Event: Error 4639

[voidtreckermods]

Early in the morning of day Twenty-Two (OOC 12th June) a message will appear on the ICP. It won't be there very long (around 15 minutes) before it disappears.

Or at least it can be assumed it disappears because the whole ICP system goes down. All the screens come up with a message at the same time (Error code 4639. Program must end.) and then go dark. There doesn't seem to be any reset buttons, or even power switches to the ICPs and even the more technological based Voidtreckers who are connected to the systems will not be able to find the ICP's to switch them back on.

It doesn't stop there, because the voidtreckers will quickly find that the ICP's are not the only thing broken. Indeed whatever technology that allows everyone to be understood by each other has broken. During the whole of day twenty two they will only be able to speak the languages that they spoke back on their worlds.

Characters who have an ability to speak all languages, or an ability to understand and be understood despite language will find that ability still works.

In conclusion. On day twenty two.

~ Characters can only speak and understand the languages they know in their canon.
~ There is no ability to use the voice or video function of the ICP.
~ None of the other ICP functions work.
~ The names outside the rooms are written in an alphabet no Voidtrecker will recognise.
~ The normal power is not effected. Also, strangely enough, the VR games and the cinema are still functioning. The films are all in a language no voidtrecker speaks.
~ They will find that the books are written in a language they don't understand as well (unless it is a specific title from their world that they requested, in which case it is written in the original language).

This will last until the next day. When characters wake up on day twenty-three they will find everything back to normal.

The initial message and a catch all post will go up on the 12th June. This event runs between 12th and 13th June.

Here is a handy plotting form!

<b>Player name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character name:</b> <b>Languages spoken:</b> <b>Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event:</b> <b>Plotting ideas:</b>

Comments

Questions?

[voidtreckermods]

[yep_stilldead]

For people from fantasy worlds that don't have specified languages but are loosely based on locations in the real world, can we assume that they conveniently map over to the languages of the places they're based on? In other words, can I say that Ivy's fantasy world happens to speak English, or is she stuck unable to communicate with anyone?

[mtsilver_conquor]

Player name: Fenix
Contact: Dark_fenix

Character name: Eva Iden'no
Languages spoken: Listing this Arkean > Earth Equiv.
Yamatan - Japanese-based, but not a one-to-one thing. Her native language.
Alolan - a mix of the Polynesian languages with a basis in native Hawaiian. Eva is fluent enough to carry out a conversation but um. There's some weird word order going on there too.
Unovan - Germanic. Eva knows curses, mostly. Eva knows enough to hold a very brief, very stilted conversation. Understands more than she can speak.
Kalosian - Basically, French, or French-sounding. Eva knows enough to ask 'where [x common thing] is' and 'pokemon battle?'. Understands about as much as she can speak.

Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A

Plotting ideas:
Ok, so basically, the people Eva is going to be able to understand without any trouble what so ever are those who speak Japanese, and she'll come across as a mediumish dialect of it in a rather casual register 90& of the time. And not everything is going to translate.

Otherwise, please teach her fun new ways to curse :D

[stealsyourheart]

Teach Nerdanel what mother is in Yamatan~

And Kaito is happy to chatter at her!

[blue_ice]

Player name: Zoki
Contact: zokiblu #5949

Character name: Seto Kaiba (Orange)
Languages spoken: Japanese, English, Mandarin, some German
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: Just general anger and panic.

Character name: Mami Tomoe (Purple)
Languages spoken: Japanese, very basic English
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: Trying her best to investigate, that's about it

[mtsilver_conquor]

Hey, Kaiba. Want to help a girl out with her Unovan/German(ic)?

(her accent is horrid btw.)

[goingthroughaphase]

Player name: Usami
Contact: usamichan13

Character name: Kitty Pryde
Languages spoken: English, and maybe some rudimentary Spanish
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: n/a
Plotting ideas: I didn’t list this above because I wasn’t sure if it counts, but if the problem is with the ICPs, I’d really love to have Kitty phasing through to see if there’s a problem with the hardware. She also has some programming skills and can also try helping out with looking up software issues. Otherwise yeah, she probably will be confused because she’s really only able to speak English.

[swansongs]

Player name: Nic
Contact: gavemyleftarm

Character name: Dyme Graydon
Languages spoken: English, some Iskani (an alien language native to his universe)
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: None!
Plotting ideas: Panic and confusion. Lots and lots of confusion.

[myblueskies]

Player name: Katy
Contact: damua | damua#1089

Character name: Romeo
Languages spoken: Italian and Japanese, also American sign language but that's more... He can probably do sign assisted speech. There is no way he has the grammar right.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Nope
Plotting ideas: Just know that not being able to communicate is not going to stop him friendshipping at everyone.

Character name: Taiki
Languages spoken: Modern Japanese and a version of ancient Chinese.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Kirin can understand attempts to be understood and be understood in return. So he can be used as a universal translator if it is so needed!
Plotting ideas: He will focus on helping people who don't seem to share a language with anyone.

Character name: Little One/Buttercup
Languages spoken: The language of her world, specifically Gauigen dialect though she can understand the 'standard' language of her world as well, she just doesn't speak it.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Nope
Plotting ideas: She's going to be so frustrated!

[rookiemistakes]

Wrong account but Romeo can help Joss with his Italian. He’s rather rusty.

[rookiemistakes]

Player name: Emily
Contact: colortheory on plurk

Character name: Joscelin Fitzthomas
Languages spoken: English, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, German, Dutch, Italian, American Sign Language, Japanese
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: None
Plotting ideas: Joss can be a translator for folks from Earth, given the number of languages he speaks.

Character Name: Elena
Languages spoken: Whatever they speak in Final Fantasy VII, plus a smattering of Wutai vocabulary and basic tourist phrases.
Mystical abilities: None
Plotting ideas: I guess she’ll only be able to speak with Reno and Yuffie, so...

[sensitiveapple]

MISA AND JOSS for this event. She won't be able to understand him, and he won't be able to understand her.

I need this.

[hashtagparkerluck]

Player name: Kinz
Contact: kinziekay

Character name: Peter Parker
Languages spoken: English with a slight NY accent, a little bit of Italian, and High school level Spanish. (He can ask you were the library is) and Memes. He is fluent in the memes.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: n/a
Plotting ideas: Nothing specific. have at.

Character name: The Doctor
Languages spoken: All?? He speaks everything.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: The Doctor does possess some psychic abilities which probably is why he can speak everything.
Plotting ideas:

[madcuriosity]

Doctor! Come say hi to Alice! They can speak flower together at the flowers.

[les_magique]

Player name: Eric
Contact: Overbringer#2743/overbringer

Character name: Samata Mahto
Languages spoken: Something similar enough to French that anyone who can speak French could understand her fine. Due to divine shenanigans, her world does not have nearly as many languages as it should, so most people only ever need to speak one.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Nada
Plotting ideas: I am very interested in doing threads of people who don't share any languages doing stupid pantomimes to make themselves understood.

[dredefulchilde]

Joss is fluent in French so they can have half-pantomimed conversations if necessary.

[sendiintheclown]

Player name: Roswolf
Contact: Roswolf | Trowa#4461

Character name: Trowa Barton
Languages spoken: fluent in Italian, English, and mostly in Arabic. He can muddle through in Japanese and Mandarin, but can only swear in Russian.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: absolutely none
Plotting ideas: I'm open to anything, really.

[sensitiveapple]

Creed can teach you how to swear in Cantonese. And teach him how to swear in Italian. That's one he hasn't picked up yet.

[theturksway]

Player name: Aisu
Contact: PMs, AisuYoukai @ plurk

Character name: 47
Languages spoken: Most Earth languages.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: n/a
Plotting ideas: He can understand and speak all major Earth languages. A little less fluent in minor languages but can still understand a good many. He can also do some sign language if anyone wants to play around with that. This won't really phase him much as he's used to being in foreign countries all the time and hearing multiple languages. He'll help translate or chat with people feeling awkward because I guess that's what he does now is pretend to be nice and helpful a lot lol.
As for non-language things, 47 may attempt to help investigate why the ICPs aren't working. But if he gets caught up in translations that's okay too.... XD


Character name: Reno
Languages spoken: Whatever they speak in FFVII, plus some mangled Wutai.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event:
Plotting ideas: His main language may sound similar to English (or Japanese idk) and Wutai would sound similar to a dialect of Chinese. He may be able to butcher his way around with speaking to others with complications. He's smart but also lazy when not on a mission so he may just grow frustrated and give up. / s h r u g
Reno would investigate but see above re: frustrated and give up with a gigantic shrug and a 'fuck it' expression.


Character name: Garrett
Languages spoken: Whatever they speak in his world.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: n/a
Plotting ideas: His main language may sound like a bit like oddly accented old Modern English (say, stuff spoken during the Industrial Revolution time period) and he might throw in some more current Modern English words he learned from Ryslig (because they just didn't have those words in his language to begin with) so he can kind of be understood with a little work. He doesn't like to talk much anyway, he'll be fine.
As another thought: Garrett has the ability to see through walls and such to look at the inner workings of traps, hidden objects, mechanical inventions, etc so he might go around helping people look at things in the train if they want an easy way to find where to open panels? Uh, yeah. Cool. There ya go.


Character name: Piccolo
Languages spoken: All Earth languages. Oh yeah, and Namekain.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Telepathy. This also works as mind reading in the DBZ universe so Piccolo can straight up read minds--this includes past and current memories/thoughts. He's experienced with it but usually doesn't default to it unless in a hurried emergency situation. For sake of RP he'll only resort to it with OOC permission--IC he's a blunt asshole who won't ask before he just straight up does it. So let me know if you want your character's mind read. o7
Plotting ideas: He can act as translator for anyone who wants it, or anyone who doesn't want it but their player does lol. He'll casually speak whatever language is spoken to him without really realizing it so he might be "???" at first whenever everyone is all "I can't understand everyone anymore!" because he's not Kami, he doesn't think about this stuff anymore. If he can't understand another language right off the bat (because it's not Earthian, Namekian, or some other language from his Universe) then he might resort to mind-reading if it's frustrating to try to pantomime. Again, just let me know if it's a thing you're interested in because it's obviously not a thing I want to force on anyone.

[blitzcheer]

just asking before tagging into piccolo's top-level! for tidus, would he not understand piccolo at first (due to their different languages) but piccolo would then think 'oh, butt around in his head' so they would understand each other right after that?

(of course, i'm a-ok with piccolo being in tidus's head. welcome to blitzball)

[internetsexsymbol]

Player name: Chai/Tea
Contact: chaiteacup

Character name: Arataka Reigen
Languages spoken: Japanese. He only knows a couple English phrases he's not fluent
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: n/a
Plotting ideas: He might be trying to fix the ICP system with minimal success

Character name: Ann Takamaki
Languages spoken: Japanese and English, fluent in both.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: n/a
Plotting ideas: She's going to be confused at the lack of things she can understand.

[dredefulchilde]

Don’t worry, Reigen, your roomie will still understand you.

[madcuriosity]

Player name: Jax
Contact: snickersnack

Character name: Alice Liddell (the younger)
Languages spoken: English, French, a couple of words in Latin, flowers
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: None
Plotting ideas: She'll be confused by is very likely to go along with anything

[agathokakological]

ok but the real question is do i say crowley speaks plant

[laurefindil]

Player name: Perky
Contact: plurk.com/Perkyandproud Perkyandproud#5561

Character name: Glorfindel, or in Quenya, Laurefindil
Languages spoken: Quenya, the Vanyar language, Sindarin, Common, Dwarvish, Easterner...basically most of the Middle Earth languages, but no Earth ones
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Minor telepathic, but will that be enough if the language isn't there?
Plotting ideas: All sorts!

[stealsyourheart]

well I mean Finrod learnt Taliska presumably from Beor's brain so XD

[shockinglycaffeinated]

Player name: Cat
Contact: queensassycat or queensassycat#7482 on Discord

Character name: Telli
Languages spoken: Common (English basically), Huttese (example), Zabraki, and Twi'leki (which involves the movement of her head tails)

Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Telli's Force abilities do mean that she has basic empathic abilities, and any extreme emotions she feels can affect the feel of the air around her. Happiness feels light, anger feels like a lightning storm, disgust is cold, etc.

Plotting ideas: She's more than happy to teach others to curse in fun Star Wars languages that only she and Luke knows, so if anyone wants to learn dirty words she's your girl.

[sensitiveapple]

Misa wants to learn Huttese to horrify some people. Help a girl out?

[tinkerheart]

Player name: Ran
Contact: bitweaver, orchidcircle#8546 on discord

Character name: Fëanor
Languages spoken: First Age Quenya with meticulous pronunciation

Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Elvish telepathy but its use is A Bit Complicated, so not that ready to use.

Plotting ideas:Is this Christmas? It surely feels like Christmas even if Fëanor doesn’t quite understand the concept (somebody probably told him it’s a thing on Earth already).

He is going to be making SO MANY NOTES. On Voidtrain language. On languages of people on the train. Who understands who, which language seem to belong to the same families. Time to reinvent comparative linguistics :D

Eating and sleeping will be avoided like a plague because he doesn’t know when this miracle will end so got make the most of it. (Yes, he knows it could possibly be a hindrance if the autotranslation broke permanently but right now can it kindly please stay broken for just a little longer because RESEARCH)

Small disclaimer: he did try to teach some basic Quenya to Tony.

[iamnotgod]

Wrong account (mostly) but NOTEBUDDIES CAN BE A THING PLZ YES?

Just. Ransacking the books/cinema to see if any of them have a language in common with the train's own alphabet/syllabary!

[kumoko]

Player name: elle
Contact: evildoers

Character name: Lightning
Languages spoken: Language of Gran Pulse AND Cocoon writing.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: none
Plotting ideas: WELP ain't no one speaks her language, but the language of the gods is ciphered Latin so there may be some overlap in grammar.

Character name: Kumoko
Languages spoken: modern Japanese, smattering of English.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: none
Plotting ideas: oh hey it's like she's back in her old world again!! she hates it, time 2 sleep. All the signs and web text banners in the dressing car are in modern Earth Japanese now. Because she specifically ordered the tablet from Earth that will be too.

Character name: Gyousou
Languages spoken: Tai dialect, grammatically similar to archaic Chinese but not mutually comprehensible. Luckily--
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: As a ruler he has the mystical ability of universal understanding - to speak and be understood by anyone, and understand them in turn - so he'll be unaffected. If he speaks to you it still sounds like he's speaking the same language as you - I don't think it's actually possible for him to say something and others not to understand unless he's purposefully speaking gibberish.
Plotting ideas: He'll be helping out with Taiki!

Character name: A-Qing
Languages spoken: Traditional Chinese I'm assuming?
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: none
Plotting ideas: What's that? No one can talk to her? Time to be out and about!

[diamondsfortears]

Player name: Tseil
Contact: Tseil

Character name: Daia
Languages spoken: Victorian English; Feudal Japanese (enough to understand most, but not all)
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: ?
Plotting ideas: He's going to be sad, but thankfully he can still talk to Kaiba! This child will be stressed and distressed. And probably hiding under a table crying somewhere.

Character name: Ultimo
Languages spoken: Japanese (any)
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Memory reading
Plotting ideas: None so far? He'll probably just be trying to make sure everyone is okay. And hey! He can understand his Master, so he's golden.

Character name: Huehuecóyotl
Languages spoken: Understands most Earth languages; however, no one will be able to understand them unless you have Ears of Sand or their equivalent, or happen to be one of the Mythological Creatures on and of Earth component. (i.e. - Kitsune, God, Angel, Tengu, etc.)
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: I mean, they're a God. Does that mean anything?
Plotting ideas: Ah, everything was so nice when everyone could understand them for the full five seconds they've been here so far. They're not going to be too upset about it, but playing charades would be fun if anyone wants to figure out what they want or say. Canonically, it's explained as if someone were to try to understand how a dog or a cat feels. Their voice will sound echoey, but incomprehensible to others.

[aluciner]

Player name: r
Contact: flyingthesky#0332

Character name: ronan lynch

Languages spoken: fluent english and latin, enough irish to muddle his way through a conversation brokenly

Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: he can be telepathically communicated with, regardless of language, because it canonically filters through to him in latin. the catch is . . . he's not actually psychic so he can't do it back. "how does that work" magic. that's not a joke answer, literally he interprets it as a kind of magic and the language of magic is latin. unfortunately he's never needed to do it in the other direction, so he never learned how.

Plotting ideas: if anyone overheard this (it was to the standard coach but still not especially private) feel free to hunt ronan down and ask exactly what he's capable of (a lot) and whether or not he can make a translation device (he could, it'll just be Weird). you can also ask him about the black goo dripping out of his nose. that might be more concerning.

[blitzcheer]

If people were speaking to each other about what languages they can speak, if they can universally translate, etc, might the thought occur to Ronan that he could specifically make such a device? Since in that convo he says he can replicate items.

There will be people trying to help everyone find those who can speak similar languages, etc, but there will be rarer languages, so a translation device that can auto-translate those seated near it might be fun. And of course whatever consequence happens for Ronan making it/them!

[mynameisallen]

Player name: Lisa
Contact: Plurk: faysdarkangel

Character name: Rapunzel
Languages spoken: It's not 100% stated what she can actually speak but by research, it seems she would most likely know French (While the fairy tale comes from Germany, Tangled the series comes with a French phase and the fact Corona was inspired by a place in France, so I am leaning more towards that). I mean I could go mean and have her have a language only she would know...
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: Just pure confusion and tempting to find ways to communicate.

Character name: Yugi Mutou
Languages spoken: Japanese, probably knows a tiny bit of English, but not enough to actually be at all useful.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: Yugi would probably be interesting in the fact that things they can't understand have popped up.

Character name: Allen Walker
Languages spoken: English. That's all.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: I think after this Allen would be willing to at least attempt to learn another language. Word being attempt.

Character name: Minako Aino
Languages spoken: Japanese and a tiny bit of English most likely.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: Minako will make the best of it I suppose.

[aggressivelygood]

Player name: Locke
Contact: smashpotato

Character name: Sven
Languages spoken: Most of the Standard D&D languages (Common, Dwarvish, Elvish, etc.) alongside Celestial and Primordial, thanks to his patron
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: Nada!
Plotting ideas: He spent much of his youth translating religious texts, so this is going to be an interesting experience for him if nothing else. Though he's fluent in Common (and Primordial and Celestial come as naturally as breathing, since he didn't really have to "learn" them), he's much more used to reading and writing in his other languages and will fudge all his pronunciation/struggle to understand them when hearing them spoken.

[laurefindil]

Somehow I suspect your Dwarvish, Elvish, and Common tongues aren't the same as Glorfindel's, but it would be fun to compare!

[lookslikeacinnamonroll]

Player name: Chris
Contact: objectpermanence / millennial falcon#9103

Character name: Wen Ning
Languages spoken: ancient Chinese
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: he's already so confused by everything on this train. come witness him be even more confused!

[zenryokubatankyu]

Player name: Tulip
Contact: osomatsuniisan / ♡ Tulip ♡#6969

Character name: Osomatsu Matsuno
Languages spoken: Japanese, sparing English phrases
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: Well. He's gotten here not too long ago and now he doesn't understand anyone. Oof!

[radishlobbyist]

Player name: Artemis
Contact: cycnicalharlequin

Character name: Wen Qing
Languages spoken: Chinese (old-timey style)
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: -
Plotting ideas: So far I only have thats she's going to be upset she can't read her medical textbooks anymore.

[sensitiveapple]

So, Creed can get by in Mandarin but can only curse in Cantonese. Should we have fun with that?

[iamnotgod]

Player name: S.M.F./Autistic_Ace
Contact: Discord: Autistic_Ace#5045; plurk: Autistic_Ace; or just DM!

Character name: Webmind
Languages spoken: Most Earth languages - though if your character isn't from Earth but speaks something lined up with one of those languages anyway, having him understand them should also work. Other than that (and maybe Quenya thanks to Tolkien fandom; let me know if you are okay with him understand it!), he's SOL!
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: N/A
Plotting ideas: He's going to suggest investigating, not just the hardware they can see, but looking under the floorboards to see why this only effects the ICPs/translators!

He is also mad at the possibility all his text may be gone, but he'll try not to mention that.

Character name: Nita Callahan
Languages spoken: English (though she knows a little Spanish thanks to Kit), and the Speech! See below.
Mystical abilities that are relevant for this event: The Speech, while it may also sound like gibberish on the phonetic level, is meant to fester understanding; speakers (especially if they're wizards) can understand what other people are saying/writing regardless of language - unless that language is somehow dead, and has been forgotten for a long time, but that shouldn't come up here! - and also be understood by other people, though this may just go for speaking instead of writing.

TL;DR Nita can do a translate! But she can't be everywhere.
Plotting ideas: Nita is going to try and translate ALL THE THINGS. And possibly build an alphabet and/or syllabary for whatever language the train is using, let alone finding a match for it in the other media available ON the train.

[flatteries]

nita please help inigo out before he cries.........