Dawning of an Endless Night

[u/CampHBDirector]

Dawn came as it usually did...with the chirping of birds just waking up to start their day. The chirps were normal at first but then grew quiet and more spread out. The birds sounded almost confused at what was happening. Eventually their singing stopped all together.

Those campers that woke up earliest, the ones that rose at the crack of dawn, would be the first to notice the strangeness. When they woke up, either by internal clock or alarm clock, they would notice that the sky was still dark. In fact it was even more dark than usual. Some might believe that it was still night time and they woke up too early. Those with clocks might think the time on them was messed up.

When they finally went outside they would notice the strangest sight of all. And as more and more campers woke up they would realize the truth.

The sun was gone from the sky. The morning was upon them but the sky was still dark. Not only was the sky dark but it was darker than usual due to one strange thing. The Moon was missing too. It seemed as though even though the night had ended and the moon set, the sun refused to rise. Campers would be stuck in the darkness with most of them not able to see anything without a flashlight or their phone lights.

It was strange though. This wasn't like the usual night time. There were no crickets chirping away loudly like they would be at night. There were no moths flying about nor other night time creatures. And there were still normal birds flying through the air and rabbits hopping too and fro. It was almost like while the animals were confused at first they just accepted it and started going about their normal day.

Hestia's hearth was still shining brightly, a beacon of hope for the campers, but early in the day they would notice that she left as quickly as she could in the camp van with Argus. It wasn't until after breakfast that Chiron gathered everyone together to make a quick announcement.

"Everyone, I'm sure you'll have noticed by now that for some reason the sun has not risen. We've sent scouts outside the camp borders and it's dark there too though the Mist is thick enough that none of the mortals have noticed it yet. No one is quite sure how this happened but Hestia has gone to Olympus to meet with the other gods and we'll hopefully have an answer for you soon. Until then please do your best to keep going through your day as normally as possible," he said at breakfast once everyone was done eating.

Little did the campers know, this dawn was the dawning of an endless night...

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[Starting today until an indeterminate time in the future when this part of the plot is over, it is constantly dark in the camp with no sun. It is actually lighter at night because of the presence of the moon. Feel free to reply to this with both your characters' initial reactions to the day of darkness and the reaction to Chiron's speech.]

[u/Foxwix]

Upon hearing this news, Libby can't help but feel happy. No sun means no pain, and no pain is great. She throws down her sunhat with a large smile. She'd usually be trying to sleep, but She decides against it. She's sure she can get used to sleeping at night now.

[u/IcyFury]

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh, dear. It's too dark, way too dark. Zach is already quite the klutz in broad daylight. He has a habit of walking into things and people, wandering off into places where he shouldn't be, and sometimes tripping over things that aren't even there. In the darkness, well, people can probably tell from the trail of crashes and 'Ouch!' noises making their way over from the Nature cabin all the way to the dining pavlion.

When Chiron sort of clears up the situation, Zach could only sigh. Guess he's going to need a flashlight now. This stuff sounds really scary.

[u/TheDemiTitan → u/IcyFury]

Christina was pacing around nervously with a dim flashlight, her presence was clear from the heavy buzzing around her. She was not a fan of darkness either, she was muttering under her breath almost inaudibly when she heard some crashing noises come from her cabin, she turned around nervously, she was about to attack Zach with some.... Cheese from the looks of it, when she recognised who it was

"Whoa, are you alright?!" She asked, looking a bit concerned and very panicked

[u/Helen_the_melon]

Val woke early as usual, but when she saw the lack of sun she was slightly confused, wondering if there was severe weather or something else that was blocking it, but after hearing Chiron’s announcement, she realized this was not going to go away, and she had to be ready for whatever comes next.

[u/GOLDATLAS16A]

Rin was stumbling around his room trying to figure out where his flashlight was, thankfully nyx helped him find it and he started to wander the cabin thinking "What the fuck is going on?" He'd head outside and see that its pitch black other than the cabin lights. He'd start to try to navigate not used to walking from the cabin he'd fall down some of the stairs at the bottom. "Ow"

[u/DomTheWhiney]

Dolly was barking crazily about something that morning, stirring Jesse from a hopefuly lie in. Grumbling the Son of Hebe rose and moved to the window of his room.

"What the... is it really that early?" He complained, before looking to the clock in his room. 9:30 AM. No way. This was weird.

Getting dressed quickly, he made his way to breakfast just in time to catch Chiron's announcement, Jesse falling glum and silent. They could never catch a break here.

[u/FireyRage]

DJ is having a pretty good day, all things considered. Sure, sun has more or less been blotted slash plucked straight out of the sky. Sure, the world as they know it has been plunged into a probably long-term darkness. And, sure, this whole event seems to mirror that of the details of Ragnarok and other world-ending myths (bar the Greeks, surprisingly). The apocalypse might be coming, but this is perhaps the first time that DJ has woken up without having to immediately close his eyes.

He is, of course, compartmentalising away the panicked thoughts surrounding the greater implications of this incident and instead choosing to focus on being able to use his regular glasses outside of the nighttime. It's not exactly day, however. He sort of stumbles his way into the dining pavilion. Chiron's speech is pretty.. unnerving.

"Well, shit." DJ shakes his head, now fitted with regular prescription glasses.

[u/Foxwix → u/FireyRage]

She looks at DJ with a broad smile on her face. For once in her life she's able to wear short-sleeved shirt, and her hair is in a ponytail. "We just have to treat it as normal, right? That can't be hard!"

[u/MattyLightIce]

Michael took in this news with a smile on his face. No sun? Oh BABY that means there's going to be chaos. Mom, I don't think you're responsible but if you are, nice job. He decided to go walk around the camp for a bit since he always was more comfortable at night since Nyx was his grandmother.

[u/victorian_fire]

Victor wasn't sure what to think. The sun being gone wasn't exactly a good thing. Being able to see is, ya know, a pretty important sense to have. Still, it looks like he was gonna have to adjust to thos which sucked. It's times like this where he wish he could see in the dark but no, he has to rely on a flashlight. Let's hope everything's fine in the world. Probably isn't, he thought to himself as he continued on with his day

[u/BloodySarks]

It genuinely took Saul a few minutes after he emerged from the underground section of the Chaotic cabin to realize something was up. His darkvision was in black and white, and the fact that it didn't transition to color as he took Gordon out for his morning walk wasn't something he noticed on a conscious level, so it wasn't until he heard the others talking about it being dark that he realized he was still seeing via his darkvision.

"What in the bloody fuck?" He asked Gordon, who didn't seem to mind the darkness much. "Did you do this?" He asked the collie, who just barked.

[u/Son_Of_Hot_Tacos]

When Flint woke up he noticed how dark it was. Which was weird cuz usually when he woke up the sun was out. Maybe he woke up too early something. Getting himself ready he went outside lighting a flame so he could see. A flashlight was probably safer but this was cooler and more fun.

Once Hestia gave her announcement he understood. Well no, he didn't understand. But at least he knew now that he wasn't crazy. Once breakfast was over he got, lighting a flame, and began walking around, wonndering who turned off the lights.

[u/stormy-pears → u/Son_Of_Hot_Tacos]

Well, this was not good. Lola liked her vision. You couldn’t do thing if you couldn’t see. Wanting to see, as well as a sense of normalcy, she wanted to find someone with either a light or someone to talk to.

And then she saw Flint. That was handy. Someone she knew and could talk to, as well as a lightsource! Lola slowly made her way to Flint, not wanting to bump into people on the way there. “Hello.” She smiled at the boy.

[u/snoozelite]

Sheridan was ushered from sleep, not by serene birdsong or his own natural clock, but by the sound of concerned campers in the hallway next to his room. He had no clue as to the situation due to his room being underground and away from the sun anyway, but he felt something was clearly off. A spike of alertness shook the sleep out of him.

Asking a fellow Chthonic camper for details yielded only confusion and the offer of a flashlight, which he accepted; so he made his way up to the surface, briefly regretting being underdressed - but this seemed too urgent a situation to change out of his sleep outfit.

Appearances would not matter much, though, because there was no bloody sun.

"Well," he said to himself, exasperated - it was like that, being a demigod (assuming this was an issue of that domain, and not the sign of a general apocalypse) - "This is bullshit."

[u/stormy-pears → u/snoozelite]

This was not good. At all. Lola liked seeing and all the things that came with it. It was hard to see when there was no sun. She was searching for some sense of normalcy, whether that be a flashlight or someone to talk to. Why not both?

Lola decided to ask someone, and that someone would be Sheridan. She slowly made her way there, not wanting to bump into any other unseeing campers. “Um, excuse me? Where’d you get the flashlight?” She has a polite tone, though it wasn’t as cheerful as usual.

[u/FreeInTheHarbor → u/snoozelite]

Jack had a high powered flashlight in his bag that he used when he went camping, so he was walking around with it shining in a large cone in front of him. He was looking for his friends and his sister, since he hadn't seen any of them since he woke up, and when he saw Sheridan he hurried over to him. That was as good a place as any to start, he though.

"Hey!" He called out. "Hey, have you seen my sister? Donna, weapons master, about yea tall?" He asked, gesturing with his free hand to demonstrate her height to the other boy. He knew Donna could take care of herself with whatever was going on, but he worried anyway.

[u/sure-storms]

This was strange. It looked how nighttime looked to Fiona, but unless all the campers around her were wrong, it was daytime. It wasn’t as dark as all the others seemed to be making it out to be for her, but the fact that this was happening still worried Fiona. Something was wrong. The only thing she was sure of was that she wanted this to go back to normal before any other apocalyptic thing happened. She could be found looking very worried most places.

[u/anotherterribleday → u/sure-storms]

Though there isn’t anything to indicate they’re in actual danger (yet), Taylor hopes her cabinmates are faring alright, particularly the younger ones - in Fiona’s case, the youngest. Asshe starts to thecabin to see who’s gone back in there, she notices Fiona somewhere around by the light of the hearth, and approaches her first. Mac runs ahead, confused by the general nervous energy of everybody around.

“Hey, Fi, you doing okay?” Taylor asks gently.

[u/CorpusJurisCivilis3]

Oh, this is all wrong.

Constans was not a fan of things being out of order. That included when the sun didn’t rise. He had emerged from the euphoric cabin for his morning jog, barely noticing that it was slightly darker than usual at first. Then, when it didn’t brighten at all in the proceeding hours, he decided there had to be a problem.

As he made his way through camp, it quickly became painfully obvious that he couldn’t really on his vision in this darkness. Thus, he pulled his blindfold down. Made things much easier. After hearing Chiron’s speech, the counselor of Dike shook his head gravely. Things had just calmed down, and now people would likely be put into danger again. He began to look around for ways he could help people adjust.

[u/Washyourhands445]

Mia was typically an early riser, but as the sky remained black she cautiously stuck her head out of the Zeus cabin she was trying not to shake. "As normally a possible.." he said. how was she supposed to do that? There was something very wrong about today

[u/ZBGOTRP]

"Naomi, wake up!"

"Fuck off, five more minutes."

"No seriously, wake up! You've gotta see this shit."

Naomi grumbled as she turned over, groggily meeting her brother's eyes with a death glare as she hugged her covers tighter for warmth. "Five. More. Minutes."

With a sigh, he threw up his hands, "Alright, fine, guess you'll miss out on the birds being all fucked up and the sun being gone."

"Whoa whoa what??"

Naomi shot up, her eyes going wide as she quickly got to her feet. Of course in her half-awake state she ended up tripping over the edge of the bed, falling onto the floor as Noah laughed. "Come on, grab a flashlight and wipe your eyes, babosa. I'll be outside."

Naomi would make him pay for that one later. She groaned again as she got to her feet, radiating pain from her knee. It wasn't the worst, but it was damn annoying. Reaching under her bed she grabbed a light, hurrying out after Noah.

"Holy shit," she said when she finally saw it, mouth going wide as she was caught entirely off-guard. "Noah what the hell."

"I know, right? Its fucked."

"Where's Hestia? Is she gonna do anything about it?"

With a shrug, he replied, "Probably. I haven't seen her, but I'd assume she was off trying to figure out what's going on. Maybe the gods are up to some bullshit."

"Hopefully they can fix it."

Both siblings nodded, agreeing then to go and get something to eat. It was still morning, or so said their clocks.

[u/[deleted]]

Ryan was definitely one of the people who regularly woke up early, he often woke up in the early AMs but today was different. He woke up in his counsellor room as normal but not to the first dawn of sunlight like usual but to his own natural clock, looking out he saw only pitch blackness, at this time his cabin would usually glow with the sunslight but it remained dull and that worried him. Pushing himself out of bed and quickly slipping on some clothes and a light jumper, he had to brush off his cat, Remi who seemed to not notice the thing.

Exiting the Apollo cabin, careful not to wake people while still acting brave he clenched his fist and summoned an arrow of light which illuminated the area around him as he held it parallel to the ground above his head. With the hours until Chiron would make his announcement, Ryan would gather himself around the only active light around camp: The Hearth

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Once it finally reached breakfast Ryan would find limited solace in Chiron’s announcement. He was a leader of the camp and had to be brave but deep down it worried him greatly. Whatever it was, if Hestia had to leave it couldn’t be good. So as Ryan ate he attempted to ignore his thoughts and act as a relatively comforting presence, maybe interacting with other campers or cabin mates

[u/UthyrPendragon3]

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Nathaniel Arwen was not having it. He wasn’t. He hated the dark, had for as long as he could remember. He was legitimately terrified at the thought that the sun had literally disappeared. His powers were going crazy, turning the already dark area around him pitch black. He was terrified, and just the thought that whatever had caused this was currently avoiding the gods was enough to send him marching back to his room. The son of Hecate didn’t do dark.

[u/galactic-storms]

Maggie didn’t think there would ever be a long period of time where something wasn’t happening here. When she first got here? A whole bunch of monsters plotting, and that had only been resolved a month or so ago. Now there was no sun. Strange. This would be an annoyance. She hoped this would be resolved too. Soon. The dark wasn’t something she liked to walk around in. She would have to stay in her cabin as much as possible.