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[deadmanbusiness]

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Hey.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know exactly what the ticking thing is? The point of it all? I realize it's a clock and seems to be linked the merry go round in the center there, but does anyoe know anything else about it?


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Hey. Meyer! We need to talk about something real quick and important.

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Sorry, man. Your PhDs [ which, for the record, he is elaborately pronouncing as ffffff-dzz in his head ] are mysteriously foreign and foreignly mysterious to me.

I'd be real surprised if it came down to just brains, too.

[deadmanbusiness]

It's what a doctor or a physicist or a ritual mage gets saying that they've finished a ridiculous amount of schooling to know how to do Stuff that us ordinary folks don't.

I would be too, but he'd be able to tell things that I wouldn't even be able to begin to think about looking for and know how to look for them.

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Sounds familiar! But in the meantime we're just, what, stuck unless we find a guy like that?

[deadmanbusiness]

We could throw rocks at it.

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[ snrrrrrk. ]

That is so unproductive. I dunno if I can accept a proposal like that!

Unless they're magic rocks.

[deadmanbusiness]

I'm pretty sure it'd vent a lot of my frustration.

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Hey, you find them, I'll buy them.

[ a beat, guiltily. ]

On credit, anyhow.

[deadmanbusiness]

No money?

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Working on it! In a couple days, anyhow.

[deadmanbusiness]

Well, if I had any magic rocks I'd give them to you at no cost. But I wouldn't give them to you on credit.

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Don't worry about it—think I'd have to give half of them right back to you anyhow.