CONCERNS & INQUIRIES

[coniurati]

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[anonymous]

This has come up recently because of the school and i can't find it answered anywhere else in the com: what language are the characters speaking? Obviously some of them know Japanese, English, French, etc. but how are the ones that don't know any earth languages communicating? Does everyone get unique Discedospeak uploaded into their brain when they arrive, or is it being translated by the coms, or do those with canon specific languages get to flail around hopelessly and hope pantomimes are enough to get their point across? I'm just kind of confused because I haven't seen it answered anywhere. xD

[coniurati]

Characters speak whatever language is in their canon. Many characters who are set in Japan speak Japanese, some speak Italian, etc. Sometimes this is up to player speculation, since some characters come from worlds where the language isn't specified. This happens a lot with anime/manga and other source material that is translated from Japanese/another language to English. If your character's canon doesn't specifically say that they're speaking a particular language, you can make an estimated guess, or just not label any voice posts you decide to make.

The communicators are able to translate text into any language. For example, if a character only knows German and wants to communicate with someone who speaks English, they can type German text into their communicator which will then be translated into English. Voice functions can be transcribed and then translated, but voices themselves can not.

Essentially, the language barrier is as much of a problem as you want it to be. If a player posts with a voice function and the language isn'

[underthesakura]

What aside from the medicine and monsters can be found in the hospital? Are there any needles, scalpels, IV cords/bags, suture kits, stethoscopes, tiny flashlights, etc. to be found? And if there are, are the ones that come in sterilized packaging (like scalpels and needles) still in said packaging, or can only used ones be found?

[coniurati]

Most anything that can be found in a hospital can be found in Discedo's hospital. However, most if not all of it has been used, or is simply dirty from years within the abandoned hospital. Due to hospital's last days of actual use, the surgical tools and most needles are used and dirty. Certain types of needles are still in their packaging-- U40s (the small type mainly used for insulin) are individually packaged, so those would still be clean. Anything larger would have been used.

Flashlights would still be functional, but their batteries would either be dead or close to dying. In that same vein, the machinery in the hospital is pretty damaged by events and age. Some if it is going to be foreign, since Discedo was very technologically advanced, so characters might not recognize what they are (or how they WORK for that matter).

[zetsubo_sensei]

This is considering the books available at the library and/or high school library.

Could a character necessarily find books from his home world? Such as mine is from Earth, could he find a book like Watership Down or To Kill a Mockingbird? Or would all the books be local books of Discedo?

[coniurati]

The books in both libraries are local to Discedo. They main library only has how-to books and fiction, and the high school library only has fiction and things akin to "Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul" (though not the exact book). Some books will probably have some similarities to books from other worlds (i.e. a book about fascist animals or something). Basically if your character is looking for fiction novels and you want them to talk about the plot of it, you're free to make up whatever story you like.

If your character is looking specifically for a book from their own world, an item rain would be a good opportunity to ask for one.

[musical_wings]

I was wondering, I know the food people find is like, canned, so would that include canned fruit?

Also, would it be possible to find like an almost empty container of flour? Flour lasts a while so...yea.

[coniurati]

Yup and yup.

[grandcrossed]

How would chips be handled for characters whose nifty powers come not from themselves, but entirely from possessing nifty gadgets?

The example I'm mostly asking in relation to is Devil Survivor, in which the characters are normal humans, but they're in possession of so-called COMPs (Communication Players, they look like a Nintendo DS but function a bit more like a cell phone), which have been hacked to run a special program that allows them to summon demons.

I assume they'd still get chipped like normal, since the scientists use the chips for other purposes than pure suppression. But would the COMPs be left alone, or would they get a separate chip to block the summoning function (like how robots get chipped), or something else? And if so -- would the more technologically adept members of the cast be able to get the chips out, if they spent enough time fiddling with them?

[coniurati]

Sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you. This week’s been pretty hectic.

Alright, basically, what will happen is that the scientists will mess with these COMPs. Instead of merely creating a chip for the machine, they will either A. not allow the character to show up with it in the city, or B. dissect it so that it can’t work properly.