#we just havent gotten a good grasp on the stakes of the quest yet

[falllpoutboy]

i personally wouldve opened the pjo show in a mini prelude with two (2) scenes to establish the worldbuilding and the stakes presented:

FIRST SCENE- camp half blood visits olympus on the winter solstice as they do yearly. only half of the olympians look interested in their kids (hermes, athena, ares, apollo) and the other half are visibly bored (zeus, poseidon, hades, mr d, etc). hermes tries to connect with the leader of his cabin, luke, but is cooly rebuffed. camp half blood leaves and some time later zeus notices his master lightning bolt is missing along with hades’ helm of darkness.

SECOND SCENE- and im borrowing from the lightning thief movie here but idgaf. zeus and poseidon meet some time later at the top of the empire state building and zeus threatens him that his son better return his master bolt soon. poseidon covers for percy saying his son hasn’t even joined chb or even knows of his parentage yet but zeus is uncaring and specifically says he’s been lenient enough by letting poseidon break the treaty of the big three and by letting his son grow up in the same city as him virtually safe. poseidon counters by pointing out that he considers the treaty null and void seeing as zeus broke it first but zeus again, doesnt care and makes the final threat that if percy doesn’t return the master bolt by the summer solstice, than olympus and atlantis will enter war