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[ricketytrickery]

[The entry begins with the sound of small, metallic objects being shuffled around, tinking and clattering. Tattoi's muttering is audible after a few moments.]

...can't work with this. The gears are useless, set for an unfamiliar pace. Sixty seconds in a minute, and sixty of those in an hour. Ridiculous. It's not even a round number, like 81. The

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[weightlesscrab]

24 was chosen as a convenient number because it can be factored using 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24. As far as I am aware, 7 was arbitrary.

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[ricketytrickery]

It still makes no sense to me. I am used to a world with 18 hours in the day, divided into two sets of nine. The only commonalities are that they are both divided in said manner and that they are both divisible by some multiples of three.

Not even the lengths of the hours are the same. I cannot easily function like this.

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[weightlesscrab]

One would certainly expect if the number of hours are different, the length of said hours would also be different. One needs to compensate for the other. Do you find such a thing so important?

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[ricketytrickery]

Time-keeping is an important part of society. How well would someone like you function in my world where everything including the length of the seconds is different from what is apparently normal here?

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[weightlesscrab]

I would deal with it. Time is simply a construct anyway, is it not? Who says whether it should be 24 or 18 or 31? A day is a day; that much does not change.

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[ricketytrickery]

[31 would just be ridiculous. :|a I mean, that's a prime number. Can't do much with it, yep.]

Time may be a construct, but clockwork is quite concrete. That is one of my fields of expertise, and with the timekeeping used here, trying to work with it is like starting from the very basics all over again. It's incredibly frustrating. Do you know how long it will take to learn how to work with these gears or to make the ones I am familiar with?

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[weightlesscrab]

[ Thus why she used it as an example. ]

If that is the case, your issue is with the clocks, not the time. Am I correct?

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[ricketytrickery]

[also his world has this whole thing about prime numbers being unlucky or evil. just saying. :|b]

Partially. I am having trouble adjusting to this new timekeeping method, especially because of the differing weeks. That will change; however, the clocks will not. I will either have to produce my own clockwork or request some from the Malnosso, should they somehow be so kind.

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[weightlesscrab]

Personal items and other such things from our worlds have a tendency to show up in the stores, I hear.

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[ricketytrickery]

I will keep an eye out for one then. I did find a pocketwatch set to this world's time system, but as I said, the clockwork was nigh-unusable. [...It certainly was after he threw it at the wall. :|a]

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[weightlesscrab]

What was unusable about it? [ She doesn't know how these things work, and it's not like she was up to anything else right now? ]

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[ricketytrickery]

As I said, it was geared for the apparently-traditional twenty-four hour time system. It may seem small, but the difference between it and the clockwork that I know is significant. I simply do not know how to work with it.

Still, perhaps... as I am likely trapped here, I suppose I have more than enough time to learn this "new" clockwork.

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[weightlesscrab]

Hobbies are very good at wasting time when you have nothing else to do here. You might as well learn it, since there's no telling how long you will be around and you may be forced to adjust to it at some point, anyway. It's hard to predict in this place.

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[ricketytrickery]

I suppose you are right. The books from the library here, if any deal with clockwork, likely use the 24-hour gears. It wouldn't hurt to do some reading whilst I'm trapped here.

By the by, I don't believe I got your name.

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[weightlesscrab]

Since most worlds work the same way, it's statistically likely that they'll describe similar systems.

Senjogahara. And you would be?

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[ricketytrickery]

Tattoi.

I can only hope that, perhaps, I find a book from my world. [Hell, any book, really. It'd be nice to read a familiar language.]