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nexus_crossings2018-01-18 11:54 am
rumham) wrote in nexus_crossings2018-01-18 11:54 am
Language LOL: Translator Malfunction
You know what's cool? Chatting with your pals. Reading the Internet. Navigating the roads because you can understand the Gods-damned street signs. You know what's not cool? Not being able to do any of that. By that metric, one might describe today in the Nexus decidedly uncool.
It's utterly without warning that the multiversal hub goes from automatic to manual translation. Shop signs, radio and television broadcasts, conversations on the streets between vendors and friends and businesspeople are suddenly a jarring cacophony of dissonant languages. Then there's the silence. Then there's the shouting. Turns out people get pissed off when nobody understands them!
Momentary chaos dies down as the average people of the Nexus come to grips with their new situation. Shopkeepers wait outside their stores and stands with expectant expressions, impatiently waiting for the translator to pull itself together and start working again.
Except...
It sort of doesn't.
No, it super doesn't.
Citizens of the Nexus, it would appear you're going to have to adjust...
((The temporary LANGUAGE LOL is now underway! It's freeform fun until you're done and participation is completely optional. Don't feel like this event should stop you from making threads which are unaffected by the LOL in the mean time. If you want your Language LOL'd character to interact with a non-LOL thread, please ask the OP if they want to play that dynamic first. For the OOC and organization post, GO HERE. ))
It's utterly without warning that the multiversal hub goes from automatic to manual translation. Shop signs, radio and television broadcasts, conversations on the streets between vendors and friends and businesspeople are suddenly a jarring cacophony of dissonant languages. Then there's the silence. Then there's the shouting. Turns out people get pissed off when nobody understands them!
Momentary chaos dies down as the average people of the Nexus come to grips with their new situation. Shopkeepers wait outside their stores and stands with expectant expressions, impatiently waiting for the translator to pull itself together and start working again.
Except...
It sort of doesn't.
No, it super doesn't.
Citizens of the Nexus, it would appear you're going to have to adjust...
((The temporary LANGUAGE LOL is now underway! It's freeform fun until you're done and participation is completely optional. Don't feel like this event should stop you from making threads which are unaffected by the LOL in the mean time. If you want your Language LOL'd character to interact with a non-LOL thread, please ask the OP if they want to play that dynamic first. For the OOC and organization post, GO HERE. ))
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As to the why, one of them gets right on a new drawing to further elucidate. Or just keep adding weird layers to this whole thing. Either or. This one's done fast too, so Jim is handed a new parchment in less than a minute.
The one is still drumming his hands on the first drawing. Bap bap bap. This is good fun.
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Jim stares at the hastily drawn sketch in disbelief. This thing is... inside his head? Inside his head. What is it? Some kind of... rune? How did it...?
No. He knows the answer to this one, without even having to ask. Even though he'd had Hermione check to make sure he hadn't brought the curse out of the Nightmare with him, that doesn't mean he didn't bring something else. The scars on his shoulder are proof enough of that.
But it's been months since then, and the nightmares and panic attacks have been well within the bounds of what he would have expected after that horrible night. So... whatever it is, it hasn't made anything worse. Hasn't hurt him, not that he's noticed. It's something he's damn well going to look into, but the immediate panic is tempered with reason, his brow furrowed in thought.
"...thanks." He's still not sure what to make of these weird little artist dudes, but he probably wouldn't have known about this without them.
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