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[First thing to note: Sam's got a killer hangover.
Second thing to note: he's still in the library, nursing his hangover with coffee and scanning through the network out of sheer desperation for something to find. Anything to pass the time, really. It's hours into his work that he finds something that might be familiar. Give him a few hours, a little irritation, and nothing remotely helpful in the remaining library aaaand -- ]
Alright, so get this.
There's a quote put up on a secondary sub-network, and I think it's from our friend with the red face.
[He scooches in his seat, looking over the words.]
"Such is the appearance of black birds." Now -- I can't put my exact finger on the chapters, but I remember in one of my Mythology courses, there uh -- it was a passage. From an old Greek text I read through during one of our big finals in my last year of undergrad. [A sound of frustration, some moosey grumbling about an Essay From Hell. Then he snaps his fingers, brow furrowed.] Pausanias. He, he wrote a big long piece detailing his firsthand point of view of Greece, way back when; I remember using it as a cited work for a few written works in classic greek literature.
[huff scoff first world college boy problems.]
Or -- it could not mean anything at all. Maybe if doesn't even have to do with the actual passage. Or maybe Mr. Smiles just likes to post from super ancient literature for kicks with no rhyme or reason.
I don't know. Anybody got extended knowledge in old Greek literature? I don't exactly have the actual texts around to figure anything out, anyway. Don't know if any of you do, or if it even means anything at all. I can't find anything else besides this, but maybe someone who's better at surfing through the different places around here can do a better job than me dishing out more stuff hiding out.
But then there's more. Something about Scylla turning back?
[He'll just copy/paste the full message from the page.]
And speaking of... this. Who's had firsthand experience with this Red Smiley, anyway? How'd those go? I know it hasn't been all that fun, but any kind of first-hand experience about the guy, I'd love to hear. If it's not too much trouble for you.
[Man, his head is killing him.
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Or maybe something a little easier: anybody have any remedies for space hangovers?
((ooc: the first part totally just an ic shout out to the tumblr pages, but see if you can figure it out! characters can ICly figure it out too, if they can figure out all that technical mumbo jumbo and actually find the correct sub-networks and stuff. EDIT: there's more stuff, oops.))
Second thing to note: he's still in the library, nursing his hangover with coffee and scanning through the network out of sheer desperation for something to find. Anything to pass the time, really. It's hours into his work that he finds something that might be familiar. Give him a few hours, a little irritation, and nothing remotely helpful in the remaining library aaaand -- ]
Alright, so get this.
There's a quote put up on a secondary sub-network, and I think it's from our friend with the red face.
[He scooches in his seat, looking over the words.]
"Such is the appearance of black birds." Now -- I can't put my exact finger on the chapters, but I remember in one of my Mythology courses, there uh -- it was a passage. From an old Greek text I read through during one of our big finals in my last year of undergrad. [A sound of frustration, some moosey grumbling about an Essay From Hell. Then he snaps his fingers, brow furrowed.] Pausanias. He, he wrote a big long piece detailing his firsthand point of view of Greece, way back when; I remember using it as a cited work for a few written works in classic greek literature.
[huff scoff first world college boy problems.]
Or -- it could not mean anything at all. Maybe if doesn't even have to do with the actual passage. Or maybe Mr. Smiles just likes to post from super ancient literature for kicks with no rhyme or reason.
I don't know. Anybody got extended knowledge in old Greek literature? I don't exactly have the actual texts around to figure anything out, anyway. Don't know if any of you do, or if it even means anything at all. I can't find anything else besides this, but maybe someone who's better at surfing through the different places around here can do a better job than me dishing out more stuff hiding out.
But then there's more. Something about Scylla turning back?
[He'll just copy/paste the full message from the page.]
SUCH IS THE APPEARANCE OF THE BLACKBIRDS.
SCYLLA TURNED BACK; SHE DARED NOT TRUST HERSELF FAR OUT AT SEA.
And speaking of... this. Who's had firsthand experience with this Red Smiley, anyway? How'd those go? I know it hasn't been all that fun, but any kind of first-hand experience about the guy, I'd love to hear. If it's not too much trouble for you.
[Man, his head is killing him.
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Or maybe something a little easier: anybody have any remedies for space hangovers?
((ooc: the first part totally just an ic shout out to the tumblr pages, but see if you can figure it out! characters can ICly figure it out too, if they can figure out all that technical mumbo jumbo and actually find the correct sub-networks and stuff. EDIT: there's more stuff, oops.))
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[He's looking a tad pale, but to you, Sam, he's so much healthier than when you first saw him that he's basically unrecognizable.]
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Mint?
[Sam's heard a lot, but his family didn't really go herbal.
More like "just drink another beer, that probably fixes it".]
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Not in literature, but in myths of all kinds. Scylla was a monster, but beautiful before that. She turned from the nymphs and their stories only to be seen by a sea-god who fell in love with her. She ran, and later the witch Circe cursed her for winning his heart.
And then here, the pirate ship was named for her, the sea monster, one of two.
[ And then, a slight 'hmph'. ] The Greek stories always were the most popular.
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[He can agree with that. Nods.]
I'm getting the feeling space ships and the weird creepy things inside them like greek stuff a little too much, too. Think they were going for some particular symbolism there when they named their pirate ship, or were they just fans of literature of a society that died out a long time ago?
And where's all their stuff from earth around here, if they knew Greek Mythology so well...?
[That last bit was more to himself, but still. Was the pirate ship supposed to be a creature that ate men?]
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When he sees Sam's post he thinks of ignoring it, but that last mysterious line stands out to him because McNair always read him stories about people changing form and damn if Tom didn't beg him to reread the same tales over and over again. Tom replies with a giant smile]
I know that one! Ain't me favorite but I know that one!
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Yeah? The story of Scylla?
[Tell me what you know there, bro.
What, he doesn't want to do all the talking. He likes being a good listener.]
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Or maybe it uses that because it likes watching us scramble to solve things. Pretty messed up, if you ask me.
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I might be a little more worried about that.
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That's a little worrisome, I'd say. It's not like space is without it's whirlpools, right?
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They really do love their Greek around here then.
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Makes you wonder where any other mention of these things are. I haven't been able to find anything to help research this, in the libraries.
It'd sure all come in handy, right about now.
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[ also hello nice to meet you. ]
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[ hi how's it going, he's assuming that answers plenty right there ]
I noticed going through the big block of info.
They've got a real thing for stuff from old Earth texts.
[Dryly spoken. Of course they have to be all cryptic and cool and hip with their parallels. Of course.]
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[ a heroic tale retelling by buffy summers. she tried. ]
And I'm pretty sure most of the pirates that went all trigger happy on our stuff kept thinking we were crazy, rabid lunatics for being on a ship this "outdated" [ airquotes and everything ] so far out in the middle of space. Our nice friend with his totally not ominous messages is basically telling us we're screwed with pretty riddles and literature.
[ there's a 90% chance she didn't stop to breathe in the middle of anything, but at least she pauses before she offers: ]
Also? Beer. The wise, mature way to deal with hangovers.
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That's the Winchester way, I've noticed.
We are apparently on a ship that's at least four decades old. Maybe we go out of style the same rate phones and video game consoles do. Or maybe we're way, way older than 40 years and that's just how long it's been since this ship's been properly functional?
It's too bad I wasn't around to talk to them; I hear it was a pretty interesting time, having outsiders running around on the comms and ship.
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Ahh, the common blackbird of greece. Don't really know how they managed to work their way to acclaim, kind of like sparrows. Gotta love the white blackbirds, though. Paving the way for jumbo shrimp everywhere.
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Ancient studies tell me blackbirds were the strongest warriors in all of Greece. Even to this day, they find iron helmets the size of walnuts.
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i can do that too, see]
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You read the big brick version?
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There's pot in the gardens.
[ not that he gets hangovers these days. still, he's guessing space hangovers are about the same as regular ones. ]
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I'll pass on that. The last thing I need is seeing how my brain reacts to marijuana.
[That may sound like he's a weed prude but no really, what if he starts visioning all over the place.]
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Did you figure this out drunk?
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[You totally can't see him flustering at that.
Let's not talk about what he's like drunk.]
Just passing the time. I noticed there are some routes on the network that are kind of hidden, so I went digging. Could be more out there, too.
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Not much else. Other than not wheezing at the smell of eggs.
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[They're all hers, but that's not the point]
Scylla turning back though... Scylla wasn't really famed for moving very far though. Every version of the story had her staying on her side of the channel with Charberis on the other. Even the real one.
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Can we just not ever mention that again? Cool? Cool.
He rubs his temples, sighing.]
Hey, as long as I get something done.
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[ or in not-joe understatements: so that's the guy everyone says is going to shoot me in the head one day. ]
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drinking more will stop it [ helpful. ]
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NEXT TOPIC.]
A network in a network that takes a little digging; like a secret door on the usual network device. Kinda difficult to crack open, but it's there, even if we don't realize it all the time. Make sense?
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That sounds like a good way to amp up the headache.
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[ nerdery aside, this is important. ]
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Are space hangovers any different than regular ones?
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[it was a sad sight, to be sure]
I definitely feel it better than I remember hangovers.
[Despite being a lightweight, he's totally got the drinking experience, okay. Let's just say the Winchesters don't give a fuck about no legal age limit for their boozing.]
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[ because oh hey greek literature she knows those things! lots of those things! ]
Pausainus was a geographer, friend of Plato. Wrote the Descriptions of Greece with firsthand accounts of some of the gods work. [ hey you wanna talk about hero because annabeth kind of worships some of the work he did. ] Some of the stuff he wrote about the architecture in Delphi? Unbelievable. The blackbirds are referring to the white blackbirds of Cyllene, right?
Oh, uh. Iphimedeia was the daughter of Triopas, uh. A granddaughter of Poseidon, who kind of...fell in love with him and had a bunch of kids with him. Aloeus was her actual husband, though, and they had a daughter who was carted off to be married to Agassamenus. Aloeus eventually sends men to rescue them, but their daughter dies not long after. Iphimedeia was also a spirit Odysseus meets in the Underworld. Scylla... [ okay so annabeth needs a minute to shudder, just because she wasn't fun. at all. let's just move past those memories shall we? ] Scylla was a monster who lived on one side of the channel into the Sea of Monsters. Charybdis is on the other side. They're really serious about keeping people out of there, too, but it's not impossible.
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[You're all over the place and you're 2cool4school and Sam's impressed, okay.]
You're pretty well-versed in your Greek myths.
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But incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim. It's a Latin phrase I know we're talking about the Greeks and everything, but we all know they link up way too much. And that phrase involves Scylla.
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[He pauses.]
Never heard that one before, actually... Some kind of proverbial saying, huh?
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[ no really, smiley isn't a jenna fan. ]
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[he sounds sorry about that, man
life sucks]
Feeling's mutual?
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