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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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[voice]

[thestormishere]

[ Honestly, Lightning can barely write without looking like a six-year-old, so she opts for answering the time question with voice instead, hoping her answer will be received anyway. Usually she wouldn't even bother with this kind of thing, but hearing that someone else doesn't do the whole 60/60/24/etc. thing is too interesting to pass up. ]

My world doesn't go off the same time measurements used here. [ A short pause. ] There's twenty-six hours in the day instead of twenty-four... among other things.

[voice]

[ricketytrickery]

Twenty-six. Intriguing. [At least it's not 24, which seems to be normal for 95% of the people here.] Would you mind elaborating on the other details?

[voice]

[thestormishere]

Hmn... Three-hundred thirty-eight days in a year, thirteen months; twenty-six days in a month. There's also sixty-five minutes in an hour, sixty-five seconds in a minute.

[voice]

[ricketytrickery]

[It's no 81/81/18, but at least it's regular. None of this weird "oh this month has 28 days but THIS one has 31" stuff. He smiles just a bit at hearing that.]

Interesting. Your world seems to have many connections to 13, as mine has connections to 9. Do you know the significance behind it, perchance?

[voice]

[thestormishere]

Not really. Maybe someone else could explain it better, but... as far as I know? It's just because someone really liked the number. 'Lucky primes' and all of that.

[ Honestly, she doesn't even have the excuse of 'that's how many days are in a year and we divided down,' considering... her world is all regulated anyway and it's not clear if that's the case outside of it. ]

[voice]

[ricketytrickery]

I beg your pardon, miss, but "lucky primes?" I'm not familiar with this concept. [Basically, it's the complete opposite on his world. Primes = bad.]

[voice]

[thestormishere]

....

It's exactly what it sounds like. I guess they're just supposed to be 'better' somehow. [ Her tone implies she doesn't really buy into it that much, from a logical standpoint; it's just a part of her culture, man. ]

[voice]

[ricketytrickery]

...I see. I suppose that's another difference; in my world, primes are considered to be unlucky, or sometimes evil. [He sounds pretty much the same way; not really buying it but it's still unusual.]

[voice]

[thestormishere]

[ ... That doesn't make sense at all. ]

What about the numbers you get from multiplying them?

[voice]

[ricketytrickery]

[It doesn't make much sense to Tattoi either. Numbers themselves can't be evil, but they can certainly be used in nefarious ways...]

Slightly more acceptable. The worst numbers seem to be seven and any prime over... six hundred or so, I believe.