THE SECOND HBH TEST DRIVE MEME!

[halfbloodhillmods]

The Test Drive Meme
A chance to test out character voices in an in-game setting before playing with them!

Who: Campers from all pantheons!
What: It's your free time! Grab some lunch or do one of your favorite activities at camp!
When: Mid-June, around lunchtime.
Where: Camp grounds.

This meme is open to anyone thinking of checking out the game, whether you've apped in or not! Feel free to tag in under one of the prompts or create your own thread. Have fun! :)

Comments

[tryingitall]

Because we're not home right now, and you're supposed to set an example for me. [He is utterly deadpan as he says this, but whether he means it or not is anybody's guess.

He blinks mildly as Gabe shouts skyward, eating the rest of his berry.]

I'm still trying to sort it all out, I guess. [He goes on when the older boy quiets again.] What I'm supposed to be doing with it. Or not doing.

[angeliaforos]

That was a very good impression of Cas.

[Gabriel elbows Balthazar in the side, laughing a little.]

Hey, that's what we're here to find out, right? I mean, it took me ages to figure out how to do....

[He snaps his fingers, and his image flickers and disappears, then reappears next to Balthazar. He walked around and sat at his other side while invisible.]

...this. You'll get it.

[tryingitall]

[He breaks into giggles and jabs back with a pointy little elbow.] It's true, though! You're supposed to be mature and crap.

[Haha, fat chance of that.

He stops squirming when Gabriel vanishes and jumps slightly when he reappears, then smiles.] I don't think that's a thing I'm going to be doing, Gabe.

I guess that's what's got me turned around. Everything works differently for each of us, doesn't it? There's no instruction manual.

[angeliaforos]

Balth. Have you met me?

[He grins, shrugging when he appears, and shoves about three more strawberries into his mouth. Don't worry, they're small, he won't choke.]

I don't know. What do you guys do, anyway? You're lucky you turned up when you did. It was a lot harder on us when half the camp was crammed in Hermes cabin.

[tryingitall]

If I hadn't, I'd already be yelling for help.

[He shakes his head at the strawberry overload and hurriedly gobbles up another, afraid he'll run out.] I don't know what I do. That's the problem. I listen to the plants while they grow. And...sometimes I can still hear wood talking, even when the tree must've been dead for years.

I've seen people make them grow, but...I don't know. I haven't really tried.

[angeliaforos]

[Gabriel grinned. He could always count on Balthazar for some good, old-fashioned banter.

He looks up into the air, scratching his chin, and shrugs.]

Well, man, I think that's the first thing you should try for, then. I mean, Iris-Messages were kind of my big thing when I first got here. Chiron helped a lot, but with enough practice? I could do it with my brain, no time flat. You'll figure it out.

[tryingitall]

But I don't know if I should. Helping things grow up healthy is good, but I've heard people say they can make thorns and brambles grab things, or flytraps bite. Stuff like that.

[He rests his chin in his hands. He doesn't know the word 'ethics', but that's totally what he's thinking about.] It doesn't seem fair to make plants do things they wouldn't, naturally.

[angeliaforos]

I don't know. Maybe it's because I don't really mess wiith living things? But I think there's a pretty big grey area as far as plants go. They don't work in the same ways as humans.

[What he's saying is, he's still not exactly sure if free will for the plants even exists. If pressed, he'd wonder if free will for demigods even existed, with all the self-fulfilling prophecies that get thrown around here.

But for what it's worth, he's here to push his own destiny out of the way as far as he can and live the way he wants to live, as much as he can. Screw that.]

Seriously, don't sweat this kind of stuff, Balth. You'll make yourself crazy.

[tryingitall]

I guess. It's not the same as being able to crush a person's spine or something. But still.

[At least he has no problems with eating plants, as evidenced by the fact that he's reaching for another berry.]

Someone has to sweat this stuff, Gabriel. If I don't think about it, then someone else will and then they'll try to tell me how to do it.

[angeliaforos]

Dude, you could always crush someone's spine with a plant. I'm just saying. Maybe if you talk to them and become friends with the plants, then you'll feel less bad about having them do crap for you. Don't they say that if you talk to the plants they grow better?

[He plucks one off a vine and places it on Balthazar's head, trying to see how long it can balance there.]

Yeah, yeah, I know. You were never one to take orders from anybody. Just don't give yourself a heart attack or anything. I still don't know CPR.

[tryingitall]

I don't want to crush anyone's spine, though. [His lips quirk in a wry smile, that only widens as Gabriel balances a strawberry on his hand.]

I learned it from you, you know. The not taking orders.