<strong>Location:</strong>Redbeard's Pirate Vessel<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Clio<br/><br/>Hephaestus couldn't help but smile as she took everything okay, and he hugged her back.  There was so much he wanted to say, but he lacked the words; his wife had always been so much better at demonstrations of affection than he was.  At least she understood, though, and he was happy for it.<br/><br/>His smile just warmed as she mentioned about Morpheus.  "Quite a few family members, yes.  The half-brother that Professor Durgan taught is in Niflheim now, working on a cold fusion project for humanity.  Please let Professor Durgan know that Simon sends his regards and has kept as busy and dutiful as he's promised.  If you ever need me, or the rest of our family, though, just call for them.<br/><br/>As far as Aphrodite's children, Hephaestus considered.  "I can try to arrange a meeting for you," he said, hopeful that it would work.  "It may take some time."<br/><br/>At the mention of rules, he thought about how to explain.  "As best I can tell, Fate wants a good story," he said.  "It wants you to succeed, but it has no interest in making things easy, and will keep you from doing anything<em>too</em>cheesy but lets you take the smart road if you can find it.  It keeps your life fun and interesting, which is as much of a hassle as otherwise when you might just want to work, but a crafter who never gets to leave the workshop doesn't make for a fun and interesting story."<br/><br/>Her saying that she'd keep making him proud made him smile all the more, and he hugged her back, almost reluctant to let her go.  "I know you will," he said with love, and ultimately released her as he knew he had to.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>The shoreline of Honolulu<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>JD, Luke, and Namira if she's close enough to see and hear<br/><br/>The retrofitted pirate ship turned in on the shoreline, spinning to the side as a huge wheelchair-accessible ramp lowered itself into place down to the sand.  Looking over, the cyclops pirate captain pressed a button for the speakers, then called out into a microphone with a friendly wave of greeting, "Avast, ye mateys!"  It was quite clear he had no intention of getting off the ship, and there was no sign of any other crew.<br/><br/>Although he didn't press any of the other buttons on his huge array of controls that kept the ship from needing any sort of crew, Luke's music somehow synched up with the ship to play from the huge speakers.  For a moment, he looked confused, then just decided to go with it and danced along to the music.  It wasn't as though it was all that weird compared to anything else going on today.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Cyberspace<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Luke<br/><br/>Luke gets a Mandarin kanji of affirmation in response, along with a GIF that he probably already had on hand, not wanting to waste time typing out a reply.<br/><br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/d5/EA7EA5B9-7AC3-4315-A456-4B3ABC93375B.gif)