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[purple_pliers]

[In this post, Violet is driving around camp in her homemade ATV with a collection of surveying equipment. She is spending a lot of time driving numbered stakes into the ground, measuring the distances between them and taking notes. Possibly she is doing this right next to you, right now. She's also muttering to herself like a weirdo.]

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[ridestherider]

[That's new.] Violet?

[purple_pliers]

Natsumi! Hello.

[looks exhausted]

[ridestherider]

What exactly are you doing?

[purple_pliers]

Well, exactly will take a lot of explaining, but basically I'm trying to figure out how static space is in camp.

[ridestherider]

[Flatly.] ... so you're either very brave, or a masochist.

[purple_pliers]

[blinks]

...what? Why?

[ridestherider]

You're trying to make sense of Camp. Every time I do that I get a migraine.

[purple_pliers]

It only doesn't make sense if you assume that anything is impossible, and that things stay the same. It's chaotic as all get out, but there are patterns.

[ridestherider]

... I'm sure I'll regret this later, but: what kind of patterns?

[purple_pliers]

They're not all migraine inducing. Take the holidays, for example. Halloween, Camp's Anniversary, Naked Day. Same time every year, right?

[ridestherider]

... I had tried to forget Naked Day, but you're right.

[purple_pliers]

So camp time at least seems to flow normally, most of the time, for most people. Although sometimes people wake up having missed weeks of time, and there are a number of reasons that could happen, some of which have to do with camp-time. Not all of them, though.

[ridestherider]

Mm, I've had that happen. A friend of mine just got an entire year's worth recently, as well.

[purple_pliers]

Which I think has more to do with camp moving in time relative to the worlds it draws from, but yes. It's a related concept.

[ridestherider]

You mean the fact that it's supposed to move faster here than where we came from?

[purple_pliers]

Hm... well, yes and no. I know that's the common belief, but I'm not sure that's how it works. You know how camp can take people from different times? I mean, how we have people here from some version of Earth in the 1700's, but also some people from far in a possible future? I think that camp exists in relation to a point in time of each world around it, and that time can change. What I mean is, camp's "now" corresponds to a particular date and time in my world, and can either run along with it at a certain speed or jump to a different time point. So when you get a year's worth of time, it's because camp's existence in relation to your world jumped to that point of time, a year from where it was previously.