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Celene goes to Apriltopia
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"Do I just... throw one? Do the colors have significance?"

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"Why would I have gotten out four if you were supposed to throw one? Yes the colors have significance."

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"So... I throw all four of them? Is there a specific order to throw them in?"

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"Yes, no."

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"Alright, then." Let's try not to miss.

The first two darts land successfully! The third dart misses, striking too far to the left. She picks it up, blushing slightly, and tries again, hitting the map this time. The fourth dart lands without incident.

"Now what?"

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Now Summer takes out the two pieces of red and blue string she grabbed while Celene was doing that, sticks the red string along the line formed by the two red darts, and... hmm. 

"These are too parallel. Try again."

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Oh. Uh. Ok.

She tries again.

[For reference, results are being randomly generated using a normal distribution]

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Summer is NOT going to carefully imagine four points specified in cartesian coordinates in her head a second time to figure out if the intersection point is reasonably nearby you're gonna have to give the results to her in a format other than metafictional psychic beam if you want her to do something other than arbitrarily posit your attempt to have succeeded

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Sure that seems fine

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Yay! She finishes lining up the red string along the line formed by the red darts and the blue string along the line formed by the blue darts, and then marks down the intersection point.

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Is Celene ready to go? Summer knows the direction and rough distance, it'll be... yeah okay she's just going to put the nearest intersection in her phone, she hasn't quite gotten around to learning manual bus system navigation yet as embarrassing as that is... only like half a period by bus. Plus a little walking.

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Yup! She's ready!

What are busses like in Nucleus?

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They're sort of like a cross between a tram and a metro. For when you want something that stops less frequently than a tram, but more frequently than a metro.

Would Celene like a small purple electronic monkey toy?

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A... what?

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A cross, like from multiplication? Or maybe product would be a more literal translation—the output of some sort of binary operation, especially one that shares properties with good old multiplication?

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No, what's this about a purple monkey toy?

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Oh. An old slightly disheveled man on the bus is offering her one.

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...Why?

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Unclear

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She... takes it? What does it do? Is there like, a bomb inside it or something?

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What's Celene's perception stat?

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i do not know how to quantify this

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It's a perfectly normal purple monkey toy. The only obvious difference from one you might find on Earth is the part where the little tag is written in alien glyphs and contains fewer spurious regulated warnings. The tag identifies the monkey as a Mirthline Lilac Screecher.

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What's the electronic component?!

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There's a switch you can press to make it move around a little and emit a screeching noise.

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