Sounds like an awesome approach!
My LoO campaign is going on very well.
Now I have 5 player (before they were 3). And 3 of them are females. In Italy this hobby is not an exclusively male thing.
The 3 original players eventually arrived on classic Earth, Olympia, the day before the beginning of the 66th Olympic Games.
The male player, Patroklos, decided to take part in the games, in wrestling as a starter. One of the new players impersonated Milo of Croton, a real ancient athlete (look for him on Wikipedia). The other girl impersonated an Olympian inhabitant.
During the games, an ancient spaceship buried under the Temple of Hera, released 5 terrible monsters on Olympia and our heroes defeated them.
A 6th monster emerged (awakened by Apollo), and they couldn't defeat him, but luckily he was a bounty hunter, retrieving the heads of the killed monsters to collect the reward after leaving the earth with his spaceship.
Olympia's people, saved from destruction, praised the heros and offered the throne to Milo and Patroklos: the two Kings of Olympia. A lot of problems with the senate coming...
Sorry for the female characters, but in classical Greece, power was often reserved to men. And this injustice is a reason of friction between the players and their characters (and it's alright!).
Then they discovered they are progeny of Apollo (or at least that is what Febo said to them...). Unfortunately, Milo killed a Hera's worshipper next to her temple...
So, when Apollo said that Hera was coming to Olympia for revenge, you shoud have seen the face of Milo's player! Priceless moment!
Apollo succedeed into commuting a death penalty in a quest decided by an angry Hera. And she ruled, and Zeus approved, that the players must retrieve the dreaded Black Goblet of Oblivion, located somewhere in Erebus. Oh my Gods!
Now something about the system.
The new female player has no experience about tabletop rpg. None. Nada. Niente. But she identified easily herself with her character, named Xenia, and because the rules are so light, in a couple of session she was in.
As I experienced before with Amber, after a while nobody looks at his/her character sheet, and act thinking about the story 99% of the times.
We have a private mediawiki site where we share images, rules ad characters' logs (only two of them keep a diary).
We have a blog where I post a fast summary of the last session and where they comment, often with challenging tones and rivalry, as it should be.
And finally we have a WhatsApp group named Lords of Olympus to keep in touch between two sessions.
You should be proud, RPGPundit.