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sticksandbones2024-06-25 08:48 pm
ephemeralflow) wrote in sticksandbones2024-06-25 08:48 pm
[Netbook]
[Someone's started sketching in their netbook, apparently unaware of how it works. It begins with a simple diagram of a grid warping around a sphere, drawn swiftly and precisely. Following that, more gridded planes, drawn warped into various shapes, some of which don't look very Euclidean. A few get scratched out. There's a pause.
And then, math. Complex formulas, written and worked quickly, bits sometimes erased and corrected, sometimes whole formulas scratched out. To anyone who might recognize it, it's a lot of calculations used when dealing with spacetime - and interestingly, some magical formulas in there as well, dealing more specifically with time.
Those magical formulas may be especially familiar to other Cookies versed in magic.
The actual values in use aren't from anywhere on the page, perhaps being pulled from elsewhere. Is someone trying to map or predict the movements of time here? Regardless, the speed and precision at which the formulas are scrawled is impressive, especially considering the handwriting remains sharp, simple, and legible, strokes made at neat and even intervals.
...It doesn't take long for the scrawlings to pause, however. Someone isn't used to getting headaches with this.]
And then, math. Complex formulas, written and worked quickly, bits sometimes erased and corrected, sometimes whole formulas scratched out. To anyone who might recognize it, it's a lot of calculations used when dealing with spacetime - and interestingly, some magical formulas in there as well, dealing more specifically with time.
Those magical formulas may be especially familiar to other Cookies versed in magic.
The actual values in use aren't from anywhere on the page, perhaps being pulled from elsewhere. Is someone trying to map or predict the movements of time here? Regardless, the speed and precision at which the formulas are scrawled is impressive, especially considering the handwriting remains sharp, simple, and legible, strokes made at neat and even intervals.
...It doesn't take long for the scrawlings to pause, however. Someone isn't used to getting headaches with this.]
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May I ask what it is you're working on? I recognize the formulas, but without context I'm not sure what they're being applied to.
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The handwriting in response is in a neat script, with a sharp hook wherever a letter would have a loose end, making it look like tiny clock hands are attached to the words.]
If you recognize that much, perhaps you can figure some of it out yourself. It is about time, of course.
[Timekeeper might be a little snappish between the headache and discovering that this journal is not quite as private as she had thought. She was, indeed, trying to sense how time here is flowing and write a formula to track/model it. This is going to be harder than she thought, if not impossible.]
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( the exclamation point seems to trail off. looks like someone's in deep thought! the vibes may be bad on timekeeper's end, but white lily's just excited. )
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...All right, this might actually be fun. Timekeeper doesn't expect the average person to even come close to understanding formulas like this, but perhaps there are some here greater than average?]
Hmm! I look forward to seeing your results.
[She follows this up with a quick doodle of a cogwheel shaped smiley face. It has an eyepatch just like her!
...and after a moment, something is added to the page of formulas. Namely, labels for those values that seemed to have no obvious origin - they're measurements of time. Lengths of pauses, loop frequencies, amount moved backwards or forwards, etc. There's only a few, as Timekeeper has not had long to observe how time moves here, but the values vary as wildly as you might expect, with no apparent rhyme or reason.]
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Tracking something? But it seems almost impossible to predict. The variables are all over the place, and cross or divert at random.
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Normally I am quite proficient at tracking, predicting, and manipulating time on my own. This place seems determined to make that difficult. I thought that perhaps writing out the calculations might reveal some pattern I could not intuit, but it has not helped.
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[If one she hadn't expected to frustrate her so quickly. Lily is very correct about that, though Timekeeper is not yet admitting it aloud (or on paper, as it were).]
My absence from my last timeline should not be felt, at least. To discover one so different of which I was not aware is quite the surprise!
sorry i am constantly dying (sobs)
Are you more of an observer, then?
mood, you're good /offers internet hug
It's simply that I have traveled across the timelines enough that I am likely still "there" to the cookies who are experiencing time linearly. Popping in and out, doing all the things that to me, I have already done!
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So, did anyone mention that the town can see the notebook you got when you arrived? I'm guessing not.
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[It's probably a good thing that Dipper can't hear Timekeeper's tone right now. She's less than pleased.]
And here I thought it was convenient not to have to seek out a notebook myself! An interesting enchantment, but a terrible design. Are these the work of anyone in particular here?
[She just wants to talk.]
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[Yes, that is in fact a far more interesting question than "why were you sleeping for two months to begin with." She's still making the mental note, however.]
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( you know. normal shit. )
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[Honestly, by Cookie standards? Not that weird. There's a moon cookie. Timekeeper figures this is something similar.]
So, time may be accurately tracked via celestial bodies here? That is very interesting to know.
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it's also possible that i still missed a bit of time when asleep, but i have no evidence pointing to that so. who knows!
( this is NOT the timeline where felicity is the goddess of time, unfortunately.
don't worry about it she's not encroaching on your territory, timekeeper. )
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Have you noticed any identifiable patterns?
[That's probably a good thing. Timekeeper knows another cookie with time powers, and she is Not Very Fond of him.]
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