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[doghasitsday]

There's evidence enough to suggest that this place might be just one big hallucination, and that's no offense to any of you, personally. But how does one even begin to respond to lost time here? Or am I the only one? Maybe this thing is just broken, but it's telling me that it's been a year and some months since my last entry, and imagine my surprise when I opened it up and found shavings from a pencil sharpener inside and nothing else. It's like trying to read in your dreams. This isn't how things work. I would time going by, wouldn't I? Did it pass normally before the cutoff date? Or do I just think I remember spans of free hours, feeling tired, eating until I was full, falling asleep? What is this place? -Harold Emory Lauder

(ooc: Harold's return-entry! Of course he wouldn't just start his entries over >.> Way to make things difficult Harold.)

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[requiresssacrifice]

I lost a year, myself.

Welcome back, I suppose.

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[doghasitsday]

How is that even possible?

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[requiresssacrifice]

How is anything here possible? Unfortunately, I don't have the answer to that particular question.

Do you remember anything unusual from your missing time? Or did you just wake up this morning to find that everything's different?

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[doghasitsday]

More the latter. Feels a lot more like I just slept heavy. Took me forever to get going.

...Rex, right?

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[requiresssacrifice]

Right.

And that's how it was for me, too. A morning like any other.

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[doghasitsday]

Spilled milk, right? I guess it's probably a good thing I haven't grown especially attached to anybody.

Come to think of it I think you're one of the few people that I can recognize.

Do you suppose they'll let me keep my job in the kitchen?

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[requiresssacrifice]

I'm sure they will. They always need extra hands in the kitchen.

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[doghasitsday]

I'll be sure to ask. What do you do?

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[requiresssacrifice]

I work in the library. It's not the most exciting job.

[trenchcoatedly]

As we are not in any particular universe, theoretical laws that might apply in a universe might not apply here. The passage of time, for example.

[doghasitsday]

That's actually the most logical explanation anyone has ever given me.

[trenchcoatedly]

To the best of my knowledge, theoretical laws such as gravity and causation exist here because of magic or technology the Admiral has put on the barge, or the barge comes with. Under normal circumstances, the space between dimensions might fluctuate too much to make such assumptions.

While I don't know or can't say it was because of that magic or technology that these rules broke down, that could be a hypothesis.

[doghasitsday]

[This is one of the smartest people that has ever spoken to him, and he takes a minute before typing his response. Because he wants to be sure he can show HE understands it well.]

I think I can follow. So this place is somehow between dimensions?

[trenchcoatedly]

Yes.

[strangehistorian]

It's the Barge!

[chromie you are so helpful it's killing me.]