Save Atlantis RPG

[FILTERED TO FRIENDS]

Seeing as Solaire decided to sneak off into the night on us (word is he's on a mission, but I don't have any details), Fenris and I have talked it over and we're postponing the wedding to the 24th. Hopefully we can get that arranged without too much trouble. I don't know how these things work. We might have to sell Grace and keep our secondborn. BUT ideally, I won't have to stab anyone. Or threaten to stab anyone. Or annoy them until they cave. Actually that last one is probably more likely.

[OOC: belatedly it occurs to me that I never did an official wedding invite, lol. Please assume friends got told in person a few weeks ago or like handed a napkin with details written on it at some point, IDK, he's a mess.]

[OOC #2: I accidently put the date as the 17th back when I posted this and it was supposed to be the 24th. I'm the mess, not Hawke. EDITED.

Atlantis/Earth holidays are much more enjoyable than Thedosian Holidays. While we enjoy celebrating and being able to feast and drink as much as possible, we have nothing like discount chocolate following the day, and that takes the cake.


[ANGELA/MERCY]

Before you arrived, I had approached members of medical and science for a bit of help on an issue, and for the most part we haven't made any headway with it. I don't want to overwhelm or annoy you with it, as there's no real hurry. But the information is here when you have time to peruse it, and I've attached the following tests and files that have been gathered since then.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the matter, Dr. Ziegler.

Who... Why? Why put a fake tooth over a real tooth with a cookie fortune in it.

No.

Not okay.

Is this your doing Solaire? Trying to get me interested in your beloved Valentine's Day?

PLOT: ONE CHARACTER EACH wakes up with a toothache today. If they get it checked out that tooth is pulled and it's discovered it was a fake tooth over a real tooth and it holds a fortune, like a fortune cookie type fortune.

Guess what I found! It's almost as good as a dragon. In ten days time, we will be enjoying a holiday here in Atlantis! For those of you who, like me, aren't familiar with many holidays, it is a day dedicated to the power of love, and it's called Valentines Day. Or... Valentine's Day. I'm honestly not sure. I did some research on it, and it appears as if Valentine was some sort of holy man in his day, but honestly all that bit was a lot of reading and I got bored so you'll have to look up the rest of that if you'd like some history because I definitely didn't stick with it. But the holiday dedicated to St. Valentine is wonderful! It's a celebration of love, which I think is so essential. In dark and uncertain times, there's nothing quite so reassuring as knowing that there's someone or someones out there waiting for you to get home, is there?

From what I can tell, the main colours of this holiday are pink and red. There are lots of images of lovers gazing into another's eyes, beautiful small paper artworks with embroidered lace, and somewhat bafflingly, what appear to be winged babies wearing poorly-constructed diapers shooting people. I'm not sure what that's about. Perhaps it's to remind us that life is fleeting and that we should love while we have the opportunity before babies kill us with tiny arrows? I've also discovered through the research that wasn't historical and dull that people are supposed to give one another chocolates or cinnamon candies on Valentines Day, love letters, roses (or other flowers), and send anonymous letters of love to their crushes. So if you're single, this is still a holiday that you can benefit from!

I'm very excited about Valentines Day. It seems optimistic and fun and lighthearted, and with the days being so short and spring seemingly so far away, I could use the distraction.

[ Filtered to Bethany ]

Will you be my Valentine, Bethany Hawke? I've festooned the collars of our animals with roses, and frankly, it's already a mess, but I promise to clean it up.

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This day is turning out to be very odd. Leonardo is off being a bird, a cat attacked me without provocation, and now a balloon came into the house and followed me up to my room.

It is still out in the hall.


I am not usually unsettled by things, but this may be an exception.

claire temple & solaire january 20-22 fear-scape! low - mentions of kidnapping, but obviously no one actually gets hurt complete

( 'Where are you?' )

Hey, everyone. What’d I miss?

Gonna second what Jesse said before about the nightmares. I’m sorry I don’t have better news than that, and that I can’t just wake everyone else up. It’s I can’t h

DR. MCCOY:

When can I come back to work?

SOLAIRE:

I’m glad you were there.

Cute.

A riddle dragon. First, you turn me into a dragon and now stuffed ones with riddles.

Enough with dragon shit.

Someone please sort this out before my home is filled entirely with bananas. I enjoy fruit, but this is ridiculous.

[FILTERED TO HEALERS, MEDICAL PEOPLE, MAGIC SPECIALISTS & RESEARCHERS, SCIENTISTS, HAWKE + SOLAIRE*]

Hello! I can't stop worr Over a decade ago, I nearly died due to a corruption - we call it the Taint, it's a terrible word, so I apologize if I use it here. In our world, the only way to save someone from the corruption is to hope they survive a Grey Warden ritual - I went through it, and survived and became a Grey Warden. It's a lifelong debt, rather boring to hear about so I'll spare you, but it involved me (bleh) ingesting more of the actual corruption and a drop of archdemon blood so my body becomes "immune" to the Taint.

I say "immune", because it is actually more like a "cross your fingers and hope for the best" and prolongs, rather than heals entirely. Depending on the circumstances, we're given an extra twenty or so years to serve as a Grey Warden for all of Thedas, and I'm over halfway through that. It has a whole host of side-effects, including infertility.

For the record, I feel perfectly fine here. I wasn't actually going to inquire about figuring out any sort of cure, because I assumed we'd all go home after winning the war and there was no point to it. But now that I've met my son, and I know I have a future here--

Well, I would like to see if there's anything to be done, at some point.

I know Thedas magic does little for it, I can't just heal away any traces of the corruption in a simple zap, and we have only ever heard of one person that's managed a cure in our world and they refuse to share that information.


So, if you have any thoughts or would like to help, I would appreciate anything any of you might have to offer on the subject at hand.

[*If your character has something to contribute and doesn't fall into this filter, feel free to tag them in anyway or poke me!]

Does anyone else here celebrate the lunar new year? I enjoyed having a very English Christmas, and I would also enjoy having a very Chinese New Year. Since most of us are far from our homes and families, it seemed proper to reach out to the community at large.

Previously, if I celebrated at all, it was under the auspices of someone else's home, but I thought I might enjoy attempting the dumplings myself this year. Should any of the rest of you have interest in ringing in the Year of the Pig in Chinese style, let me know, and I will plan accordingly.

[Filtered to Laurence]
For your awareness, I will be conscripting you into helping me cook. If we start practicing folding dumplings now, we ought to be able to make pretty ones by February. Including some larger-sized examples for Temeraire, of course.

Whoever decided I needed to hear bad music all day, thanks for that. It's somehow even worse when I change.

Shit. Willingly changing.

What's life coming too.

Happy New Year.

Farewells are never easy, even when one is well-used to them. I’m forever grateful that Atlantis gave Bethany and I a chance to meet Declan. The future is a funny thing, isn’t it? Something - someone - that a month ago I did not know has become so important to me in such immediacy that I am twice as excited to meet the coming year.

I’m sorry to see him go, but goodbyes go easier with plunging into freezing abysses - which is why I encourage all of you who are feeling bittersweet by the departures of your family and friends to join me in the Polar Bear Plunge! Diving into ice-cold water seems to be a great way of taking your mind off of things, and what a pleasant way to wake up and face the New Year! And now that I know what polar bears are, the title makes a great deal more sense.

I’ll see you at the water, happy New Year, and praise the sun!

Is it too late to have the history books change my name to Leonardo Auditore da Vinci, or has that ship sailed? I know time is merely relative here, but perhaps if I make a few notations at the library...

[EZIO, ABIGAIL, CLAUDIA]

I'm making a very greasy and hearty brunch at our new house, if you would like to join us before your departure? I think it's fair to say we would like to see you as much as possible before you have to go, a honeymoon can be set aside a day.

Perhaps I'm hallucinating a bit, but I believe the snow is actually paper.

It's falling from the sky as if it were snow, but it's not.

Is anyone else seeing this??

Well, the good news about being a nurse is that I know exactly how long I have to spend in this stupid forest before I'm too cold to do whatever I'm supposed to do out here. I don't know what about me screams "yes, this city girl is very comfortable outdoors," but here we are.

MATT MURDOCK:

Sorry. I'll be back, I guess.

KAREN PAGE:

Hey. Do you want to hang out sometime, just us? We never really got a chance to talk back home, as chaotic as everything was.

While I always appreciate extra clothing, I don't think my outfit appropriate for the public, let alone for winter. Plus, I don't think the Qunari would approve of a Hawke wearing it.

[DRAGON AGERS + MUSKETEERS AND THEIR RELATED KIDS/SOs]

Declan, Solaire and I have been planning food for the entire week! You're all invited to share with us, if you'd like, there's going to be more food than even I can eat, coupled with a generous amount of alcohol and movies and stories.

You don't have to come every night but it's an open invitation for all of you! The most magnificent feast is being planned for Saturday, and will more than likely leave us in a coma on the floor.

I never enjoyed the simple pleasures of an advent calendar before Atlantis. While we had gift-giving holidays in Lordran, they took a backseat by necessity to fighting monsters and tending to victims of the undead curse, both activities that cut into shopping time, and then the merchants are usually the first to go anyhow which also complicates things. But advent calendars! I think home would love them. There's something so fun about opening up little doors to see what treat awaits us every morning, and so far, nothing is poisoned or needs to be slain, which is a jolly surprise. Also, I think socks have an undeserved reputation for being boring; cold feet aren't very festive if you've ever had them.

But truly the greatest surprise this winter has been the arrival of my unexpected but not unwelcome son, Declan Hawke. His honor, intelligence and charm are surely from his mother's side of the family, and if you haven't yet met him, you must.

[ Filtered to Bethany ]

I think we did well. Don't you? He's perfect. I'm still a little shell-shocked by it all but... it's hard to be anything but happy about him, isn't it?

I have a whole new level of respect for the Intake team. You guys are real heroes, getting us all through so fast. You absolutely earned those cookies from Mrs. Weasley.

[Filtered to Hawkes and Hawke-adjacent family (which includes Varric, of course)]

I think my favorite thing about getting teleported to the past is that Aunt Isabela's first impulse is still to call me Baby Sunshine, even when I'm not actually a baby.

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[Filter to Next Gen Hawkes/Hawke cousins]
They're all so young.

And it's crazy that we're suddenly in the middle of the war. It's like we got dropped into one of Uncle Varric's stories.
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Brown socks aren't the worst thing.

Charred and holey ones are.