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[voice] @user; Late Morning 364; Open [English]

[chaos's low, soft voice speaks, heavy with worry.

He speaks in English.]

There was a warning that went out this morning that said "We are running critically low on resources. Please be patient while we make adjustments."

What resources are these? I...am afraid most of the last week or so is a blur to me.

I'm also curious about why this warning was released in multiple languages, as this hasn't been the norm for the ADMIN so far....

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[Kunsel tilts his head at the unfamiliar language coming through. He's frowning by the time chaos stops speaking.]

What language is that?

Edited 2018-05-27 14:02 (UTC)

[A concerned pause.]

Kunsel?

Please, slow down, I don't understand what you're saying...

[That's... not an answer. Not one he can understand.]

Death price? Nod or shake your head if you understand.

Kunsel?

Ah...let me try something...

[He switches to text.]

Maybe the voice system isn't working. Can you read this?

[This is definitely starting to look like something more serious, and likely outside of chaos's control. No matter how Kunsel squints at the string of characters that just appeared, they don't make any sense to him.

Might as well respond in kind.]

No luck with that one either.

[Now to video. Kunsel takes off his helmet and sets it aside so that chaos can clearly see his furrowed eyebrows and the confusion in the shake of his head.]

Does video at least work here?

[chaos switches over to video, his own expression also one of confusion.

He shakes his head no in response.]

I still can't understand you.

[To get his point across he hooks a thumb downward.]

Well, I can understand that much, so at least the video's still working. Guess we're going to be playing charades and picture games until your death price wears off.

[Speaking of which...

Time to use the tablet's paint program to send chaos a hand-drawn picture of a grave with a scribble for a name, then a calendar with a few squares crossed off. When he returns to video, it's to offer a shrug and a helpless gesture. Hopefully chaos gets the concept of waiting.]

[chaos understands and responds by dropping his head into one hand in a sleepy gesture and smiling.

It's an attempt at humor, though the smile never quite reaches his eyes.]

Okay, so like I was gonna say nothing weird was happening over here, but what's Kunsel even saying up there?

Edited 2018-05-28 01:52 (UTC)

I'm not sure...

He seemed like he was trying to communicate but something was interfering...

The rhythm of his words sound like a language. It's not one of the ones I know if that's the case...

I don't recognize it in text form, either.

Did he die and get stuck in some weird language or something? [There's a pause with some thoughtful humming as America checks back through the obituaries.] I guess probably not unless it was really recent.

That's not out of the question...

People have been resurrected ahead of their obituaries before...

[Now, THERE'S a sentence...]

You said nobody in your group has noticed anything unusual?

Nah, not any weirder than things are normally. [This is what you get when you stick a bunch of English-speakers in the same group.]

That is English. I know the words, some of them. I should know all of them. I've been speaking it for a year.

[A pause.]

It doesn't come naturally to me anymore. I'd thought the nanomachines had imparted the knowledge to me the way understanding of other tongues had been after Babel fell.

[People with a good understanding of the ancient languages stemming from Mesopotamia, its immediate surroundings, and the languages closely related to these might be able to almost follow, but the syntax is wrong and not all the vocabulary matches up.

At least a language conceived well before some of the terms he's using means he has no choice but to use them as loanwords - "English" and "nanomachines" are crystal-clear.]

->Private:

I hadn't been thinking about what I was saying. Is it safe to say that you understand? Or shall you feign misunderstanding so we might switch to something else? Akkadian, perhaps?

[Al listens to the whole thing, and there are parts that almost sound understandable, but in the end he has no idea what's said. His reply is in a language that sounds very similar to German, but isn't German at all.]

I'm sorry, I think there's something wrong with my tablet. Can you say that again?

[chaos recognizes most of that and is able to piece together enough meaning to respond. He keeps the channel open, as he's been publicly seen speaking Akkadian before]

You're speaking the Language of Birds...

Can you understand me now?

Al?

Could you repeat that?

[He switches to German, hoping that maybe it will help get some meaning across]

Hello? Alphonse?

*Wow Kunsel sure is talking crazy talk. Perhaps its a code? But after spending some time on it he doesn't seem to be getting any closer to understanding. So he'll try something of his own.*

01100100 01101111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 00111111

-.. --- -.-- --- ..- ..- -. -.. . .-. ... - .- -. -.. ..--..

*They both translate to "do you understand" in Engligh. At least he's trying?*

[It's just too bad that binary and Morse code correspond directly to English, or that might have been a convenient workaround. As it is, no matter how long Kunsel tries to study it, it just ends up looking like gibberish to him.]

Brian? What are you trying to say?

[A thumbs up sign at least remains a universal sign of approval, and a wry quirk of his mouth should tell chaos that Kunsel appreciates the attempted humor.

Then with a shrug, he turns the connection off. The mystery will have to wait a while, it seems.]

*Please feel free to picture one to three more tries with codes here, but they all translate to the same as the previous ones and the mum doesn't feel like actually getting them. Eventually he gives up, though.*

some thingis
wrong

*No shit.*

[This is strange. Brian is usually at least somewhat intelligible. Kunsel frowns, an inkling of suspicion growing in the back of his mind. He switches to video, though he's not sure if Brian will catch what he's trying to test.]

Can you understand what I'm saying? Switch to video and nod if yes.

*He switches to video too but he does not, in fact, get it. He just stares at the camera (probably. the mask makes it impossible to really tell).*

[That's so much closer to understandable, enough that he kind of catches the gist of what might be being said, but it's still not Amestrian.]

Can you hear me? Hello? The tablet is broken, I can't understand anyone.

[The language Ecks speaks first is guttural and she speaks it half through her teeth. She's already aware that Doctor House doesn't speak any of her languages and that she no longer speaks his; now she is cycling through what she knows in the hope that someone else might recognize one. Each of the four or five languages sounds alien; a linguist might catch on that several of them are related to one another. In the midst of her efforts is a version of Elvish that might sound vaguely familiar to any Tolkien enthusiasts. Each time she speaks she says the same thing slowly and clearly and pauses before starting again in the next language. The name House is the only word that has not been lost from its original form.]

I cannot understand you. Can you understand me? Doctor House cannot understand me. I do not know why this has happened.

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