When Odysseus Met Kassandra

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Things start off quietly, as a sleepy, guilty but neatly-attired Kassandra leaves the staff quarters in search of dinner. That was her first mistake, I think. But she meets up with Tonks, and the two of them discuss Sirius, and the evening shapes to look morose but redeemable.

John Constantine inquires as to Kassandra and Sirius' welfare, and goes all gruff. He makes courtly-bastard banter with Tonks. Kassandra and Tonks wind up the discussion of Sirius, and Kassandra admits to having weird dreams that may actually prove suddenly relevant.

Odysseus speaks to Kassandra. He's not doing well, poor lad. He tells all hearers that she's a witch, among other things. Kassandra begs her friends not to believe him, and Tonks goes all protective. Constantine goes all... I'll-be-kicking-your-arse-now...ive. He'd like Kassandra to get away from Odysseus, and tries to steer the salty veteran away, but Kassandra is an idiot and Odysseus invokes the Pallas Athene, their shared goddess, so now she has to talk to him even though he keeps saying mean things, the meanie.

Somewhere in there, Kassandra screams her head off for Sirius, but she'll do that again. Coupla times. Notable is Tonks, for her wand-at-the-ready stance when Odysseus makes the tactical booboo of touching Skandra, and Constantine's form of address for Odysseus.

Kassandra irritates Constantine with her insistence on the not-lake-pitching of Odysseus. He does say several nice things before that, but shhh.

Odysseus and Kassandra swop insults. A lot. Odysseus just wants to get home. He thinks Kassandra can tell him how to do that. She's not forthcoming, because hello, king who sacked her city, much? Along the way he insults Sirius, whoopsie. And her daddy. And her brothers.

James appears. He speaks to the king in epic hexameter [there will be an MQuotes post of Epic James] and makes the king wibble, and is basically all "Step off Sirius' woman, kthxdie." ['I was a soldier, one of the Phoenikoi...' ...SIGHS]

[Mogget, Snow and Hornblower arrive. Kassandra's mun cannot cope, and beams apologetic looks across cyberspace. At that point, honestly, I was focusing on ithakan_king  so as not to lose my mind. Cheers, y'all, for being brave and jumping in!] Odysseus meets Death, and Constantine meets Sniper Wolf, and it is pretty much universally agreed that Odysseus hasn't made a good first impression.

There was a fifteen-minute intermission while the players said what? And the chatters-with-the-players said what? And the people in the back room said what? ...

And then Odysseus half-begs, half-goads Kassandra into prophecy. She's so angry, and so insulted, and so flaked out, she invokes Athene. Invoking a goddess in Milliways is not a brilliant idea, and when she warns people, oh do they back up.

Kassandra brings the War-King of Ithaka his prophecy, courtesy of Athene. 

She runs out of the bar, by the front door, which she can't do, because she's Milliways Bound. James, Tonks, and Mogget go after her, as does Odysseus.

 

[bows, claps, apologises for missing anything]

The invocation to Athene is courtesy friede .

 

 

Comments

[ithakan-king.livejournal.com]

*bows before your linguistic mastery and MAD THREAD SKILLZ*

[clumsy_auror]

*claps wildly* Good heavens, you made that coherent. WOW.

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Tonks-mun, will you do the next one? I was scouring for your contact info and couldna find it...
I would be honored, as well as relieved, if you would salve my brain by doing 'Mogget And Tonks And Kassandra And James and Odysseus, Oh My!: Part II.'

(grins)
(looks beggy)

[clumsy_auror]

Of course! It will be a little while, though, cos I've got some errands to run and a NEW COMPUTER to buy. *dances* But yes. I shall summarize like mad.

[And by the way, I have, in my RL guise (indy_go) friended strange_selkie. Anyone who makes me weepy gets friended, and you've done that...yeah, several times, now. :) Hope you don't mind.]

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

That was all fabulous. Props to everybody involved.

[leplusbeau]

Oh my. *bows as she should to your mad summarizing skillz*

Thank you very much! I got lost last night and decided just to wait for a summary to figure out what happened. Hurrah the power of summaries!

[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

Kassandra Anassed to invoke Athene! ::dances in happy BMC-glee::

I love when my school and my obsessions and everything cool in life intersect.

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

((loves the Mawrters))