Tremble Foolish Mortals: The Gods and You , Class Seven [Period 5, Thursday]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

The Danger Shop was set up to look like a weetiny peaceful Middle New Greecelandia Greek village. Ares looked disturbingly pleased as he addressed the class.

"Now," he said. "Barring for a moment idiot imposters who deserve to get erased from existence, most gods are true gods, that is, they were born gods, their parents were gods or titans, occasionally you'll have a half-god, usually with a divine father and a mortal mother, who will have their mortality taken away and be granted a place among the full gods, and, thankfully, very, very rarely you'll get a full mortal, who through often dangerous and underhand means will become a god."

"Why do I use the word thankfully? You may ask, after all, the power of the gods is the kind of thing many aspire to. I'm glad you asked." Ares clicked his fingers and a tall, armour-clad, blonde familiar to at least some of the class, woman appeared in a burst of flames. "Here is a very good reason why."

"This is Callisto," Ares continued without skipping a beat. "When she was mortal, she was a ruthless, merciless, psychopathic warrior. She slaughtered more than one village like this one down to last man, woman, and child. As you can tell, she had a lot of potential, my kinda gal. Then, through certain, unimportant to the discussion at hand, events she died, or rather was killed, and guess who didn't have the good sense to stay dead, which I can kind of admire. Unfortunately she didn't know when to stop, and eventually clawed her way to godhood."

"That was not a good thing. Imagine someone fueled by a hate so pure, so powerful, that it would last beyond death itself, a hate that had burned out any trace of compassion, of love, of joy, its owner ever possessed, until they became less than human, a mere vessel for that hatred. Unwilling to respect anything or anyone, to accept their place in the scheme of things. Now give them immortality and indescribable power, the power of the gods, the power to change the world. Scary thought isn't it. The kind of things that person might do."

"But why tell, when I can show," he said, grinning, "The aim of today's class is to survive. I'm giving you ten minutes to run and hide, then setting her loose. Thanks to the safety protocols, she can't really kill you, but if you get burninated you're sitting on the sidelines until she's done."

[ooc: OCD threads coming up.]

[Class Roster|Syllabus|Previous Classes]

Comments

Survive Callisto! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

.

Survive Callisto! - Flee! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

Run! While you can!

Re: Survive Callisto! - Flee! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Is so fleeing!

Re: Survive Callisto! - Flee! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine? Totally fleeing alone, as tagalongs tended to attract more attention.
That, and he was too possessed with the desire to get as far from the crazy fire person as he could to actually stop to ask if anyone wanted to team up with him today.

Re: Survive Callisto! - Flee! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Ninja stealth don't fail me now! Billy dashed off alone. Easier to hide one then several.

Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

I mean she looks reasonable enough, maybe you won't die.

Re: Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky didn't run. He stayed put and managed to rummage around in his pockets, producing some candy from Wonka's. "Cool outfit."

Re: Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

Callisto simply raised one eyebrow. "And your opinion should matter to me because?"

Re: Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel's heard enough about what happened in LA to not want to play Ares twisted little game. She stood there an waited, a bored expression on her face.

Re: Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

"I would advise you to run, dearie," Callisto said. "It won't do you much good, but you'll live a few moments longer."

Re: Survive Callisto! - Avoid Burnination! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

No way was Jack wasn't going to run. No point, if she really was a god. Besides, running was just an invitation to be chased.

Instead he stripped off his shirt and waited, looking as attractive, harmless, and submissive as possible, watching Cal mildly.

Hey, gods needed minions, right? Or harems. It was better than being burninated right off the bat.

Re: Survive Callisto! - Avoid Burnination! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

Callisto eyed Jack like he was insane. "What are you doing?"

Re: Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[the_merriest]

Rikku walked over to the blonde woman, her face determined. "What gives you the right?"

Re: Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sneerkite]

Steerpike was so busy pondering the concept of making his way to godhood that he totally didn't notice the order to flee. So he was still standing in uffish thought.

Re: Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna didn't run as a general rule, but especially in this case. "Buh?"

Re: Survive Callisto! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam couldn't help thinking that they wouldn't have had this problem if they'd just given Callisto her own hair-gelled vampire with brooding issues. "Burning, huh? Any particular reason?"

Re: During the lecture - TGaY [Class Seven]

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Miss Callisto? Is this really absolutely necessary?"

Survive Callisto! - Avoid Burnination! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

Your ten minutes are up! Now try and avoid becoming toast.

Re: Survive Callisto! - Avoid Burnination! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette ran and...found a huge empty watering pot. Peering down into it, she scrambled up and over the side and wrapped her knees to her chest, hiding. She kind of snickered too because it was a great hiding spot!

Re: Survive Callisto! - Avoid Burnination! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine? Running like a running thing.

This probably wasn't going to last long.

Re: Survive Callisto! - Avoid Burnination! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory fled. Seriously. She was afraid of her Cal, and Rory wasn't stupid.

She rounded a corner, and pressed her back against a wall.

Re: Survive Callisto! - Avoid Burnination! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Why is everything in this place so stinkin' flamable?!

Billy thought perhaps the well would be a good place to hide, but gave that idea up right away. He picked the back of a pantry, near a window for fleeing if neccesary.

Survive Callisto! - The Dead - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

You got burninated, woe. At least you can sit on the sidelines and watch your classmates suffer the same fate.

Re: Survive Callisto! - The Dead - TGaY [Class Seven]

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

After getting herself burninated (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/1255069.html?thread=73628317#t73628317), Isabel took a seat on the sidelines to watch the rest of the class. Jack and his offer of minionhood definitely caused some eyerolling.

Re: Survive Callisto! - The Dead - TGaY [Class Seven]

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Laid down on the floor cause she was toast. (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/1255069.html?thread=73639069#t73639069) Might as well get a cap nap in.