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text @PAPYRUS - New Years
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.]
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.]
@okuyasu, text
isn't there supposed to be some kind of event for the town?
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IT SEEMS LIKE A BIG PARTY EVENT IN BIG CITIES.
BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT ONE YET.
GUESS WE'LL FIND OUT.
BY THE WAY. HAVE YOU BEEN TO MANY OLD YEAR CELEBRATIONS BEFORE??
[If Okuyasu has experience with whatever mysterious time distortion is happening to his television and calendar, Papyrus wants him to share.]
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but we'd at least go to the temple or go somewhere fun even if we were busy [At least they weren't staying in whatever temporary house they were living in at the time.]
I miss cities
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AND THIS ISN'T CITY ENOUGH TO CITYSFY.
[The attempt at a pun for levity's sake is rough in English, and likely falls apart entirely in translation, but he makes it anyway. Maybe Sans'll see it and laugh. He could use a laugh himself.]
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what
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[Just as well he didn't make it in person, puns so forced they bring the conversation to a halt... that's his brother's territory. Papyrus shakes it off and rallies.]
I MEAN, THIS CITY ISN'T SATISFYING, IN ITS CELEBRATION QUANTITY. OR QUALITY.
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it sucks
like christmas
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HOW DO YOU MEAN?
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nothing about that month was fun at all
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BUT PUTTING UP DECORATIONS...
[Well, it was mostly fun when he and Sans kept escalating the light show between their yards. What was blowing a few fuses in the name of competition. But then the lights got in his head, and all he could think about was Christmas festivities...]
ACTUALLY, YOU'RE RIGHT COMPLETELY!!
IT WAS AN UNFUN MONTH. GOOD RIDDANCE.
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and whatever other holidays they got here
actually i hope they don't ruin valentines day
we can keep that one
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BUT THE HHA REALLY NEEDS TO LIGHTEN UP.
[Honestly, who sends wet zombie children to attack whoever doesn't have enough jack-o-lanterns? They could have at least used cooler costumes when attacking.]
VALENTINE'S DAY...
WHICH ONE IS THAT?
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or if they give it to all the boys
it's the best holiday for getting a girlfriend
do don't have it in your country?
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I THINK I RECALL SOMETHING LIKE THAT, IN SCHOOL.
ALL THOSE YEARS AGO!
[It was not very many years ago. But in those most hormonally relevant years, if hormones are a word that applies to skeletons, he hadn't been the most pleasant or grateful of teenagers. The gifts for all seemed impersonal, too much so for him to really appreciate. What a fool young Papyrus had been... but at least a fool with the potential to be adult Papyrus.]
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And now he has Okuyasu curious.]
oh
so where are you from anyway
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OH, A LITTLE TOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
FAR FROM ANY BIG CITIES... WE PRACTICALLY LIVED UNDER A ROCK.
[They very literally lived under a rock, inside a mountain.]
IT'S EXCITING, LIVING WITH SO MANY NEIGHBORS!!
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sounds boring
not that small towns suck
but I grew up in Tokyo so big cities are normal for me
this is a pretty empty place to live
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PLUS WE HAD COMPUTERS AND THE WEB, THAT HELPED.
BUT THERE'S A LOT TO DO HERE.
SO MANY BUSINESSES TO SHOP IN! SO MANY ROADS TO GO DRIVING ON!!!
IT'S IMPORTANT, TO SAVOR THESE THINGS.
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I thought you lived in the middle of nowhere
[The internet isn't ubiquitous when he's from!!]
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THAT'S WHAT I SAID. AND WHAT I MEANT.
BUT I UNDERSTAND YOUR CONFUSION! SAYING THE WEB... IT COULD ONLY HAVE MISLED YOU.
I'M ALMOST EMBARRASSED TO SPELL IT OUT...
IT WAS A SMALL, LOCAL WEB.
I BET I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THE WEBSITES YOU USE.
[Between the lack of access to the surface, being from years apart, and whatever other differences monsters came up with in their dissection and reconstruction of human technology.]
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But then that must mean...]
were you part of a government experiment
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HEY, I CAN'T EITHER CONFIRM OR DENY THAT.
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you're not gonna have to kill me if you give me more info right
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[This is exactly the kind of ridiculous cover story he needed to hint at. Sans is even better at threatening cryptic language than he is, and will surely back it up... And Papyrus has very stylish, special agenty shades. The perfect disguise.]