(IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by TGLS

Better than a plain eggplant, I suppose...

That wasn't quite my goal. But sure.

I listen to the conversations, work on understanding the language a little... I wonder how many times I'm going to say hello and count to 10.

More times than Peter.... He'll also end up knowing a lot more languages.

Though hello and count to 10 is pretty easy with guesture, at least until I put you amoung some radically inhuman body plan.

Well if she's expecting the answer in days I'll get back to her about that...

I open my diary and count the entries. Twenty days on Riask and then I fell. Twelve days between Panogos and Koru...

I shrug back at Balla, then hold up ten. Then I look around pensively, and hold up ten twice.

Hah.



that seems to satisfy her. The language he's taught is simple: please, thank you, numbers, the names of a few vegetables, and the word for "weed" and for sand and rain, and for the rain ceremony they conduct.



They do the rain ceremony in a different place in the evening. Right before it, he gets another slice of psuedo-eggplant, some more dates, and some sort of root vegetable.


The others Julian's age are part of the rain ceremony, but he gets to stay with many children watching the ceremony with fixed eyes.

At night, he is shown a shed and Balla gets a boy to help move all the baskets out of the way so Julian can sleep there.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

More times than Peter.... He'll also end up knowing a lot more languages.

Though hello and count to 10 is pretty easy with guesture, at least until I put you amoung some radically inhuman body plan.

Well, you did, but they 'spoke' English. It probably doesn't help that Peter found a way to burn through the language gap.

Originally Posted by ericthered

that seems to satisfy her. The language he's taught is simple: please, thank you, numbers, the names of a few vegetables, and the word for "weed" and for sand and rain, and for the rain ceremony they conduct.

The others Julian's age are part of the rain ceremony, but he gets to stay with many children watching the ceremony with fixed eyes.

So is the ceremony just words or is there motions too? Is it a steady chant or is it sing-songy?

Originally Posted by ericthered

At night, he is shown a shed and Balla gets a boy to help move all the baskets out of the way so Julian can sleep there.

I guess the shade and the sand are why people sleep inside around here.

[ericthered]

[QUOTE=TGLS;2533076]Well, you did, but they 'spoke' English. It probably doesn't help that Peter found a way to burn through the language gap.
[quote]
Hah. True Enough.

So is the ceremony just words or is there motions too? Is it a steady chant or is it sing-songy?

There are motions as well as words. Its a few different short refrains repeated many many times, and its sing-songy, more or less.

I guess the shade and the sand are why people sleep inside around here.

At night, shade doesn't matter. Sand does, and the wind is going to matter a lot too: deserts are cold at night.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

There are motions as well as words. Its a few different short refrains repeated many many times, and its sing-songy, more or less.



At night, shade doesn't matter. Sand does, and the wind is going to matter a lot too: deserts are cold at night.

After I finish clearing out the shack, I try copying the movements and the motions, just to see how it feels (I assume Julian's magic sense acted up when the ritual was happening), then make a diary entry before getting some sleep.

[ericthered]

He gets a little magic going with that chant and motion. It seems to mingle with the magic of the larger crowd. He doesn't know how much rain he personally could really pull down. or if he could achieve the broad effect they're going for. But its something.



As Julian sleeps, he dreams of a ship flying through the air above a city. rocks and arrows are dumped down on the defenders on the wall, before the ship banks and flies away. Behind it, soldiers with long strait swords, flowing robes, and the ability to fly themselves take to the air to chase it.



He senses... vasic. Vasic around the ship. There is a bunch of magic, but he senses a very strong vasic effect coming from somewhere in the hold of the ship.



He awakens to a blowing horn (I think he heard that last morning as well?). Everyone gathers to call more rain on a different spot.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

He gets a little magic going with that chant and motion. It seems to mingle with the magic of the larger crowd. He doesn't know how much rain he personally could really pull down. or if he could achieve the broad effect they're going for. But its something.

It's strangely comforting to not immediately cause some huge effect.

Originally Posted by ericthered

As Julian sleeps, he dreams of a ship flying through the air above a city. rocks and arrows are dumped down on the defenders on the wall, before the ship banks and flies away. Behind it, soldiers with long strait swords, flowing robes, and the ability to fly themselves take to the air to chase it.

He senses... vasic. Vasic around the ship. There is a bunch of magic, but he senses a very strong vasic effect coming from somewhere in the hold of the ship.

I make myself a quick note: "Flying ship, hold with Vasic, flying soldiers." I wonder if I could see it from the ground down here.

Originally Posted by ericthered

He awakens to a blowing horn (I think he heard that last morning as well?). Everyone gathers to call more rain on a different spot.

Well, I guess calling the rain is what's happening now. I imitate the other crowd.

[ericthered]

Julian goes about his second day much like the first. the number "twenty" seems to be said often about him: it seems word that he will only be here 20 days has gotten around.

[TGLS]

Well, thankfully I didn't get asked for my name and misunderstand the question and end up being called 20.

During the break period I draw a picture of the flying ship and ask people about it.

[205] 24-07-28 14:57:44 CEST
Artist Drawing
3d6 <= 11
4 + 1 + 1 = 6 ... success

[ericthered]

Nice picture.



No, they haven't seen the ship. It takes a lot of gestures to even communicate what he's talking about. They don't even seem to know about ships that sail on water.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

No, they haven't seen the ship. It takes a lot of gestures to even communicate what he's talking about. They don't even seem to know about ships that sail on water.

Well. Now I'm curious. Do they even know of the ocean?

Pretty sure the answer is, 'there's no ocean on this world, but curiosity is curiosity'