text @PAPYRUS - New Years

[spaghettimonster]

HAPPY 1962!!!

IT'S HARD TO CALL THIS A NEW YEAR... SINCE THIS SEEMS LIKE THE PAST TO ME.

BUT DECEMBER IS OVER! AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S SUDDENLY FEBRUARY.

HOW ABOUT.

HAPPY NEW OLD YEAR!!!

[But don't be fooled - it's the start of 1961! Despite Papyrus optimistically posting this at midnight on the dot, everything from the TV countdown to physical calendars to outstanding bills says otherwise.]

Comments

[blackscales]

[ That's a no on being able to sense anything, then.

If only he weren't forcefully bound into his human guise, this would be so much easier. ]

Quite an extensive trick. I suppose to know the truth of it, we would have to know what events early on in this year we should expect to be repeating.

[ A shame he hadn't looked up something to bet on, honestly. ]

[spaghettimonster]

PEOPLE IN TOWN, MOSTLY TALK ABOUT THE UPCOMING SOCIAL EVENT.
SO NOT MUCH POINT ASKING THEM.

[It hadn't seemed suspicious to him, at the time. Isn't it completely normal for people to focus on the present and near future, avoiding mention of the unhappy past? But... that was one thing, trapped underground with nothing they could do to speed their escape. This town has the sky, and cars, and quite a few other things - including corpses in snowmen. Are the bursts of alarming violence their inescapable fear...?]

GUESS WE SHOULD ALL GET NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS!!

[blackscales]

I wonder. If the calendars changed, would newspapers change too?

[ Meaning they'd simply have to memorise events. Would journals they had hand-written change too? Revert to... blank? To tales of events past, even if they were not a time the writer was there for? ]

[spaghettimonster]

HMMMMMM. MY CAR, AND CLOTHES, ARE STILL HERE.
BUT NEWSPAPERS... THEY HAVE THE DATE ON THEM.

[If the house didn't revert to the conditions before they "moved in," but the date on television and calendars did, maybe it's only things that are dated. That could make notekeeping difficult.]