diatu | Circular Logic

Who: Sho and anyone who finds him underground
What: Examining a mysterious circle.
Where: Underground
When: Mid-may
Warnings: Sho may try and kill someone again, maybe? It's Sho, so can't say for sho'.

A group of students, knowing Sho's interest in circles and magic had shown Sho the underground circle they had found. There are runes written around it in an ancient language. A proficient student explains that the runes clearly state that ten coins must be placed in the circle to activate it, but another student on the opposite side of it states that twenty coins are needed.

Looking to Sho, the professor considered a moment, then pulled out some tools and ran some calculations. First he took down the circumference, then the diameter. He leaned back on his heels, pleased that Pi was as it ought to be. So things were going right. He then explained to the students what he did and gave an impromptu lesson on Pi.

Once that was done he considered the students who suggested ten and twenty. "Please excuse my dear aunt sally," he said, nodding a bit. "Alright, let's start crunching some numerical ideas. Start with factoring this. If we wanted to meet halfway between the two how many would we use?"

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"Which could be addition or multiplication. Way to sum things up." Which hadn't been his idea. but was worth trying. So he tossed in ten more.

Link watched, ears perked slightly.

Now that he knew that immediate failure didn't equate to immediate death Link was much more curious.

As did Sho, not that the prospect of immediate death phased him, mind. He was already dead.

Link supposed that the next route would be to put 200 coins down, but, that was a lot of money.

He preferred to stay living, since he was pretty sure Zelda needed him when they finally figured out a way to send them all home.

"Alright, so here's the math kids, x=2 obvious ways to go from here and they both need the same zetta thing. So! Consider this your midterm. Go get me as many coins as you can... from this world and others. Whoever brings the most back... gets an A. T= 6 hours. Fail and face erasure." Old habit.

But that grin means that last part had to be a joke, right?

Coins were a weird way to pay for things.

"No one keeps their money in jars and there's none in the grass either," Link said conversationally to another student, who looked at him as if he'd grown another head.

"So go hush some Noise. Or run an errand for someone. You want that A, then get going!"

"Um. What exactly are 'noise' or is that just a way to say 'shut up'?"

"Noise. Monsters. Things that live to erase players... and if they're Taboo, the occasional irritating Reaper. Erase them they drop pins that can be traded for equal money."

Monsters sometimes dropped rupees. That was easy enough to understand. The rest was a....well, it was a little convoluted.

That, and, Link hadn't really seen any monsters wandering around. Maybe he could try busking...

"What are you waiting for? Go! I'll be here Counting down the timer."

With the extra coins dropped, a portal opened.

Sho stared through at the large feathered creatures and grinned. "Now that's some zetta awesome noise."

Link gaped at the portal and at the enormous monsters.

"Whoa. Hope they stay there."

"Why?" Sho asked, already planning to step through as he checked to make sure his pin was in place and to unhitch his bullhorn. "I plan to see how many of those integers I can get to join the set of my familiar and my dragon. Coming?"

"I'll pass. That's not Hyrule, and if that portal closes behind us, that puts me even further from home."

He shrugged. "Suit yourself. but my courage adds up to infinity!" And with a grin, he made sure his grip on his megaphone was secure and stepped into the portal like the genius moron he is.

Edited 2019-06-18 11:49 (UTC)

Link watched, only mildly incredulous.

"Reasonably sure, that's not courage," he said quietly as an aside to fellow student.

Circular Logic - OTA

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Posted this to the mods, want to presume it fails and start the next one JIC?

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And cutting back to here, apparently, lol.

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Guess we wait for the mods now, lol.

Re: Guess we wait for the mods now, lol.