Olympus Dreams 1.1: Making Contact
Year 1, Week 1, Day 1Zeus: What do you think?
Hera: Of your muscles or our new home?
Zeus: Both!
Hera: Very impressive and rather compact.
Zeus: What? Oh, I see. What shall we get up to? (Waggling eyebrows)
Hera: Later, Lover Boy! We both need jobs if we’re not going to run out of gold.
Zeus: I have joined the legal profession. After all, I am the supreme judge of law & order.
Hera: Not down here, you’re not. But it’s a good place to start. I’m going to work from home – planting up a garden.
Zeus: You get gold for planting flowers? Gaia did that back in the day, just for the fun of it.
Hera: We need to do a bit of research for our jobs. How do we do that?
Zeus: Well I need something called a computer at a library. It must be some sort of special scroll. It’ll take a while to get to Alexandria.
Hera: I think there’s one closer, thank goodness. I’ll research gardening.
Zeus: Oh – not a special scroll – it’s a flashy, beepy thing – there! Case file studied. I wonder how to get the thunderbolt this this miscreant deserves…
Hera: I’m heading back to plant these snapdragons I’ve found.
Zeus: I’ve got something else I need to do… I’ll be back later…
Well, librarian. You look like you can help me out…
Hera: Oh Zeus, you’re back! I was just getting ready for bed. Oh – you’re in a good mood!
Zeus: I’m in the best mood! Let’s have a shower!
Hera: There are some nice people at this gym. And the showers here are wonderful. I wonder if we can upgrade ours.
Zeus: Ah – you’ve finished your shower!
Hera: Yes, I’m heading back now.
Zeus: I’m going do a bit more lifting – see you later.
Zeus: Oh Jeanette – this is…interesting!
Jeanette: I guarantee I’m more than interesting!
Zeus: Oh – what – wait! Wow! I didn’t know your people were here. Give my best regards to the pollinators.
Jeanette: They’ve told me all about you. I was told to make contact.
Zeus: Contact? I think we’ve achieved that!
Hera: What? The people from Sixam are here? How did you find that out?
Zeus: One of them was at the gym. They’d been told to make contact with us.
Hera: Which one was it? They said nothing to me! Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about something.
Zeus: Anything at all – you can have it!
Hera: That’s very nice of you. I just wanted to get a few things ready for the babies.
Zeus: Babies? When are they coming?
Hera: They’ll surely turn up some time.
Zeus: We don’t have heaps of gold to waste.
Hera: Not waste – use to prepare!
Zeus: OK – just spend it wisely or we’ll be eating fried fish for the next week.
Zeus: I see you’ve been shopping.
Hera: What do you think?
Zeus: One question. What is this supposed to be?
Hera: A little tent for the babies to sleep in.
Zeus: Yes but what are the designs supposed to be?
Hera: It’s a space ship. Mortals have to use them to get to the moon and Sixam.
Zeus: How restricting. But I don’t think mortal babies should travel like that.
Hera: Silly Zeus. It’s pretend – just playing. Like that gnome over there. It’s not a real gnome – just an image.
Zeus: Clearly – it’s far too small for one thing! I’ll fix that!
Hera: Time for bed. Or do you want a shower first (waggles eyebrows)
Later that nightZeus: What woke me up. Oh – those pollinators! I did wonder if they’d like to make more contact!
Zeus: Hey girls – good to see you again! Time for Zeus to get his flirt on? You don’t have to ask twice!
Big Dreams Progress
Hera – Family Matters: Aspirations – Big Happy Family 1/4, Super Parent 1/4; Career – Gardener 3/10; Skills – Parenting 1, Cooking 5, Gardening 6
Zeus – Love ‘Em & Leave ‘Em: Aspirations – Serial Romantic 2/4; Career – Legal 3/10; Skills – Charisma 5, Mischief 1, Violin 2
NotesZeus is, unsurprisingly, able to get most people to join him in “making contact”. He has not even bought Beguiling or Great Kisser yet.
I have not documented all liaisons as the Woohoo! achievement requires encounters with 50 unique people and I don’t think the pollinators count. I’m assuming that his abduction took place because of his time with Jeanette. I don’t think they’ve impregnated him but I’m not sure yet. It would change my plans slightly but not too much.
Hera is fully aware, being a goddess and all. She is known for being somewhat vengeful so her tolerant attitude may change when she is less focused on getting her babies!
