EVENT WRITE-UP: LOST IN TRANSLATION

[futurologists]

TRANSLATION ERROR PLOTTING POST Welcome back to Oska! After arriving back from Zeta-12, characters will notice that they are no longer be able to understand each other if they do not speak the same language. This extends to writing as well. This is effective immediately on arrival and will last for a full IC day. On the second IC day, text translation will be operational again, following a notification from the magitek technicians Crowley and Cherenkov about what exactly is going on. This won't exactly be the relaxing downtime recruits may have come to expect from Oska -- they'll need to channel their inner exterminator if they want to be able to understand one another. Temporal insects are the cause of the crisis, and descriptions of them are available on the log. Please direct any questions you may have below in the comments section. Verbal translation errors will continue through the end of August, at which point the second leg of the infestation begins. Stay tuned for further information! NEW RECRUITS Welcome to Futurology! Please make sure you review the welcome page before tagging around -- however, there will be one change -- arrival will be randomized by a mod to an Oska Location, and once there, they won't be receiving the same spiel from Lloyd that everyone else has heard. This is because, obviously, they won't be able to understand him! Instead, established recruits will be available to gesture helplessly at you (or speak to you in a mutually-comprehensible language, if you're lucky). Once text translation is operational, new recruits will receive the standard welcome note from Lloyd via text. (This interaction will be handwaved, so please make sure you review the welcome page linked above.) PLOTTING Please use this spreadsheet to help facilitate plotting! Fill out your character's spoken languages and use it as reference when figuring out who speaks what. Established recruits may sign up to be a welcome buddy below. These positions will not be ICly assigned based on anything but compatible language (if applicable), so don't worry if your character isn't completely up to snuff on their understanding of ALASTAIR. Once text translation is operational, Lloyd will give new recruits the standard arrival information via text. QUESTIONS? Ask below! However, please direct general game questions to the FAQ. WELCOME BUDDY Please sign up below if you would like your character to introduce new recruits to what ALASTAIR is all about. You will be assigned to a buddy that best matches your character's language skills, and your character will be asked by an NPC to go and find their new friend. These sign ups are first come first serve, and we might be matching characters up out of sign-up order to best accommodate languages spoken! We will notate when the sign ups are full. <b>NAME:</b> <b>USERNAME:</b> <b>LANGUAGES SPOKEN:</b>

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Just had to say

[asscan]

Unpleasantly huge feet, you say? Just because the girth of ones toe-beans varies by a rather larger factor than the average sentient feline's does not make one an automatic candidate for insect eradication! =n=

[onethousen]

But Dray, he'd look so beautiful coated in moderately acidic goo...!

[asscan]

And there's another thing! Nobody mentioned they burn like the dickens! They all need a raise, u no, this is slave labour! The only thing worse would be a daily morning chant, "ra ra Audentes, crappy rap and filigrees~"

QUESTIONS

[futurologists]

[nishishi]

FOR ME AND ALL OF MY CASTMATES, this has become the most burning, confusing question for all of us.

One Piece is, as I'm sure you imagine, the most nonsense series when it comes to the world it's based in and the understanding of its structure. So that also means that it's 'Language' is one that's so confusing that we don't know what to do, HAHA.

It's shown in series that their newspapers APPEAR to be written in Japanese, but the headings and titles are in English.
The characters are shown to write in Japanese,(On some of Luffy's drawings, there's also bad writing.) but their wanted posters are all in English.
The word 'MARINE' is always in English on their uniforms and Flagships... but the word 'TRUE JUSTICE' is always on their banners and Captain/Admiral coats in Japanese.

Do we assume their language is some... really messed up toss-together of the two languages, or is it safe to assume they can speak/read... both...?

Help us mods we don't know what to do.

orz

[futurologists]

Feel free to go with whichever option would be most fun for you and your cast to play! We aren't enforcing any strict policies when it comes to languages for this event.

[strictdiscipline]

Hi mods, I'm following up on a few lines mentioned in the OOC post for this event, namely:

"It's highly recommended you kill or otherwise chase off an insect before it manages this, as it can do irreversible damage to a world."

I'm interested in engaging in this on a deeper level but I'm not sure if this information is public knowledge -- ie. would the NPCs have announced it at some point? -- or if this is something characters can (and should?) ICly discover over the course of threading. Basically, I'm curious as to what limitations you guys have on that, if any, before I go hog-wild.

Thanks!

[futurologists]

As stated in the post, information on the insects and their effects can be found in the library. Riza is also welcome to contact the NPCs if she has further questions.

[heelies]

Regarding the text translation, as I understand it the jewelry devices can translate thoughts into text and text into audio for illiterate characters. (Or am I wrong about that? Please correct me.) When the text translation function returns, will these components return as well, or will they still be malfunctioning?

[futurologists]

These additional functions will be up and running as well once the text translation returns.

[evantuality]

How do the bugs react to fire? Both being faced with it and being lit on fire themselves?

[futurologists]

Despite being particularly vulnerable to elemental attacks (including fire), the bugs are not scared of fire unless they are burnt, at which point they will flinch away and attempt to avoid the fire.

If set on fire, they'll shrivel up and die quickly.

[selfimage]

In "infected areas," I'm guessing that the bugs are infesting the outside of the mechanical with everything else. Are there any weird time loop things that are particular to that area, or is it p much the same as everywhere else?

Thank you mods!

[futurologists]

Sorry for the delay on this! You're right, there are bugs around the Mechanical Room as well. The stutters through time are the same there as anywhere else in Oska, but there is some unique content that you are free to have Loki catch a glimpse of: there are haggard, tired looking people in uniforms similar to ALASTAIR's, but in white and gold. A few of them bear ALASTAIR's circles-and-triangles sigil in rings, stitched patches, or necklaces. They seem to be in a hurry and carrying something heavy and mechanical between them, but they disappear as soon as they make it into the Mechanical Room.

[selfimage]

THIS IS AWESOME, thank you mods!

[hyperverbose]

because i only ever bring you the important questions

is there a magitek equivalent to emojis

[futurologists]

Since texting over the jewelcomm is thought-based, characters may simply "think up" emoji if they wish to use them! 🎉

[hyperverbose]

amazing 💃

[boneafide]

So....... because Papyrus is dumb....... He'd try feeding the insects some of his magic. In the shape of a bone, but you know, it's magic based. Would the insects eat it? Or snub it? Or if they eat it, will it kill them, etc?

[futurologists]

Since these guys are really only interested in temporal energy, insects would snub anything else they're offered.

[boneafide]

I figured as much but thought I'd ask! Thanks, mods!

[onethousen]

Do the temporal insects leave behind bodies that need to be disposed of, and if so... are the recruits also handling that (along with whoever else is at home in Oska at the time)? I hadn't caught if they did or not in reading their info on the log, so figured to ask to be sure!

[futurologists]

The insects explode into acidic goop when killed, so there are not bodies per se! Surviving insects will consume the goop left behind, though they are messy eaters -- so there will be some cleanup required.

[onethousen]

Wonderful, thank you so much!

WELCOME BUDDY SIGN-UPS

[futurologists]

[flashbanging]

NAME: Jesse McCree
USERNAME: flashbanging
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English; Spanish

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Knock Out/paintjobs! Dagny will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg him to go and explain to the robot on the castle roof why he has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

[selfimage]

NAME: loki
USERNAME: selfimage
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: all earthly languages, including old norse

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Momo Yaoyorozu/yaomomo! Uruz will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg him to go and explain to the lady in the stables why she has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

[iomnic]

NAME: Zenyatta
USERNAME: iomnic
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Nepali.

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Kung Jin/pummelling! Uruz will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg him to go and explain to the guy in dungeons why he has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

[hellshaped]

NAME: Hellboy
USERNAME: hellshaped
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, French, German, Spanish, and some Latin

[grunehexe]

NAME: Sieglinde Sullivan
USERNAME: grunehexe
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: High German, Intermediate English, Latin, passable Greek, Italian, French, and Gaelic

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Rocky/friendlykillingmachine! Dagny will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg her to go and explain to the robot in the birch forest why he has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

[forcevisions]

NAME: Natasha Romanoff
USERNAME: expatriates
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: fluent in Latin, Russian, English, French, German, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese); passable in Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Widowmaker/araigneedusoir! Uruz will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg her to go and explain to the lady in greenhouse why she has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

[strictdiscipline]

NAME: Riza Hawkeye
USERNAME: strictdiscipline
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: (Fake) German, probably like 3 words of Japanese

[predomination]

NAME: Kisuke Urahara
USERNAME: predomination
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Japanese

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Arima Kishou/prodigism! Uruz will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg him to go and explain to the guy in the kitchens why he has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

[timebender]

NAME: Aradia Megido
USERNAME: timebender
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Japanese (referred to as "East Alternian dialect" in canon...), Alternian (???)

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Lance/competing! Dagny will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg her to go and explain to the guy in the hot springs why he has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

Re: WELCOME BUDDY SIGN-UPS

[sengetsu]

NAME: Kojuro Katakura
USERNAME: sengetsu
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Japanese, a tiny bit of English and Latin

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Chihiro/onethousen! Dagny will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg him to go and explain to the kid in the Training Center why she has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

[headlining]

NAME: Keats
USERNAME: headlining
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, probably some Gaelic

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Sabo/ryusoken! Dagny will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg him to go and explain to the guy in the lake why he has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

[whatshimadayou]

NAME: Captain Surly Grumpypants Hanzo Shimada
USERNAME: whatshimadayou
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English and Japanese fluently; handful of Chinese Mandarin and Korean

[futurologists]

You've been chosen to greet Saitama/heroforhobby! Uruz will flag your character down at some point on the first day of the return to Oska and beg him to go and explain to the guy in the Viewing Hall why he has suddenly appeared in this dimension. Good luck!

CLOSED

[futurologists]

We are full up on sign ups now, thank you so much to everyone who threw in for us!