Language LOL: Translator Malfunction

[rumham]

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. ))

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[losthunter]

"I am glad that you like the crayons." Hunter chuckles lightly.

Hunter takes out his sketch pad, and takes a moment to capture the scene before him. The messengers using the new crayons to draw, and enjoy in the colors. His drawing is very artistic. He uses colored pencils to make the colors truly the feature of the drawing. But each messenger has their own personality.

He signs it with his name at the bottom. "Here you guys go." And hands it to one of them.

[grantuseyes]

When they're handed the drawing, all the messengers eventually stop what they're doing to stare in awe at the work Hunter has done. Gathered around the sheet of paper, the diminutive beings gawk in complete stillness and silence for nearly a minute.

Then there's an explosion of activity once more, all of them clapping and groaning and blowing kisses and just generally losing their marbles over HOW GOOD THIS IS. Like Harrowheart's drawing before, this one is eventually carried off into the floor portal by a single messenger to go show to the others. (And maybe hang up somewhere in the Hunter's Dream. Mr. First Hunter Gehrman is going to be so confused.)

And now beautiful artwork must be repaid in kind. The nice man has given them both a cornucopia of crayons AND a beautiful portrait of them. Now they will use their new tools and broader colour palette to make something REALLY good. Only one works at the actual drawing, but the others busy themselves with selecting the right colours to hand to him, mulling over the options for each part of the forthcoming masterpiece. Soon, it is completed and handed eagerly and hopefully to Hunter to take.

[losthunter]

Hunter smiles when he receives the drawing from the messengers.

"Thank you. Very much."

"Keep up the good work, helping others."