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rakuen_ooc2012-08-15 10:14 am
utopiamods) wrote in rakuen_ooc2012-08-15 10:14 am
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Event: Attack on the system
Hello everyone!
As you can see from this post here, Lelouch just can't leave things alone.
At about 2pm on Saturday (Rest Day), an hour after the train has departed, anyone at a computer or holding a PDA will receive a message from a random dropped character's account, which explains that the system is undergoing maintenance. A moment later they will be hit with the warning penalty. This is a medium penalty lasting five minutes, after which every computer, PDA and screen in the city will go black.
But that's not the event. Nope! Characters will find the first time they try to talk to someone, something has gone wrong with the translation system. They can only speak and understand languages they know in canon or ones they have learned in Rakuen (e.g ASL for those that go to the club)
Every sign around campus or in the city seems to be written in a different language, some even with multiple languages on one sign, making the grammar and sentence structure not fit together. Some characters will recognise pieces, others will not. Some languages are totally indecipherable.
The NPC's, in the meantime, are all speaking random languages. They are all looking confused and frightened, wives not understanding husbands, parents their children.
After a couple of hours the computer systems will turn back on, but all text on computers and PDAs is still messed up. No one language seems more prevalent than others. The message about maintenance is still there, and for anyone who can recognise it, it is in a dialect of English.
This will last until the end of rest day. Feel free to use this post for plotting, it might also be useful if everyone mentioned what languages their character could speak.
Have fun!
As you can see from this post here, Lelouch just can't leave things alone.
At about 2pm on Saturday (Rest Day), an hour after the train has departed, anyone at a computer or holding a PDA will receive a message from a random dropped character's account, which explains that the system is undergoing maintenance. A moment later they will be hit with the warning penalty. This is a medium penalty lasting five minutes, after which every computer, PDA and screen in the city will go black.
But that's not the event. Nope! Characters will find the first time they try to talk to someone, something has gone wrong with the translation system. They can only speak and understand languages they know in canon or ones they have learned in Rakuen (e.g ASL for those that go to the club)
Every sign around campus or in the city seems to be written in a different language, some even with multiple languages on one sign, making the grammar and sentence structure not fit together. Some characters will recognise pieces, others will not. Some languages are totally indecipherable.
The NPC's, in the meantime, are all speaking random languages. They are all looking confused and frightened, wives not understanding husbands, parents their children.
After a couple of hours the computer systems will turn back on, but all text on computers and PDAs is still messed up. No one language seems more prevalent than others. The message about maintenance is still there, and for anyone who can recognise it, it is in a dialect of English.
This will last until the end of rest day. Feel free to use this post for plotting, it might also be useful if everyone mentioned what languages their character could speak.
Have fun!
languages ;;
Dunleavy Mallorough: Erm headcanon says it is a horrific amalgamation of modern world languages smushed together and evolving over time into it's own language since they have lived on another planet for hundreds of years. So yeah good luck understanding her...
Day: Styrian. Ha Ha Ha....
Suzaku Kururugi: Britannian-English (will be understandable to an English speaker as just another dialect). His first language is Japanese but it is a lost memory so yeah he will have headaches whenever he meets a Japanese person :(
Shion: Again... headcanon says that it is a mix of languages though not completely evolved like Dunleavy's, I think it probably has a very strong Asianic root with random other languages thrown in for good measure. He also knows very very basic ASL since he had to learn it all from scratch again argh
Merlin: Errrrrrrrrrm. Damn it canon why so vague. I'm assuming it is set pre Roman Britain... maybe... and I'm also assuming the druids speak Celtic... So some form of ancient Welsh most likely... JUST ASSUME UNLESS YOU ALSO COME FROM ARTHURIAN BRITAIN OR ARE A SCHOLAR YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND HIM ;;
Re: languages ;;
The main thing to remember is that Arthurian canon is crazybugnuts and actually spans a few hundred years, and there are points in time when it's a French myth. So to start out: they probably would have spoken a nasty weird hybrid of Middle English (eg, Chaucerian english) and Classical French.
Uhhh I'mma look up some samples and you can pick (I assume you don't want classical french V: )
Re: languages ;;
Yeah my issue was I wasn't sure when the BBC had set Merlin in time. Since it's not quite classical Arthurian legend and I thought it was maybe pre Roman when it was set. But as there is absolutely nothing in the series to place it in time....
We could always go for Middle English (though people may kill me if I attempt to write in it :P) just to be simple.
Re: languages ;;
and I would laugh my butt off if you wrote posts in Middle English no lies
I think BBC Merlin is Magical Mythical Faketimes Merlinland, and I think it's most heavily based on Malory's Morte d'Arthur, which'd make the language Middle English and the setting God Even Fucking Knows.
languages ;;
So anyone speaking Germanic or latin based languages might pick up a word here and there and modern English speakers will be able to work out bits and pieces if they concentrate and yeah :D
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so like every fourth or fifth word makes sense
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My research indicates that while the main canon was 12th century, Arthur and Merlin are SUPPOSED to be from the 6th century, so they would have actually spoken Old English, which is confusingly enough a Germanic language, and the language Beowulf is written in.
HOWEVER as you point out, the earliest extant examples of the Arthurian myth were ancient Welsh; though those earliest sources are still something like 10th or 11th century (as far as I can tell). Arthur as we know him was written by Geoffery of Monmoth, whose Historia Regum Brittanae is both dull as cardboard and written in Latin. However, that language would have been Middle English (eg, the same language Chaucer would have spoken). It's in Geoffery's work that Merlin first shows up in the tradition.
The Arthur we know best was created by Malory in his book Morte d'Arthur, which I think was written in both Middle French and a very early form of Modern English.
*deep breath*
SO. Ultimately it's up to you; the most "historically" accurate thing would be Old English or Welsh; the most accurate to the canon would be either Middle English or Middle French.
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adfjkljdf sorry to get all up in your post with british literature and linguistics I'll just go hide now >>;
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If you have a good grasp on English, and a decent grasp on German, Old English isn't too hard.
I might not have much in the way of German, but having studied Old English, (And getting quite good with translation) I've notice just how much comes from a German root that can be recognizable in German (by sound, not by written form). One of the people I knew flew through the class because he could recognize almost every root, which really just left the grammar to be puzzled over.
It's also possible that someone with a background in literature or an extremely large English could recognize enough obscure roots to get the gist of things.
It would be slow, but it would work!
/Old English geek
also, middle english really just needs getting used to.
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But even so Old English is fucking sweet. And the only word I can ever remember consistently is hwaet but it's a GOOD WORD
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