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deepdowndark

2. (60): bitching you out in footnotes.

Sep 15, 2011 20:35

Hm. For once, Admiral, agreeable. For once.

NB: This is by no means an endorsement. One sensible act does not make up for the many times the following have occurred ( Read more... )

warden permission? what's that?, team xenophobia!, self-appointed lord of the library, pick a stupid human holiday, axes are cultural items okay?, all dwarfs are contract lawyers, fellow dwarfs will help you hide a body, cubes that lie, king queen and crown prince of cover ups, a plot d-evice, sveta is far too bright, high fantasy fistbumps

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Private darknessb4me September 16 2011, 08:57:36 UTC

[Dwarven, amused:] We're going to need another code language. Your warden could listen in. Know any others? I speak, ahh--... [Common, fuck it, you can't translate proper nouns:] Vrykul, Orcish, a little Eredun. I can read Nerubian, but it's hard to speak it without mandibles.

[See? He remembered the word for 'warden' that Ardent taught him. ARTHAS CAN LEARN.]

I'd also like to offer you a little warning. You're aware he's ... that I have a history with him, of course.

Re: Private deepdowndark September 16 2011, 10:02:44 UTC

To some extent, I'm aware.

I plan to include in my contract with him that he's not to read my private communications. If you are left without a filter...

Uberwaldian?

Private darknessb4me September 16 2011, 18:24:55 UTC

You should know, then, that if you have some sort of a whim to kidnap and mutilate him as you did with Narvin, he taught me how to kill.

I've never heard of that. Speak a few sentences?

Re: Private deepdowndark September 16 2011, 22:29:48 UTC

It was not a whim when I did it to Narvin, and there was no kidnap involved.

[He switches to Uberwaldian. It sounds like German.]

This is Uberwaldian. Understand me?

Private darknessb4me September 16 2011, 23:53:39 UTC

Afraid not.

[Vrykul here, heavy and thorny and a bit like Old English:]

Do you speak anything like this?

Re: Private deepdowndark September 16 2011, 23:58:37 UTC

Didn't follow a word of that.

[Pause. Ponder. Hublandish. Very broken. A little like Norse.]

How about this?

Private darknessb4me September 18 2011, 00:08:46 UTC

Sounds familiar. What is that?

[It sounds familiar because Common by all rights should be much closer to a Norse derivative than English. Fourth wall translator in this case can be a hindrance as much as a help.]

Re: Private deepdowndark September 18 2011, 14:36:07 UTC

Hublandish.

Private darknessb4me September 20 2011, 13:15:31 UTC

Don't understand it, unfortunately.

How about -

[Perfect, accentless Orcish here - not that Ardent would be able to tell, really. It's gutteral and simplistic.]

Victory or death.

[That's a casual greeting, believe it or not.]

Re: Private deepdowndark September 20 2011, 13:42:26 UTC

Was that... Troll?

Private darknessb4me September 20 2011, 13:47:40 UTC

No, but I know a little bit of that, too. Did you recognize something?

Re: Private deepdowndark September 20 2011, 13:56:01 UTC

...No, it just sounded guttural and dumb.

Private darknessb4me September 20 2011, 13:58:06 UTC

[Suprisingly cold - and is that a bit of an Orcish accent?]

Charming.

Well. It seems we don't have another tongue in common. And here we were ever so looking forward to communicating with you.

Re: Private deepdowndark September 20 2011, 13:59:57 UTC

...We could just use filters.

Private darknessb4me September 20 2011, 14:03:16 UTC

Could we.

[BEEP connection terminated.]

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