4. PJBL Debrief

the sons amaze at the sheer ferocity of ms chase as she demands her outrageous terms for the quest into the depths!

The Sons of Apollo Love You!!

Transcript

unknown 0:46

Sorry, usually you would be the one to finish that last one.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

Dude, dude, I feel like that last one goes either way or back. We go two and two. Yeah. And I was reflecting, like I felt like I plopped that a few times on the last bloop. Yeah. So it's nice, it's a it's an honor to be able to finish that. The chapter is always a delight. It is. And it's kind of a toss-up to go to. No Tyndall's Rindle. Dindle Krindle, though, kid. Dindle. I feel like Annabeth, this whole new side of Annabeth, she's like a little bit vulnerable. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

I could read the tiniest font on any book in the room. Yeah, I know that feeling, dog.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

That feeling, dog.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

That's that feeling, dog.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

That's that bundalini.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Oh, that's that kundalini. Her hair smelled like lemon soap. Boonda, kundah. She stayed fresh. She stayed fresh. She knows how to stay fresh. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Damn. I think that might be our closest intimate moment of Abeth and Percy.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Yeah, like a good, like an extended head. Because we've had some arm grabs here and there.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

They did dance that one time.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

We've had some dances.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

But even that was still a little bit formal.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Yeah, a little bit awkward.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Yeah, a little awkward. This was like rock.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

She was just like, Percy. Wait, she's yeah, just puts her arms up. Oh god, just like it's a little bit more. Damn. It's what's to be moved upon. That's a green light right there.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

That's the green light right there, Percy.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

Green as C Fell. Dude, he did it right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

He did it right.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

It's just like, I'm in. Yeah. And when when she said, like, will you come into death? Yeah, without hesitation. I'm in, baby girl. Baby, I got you, baby. Fucking in. Percy. Damn. That's the kind of boy you want on your side. Yeah. And even Grover, too. I mean, that little call about the lost one. The lost one? Lost one? The wild god. Lost one, anyone? The wild god is waiting, Grover.

SPEAKER_04 3:12

I'm there. I'm there. I'll pack extra recyclables.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Ah, Grovita. Yeah, so and a quest? Proper quest? We actually didn't get a proper quest. I feel like that's uh from the oracle herself. Mm-hmm. Because we didn't get that in book three, eh? I don't think so. Oh wait, no, there was that. Because Perse. The mummy came out in the Yes.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

And Peirce had to like carry her back, right?

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Because in book two, the quest went to Clarice. Yes. So.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

And book three, the quest went to Peirce?

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Went to Oh, it was spoken to someone else. Who's this? It was spoken to our huntress in the stars. Oh, was it spoken to Thalia? Not Thalia.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

Uh Bianca.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Bianca, not Bianca, but the captain. Zoe. Zoe Nightshade. Zoe Nightshade. Of course. A huntress in the stars. Yeah, a huntress in the star.

SPEAKER_04 4:17

Stop.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

Yeah. But though that was when the mummy came out to the creek and ripped with all of them. So yeah, that's why. And just A Beth, what are you doing with holding prophecies, girl? Come on. So tactful.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

Tactful to a fault.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

Well, yeah, exactly. It's like, girl, we all know that the lines of a prophecy rhyme.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

So something came with last breath.

SPEAKER_01 4:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

What was that?

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Yeah, last breath.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Like, of course, Chiron knows, but it's interesting that Chiron didn't really like push back too much. He was just, you know, ultimately, like, yeah, I mean, ultimately the prophecy is for the person who receives the prophecy.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Straight up.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

And like they don't have any, I guess, like obligations to even tell the prophecy to anybody. This is because it usually involves that half blood's life.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Mm-hmm. It's yeah, that that prophecy is your own.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

And where it's like, okay, because you're and that's the way it works, is whoever is appointed the quest, they go to the oracle, and then they're the captain of the quest. So you run in the show even from the jump of do I dictate this prophecy? So Karen's an old guy, he's seen a lot of quests. So interesting. Tactical. Okay, okay. Tactics. And that's with uh this four, four on the floor instead of three.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Yes. It's an interesting tactic, yeah, Beth.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

Exactly. Tactical.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Okay, Abeth. And it's like, okay, so if we're talking about these four, Abeth, Peirce, Tyson, Grover, you're telling me that one of them may not be coming back?

SPEAKER_01 5:57

Yeah. That's yeah, and not to even talk about uh the Child of Athena's last stand. Right. Or maybe not what did it say the last stand or a stand of sorts? Definitely a stand, potentially last stand. I know we'll we'll get into that.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

Grandstand?

SPEAKER_01 6:16

Yeah, the grandstand, Fantantan, Tanticle.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

But yeah, that's the whole thing. A Child of Athena's final stand.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Final stand. Final. Yeah. Okay. So the stynus. Finalities. And there's last breaths going on. Or breaths, you know. And heartbeats. What a chapter. Chapter four.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

It was a good chapter. Good dialogues. Like having everybody at the council.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

Mmm. Always a fun time.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Playing with all the different things.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Yeah, like whose voice sounds like it's hard to keep track of like who I voiced as what. But then at the end of the day, it's like, okay, just roll with whatever. Yeah. I like Begendors.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

I wonder if Quintus is Santa Festus. Who is Quintus?

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Who is Quintus? Who is Uniquar's got some nines?

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Skoonda, yeah. Yeah, he's creepy.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

She called him creepy.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

You don't want to be creepy.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

You don't want to be creepy. Yeah, nobody wants to be creepy. To a dryad.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Yeah, nobody wants to be creepy to a dryad.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

That's not the move.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Yeah. That's not the that's not what we want to be known as, you know. Yeah. That's not what we're banking on. Aquintus, yes, so mysterious in all of his different ways, kind of dancing up and down. Hmm. But yeah, ultimately, I mean, here we are in chapter four to take it to the top. Annabeth breaks the rules.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Because what we know now. What rule she's breaking? Three. Oh, yeah, the rule. Three to four. That's a big papa right there.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Yeah, so that's her rule.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

But yeah, we start out with kind of Chiron insisting that we talk in the morning. Because the last night ended with the whole games and getting slipped into that little discus.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

And then pretty much having the discussion of like, oh, we think Luke's probably gonna try to use this. We gotta figure this labyrinth think out Acer.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Yeah, straight up. And in true fashion, Percy goes back, finally falls asleep, dips into this dream.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Immediately.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

Yeah, immediately dripping into a dream of a boy in a Greek tunic just standing, getting all sad in the corner of a room. It's an interesting room, too. This like open sky, but 20-foot tall, polished marble walls. Interesting, like scattered crates everywhere on the box, like different tools. Some that we recognize, a compass, some that we don't. Just like what is this?

SPEAKER_02 9:10

Definitely a workshop of sorts.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Yeah, like almost like a disheveled workshop we got going on.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Kids in the corner, huddling. He's crying, shivering.

unknown 9:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

And then arms are scraped.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Uh looks like he's kind of beat up, honestly.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

Yeah, almost looks like maybe a storeroom of sorts.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

Yeah. And then what the doors open, two guards bumping on in.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

Old man in between them.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Uh, they fling this old man to the floor in a battered heap.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Right. This is this boy's father. Oh my gosh. The boy's very distraught of his father. Looks like the father's just like battered. Um, exactly. Yeah, old gray haired little boy. Uh nose broken, lips bloody. Ugh, beaten to high hickum.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

It's like, what are the heck? Yeah, who is this? Okay, old man. Obviously, this boy's distraught. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. Oh my god. But you're done. And then what this other voice, and then looks like there's this kind of this king. Yes, exactly. Tall man in white robes, golden circlet, pompous, this freaking beard at the point of a tip, stinger.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

That's how you can identify evil.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

Yeah. Imperialist through and through. Yeah, and what talking about? You helped this Athenian kill the minusur. And this is a Deadalus, Daedalus now. Turn my own daughter against me, he says. You do that to yourself. Oh, yeah, and it sounds like he's been beaten. And I mean, we can tell he's already been beaten.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

Yeah, this guy gets kicked again by the guards. The boys his son's trying to stop it. And then the king basically says, to Daedalus, which we find out this is his maze.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

Um, I'm gonna pretty much trap you in the maze. It's gonna be your workshop. You're gonna make cruel and unusual things for me. You're gonna be my monster!

SPEAKER_01 11:05

Yeah, you're gonna be my puppet.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

What do you say? Every maze needs a monster.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

You should be mine. Oh my gosh, that's nasty. And what? Daedalus just croaks back. He's still he's got fight in him. I don't fear you. But of course.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

Yeah, pretty much he threatens like to harm the son if he doesn't follow. Yeah. So the king leaves, the boy's like, dude, what do we do? Um, dad's like, don't worry, I'm gonna figure out a way, and then the dream ends.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

Yeah, take heart.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

So Percy.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

What is there? A fatal boom? Oh, that's just the door shutting, they're locked. Okay, now they're just they're stuck in the Yeah, they're stuck in this.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

So this must be the workshop that they're stuck in, maybe. In the maze, I'm assuming. Yeah, in the laptop.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Because this is now where we know we're trying to get to. Right. So Percy snaps out of it.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

Uh Chiron's called a war council. They mean the sword arena, Mrs. O'Leary's there. Okay. Chiron, Quintus, Clarice, Annabeth, Tyson, Grover, Juniper, Selena, Travis, Connor, Beckendorf. Even Argus. Even Argus, that's so it's like a it's a true war council.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

This shit is serious. All of his bloodshot eyes.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Bloodshot eyes focused on Abeth. She's the one kind of leading the council.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

Yeah, she's chatting it up.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

And pretty much we come in that, you know, Luke must have known about this entrance and knows about camp.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

So um Juniper's like uh Yeah, saying Luke used to use this entrance back in the day. And then it's like, what you didn't say anything? And it's like, ha, well, you know, it's just about yucky caves, and it was didn't know it was important. And it was about Luke, too.

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Yeah, exactly. Well, she was crushing on Luke. I wouldn't have paid any attention except, well, it was Luke. Like, oh.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

Yeah, Luke's kind of a dream boat. I mean, now he's withering.

SPEAKER_02 13:05

I love that Grover, like, oh, she's got good taste. And then when she's like, Well, it was Luke, he's like, Oh, forget about what I said about good taste.

SPEAKER_04 13:14

Good taste, man.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

But yeah, so Quintus is like, you think that Luke would use this as an evasion route? Clarice thinks definitely so. Yep. Um and that he could easily take him out. He must have been planning this for months. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

Abeth chimes in about like we know about the scouts going into the maze. Chris Rodriguez. We found one of them. Chris. Oh, Chris.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

And so Oh yeah, the one in the what?

SPEAKER_01 13:43

Oh, that's kind of talking about like, wait, what's going on in the because they said we found one. The one in the uh, because Quinch is saying the one in the uh kind of talking about Chris, like saying to say what one in the uh comatose manic state that he's in.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

Well, yeah, I don't know. Maybe they were talking about. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

We don't know exactly what the one in the Yeah, well, just the way Clarice kind of glares at, like the point is, kind of like cutting off. We're not talking about Chris. We're here to see Luke is trying to find a way through the maze. He's searching for this Daedalus' workshop, is what she's really pushing on.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

So Pearce talks about, and then he's like, Oh yeah, Daedalus. He was the guy in the dream. Avet's like, yeah, greatest architect of all time. She's definitely fangirling about him. She fans girls so hard. And basically, like, yo, if Luke figured out how to find the workshop and has convinced Daedalus to help him, then you pretty much have full control of the labyrinth and can like maneuver it as quickly as he wants to Camp Aff Blood, then eventually to Olympus itself. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

Yeah, Daedalus rules this workshop. Or I mean the labyrinth, he knows every nook and cranny, every secret.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

So uh yeah, and that's where it's kind of like Is he st is Daedalus even still alive? This whole notion, convince Daedalus. Exactly, and then that's when it's like, yeah, it's like 3,000 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Um there's a lot of stories, a lot of stories about Daedalus. Yeah, and it kind of goes either which way, but it does say that there are some that say he maybe went back to the labyrinth before his life ended, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

And he might still be there. Interesting. 3,000 years ago. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

You're thinking about that, like he looks so old and frail in that dream. 3,000 years later, he's probably looking like the damn oracle.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Yeah. But Ava's like, definitely we gotta go in. We gotta pretty much catch Luke, you know, jump, jump the gun on Luke. Yeah, get out ahead of him and get to the workshop first and get Daedalus to help us first.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

True. Um then purse is like, wait, wait, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

What if we just blow up the tunnel and blow up the tunnel? Let's get demolitionic.

SPEAKER_02 15:59

And though if I know you got the explosives, and that's when we kind of get into this whole Clarice, what it happened, she's like, yo, we tried that in Phoenix. Oh, it didn't. It did not go well.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Oh, yeah. And um And yeah, Abeth's saying, like, the power of the labyrinth, you can't necessarily just destroy this entrance.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

It takes like a massive amount of power to shut an entrance, a magical entrance like that.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Truth, it'll just pop up again wherever you go. You can't really prevent it. The only way to prevent this is by preventing Luke from learning how to use this and how to navigate. We gotta go right to the source here.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

So Fletcher's like, yo, we could just camp out at the entrance and blast him when he comes out.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

But Chiron's like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

He's like, we will set up those things. But realistically.

SPEAKER_02 16:49

He basically is like, no, if they got in, we'd be toast. Yeah, straight up. In his opinion, he's like, no, if they make it in, we would be overrun. She's usually the optimist.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

So for him to say, no, we will be thus, is like, oh, we'd be the thus, the thus.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

Yeah, so Abeth's like, yo, we gotta go get there first and get Ariadne's string. Um and that's the truth.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

Abeth is the best. She's been studying this labyrinth for years, apparently.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

But yeah, we have a little back and forth between her and purse. Like, uh, that was passionate. Yeah, just like he's like, I don't think it's gonna be enough. And she's like, well, it's gotta be. It's like, well, what if it's not? But it will be. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

Everybody's kind of just looking like crickets, squink ink. Squink ink.

SPEAKER_02 17:37

But Chiron's like, yo, first step is we need a quest um to figure out, you know, who's gonna go into the labyrinth.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

When he dropped the big Q, I was like, we're in. Yeah. Okay, we're officially just in the quest gift on this boogie.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

And Clarice's like, yo, we all know who it should be. It should be Abeth. It should be Beth. And everyone agrees. And Abeth's like, yo, I think you should go too. Like, you've done just as much, Clarice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Um Clarice's hard no not going in there. No freaking way.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

Travis even tries to like poke fun at her, but she's just like not even angry, more like, dude, you don't like, you don't understand. This is I will never go there again. He's again doing it. And she runs off. Yeah, dips into the work, leaves the council.

SPEAKER_04 18:24

Travis is a little bit like, uh, I I guess I didn't mean to.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

And Chiron's like, yeah, okay. Let's moving on. Should we agree?

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Everybody except Quintus, which was interesting, agrees on this.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

So, yeah, very interesting. I'm curious to Quintus is a very with the mistus quintus. Quizzical character. I've got quish I've got questions about Quintus.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Q for questions, cue for Quintus.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

But, anyways, he's like, Abeth, you gotta go talk to the Oracle. Yeah, get the quest, and let's or get the prophecy and let's see what we gotta do next.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Yeah, and then from poor Percy having to wait for Abeth and the Oracle.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

And that's when he's like, yo, I right? I just I'm just gonna go. Yeah, we kind of get a recap on the Oracle.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

He's heard two prophecies before, apparently. Yeah, talk about that uh mummy Oracle. She's looking like an old dried-up hippie lady, yeah, pretty much. And she he still has nightmares about the times he's seen this lady before. So pretty crazy. And never really been threat threatened by Oracle's presence, but there are stories about campers like going insane from just even being around the Oracle. Yeah. Getting flash visions, dying of fear.

SPEAKER_02 19:38

But yeah, he's just kind of pacing, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

He's pacing around.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Waiting, everyone else is like talking, doing their thing. Um yeah, everyone's pretty much just like off in their own conversations, and he's just antsy. So that's when oh, and then that's when Juniper catches him alone, exactly. Whispering to him and pretty much saying, like, yo, I couldn't say it because we're in the room, but someone else was there with Luke around that entrance. And it was motherfucking Quintus.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Yeah, well, not there with Luke, but like there around the entrance entrance, too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

So she doesn't really know when, but she just knows she did see him around the entrance, too.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

I did definitely identify that the swordmaster right over there.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

Thinks he's creepy.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

He is creepy.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

Keep an eye on him. Tell Grover not to go in there. It's too dangerous. And um, that's when Grover calls her, she runs off.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

That was cool how she was like embossed in the bushes.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Sneaky embossments. But yeah, and just like that, she kind of disappears. Grover hollers at her.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

So yeah, he's thinking about all this, he's answering, he's like, you know what? I don't care anymore. He runs off to the house. Like, I'm gonna go and I can't wait anymore.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

I'm gonna tackle this mummy myself. Where's my boo?

SPEAKER_02 20:54

So yeah, he gets into the house and goes to listen to upstairs because that's where the you know the oracle is, but then instead he hears sound from the basement.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

Yeah, because it's kind of quiet in the big house. There's like nobody in there, and then hears that, yeah, the the sound almost sobbing coming from the basement.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

So he goes around and looks down, and that's when he sees Clarice and another guy, Chris Rodriguez. Yes, Chris Rodriguez, who is the guy that had joined Luke, and he Chris is freaking out in Blindle Blind, dude. He's like, he's like straight hallucinating. Yeah, Clarice is trying to calm him down.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

You were so good, you were manic.

SPEAKER_04 21:35

I was trying to go full manic, like no, that's the button, the shadows, the shadows.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

But this is kind of like a different side of Clarice that we're seeing, where she's like her voice is a lot softer, she's like empathetic, yeah, and she's really like she seem it you can tell she genuinely cares about Chris Rodriguez.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

It is, there's something there, and and even

SPEAKER_02 22:00

Percy's like, never occurred to me that Clarice would like have a crut like like somebody.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Yeah, actually want to have compassion, huh? But these things that uh Chris is saying are unsettling. Yes. A thousand skulls, the earth keeps healing them.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Keeps healing him. So it must Oh keeps healing him, yes, yes. So maybe I'm assuming that's Kronos?

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Yes. Healed by the earth.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

Healed by the earth? Oh my god. And uh this whole notion of the son of Poseidon. But like, because Percy thinks initially that Chris had seen him, he liked ducks, but then he realizes, like, no, I don't think he was seeing me, but what who's the son of Poseidon he's talking about?

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Oh, yes. You know, I didn't even pick up on that, but that is the truth, actually. Who's this? And who's this Mary character?

SPEAKER_02 22:46

Yes, the he keeps talking about this Mary. Who is Mary? But just like that, he hears a creak upstairs, which means Abeth is out, so he dips out too.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

I got better things to do than creep on this.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

And Abeth is uh, and now we get to Abeth's point of view. She's walking into the arena. Yeah, Chiron's like, yeah, you made it. Yeah, Quintus is in tandems, too. Yeah, Quintus, Percy's there. She looks at Percy and she's talks to all of them. She focuses on Quintus. So she got the prophecy, she's gonna lead the quest.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Um, yeah, nobody's really excited about it. Yeah, things are just gonna kind of know this is a dastardly quest. Like, this is more dangerous than your average. Right. It's not like they're you know just setting off, oh, we gotta go west. Right. It's like, no, we're going immediately into the labyrinth.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

Death traps everywhere. Death traps everywhere. Freaking Chiron, of course, is like I need exact wording of the prophecy, my dear. Please.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

And especially after seeing what's going on with freaking uh Chris Rodriguez, like, what does this labyrinth do to people? But yeah, Chiron. Tell us the exact vermicka.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Yeah, and so she starts to go into it. You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze, first line. Second line, the dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise. And then that's when Grover's like, oh pan!

SPEAKER_04 24:07

The lost one! That's great.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Uh, but with the dead and the traitor. Uh, the dead and the traitor. So not so great. Percy chimes in.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

But yeah, the rest of it, you should rise or fall by the ghost king's hand. The child of Athena's final stand. Okay. That's not great because Abeth is child of Athena. Yeah. Everyone's like, chill. Like, that's not the only child of Athena. We're asking, who's this ghost king? That's a great question.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

Yep. Who is this ghost king?

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Is it is it the same king that was in this vision that Percy or the dream that Percy had?

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Um, but anyways, Kyron asks if there are more lines, and Abeth pretty much like shrugs him off. Yeah, I just like Abeth. Of course you remember. Come on, girl. What do you like?

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Everybody knows. Your mind is a steel trap, girl. And then she finally spits out something about like destroy with a hero's final breath. Which is ominous. Destroy with a hero's final breath.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

And then Chiron's like, okay. There's more. And then she's just like, no, listen, I just gotta go in. That's the point. You know, I need help. I gotta stop Luke. Percy, will you come with me? Percy.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Boom, I'm there, baby.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

Grover, you wild god is waiting. It's like, oh god, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

Yes. He's all in. And that's wild how she like just we ain't talking about that anymore. Boom. Percy. She's so tackful.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

So tackle. The tactics.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

And then Tyson. Then Tyson.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Which is like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:45

Cool. Cool. So of course, you know, like Tyson and Grover don't like being near each other. So I'm curious to see how that's gonna go. Right. And I'm sure we'll figure out why Tyson is all weird about Satyrs. Um obviously we know why Grover is weird about Cyclops, but uh but Tyson is excited to go. But then that's when Chiron is like, this is against the ancient rules. You're only allowed to have two companions. The ancient law. And she's like, dude, this is important. I need you to trust me.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

And um he's just like kind of ruminating on how it's like, I'm happy we included Tyson, though. Right. Can't leave him behind, you know.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

He is powerful, and he's good underground, unlike Satyr's, which is great.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

So Chiron is still a little bit flippity, yeah. Reminding her, like, remember, last winter, five wind, only three came back.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

Yes, so just remember, like, you know, three is a good number.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

Three, three fates, three furies, three Olympian sons of Kronos. Strong number. Four is risky.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

But yeah, she's like, just trust me. Um, Chiron's just kind of like observing all of this. Or I mean sorry, Quintus. Yeah. And Chiron's like, alright, well, let's call it, let's get ready for the quest tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

She's like tomorrow, you guys leave it dawn. You leave at dawn. Oh my gosh. And then we have this little aside with Quintus.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Yes, Quintus and Purse? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

Yeah. And he's saying, like, I've had a bad feeling about this boy. And what, Mrs. O'Leary's kind of on site. And uh, he's kind of remembering, like, yo, you're kind of a creep. I got friends that think you're a creep. I'm not really gonna trust you, but it kind of looks like you are genuinely concerned about me here. There are concerns in his eyes, and he's saying straight up, like, I don't like the idea of you going down there now, any of you. But if you must, like, remember it will confuse you. The labyrinth is a dangerous place. You gotta be freaking careful with this. It's dangerous for half-bloods because half-bloods get easily confused.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

But yeah, he asks if he's been in there, he says long ago. Most people don't get out, yeah. And basically tells him, like, just keep your wits about you, you have a gift for you. Gives him this whistle. The whistle, the stydy nice whistle. Yeah, the stydy nice. And basically, it calls Mrs. O'Leary. Totally. No matter how far away she is, and he's like, I don't know how it's gonna work in the maze, but you know, it's for you. You can only use it once, it's gonna shatter when you blow it.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

Interesting little caveat. It's very interesting.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

He kind of brings up Percy thinks about this whole like, yeah, last time a friend gave me a gift, it was Luke with the shoes, and I got fucked down into a fucking hole by my best buddy Grover. So, but then he's like, it seems like Quintus is nice. It seems like Mrs. O'Leary trusts him ultimately, which is what kind of gives Percy, like, all right, maybe he's not that bad. But Mrs. O'Leary is a hellhound, so and then he also again he's just like, dude, I did I trusted Luke. Again, I trusted Luke, and here we are.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

So he takes the whistle, but like oaths to never use it, though.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Yeah, so it's kind of an interesting nine right there. Goes to Abeth in the Athena cabin. Pretty cool cabin.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

Yeah, that is a kind of cool setup. It's like a workshop vibe like strategy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

The tacticians scrolls and tables and armor and weapons.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

It's cute. Yeah, it is a cool setup. And it just makes sense that that's like all Athena cabins are kind of nerds. Yeah, almost like the nerds of the Pantheon.

SPEAKER_02 29:27

Exactly. Um, but Abeth's in there, she's gonna be a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

She's gonna let herself in at first because nobody answers, but because obviously Abeth is just like very consumed in his scroll. She's she this is where you kind of see a little bit more of a sensitive side of Abeth, I feel like.

SPEAKER_02 29:43

Yeah, but yeah, is um she she's like consumed in it. He says knock knocked in here. Yeah, she's trying to do research on, of course, the labyrinth. Um, none of the maps she can't figure out any kind of you know, common denominators or anything to give her any good information.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Everybody that says this, everybody says this about the other thing that everybody it's it's like information maps to nowhere. Right. Just map maps to nowhere.

SPEAKER_02 30:12

And Purse is like, yo, we'll figure it out. He remembers how Quintus said, like, the labyrinth is literally designed designed to distract you. So yeah, we'll figure it out, baby. This whole thing about her hair coming loose, dangling in her face. Oh my god. Like, oh goodness me.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Oh, her gray eyes.

SPEAKER_02 30:29

But yeah, this is black. Yeah, but this is where we get this vulnerable A Beth like I love it. She's always wanted to lead a quest since she was seven, dude. Oh my god. And she's worried. She's worried about Tyson and Grover and him coming on the quest. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

Because this is so dangerous, so much danger.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

And then that's when you know he asks, like, what's wrong? And she's just like, I'm just, I'm sure it's fine. But this whole like prophecy, he asks, what was the last line? What's going on about this prophecy? And that's when she just like puts her arms out and is like, Oh, hold me, piss.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

So we got this cue mom, and he's putting it.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

The room is spinning. Okay. Okay. What a good time. Nothing like the smell of lemon soap. She was shivering. Oh my gosh. But and that's the truth, is like Chiron is right about her breaking the rules, but it's just she doesn't know what it just feels right to have them three. The quest of four. Let's go. Let's break all the rules. And Percy's just there, he's the rock in the sea. The sea tosses, and he's the rock. There's been problems, baby, and we've solved them. And it's just, yeah, obviously, Abeth is worried. Like, I just don't want anything to happen to you guys. I love you guys so much. And it's hard, and then Malcolm in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Son of Athena. Um, after you practice, Abeth. Little Malcolm. Guy around sent me. I'm like, oh, look at we were just looking at the maps.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

We've been looking at maps, Malcolm. Uh Malcolm in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

But yeah, she's like, yo, tell them I'll be right there. Percy, I need to be alone. I gotta get ready. And Malcolm in the middle. Malcolm in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Oh my gosh. So, and that kind of cuts it like you're not gonna tell me about the rest of this prophecy. Right, that last line. But that thing, it usually rhymes something breath. What rhymes with breath? Death rhymes with death, breath.

SPEAKER_02 32:39

Yeah, she's he basically asks, like, was it something? Did the word of that line end with death? Yes. And she doesn't answer, just says, Percy, just go. Go get ready to get the quest. I'll see you in the morning, which is like, uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Kind of answer that question. Oopah. And that kind of does answer the question almost. Answer it without answering it. Right. But yeah, I guess there's nothing to do but now look at maps to nowhere and shake the feeling that one of us isn't gonna come back alive from this quest. We did that. We pray to God it can't be the three. I won't I believe in our quad. This is strong. Table has four legs. Strong thing. Chair has four legs sometimes. What a chapter. What a journey. And just like that, but I feel like we're off though. Chapter five. We got the quest. And at dawn, we're diving into the labyrinth. Abeth, purse, Grover, and Tyson. There's nothing to stop us. We got a Sidy and Ice Whistle and 11 Iron. Chapter 5. Day Less that all of a sudden dropped in. Stop and look at Dayless as well.