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[Hey folks, it's Nita! She's back and seems a little the worse for wear--her hair and skin are looking dry, and she's not nearly as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as usual.]

Uh, hi everyone. I'm out of jail. [Obviously. And she's displaying no awareness that leading with that might give new people the wrong impression.] I'm fine. Evandau just wanted someone to harass about the cloning facility. [She's checked the network and seen that Percy went public with that.]

I might be butting in here [and she clearly doesn't care] but has anyone taken any technological steps to remediate the ecological damage? [Nita does not usually break out words like "remediate."] I ran some numbers on carrying capacity, and it's not pretty. [She holds up a sheet of paper covered with equations in her handwriting and a truly terrible overhead drawing of the turtle labeled with various scribbled notes and arrows.] I want someone to check my math, though. Mister Stark? Or somebody. I made a lot of assumptions and I probably missed something.

[Accompanying the video transmission is a text file in English that has her math transcribed. It's a back-of-the-envelope solution based on a lot of conservative assumptions and oversimplified in places, but all the calculations are right, and Nita clearly knows a lot about ecology and the math behind specific problems like soil erosion and agricultural output. The file does not, sadly, include ASCII art of her turtle diagram.

Nita's conclusion is that Keeliai is in trouble unless Something Is Done.]

Anyway, I'd be interested in talking to the engineering and science types about this, 'cause I think we can at least buy some time even if we can't fix the underlying problem.

encrypted 30% to the water-type pokemon she knows about: Arthur, Mera, Kaldur, Percy, Septimus, Amon, Tarrlok, and Finnick.

Okay, this is gross. We've got to do something about the water quality or half of us are going to get real sick, real fast. If you're free tonight--who am I kidding, of course you're free--meeting at my place. I've got some ideas, and I want to hear yours.

encrypted 30% to Kon

Kon, can I ask a favor? Will you fly me out to the ocean? I was going to go for a swim here, but the water is all completely nasty and I'm not even sure I want to breathe it, but I really need to re-hydrate, and flying just dries me out more and I don't want this to take forever.

[OOC: Anyone capable of hacking the default encryption, go ahead! Nita just hits the button labeled ~~"Batman please read this"~~"private" and calls it good.]

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Welcome back.

[She was slightly worried]

I've already provided some samples I took of the water to several scientists. I haven't heard anything back yet but hopefully one of them will be able to come up with something.

Thanks.

It's obviously all tied together, but I want to solve the water problem first since that's at the base of most ecosystems. ...And 'cause I have to swim in it.

Yes. As much as it's been insisted that what's happening to the water isn't tied into anything else, it obviously is. Arthur spoke to the turtle not long ago. He didn't get much but he managed to get a sense of...fatigue.

Yeah, the surface likes to ignore the ocean except when they're stripping it bare. [Eyeroll.]

Uh. Is he okay? [Because communing with the turtle will get you so high, dude.]

[Mera scoffs] Or when they want somewhere to dump the garbage they aren't allowed to dump on land.

Yes, he's fine. Now. After he did it he was a little....out of it. But it's been about a week so he's recovered. Kaldur'ahm and I went with him when he did it.

Heh. Percy could have told him what happens.

[That had been pretty funny, actually.]

Oh, Percy did tell him. Or rather, Percy told me and I told him. Arthur isn't really one for listening to warnings. It was....an interesting day.

Kings are like that, huh?

Every King I've ever met, yes. And that is why most of them have Queens.

[Huh. Nita likes Sue Richards enough to wonder occasionally what it would have been like to have her as a cousin-in-law. She bets Namor would be a lot less prone to flying off the handle, or at least he wouldn't get away with it long.]

So why bother with keeping the King around, then?

Well I suppose you can't have a "kingdom" without a "king". Although I did it just fine several times when Arthur was either exiled or....[Dead] But I suppose the real answer is that you need one person to rule while the other runs around doing other things. That's the way it worked for us.

Hey, Atlantis has had ruling queens before, at least where I'm from. [For years it was one lost battle on Namor's part away from having Queen Namorita I. Which would really have changed their foreign policy, let me tell you.]

...Okay, is it some kind of trans-universal constant that kings of Atlantis won't stay put? [Namor spends more time out of Atlantis than in it. And so does Nita, but she's not the one in charge.]

My Atlantis has too. Me. [She did well enough when Arthur wasn't around. Except for that time they drugged her and used to her to install a puppet government but details]

Apparently! I take it your King ran around outside of Atlantis often too?

Still does, as far as I know. He's on at least one surface super-team.

[Nita fails to mention the "cousin" part, because as far as she's concerned, it's not relevant to the topic.]

That seems to be another common trait with Kings of Atlantis, then. Arthur spent more time on the surface than he did in Atlantis. He was on a team with several surface world heroes. I ruled in his absence most of the time.

It's not like he can't get anywhere in the world in a few hours. [High-tech Atlantis flying submarines, duh.] Being friends with surface people keeps them from trying to poke around in Atlantean business, I guess.

Not in my world. [How many times did the Justice League try to tell Arthur what to do with Atlantis? She doesn't even know] But befriending surface dweller's does have certain advantages. Most of them are very willing to help when they're needed. Most of them.

Not so much where I'm from. I mean, I'd thought they were allies, but right before I got here, they'd blockaded Atlantis.

[Haha Civil War bullshit. For which Nita blames herself.]

I'd like to see Arthur's colleagues try to blockade Atlantis. [Atlantean Navy, man] Sadly, some surface dwellers just aren't trustworthy. Of course, the same could be said for some Atlanteans.

Yeah. It, uh. Didn't go well.

[Hey, look at this incoming smoooooooth subject change.]

Where's your capital? Ours was in the North Atlantic for ages.

I can imagine.

[Haha there is so much about her Atlantis she doesn't want to talk about so she follows the subject change without much hesitation]

Somewhere in the Atlantic as well, I believe. That's where Poseidonis is at least. But the continent is so broken up that it's spread all over the oceans at this point.

Poseidonis?

[They just call their capital "Atlantis" because comic book writers are kind of not very creative.]

Yes. You see, our Atlantis is broken up into twelve different city-states. Poseidonis is the capital and where Arthur and I live. There's also Tritonis, Thierna Na Oge and the rest.

We just have Atlantis. It's broken up into administrative regions for sanity's sake, but they're not really states. Plus there's Lemuria, which is the same deal in the Pacific.

[Marvel's never really been concerned with the details.]

[Mera finds this fascinating, to say the least. She's so used to Atlantis being a certain way. It's interesting to hear about how different another version of it is]

Interesting. Our versions are very different, then. How varied appearance wise are the people in your version of Atlantis, if you don't mind me asking?

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