JULY PLANET MINGLE

[save_the_souls]

Who: YOU. ME. EVERYONE.
Broadcast: IF YOU WANT
Action: YEAH!!!!!
When: July!

[Congratulations to the crews that did not get themselves blown up! Welcome to the Blue Planet, a planet full of charming islands and even less charming weather patterns! Are you going to take the time to enjoy the beach? Help out with the local Nunnilis population? Get caught in a storm with another person and have a rating boosting sexual tension moment? The world's your oyster!]

[Yeah in other words: ITS A MINGLE GET IN HERE]

[July Planet Info!]

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[save_the_souls]

[ Well, tiring is one word for it when you have the job of helping restrain the severe cases while treatments get administered. Sure, his spiderman powers ribbons help a lot, but by break time he's looking a bit like he went a couple rounds in a bar fight. In fact when Shirley approaches him, it looks like he's pulled down his medical mask just so he can put a cool algae pack on a large bruise forming on his cheek ]

Yeah...I just wished they punched a little less hard. [How do things with pincers even punch anyway?!]

[hearsthesea]

[Yikes, Allen, that sure is a shiner. Shirley peers at it for a second before looking back at the rest of the patients they have to take care of, trying to gauge how much power she has versus how many people there are to go. Pity there aren't any replenishing gels around here, but that's a little much to expect so far from home. Anyway, right now she probably has enough.]

Do you need any help with that? I should be able to heal the worst of it, at least.

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Ah-

[He hesitates. Partly because he doesn't want to take away healing power that could be used for the Nunnilis. But also partly because healing spells always have a chance of going wrong for him. Though admitting that means...explaining some rather not so great things]

That's okay! I've had much worse bruises than this! It looks works than it feels.

[hearsthesea]

Is that so?

[Shirley gives him a look because just about all of her friends have brushed off something that blossomed into a load of drama at some point or another, but she's hardly going to force him to get healed.]

...Well, let me know if you do need anything. Otherwise, some rest might do you good. How long have you been working?

[save_the_souls]

Yeah, really!

[Ahahaha he'll keep smiling through that look! Please be convinced shirley please]

Um...just since this morning!

[hearsthesea]

[...She's just. Going to sigh.]

If you don't want healing, at least take more time to care for your injuries. You look like a few good hits from another patient might knock you down.

[save_the_souls]

Okay, okay...I'll take a longer break.

[LAME HE CAN TAKE THE HITS; but whatever- time to try to get the subject off him]

How are you, Shirley?

[hearsthesea]

Better than you, certainly. I've mostly been attending to the less severe cases, but I suppose I'm due to see more of the kind you've been handling soon enough.

[Good thing her battle experience makes her good at dodging? No, not really.]

[save_the_souls]

Be careful if you do- they pack quite a punch!

[hearsthesea]

I'll be all right. Surely it can't be much worse than fighting monsters, can it?

[save_the_souls]

Ah...that's true.

And we're directly helping people. [He smiles] I like that.

[hearsthesea]

That's the best part of all this - it feels more rewarding than just stopping monsters. I hope we're able to cure the Nunnilis soon, for everyone's sake...including yours.

[save_the_souls]

[He gives a little huff at the "including yours"]

I'm fine, Shirley! It looks worse than it feels! [I'M A MAN] The Nunnilis are the ones who need help!

[hearsthesea]

[Shirley just smiles more brightly, seeing his reaction.]

There's nothing wrong about needing help too, you know! Everybody needs it sometimes.

[Welcome to Shirley's sense of humor, Allen. Enjoy the ride.]

[save_the_souls]

[He sees that smile. Yep, she's teasing him isn't she? He offers her a little not-so-serious whine]

Ah, Shirley- you're mean!

[hearsthesea]

[Shirley laughs this time. She never thought she'd compare Allen with Norma, but...yeah, he reminds her of Norma. It's nice.]

I'm just telling the truth.

[save_the_souls]

[ Well, at least she's laughing. It's hard not to smile at that ]

Right.

Thank you for the concern, Shirley- but I promise I'm fine!

[hearsthesea]

All right, I believe you. But save your promises for the Nunnilis. You're right, after all - they do need our help.