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[viralvengeance]

What exactly are the properties of this mistletoe plant?

And who the hell is this 'Santa' people claim has brought them things?

As for the new year ... does anyone have an independent method of telling time that doesn't rely on the computers?

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[acrossthememory]

I can't say for certain on the scientific specifics of the plant, but it's more or less harmless. Unless you eat it, that is, and even then it's not fatal.

My guess is that our secret "Santa" would be either a Good Samaritan who lives here, or one of the higher ups, peering down on their little ant farm to check up on us.

Telling time... you mean like an analog watch?

[viralvengeance]

So there's no meaning behind the mass appearance of it everywhere, unless they're trying to poison us?

The person who brought the food, then. I doubt anyone who lives here was responsible for that particular gift.

Something like that. Anything that's not linked to the computers.

[acrossthememory]

Relax. The most those things are going to do is give you bad indigestion. Just don't eat them and you're safe.

Big Brother has been watching us, because I have no idea.

...I think I see where this is going. I'll see if I can find one.

[viralvengeance]

I'm just trying to figure out why they'd have given us so many of them. It's not even an effective poison, judging by people's reactions.

... 'Big Brother'?

It seems other electric clocks have changed along with the computers. It might be best to find something as simple as possible.

[meester_kennedy]

My phone isn't good for much else, but it has an atomic clock. Don't know how it works, but it's supposed to be the most accurate clock in the world. It's consistent with the computers, and it hasn't changed at all since the attack. When we lost Thanksgiving, it changed too.

[viralvengeance]

The most accurate clock in the world? Then the loss of days is a definite fact, not just someone messing with our perception.

[flap_flap_flap]

...missing days?

[viralvengeance]

We all have, haven't we?

[flap_flap_flap]

I may not have been around to witness them, though it does not seem unusual for such a strange city.

How does it work?

[viralvengeance]

Are you a new arrival, then?

How it actually works, no one knows. How we experience it is fairly simple; apparently everyone here falls asleep unexpectedly and wakes up after a day has passed with no memory of what occurred in that time.

[loopmein]

Now that you mention it, something weird did happen to me when we lost that one Thursday.

I was outside looking for my friend that day we all lost time. When I woke up, I was on a park bench, and my watch wasn't working.

The watch was electric. I thought the battery had just died but that watch had kept going for quite a few good years.

[viralvengeance]

Do you remember what time the watch stopped?

[loopmein]

11:58, I think. Maybe earlier...

[viralvengeance]

Do you know if anyone else made similar observations?

[loz_wolf]

Don't eat it.

I dunno about this Santa guy. Sora says he's okay but he can get into locked buildings no problem. Could be trouble.

...What'd people do to tell time before the computers?

[viralvengeance]

Seems to be the consensus.

Could be, but people keep talking about him as if he's harmless.

... hourglasses? Things like that, I suppose.

[loz_wolf]

hourglasses, huh...
that'd take an awful lot of sand...

[viralvengeance]

The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is a sundial, but that wouldn't work for our purposes.