Nepeta: Take up statistics.

[rogueofheart]

[In an effort to better understand why her friends and/or other SGRUB/SBURB players leave or arrive and hopefully come up with a way to tell when they will return next, Nepeta has spent the last few hours digging through her journals, both old and new.

She's left with a set of numbers that predict nothing.

When she's finished, she huffs and drops her pen onto her journal.]

Well that didn't do what I thought it would.

Comments

[goingrogue]

Is this a game? If this is a game, why am I losing? I want to win! Tell me how I can win, Purrpeta. I can't be a loser, I have a rep to live up to.

[rogueofheart]

[There's a light giggle at that. She is already a winner!]

It's not a game, Roxy. It's how many times a person has been in Purradisa.

[goingrogue]

... Oh.

That changes everything then. I'm a total winner in this case. That means there's only been one of me, right? I am the only me? That means I win! I have no idea who most those guys are, but I'm assuming they're you're friends. Such a shame they're a loser, esp since I haven't even heard most of those names!

[cyan_maid]

[Hey that's Jane's name isn't it, that's her friends' names too...]

What were you trying to do, Nepeta?

[rogueofheart]

I was trying to see if maybe I could pick up a pattern. You know, to purrdict when someone is going to arrive next or who it would be. I don't know, it sounded like a good idea at first.

[cyan_maid]

Did you record the dates people arrived and left, in the order of when they arrived and left? That might help with determining a pattern, though it'd be an awful lot of work...

[wagers]

[You know what tone she is saying this in.] That sure is a list!

[rogueofheart]

[Vriska please.]

I guess I thought it would help figure things out.

[wagers]

[She's gonna keep on going!] You want to know what I figured out from all this?

[mal_addict]

...Are you starting back on the shipping wall thing again?

[rogueofheart]

What? No! Seriously? No way. [The wall remains intact but this is most definitely not part of it.]

It's a list of how many times someone has come and gone here.

[mal_addict]

Ohhhhh. OKay, that makes more sense now.

[There's a considerate pause]

It likes the fishy trolls. And that Dave kid, wow.

[1nc0mpr3h3n751bl3]

WHY D0 1 G37 0N3 P0L3 WH47 D1D 1 D0
1 W4N7 7W0 PL3353

[rogueofheart]

You get one because this is the first time you have come to Purradisa. If you leave and come back, I will make sure to give you another one.

[1nc0mpr3h3n751bl3]

WH47
7H475 80R1NG
WH7 D0 1 G37 P0L35 F0R 7H47

[fluthlu]

I'm surprised no one's thought to make a tally of this before, though I suppose it shows nothing truly revolutionary. We were already all aware of Paradisa's peculiar fondness for one Dave Strider.

[rogueofheart]

Does it really mean that? Or does it mean that the castle can't make up its mind about him?

[fluthlu]

If the latter is the case, I'm sure the castle in good company.

[anytime]

Six times.

You're shitting me.

[rogueofheart]

There is no shitting to be had! These are the facts.

[anytime]

Yeah, well, it just goes to show I'm a fucking amazing escape artist, but the castle's adoration for me is so unreal that it can't even dream of letting me go.

[nukeoleptic]

-- oh, whoah. That's really cool, Nepeta.

[rogueofheart]

Thanks! Even if it didn't do what I wanted it to do, it's still kind of cool. You are almost as popular as Dave!

[staggeringego]

Gamz three three? Now there's an interesting name.

[rogueofheart]

It's "Gamzee." You say the threes as Es.