<Joint Post><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_lossless,ret_img,w_980/https://www.clichemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/RILEY-HOODY-980x581.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Apollo Christopher King (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=315138.msg15273471#msg15273471)</span><br/><strong>Blessed By::</strong>Apollo<br/><strong>Location::</strong>Front gate<br/><strong>Company::</strong>Those gathered<br/><br/><strong>Date/Time::</strong>Saturday, June 20th. Morning<br/><strong>Mood::</strong>Open<br/><strong>Wearing::</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ceremony Suit</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://simages.tbdress.com/Upload/Image/2019/201/watermark/840-1120/70104f2e-f841-4c4a-96e6-0c15ea48fe55.jpg)</div></div><br/><strong>TRIGGER WARNINGS::</strong>none<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Apollo walked with them and in all truth expected to be chosen but instead Cassandra was chosen as if adding insult to injury.  He closed his eyes and moved to his place and he stood there he still didn’t open his eyes till he was dismissed.  He moved to the shrine of Apollo.  He offered the crystal of flame something he had made and had been able to put a bit of his blood and the light in there to bounce around to make it look like a flame inside that would be reactivated by the sunlight which was everyday when the god of the sun awoke and went to do his job.  He was bowing before  the statue and spoke in Japanese not thinking anyone was close to him that would understand him at this point.  He knew the others that might have overheard him were too far away or doing their own thing right now.<br/><acronym title="Good day light father.  I am here once again to pay homage to you.  Thank you for the blessings of my powers.  Just I still appreciate them.  Do I appreciate the loneliness no.  But apparently I have done something to offend you sense not even my charms are working.  &lt;br /&gt;Maybe you could change that ability out for something else...I mean since it is obviously NOT working.  Besides that, this had been quite the learning adjustment.  I have met your wife...my stepmother...I can see why you left her...but you can come and pick her ass up at any time...and take her with you.  Hope you enjoy the gift...that wasn't easy, but it would be something you would at least remember me by in the coming you.  Thank you again for selecting me as your blessed one...I will try to better live up to your name in the coming year.&quot;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He bowed his head.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;May the light shine forever!&quot;">良い日軽い父。私はあなたに敬意を表するためにもう一度ここにいます。私の力の祝福をありがとう。ただ私はまだ彼らに感謝しています。孤独はありがたいです。しかし、どうやら私はあなたが私の魅力すら機能していないと感じてあなたを怒らせる何かをしました。<br/><br/>多分あなたは他の何かのためにその能力を変えることができます...それは明らかに機能していないので私は意味します。その上、これはかなりの学習調整でした。私はあなたの妻に会いました...私の継母...あなたが彼女を去った理由を見ることができます...しかしいつでも彼女のお尻を持ち上げて...そして彼女を連れて行くことができます。あなたが贈り物を楽しんでくれることを願っています...それは簡単ではありませんでしたが、それはあなたが来るときにあなたが少なくとも私を覚えているものになるでしょう。私をあなたの祝福された人として選んでくれてありがとう...私は来年あなたの名前にもっとよく生きようとするつもりです。」</acronym>[/glow]<br/>He bowed his head.<br/><acronym title="May the light shine forever!">「光が永遠に輝くように！」</acronym>[/glow]<br/>With that he got up and walked away.  Leaving those that were there.  Apollo paused long enough to hear the blonde woman's speech. He was able to piece it together. He didn't say anything he watched her leave even as she called him Apollo Jr.  He didn't pay much attention to it, he notice her but she had insulted him enough for today.  He then closed his eyes and jumped through the ceiling, passing through it like a ghost only to land on the ground outside and head back to his room realizing he was free for the day he honest thought that today was going to turn out so much better than what it had.<br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/NfcK44YvfWlwrohf3HRj-lbRtooU7PwewqNmlWJ3hQiiioSVC-4kSik=w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Aristotle Hector Simpson (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=315138.msg15350096#msg15350096)</span><br/><strong>Blessed By::</strong>Hermes<br/><strong>Location::</strong>Front gate<br/><strong>Company::</strong>Those gathered<br/><br/><strong>Date/Time::</strong>Saturday, June 20th. Morning<br/><strong>Mood::</strong>Open<br/><strong>Wearing::</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ceremony Suit</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://simages.tbdress.com/Upload/Image/2019/128/watermark/840-1120/09405bd7-2dd2-4ee8-ae89-f06aa4f252d3.jpg)</div></div><br/><strong>TRIGGER WARNINGS::</strong>none<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Aries found himself in front of the alter of his father where he delivered his gift.  “Good day father.  Yes, I know you told me I didn’t have to bring anything.  I remember, but don’t you think I would set a bad example for the others if I didn’t.  Yeah I realized I could just tell them I was your actual son, but what would that change?  I don’t want it to change anything.  I want them to see ME not what they can get from me because my father is an actual deity, not that I am the only one.”  He paused.<br/><br/>This was truly more conversational, even though it was one-sided,  “Yeah I am still dealing with being in love with her.  Yes, I should probably tell her but what would that solve save to drive her away.  I entered into this with my eyes wide open…I know and being your son I should easily be open to…having more than one lover…or maybe several dozen.  But she makes my heart sing and whenever we are together she…yields to me and whatever pleasure I want to give to her or take from her and it makes me just want to give her more…and more…but I know she doesn’t want all of me…I am not going anywhere and I don’t want to leave her and yeah I know I have caught feelings and probably shouldn’t have but I don’t know how to change that after this long and I fear it may be too late and I may just be her aside until she comes to her senses or someone better comes along…someone that she is truly willing to settle down with…someone…that is NOT me!”  He smirked as he spoke in a fast tongue that had been taught to him by his father that was akin to five times the fastest rapper that could be understood.  But the words were felt and the sentiment would have been understood if one were to listen.  He was a far more dutiful son than he wanted to be but he felt so much weaker in affairs of the heart than his father was.<br/><br/>He stood up and bowed before he too headed out, he would more than likely have to attend to someone before the day was over.  He didn’t dare ask who Lex had killed and where she had gotten the head from or who.  But someone would get hurt or need bandaging today and he had to be ready.  Masquerade ball.  He wondered if he should full costume or just a mask.  He would figure out something later as he headed to the office.<br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f5/3a/10/f53a106480996fad1fd5e9b0e147b0cf.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jeremiah Andreas Davidson (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=315138.msg15341536#msg15341536)</span><br/><strong>Blessed By::</strong>Hephaestus<br/><strong>Location::</strong>Front gate<br/><strong>Company::</strong>Those gathered<br/><br/><strong>Date/Time::</strong>Saturday, June 20th. Morning<br/><strong>Mood::</strong>Open<br/><strong>Wearing::</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ceremony Suit</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://simages.tbdress.com/Upload/Image/2019/106/watermark/840-1120/7acb67db-d7db-4b42-9dcf-ee8f06715b6d.jpg)</div></div><br/><strong>TRIGGER WARNINGS::</strong>none<br/><hr/><br/>Jeremiah thought he would have been a much better choice for fire, but he was glad that another elder was there if only for the Elders to be represented.  They were older sure but they were by no means exempted from participating.  He wasn't slighted, maybe a bit but she had her reasons...that the ceremony happened at all was by far more important than the fact of who was in it.  He wasn't offended enough to mention it but he had thought about it, but once it was over he thought about it no more.  He just proceeded down the stairs to his appropriate location.<br/><br/>“Good day ol’ man.  Great Maker.  Your humble servant kneels before you praying that you open his mind to be creative in making:  Love, Minds better and broader, Spirits light, Studies more understandable and life a little more fun.  Let me see how you are putting things together in people’s lives, minds, and hearts.  Help me to be understanding of both sides of the problem so that I may help others and guide them on their way to greater understanding.”  He breathed.<br/><br/>“Enjoy your gift Great Maker and may you understand that this minimal effort has gone a long way to helping those on the outside to increase the skills of all those they come in contact with.”  He tossed the bag into the forge and out comes a ring.  It is not even hot. He puts it on his finger it had an anvil crest upon it, it was the ring he gave two years ago.  He smirks as it feels weightless and smiles as it feels perfect.  “Thank you for your gift Sire.”  He stood and walked out feeling more than pleased today, for the first time.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/01/24/c00124ca07dec2655b19248e9daef3ea.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Nicholas Edmund Trent  (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=315138.msg15407279#msg15407279)</span><br/><strong>Blessed By::</strong>Poseidon<br/><strong>Location::</strong>Front gate<br/><strong>Company::</strong>Those gathered<br/><br/><strong>Date/Time::</strong>Saturday, June 20th. Morning<br/><strong>Mood::</strong>Open<br/><strong>Wearing::</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ceremony Dress</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://simages.tbdress.com/Upload/Image/2019/130/watermark/840-1120/a5249b39-b378-45aa-80e3-df606da1ee13.jpg)</div></div><br/><br/>He stepped out of the circle once the ritual was finished.  He only did it because Mack asked him, damn near pleaded with him to do it.<br/>She knew he couldn’t resist her so he simply complied for the sake of the others.  He didn’t realize he would be volunteering for some ritual to a god he didn't believe in.  He kept his mind focused on the task…helping others. That was all that mattered right now.<br/><br/>He headed to the room he had been coming too for years now he pulled a plastic bag from his pocket and with a wicked smile he looked at the trident wielding merman.<br/><br/>“So I am summoned here once again to pay homage to the man that was no more than a seed donation.  That made himself akin to deflowering my mother and leaving her for dead as no more than your plaything.  I will come here because I am required too.  Not because I desire to be here.  I don’t owe you shit, cause you haven’t done anything to deserve SHIT! My powers are because I am a demigod not because I have been blessed by you like some of these others.  So I no longer have to come here anymore.  I have to visit this place every five years. Not every year like everyone believes…even then I don’t have to stay longer than a day.  As such I came to deliver to you what you gave me.”<br/><br/>He stepped forward towards the lake tempted to piss in it but he wouldn’t waste his liquid on even that now.  “Tears…seeds of anger, hatred, despise, neglect, resentment, and lack of caring.  Cause obviously you don’t care and neither do I!  So goodbye…sperm donor.  Enjoy the last tears you will ever receive from me!”  He shook out the plastic bag of crystalline tears.  He then tossed them into the pool and with a smile, he turned around and walked off mentally free of the shackle that made him Son of Poseidon…no he was just Son of the Sea!  He walked upstairs and when the light hit him for the first time in several years.   Nick smiled and the only reason he didn’t shout was that others were around him and he didn’t want to hurt anyone.<br/><br/>He was going swimming and with that charming grin on his face, he headed home.  Those that knew him knew his door was always open, he had always been a great listener.