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week 3, tuesday night

[losesticks]

[ Pokes his head in and raises his hand! ]

Hey. Couple of questions, if you've got a minute...?

Re: week 3, tuesday night

[knowlogram]

As of September 2019, One Piece became the best-selling manga in Japan with over four-hundred fifty million copies sold, Clefairy WAS initially intended to be the mascot for the Pokemon franchise, and the world record for speedrunning Super Mario 64 is one hour, thirty-eight minutes, and twenty-eight seconds!

[losesticks]

...Okay??

[knowlogram]

...were those not the answers you were looking for?

[oop]

[losesticks]

I don't even know what most of those things are!!

[ He knows of Mario as a character and has a rough idea of what a Pokémon is but THAT'S IT ]

So, actual questions -- number one, is it against the rules to combine the two nap rooms into one and use one of them as... kind of an indoor farmyard for some of the animals people keep getting? I mean, I don't know if you've noticed, but there are some huge birds in that thing, and people are already just leaving chickens in the hallways.

[knowlogram]

...why does he do these things.

[Why, Gamzee, why.]

You can keep them in the nap rooms, sure, but I'm gonna have to ask you not engage in the level of construction necessary to physically combine them.

[losesticks]

Don't you have veto power or something over what goes in there?

[ Is the clown the real mastermind here... ]

--I mean, by combining, I just meant like, moving the pillows and juice from one room into the other.

[knowlogram]

If I did your stuff would not be in the hands of a creepy clown boy.

[He can neither confirm nor deny Gamzee's ranking in whatever the hell this organization is.]

Oh! Yeah, you can move some of the pillows and stuff around.

[losesticks]

[ WHERE DID HE COME FROM... WHY IS HE HERE... ]

Great! Thanks.

[ Now to figure out how he's actually going to set this up, but-- anyway.

He does seem a lot more hesitant about this next matter. ]

Next question is, uh... about that dream from last weekend. If that seriously was a real memory that I'm somehow missing, then-- how many other memories am I missing? And can I just... have some context for what was going on there??

[knowlogram]

Uh- probably four or five, give or take? Not sure on the actual timespan involved, but it'll all come back over time. But context- no, sorry.

[losesticks]

What? Why?! You can't just give me a weird, out of context memory like that and then a motive like that! I-I mean, not that I'd be considering it anyway, but-- I can't even tell if what I did there is something I should want to change or not!!

[knowlogram]

Oh no, we definitely can, I've got a Powerpoint if you'd like to see it. Though, uh, in complete fairness, I'm not the one who decided what memories you all get back or not.

[losesticks]

...I don't know what that is either, but yeah, let's see it!!

[knowlogram]

Oh. Oh! Really?

[He looks absolutely DELIGHTED, and also like he might cry.]

No one's ever wanted to- okay! OKAY! One second!

[He hurriedly moves around the desk as the lights in the office dim. One wall lights up with a large slide titled "WHY ME NO AM REMEMBER GOOD: Playing God For Fun And Profit".]

Okay, so the brain stores memories as-

[Just. Imagine an incredibly long and impossible to follow technical lecture that probably involves a few stretches of Hubert just saying "Science! Science science science, science, science science-" a few times.]

[losesticks]

[ ...He doesn't feel like that answered his questions AT ALL, but if he admits that he'll probably just look like he's too dumb for science. Also he'd... actually maybe feel a little bad implying that this presentation wasn't useful after all that excitement. ]

...Huh. Okay.

[knowlogram]

Great!

[The last slide here is just a solid page of dense nonsense-equation and chemical formula.]

Any questions?

[losesticks]

Well, uh... not about this specifically, I guess?

[ He kind of has a headache from looking at all that text; he can't even think about the content clearly enough to form any intelligent questions about it.

...But you know what, it would be pretty cool to do something like a presentation on the history of Nia Khera or on why Hiro sucked in a format like that. ]

What did you call that thing again?

[knowlogram]

Powerpoint! One of the greatest and most powerful presentation tools ever invented. ...Do you wanna see it again?

[losesticks]

Nnnno, I think I'm good on that. I was just thinking it would be cool to make one sometime? Is that a thing we can do on the computers here?

[knowlogram]

Ooh, definitely! I mean, not the ones that are available now, but I'll see what I can do about getting them in some of the new rooms.

1/2

[losesticks]

All right, thanks!

2/2

[losesticks]

[ ... ]

Still very mad about the messing with my memories thing though, for the record!! So, you know, don't think your neat presentation tips will get you off the hook!