enter ialis.

TELL ME: what do you know of the sea? There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. For here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness. TIDEHQ is an original roleplay about rival archaeologists. mn.

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“time is a construct, but it’s human to try and pin it down.”

- annabeth quinley in a letter to kalinos taha, 1907

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name: up to player

age: up to player

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affiliation: taha

occupation: art historian

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the trundholm sun ‘chariot’ is a bronze and gold artifact pulled out of a bog on the danish island of sjælland in 1902. apart from being a ritual object, it has also been suggested that the trundholm sun ‘chariot’ may have functioned as a calendar.

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“i unravel, unravel, unravel, but i never reach the center. there is no center.”

- temperance quinley in her personal notes, 1907

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name: up to player

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affiliation: cambra

occupation: anthropologist

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the quipus of caral was discovered in the sacred city of caral, a 5,000-year-old metropolis which represents the oldest known civilization in the americas, known as the norte chico. quipus, sometimes called ‘talking knots’, were recording devices that consisted of coloured, spun, and plied thread.

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“we’ve found what you’re looking for, but you will never find it yourrself.”

- annabeth quinley in a letter to an unknown recipient, 1906

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name: up to player

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gender: up to player

pronouns: up to player

affiliation: cambra

occupation: project director

this character is 35+

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mask of agamemnon was discovered at the site of mycenae in 1876. schliemann found the mask covering the face of a body in a burial shaft. nobody knows for certain whom this exquisite golden mask represents. scientists speculate it could depict agamemnon, a mycenaean king who ruled during the mythical trojan war.

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“do not waver, keep your secrets. they will come for them and they will win.”

- kalinos taha in a letter to temperance quinley, 1907

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name: up to player

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gender: up to player

pronouns: up to player

affiliation: neutral

occupation: linguistic, sociologist, museum archivist

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the james ossuary is believed by some to be one of the most precious biblical artifacts of all time, as the limestone box which is said to have held the bones of the purported brother of jesus and if proven correct, would be the first physical link to jesus.

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“we’ll drink the finest wines dirt can buy, gorge ourselves on fruit and nuts. there will be a quiet when this is over and done with.”

- kalinos taha in a letter to temperance quinley, 1906

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name: up to player

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affiliation: taha

occupation: cook

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the lascaux cave was discovered by four teenagers on September 12, 1940. there are nearly 2000 figures of animals, humans and abstract signs inside the cave. lascaux doesn’t seem to have been occupied but rather visited periodically just for the purposes of painting.

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“when we are able to set foot on the island, we will need your aid greatly.”

- annabeth quinley in a letter to the navigator of the ialis island shipping company, 1906

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name: up to player

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affiliation: cambra

occupation: driver

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the catalan atlas was written in 1375, and it is the most important map in medieval times. the map shows drawings of cities with a cross or a dome, depending on the religion preached. political allegiance was marked with a flag, and places of greater importance are written in red.

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“islands are an interesting thing: they live and breathe for themselves.”

- temperance quinley in a letter to kalinos taha, 1906

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name: up to player

age: up to player

gender: up to player

pronouns: up to player

affiliation: cambra

occupation: local guide

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the voynich manuscript is a coded manuscript seemingly about medicine and dated to the 1400s. none of the plants that appear in the manuscript are found anywhere on earth and are often amalgamations of several different plants. the language is also unknown to modern linguists.

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What kind of characters (like personality wise) would you like to see?

i’d love to see someone who is perhaps more soft and kind in cambra, since they are known for being rather rough and tough people. perhaps someone who was recently hired who doesn’t know what they do behind the scenes with artifacts. i’d also love to see the classics for this kind of setup: the no-nonsense one, the jokester, the frigid one, and so on. a morally grey character would be very fun to see! maybe they’re in taha and even switch sides because the pay is better and try to get them to reveal taha secrets?

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“we traveled by the stars, and oh, how beautiful they shone.”

- temperance quinley in a letter to kalinos taha, 1907

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name: up to player

age: up to player

gender: up to player

pronouns: up to player

affiliation: taha

occupation: local guide

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the nebra sky disc is a bronze-age disc depicting the stars and the moon, thought to have been used by germanic tribes to chart the stars. it also depicted solstices and may have held religious value.

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“things are not always as clear as we wish them to be.”

- temperance quinley in a letter to kalinos taha, 1907

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name: up to player

age: up to player

gender: up to player

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affiliation: cambra

occupation: engineer

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the antikythera mechanism is an ancient greek computer. it was used to predict positions based on astronomical data and eclipses far in advance of what humans could predict.

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“you have a wicked tongue, my friend. use it well.”

- annabeth quinley in a letter to kalinos taha, 1905

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name: up to player

age: up to player

gender: up to player

pronouns: up to player

affiliation: taha

occupation: engineer

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the roman dodecahedron is a bronze object found across europe that has puzzled historians and archaeologists alike. the engineering used to make them, as well as their purpose, has remained a mystery for some time.

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who are your favourite characters?

i mean, no favourite children, right?  but i do have a soft spot for terracotta army, hope diamond, basano vase, and james ossuary!

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are all the members of the dig new or do they know each other?

whatever you choose! the people in the taha team were all handpicked by andros, so they would have to either know him or be in a position to be recognized by him (i.e. works at a university where one of taha’s colleagues works), and cambra all work for cambra, but the team is a newly formed one. 

we’ll be doing a connection task once the rp opens, and you’re definitely free to change your mind if plotting ends up changing your character’s motivation within the dig!

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talk tag when ??

we can make one if everyone wants one, but for now if you want us to see graphics/edits, just tag the main!

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“i have faith that we can find what we’re looking for. this opportunity was a gift from above.”

- temperance quinley in a letter to kalinos taha, 1907

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name: up to player

age: up to player

gender: up to player

pronouns: up to player

affiliation: taha

occupation: ancient and religious historian

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the dead sea scrolls are ancient religious manuscripts found in the qumran caves in israel. they exhibited linguistic breakthroughs, as well as held significance for religious texts from 300 BCE to 100 CE.

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can i say y'all are cute next move that up in the queue love u this isn't bo

wow, our first fan letter. and it’s even a message in a bottle. the commitment to the aesthetic is amazing.

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can we see dead sea scrolls next?

of course! they’ve been moved up our queue.