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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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He's also never seen without his leather gloves that sometimes makes it hard for him to notice slight changes in temperature. So he didn't realize the mistake until he accepted the cup and brought it up to his lips.
That's when he noticed the significant lack of heat radiating from the liquid and... Why does it smell like dirt?! He pulled the cup away from his face and gazed into it, adjusting the focus on his monocle with his free hand.
... He poured the cup of mud out onto the street before glaring at the messengers.
"Right. Let me make this perfectly clear. I would like one of you to go to that little machine in the Plaza with the clear kettle in it. That has actual coffee."
Was that specific enough? Because he's thinking of just giving the Messengers money to buy coffee from the Cafe where they don't use mud.
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It's a good five minutes before they return, now holding aloft a new container between them! Also, both of them are wearing oven mitts. Which is to say human-sized ones over their entire heads and upper torsos, little hands in the finger portion to hold onto their prize. And why is that? Because they brought the entire pot. The whole glass pot of coffee. Some of it sloshed out in transit, but hey. Still a good three or four cups worth to enjoy!
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"... Close enough!" It's not a cup of wet dirt, so he'll just take that pot from the monkeys now. "Thank you!"
He can't just drink the whole pot, but he can take it home and pour some of the contents into a mug. He'll probably return the pot to the plaza. Eventually.