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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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Re: here comes the fun police

[dorkypantsuit]

But he makes it so easy!

[dontpokethat]

That doesn't mean you need to keep doing this. Honestly, how old are you?

[He cannot believe you're technically his boss.]

[dorkypantsuit]

Well, I was 10 when I got here...

[dontpokethat]

Ten what? There's no way it's years.

[dorkypantsuit]

Oh no, not years, I mean sweeps.

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.

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.

[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.

[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.

[dorkytracksuit]

...If I were them I'd pushback too, so.

[dontpokethat]

Same here.

Guess we'll see how things turn out.

[dorkytracksuit]

Could you have made that sound any more ominous?

[dontpokethat]

I mean... probably?

...Was it ominous?

[dorkypantsuit]

'We'll see' just always has a way of implying death and destruction to me.

[dontpokethat]

I guess I could see that. But believe me, it's not what I meant. Just that we can't predict how this is going to turn out.

[dorkypantsuit]

Honestly that's something I'm glad for.