Project Athena S1: Tracking the Olympians by Lauren Erwin

The First Meeting of the Olympians

lerwin721 — 2018-02-21 20:05:45 UTC

Monday, March 6th, 1933
After several of the Olympians encountered attacks by entities individually, Jack Kilgrave (wearing his Stetson as always) took Sibella Ives to Klingler's Hardware Store (a front for a US government intellectual incubator in SoHo) to retrieve Professor Thomas Mueller and a man named Albert Einstein.

The original group met for the first time at Ives' Esoteric & Antiquarian Books in the LES of Manhattan.
Caitlin O'Callaghan, Dwight Burke, Elijah Sawyer, and Sibella Ives

Former Member Present: Professor Thomas Mueller
Future Member Not Present: Dr. Gretta von Kraus

Why We're Together

lerwin721 — 2018-02-21 20:39:21 UTC

President FDR told Jack to make contact with us because Hitler and his Ministry of the Occult have us on a list for our particular abilities. We scare him. 
Jack wants us to help the US government (partnered with the missionary group Caduceus) to thwart the Ministry's attempts to harness the otherworldly entities and artifacts in their quest to take over this world.

Cait O'Callaghan (Subject 1)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 02:44:51 UTC

aka Princess of the Skies 
aka America's Flying Sweetheart
 aka Caity (to one Sibella Ives)

A celebrity aviatrix with an interest in the occult
Had an encounter with what she called "bat-dragons" in Arizona while up in her plane Calamity Jane
She was slashed by the same creatures aboard the Akron, granting her the ability to use the "serpent-gun," the group's only effective weapon against certain creatures.

Other connections:
H.G. (missing)
Syl Jefferson
Jack Parsons
Franklin Watson (deceased)

Dwight Burke (Subject 2)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 02:47:58 UTC

A former WWI soldier and expert sniper

He was shot at by Gruber, an albino, in Spain where he also encountered dogs with snake heads
He carries many guns (see below)

Other Connections:
???

Elijah Sawyer (Subject 3)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 02:50:03 UTC

A conman (origins unknown but ostensibly Louisiana)

He is guarded about his previous encounters.
He carries many guns, makeup, and disguises.
He has several aliases.

Other connections:
Ruby Foster - she appeared to him somehow
Phil Castillo - Elijah is known to Phil as crime boss "Daryl Lect"

Sibella Ives (Subject 4)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 02:52:25 UTC

Occult bookshop owner originally from New Orleans 
Psychometrist - receives visions when making skin to skin contact with an object or person 
She wears gloves to dull sensations
Other abilities still manifesting

Jack tried to hide her lineage from the Ministry.
Has similar abilities to one Herr Joseph Dietrich
Has encountered creatures with needle-teeth and managed to defeat one - somehow...
Her neighbor and friend Ezra was killed in the attack.

Other Connections:
Louis Ives - grandfather (presumed deceased)

Caduceus

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:03:49 UTC

A medical aid and relief missionary organization

150 years old
The funding behind Project Athena on behalf of FDR
Their NY headquarters are in the Meadham Building

Current Occult Artifacts Housed There:
The Tyrranish
Tome
Snake-Head Staff
Chest
Scrolls

Known Current or Past Members:

Claire Foster - present in both Bolivia & Borneo, sent us to "Nowhere" aka The Purple Cloud, true allegiances unknown (presumed deceased)
Dr. Arturo Yusseni (deceased)

Dr. Gretta Von Kraus (Subject 5)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:08:53 UTC

The Fifth Olympian
Nazi ex-pat
Joined Project Athena in Bolivia
Makes a variety of serums injected via hypo-syringe that she designed
Her left hand was deformed in one of her experiments.
Connections:
???

The USS Akron Incident (I)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:15:21 UTC

Jack sent the Olympians undercover aboard the U.S.S. Akron for a reception in honor of the officers & crew of the visiting Graf Zeppelin to gather information on Col. Joseph Dietrich.

As a strange purple storm gathered, the uniformed Nazis - in reality, American employees of Ballantine Ale Company being controlled with a silver disc operated by a Nazi disguised as a waitress - opened fire on the crowd.
Dietrich leapt out the open hangar doors, only to return with three bat-dragons.
"Zombified" Nazi soldiers killed the Akron's crew and collected the brains of former Vice-President Charles Curtis. Dwight dispatched them.
On her way to the command cabin, Cait was gored in the back by a bat-dragon.
As the Akron began to go down, the remaining bat-dragons flew off carrying two guests but not before Elijah shot one at point-blank range, killing it instantly.
Thomas fell out of the hangar doors, but managed to ignite his custom jet pack mid-air and returned to the Akron.
The Olympians gathered in the command cabin, where Sibella held off several zombies with her psychic powers while Cait fought to keep the ship from crashing into the sea. She managed to crash land it on the ocean, giving the team time to escape before the Akron sank.
They were rescued by local fisherman John Hershberger and delivered to Liberty Island

Bolivia (II)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:17:01 UTC

Jack sent the Olympians (sans Thomas Mueller, whom FDR had determined was too valuable for the field) to Bolivia to recover the Tyrannish, an artifact of great power, coveted by the Ministry of the Occult.
The resting place of the Tyrannish had recently been uncovered during a battle between Bolivian and Paraguayan forces, and the head of the Nazi Ministry of the Occult, Ludolf von Alvensleben, had been dispatched from Berlin to recover it.
Upon arrival in Bolivia, the team met Quentin Shapiro and Dr. Arturo Yusseni.
While en route, they were ambushed by a sniper (Gruber) and 6 Bolivian shotgunners, who were being controlled in the same manner as the soldiers aboard the Akron. Sibella attempted to psychically engage the Gruber, only to be thrown back by his own psychic power. Elijah and Cait killed the shotgunners, and Dwight sent Gruber running with a well-placed shot.
As the team approached the aid camp, they saw Joseph Dietrich along with a number of controlled Bolivians.
They were nearly ambushed by a Nazi operative but were saved by the timely arrival of Dr. Gretta von Kraus.
While investigating a downed flight pod, they discovered the passenger was also Joseph Dietrich; Sibella's attempt to get a reading from the corpse went awry, resulting in her carrying an "echo" of Dietrich in her mind for several days. The team also discovered the serpent gun, which seemed attracted to Cait.
They crossed the river to investigate the Tyrannish sites. Elijah and Dwight investigated one temple, at the center of a zone full of dead bodies.
After a night's rest (in which Gretta met with Dietrich alone to maintain her cover), the team used the deceased Dr. Arturo's dynamite to break the seals on the remaining sites, triggering the temple to rise.
After avoiding several traps, they discovered the Tyrannish's throne room and fought a giant snake.
Beneath the throne chamber, they discovered the Tyrannish - not an artifact, but a sleeping woman. They also recovered a chest of scrolls, a golden staff shaped like a snake, and a tome.
They departed Bolivia the next day.

Borneo (IV)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:17:56 UTC

The Olympians set off for Borneo in search of Ruby Foster.
They were met by soldiers of a British military unit stationed on the island under the command of Captain Phillip Lancaster, who had deployed to the island to enforce the quarantine zone.
Over dinner in a tent filled with big game hunting trophies, Lancaster shared details about the Yellow Death.
Sibella performed Psychometry readings on Ruby's pocket watch and the Foster family Bible, which revealed that Ruby was in a hexagon-shaped cave on the mountain, and that Claire Foster had been present at the Caduceus camp in Bolivia.
The next morning, the Olympians saw Joseph Dietrich, showing advanced Yellow Death symptoms, across the quarantine zone, wearing a sign that said, "Must speak with an Olympian."
Cait jogged out into the quarantine zone to confront Dietrich. He told her the Nazis were not responsible for the Yellow Death and urged her to secure Ruby. He left her with a small, hermetically sealed box and made her swear to deliver it to another Dietrich; in response, that Dietrich would be compelled to answer any question the Olympians asked.
Dwight and Sibella, who had confirmed their suspicions about Lancaster, confronted the captain. He gleefully admitted he planned on hunting the Olympians for sport, giving them a six-hour head start.
In Elijah's visions, Ruby told him to look for a boy with pretty eyes, saying that boy could lead them to where she was.
In the village, an infected, delirious local managed to touch Cait's exposed skin before she dispatched him.
The group found the boy, whose name was Balee, and killed a needle-toothed man who was posing as a village elder.
Cait began to experience hallucinations centering on Jack Parsons, a man from her past, which intensified when they were set upon by a gigantic creature with a gaping maw and no eyes - a gug.
Elijah, in a fit of temporary insanity, opted to use dynamite on it. When the dynamite exploded, it opened up a dimensional rift, which sucked in the team. This "place" was purple and began to dissolve away the very idea of the Olympians.
Cait, Elijah, and Balee were only saved by Sibella's superhuman, psychic effort to free them, which nearly cost her own life.
While they were unconscious, Elijah had another vision of Ruby, who stabilized his weakened mind.
In the aid camp, the team found the viral analyzer missing a component needed to produce a treatment. They set out for the cave.
Elijah found Ruby, emaciated and unconscious, in the tall grass outside the cave.
Inside the cave, Cait found Claire Foster at the controls of a machine - a portal. They set the controls for New York.
Meanwhile, Lancaster shot Dwight with an elephant gun twice.
Lancaster levitated into the air and continued to pursue them, impervious to fire from Dwight's guns and Cait's magical serpent weapon. The Olympians met in the portal chamber, with Lancaster close behind. When he appeared, he shot at Claire.
In her final moments, Claire changed the portal's destination, stranding the Olympians and the children in a nowhere dimension, where they watched themselves begin to dissolve into non-existence.

Colonel Joseph Dietrich

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:19:34 UTC

One of Hitler's top men in the Ministry of the Occult, second only to his despised rival Ludolf von Alvensleben
After an incident in Jerusalem involving an artifact, there are legions of the man known as Joseph Dietrich

The clones don't share the same brain or memories, but they communicate via consuming each other's blood samples
The tissue samples collected from one are 150 years old.
He has uncannily similar psychic abilities to Sibella Ives
Once we deliver his Borneo clone's blood sample to one of the others, he will owe us the answer to a question

NYC (III)

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:21:08 UTC

Dwight and Gretta explored the remains of the Akron. There, they were attacked by Phil Castillo who was looking for Elijah.
Jack used Sibella to convince a doubtful Cait to stay with the Olympians. The three of them went to meet Ruby Foster, another Olympian level individual, but when they arrived at her Harlem apartment, the Foster family was gone and the apartment ransacked.
The neighbor, Syl Jefferson, was a fan of Cait's and provided them with valuable information.
The next day, the Olympians prevented several Nazis and informants from leaving with information about theirs and the Foster family's movements - including the same Nazi from the Akron who had been disguised as a waitress. Sibella confiscated her silver control disc.
Joseph Dietrich made contact with Sibella Ives in a phone booth on 117th Street and called Jack's loyalty into question.
Elijah Sawyer reunited with Phil Castillo and came to a tenuous agreement of services in exchange for information and a peaceful resolution. He revealed Ruby Foster was in Borneo.
Elijah began to see and feel manifestations of Ruby Foster.

Jack Kilgrave

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:21:38 UTC

He brought together the Olympians of Project Athena

He did not reveal his last name to them - Herr Joseph Dietrich told Sibella Ives this information.
The name Jack Kilgrave dates back to a military record during the Civil War.

He is desperately searching for the Olympians

Phil Castillo

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:24:10 UTC

Part of a NYC mafioso family
He can set himself on fire and live to tell the tale.

He knows Elijah Sawyer as crime boss Darryl Lect who owes the Castillo family a favor
Family owns a diner in Brooklyn

Ruby Foster

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:24:19 UTC

An Olympian with Restorative Powers
She used a great deal of her powers on Elijah Sawyer
She is in the cloud with us

Connections:

Paul & Evelyn Foster (parents) - deceasedClaire Foster (aunt) - presumed deceased

Captain Phillip Lancaster

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:25:17 UTC

British captain and big game hunter, encountered in Borneo

Sibella discovered what he really was and what he was really after - hunting the best game he could find
Either due to himself or the apparel he wore, he was immune to Dwight's bullets and Cait's snake gun. Sibella did not get a chance to test her abilities on him.

Quite possibly another member of the 150 year old club. He is not of this time.

Where We Are Now

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 03:34:35 UTC

Dissolving, the very idea of us is dissolving in a purple, liquid cloud...

With at least 3 days worth of gray stubble flecking his gaunt cheeks, Jack hunches over the makeshift device, as Einstein and Mueller look on from the doorway.
'How long this time?' Einstein whispered.
'Nearly two days straight,' responded Mueller.
'Still the same?'
'Yes'

Unaware of the pair's presence, Jack's shaking hand again depressed the call/send button on the free standing microphone...his voice one of chewed gravel.

'This is radio nowhere. Is there anybody alive out there?
Is there anybody alive out there?
Is there anybody alive out there?

Is there anybody alive out there?

Elijah Sawyer's Aliases

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:00:23 UTC

Dietrich's Shorthand Code

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:02:52 UTC

This document, left behind by the albino Gruber when he failed to kill us

It led us to solving the puzzle of the Helix Temple in Bolivia
Currently illegible to the Olympians, but Gretta knows it is written in Dietrich's Shorthand

Calamity Jane

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:15:45 UTC

Inanimate objects don't have feelings...
Do they?

Grease Gun

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:29:56 UTC

Ives' Esoteric & Antiquarian Books

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:30:28 UTC

The Olympians' unofficial headquarters.
Sibella Ives lives above it.There is a private room in the back for more *intense* Psychometry readings

Hypo-Syringe & Serums

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:33:32 UTC

Psychometry Readings & Psychic Abilities

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:36:59 UTC

The power to perceive the residual information of an object and/or person. Using this power takes a toll on the person physically.

Sibella has done successful readings on:
Thomas Mueller's Slide Rule
A telegram (forged by the Nazis)
A Nazi disguised as a waitress aboard the USS Akron
A Nazi map in Dietrich's shorthand, held last by Gruber.
Dr. Gretta von Kraus
The detached arm of a Dietrich clone
Ruby Foster's Pocket Watch (manufactured by an M. Makryat)
The Bible of Paul Foster that was given to him by Claire Foster
Field glasses last held by Phillip Lancaster.

In moments of dire need, Sibella can lock eyes with a target and force it to engage with her, often causing physical distress (the needle-toothed man, Joseph Dietrich) or a positive effect (Cait, Elijah, Balee).

Thompson

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:40:48 UTC

Garand

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:42:18 UTC

.45

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:48:00 UTC

Pocket Watch

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 04:58:09 UTC

Appeared to be a toy at first, but after the first incident with the Purple Cloud in Borneo, its insides are three-dimensional and purple.

Belongs to Ruby Foster
Manufactured by an M. Makryat
Felt psychically "turpentined" the first time Sibella handled it.
Alice in Wonderland imagery
It is in the possession of Sibella Ives.

Recent Timeline

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:09:43 UTC

March 7th - The Akron Incident (I)
March 8th - 10th - The Bolivia Incident (II)
March 10th - Reports of the Yellow Death arrive in America
March 13th - The Foster family left Harlem - The NYC Incident (III), Gretta & Dwight searched the Akron's remains
March 14th - Cait & Sibella discovered The Fosters left. Our "friends" flew out according to Castillo, Lancaster's "quarantine" started in Borneo
March 15th - Research day
March 16th - Olympians flew out
March 17th - The Foster family arrived at the British camp in Borneo and headed to Caduceus across the quarantine zone, Nazi ride pod(s) landed
March 19th-20th - The Borneo Incident (IV)

Bat-Dragons

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:18:42 UTC

Encountered in Arizona, NYC, and Borneo
Often accompanied by a purple storm
Can be controlled by Joseph Dietrich

Snake-Dogs

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:19:58 UTC

Encountered in Spain by Dwight Burke

Buopoth

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:20:58 UTC

Killed by Phillip Lancaster in Borneo
*Eaten* by Cait & Gretta

Needle-Teeth

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:24:30 UTC

Illusory abilities
Encountered by Sibella Ives in her bookstore ("George") and by the group in Borneo ("Peter")

Gug

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:26:22 UTC

Encountered by the group in Borneo
Hunts by sound/vibrations
No eyes

Giant Snake

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:29:00 UTC

Encountered by the group in the Helix Temple in Bolivia

Radio Nowhere

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:30:47 UTC

Nacaal

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:31:41 UTC

The language present in the carvings near the Helix Temple in Bolivia and the scrolls taken from the crypt there.

Dwight, Elijah, and Sibella know a tiny fraction of this language.

The Tyrannish

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:32:54 UTC

A young woman found perfectly preserved and sleeping in the crypt of the Helix Temple in Borneo

Tissue samples indicate she is 150 years old
Currently housed in the Meadham Building

Staff

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 05:58:49 UTC

Claire Foster

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 06:01:58 UTC

Member of Caduceus - present in both Bolivia and Borneo

Aunt of Ruby Foster
Infected with the Yellow Death
She sent us to Nowhere before being shot at by Phillip Lancaster

Balee

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 06:03:17 UTC

The only surviving member of the village in the North Borneo Quarantine Zone

The Yellow Death

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 06:12:01 UTC

Information given via Phillip Lancaster so accuracy is questionable

Transmitted by Touch
Man-made
Stage I - 12 Hours - head and neck aches
Stage 2 - 24 Hours - Blood in the vomit, skin is a jaundiced yellow
Stage 3 - 48 Hours - Underarm glands engorged, boils cover the body, death follows soon after

Caduceus has a machine that can identify the disease and manufacture a cure with a sample and an item called the Periodic Pack (2' x 2' cube), given to the group by Claire Foster

Gruber

lerwin721 — 2018-02-22 20:46:46 UTC

Albino man working for the Ministry of the Occult, possesses some Psychic Abilities

Attacked Dwight Burke in Spain
Attacked the group in Bolivia