In your defense, you seem like the type of person for whom those sorts of quests just find you rather than the other way around.

[Case in point: Literally all of this? Sadie didn't make the choice to come to Chroma; she's pretty sure Percy didn't either.] Oh, the gods are terrible about timing things like that. Between you and me, I think they're just jealous that our relationships are solid and theirs are such a dramatic mess people still tell stories about them thousands of years later.

[A lightning bolt doesn't come out of the sky and smite her, so either she's right and they admit it, or they're beyond the reach of the gods.]

...how could this place be worse than it is?