Save Atlantis RPG

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People are very emotional about milk today. I understand not wanting to be wasteful or make a mess, but please, calm down. Everything will be fine. Take a few deep breaths and be glad it was only milk you spilled and not wine!

[Filtered to Valkyrie and Margo]
We should host a decadent, over-the-top orgy. Now taking suggestions on invitees, venue, and menu.
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I'm looking for volunteers for research regarding the testing of and implementation of a restorative serum from my world that will affect my powers. My job is to try to utilize my powers (pain, and removal of) on you while under various doses of said serum. Your job is to give me a quantifiable number describing the sensation and/or lack thereof.

Before we get started, I'll need to run a few tests to get an idea of your pain tolerance and sensitivity. At no point will I produce any amount of pain in you more intense than a persistent headache (around 3-4 on the pain scale out of 10), and the pain will dissipate as soon as you quantify it. Likewise, all numbness I produce in you will be temporary. I understand that this will be uncomfortable, but it's for a good cause, and all you people are heroes and should eat up good deeds like catnip.

No one under the age of 21. No one with active reoccurring pain such as a badly-healed injury or arthritis. I won't pay you, but I might spring for doughnuts. Please leave me a comment here with questions or to volunteer. I have one open spot (Leonardo da Vinci, Penny Adiyodi, Evie Frye).

EDITED TO ADD: All spots taken. Thank you.

[ Filtered to Thor ]
Are you going to be in Atlantis during the next few weeks? Another incident is brewing. Let's not have mistletoe waiting for my return to consciousness this time.

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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I do not like the crunching feeling under my feet, but I am actually enjoying the smell of the sidewalks. Is what they are made of today a food? I have never seen such a thing!

[Filtered to Valkyrie]
You have been drinking a lot lately. Normally that would not concern me, because we all drink a lot, because we love drinking. But recently it has seemed less like you are drinking because it's fun, and more that you are drinking because you do not want to feel feelings. Because of this, I am concerned about you. Is there anything you would like to talk about?
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This morning, I woke up with a hat on my head. Waking up to unexpected clothing is not entirely unusual for me, so at first I was simply glad that my drunken antics had not resulted in anything being on fire.

But then I took the hat off, and there was another hat! And another, and another! I cannot get rid of the hats! I have finally stopped trying, and I am currently wearing a crown of flowers.

This is all to say: does anyone require more hats in their collection? I have forty-three of various styles on the floor of my room, including a very fierce-looking metal helmet shaped like a roaring lion and one very colorful cloth hat with jingling bells on it.

I don't know what was goin' on yesterday but I had somethin' happen that ain't happened to me before. I had a valve blow off and hit my hand and it hurt like a gorram bitch crazy.

Couldn't go to work today 'cause it's all bandaged up. Guess that's for the best since it's snowin so much.

I think I understand much of how Christmas is celebrated, but I am left to wonder one thing: why? What god or emperor does this holiday honor? It is clearly very important to many people in many worlds and nations, but I have heard no one explain what it is for!

This place is strange but I'm told this is what normal looks like in the future. I don't like it I am Deimos Alexios. Kassandra's brother, for those who know her.

The pursuit of drachmae has gotten me into trouble before, but usually it is because I took the wrong job, not literally picked up the wrong coin. Or maybe the right one - I expect I will find out soon enough.

My name is Kassandra of Sparta, and I picked that coin up from a street in Korinth in the 99th Olympiad, during the war between Athens and Sparta. Please excuse the thousands of questions I have about essentially everything.

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