The Romance of the River Kingdoms

[Neurotic]

Mogu ti odgovoriti na materinjem jeziku?
(Moghu tee od'ghovorithy nah mattery'nyem yezzikhu?)
May I answer you in my mothers tongue?

As you can see, it looks much shorter and better if I don't try to make it written in equivalent english. My language is fonetic (it is written essentialy same way as it is pronounced)

 

[Blackrat]

My language is fonetic (it is written essentialy same way as it is pronounced)

Yeah, I know. I have limited knowledge of hrvatski . And my language is phonetic also, so I daresay I could probably pronounce it pretty good.

 

[Neurotic]

Where are you from? If I may ask.

 

[Blackrat]

Finland

 

[Neurotic]

Argh. No wonder you can bend your tongue around foreign languages
How did you learn croatian? Are your (grand)parent(s) from here? Or is it simply an interest? I must admit I don't have any idea how to either speak or read Finnish, unless it is somewhat similar to Hungarian

Sorry, all, for hijacking the thread. It's not everyday one gets to speak with one who actualy knows something about small european backwater Of course, europeans have the advantage of home turf in that regard...

 

[Blackrat]

No it's more of an interest. I have a "passion" for languages. It's not that I really know croatian. As I said, I have limited knowledge... That means VERY limited. My knowledge is mostly about how it relates to other slavic languages and some basic vocabulary as a result. I don't think that I could build any sensible sentense but I could probably decipher the basic meaning of some simple sentense like "my name is ..." or such. That's my level of proficiency with most "big" slavic languages. The ugric languages I do a bit better and I understand pretty good all the latin based languages...

If you know hungarian, I'm pretty sure you could at least pronounce finnish decently as it is a kindred language

 

[Neurotic]

Nah, I have only basic understanding of hwo to read hungarian and I know few words, enough to ask for a meal in case of emergency And I probably pronounce it terribly.

We get back to the game? And if you need help or translation sometimes, feel free to drop mail message on PM.

 

[Dr Simon]

Just some OOC notes on the current combat:

Walking Dad: you can choose the appearance of your summoned fire elemental (aka fire "spirit").

Neurotic: I like your plan for next round. Re-reading your post, are you planning on landing on the spider atop the huge spider (#4)?

For off-the-wall moves like this, I might implement a version of the Skills Challenges and Stunts mechanic from Iron Heroes; you take a penalty to your roll and get a bonus or extra effect in return. It's sort of a huge expansion of the way Power Attack and Combat Epertise work.

 

[Walking Dad]

No question: Fire monkey spirit (mid sized will be gibbon and large gorilla...)

 

[Neurotic]

Some skill tricks do such things (skill roll for some effect similat to feat) - and yes, I plan to squish smaller spider between Mystal and big one, landing with feet first, knees hard and rolling away on impact after the spider drinks up inertia. (think parachuters when landing)

Also, Mystal will use his skill trick next round: attack as normaly, run away 10' jump 10' move additional 10' all over webs toward big spider (reason is 50' teleport will not get me high enough if I need to cover more then half of that of horizontal distance...)