Viridian Plague OOC

[Rystil Arden]

Rystil,

A question on Tralg language. Can M'ress talk normally in it as I have been? Or should I change M'ress's word choices to better fit the language?

Keia

She can talk fairly normally, since she's practised at the language, but it is true that the language is very primitive, and it tends to be extremely inadequate for portraying inner, unobservable traits and qualities--then again, most Tralgs don't really believe too much in inner traits, since those can't be seen. So if you told a Tralg that there was an animal that had feathers and lived in a nest and laid eggs but then it got sick and now it has membranous wings and compound eyes and an hard shell, and then you asked the Tralg if it was a bird or an insect, the Tralg would be likely to tell you that it is now an insect.

 

[Bront]

She can talk fairly normally, since she's practised at the language, but it is true that the language is very primitive, and it tends to be extremely inadequate for portraying inner, unobservable traits and qualities--then again, most Tralgs don't really believe too much in inner traits, since those can't be seen. So if you told a Tralg that there was an animal that had feathers and lived in a nest and laid eggs but then it got sick and now it has membranous wings and compound eyes and an hard shell, and then you asked the Tralg if it was a bird or an insect, the Tralg would be likely to tell you that it is now an insect.

Of course, that's because the translation to that question in Tralg is "If a bird turned into an insect, is it a bird or an insect?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yikes, that was awesome!--Three posts at 12:07, three edits to my post, and it made it in time that you can't see the edit

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Yikes, that was awesome!--Three posts at 12:07, three edits to my post, and it made it in time that you can't see the edit

I've done like 5 edits without it showing up but those where all stupid little errors...

RA: [sblock]

*As the group moves towards the village, a Lacerta with pebbly forest-green skin who sees Slagg drops the staff he was carrying, preparing to fight or cast a spell, as he calls out in Feldori:*

Is Slagg smart enough to realize the creature is casting a spell? If so is it casting or just standing ready? And flatly: Just how threatened does Slagg feel right now? [/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=BS]*Well, he isn't actually casting a spell right now, he's preparing to fight but hasn't started yet, so Slagg would probably have no idea. I'm not sure how threatened Slagg feels. The lizard-man is a puny-looking thing, so Slagg probably figures he can just crush that if he needs to, but those arrows from the bow-girl might hurt him from far away where he can't hit back.*[/SBLOCK]

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

RA: [sblock]Cool, thanks… and Keia went to bed for the night. [/sblock]

 

[Bront]

[sblock=RA]Did my assumption seem reasonable, and does the monster appear to be male and humanoid?[/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Bront]Probably reasonable on the girl--in fact, depending on where she's traveled and what races she met, she may have never seen a normalish (i.e. not cat or lizard or something) humanoid female who isn't a Nymph. The creature seems to resemble the horror story that Whinoah has heard about humanoid males, although its even more hideous and big than she had heard, so in fact, if she's never seen one up until now, she might think that all males are like this [/SBLOCK]

 

[Bront]

Ok, impending edit coming.

Ok, edit done.

 

[Keia]

Managed to post - way past my bedtime. Just didn't want to hold things up.

Nite!!
Keia