UN: Senth; Video

[sergeant_slick]

[Hi everybody, it's your friendly neighborhood clone in a boat. He's on candle watch.]

Hey. Boredom's chewing holes in my brain right now, so let's play a stupid game I just made up: Just guess my age. Anybody who gets the year right on the first try wins bragging rights. If you get the month right too, you get to be fleet admiral. [That's something you can be for a bunch of dinghies, right?]

Also--anybody got any paint? Bonus points if it's waterproof. [He's got plans. Completely frivolous plans.]

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un: man's greatest treasure [video]

[reparo]

[Also on candle watch. This beats running over ingredient lists in her head, so she turns her video on.]

Thirty-five.

[un: sprite bulb] voice;

[bearshermark]

29.

Mmn. Eighth month.

UN: Senth; Video

[sergeant_slick]

Really? I look that old already? [Yikes.] The army's supposed to age you, but I didn't think it did it that fast.

UN: Senth; Video

[sergeant_slick]

[Oof.] Good guess, but you overshot it. Apparently I've been fooling you all into thinking I'm mature.

[bearshermark]

You're rather sensible, as I recall. Focused, with your priorities in order. You look the part as well.

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[in_theworks]

Like my age-ish, so -- mid-twenties?

Also gonna say, like, September or October. [a beat] Ninth or tenth month. [and another] You're probably a Libra or a Scorpio, right?

[that last one, he's not going to clarify, thanks]

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[blackscales]

Am I disqualified?

[ It wouldn't be a guess, after all. He remembers. ]

UN: Senth; Video

[sergeant_slick]

If nobody guesses it, you're fleet admiral by default.

And at this rate, I think we can just call it. Congratulations on your new command, Admiral.

UN: Senth; Video

[sergeant_slick]

Closer than anybody else so far, but you still guessed too high. Try again.

Yeah, nah. I'm an Aiwha. [Right back at you, mate]

[sergeant_slick]

I mean.

The last time we talked was because I set my face on fire, but sure, I won't argue that hard over compliments.

And okay--I do look older than I am. Want another guess?

[bearshermark]

[He laughs, having forgotten about that until mentioning]

Hm.. 24.

[in_theworks]

At least tell me what month?

[so he can assign you an Earth zodiac, so he can make sense of Aiwha]

Also -- seriously?

[(o_O no way you're younger than him, Slick]

[sergeant_slick]

[There we go!] Remind me to tell you how I helped un-kidnap a child back before the revolt. That one was an even worse idea, but it worked.

Getting closer! Still too old, though. Try again.

[bearshermark]

[A sigh, pondering. Surely Slick is older than himself- and by a few years, at least. A handful, likely]

22.

[sergeant_slick]

Trick question--I got poured out of the tank during New Years' Week.

And yeah, seriously, you're way older than me.

[in_theworks]

[he's really not sure which part of this is the most brain-breaking. (O_o)]

Do you not consider New Year's Eve the last day of the last month, and New Year's Day the first day of the first month?

[sergeant_slick]

Nah. Take a bigger step down than that. [It'd be a really decent guess, if it wasn't, y'know, running off the wrong assumptions.]

[bearshermark]

You aren't younger than twenty.

[He sounds very certain of this, like he might even argue about it for no clear reason]

[sergeant_slick]

The whole week doesn't count. Don't know why, probably a bureaucracy thing. [Because what's a holiday]

[sergeant_slick]

I am definitely younger than twenty. [And he looks cheerfully ready for how much this is about to raise heck]

[in_theworks]

Okaaaaaaaaay. [dumb] I'm just gonna label you a Capricorn and call it good. I'm also gonna judge you, because I think we're supposed to hate each other or something.

[he's kidding. he doesn't hate you, Slick, which is why he's so quick to move on from that]

But um.

[ ... ]

... are you even old enough to drink?

[bearshermark]

[What even]

But you look-

[Eleven cuts himself off, aware of two people who don't look anywhere near their actual age, but that was..

Still, he's suspicious now]

Why don't you look your age?

[sergeant_slick]

Because the Republic's full of impatient cheapskates. [And maybe the Kaminoans got bored of handling longer commissions, who knows.]

[sergeant_slick]

Oh, nice. I was looking for a new nemesis. [He is 100% not taking that seriously, but if somebody did want to start a prank war, that'd be the way to do it.]

That's a legal question I never bothered solving, because all we had was black market booze.

[bearshermark]

Impatient- how does that even work.

[How does one just- get impatient with aging and then skip it?]

If that's what they're doing, then that's- that's awful.