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Jonah— We'll keep this as clear as we can. We're not good at mild words, and you don't need them dressed up. Still—this one has to be long, because if we cut it short we'll leave out the parts that actually matter to the room. We're moving the whole house (Atlas crew and gym) next to the Medical Academy. Same anvil, same house, same binder. Address will be 101 Academy Walk, Central. Not for rent. Not for a prettier street. For you. So the men who learned you on our steel can walk over without making a pilgrimage out of a taxi ride, and so gratitude doesn't get left behind when the old address closes. A lot of us argued about saying "for you" in writing. It sounds dramatic. It is also true. We voted with our feet. The old address is closed. The anvil came with us. The binder came with us. If that ever feels like pressure to you, throw this paragraph away and keep the next ones. The practical facts still stand without the feeling. Out of that same place in our chests we're doing something we've never done for anyone else. Your Academy students only: - Weekday floor access free - Monthly pass at 95% off list - Canteen free They tell the front desk they train under you. Staff already have the note. They will give them a "Jonah's students" sticker. Wear it—training floor, monthly pass, and canteen all honor that sticker. Physical therapy keeps its member price list; what your students get upstairs is a chair massage only—students only, fully clothed—when the books leave their necks sore. Gym rats here will be glad to show them around and help in any way they can—lift, form, programming, a spot on a heavy day, whatever a trainee needs without becoming a problem on your Academy stations. Walk-ins, guest athletes, other Academy names—full price. No exception. We have been asked already by men who are not yours. The answer is no. This is not marketing. This is us trying to pay a debt we can't actually pay. Please don't take it as a chain. There is no requirement attached. No obligation to come more, host more, answer more, or "owe" the house. If you never walk through our door again, the student deal still stands and the move still stands. We are not buying you. We are not hiring your pain. We are putting the gym where our respect already lives and opening the door to the men who train on your stations because those men are an extension of what you already do for the city. We need you to hear that without pressure. If it feels heavy, ignore the emotion and keep the practical line: your students get in cheap; you don't have to smile for it; you don't have to thank us; you don't have to perform gratitude back. I'll be blunt about the rest, because hiding it would be worse—and because half this room still can't say it out loud without looking at the floor. That night left us unfinished. Not unsatisfied with you—unfinished with ourselves. In training, in the showers, on the walk home, your name keeps coming up—and everyone gets their dick rock hard just thinking about you. Our bodies speak for it. There is nowhere to hide that feeling. Big men. Loud men. Men who don't cry. Some of us almost cried anyway, after the count locked and you were still standing grey and hard and counting while our arms were already dead. Our hard-trained, competition-winning arms, all of them put together, surrendered to a pair of swollen balls on a real man. We're not proud of how weak that sounds on paper. We're proud of what we saw. We still talk about the opening salt—coarse grit packed on both balls before swing one, you standing straight through the pack with no beg in it, steel landing on a sack already hurt and salted. We talk about the five thousand. We talk about unlimited after we thought we were done. We talk about the grey in your face and the fact that you did not step off. We talk about your cock still up under ice water like the body refused to give the room a clean ending. A lot of men here train with only one thing in their headphones now: your voice saying harder, looped. No other music. Like an addiction. That conversation does not die when the lights go off. Also—and this is embarrassing enough that half the room told me not to write it, and the other half told me I had to or the letter would be a lie—that pair of used underwear went through the whole gym. Passed hand to hand. Men sniffed it. Put it on. Once it was on, their cocks went rock hard and would not go soft. When they finally peeled it off for the next man they stood there bare-dicked and blank for a long beat, forgot their own pants, and more than one of them shot a huge load without touching himself before he could think. None of us had felt that in our lives. Everyone was confused until they saw the next man do the same stupid open-mouthed thing—then it made a kind of terrible sense. They will not hide that heat out of shame. If someone asks whether they are silly to submit themselves to another man's cock, they say it is their glory. The respect under it is real. Nobody treated it like a trophy over you. They treated it like proof they had stood in the same room as a standard they still can't touch. Some of them still go quiet when they say your name. That is not theater. That is what happened to this house. And even though nobody wanted to let that pair go—men argued, stalled, tried to keep one more night of it—we finally put the underwear in the washing machine. If you ever need anything from us—tools, steel, a spare pair of shoulders, bodies to haul, bodies to stand in your Academy queue and take student kicks or whatever your course needs—say it. No complaint. No "we're strongmen, we don't do that." We'll do that. We'll be apprentices if you'll have us. We'll work on our faults: gentle hands, loud mouths, mercy that insults the set, ego that votes on hardest hit. We'll try to become the kind of men who don't waste your time. And yes, cash also. We are willing to have you be our cash master. You say the number. We pay. And—no offense, this is just something we have to say because the room made me write it down—if you are into men, every guy here, straight or not, says you can fuck them anytime you want. Not as a joke. Not as a dare we take back in the morning. As the same gratitude, said the only way some of these idiots know how to say "we're yours." Our balls are yours, our cocks are yours, our asses are yours, our hearts are yours. Slap one man's ass when you walk in and he strips naked on the spot for you to see, and does not care if the rest of the gym sneaks photos of his nudes and moon pose; if you nod, he follows you to your bed like a soldier. Threesome, foursome—whoever you point at, willingly. Everyone trains harder now with that in the back of their heads: thicker, better-looking, hard, solid under a hand—so if you ever do use one of us, the body you get is worth your time and can actually make you feel good, make you happy. There is even a little competition in the room: men are scared that if you want to look at a chest or an ass, theirs will be smaller than the next guy's. If that is not your interest, ignore it completely. No one will bring it up again unless you do. If it is, the door is open and no gym member will pretend they didn't mean it. We love you. Not as a brand. Not as a mascot. As the man who walked in bare, took opening salt and five thousand and unlimited, stayed when we ran out of arms, ran his public line the next day on a body we thought we had emptied, and still answered mail without asking us to become small. Your cock and balls became a kind of standard in this room. That sounds insane until you watch a practice body say harder after the hit that should have ended the night. Then it does not sound insane. Then you understand why we moved to 101 Academy Walk: so that if we only catch you on the street for one minute, that minute can carry the whole week. House rule if you ever honor us by training here: any machine in use is yours if you want it—the man on it steps off without argument. If you take your shirt off on the training floor, every man on the training floor takes his shirt off and keeps it off. If you go naked the way you did that night, the whole gym goes naked with you. No cloth, no half measures. That is not a costume. That is the only respect we know how to show in a room full of steel. And for each gym member, you can drink his protein shakes, use his towels, borrow his trimmers to groom your pubic hair, or swap underwear if you like his. If you want a pre-workout full of proteins and other nutrients, we are all proud to jerk off and make you a full cup of strongmen semen. You might want to turn off your AirDrop in the gym. I cannot stop the guys from AirDropping you their naked check-ins that even their coaches do not get to see. They are showing you the work, and they believe that their balls have no right to hide in front of you. A lot of men here are registered physical therapists. If you are sore, need a stretch, or just want a massage, come anytime—free. Have you tried a four-hand massage? It is amazing. We can put a lot of guys on you at once—only they will fight over who gets your cock and who gets your balls. Odds are they end up taking turns. We have never done physical therapy on balls. But we can try. Strongman hands are a little rough—calluses, chalk grit, real grip. That roughness feels especially good under a palm; a lot of men have never had that. Cock under a hand. Balls rolled and held. If you get hard and want a release, they can make sure it is a night you do not forget—just do not be surprised when they fight over licking your cum. Come by when you want. Or don't. The door stays open either way. Your students are welcome either way. Our steel is available either way. With everything we have left, Atlas Foundry Signed— All Atlas Foundry gym members