03-22-2022, 01:21 PM | #51 | |
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Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
The best bang for his buck is the rice wrapped in a leaf*. He will probably eventually find it bland, but right now, its good food, and a fair amount of it.
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So it appears Ano means "what", Ikaw means "you"... Ump says other things as they work, pointing to them and smiling. A shout comes from down the tunnel... the only thing Julian picks out it "Ump!", and the boy turns around and works harder for a while. The stones are renewed three times before they come out of the tunnel to receive their pay. *I made that food up. Then saw a version of it depicted in a show last night.
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03-22-2022, 03:03 PM | #52 | |||
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Let's see if Ump is willing to talk some more outside of the tunnel. Maybe ask him why everyone looks so weird around here. |
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03-23-2022, 09:12 AM | #53 | |||
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[/quote]Let's see if Ump is willing to talk some more outside of the tunnel. Maybe ask him why everyone looks so weird around here.[/QUOTE] Today he receives five metal coins, rather than four. He's pretty sure he worked substantially longer today than yesterday. Ump is happy to ... talk (more like gesturing) outside of the tunnel, but he wants Julian to come with him. The questions about people's weird features results in learning a bunch of words. The short folk with beards are . The talls ones with the slightly webbed hands and pale skin with black hair are "Muggragle". Ones with wings are "Lawin". Ump is in a hurry to get somewhere.
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03-23-2022, 10:55 AM | #54 | ||||||
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I'll ask what the language he speaks is called. Maybe by example: "Ano ito, 'My name is Julian'? English. Ano ito, 'Ako si Julian'?" And I'll ask what yes & no are. |
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03-24-2022, 11:16 AM | #55 | ||||
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Yes, I'd prefer to reserve new words for interesting things like magical stone.
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The group passes where Julian slept, and continues on. Brog pulls out a vasic stone attatched to a cord around his neck, and a small piece of chalk from his pocket. Then he starts drawing a circular pattern on it.
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03-24-2022, 01:42 PM | #56 | |||||
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I try to get a better look at what exactly he's drawing. Is it like a spiral, concentric circles? |
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03-25-2022, 12:35 PM | #57 | ||||
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[quote]What exactly do you mean by "passes"? Are we in the rough tunnel now? I'll point it out along the way. Are we at a wall or something? Or the entrance to a tunnel? [quote] The wooden tunnel doesn't end at the platform: it continues on in both directions. The platform has vegetation tunnel you can access on it, which goes in an downward direction compared to the wooden tunnel, but is mostly parallel, if a bit lower. Here is a rough diagram if it helps. The boys urge him to come on past where he sleeps with them. They hardly stop, and seem to be in something of a hurry. Quote:
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03-25-2022, 02:59 PM | #58 | ||||
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Well... There's a few way to read into 'most of the street kids appear of European descent'. One is 'they're discriminated against', another is 'there's tensions between ethnic groups'. Though there might be 'Lawin and Muggragle are a minority and/or they can move in more on the z-axis and keep to themselves'. Though between this and Graco asking about 'taller responsible people' I have a sneaking suspicion being short might be part of it. Everyone Julian's seen has been (apart from Ump and Co.) are of the four named groups, right? Last edited by TGLS; 03-26-2022 at 11:30 PM. |
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03-28-2022, 12:33 PM | #59 | |||||
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The tunnel has much sparser light in it, but it does have some. There are lots of side tunnels. The boys peel off one by one to go to glowing stones in the side tunnels, but they seem to catch up afterwords. Brog and Ump take Julian with them on one side passage, and Brog hands a woman his money for the day. She looks at Julian long and hard, and asks what he thinks are questions about him. Quote:
If you're looking for patterns, the "europeans" seem to be the most common (maybe half the population), followed by Mugraggle. You've never see any Lawin working, only traveling or purchasing things. The people you see in here do seem to be at least mostly "europeans", though yip went in, and you think you saw someone with very dark skin.
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Clearly the flow of the energy causes the Vasic to distort in a particular way. A uniformly particular way. And there's energy supplied, everywhere. Even in a tunnel made from plants. Or maybe it's like a glow stick; you start using the battery and the disk distorts. That would explain why the same divot seems to appear. Or I could accept this is as inexplicable as my dreams. Quote:
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I suppose I can at least infer that Yanak also work in the mine. Muggragle appear to be working as shopkeepers and middle managers. Duwende do manual labor. And Humans are all over the place doing a bit of everything? It's a mystery. Perhaps for later. |
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