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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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[markofthewise]

[... well they did just hire someone on. In a smithy that doesn't get a lot of work to begin with. Sokka peers at the image a bit. Some sort of... rabbit thing?]

Well actually we just let another guy come work with us and there was barely enough work to split between the three of us as it is. [And Hiccup basically volunteered to be the coffee boy.]

But... if you need to use the stuff here for something you need to make, just give us some warning. People do that all the time. [People like Sigmund, who don't ask.]

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[ricketytrickery]

["Rabbity-thing" is pretty accurate. :|b Half-metal rabbity-thing, moreso.]

Very well. Is the smithy capable of producing smaller items, perhaps clockwork parts, or is it strictly for larger goods and weapons?

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[markofthewise]

It's harder to make that stuff, but not impossible. Winry does that kind of stuff usually.

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[ricketytrickery]

[Gods, that's wonderful news. Having an Oneiran clock would make things much easier.]

I will contact Winry as soon as possible then. Now, if I am correct... I simply leave a message for one of the employees before I use the smithy's equipment?

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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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[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.

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[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?

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[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?

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[redsynonymhere]

It's normal to live like that. Don't forget about twelve months in a year.

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[ricketytrickery]

It is most definitely not normal. [For him, at least. Curse the rest of you and your bizarre 24-hour days!]

Eighteen hours. 81 minutes in an hour. 81 seconds in a minute. That is normal.

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[redsynonymhere]

That sounds really stupid.

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[ricketytrickery]

[EXCUSE ME, WHAT DID YOU SAY. 8| There's furious little scribbles, strings of symbols only half-written. It reads pretty much like a keysmash.]

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[hatesghosts]

its normal for me!

[ she is the most helpful. ]

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[ricketytrickery]

[The most. 8|]

Do you know why it's normal?

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[hatesghosts]

[ it gets worse ]

no not really

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[ricketytrickery]

[... /facepalm]

A different question then. If you were suddenly taken to a world in which time was measured in a very different way, how would you react?