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Off Topic.

Posted by OracleFor group 0
Oracle
GM, 33 posts
Mon 28 Jun 2021
at 22:42
  • msg #84

Re: Off Topic

I planned to post much earlier but my life exploded. Please bear with me, I plan to pay in a handful of hours.
Milo
player, 26 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Mon 28 Jun 2021
at 23:31
  • msg #85

Re: Off Topic

haha no worries.

i might be busy tomorrow too, 'cause i gotta go graduate from high school.

just a small side trip, im sure it'll be nothing much.
Oracle
GM, 35 posts
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 15:09
  • msg #86

Re: Off Topic

Happy graduation!

Also, you guys were very patient with me so you're getting a treat. It may not look like a treat now but hooo boy!

We're into record breaking heat wave numbers here so if you need me I'll be behind the air conditioner.
Milo
player, 27 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 15:13
  • msg #87

Re: Off Topic

haha thank you for the kind words and for the treat [nom nom nom]!

gosh i hate heat waves. be safe, they can actually be pretty dangerous.

also, praise air conditioning! i couldnt live without it , i dont think (even in Canada we sometimes have uncomfortable summers. the winters are always hell, it goes without saying)!
Sabriel Nav
player, 33 posts
Everyone and everything
has a time to die.
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 15:35
  • msg #88

Re: Off Topic

Fireworks and congratulations Milo!

Oracle:
I'm in Alberta, Canada (don't worry, I'll survive,) for time reference.


Yup on the AC. Bone melting too hot.
Lyndis Biro
player, 30 posts
Elven woodswoman
"Are you gonna eat that?"
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 17:35
  • msg #89

Re: Off Topic

Congratz on graduating! :D

So.. I'm not sure how to handle the next bit. Lyndis can understand the dwarf, but she doesn't realize that others might not. So, she doesn't know that she needs to be translating. After all, everyone has been able to understand each other, so far.

If Lyndis speaks to the dwarf as she normally would when speaking with the PCs, will the others in the party understand her?

I'm just not sure how she's perceiving the language difference. I know that the GM has to write in a different language for those that can't understand, but is Lyndis definitely hearing "this is dwarven," rather than just understanding the dwarf?

Does that make sense?

Also, I didn't want to go further than just picking up the box in case anything happens or anyone else wants to smack it out of her hands or something. XD
Milo
player, 28 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 17:41
  • msg #90

Re: Off Topic

That question makes sense to me.

I was also wondering if Milo understands these people and his brain interprets their words as his first language. I assumed that was the case, otherwise he would have many more suspicions about what these foreign words being spoken are (and why he can understand them)

Since Milo was a pretty proficient wizard in his past, he definitely has a decently strong connection with languages, because in most settings wizards are often scholars. Also, he knows a lot of languages because he also served as a spy, so that's important for successfully infiltrating enemy lines and wrecking communications / gathering intelligence.
Oracle
GM, 36 posts
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 20:06
  • msg #91

Re: Off Topic

The question makes sense and is valid. Lyndis, specifically, can understand what he's saying and recognize that it's a Dwarvish dialect. Dwarfish? Both are correct, what do I do?! He's not a fish so I'll stick with the v.

It was going to come out in-game eventually so I'll just spell it out for you as players, OUT OF GAME. You can decide amongst yourselves when you recognize this and how it comes up. I anticipate there being a conversation soon but it's entirely up to you.

You can all understand each other regardless of the language you think you're speaking, but only while using your most commonly used language (ie, the one you defaulted to on waking up.) In this case, if you speak a Dwarf dialect regularly, the other PCs will understand you when you speak but you will be the only one to understand the Dwarf. If your default is an Elvish dialect but you also know Dwarvish, PCs will understand you until you switch to Dwarvish.

The same goes for any additional language your characters might speak. I'm not super stickler on it so just casually mention when and if you think you might know a language. Or, if you prefer, add a note for additional languages to your character sheet and I'll work them in if I see fit.

All good? Any questions/clarifications?
Milo
player, 29 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 21:10
  • msg #92

Re: Off Topic

This is a great clarification, thank you! It's a rather cryptic truth, so it justifies Milo not immediately noticing it.

I still have a further question about that though: Does this mean if you were equally fluent in multiple languages, then you could speak two languages and be understood in both?

Or does it mean that only your foremost language (if you are fluent in multiple, then your first) is the only one other players can understand?

If I were to decide what languages Milo speaks, I'd have to do a lot of worldbuilding for a place I don't feel like doing worldbuilding for atm.

So, I'll just ballpark and say he knows a handful of human languages. Let's call his first language fantasy-english. He is also fluent in fantasy-french, fantasy-spanish and fantasy-german. He knows a small amount of fantasy-mandarin and fantasy-russian.

He can also read and write in Magic Script, which is not a spoken language.

He knows two encoded languages (has mastered neither). The first is a written one which is basically a complex cipher which references itself (meaning that depending on previous sentences, a following sentence may mean something else), and the latter is Blatherspeak which sounds similar to nonsense but is flexible enough to hold double meanings.
Lyndis Biro
player, 31 posts
Elven woodswoman
"Are you gonna eat that?"
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 21:59
  • msg #93

Re: Off Topic

Thanks! That does help clear things up. I'm just going to go with Lyndis assuming that everyone else can understand him since they've all been able to understand each other up to this point. She'll only bother to translate if someone speaks up and asks what is being said.

I'm not going to edit my post to add anything else. I know it's short, but I'll leave it as is, for now. That'll give others a chance to react to the dwarf and whatnot.
Oracle
GM, 37 posts
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 22:34
  • msg #94

Re: Off Topic

In reply to Milo (msg # 92):

Whatever language you first uttered on waking is the only one the other PCs think is "common" (Fantasy-English I guess.) It could be your instinctual language isn't even the one you are most fluent with or your native language. Maybe you have immersed yourself in a new culture recently.

If you woke speaking (Dwarvish) but your native language is (Elvish,) when you switch to a new language, everyone else who speaks (Elvish) will understand that as well. Switching was going to be the cue I gave that something isn't quite right. You would understand that you were speaking (Dwarvish) from the beginning and switched to (Elvish), the PC who understands (Elvish) will have understood what you have been saying but also recognize that you have just switched to Elvish.

Weren't you always speaking Elvish?

And as far as Milo's languages, I think that's a good enough indication without unnecessary world-building. You might even be surprised by the people you are able to understand (and the magic texts you are able to read.)

"Funny, you don't look like a celestial..."
Milo
player, 30 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Tue 29 Jun 2021
at 23:08
  • msg #95

Re: Off Topic

So it's the language we defaulted to that can be understood by the others, not just any language we are fluent in speaking?
Oracle
GM, 38 posts
Wed 30 Jun 2021
at 00:24
  • msg #96

Re: Off Topic

Correct.
Milo
player, 31 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Wed 30 Jun 2021
at 00:46
  • msg #97

Re: Off Topic

Thanks for all the help!
Oracle
GM, 39 posts
Wed 30 Jun 2021
at 03:54
  • msg #98

Re: Off Topic

No, thank you for riding that rollercoaster with me. :)
Lyndis Biro
player, 32 posts
Elven woodswoman
"Are you gonna eat that?"
Wed 30 Jun 2021
at 18:34
  • msg #99

Re: Off Topic

Hey, Milo...just a heads up. Lyndis hasn't said anything to the dwarf.
Milo
player, 33 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Wed 30 Jun 2021
at 19:10
  • msg #100

Re: Off Topic

whoopsies.

editing post ty
Lyndis Biro
player, 33 posts
Elven woodswoman
"Are you gonna eat that?"
Wed 30 Jun 2021
at 20:06
  • msg #101

Re: Off Topic

No worries! Easy mistake to make, especially after we had this whole conversation about languages here in OOC. :D
Lyndis Biro
player, 35 posts
Elven woodswoman
"Are you gonna eat that?"
Thu 1 Jul 2021
at 14:13
  • msg #102

Re: Off Topic

Just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be traveling, starting tomorrow. I'll be around today and tomorrow AM but, after that, I'll be scarce until Sunday evening.
Milo
player, 34 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Sun 4 Jul 2021
at 06:31
  • msg #103

Re: Off Topic

Hey, Schnarrpp; Is your character by any chance based off of Sun Wukong ?

He is also a Stone Monkey :) found this out while doing research for something totally unrelated, and thought to check in and share my question ha ha
Oracle
GM, 42 posts
Wed 7 Jul 2021
at 04:25
  • msg #104

Re: Off Topic

I love Sun Wukong.

Also, I'll post first thing tomorrow. It was an interesting day.
Schnnarrp
player, 20 posts
3' stone monkey
Wed 7 Jul 2021
at 04:29
  • msg #105

Re: Off Topic

In reply to Milo (msg # 103):

Only in the context of ...
Schnnarrp:
I have decided that, just like in our real world, Metamorphic Rocks (Quartzite, Schist, Gneiss, etc) are created when the other two types of rock (Sedimentary and Igneous) are placed under great heat/pressure/chemical effect.

In the world that Schnnnnarp is from; that ‘evolution’ goes further, into what most of us geeks will recognise from the ‘King Monkey’ legends … in that, occasionally, as stone I’d being going through the Metamorphic process, ‘eggs’ can form.

From those eggs are born stone monkeys. 


Stone Monkeys (or ‘Morphites’ as they refer to themselves) consume sustenance, just we humans do.
Just as humans eat both lower life forms and plants, Morphites consume lower mineral forms (Sedimentary and Igneous rocks), as well as plant matter.

There are various ‘races’ of Morphites, dependant on the type of Metamorphic rock that one grew from.
Sccchhnarp is a Marble based Morphite.    But there are Phyllite, Schist, etc Morphites also.

It is, of course, up to each player to decide what they might know of this …
But it is of academic intrigue to me.

Milo
player, 36 posts
Disgraced mage assassin
On the path of vengeance
Wed 7 Jul 2021
at 16:44
  • msg #106

Re: Off Topic

Bro you don't gotta call out my F tier reading comprehension like that :(

LOL. Im so annoyed at myself rn haha




Also, just got my second vaccine dosage the other day, and I had a bit of a reaction last night and this morning (fever and nausea). It's settled down, but I don't know if it will flare back up later or smth and make me temporarily AFK.
Lyndis Biro
player, 37 posts
Elven woodswoman
"Are you gonna eat that?"
Wed 7 Jul 2021
at 17:15
  • msg #107

Re: Off Topic

Hopefully, you'll be feeling 100% soon! With any luck, you won't have any more flare-ups. My son and I were both lucky and just had sore arms and were tired.
Oracle
GM, 43 posts
Thu 8 Jul 2021
at 02:39
  • msg #108

Re: Off Topic

I haven't died or lied, I just got work very suddenly. Unfortunately it's just gig work but what the heck, right?
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