03-29-2022, 07:35 AM | #61 | ||||||||
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
The boys stop by another woman, and Ump gives her his money. She also has a piercing look and a few questions, and she is content with a wave and a monosyllabic greeting. The boys head for a cleared out area in the vegetation, where some of the other boys are waiting. Light is provided by Brog's stone, plus Rails brings another one, and a few other boys are here too. They chat with each other, play the coin game, and one of them brought a small rag ball that is getting thrown around. Quote:
Quote:
The facial structure is slightly different, and the overlap in build is fairly small... but yes. Quote:
__________________
Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one! |
||||||||
03-29-2022, 11:18 AM | #62 | |||
Join Date: Jan 2014
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
Quote:
Quote:
They're all probably judging me. "The weird kid who has no clothes and no language. Maybe dropped as a baby." I try to shake off my negativity. Quote:
I'll try to pick up more words while tossing the ball or coins, question words (who, when, where, how, why), names of things (clouds, water, food, clothes, home, coins, light), other verbs (do, can, work, get, have, make), and perhaps some pronouns (here, he, she, they, it). Then I'll ask a few questions depending on how my vocabulary: "I have no home, what do I do?" "Where can I get water/food/clothes?" "How do you get small coins?" "How does Vasic make light?" "Why do clouds make light?" "Where is here?" "When is here?" "How do you get when it is?" (or perhaps "How do you tell the time?" if I can manage it.) Am I wrong in thinking that the food and clothes vendors and other specific and undescribed people are regular humans? |
|||
03-30-2022, 08:00 AM | #63 | ||||||||||||
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one! |
||||||||||||
03-30-2022, 10:18 AM | #64 | |||
Join Date: Jan 2014
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
I shrug. At least there's no foot traffic.
Quote:
Hm. "How often? Do vendors usually sell at even prices?" Quote:
Quote:
Then I pause to think a little. The obvious answer is that can't be true. The sun would just swallow up everything that came too close to it. And then there'd be no cliff side to have the conversation on. Maybe the clouds and the cliffs are orbiting the sun, but close enough to the sun that it still pulls objects downward... No, that would mean I'd be weightless or this wouldn't last long. Maybe the clouds pull everything down. Maybe the sun is really small. If it were much closer, then you wouldn't need something as massive to provide the right amount of heat and light. But a "sun" that small would need maintenance, and building is completely beyond modern science... I'm not on Earth any more, am I? I absentmindedly ask, "How far is the sun? How big?" Shortly after, I realize they probably don't know. Yep. No Bumundo on Earth. Or at least no Bumundo full of white people. And bird people, little people and grey people. I draw out a clock and say, "Only near upper fountain?", I point up when saying upper and try to make splashy motions with my hands when saying fountain. I use the picture of the clock I drew. I circle around it twice and make a tally. I do that a couple of times. Then I say: "How many?" Last edited by TGLS; 03-30-2022 at 11:15 AM. |
|||
03-31-2022, 09:44 AM | #65 | ||||
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one! |
||||
03-31-2022, 10:27 AM | #66 | |||
Join Date: Jan 2014
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
I guess I'll just have to get better at the language before I ask about the date. I'd also like to ask what please and thank you are. Last edited by TGLS; 03-31-2022 at 11:02 AM. |
|||
04-01-2022, 07:59 AM | #67 | ||||
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one! |
||||
04-01-2022, 08:45 AM | #68 | ||
Join Date: Jan 2014
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
Quote:
With regard to the numbers, I was expecting an answer like "He knows the numbers from 1-20". Quote:
Hm. Maybe a construct like French. I'll thank them and head back towards the market. Hopefully I can make it back to the market in time to get something to eat. |
||
04-04-2022, 08:07 AM | #69 | |||
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
lets use escudo and real.
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one! |
|||
04-04-2022, 09:45 AM | #70 | ||
Join Date: Jan 2014
|
Re: (IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)
I briefly consider how odd it is that they're using currency terms that resemble the currencies of the Spanish Main.
Quote:
Quote:
Then I'll head back up to the lower market (or possibly further) to get something to eat. I'll try to negotiate a little (if only for a one real discount), depending on traffic, I might say something like: "It's the end of the day, who else are you going to sell to?" If I happen to head all the way up to the grand market, I might head on to the spring for a sip of water and ask what the "vanishing circle" is. After that I might stop in the dry, well lit area, to make a diary entry, then back down towards the vegetated tunnel. It might be hard walking in the dark but better than getting kicked around. |
||
Tags |
lost in dreams |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|