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7:23 PM
Stokingthefire added Sash to the chat
Stokingthefire added captaindville to the chat
Stokingthefire added Martini to the chat
Stokingthefire renamed the chat Archives Gang
Stokingthefire: welcome one and all, to the beginning of something great
Stokingthefire: aka the archives group chat
captaindville changed their name to Jonathan Sims
Jonathan Sims: Tim, what is this?
Stokingthefire: a groupchat for us archives dwellers, weren’t you listening
Jonathan Sims: Yes, I gathered that. May I ask why you have created it?
Sash: ooh what’s this!! Hellooo
Stokingthefire: hi Sasha ;D
Stokingthefire: and jon, I made this for fun :} also for uhhh faster communication during research trips or uhhh… something?
Stokingthefire: but mostly fun yeah
Jonathan Sims: I do not believe that texting during the workday will in any way help your productivity, Tim. And besides, I don’t see how emails are lacking.
Stokingthefire: this is better trust me
Stokingthefire: trustttt
Jonathan Sims: Attempts to convince me by simply telling me to “trust you” are quite futile. Please give me an actual reason to not shut this down right now.
Sash: Come onnn Jon, this will prove useful in the future! Also, it’s good for strengthening team relations within the department. This chat will provide us opportunity to communicate outside of work; more specifically, with you, since you always decline to go out for drinks on Fridays with us.
Stokingthefire: yeahhh jon! Workplace relationsss 🎣🎣🎣
Stokingthefire to Sashaaa <3
good work on that corporate speak
thanks :3 I practice
Archives Gang
7:45 PM
Martini: um hi hello what did I miss?
Stokingthefire: MARTINI :D
Jonathan Sims: Hello, Martin.
Sash: hiiiu :) not a lot, thus far we have just been trying to convince jon to not leave this chat <3
Martini: ah
Martini: umm please stay jon
Martini: it would be so cool to be able to chat with you outside of work
Stokingthefire: I bet it would.… ;)
Martini: and with the rest of you guys!!! But yeah mostly with jon because i already hang out with yall
Sash: lay off him timmm
Stokingthefire: never ;)
Jonathan Sims: Very well. As long as you don’t let this distract you from work, I’ve deemed it appropriate for us to have. Also, I cannot promise to be very active, as I do not often use discord.
Stokingthefire: yeahh actually I was surprised you even had one
Jonathan Sims: On the topic of which, how did you find my username?
Stokingthefire: uhhhhhh
Stokingthefire: sash? A little help please
Sash: :)
Stokingthefire: SASHA. You traitor
Jonathan Sims: Tim? Sasha? Care to explain yourselves?
Stokingthefire: SO UH are we just going to ignore that swift little name change bossman did at the beginning???
Sash: very smooth, stoker
Sash: but, yeah… who is captain d’ville, Jon? :)
Martini: guys I think jon just went offline
Stokingthefire: dammit!
Sash: turns out even the great Jonathan Sims has his secrets… >:3
Martini: Sasha I don’t like the usage of that emoji at the end… because it’s probably private and we should leave it alone? Since he went as far as to switch his phone off to avoid talking about it?
Sash: …mmm
Sash: nahhh
Stokingthefire: what you have to understand, Marto, is that in order to gain any information about Jon’s life you have to dig it up on your own. Every. Time. He’s about as generous about sharing stuff abt himself as a toddler with a new toy
Stokingthefire: anyways who wants to bet that jon has a mysterious alter-ego which he hides under his stuck-up professor prick facade and he’s actually like. Uhh. A steampunk gun-wielding space pirate
Sash: that’s wild where did you even get the idea lol
Stokingthefire: one can hope, sash, one can hope…
Martini: fiiine. I’ll give in. Goodness knows I can’t help theorizing about jon.
Stokingthefire: YASSS GO ON KING TELL US YOUR THEORY
Martini: so my theory is that he like goes on discord solely for dnd purposes, and “captain dville” is like his character or something
Sash: DND? Really??? Do you actually think jon has enough friends to organize a dnd campaign
Stokingthefire: sasha don’t be mean and also you don’t necessarily have to know the people that you’re playjng with well you can sometimes just join a campaign
Sash: fair enough. It’s also way more likely than your theory, Tim :3
Martini: ooh we should totally play dnd someday
Sash: omg yes! I’ve got to admit, I haven’t played a lot before (just the one campaign which didn’t really work out so I didn’t try again… but I’d love to try it with you guys) but!!! I already have so many ideasss :3
Stokingthefire: tell us queen tell us!
Sash: okay so. We could base some of the worldbuilding and the storylines around the statements we have down in the archives — we work in what basically accounts for a treasure trove of ideas for creatures to incorporate into the campaign
Martini: I actually love the way you think
Stokingthefire: what do I keep telling you, marto? She’s a GENIUS
Stokingthefire: okay so I could be the dm, I’ve done it before several times
Martini: actually, I was wondering if I could maybe dm? It’s alright if you think you’d be better at it ofc, buuut I mayyyyy have been practically a professional dm in high school. I even took money and all
Stokingthefire: WHAT
Sash: rlly?? 👀
Stokingthefire: AND YOUVE NEVER TOLD US!??
Martini: it’s never come up?..
Sash: well now we absolutely have to play. I can’t wait to see Martin in action
Stokingthefire: same :0
Martini: aw that’s rlly nice guys but we still need to get Jon on board with this
Sash: yep… that’ll be one hell of a challenge :/
Stokingthefire: we’ll get him eventually, trust >:) for now tho let’s postpone the dnd plan until later
Martini: sounds good to me
Sash: agreed