it's probably why he's in the underworld. And this voice is like, uh, oh yeah, he's like, There's no way to get her back right. Yeah. Speak. And uh ghost is like, yo, there it's not it's never been done, but there may be another way.

SPEAKER_01 35:58

Uh-huh. So it kind of describes that ghost. It's like the form of a man, a wisp of smoke, a shadow.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Just like a yeah, you can't see direct on him, but only in the corner of your eye.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

Straight up.

SPEAKER_02 36:11

But yeah, there's this other way, it's never been done. Uh and the ghost is like a soul-for-soul exchange. And uh the ghost is like, it can't be your soul.

SPEAKER_01 36:22

Yeah, because he's already offered, dude. When when you hit that, it was just like, dang, Nico, he's so Nico, it's not too late for him, dude. Right. He's on a dark path, but I want to believe in it.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

It's like we can't offer Hades a soul that he's gonna collect anyway, nor can we offer him a lot of it.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

It's gotta be someone who has cheated death.

SPEAKER_02 36:44

And so it's like, dude, it seems like this voice has been trying to get him to maybe headhunt this person.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Yeah, exactly. He's like, not that again.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

You're talking about murder, not talking about yo, why can't I at least summon my sister? And this voice is like, he's like, yo, listen, I'm I led you through the maze. Have I not helped you? Do you want revenge or not for your sister? And so led you through the maze. And so, yeah, we're talking about this voice.

SPEAKER_01 37:21

Yeah, and sounds like a good where it's kind of hitting on revenge for your sister, is now kind of manipulating this whole thing into like Percy killed your sister. Percy's the reason your sister's dead.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Yeah, but yeah, he's like, Alright, so you gotta plan, Nico finally acquiesces. We gotta start here, but that's when this vision fades, and then the voice asks for another drachma. Like, if you want five more minutes, yeah, you need one more drama. Percy scrambles, but he can't find one in time, and just like that, he's gone.

SPEAKER_01 37:58

The connection is lost.

SPEAKER_02 38:00

But Nico's alive, yeah, he's trying to bring his sister back from the dead.

SPEAKER_01 38:03

That's what we know.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

And it seems, according what Percy feels, that this soul-for-soul exchange that Nico is coming for is Percy.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

Percy is coming for you, he said. And I mean, that would be the only person who could be drawn to be responsible, revenge for your sister's death. Hayatou. And uh yeah, and now he know we know he's on the move. He's alive and he's on his way. He's gonna find Percy. Right. So, and what's this thing going on with a maze? What's this other option of Grover that's too dangerous for Grover? Right. Um, a lot of wild things. But it's good to have Tyson. Oh, Quintus. Yeah, and who did Quintil's who Quintus?

SPEAKER_02 38:57

And why don't he sweat?

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Yeah, no sweat, Quintus. I'm Quintus, I don't sweat.

SPEAKER_02 39:02

I don't trust a man, don't sweat.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Yeah, I'll fight forever, and I never sweat. Yeah. You can't yeah, and how do you get a hell out of it?

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Yeah. Just a lot of doggy chew toys. There, yeah, there's there's some mysteries unfolding, but I mean, ultimately, like we were talking, we know Grove. A week. We got a week until his searcher's license is revoked, which is a pretty big deal. Yeah. So I think we're gonna be hot on this. We're gonna figure out what's going on in this week. And uh yeah. There's uh a lot of questions, but it's good. I feel like we're just we're back in it. Camp and this crate. Yeah, this training thing. Remember, like the Quintus had this crate full of something, so we got a lot of things to figure out. Because right now we're not necessarily like we're at camp. We don't have plans to go anywhere else. Yeah. There's just wispers and a crate.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

And a crate. Six crates, I thought.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

Oh, six crates. Six crates, yes. Full of rumbling, bumbling, unexpected death training devices. Yeah, training devices. Half-blood delights.

SPEAKER_02 40:15

Half-blood delights. That was a fun one. That was a fun chapter. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

Cloven elders. The cloven elders.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Ah yeah, but it's been long useless trials, totals have not patents. I would time to speak to him to the boy.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

Ah that would say. Yeah, we should see the chest three.