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voidtreckerooc2020-06-11 04:27 am
voidtreckermods) wrote in voidtreckerooc2020-06-11 04:27 am
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Event: Error 4639
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!
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!
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2) With enough of them trying they should be able to come up with a rough alphabet. It will be enough that as long as they don't have any other letters that the current characters don't they could write a new passengers name. Though bare in mind the letters aren't going to match completely (and the characters writing this alphabet all use different languages/alphabets themselves.)
3) From the words they have managed to decipher from the books then probably yes? It will be very difficult to tell though.- Remember those characters with mystical 'understand all language' are going to just magically understand what's being said, which means the word order and such will just make sense in their mind, which actually will make it harder to pinpoint and isolate specific words.
This problem with having 'auto translate' in their head will be especially a problem in writing.
So using a real life example:
In Arabic د = d و = oo and ر = r
However if I write دور that does not mean 'door'. It does not mean anything. (Edit: Actually it means 'role' but my point still stands.)
The word for door is باب. Now if I had a magical translator/understanding of languages in my head it would tell me that باب means 'door' and I might then break it down to ب = d ا = oo and ب also means r?
Obviously they don't. ب is 'b' and ا is alif 'ah' so باب is pronounced 'b-ah-b'.
Now with the sounds and letters from names they should be able to cross reference and combine the 'knowing' what words are with the letters. However since this language seems to use more than one alphabet it will not be easy.
So basically they can get a basic alphabet and assign a letter to different sounds and probably use it to sound out some words and maybe get some pronunciation tips from the films.
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That was probably 20 times more detailed and complexed than you wanted. I am sorry! I will shut up about language now.
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