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

[triskeles]

[ Despite the apparent traditions with the Graeci, Derek is more inclined to find members of his cohort rather than sit at Hades' table for any extended period of time. It's reassuring, to know where those that became his second pack is, regardless of what table they're seated at.

So as he passes through the tables, he catches sight and scent of Scott and turns, only to snort softly at what meets him. He makes his way over, slow and easy and silent, and reaches to tousle at his dark hair while he's got a mouthful of food. ]

Are you even tasting any of that?

[usernameallison]

Yes, and it's amazing.

[Say what you will about the Greeks, those harpies know how to cook.

Scott rips off one of the ribs - though it definitely doesn't have enough barbecue sauce on it for his liking - offering it to his centurion with a small smile.]

Want one?

[triskeles]

Could've fooled me with how you're scarfing it down.

[ It's good natured, at least, which says a lot about how Derek views Scott-- he's abrasive to most people, even those in his cohort, but there's a more friendly side that comes out with most of them. Scott is among them, reminding him of his family. So it's easy, sometimes, to simply be a little more at ease around him.

Moving to take a seat next to him, ignoring any looks he might get for sitting at Nike's table, he accepts the proffered rib with an amused chuff. ]

[usernameallison]

I think I heard something once that if you eat food really fast, you'll trick your stomach into thinking not a lot is going in it and you can eat more.

[Okay, it's a lie. But there's really no better excuse for why he's - pun intended - wolfing down his barbecue. Well, aside from the fact that he'd gotten lost in the woods on the way here and had to catch game for a while.

Yeah, that wasn't fun.]

[triskeles]

The slower you eat, the easier it is for your stomach and brain to agree that you're full.

[ Well, Scott actually isn't that far off, so there's that. Derek takes his time eating the rib that Scott passed over to him, not in any hurry like he is. On the other hand, though, he wasn't the one that actually got lost on his way to the camp-- more like he took his time getting there and wound up trying to find where the rest of his cohort had wound up after the fall of Camp Jupiter.

And he's also not the one that minds hunting game. ]

[usernameallison]

Oh. Yeah, haha. I guess that's the way it goes.

[Actually, what Derek's saying makes loads of sense, so he's just going to go with it. Beats any comeback he could have made up, anyway.

A great deal of the cohort, it seemed, made it back with Derek. Now, the only thing missing was his mom...]

Hey, I think it beats rabbits any day.

[triskeles]

[ A part of Derek wants to leave the camp, but at the same time? He's a centurion. He isn't about to leave his cohort to this place, even if it's to go out looking for any stragglers that were still missing from the fall of their home camp. Or, in Scott's case, to look for Melissa. He hasn't seen her once, and he knows from talking to Scott that they were close.

Inclining his head a little, he waits until he's finished eating the mouthful he has before he answers. ]

When you eat rabbit, it needs to be cooked properly. [ Or not at all, but that's only when Derek's shifted. ]

[usernameallison]

Yeah, uh, I guess that was the problem. I think I got food poisoning back there.

[There were times when it sucked being just a legacy - his type were more susceptible to common ailments like that, and it took a lot less ambrosia or nectar to burn through a legacy than a demigod.]

[triskeles]

Probably. You were lost for a while, plenty of time for it.

[ Having the double resistance that he does as a demigod and a monster, Derek hasn't quite gone through the same problems regarding becoming burnt out as Scott and his other legacies have. But a cohort looks out for its own, and ever since becoming a centurion he's tried to make sure that they don't fall behind.

He feels like he's failed in that, since the fall of their camp, but. ]

[usernameallison]

Yeah. Here's hoping it doesn't happen again, right?

[it was only for two weeks, but Scott had learned a lot on his time away from Derek and the other members of his cohort. Namely, that he may have relied on them (and even his mom, who he hasn't seen since they evacuated New Rome) a little too much. Being out there by himself felt natural, primal, in a way.]

I mean, you're here, and the Praetor's found her way here, too. And there's a girl centurion in charge of Nike's kids here, I think.