*touching his extremely defined six pack* who did this to you.....
*gently lifting a cup of water to his lips* it's going to be okay. *choking back tears* just a few more sips and then we'll get you a sandwich...
A Brief Rundown of the IRL Ithaca Saga (to the best of my memory, in probably not chronological order)
- jorge (creator, odysseus) decided it'll be cool to celebrate the ithaca saga with the epic cast via a trip to ithaca, greece
- surely nothing can go wrong
- mico (telemachus) seemingly found out about the trip with the rest of the fandom. he proceeded to plot a trip to ithaca
- the epic cast dealt with multiple broken vans and missed a ferry by one minute. they had to cancel a stream because they were too exhausted
- mico made it onto a plane
- ithaca got hit by a typhoon, forcing them to move another stream indoors
- mico got banned from tiktok. it was reversed
- mason (tireseas) asked luke (zeus) to stop the rain. luke refused
- the crew hiked up to odysseus' palace. they ran into a roadblock. mason looked into the future and did not see a way around it. (they found a way around it)
- the crew found a well and sang their epic songs into it. except jp (crew) who just sang happy birthday
- janani (aphrodite) also sang "royal we" into the well
- anna (penelope) made it onto the plane to fly out to ithaca
- hermes (troy) decided to take a plane to ithaca like a normal human instead of teleporting. he got side-eyed by a woman at the airport as he slept sprawled out in a chair. this quickly became a meme
- hermes arrived in ithaca to the delight of everyone except jorge. mico also appeared in his videos. mico still had not updated anything after getting on the plane
- anna's connecting flight got cancelled, leaving her stranded in a fancy hotel. she struggled to find the toilet in her hotel room
- mico finally updated, claiming he was stuck in munich. mason appears in the video and gives him a water bottle, proving he is lying
- the fandom believes mico anyway
- mico is forced to post another video revealing he had been gaslighting us basically the entire time and was just delayed in getting to ithaca, that was all
- troy and talya (circe), in character, talk about tea. troy says the tea tastes like her father's approval. earle (ares) then asks for 1000 cups and breaks down crying as luke cuts the camera
- jorge posts a video apologizing for mico's absence, encouraging him to fly to ithaca, new york. mico appears in the background of this video
- mico posts a video saying that he's finally in ithaca, but the crew is in ithaca, new york. jorge appears in the background of this video
- jp films a behind the scenes video, calling out "some random guy" who just showed up asking if anyone knows jorge. it's mico
- janani sings "royal we" again, but after she says "troy was breached" troy comes out screaming in pain. mico appears in the background of this, filming the video from two points above
- it's time for the ithaca saga livestream... except it gets cancelled because the connection is bad and jorge's devices are dying
TL;DR: the gods saw the epic crew in ithaca and went "do you guys think it'll be really funny if we just. recreated the odyssey"
