User blog comment:EvilhariboMadness/Camp Half-Blood - First Quest/@comment-4969595-20171220032606

Name: Ollie

Creator: Hephaestus (Osprey nymph)

Weapon Expertise: Much like Hephaestus's own children, Ollie is gifted with mastery over the weapons he's made - in his case, a downright ridiculously complicated transforming clockwork/steampunk spear-and-bow-and-countless-noncombat-devices hybrid. Ollie had little combat experience before arriving at camp in 2016, but upon arrival he wasted no time putting his skills to use. Up close he is deadly-quick and acrobatic with his spear, using it in a gymnastic and adrenaline-pumping style that uses quarterstaff techniques alongside traditional spear thrusts. At a distance, he's a deadly marksman with his steam-enhanced bow. Most impressive, however, is the stunts he loves to pull off by combining his arsenal with his unique osprey form. Be it diving from the sky in powerful lance-like charges, or raining arrows mid-flight, Ollie is most comfortable rapidly changing to and from his animal form in the thick of combat.

Why should he go on this quest: Ollie was created in 2012 in the depths of Hephaestus's Açores workshop, and he and his sister spent the next four years completely ignoring their Guardian responsibilities in order to pursue their master's craft. From 2012 to 2016, Ollie spent every night of his life in the depths of one forge or another. Hephaestus, ever prideful in his osprey pupils in spite of their disinterest in their true duties, trained them at length personally. Ollie has been to dozens of Hephaestus's workshops over the years. He posesses invaluable familiarity with Hephaestus's machinations and architecture, that nobody else in the world could offer. He loves his creator like a father, and considers the workshops home. There's nothing he'd rather be doing that stepping in to help however he can.