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Return of the Olympians

Where once had been a simple, empty stretch of park now towered an immense structure of Classical design. Composed entirely of gleaming white marble, with its soaring roof topped with gold and immense pillars, it was clearly of some sort of Greco-Roman origin but far more magnificent than anything you'd ever heard of before. You'd seen pictures of the Parthenon in Athens and could imagine what it must have looked like when it was new, but this... next to this it would be utterly insignificant. Everyone was left staring at it in stunned silence, but before any action could be taken the light gathered on the building's steps with a blinding flash, and when it cleared twelve people stood there.

All of them were beautiful and majestic; they were dressed in gleaming white robes and togas and seemed just slightly too tall to be ordinary humans, but your eyes were inevitably drawn to the man who stood in front. He was taller than the others and powerfully built, wearing a richly embroidered white toga that left one shoulder and part of his chest bare, showing off his rippling muscles. His skin was of a rich olive tone, and his hair and beard were thick, black and curly. His face could have been anywhere from a mature twenty to a youthful fifty; other than that, his age was impossible to tell. But his eyes were bright and piercing and as he raised his arms, lightning crackled down them. Even before he spoke, you were certain you knew who he was... certain he could be no one else...

"Mortals of Earth!" the man declared. He wasn't speaking English - was that Ancient Greek? - but you could understand him perfectly well nonetheless. "It is I, Zeus, Lord of the Cosmos, Ruler of Olympus, King of God and Man alike! For too long my people and I have turned our faces from the world, distracted by other matters, and you mortals have been forced to manage your affairs on your own. Why, I see that so many of you have even forgotten that we were ever real, and dismissed us as mere characters from myth and story! But now, rejoice, for we have returned! We shall elevate you from your sorry state and restore this world to the heights it was meant to attain, under the benevolent rule of Olympus! And you should consider your city most blessed among all mankind, for I have chosen you to be the first to receive my gifts. Receive now that which you lost so long ago!"

Zeus clapped his hands together; there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder. From his feet a circle of crackling electricity began to expand at a rapid rate; it passed through Zeus's companions - the other gods of Olympus, you realized - and their temple with no effect, but as it moved beyond, the ground began to change. The grass became even more neatly trimmed, with not a blade out of place, and the sidewalks and benches became gleaming, expertly worked marble. When it passed the decorative trees, they also began to change to different types - when a dogwood tree became an olive tree, you realized they must be becoming the sorts of plants native to Greece. And then the wave of energy struck people.

The first it hit was a middle-aged man in a neat business suit. The energy writhed about him as his body began to change, losing height but gaining hair, hips and breasts growing as his clothing shifted. When the energy passed, *she* was now a beautiful young woman in a white tunic; her skin was olive toned and her hair black, wavy and down to her back. She held up her hands in amazement in front of her and started babbling in shock in Ancient Greek. Nearby, a high-school aged boy was also struck; his clothes vanished entirely as horns sprouted from his head and his lower body was covered in thick hair as his legs became goat legs that ended in hooves. He fell back with a shocked cry on his furry rear end.

You didn't have time to see what was happening to anyone else as the energy hit you next. It tingled as it wrapped around you, but didn't hurt, and then you were changing into...


What do you do now?


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