second mystic arte • {voice/action for Violet}

[fonic_sight]

[There's the small clearing of a throat, before Jade launches straight into business talk. He's looking for answers to a few of the odd little mysteries of this world...]

Pardon me, I don't wish to be a bother but I've discovered a bit of a discrepancy between this world and the home world I've come from.

I apologize if this does sound a bit silly, but what is the purpose of that three hundred and sixty-sixth day every four years? I'm a tad surprised that this world has such a short year cycle, but I've failed to reach a conclusion on why there is that last day. That and... Months. Is there any reason why they've been broken into days as they have?

[Why aren't your calendars standard and orderly, Pokéworld?]

Time seems to pass the same way. I guess my world just circulates differently to this one.


[Private to Dist]

I'm sure you've noticed the difference with the amount of days in a year in this world. How are you accounting for it?

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[bellyshirt]

Yeah! And all the weekdays have such weird names!

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[fonic_sight]

[He laughs. Oh Luke.] They do, don't they? It's certainly nothing like what we're used to on Auldrant. Have you been able to remember them yet?

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[bellyshirt]

Uuhhh.... [He counts on his fingers.] Sun-day, Moon-day, something, Winds-day, Thunder-day, Fry-day, and...something else.

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[machinamonkey]

The days seem to be just fine to me. What's your world like?

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[fonic_sight]

We had seven hundred and sixty-five days on my world, broken across thirteen months. The first twelve had fifty-eight days, the last had sixty.

Simpler than this world's system, honestly.

[voice]

[machinamonkey]

It sounds like your year's just a little more than twice everyone else's. And how's it simpler?

[voice]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

It's called a leap year! And the calendar is the way it is because that's how people decided it should be! That's also why that extra day exists!

[Note to self: add Cobraday and the month of Cobratember to calendar after conquering the world.]

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[fonic_sight]

People? Who are these people?

[voice]

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

[He knows he's heard that voice somewhere before, but he can't place it yet.]

I don't know their names! The calendar was established centuries ago!

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[doitrockapella]

It's to prevent seasonal drift, due to a slight discrepancy between the calendar humans devised and the solar year. The solar year being about six hours longer than the year as we measure it, we add on an extra day every four years in our reckoning to compensate. Otherwise, over the passage of time, we'd eventually be observing January in the middle of the seasonal summer.

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[fonic_sight]

I see. That explains the extra day; I'm sure a shift in seasons would prove to be nothing short of disaster.

However, it strikes me as somewhat peculiar that they didn't just find another way to divide the time to include those six hours.

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[ortion]

I was wondering how long it would take you to address this subject. I have to admit that it has been very difficult to adjust to. The most obvious and basic step was memorizing the names of the days and months.

[He clears his throat. Time for some deep scientific discussion.]

But the most jarring part is that a full year in this world is only around half a year in Auldrant. Yet as you said, the amount of hours in a day remain the same. It seems that while this planet rotates at the same speed as Auldrant, it cycles its sun at a much faster rate.

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[fonic_sight]

I wished to look through a library before inquiring over the network. Thankfully, memorization was the easy part.

As for the hard part... It could be the gravitational pull on this earth that send it rotating faster or at a smaller distance around, or the masses of this planet and Auldrant could differ. I'm starting to doubt that this planet would be closer, since the seasons feel similar, as does the sunlight--unless the sun itself is different as well...

[They could be at this alllll daaaayyy.]

The reasoning may not be as important, but how are we to compare it to our own world?

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[nemurihime]

The months are based on the lunar cycles. It's roughly how long it takes for the moon to orbit the Earth, I think.

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[fonic_sight]

Lunar cycles? If they calculated the month though, I'm not sure if that would explain the inconsistency of the months' days, not unless there was a reasoning behind certain extra days and whatnot.

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[enjoymyatelier]

[...well, given the company he's spoken to, the residents of this world aren't the sort of rabble who wouldn't be able to answer this question, so-]

I'm sure you've already been given an explanation or three behind this world's system; it's the system my world uses as well. Personally, I find its presence here stranger than its absence, even though I find it convenient.

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[fonic_sight]

Did you expect this world to have a different cycle of the seasons? I must admit, coming from a world where the months and days are equivalents must make adapting a lot easier.

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[newberktown]

I don't really know why the years end up like that. [He likes looking at calendars, but hasn't put too much thought into it.] Certainly makes birthdays interesting for me, though.

[HI, I'M FOUR YEARS OLD.]

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[fonic_sight]

Oh? Let me guess: your birthday falls on that odd day of the leap years?

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[saxsongs]

The extra day you mentioned, is the day when beautiful ladies are allowed to propose to men.

[This certainly answered all your questions, right?]

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[fonic_sight]

And which deity sparked that tradition, do you know?

[Oh yes. Definitely. Because Jade just has women throwing themselves at his feet daily. Also known as 'this man reminds him of an old acquaintance and he's already feeling the urge to throw him.]

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[amiroll]

It's a day parents made up to have their kids on, so they only have to buy them presents every four years!

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[fonic_sight]

That sounds quite cost-efficient. I hope more parents abuse this method.

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[mimicofthewind]

Oh? What's your world like then, mister?

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[fonic_sight]

Is there any particular way in which you're inquiring? It wouldn't be useful for me to just list off the differences. I'd probably bore you.