Event 1: Gods and Monsters

[letsplayamod]

[Time is a bit difficult to measure in this place. The storms that rage beyond your safe barrier, overtaking the horizon with their shifting lights and shadows, aren't doing it any favors. If you were to ask Athena, she'd say it's been about a week since your arrival. And since then... there's been scant signs of things improving.

Today, you wake up to quiet. No drone of distant winds. Not even birdsong breaches your bedrooms. Like a inhaled breath, the world seems to have paused.

And then, it exhales. The ground under your feet trembles and shakes. Dirt flies. Rocks shower down from the direction of the cliffs.

There, like an open wound stabbed into the earth, was a large crack where there wasn't before, spilling out an oppressive red light. Stranger still, some larger rocks are floating over the opening itself.

...Investigate?]

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[mygoodbye]

They've been imprisoned for millennia. Thousands of years with no end in sight. If one has escaped... [ugh.] This has suddenly gotten very serious.

[latinumsbetter]

[Quark has been quietly listening to some of these conversations, absorbing this information]

How serious, exactly? How many titans are we talking about here?

[mygoodbye]

[Athena's running the number in her head. Her eyes scan the horizon, narrowing.]

If the Titans were truly freed, they would surely have made themselves known before now. They're horrifically tall, and difficult to miss. Which makes it strange that...

[She frowns.]

Even just one Titan is serious. He will need to be dealt with.

[latinumsbetter]

And how, exactly, does one deal with a titan?

[mygoodbye]

By imprisoning them. Or killing them.

Neither is particularly easy in most cases.

[latinumsbetter]

So.

Not a one-god job, huh.

[mygoodbye]

Maybe. But if he's still locked away in Tartarus, that means his powers aren't at their full strength. And even as mighty as they may be, the Titans were never masters of strategy.

...I can't allow harm to come to any of you again.

[latinumsbetter]

Yeah? And what happens to us if he turns out to be more than you bargained for on your own?

[mygoodbye]

[...]

He won't. We took the Titans down thousands of years ago. There's nothing he can do that I haven't already seen.

[latinumsbetter]

You sure about that.

Because you didn't expect him here, either.

And as far as I can see, you're our last real line of defense against him.

[sweetsynergy]

So what I'm hearing is you showed mercy to some very dangerous very powerful people and now it's OUR problem.

[mygoodbye]

It wasn't my decision. It was Zeus who handed down judgement on them. The Titans are his family, despite it all. So it isn't your problem. It's mine.

And no. Before you ask, I am not going to make you fight Typhon.

[sweetsynergy]

[That gets a little twitch.]

Oh, FAMILY, of fucking course. Everyone's excuse for not doing what fucking NEEDS TO BE DONE.

[Man her voice gets a little rough there.]

And what, you think this Typhon's gonna give us a choice?