First Strike | Accidental Voice Post

[ukilledmyfather]

[There's a soft thump, and a frustrated sigh

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[gogozeppeli]

Nyo ho?

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[ukilledmyfather]

[startled cry] What? Where did that come from?!

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[gogozeppeli]

The box, my friend. I am speaking to you through it, nyo ho

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[ukilledmyfather]

Box? [There's some shifting around noises]

...Oh. So that's what I hit my head against. Um...where am I? I really don't have time to wander around here.

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[gogozeppeli]

Allow me to educate you then...

I am the Amazing Gyro Zeppeli, adventurer extarordinaire! And you are in Sieben, the kingdom of the Hibou.

They work great powers that defy the imagination and confound the logical mind. They are responsible for you being here.

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[ukilledmyfather]

. . .

Si-ben. You use that word, too. I've never heard of Si-ben or Hi Bu!

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[gogozeppeli]

zeeeeeben. It's German.

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[ukilledmyfather]

Ziben. German? What's that?

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[gogozeppeli]

Germany? It's a country in Europe, north of Italy.

Sieben is a German word for the number 7.

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[ukilledmyfather]

I haven't heard of any of those places. Are you making them up?

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[gogozeppeli]

Well, they are a bit far from China, my friend.

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[ukilledmyfather]

Then how can I understand what you're saying? This doesn't add up...

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[gogozeppeli]

The Hibou also allow us to all understand each other in our own languages like some kind of cooky babel fish.

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[ukilledmyfather]

Babel...fish...?

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[gogozeppeli]

Hm? It's a phrase...it doesn't mean anything.

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[ukilledmyfather]

It's a weird phrase. What do fish have to do with understanding each other?