Crystal;

[youwonscience]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Cosima
RECIPIENT: Anyone in Riftwatch near their crystal, though rifters especially wanted
NOTES: n/a

Hey, fellow rifters, just curious. If someone here asks how old you are, how do you count? Like, is it how old you were from when you arrived, plus a year each time you hit the anniversary of your arrival? Do you pick the nearest Thedas equivalent and count that as your birthday? I mean, there's a metaphysical argument to be made for only counting your time in Thedas, but there's no situation where someone asks me how old I am and "about five" is an answer that's useful to them, you know?

I know this isn't really important, just have cake if you want some cake, whatever. But I'm curious about how other people do it.

Comments

[cozen]

[ At a delay, once the fellow rifters have had time to answer and he's at less risk of seeming to elbow in where he isn't needed: ]

I think it really speaks to your comportment, as a group, that you are not all milking this more. You could have your birthday as it translates into our months, and also have your birthday three-hundred and sixty-whatever days after the last one you can recall, and also have a rift day.

That would be three cakes.

[youwonscience]

Oh my god, I was totally an idiot to miss the obvious answer. Leaving cake on the table, for shame.

Rift days sound fun, though. Lots of green streamers and alcohol, yeah?

[cozen]

Ouais. Just so. And at dinner we could try to make a food from your world, or play a game you remember well enough that we do not have here.

[youwonscience]

Do you think it's been long enough since the fried food debacle of 9:44 that I'm allowed to suggest Earth foods again? You were here for that, right?

Fried potatoes are actually good, for the record, that wasn't just the blood plague talking.

[cozen]

I have liked every fried food I have ever had, and I don't think I have ever had a blood plague, so...