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.]

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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]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"It shouldn't. I was just giving you a compliment because I felt like it. Do you want some candy?"

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! - Talk to Cal - TGaY [Class Seven]

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Sorry," Isabel shrugged. "Not gonna run. I'm not a houseboy. So can you just kill me know so I can go sit and relax?"

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! - Avoid Burnination! - TGaY [Class Seven]

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Well, the way I figure it, there's absolutely no way I can get away from you, right? Hiding's just going to postpone the inevitable. You're a god. I'm just a human. I'm not a match for you no matter how much of a head start I get." He shrugged, and smiled humbly. "But you might find a minion useful. Or entertaining. I'm smart, I'm pretty, I'm very talented in certain areas, and you'll find me surprisingly obedient." At least until he could get away safely.

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]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

"And which right are we talking about, dear?"

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

[the_merriest]

"Hurting people. Killing them. Taking whatever you want and destroying anything you don't. What in Spira makes you think you have 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]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

"What is with you people and your lack of survival instinct?"

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

[sneerkite]

"Hm? Oh! Er. Hi. Shall I be moving on, now?"

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]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

"Are the people in this village mentally deficient or something?"

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

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"Mostly? In shock." Alanna finally collected enough brain cells to put together sentances.

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

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

"Because it's more fun than using a sword."

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

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

She nodded. "Yeah, I guess I can see that."

Re: During the lecture - TGaY [Class Seven]

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Miss Callisto? Is this really absolutely necessary?"

Re: During the lecture - TGaY [Class Seven]

[sideburnsofwar.livejournal.com]

"No," Callisto replied. "But it's fun."

Re: During the lecture - TGaY [Class Seven]

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"You can't really enjoy hurting people you don't even know, can you?" Evie asked, appalled.