video;

[quantifies]

[It's a nice day in Maurtia Falls, as nice days in Maurtia Falls go. In any case, appearing on the network are one (1) native of G'loot Proktaw (you would designate it Mars) who is holding one (1) cute kitty as he climbs down from a tree.]

Greetings, fellow imPorts. If we have not spoken before, I am Croach the Tracker.

[Obviously, for those who are paying attention to network IDs, but he has learned that introductions are a polite human ritual, and the be impolite would incur onus.]

As many beings arrive at and depart from this iteration of Earth, I would like to alert this network once again that I am available to assist with locating any beings or objects that are lost. My twenty-eight senses make it extremely easy for me to track things, hence my secondary designator. My services would not require payment; you would merely be under a variable amount of onus to me, which you could repay through providing your own services or goods.

[Bartering, basically.]

Please contact me if you would like to have something tracked. I am employed as an Animal Control Officer, but the speed with which I track strayed animals has given me an excess of spare time. [Speaking of which...he lifts the cat into a more direct view, glancing at its collar.] However, I cannot track those about whom I know nothing. If you are the owner of a cat designated "Fluffy," I possess her here.

Comments

Video

[excitababble]

... What are all your senses?

Video

[quantifies]

[Well that is...sort of...]

I can list them, but I am not sure you would comprehend their significance.

Video

[excitababble]

Try to explain just one, and I'll see if I can get it.

Video

[quantifies]

All right. My thirteenth senses tells me the approximate color of a scent as it moves across the plains at a low speed.

video | id reads "power girl"

[boobwindow]

Twenty-eight?

[ You're pulling her leg. Maybe. Aliens, man. ]

video

[quantifies]

All members of my species possess the same amount of senses. It is far more convenient than a mere five.

video

[boobwindow]

Sounds... like it.

[ She narrows her eyes. ]

What are they beyond the five basic senses?

video

[quantifies]

I cannot directly compare them, as no specific five senses I possess can be designated "basic." However, to simplify, I am able to perceive in a wide variety of spectra and detect scents and sounds that most could not.

[animalage]

That's a crazy amount of senses! The most I've ever had at one is like... maybe seven. Maybe!

[quantifies]

I am sorry to hear that. Seven would be extremely stifling.

[animalage]

No way, dude! Compared to five, it's awesome. I can't even imagine how cool it is to have all the ones you do.

[dicktate]

Did you sniff my unwashed pants?

[quantifies]

I do not 'sniff'.

[dicktate]

You did, didn't you? Yah, I'm not interested, I only like pretty faces.

[text]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

are you another being not of Earth or not?

[text]

[quantifies]

I am a denizen of G'loot Proktaw. Many Earthlings call it Mars.

[text]

[thelimitdoesnotexist]

I never heard of such a world before.

how far is it?

video

[mirroredmemory]

[Gosh you sure are blue.]

What's onus?

video

[quantifies]

You would also designate it obligation. It is accrued by performing certain acts that benefit another.

video

[mirroredmemory]

But what about doing something for someone because you wanted to? Would that be onus?

video.

[glowsferatu]

If you had to quantify that degree of onus, how exactly would the exchange between services be rated? I'm sure fetching Fluffy from that tree must be a very different thing from, say, someone's dog running halfway across the country. But, in the same way, goods and services offered to pay must also be rated differently.

The question, I suppose, is what happens when the service rendered exceeds the onus owed?

video. sorry for the delay!

[quantifies]

That is an excellent question, Kanaya Maryam. It would be difficult to quantify the varying amounts of onus in a way that most would understand, but all in my tribe have learned to do so from a young age. [Really, it is more innate than anything.] But the answer is simple. I would be under onus to the one who performed the services, and pay it back in turn.

video.

[glowsferatu]

So, that level of valuation is learned very early, then. I suppose it should have to be, if the system is so central to your society. I imagine, then, that you'd understand exactly how much is left on your end, and what could repay that specific amount.

But you've been on Earth for quite a while now. Has it been...awkward, if you found a repayment to be short of the other's onus, to petition for the remainder?

Video;

[orions_shadow]

[Shadow is a lying liar who lies.]

The cat is mine. [Totally gonna gloss over everything else, bugman.]

Video;

[quantifies]

Excellent. It will be available for you to retrieve after you fill out the appropriate paperwork at our office.