That was worth a genuine belly laugh!  Thank you, Evileeyore!

And immediately after posting it (I've been sitting on it for days waiting for it to finish) I found he wasn't even done yet (check back over the next two days for three more comics).

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 389):

To the rice run crew, feel like adding a farmer cleric? Healing and sunbolt.


To the prospective cleric, you arebig on animal husbandry so no prudishness! Not part of your template.

Combat healers are always welcome, at least with me.

Ah, yes, Hephaestus.  The Romans called him Vulcan (and at least in some versions, Aphrodite/Venus was his questionably faithful wife).  Lame, because in more ancient times than the Greeks, tribes used to hamstring their smiths to keep them from taking their skills on the road.  Hunchbacked, in some versions, perhaps mainly due to the asymmetric muscle growth from hammering all day, every day, beginning in late childhood (longbow archers had a similar condition due to drawing a bow of up to a hundred pounds, thousands of times a year).

In the Greek myths, the creator of the sword and shield of Perseus, as well as Athena's mechanical owl automaton.

I've always been a fan of hermes, and his son, dionysus.
perseus, and odysseus, and orpheous are probably my favored heroes.

Aeneas, is pretty cool too.

"He's too much chaos in one person" says the curious, impulsive, xenophile Elder Thing cultist...

Not sure I see the connection between prudishness and animal husbandry...bigger fan of plants to be honest! I have 5 spells specific to plants, and just 1 specific to animals. Farming and Naturalist can g either way...

In reply to bear (msg # 396):

1) I am not accepting another uneccessarily prudish character from you muchless one involved in fertility worship.

2) this is for anyone: the only creatures with packs are draft animals like horses, mules, camels, lamas. No dogs, cats, or elementals wear packs. Humainoid laborers, and , yes, golems can carry gear, but no little dogs. Or extraplanar things. If you own a saddle or saddlebags, and create animal, you can make a pack horse but not a pack snake, bear, eagle or anything not normally used for this purpose.
Hire a laborer, buy a wheelbarrow, or just spend points on lifting strength, but stop trying to make inappropriate creatures and creations wear a backpack !
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In reply to Narrator (msg # 397):
what about necromantic, draft animals, and mounts? like mummified/skeletal horses/oxen?

In reply to Grimaldi (msg # 398):

Those are valud, as are humanoid undead. Skull spirits are a no.

Those two seem opposite extremes, but ok. I had no intention of having him a prude...it does not seem to be a part of ancient chinese philosophies.

In reply to bear (msg # 400):
only for those bhuddists, and those whose specifically sworn oaths of chastity.
which chye hasn't!

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 401):

Back tomorrow

In reply to Narrator (msg # 402):

I notice we do not make use of Language groups. Do we just specifiy when we speak in a language other than Aralaise?

Mostly the GM (and some Players - mostly so far just me...) uses substitute languages and Private Messaging in post to convey foreign lang usage and understanding.

Frex:

"Right now I'm murderin t'e common tongue." in Accented Arailiase.

"Nüüd räägin ma trolli keeles."  (Private to CHARACTER NAME: Now I'm speaking in trollish.)

"Jetzt spreche ich in Zwergen."  (Private to CHARACTER NAME: Now I'm speaking in dwarven.)


Noting that the above Private text would use brackets to actually be private.


Otherwise, yes, just toss parenthesis or something around what you're saying and indicate it's in a foreign language if you're not into copypastaing from google translate.

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 404):

What if I don't know who else knows the language?

What do you do in real life when you don't know who knows what languages?

Try speaking in a likely-seeming choice, and see what (if any) response you get.  If you choose, I presume the boss (or Jareth's player) could post up a list of what actual languages are used for which in game.

As I recall, Aralaise is posted in English, despite being linguistically closer to actual French.
Valdassyan appears to be a mix of Spanish and Arabic (or may be Arabic with minor Spanish influence).
Shevnian (also spoken by many Orcs, or Urhaqui as they call themselves) is either Russian or something else from Eastern Europe, written with Cyrillic.
Jareth somehow manages to post Eldritch (the Elder speech, my native tongue) as a combination of R'lyehian and Valyrian with a Welsh accent, I think.
Sahudese is generally posted as transliterated from a combination of Mandarin and Japanese.  Boss requests we always include the transliteration.
Dwarvish is posted in German.
Elvish is posted in Welsh.

I think those are all the languages we run into with any frequency, though there are more around.  There is a population in Northport who speak Hindi among themselves, at least a couple individuals who speak actual German (as opposed to Dwarvish, which is posted as German), Father Robards (a goblin Christian priest) and some of his congregation speak and read Latin, and it wouldn't surprise me at all to encounter actual Greek or Hebrew, especially if one went looking for them.

In reply to Chou-Zhen Mou (msg # 406):

Oh, I have understood plenty of the Russian, even without the translator! Unfortunately my character did not know Shevnian, so I had to play dumb! Sahudese in Mandarin of Japanese...that makes it tricky though as in RL I don't know either of them, so I will not know which translator to plug it into, since this character speaks in Sahudese most of the time...

I actually did study Greek, many years ago, and a little latin, but have forgotten pretty much all of it...Should we have a list up so that people whose characters speak languages they don't can know which google translate to use?

Shevnain is Slovak (close enough to Russian I suppose), as is Orcish.  Ogres speak Czech.  Technically, all three can speak the others languages at broken as Orcs speak an "orcish version of Shevnian".

Trolls speak Estonian.  Gobbos and Hobs speak Yoruba (because it fit the naming style they have).


Exactly... I muddle through using a R'lyehian dictionary (https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/R%27lyehian) and a High Valyrian translator (https://lingojam.com/EnglishtoValyrianTranslator).  And I sometimes combine or make up "it looks right" words for Eldritch...

Linguistics is a hobby of mine, unfortunately my ear isn't good enough to speak them (mostly I just study what makes up languages, I used to be able to speak "English as though it never had any Latin roots", that was weird, but still remarkably understandable).

The Welsh is because Elves used to speak Welsh when I started and then sometime a few years ago the boss started using Sindarin for them...  though this may be in flux again as I'm in discussions about it (I'd prefer not to use Sindarin, the alphabet is ludicrously small).


Greek is used by some Sages for research, as is latin.  Latin is also used by the Triunists, and I suspect Hebrew might be used by 'old school' monotheistic Triunists (though I can't speak with any sort of reliability here, none of my characters are Triunists, as they all worship in radically different ways, radically different deities or Edler Things).



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I had to delve into this with Jareth because as a linguist (he has almost all those languages on his Character Sheet), I figured they'd come up.  And once I recognized that gwythaint hates the gobbledygook that the Language Groups use, I figured I should have all these languages in my bookmarks...
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Shevnian is Slovakian, Orcish was Slovenian. Trolls speak Estonian, due to the preponderance of dotted letters, and proximity to Finnish.
 I may shift to Georgian for elven, due to the better vocab than the Sindarin translator.
I have been trying to use the Black Speech of Mordor for Gobs, but the translator is hideously limited.

I have been using Chinese (simplified) for Sahudese, but pulling names out of whichever mythology things come from; most of the Yokai are Japanese,  Ming-Sa was based on Ming-Na.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 409):

Cool. I will keep using Mandarin (which is Chinese (Simplified)). How does the last post work, using spoilers for the translation?

I should be doing broken Araliase.  Keep forgetting it.  Maybe I'll put one of those points into spoken so my lack of mental acuity isn't bad character play.

That's okay, Jareth has a weird accent for an Elf... I based it on Welsh... but now that elves speak Georgian he sounds odd for an Elf.

Which is fine.  I mean, he's a weird guy anyway.