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[Luke looks into the device, the jumper he's wearing isn't zipped up all the way and he looks a little uneasy.] I've never been good with introductions but I figured I might as well give it a shot.

[He doesn't knew whether or not if he should give the full story or not but hey... whatever.] My name's Luke Castellan, I'm new around here. I take it that I'm not the only one. There anything worthwhile on this spaceship? Back home I never was one to just sit around.

Need to do to something. Keep my mind going. [Because yeah... he's supposed to be headed to the Underworld.]

Guess that's about it. Told you. Not much on introductions. [He huffs a laugh before the feed ends.]

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[the_vishual]

You could get a job, sir. help around the ship. It passes the time from one disaster to another.

[killarevolution]

Oh, there's plenty of work to be done, but your definition of "worthwhile" might not be the same as the rest of this lot's.

[Like Haymitch wouldn't know that look when he sees it. He's seen it enough times. Uneasy is just another word for "itching for answers, a fight, or some combination thereof."]

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[cons]

[ someone's bored and stuck in medbay, so now she's going to ramble at you. sorry, new kid ]

We've got a bar, that's fun. There's jobs yeah, like they said, but if you're not exactly up-and-up on the whole space job thing, people are always at the bar just hanging out. Y'know, until you get settled. And the Gardens too, if that's not your scene.

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[backbiter]

One disaster to another? [He's not surprised to see the little girl on screen. Then again he'd been at a camp where children were trained to fight monsters. Most of them didn't return the following the year.]

Sounds like fun. The disaster part. Not the work part.

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[His definition? Luke wondered if this guy knew what Luke's definition was. Working was out. He didn't know how to do anything. Other than lead an army and sword fight. There was his gifts from his dad but that was useless unless he wanted to become a thief.]

And what do you think my definition is? [He doesn't know if his expression darkened or not. It sometimes did that. The scar on the right side of his face tended to make him look a little more sinister than he wanted.]

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[backbiter]

[Gardens? Did he look like a son of Demeter?]

The gardens aren't exactly my scene. Bar sounds nice. [Though he's never been in one. You know, the whole raising the titan war. It was kind of time consuming.] Is money an issue here? I mean I'm zapped here by whatever fates run this place. No clothes. No cash.

Just a dagger and a pair of shoes.

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[the_vishual]

I wouldn't be too hasty about that, sir. They're quite.. Well, as the name suggests, disastrous.

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[kingofbabylon]

There's a few fields of work for the crew around the ship - engineering, security, communication, that kind of stuff. If none of that sounds good, I run a bar we could use a bouncer or bus boy at.

Not that we can really pay you aside from free mixed drinks.

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[backbiter]

Please call me Luke. [He didn't like to be called sir. It made him feel old.]

And I'm kind of used to disasters. [Being a demigod and all.] Caused some of them myself. Though I wouldn't call those my best days.

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[backbiter]

I've never really worked anywhere. [And thought made him feel uneasy. He was a demigod. Luke didn't think he'd ever have to work. He would have either died early or stayed at Camp Half-Blood.. but seeing as he had died, Luke felt cheated.]

So as a bouncer I'd be guarding the entrance to the club? [He more or less asked himself.] What kind of club is this? [Because free drinks? Hey, he had baggage and a good stiff drink sounded good to him.]

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[player_not_slayer]

Nope. There's shit-all worthwhile to do around here except for avoiding the shit that's trying to eat you, dismember you, fuck with you, fuck you, or otherwise kill your ass. Because between those, there's nothing much.

[Simon might be a little bitter at the realization that he's been in this place for almost a year now.]

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[backbiter]

[Oh hello there...

wait..

what did he just say? Where in Hades did Jackson learn all those bad words? Luke's not sure if he's more surprised that Percy is here or that he just cursed like a sailor.]

Heh. [Is about all he can say at this moment.] Did the Ares cabin teach you those words?

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[player_not_slayer]

Did who do what, bro?

[The fuck does some Greek douchebag have to do with anything?]

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[the_vishual]

You are capable of such power?

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[backbiter]

Ares? God of war, father of Clarisse.... [Hey that greek douche had a bunch of kids with dirty ass mouths.

Maybe he's disoriented.] Percy, you can't tell me you forgot? Camp. You and me... New york?

[player_not_slayer]

I know who the fucker is I was asking--

[Oh.

Oh no you didn't just call him Percy. Simon's expression goes from bored and faintly smirking to nope.jpg in two seconds flat.]

Dude, sorry to bust your little homo bubble but I'm not Jackson.

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[backbiter]

I used to. [Luke doesn't know why he's spilling the beans to a little girl. Maybe because she reminded him of someone.]

But like I said I wasn't such a nice guy then.

[backbiter]

What? [Burst his...] Homo bubble? Really?

[Maybe this wasn't Percy. Maybe he was suffering from memory loss. Maybe this was a god taking Percy's form? Though what god talked like, he didn't know.]

If you're not Jackson, then who are you? His evil twin?

[player_not_slayer]

'You and me'? That sounds pretty gay to me, man.

[Simon's totally a god of...badass motherfuckers, okay. Totally legit.]

The name's Simon. No fucking relation to Jackson, he just showed up with my face one day.

[backbiter]

[He was going to say something but then.. yeah that did sound a little gay. Though that's not what he meant.] I didn't mean 'you and me' in that tense.

Percy and I have had our differences... [As in differences he meant that he tried to destroy the world and Percy tried to save it. Blah blah. etc, details.] Anyway.. sorry to hear about.. the face thing.

But Percy Jackson is here? On the ship? Like now? [He didn't know if he should try and find Jackson. Or avoid him. After all the last he saw the kid, Luke was covered in blood and took his last breath.]

[player_not_slayer]

I'm sure. [He'd be more of a dick about it, but hey someone else doesn't quite get along with Mr. Righteousface Jackson?]

It sucks sweaty fucking balls, let me tell you. Either people are calling me him, or getting all up on him as me and it's annoying as shit. [And Kable his own bro had even hugged the bastard, thinking him Simon. Totally unforgivable.]

But yeah, he's here. Just saw him around yesterday with a giant fucking dog in the shuttlebays.

[Which he wouldn't let him ride, the asshole. Oh well. He and Wichita had given it a shot, at least.

...And then Wichita had gotten shot. Man, yesterday had sucked.]

[backbiter]

The hellhound. [Luke remembers there being talk about Percy owning one of those. How does Luke approach this? He shouldn't alive much less on this ship. And Jackson? What was he doing here? How long had he been here? Also this kid, Simon?

There were too many questions than answers.] So you and him aren't exactly friends. It's a little bit of a surprise. [Everyone was Percy's friends. Hell, if Luke thought about it, they could have been friends at one point.]

[player_not_slayer]

Yeah, he called it that. [Mrs. something. He couldn't fucking remember the name, just that she was a giant fucking hellhound and that was pretty awesome and why did Jackson get nice things and not him.]

Nope. He's a self-righteous douchebag and I'm an asshole. [Matter of fact.]

What about you? You're not exactly jumping to flipperboy's defense.

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[cons]

Eh, even the people that do have money are technically poor here. There's no common currency or whatever, so. Nope. Drinks are free at the bar, at all times.

A dagger, really? Cool.

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[ripstides]

[ the ship has to be screwing with him again. ]

I'd say hallucinations don't usually talk to other people but pretty much everything terrifying that's happened here proves that wrong. [ and he'd be more freaked but the whole Doors of Death thing back home and the weird fog / on-going, surreal nightmares have really rendered him incapable of paralyzing shock. ] I've heard worse introductions. Like, 'Hey, welcome to Bargain Mart! Try our Cheese 'n' Wieners, they're only kind of poisoned.'