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"Could play on the names themselves. Shell Bell's Sherlock can be, what's a variant there, Shirley? Or, doesn't it mean something - 'fair haired' - I'm just brainstorming at this point - and "Tony", what've we got to work with there, Jane, help me out."

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["Anthony", or in the Atlantis case "Antony", means priceless, flourishing, or praiseworthy. Variants include Antoine, Anton, Antonello, Antonio, and assorted spellings of same.]

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"Oh, so you're already an odd one out if you just go by full name," Juliet says to Tony-which-is-short-for-Antony. "So there's that. And have you got middle names, maybe? There's options."

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"The rest of you are An-thon-y? With a th - huh, weird," says Shell Bell.

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"No Antons," says Iron Man. "I put a veto on Antons."

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"Why...? Never mind, I don't care," says an Anthony. "Anyway, I hate it when people call me Anthony, who's with me on that?"

Everyone. Everyone is with him on that.
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"I'd hate it too, if anyone ever had," the Antony chips in.

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"No one is permitted to call me Shirley," says Sherlock.

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"Sheesh, you guys are tricky. ...Do you all have the same favorite color? Bells don't seem to, I'm rocking an indigo theme and so on, no two of our Jane-gems match straight across, our coin colors are all different."

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"None of the Tonies are mints," Shell Bell points out, "and only two Sherlocks are. Could we find out coin colors without actually just minting them all?"

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"If this looks like a fruitful avenue we can find out," says Juliet.

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The Tony-wide favourite colour, after a short conference, is apparently 'red, I guess'. (Iron Man snickers behind his hand and won't tell anyone why.)

"Sure," a Tony says finally. "I'd go by a coin colour unless it was something ridiculous."

There is widespread nodding.
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Shell Bell designs a power that will let her see hypothetical coin colors even on non-mints. It doesn't have to last long, so she only spends a pentagon on it, then peers around.

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Iron Man's coins would be gold - not as in the colour, but as in the metal, polished and shining.

The two minted Sherlocks show up correctly: Shell Bell's as a pearly grey, Minus as a darker, smokily translucent shade.
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The other human Sherlock is likewise grey, but his is bright and pale and flatly opaque, like an overcast sky at noon.

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Plus is another grey, not foggy-smoky like Minus's but almost transparent, with darker tendrils curling through it like the smoke from a snuffed candle.

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Strat is a much darker grey, soft around the edges, like deep fog.

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Shell Bell conjures up associated illusions of squares in front of each for everyone to look at as she looks at each one.

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Among the Tonies, one is bright red, like a sports car or a fire truck; one is a brilliant blue-white that seems like it should be glowing, although it gives off no light; and one is a blue so dark it's almost black, with enough reflective gloss to obscure the underlying shade almost completely.

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And Shell Bell's Tony has a faintly bluish brushed aluminum.

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"So, Pearl," Shell Bell says to her Sherlock. "And... Aluminum? Is that aluminum?"

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"Is that your fucking McLaren?" says the stray human Sherlock to his Tony.

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He laughs. "It totally is."

"And this," says another Tony, gesturing to his illusory square, "is an arc reactor. Awesome."
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"I can accept Pearl."

Her nametag changes state accordingly.
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"Okay, so turning all this into names isn't perfectly straightforward, but 'Arc' is totally in keeping with how nicknaming has been going on, and 'McLaren' isn't far off, and I guess mine can just be Red unless this also represents some iconic object I don't recognize?" She peers at the undead Tony's square. "And Shell Bell's is Aluminum. And we should name some worlds while we're at it - there's kind of a sun theme for the ones that are oddly like Sunshine. Jarvis named the world he was copied in from Helios. Plus, did you ever decide between Apollo and Ra?"

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