Half-Blood Hill

In case anyone actually forgot, the Red Room is still full of assholes.

[The IM today is being brought to you by the camp's only current son of Jupiter. John is sitting on the roof, having reclaimed his tent and possessions, and set up camp on the roof again.]

But they still suck at keeping prisoners. If anyone was wondering where I've been for the last two months, there's your answer.

Sorry about cabin 20's roof, if you guys still need help fixing that, let me know. Chiron says I'm healed enough to be useful again.

Also ... anyone in the Legion. Does anyone have any details about where Jason or Ven went? I know they left to go do cohort things, but. I dunno. An update would be nice. Or ...something. It's weird being the only Jupiter kid on this roof. Thanks.

[He frowns at that, and then raises a hand as if to end the IM but stops and gets a sour look on his face.]

If any of you see Dave, tell him to stop. Whatever it is he might be thinking- just stop. Do you hear me Dave?! I don't care what today is, if you do something I will find you!

[And then he ends the IM]

[Have a pretty frazzled looking John on the otherside of this rainbow. He's sitting on the roof of cabin 1 and running his hands through his hair.]

Okay, I need to get everyone's attention. Like, right now. [He takes a deep breath and sighs.]

Everyone can stop flipping the fuck out. I'm the one who pulled the prank. [He holds his arm up to show the tattoo on his arm. The eagle, letters and the single band denoting his first term.]

I'm Roman. A Roman who pulled a prank on two other very high ranking Romans. This prank had nothing to do with the other pantheons. At all. Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out how it even got this bad. This is fucking ridiculous.

I understand that there are a lot of tensions in this camp between all these wildly different factions, but look guys. We're all stuck in this together. I've seen nothing but really awesome people come out of all four of our pantheons and even if we have a really shitty time trusting each other for stuff that happened in the past- that just nails home the way that Gaea is going to win. She won't have to do anything herself- she's just going to watch us rip each other apart.

So, look. Stop pointing fingers. At least over this, okay? It's done. I'm done.

Reyna? Jason? I'm really sorry. I had no idea that I would screw up this bad. Let me make it up somehow.

Okay, so the thing about summer camp and what makes them really awesome is the fact that you get to do a whole bunch of stuff that you don't get to do at home. Then when you go home you have like ...nine whole months! Of not doing these super cool summer camp things!

So when you go back to summer camp everything is all new and shiny again, and everything is fun. Like- oh man lanyards! Let's make some freakin' lanyards! Or lets jump in a lake and get algea in our shorts! So cool!

You know what really kills that? Being stuck in summer camp for more than three months. Now home is camp, and camp is home, and the world is spiraling into chaos! Up is down! Right is wrong! Homework is fun! Betty Crocker is an unassuming innocent corporation not bent on world domination!

See? It's all falling apart!

[There's a pause while John thinks over his nonsensical rant. He sighs.]

I'm getting bored. It's boring and there's a whole bunch of assholes out there that messed with our camp and our family and we're just sitting here doing nothing.

[He groans and flops back so all you can see is what is some of the roof of Cabin 1.]

Whatever! Ugh! UGGHH!!

Halloween is coming up. Are we dressing up? Like, is that a thing we can do? If it's not I'm going to flip myself literally into the sun. Into the sun.

If it is, then Ven, Jason. I'm not saying Ghostbusters but.

Ghostbusters.

[John looks like he's been rolling in the woods and it looks like the front of his shirt is torn and stained with red. Hmm.]

So, I was attacked by a pack of wolves today. That was a thing that just happened. Thanks for the heads up on that one, Rome.

[Despite the clear irritation in his voice he doesn't look as broken up about it as he probably should.]

Naomi? I've got something that belongs to you. You probably want it back, right?