I'm Never Going Back to Ismarus!

Well that was the worst sacking & looting expedition that I've ever been on!

Seriously guys, I do not recommend Thrace as a good place to try sacking.

Here's what happened: we dropped past Thrace, which was totally fine I thought, and stopped in Ismarus (in Thrace, obviously). It's a pretty nice place overall. So nice that we decided it would be a good opportunity to sack the place and get a bunch of nice stuff to bring home for our girls. I know Penelope would have appreciated some of the vases and everything that we got our hands on.

Anyway, I got a bit tired of the whole looting thing and tried to order everyone back to the ships, but they didn't listen to me at all!!! I was so angry with them.

I guess they learnt their lesson though, when the people of Ismarus called for help and we got attacked.

72 men dead. I wish them all a safe journey to the underworld and stuff.

As if that wasn't bad enough, as soon as we escaped the attackers in Ismarus we were confronted with another major problem: strong winds.

A huge storm blew us off course and we ended up in Libya of all places.

Actually Libya was kind of interesting because we met the Lotus-Eaters. As if the name doesn't make it obvious, the Lotus-Eaters are a race of people who eat the flowers and seeds of the lotus.

Now I always like meeting new people, but I'm not entirely sure you should trust every new person you meet, and this was certainly the case with the Lotus-Eaters. They offered to share their lotuses with my crew, but as soon as anyone ate any they went totally mad. Every man forgot who he was and thought of nothing except the plants and how they could get more and eat more.

I've just had to force them onto the ship, and we're still having some serious problems.

Luckily we're on our way again, and it doesn't seem like it will be too long before we get home.

--Odysseus

The End of the Iliad

Yay!

That stupid war is finally over!

I can't believe they made me go to it. Seriously, I just wanted to stay home with Penelope and Telemachus. Everything would have been fine. But no, even after pretending to be a lunatic (and being discovered) they still made me go off to war. Wasn't it obvious that I didn't want to go?!? *bitch bitch whine whine rant* Anyway, I'm glad the damn thing is over now!

All that said, if I had to be involved in a war, I'm really happy that it was this one!

There were some great moments in this war. Like when Achilleus came to join the battle in new armour that was made by Hephaestus. He took his stance out there and was shining in all his armour like the sun!

There was kind of a sad moment, when Patroclus died. (Achilleus and Patroclus were really close. What do we think - were they just friends? Not likely!)

But then there was the wooden horse thing, and that was awesome. Seriously, it was amazing. I mean, not just because I thought of the idea that won the war and all. Also because the plan totally worked and we defeated all those Trojans! Go us, Greeks are awesome!!

Anyway, it was a really great war, even if I didn't want to be there so much.

I really do miss Penelope and Telemachus, but I think we're planning to make a stop in Thrace to do a bit of looting and whatnot. It should be fun!!

Will keep blogging, I know I've been a bit quiet over the war, but there'll be plenty of time for blogging while I'm on this long voyage home. I bet it'll be a great story!! Hopefully quite short though...

--Odysseus