Hello! Sorry to be that person who is writing an author's note on the first chapter instead of just getting to the story but I thought it would be better to give some context first. If you don't care about that, then go right ahead to the first chapter!

So this story is based off of a Percy Jackson DnD campaign that I am a part of with my character Maddie. This campaign takes place roughly 100 years after the Percy Jackson books but the world is mostly unchanged. The gods still exist, Chiron and Mr. D still run the camp, monsters are still around, etc, etc. The only thing is that none of the characters from the Percy Jackson books will be appearing in person. There may be references to them or if the party goes to the underworld or something they might meet them but if you're here for the og PJ characters you're in the wrong place unfortunately.

The second thing I want to say is that while this is a DnD campaign and you probably want to meet the party and watch their shenanigans that's not how this story starts. I decided to start off Maddie's story at the beginning, when she first arrives at camp and go throughout her life showing major moments that shaped her as a character. I promise that we will eventually get to when the party comes in and they start adventuring so don't worry, but I really love Maddie as a character and wanted to explore her early life through writing. If that sounds too boring for you or if you just want to meet the party and follow everything they do, then I recommend you check out my DM's story instead! I told him that I wanted to start writing the story down of our characters and him, being a writer as well, wanted to try his hand at it too! His story follows Marcus, an NPC character he created for the party but has begun to serve a much larger role in the campaign as we continue on with our adventures. ( /works/25414012/chapters/61632814) The story he is writing starts when the party begins to form and takes place in the "present time" of the campaign while showing flashbacks scenes throughout. So if that's more your style and you're more interested in that, go check out his story! (But I mean check both of our stories out anyways because they're both great and it's cool to see the events of the story from two different perspectives)

Thirdly, as good as my memory is and as good as my note taking is for sessions, not everything will be 100% accurate. For example, we had a party member leave the campaign early on due to circumstances so I may not include them in this story, or because I'm not the other PC's I don't really know how they talk or act all the time so I may be doing a lot of guess work. I will do my best to recall the events of the campaign as best I can but I can't guarantee they'll be completely exact (this note is mainly for if any of the people from the campaign see and read this story and they're confused or unhappy with my retelling of everything). This is also to say that if something major happens in the campaign that could drastically effect the story (such as you know, Maddie dies or something in a dungeon in game) I may rework the outcome in story, since it would be unsatisfying for a fan fiction/story to just end randomly during one chapter. I will also say this now, I will update this story randomly. I don't have a set schedule for it and I don't always have time to write so I can't promise anything (also since this campaign is currently on hiatus due to quarantine, if we magically catch up to the campaign in story it would be hard for me to write the next part since I don't actually know what happens next)

Lastly, (sorry for rambling) before you ask, yes. I am the same astroqueen who made a cosplay of Maddie on my Tiktok account and this is how this whole rabbit hole started. Essentially, I cosplayed my DnD character for fun and people started asking me more about her and her story, so I decided to start documenting it in a story-like format on here. So yes, I am aware that there is a cosplay of Maddie in the world and I'm aware that people already know her to some extent. That's me, I did that. I'm the same person. I'm a crackhead both in cosplay and in writing sorry not sorry.

I think that's about it. I may make notes or other chapters dedicated to author's notes in the future if things need clarifying or if there are other things I've forgotten to mention but yeah! Thanks for taking the time to read this story! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!