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Excerpt From Hephaestus's Diary - 1783 to 2010

August 22nd 1783

I have finally repaired that machine which allows me to transfer my speech onto paper. Hades continues his fit wailing at Zeus for not letting him kill G.W for going through the river Styx without his permission even I can hear him in my volcano.

May 6th 1805

It seems that Napoleon just recently failed a diversion in the Napoleonic wars and the British commander Lord Nelson died. Hades and Ares are just having a blast because of this war and Dionysus' parties are getting louder and louder.

December 12th 1822

Greece is throwing a revolution just like the United States. It seems that that is becoming all the craze these days, having a revolution. I don't think any of the gods except Hades and Ares care. I know I don't.

July 29th 1844

I regret to have not recorded anything for such a long time now. An enormous automaton army has been discovered in great numbers inside of Mount Everest since before I started recording these journals. Already it has roughly twenty-thousand automatons built and more are on on the production line. It looks to have been built sometime around the crusades by some of my children. I think it has never been used.However, it is of no threat to anyone because it has no force to guide it. Why it has begun making machines again is beyond me, but I must keep a close eye on this strange place, for if someone discovered it, they would rule the world, and not even the gods could stop them.

January 1st 1856

I have rigged Greek fire-bombs all throughout the cavern in Mount Everest in case someone stumbles across the automaton factory. Alexander II has begun negotiations to end the Crimean War.

November 31st 1878

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">It has been quite nice these past few years without the constant bickering between those humans down there. Prometheus says that the peace shall last at least fifteen more years! I do hope so.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">August 30th 1898

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">My sensors have alerted me to the fact that somebody has discovered the automaton factory inside of Mount Everest! I tried to activate my fire-bombs but whoever got inside of there disabled them. This is bad.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">September 4th 1900

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">My servants and I have developed a plan to destroy the automatons and their factory. But it may take about 100 years! This is plan A: I build 100 billion nanites toe destroy any machinery or magic inside of Mount Everest. I will have to send them there in capsules otherwise they will float away on the wind.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">October 13th 1914

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">The demigods of the big three have caused quite a lot of turmoil in the human realm. According to Ares they started a war that spans the entire planet! <span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">My nanite work continues slowly, but I have tested a few of them, and the results are extraordinary(as per usual)! Just one of them could target the first nanite that hits a machine will head for the main reasoning algorithms and destroy them, causing it to destroy other automatons inside the mountain.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">April 3rd 1928

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">My constant work has tired me much, and I have set my nanite factories to work on their own while I slumber.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">May 4th 1939

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Oh no! I left a very large amount of forges and fans running while I was asleep and caused quite the dust bowl inside the grain belt in the U.S. Oh well, it doesn't affect me.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">June 8th 1956

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Nanites nearing completion. About 67% of them are done. <span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">No time to talk.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">December 21st 1978

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Nanites at 83%. Their capsules are just being started. <span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">I recently finished work on the new defenses on my throne in Olympus.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">February 12th 1999

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">I am almost ready to launch my nanites, 9 more years are required because of attacks from enemy automatons.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">July 5th 2010

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Despite the delay, I have managed to launch the nanites. They worked wonders on the automaton army, completely destroying them. One capsule went haywire and opened just as a strong wind passed by. I doubt the nanites will do much damage.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">December 24th 2010

<span style="display: block; font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">One of my escaped nanites landed made it to the bronze dragon that my son Charlie built for Camp Half-Blood. It just did enough damage to its brain to make it go crazy. What a sha<span style="font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold,sans-serif;">me. entertaining - Casey Great story! I love the format, and how you tie in historical events. -Choji Very fun reading -Sage