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Operation 'Free The Forest Folk' (CLOSED) Oct 11, 2013 12:45:19 GMT -5

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Post by Teddy on Oct 11, 2013 12:45:19 GMT -5

Quintyn, Dean and I had started walking toward the Infirmary when we had heard the shell blow for the next activity before lunch to start. I stood in the middle of the two as we walked, feeling like the biggest wall on earth for Dean, though he was taller than me by about a foot and a half. As we walked I noticed Morgan walking towards her next activity.
"Morgan!" I called to her, cupping my hands around my mouth. She stopped in her tracks and looked around to see me waving her over. She jogged up to us and stopped in front of me.
"Fletch, long time no see," she said with a smirk.
"Back at you," I replied. Morgan scanned Quintyn and Dean with her brown eyes.
"Who're these two?" She asked.
"Newbies," I replied. "Quintyn, Dean, this is Morgan. Morgan, this is Quintyn and Dean."
"Sup'?" greeted Morgan. Dean nodded his hello.
"Just stole a Pegasus from the stable," Quintyn explained with a shrug as if it was no big deal and she did it every day.
"That was you?" Morgan asked. "I saw that from where I was riding."
"Yours truly," Quintyn confirmed.
"So hey," I said, pulling Morgans focus back to me. "You still meeting us for that meeting about the Nymphs and Satyrs?"
"Yeah, at the dining pavilion at lunch," she said. I thought for a minute.
"We should probably have it in the ping pong room," I said.
"Why's that?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
"There was a little accident when we stole the Pegasus," I said.
"Oh gods, what happened this time?" Morgan said in an unimpressed tone. Her raised eyebrow didn't drop.
"Luke fell off one," I said.
"Of course he did," she said with a sigh. "Fly Boy didn't think to take off into the sky?" She asked.
"Guess not," I said with a shrug. "Anyway, Luke is keeping Roxy company in the infirmary, so we'll just gather everyone at the big house. Mr D will be in the dining hall anyway so we won't have to worry about him."
"Sounds good," Morgan said with a shrug.
"If you see Finn, tell her where we'll be," I said.
"'Course," Morgan replied. "Anyway, I should get going. See you guys later." She turned and waved before jogging over to her next activity. We stood there a bit, Quintyn was watching Morgan as she left, looking deep in thought.
"What?" I asked.
"I like her hair," Quintyn answered, nodding in an approving way. I grinned, so did Dean. The four of us continued to walk to the Infirmary, getting closer to the Strawberry Fields. The closer we got, the more sure I was that I could hear music. The sound of reed pipes being played softly, and horrible beat boxing along with them. I shouldered my violin case, which I had gone to get before we had made our way to the infirmary. I hated not having it. I felt naked without it, unsafe and vulnerable. As we reached the strawberry fields I saw Roxy, Luke and Casper. They were laughing and playing, Casper on his reed pipes and Luke doing the beat boxing. Roxy was dancing. It was nice to see them happy, despite the horrible things that were happening around the camp, it made me happy to see that not all hope was lost.
"Hey slackers," Quintyn greeted. The three of them looked up.
"hey guys," Luke greeted from the ground.
"Why wasn't I invited to this musical jam?" I asked, faking a hurt sound in my voice.
"I think my beat boxing has shown up your violin playing, Haiku Face," Luke said looking up at me with a cheeky grin. I raised my eyebrows in one of those Oh, really? ways.
"Whatever stops the tears, Morning Wood," I said. Quintyn looked either confused or disturbed by our nicknames for each other. Maybe both. Dean leaned over to her.
"Don't ask," he advised. She nodded reluctantly, as if wresting with whether or not she wanted to know.
"I thought you two were going to the infirmary," I said, sitting beside Casper and Luke in the strawberries.
"your boyfriend used his cute powers on us and we ended up staying," Luke said. "Resistance was futile." I grinned looking at Casper, who's face was slightly red. I caught Roxy looking at the two of us with a smile on her face, as if she thought it was the cutest thing ever, which only made me blush. I figured the both of us blushing was way too Risky with Quintyn here to make it awkward, so I tried to change the subject.
"We ran into Morgan," I said.
"Oh yeah? She's still coming, right?" Asked Roxy.
"Yeah, I told her to meet us at the Ping Pong table, figured it would be better if Luke was near the infirmary, also, Mr D is going to be in the Dining Hall, so we'll be able to talk without worrying about his stuck up ass," I answered. Luke and Roxy nodded.
"Does everyone else know?" Asked Luke.
"I told Morgan to tell Finn, I figured if no one comes I'd just go look for them at the dining pavilion and bring them back," I said with a shrug.
"Alright, sounds good," Roxy said.
"Why are we having this huge meeting?" Quintyn asked after a while. I realized she was in the dark about the whole situation. I explained everything from the begining, for what felt to be the 100th time. I explained the attack on the Nymphs tree's, and how one of them had tried to kill Luke and I during Capture the Flag. I explained the quest, and what we had found out about Charlie. I explained the missing campers, even Justin, which set a dark tone to everyone's expressions. When I finished, Quintyn was silent.
"Wow," she said in a sympathetic tone. "I'm sorry."
"Being a demigod isn't easy, that's for sure," I said.
"There's a lot of death..." Luke said.
"A lot of loss, and fucked up feelings," I continued. We sat there in silence for a good long time, not really thinking about anything at all, which is pretty hard for a kid with ADHD to do. I played with my violin case strap, it was starting to fray from being picked at by a nervous Fletch. I needed to make a new one, a new case that made the violin easy to access.
"We should get going if we're going to meet everyone at the Ping Pong room," Roxy advised, bringing us all out of our minds.
"Yeah, I gotta get the dining hall ready for lunch anyway," Casper said. "Let me know what you guys decide, alright? If Mr D asks about you I'll cover for you."
"Thanks, Cassy," I said as I got to my feet. I helped him up and gave him a hug, taking in his sweet smell of forest and berries, before he quickly made his way over to the dining hall. I helped Luke up with Roxy and the five of us made our way over to the big house.

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Operation 'Free The Forest Folk' (CLOSED) Oct 11, 2013 21:34:16 GMT -5

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Post by Porter on Oct 11, 2013 21:34:16 GMT -5

"I'll be right back." Morgan said, parting from us in the direction of the dining pavillion.
"Wait, why?" I asked, but she waved me off either.
Either she didn't hear me or she was saying 'shut up, Luke.'
"Morgan's Morgan, she probably wants something to eat first. Let's just get the ping pong room before anybody catches us." Roxy concluded.
Our paces quickened, or at least as quick as I could hobble, without my spine stinging from the fall. Some Apollo medics were finishing cleaning off the blood from the hospital beds and putting away the ambrosia and nectar, giving us weird glances, but they let us proceed. Roxy might be relatively new to camp, but she had quickly gained the respect of her half-siblings in the infirmary. Slowly, I lead the way to the ping pong room, being the only one in the group that has ever been in. Being the only Zeus kid has it's perks, including automatically being the cabin leader. I scanned the area, but Dionysus and Chiron must have already left for lunch. I opened the ping pong door and we all crammed inside. Quintyn immediately found the sofa and jumped onto it in lying position.
"This is a pretty cozy place."
"It's a pretty good hangout for us big kids." I added, flaunting my privileges.
Roxy gave me a sideways glance. "Spoiled brat." She said with a smirk.
"Hey, you trash talking me?" I pouted. "You wanna go?"
Roxy reached for her toolbelt and brought out the most terrifying weapon in existance:
A needle.
"HOLY ZEUS ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME." I backed off, shielding myself with my arms.
"Wow, just fell a good 30 feet from the air, can't stand a little needle."
"I've seen what you can do with a needle, Rox. I ain't taking my chances."
Roxy laughed as she put the needle back in her toolbelt. "I once threatened Leo with a needle, and he couldn't stop bleating. It took him 30 minutes for him too..."
Roxy began to trail off, her eyes hitting the floor.
My heart faltered and I could hear a faint voice in my head Roxy...
I looked up at her, feeling the yearning Leo probably felt. He seemed to be more in tune with me now that he was trapped in that forest.
I could see myself walk towards Roxy, but it felt like my body was moving on it's own accord. Roxy looked at me in surprised as I wrapped my arms around her. She shoved her face in my shoulder, I could feel herself straining with emotion.
"He's fine, Rox." I assured her. "I can feel it."
"Hey hey what is going on here?" I heard a gruff voice call out.
Roxy and I pulled out of the hug and turned to see Gary and a group of campers right behind him.
"Gary-wha.... what are you doing here?" I stuttered.
"You think Morgan hasn't told me about your little plan to save the forest freaks?"
"Hey, cut it out-" Fletch began.
The Ares kid approached me, his figure towering over me. "You really think it'll work?"
"Gary, stop scaring the poor guy." Morgan walked into the room and in between us. "Sorry about this brute, he agreed to help us out, I don't know what he's blabbering on about."
"HE agreed to help us out?" Fletch asked, a skeptical look in his eye.
Gary and Fletch never really got along that well.
"And the rest of these jerks." Gary stepped aside and the group of campers huddled in, there must have been a dozen demigods that poured into the room. From the crowd I spotted Lily, Finn, Simon, and Liam.
"Woah, what's all these people doing here?" I asked.
"There was a surprising amount of response when I offered a sort of plan to get the nymphs and satyrs out of here. There's more kids interested but you can only excuse so many kids from lunch before it starts looking suspicious. We already have a few Hermes kids distracting Mr.D and Chiron before they notice their only two servants are missing." Morgan pointed out, her eyes darting to Dean and Casper.
"Hold up. I just got here and barely know anything about the predicament. Let me go to the Pavilion and cater to them." Dean sat up from his original position on the couch's arm rest.
"Are you sure, bud? I mean-" I began.
"What else are we gonna do? Mr.D's gonna be looking for someone to do something anytime now." He pointed out.
"...alright. We'll tell you the deets later."
The room was chaos. Finn decided jumping on Quintyn was a good way to say 'move over'. One camper went straight to the ping pong table an curled up on top of it. I think she fell asleep. An aphrodite girl was chattering away at Gary, who kept on grinning the entire time, but his attention was certainly not on the conversation. A girl brought her plate of food with her, but Simon kept on taking her chicken wings. The girl tried to pull the chicken wing away from him, but it ended up being flung across the room and hit the Hephaustus cabin leader, Jacki Campbell, in her face. She looked like she was about to pound her younger sibling until the Demeter cabin leader, tried to consult her with some spiritual talk about the universe.
"I-um... guys..."
"LISTEN HERE THE LOT OF YOU AND STOW IT." Morgan yelled in her best pirates voice. "And let the Sky Guy speak."
The room grew to an eerie silence. For once I began to become nervous.
"U-um. Hi."
You got this, dude. I heard Leo's voice, and I remembered why we were all here. How we all got together by our own means and our accord. I straightened myself up.
"I'm glad there's so many people interested in this." I began, my voice fuller than before.
"And, well, there's no point explaining how much they mean to us, you all already know that. We have to keep quiet about this, whatever decision we make. We've already talked to Mr.D and he won't change his mind. Don't even tell Chiron. Don't even tell campers if you think they'll report us to them."
"So what's the plan?" Jacki shouted over at me.
"Currently, we need to think of one. Which is why everyone is here. I know Morgan has been leading expeditions in the forest; what do you think?"
Morgan looked in deep thought. She sat in the corner of bean bags with two of her siblings. The philosophy cabin leader, Ross Miller, with long straight blonde hair and droopy eyes, and a short egyptian girl with black bangs and a concentrated look on her face.
"Other nymphs began gaining similar attributes. Satyrs began throwing plates at the campers. I can feel it Luke, their roots have been tainted. It feels almost as if the nymph's trees are being polluted. The non-infected satyrs and nymphs made a giant border of rocks and brambles while they were asleep. The infected side of the border is the side near the beach, which probably means he's entering through there. During the night time patrols... I see the water constantly move... but nothing on the lake."

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Operation 'Free The Forest Folk' (CLOSED) Oct 12, 2013 23:34:03 GMT -5

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Post by Teddy on Oct 12, 2013 23:34:03 GMT -5

"So..." Said Finn, sprawled out beside Quintyn on the couch as she looked at a chicken drumstick in her hands, as if wondering where the best place to take a piece would be. "Question is, where is he getting all this power from?"
"And how is he getting so much?" Quintyn added as she peeled a piece of chicken off the drumstick and stuck it in her mouth. The two of them looked at Luke with their intimidating black and grey eyes. He seemed just as puzzled as the rest of the campers were, and stood there racking his brain for answers he couldn't give. Something I had pushed to the back of my mind suddenly leaped forward and slapped me in the face. I remembered the dream I had that night, in the mental asylum filled with kids ages as young as 8 to 18, and Charlie who had seemed to be draining the mentally unstable of their insanity, and not in the curing way either.
"I had a dream last night," I declared, stepping forward to stand beside Luke. Everyone's eyes turned to me, I hesitated for a minute.
"Well? Spit it out, Band Geek," Gary called out from the crowd. 'Band Geek?' I asked myself. I looked at Casper for encouragement, he was a little preoccupied with Gary's giant arm, which was wrapped around his shoulders. He managed to give me a smile and a nod. I balled up my hands into fists and swallowed my annoyance with Gary.
"I had a dream that Charlie was in a mental asylum," I continued. Murmurs broke out in the crowd, the buzz of campers voices sounded all in front of me, until Morgan put her pinky fingers in her mouth let out a harsh whistle.
"Shut up, everyone," she said.
"What was he doing in this mental asylum?" Called out Gary in a bored tone.
"I'm getting there," I muttered, looking away from him. "In my dream, Charlie went around and started talking to all of the patients. I couldn't hear what he was saying, in fact I couldn't hear anything. It was like I was def. Anyway, after he talked to someone, they would look really exhausted and drained. I think maybe he's stealing their insanity." Campers looked at each other and nodded, as if having mental conversations with each other.
"I guess a mental asylum would be a pretty good place to collect enough power for him," Roxy considered.
"and a lot of it," Finn put in. "Poor blokes don't have a clue what's going on."
"How do the nurses and doctors there not catch them? There must be someone guarding the ward," someone said from the crowd. It was William Knox, the Apollo cabin leader. I recognized his voice.
"I'm sure it's not hard for the son of Dionysus to act insane," Morgan said. I saw Quintyn grin from the corner of my eye. I could tell her respect for the sassy Morgan was growing every minute.
"If he is there, it would be a good place to start to look for him," Luke said. "Do you remember the name of the asylum Fletch?" I thought really hard. I remembered something was written on the back of Charlies hospital jump suit.
"Austin State Hospital," I said.
"Austin as in Austin Texas?" Luke asked.
"Last time I checked, Austin was in Texas, Luke, yes," Quintyn called out from the couch.
"Thanks, Quin, it was rhetorical, but thanks," Luke responded.
"Anytime, Crash," she replied with that signature wink of hers. Hah, Crash, I'd have to remember that one. Luke turned to me.
"Anything else you can remember?" He asked. I thought again, before remembering a big part of it.
"There was a girl there," I said. "She was the only one out of every patient in that hospital that didn't seem effected by Charlie's insanity draining. She seemed pretty normal to me."
"Think she could help figure out what Charlie up to?" Asked Roxy.
"Or help stop him from slowly killing every patient in that ward, yeah," I replied.
"Well, it looks like we've got a location on Charlie," said Finn.
"Oh I had a dream about Charlie too," said Luke, as if he had just remembered it.
"What happened in yours?" I asked. Luke stood there and thought for a minute, he then turned his attention back to me, his expression confused.
"He said, 'si'," Luke answered.
"Dear gods," I said. "What could it mean?"
"... Yes?" Roxy answered.
"interesting...." I replied.
"Not really," Roxy chimed.
"Alright, dorks get on with it," Gary shouted. "I don't have all day. I've got things to do,"
"We need a game plan," Finn said.
"Well, the Nymphs and the Satyrs need to get out of there ASAP," said Morgan. "They don't have much time left before they all turn crazy." The campers were quiet for a moment, either thinking about how they could get the forest creatures out of their prison, or thinking about the fate of their forest friends. Casper started playing with his long sleeve, something he did when he was worried.
"Mind telling me what's keeping them in there?" Quintyn asked, breaking the silence. Luke, Roxy and I explained to her how Mr D was keeping the forest creatures in the forest for the picking of Charlie, which, she seemed appalled by.
"Do you think there could be anyway to break these barriers?" She asked.
"Mr D is controlling them, they're probably like the barriers around camp. Dean knows how it feels to walk into one of those. If you're not allowed in or out, you're not getting in or out," said Finn. "Man, what I'd give to climb a forest tree..."
"Does Mr D have any weaknesses?" Asked Quintyn.
"He's already had his wine taken away," I said. "That doesn't seem to weaken him." Quintyn pursed her lips and thought for a moment, everyone was silent and waiting for her idea.
"What if we distracted him from the walls? What if we brought his attention away from it for long enough that we could use all of our demigod powers to break it?"
"The Apllo cabin has some exploding arrows we've been itching to use," William offered. That got me excited. Those seemed awesome.
"Perfect, anyone else have anything?" Quintyn asked.
"The Hermes cabin has a few tricks up their sleeve," Finn said with a mischievous to a few of her cabin mates that had tagged along. They returned her gaze with nods.
"Yeah, I figured when I found the bugs in my bed," Quintyn said with a playful glare towards Finn. "Anyone else?"
"Hephaestus cabin could build something to ram the wall with," a girl, covered in grease and dirt said.
"Perfect!" Quintyn said, she sounded really excited now.
"Ares has the best weapons in the business," Gary said, holding his big head high. "We'll get our biggest weapons in on this."
"Sounds good," Quintyn agreed. Luke had stayed silent the whole time, he looked depressed, almost angry with himself. I thought he would be all over using his powers to blast the nymphs and satyrs free. I put a hand on his shoulder.
"You okay?" I muttered under the voices of different cabins discussing with Quintyn what they could do to help knock down the barriers.
"Huh? Oh- yeah, fine," Luke said, although he didn't seem so fine.

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Operation 'Free The Forest Folk' (CLOSED) Oct 16, 2013 21:44:14 GMT -5

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Post by Porter on Oct 16, 2013 21:44:14 GMT -5

A million instances and thoughts raced through my head and I felt like Lily on caffeine. I'd have to find something else to be useful with while the others are working on deactivating the border. I thought of Thalia's tree. That kept monsters away because someone sacrificed their life in keeping them out. Maybe Mr.D's force field wasn't as powerful as that. I shuddered thinking about sacrificing anyone for the sake of bringing those borders down, that was definitely not an option. My mind moved into another problem. Mr.D's perspective of things.
"What are we going to do with the force field when we break it? We'd still be letting loose tons of crazy nymphs and satyrs into the camp, and I don't want Mr.D to be turning me into a turnip just because he 'told us so'." That brought up another question: What are they going to do with Dionysus?
"We need help from the satyrs and nymphs that are already trapped, I reckon." The Egyptian girl spoke.
"I can communicate with Leo on my empathy link. He can round up the other guys and make sure everyone is properly divided between those that want to serve Charlie and those who don't. Maybe they can block out the forcefield on all sides."
"Are they going to have enough material to make such a large boundary? The forest is huge." Jacki contemplated.
"Unless the force field can be chipped away instead of completely dissipated..." Lily thought out loud.
I thought about the goat horn cup that I had hung up on the marble arm on Zeus's statue back in my cabin. I wondered if I could use it to cure the satyrs and nymphs, or if it ever filled up again.
"Maybe one of us can dream up of a solution tonight." Athena cabin leader, Tyler whathisface, said after a growing silence. "If only we had more information."
"How are we going to pull this off without Mr.D figuring us out and turning us ALL into turnips?" April Garver, the Aphrodite Cabin Leader scoffed.
The way she rolled her eyes and began reapplying her lipstick was evidence that she wasn't a willing participant in going to the meeting. Especially considering the fact that she owned permanent make up.
"It's not like he's NOT going to notice the sudden flux of servants. Those satyrs love to mill around him like puppies."
Casper crossed his arms and cleared his throat.
"...No offence."
A younger girl next to her, furiously scribbling on a writing pad and once in a while adjusting glasses that were too big for her face, tugged on her shirt.
"But April, we need the satyrs."
April obviously didn't believe her. "I was just saying, he's gonna totes notice."
"Okay who brought optimist barbie to this meeting?" Gary called out.
"You did, Gary." Morgan interjected.
"Oh yeah."
"She does raise a good point, it's going to be hard to conceal the fact that we'd free the satyrs."
"I think we are definitely relying on the fact that the force field could possibly be chipped away. We could bring a few out at a time and hide them in... I don't know, Dean's cabin." I thought out loud.
Dean looked surprised that he just suddenly got assigned a bunch of roommates that could potentially eat his mattress. "I-uh-okay."
"It'll only be temporary if at all." I reassured him.
"We should just put a sobriety test in the force field." Finn suggested. "But, like, an insanity test."
"So basically the one question is 'Do you want to brutally torture Luke?' " Fletch pointed out.
"Yup."
The other campers looked confused, I just frowned.
'The kid's fate rests in Luke's hands. His greasy clammy hands. The son of Zeus is a murderer!' I remembered one of the insane nymphs, Lin, had told me. I threw up when I finally realized what she meant.
"What happened to them? Those nymphs?" I forced myself to ask as I brought myself to sit down on one of the lawn chairs, my legs buckling under my shifting weight.
Morgan and the other Demeter girl looked up at Ross Miller, but the guy was staring off into the ceiling with a huge grin on his face.
".... We'd tell you but Ross Miller was in charge of the nymphs." Morgan explained.
"Yo, Ross!" The other girl proceeded to smack his face a couple of times until he broke out of his trance. I think that was the first time I heard him called by just his first name.
"Huh? Oh hi there, Maya." Ross Miller waved a sleepy hand at the Egyptian girl who just slapped him across the face.
"Ross M., can you tell us what happened to the weird nymph chicks that you were assigned to take care of." Maya spoke slowly, hoping he'd understand.
"Duuuuuude those dudettes were mad like cows. Their zen was all messed up, yaknow? I could feel it." Ross Miller graced us with his informative words. "I was assigned to take care of em, to see what happened to their psyche. I knew that their life lines are supposed to be attached to that trees, there's no way they could've been alive. But they were, yaknow? Like zombies. They were really cold too. Like zombies. And kept on repeating words. Like zombies. It wasn't 'brains' tho. It was more like 'dooolphins'. Whatever that Zimmerman bro did to those girls, it was not radical. The only reason they were going is cause they were mindless. Like zombies. They didn't need a vessel for their life cuz they were no longer a part of the forest when they became corrupt."
Most of what Ross Miller said was just a huge headache wrapped in a joint, but I began to get the picture.
"Are the other nymphs detached from the forest?" I asked the less stoned part of the Demeter group.
"Some of them more than others, but they all had a little bit of themselves attached to that tree." Maya pointed out, as if just realizing how the peculiarities she had noticed on the expeditions became relevant.
"You can feel their trees becoming more hollow the longer they've been brainwashed. I don't know about the satyrs, but the nymphs have a timer before they're hopeless. The rest though... we might be able to help bring them back to their sanity. How, though, I'm not sure."
"And what happened to the nymphs?"
"Well, after awhile they gathered other loco nymphs and they almost assassinated the Hepheastus cabin in the name of their 'lord'."
Jacki shuddered, as if purposely trying to avoid that part in her life.
"That's when Mr.D got all 'woah bros not cool I'm your bro I never said that' and put everyone into a magical cage thingy."
"Thank you for the magnificent story telling, man." Liam gave him a thumbs up as if they were weed bros.
Not that I would be surprised.
"Alright let's make a game plan with what we have so far." Lily started.
"I think we should start off by doing what us pesky demigods do best." I offered. "Talk our way into trouble."
I began unfolding the plan to the crowd. We had to make some sort of unsuspicious way to bring up the force field to Mr.D and use a Dionysus, Athena, and Aphrodite kid to try and convince Mr.D to give us some information on the force field. Have the everyone else prepared to fire on one specific part of the field while we told Leo and the others to wait on the other side. Some of the Hermes kids had to run and make sure Chiron or Mr.D didn't see the destruction. I tried to fill in any gaps I could possibly have, but it all seemed to rely on pure luck, and I wished someone could just give me all the answers to the universe instead of taking chance.

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Operation 'Free The Forest Folk' (CLOSED) Oct 21, 2013 19:20:10 GMT -5

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My head was spinning as I took in all of the information. I felt like I needed some of that weed Ross Miller was obviously using right now just to make me think less. How did Athena kids do it so well?
"Everyone got it so far?" Lily asked. There was a sea of nodding, and a few confused mumbles throughout the crowd.
"What happens when we free the Satyrs and Nymphs, and the crazy ones get out? He's keeping them all together isn't he?" Asked the Egyptian girl from the crowd.
"We need to separate them, for now at least before we figure out how to cure their psycho brains," Quintyn put in from the couch.
"And where would you suppose we put them, ms. Smartass?" Gary asked. Quintyn stared at him for a minute, straight in the eyes.
"Wanna ask that with a little less 'tude there, big guy?" She said. I caught Morgan raising her eyebrows in an approving way. Gods help us if these two started hanging out a lot. Finn was smirking beside Quintyn. We all waited to see how this played out. Gary glared at her and asked again through gritted teeth.
"Where do you think we should put them, Quintyn?"
"Close enough," Quintyn decided. "Anyway, I was going to suggest we have, like, a guard, who watches out for them and takes them back in when they've found the hole."
"Like border control to get into Canada from America?" I asked.
"More like to get into America from Canada," Gary scoffed. "Who wants to go to Canada? What even is in Canada? beavers? Mooses? Polite people? Ugh." He finished his tangent on Canada, and the rest of us stayed silent for a bit, wondering where that came from.
"Firstly, it's just Moose, Gary," Morgan said. "Secondly, it doesn't matter what border control for what nation it is, yes, Fletch, to answer your question, it would be just like that." I nodded and threw up a shaka with my right hand in appreciation for the answer.
"Who would be able to do it though? What if they came out at night?" Lily said.
"Yeah, it's going to look a bit suspicious if there is always someone just sitting at that spot," Luke put in. Quintyn took a minute to look over the flaws in her design. She sat there, looking like her brain was clicking together a plan.
"Okay what if we broke a hole big enough for some demigods and some satyrs to fit through, and hid it with something from the forest. Some shrubbery or something," She said. The crowd took a minute to mill over Quintyn's new plan.
"That could work..." Roxy said as she nodded.
"It's going to have to," Luke said.
"Alright, but let's just say, some of the Nymphs and Satyrs find the opening," said Jacki.
"We'd have to get them out of there quick," I agreed. We all sat and thought of our options. I played with the fraying violin case strap draped across my chest as I thought. Finn seemed to notice.
"Fletch!" She exclaimed. I jumped from where I was sitting and looked at her with wide eyes.
"YES?" I exclaimed. She smirked at me, I felt like I should be running and hiding.
"Remember those little shits we had to deal with in the general store of that Hawaiian guy on our quest?" She asked. I thought for a minute, but it didn't take me long for the memory to pop up in my mind.
"Oh yeah," I replied. "What about it?"
"Do you remember what you did to them to get them to stop attacking?" She pressed. I remembered playing my violin for the creatures in the store that had been attacking my friends and I, just to distract them. It had worked. The little gremlins had been completely hypnotized by my playing. It was quite flattering really.
"Yeah, I played for them and they got hypnotized," I summed up.
"You think you could do that to a satyr?" Finn asked. I didn't exactly remember how I had played, or what I had played at the time to hypnotize the creatures in the store. When I played normally, no one was hypnotized by my violin.
"Wait your violin can do what?" Dean asked.
"When I play a certain way it puts people in these trances. I haven't tried it all that much. Just to some gnome guys in a variety store," I replied.
"Maybe it was just the gnomes?" Luke asked.
"Only one way to find out," said a voice who had been quiet for a long time. Casper stood in front of me, with his head lowered, obviously shy of all the attention he'd just brought on himself.
"You can play for me, and we'll see if it works," he said.
"You sure?" I asked.
"Go for it," he confirmed. With all eyes on Casper and I, I swung my violin case off my shoulder and flipped the clasps open. I took the violin and bow out and placed it in the familiar space in the crook of my neck between my chin and shoulder. Once I started playing, the music filled me with a comforting feeling. I didn't have to think about where my hands were going, or what I was doing. It was like breathing. You never forget something that makes you live. I focused only on Casper. I only had to think about him, and put every effort I could muster into concentrating on him. Finally, after a while, I heard Luke whisper.
"Oh, gods, what's happening to his eyes? Oh gods,"
"Sh, Luke," Lily said. "You'll break the concentration."
"But look at his eyes!" Luke urged her. I brought myself to look at Casper. He had his head tilted to the side, and was staring at me. His pupils were rectangles, like a normal goats would be. He was swaying along with the motion of my violin bow. If his eyes were any bigger, they'd pop out of his head.
"Fletch, Fletch make him stop it's creepy," Luke whimpered. I slowed the song with a few whole notes, until the violin became quiet. Everyone was silent. Casper shook his head and snapped himself out of the trance once I'd stopped.
"What happened?" He asked.
"You don't remember?" I asked.
"One minute, I was back there beside Gary, the other I'm here. Did I black out or something?" He said.
"I hypnotized you with my violin," I replied. "Sorry." I felt kind of guilty making Casper lose his short term memory for a minute.
"Oh, you did? That's cool," he replied. He sounded tired and confused, like he had just woken up from a really vivid dream, and was trying to get a hold of his bearings again.
"Cool is right," Dean said. He was staring at my violin with his mouth wide open. Quintyn smirked at him from the couch but he didn't notice her. I decided I'd put my violin away for now. I swung the case back over my shoulder and looked around.
"Well I guess that settles it," Finn replied.
"Settles what, I still don't understand what's up," I said. Quintyn sighed.
"You're really slow, Fletch," she said.
"I- yeah, I've been told," I replied.
"If a satyr or nymph finds the hole we make in the wall, assuming they're the mentally unstable kind, whoever notices them will find you and get you to hypnotize them with your violin and lead them back in," she explained. I nodded slowly.
"Alright, that works, but what if they can't find me?" I asked.
"Then they act fast and get the Satyr or nymph in there by force," she said. "We can't risk them being caught."
"Alright," Luke said. He seemed to have recovered from Casper's eye change. "Sounds like a plan."

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Post by Porter on Oct 27, 2013 15:10:45 GMT -5

Tyler caught my eyes for a while, before wheeling his wheelie chair that he was on towards the back wall of the room, where a brochure stand full of what looked like old Camp Half Blood orientation brochures were stacked on top of each other, and I guessed that's what they used to give to demigods before the orientation film. He wheeled back towards me and opened up a brochure, where a map of Camp laid out before us. The layout looked exactly the same, minus the chariot racing track and Thalia's tree. Tyler pointed to Zeus's fist.
"If you can communicate to the satyrs and nymphs to make their way to Zeus's fist, they'd have a strategical advantage over the brainwashed nymphs and satyrs, and they can probably peak over their self-made border if they haven't been doing that already."
"It's also pretty far away from the Big House. We could work on blasting a hole through their, sneak them through the strawberry fields, and easily over to Dean's cabin."
Tyler blinked in surprise, as if Lily had warned him I was as dumb as a rock or something.
"Um, yes. Exactly."
I was on a roll, and I decided not to stop. I waved my hand over to Lily, and for some reason, I looked towards Quintyn to come to. I wasn't sure why, but the way she carried herself around with that confident sharp gaze... I wouldn't mind her two cents.
"So tomorrow." I decided. "We can start early in the morning, before activities so Chiron doesn't go to archery. Liam, April, and Quintyn can go to Mr.D. If Chiron is in the same room, get him out of there."
"We should make sure we all go in on fairly separate times, I doubt Mr.D thinks we're all best friends, and it'll be suspicious." Quintyn pointed out.
Man I'm glad someone is looking out for the details when I'm not.
"Yes, with good excuses." I pointed out.
"Of course."
"Then all the cabins can go wreak havoc on the specific spot of the forest." I pointed at the area closest to the stables.
"And have the Hermes and Demeter kids have a lookout for the rest of shield if it all goes down." Quintyn interrupted.
I eyed her.
"Yes. Good idea." I mumbled.
Quintyn smirked and patted me on the back.
"We should bring them in, in groups, instead of all at once, that'll cause too much of a commotion." Lily added.
"Alright, I'll tell Leo to head to Zeus's Fist and number everyone off from 1-7, from the end of next week, we'll get all of the satyrs and nymphs out."
"We should get most of the nymphs out first." Quintyn said.
"Dude, it's the 21st century, we're not doing that 'women and children first' thing."
"I mean, they're more vulnerable because if they become infected, they might be gone forever, Crash."
Again, outwitted by the Boston chick.
"Alright alright, women and children first then, in this case." I muttered out. "I'll tell Leo."
"Alright, guys! Super-in-detail plan!" I told the rest of the room our plan as dozens of eyes met mine.
I looked around the room, for anyone that might protest in the plan. Gary seemed bored and uninterested, picking at his teeth with the leftover chicken bone and sitting down on top of the ping pong table next to the girl that had originally fallen asleep on it. I was surprised it didn't collapse under the weight. Gary prodded the tired girl with a chicken bone and her eyes slowly opened, revealing startling green eyes, betraying the rest of her tired look. She lifted her head with slight annoyance, wondering who bothered to wake her up. Gary bent over and whispered something in her ear, and she nodded and fell back asleep instantly, and I wondered if she retained any of Gary's information. I didn't know if I wanted her to. Ross Miller became transfixed with the lava lamp on the table next to the couch. Maya and Morgan were talking to each other in harsh whispers. William Knox seemed pretty content, chattering away to the shy, blushing aphrodite girl with glasses about the physics of exploding arrows. Fletch and I exchanged glances. He looked at his bow and then to Casper, as if not sure of what to make of his newfound powers. Liam's face seemed expressionless, his eyes following the lava lamp with Ross Miller, except his lips were pressed tightly together, without a grin on his face. Jacki noticed I had looked at her.
"We'll split up the Hepheastus cabin. Half of us can work on Dean's cabin, the other half can work on the ram. We'll speed up the process and we'll get both done tonight."
"Tonight?" Dean asked, wide eyed.
"Hey, we're demigods, gifted in making stuff, 'course we can."
Dean seemed pretty happy, despite sharing his cabin with dozens of forest creatures.
"OH, CAN I LEAD THE RAM PROJECT?" Simon asked. "PLEASE? PLEAAAASE?"
Jacki looked at me with despereate eyes.
"I'll look after him." I promised her.
She sighed in relief. "Good."
With that, the conch horn blew, and the rest of us went back to our activities.
"You think you can change people's moods with your violin? Like music can?" Quintyn asked Fletch as we made our way to the porch.
"Like Dakon?" He asked her, wide-eyed.
"Um, yeah, like Dakon."
"Dude oh my gods I better."
"Maybe with a little bit of practice, mate." Finn ruffled Fletch's hair, light heartedly.
I was about to hobble off to my activities, but Roxy gently tugged on my shoulders and redirected me to the lawn chair on the porch. I had almost gotten used to the pain in my back.
"You know, you never told me about how you bent light the way you did on the quest, when, um... Luke kinda ran at you on the beach." Fletch asked Roxy.
Just mentioning the quest hurt. Like a thousand pounds of guilt just collapsed on my back. The more days went by, I noticed, the worse I had gotten. Isn't it supposed to get better? I pounded my fist against the table full of tools next to me and everyone jumped in surprise as they clattered on the floor.
"Can we not talk about that part of me." I said, my voice high pitched and quiet, as I shrinked down into the lawn chair at my sudden outburst.
"Uh... yeah. Of course, Luke. Sorry about that."
"If I have to be lawnchair bound, can you at least drag me to Dean's cabin area? Simon's gonna make a ram and I'm concerned."
"Whatever you'd like, Luke." Roxy said, in a soft voice.
I tried looking for sarcasm in her voice, but then I realized it was just her 'nurse' voice. Fletch helped me up and Roxy picked up the lawn chair.
"You want me to come with you?"
"Nah, it's fine. I can walk by myself now." I told him.
And with that, Roxy and I made our separate ways from the rest of the group, as she clutched a folded up lawn chair in her hands.