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[dorkypantsuit]

Hey, I know this is a kind of weird thing to say, but to all you newbies without common sense out there: Do not warn visitors about getting indebted to the carnival. I don't want to see anyone getting in trouble their first week, especially not anyone on my team. Got it?

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[dorkypantsuit]

Well, I can also move things with my mind so. It's not all bad.

[wild_magic]

You can? That's so cool!

seems safe to assume they've talked about sweeps before?? lmk if i should edit

[dontpokethat]

Ah... right, those.

...Sorry, but I can't for the life of me remember how that translates.

[toogoodtoopure]

[Shutting off his walkie talkie, he turns his head to look at her, tilting it with a curious look.]

Easier? I dunno, they're already pretty easy.

[Yuugi, that's just you.]

[toogoodtoopure]

Well yeah. Why wouldn't it be?

[waitingforplayer2]

They're easy if you know how to play them.

[ Which is the same thing as saying they aren't very easy, really. ]

But lots of people don't.

[toogoodtoopure]

Mmm...I wonder if we could do such a thing, though.

[He taps his fingers against his walkie talkie, careful with the movement that it doesn't click it on, and places his free hand on his hip before running the fingers of it through his hair.]

They're pretty...set in their ways.

[dorkypantsuit]

Yeah. I'm pretty great I guess.

[wild_magic]

[He laughs.]

Yeah, but you can't do magic, so I'm greater!

assume away!

[dorkypantsuit]

Well there's 26 hours an alternian day, 15 days a perigee, 48 perigees a sweep. So... how many hours is that?

[dontpokethat]

Uh... let me see. Twenty-six and fifteen, that's... two-- no, three hundred ninety? Times forty-eight...

...Give me a moment, I don't have any paper or anything.

[dorkypantsuit]

[He didn't actually think Ginko would try to do the math for it. But now he's curious, and amused.]

A calculator might be better.

[dorkypantsuit]

Well I disagree.

But magic doesn't exist where I'm from, so I might be biased.

[wild_magic]

Magic is so cool though... How can you not have it where you're from?

[dontpokethat]

Why would I keep a calculator in the stables?

Anyway, it's definitely over twelve thousand. [HE'S GETTING THERE.]

[dorkypantsuit]

It's closer to nineteen thousand actually. If you round the 48 to 50 you can just multiply 39 by 5 and then add back the two zeros. But then you'd have to subtract 780 to get the exact number.

But then you have to divide by 24 to find out how many earth days that is, and then divide by the number of earth days a year and I don't keep track of those things.

[dorkypantsuit]

[He shrugs.]

We just don't.

[wild_magic]

[That doesn't really make sense to him, but obviously asking this guy why isn't going to get any answers.]

That's too bad.

[dontpokethat]

Uh... right. So then you have... 18,720?

Divided by twenty-four, that would be seven... 780. And there are 365 days in a year, so a sweep is going to be something over two years.

Making you.. barely an adult when you got here. Assuming trolls age anything like humans, anyway.

[Yes, that is what he's getting from this.]

[dorkypantsuit]

[Hey now!]

Barely an adult?! I was already a sweep past adulthood when I came here.

[dontpokethat]

Ah, yeah. Definitely barely an adult, then.

[dorkypantsuit]

[He just makes an annoyed face at the radio for a moment before responding. 10 sweeps was nearly half a rustblood's natural lifespan!]

Whatever. Go clean up more animal poop.

[dontpokethat]

[In Ginko's defense, he super doesn't know that.]

Maybe I will. Gotta leave you to argue with the whole carnival, right?

[dorkypantsuit]

[Don't worry Ginko, he knows you don't get it.]

Ha ha. Very funny.


I just don't want anyone to do something stupid.

[dontpokethat]

Yeah, I know. Just hope you were ready for the pushback.