because it's pi day and I have no self-restraint

[birdhousesoul]

[ Video as usual. One of these days Anders ought to take a typing class and advance beyond two-fingered typing. ]

So we're back to ourselves, yes? Another bout of our hosts' incompetence survived. I have to say I'm proud of us as a community for placing responsibility where it belongs, and not jumping to conclusions. I haven't seen or heard anyone blaming mages for what happened.

On a happier note, I've learned that today people are supposed to eat pie, in honor of mathematics. Anyone up for a potluck? I'm no mathematician, mind. I just happen to think pie is always worth celebrating.

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[isinganyway]

A curious tradition. What has pie to do with mathematics?

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[birdhousesoul]

It's all to do with an alphabet called the Greek, that gets used by mathematicians and other sorts who write formulae. The letters stand in for things where writing out a whole phrase would be cumbersome. [ Digressing a little: ] Now, when I was learning herbalism, our formulae were written out like recipes, with annotations, but the numbers were Tevinter, not written out as words. This is a bit like that, I think.

Pie is a letter in Greek, and they've got another word entirely to mean an edible pie. The Greek pie is a number three-fourteen, that's three and fourteen-hundredths, and it lets you figure the diameter of circles. Useful for people who build things, I should think, among other uses. At some point in the distant past, someone thought it might be fun to celebrate the number by eating the food, and the day chosen for it is the day that's three and fourteen, the fourteenth day of the third month.

[isinganyway]

[ She never learned of pi. Her education only covered the very rudiments of geometry, for the math a lady was required to know was all the math used keep a castle's accounts. ]

They sound like a people who dearly love celebrations.

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[thoughts]

Three point one four one five nine two six five three five eight nine seven -

[ She could keep going. She could keep going forever. But she doesn't. ]

Beautiful. Worth celebrating.

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[birdhousesoul]

[ Anders blinks. ]

That's pie, isn't it? Do you use it for things? You personally, I mean.

same~

[thoughts]

[ River blinks too, then looks around the room before looking back to him. What is one supposed to use it for that isn't calculations? ]

Meditation?

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[how_fascinating]

What a superlative thing to celebrate!

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[birdhousesoul]

[ Anders tries not to stare at small-cute-possibly-child?-who-somewhat-resembles-a-kossith-perhaps. ] I am in full agreement. What flavor do you favor?

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[thewalkingdad]

Mages, huh?

[Well, why not. Between everything else he's experienced.]

I don't necessarily see the common sense behind pointing fingers without gaining all the facts first. But I know people can get hasty when they're scared.

At any rate, I think you've got the pie thing a little mixed up there, man.

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[birdhousesoul]

Yes. Mages. You have no idea how refreshing it is to not be blamed for everything. Not so much a matter of haste as thousands of years of prejudice fostered by the mainstream religion, but yes.

I'd hate to give anyone a half-baked theory on pie. [ Horrible pun, party of one? He has no shame. ] It all sounded very cut-and-dried to me, but as I said, I'm no mathematician. Could you elaborate?

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[onemoredeath]

More celebrations? Back home, this was called White Day.

[birdhousesoul]

I thought you'd said White Day was a sex holiday!

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[foolofatook]

Pie?!

[Why wouldn't you celebrate pie, is the question.]

I would certainly partake!

[birdhousesoul]

Brilliant! What's your favorite flavor?

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[maddeninghatter]

You magical people are terribly paranoid, aren't you?

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[birdhousesoul]

Yes, well, it's only been thousands of years that we've been hunted down and locked up for life. I suppose it's a bit silly to fear persecution when it's only been that long. Once we hit the fifty-thousand-year mark, perhaps you'll see our concerns as warranted, rather than paranoid.

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[limitstorm]

[ quiet chuckling. ]

I haven't celebrated Pi Day since I was a kid. Count me in. I've still got pie crust in the freezer somewhere.

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[birdhousesoul]

You used to celebrate it as a child? What was it like?

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[trustycrowbar]

[A blinking shrug.] You know, honestly I'm so used to having no mages around that the thought never crossed my mind... Besides, it was more than logical to assume that the teleporter system was to blame, considering the swap was right after the lot of us went through it, and the trouble it's given us in the past.

[Wait.] Pie? [OH gawd, he splutters and grins, running a hand over his hair.] Oh yeah, right, that's today! Ohhhh good god, I haven't heard that since New Mexico... Obviously it's meant to be a play on words, but I'm never going to say no to some pie and coffee.

[birdhousesoul]

So there were no mages at all in New Mexico, then? None whatsoever.

[devilsfruitdoctor]

I love pie.

[birdhousesoul]

Then you are a man of excellent taste. What sort do you favor?

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[galactically]

Eating pie in honor of mathematics? It's so strange if you ask me, but any excuse for a celebration is a good thing.

[A small grin.]

My, I could use a slice right about now.

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[needsteaplz]

I'm just glad that wasn't permanent. Do these sort of things happen with every mission they assign to us?

Pie? Oh...Math wasn't my strong suit in school but I get it now. Funny how you should mention celebrations on this day. Back home, there's a holiday I used to celebrate on this day too.

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[alwaysruns]

[Kara stares for a minute like she's not rightly heard what the man said.]

Eating pie in honor of mathematics? [What kind of tradition is that?] And what do you mean 'blaming mages'?

[Not like magic is real.]