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CITRINE

[The room is circular and surrounded by a series of ionic columns, the floor and ceiling stretching overhead fashioned out of cracked, white stone. The area beyond the columns is pitch black, and the room itself is lit only by dimly flickering candles. The candles rest on top of a stone table, which sits in the middle of the room.

And next to the candles rest four numbered boxes]

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[ runs a hand through his hair restlessly... ]

Y'know, I don't think I ever killed a person before I got here -- just monsters.

...

And when you kill them, they go back to Tartarus and respawn a few years later.

-- a lot of that stuff in the game with the bent pin game I stole from home. The stuff we fight with won't hurt mortals, just gods and monsters. My sword, Annabeth's knife, all of it. Heck, one of the first things anyone told me is "No hero should harm mortals unless absolutely necessary."

So... that's why these games suck.

...They suck for a lot of reasons. Sometimes, you can't save everyone... And if you can't protect the people right in front of you, how can you save everyone else? It doesn't make it any easier...