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 Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:40 am
Lost In Translation
Solo or RP Format
Counts as 5 RP growth Points
Solo word minimum is 750, RP post minimum is 7
Tendaji is a rich and diverse land filled with many different cultures and languages. While most travelers are fortunate enough to speak a common language, sometimes one might find themselves in a village where they can't communicate with the local population. How do you manage? Do you find someone to translate, or fumble along?
[ Tendaji has many different languages that the locals speak, and sometimes you might find yourself in a village or town where no one is speaking your language. Use this prompt to explore that miscommunication - maybe thinking about how hard it is to get your message across. Or connecting with a stranger who is helping you translate so you can make that purchase you need. What happens when everything is lost in translation? ]
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2023 6:44 pm
Amoe cursed under her breath in Kahakan. She was lost again. She didn’t know how she gotten turned around, but she was still in Jauhar, that much she knew.
She wandered through the forest floor, not a sign of life around her. How was anyone supposed to know where they were going in this place if you couldn’t see the sky? She had no way to know which way was even north in this place. Did shifters just come with built in mapping? She lamented to herself while she paced around a group of trees, waiting for something to look familiar or like it was showing signs of life.
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2023 6:49 pm
Mayra had been out in the forest again, working on her private training. She trained with the others girls in the village, you know, the normal stuff. But no one ever became great by just being normal. Mayra put in the extra work, did the extra weight lifting, just to be recognized by the elders. She would be the best, that was for sure.
She threw the fifty pound sack into the air again, catching it in a swift motion before repeating the set. This was the Mayra special. She would throw around whatever seemed to weight the heaviest until her arms were sore and then work on some other exercise. She grunted as she tossed it again before she let it fall to the ground with a thud.
Did she hear something?
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:30 am
Amoe spun around, her hair whipping behind her at the sound of a thud. What was that? She felt like she was stepping into a horror story, sounds all around her and nothing seemed at all familiar.
She took a deep breath in through her nostrils and puffed out her chest. She just had to find the source. Maybe it was a person and she just seemed intimidating because of her height. Wouldn’t be the first time here.
”Hello!” She called out.
Oh shoot, what if they didn’t speak common? Her tendaji language bank was woeful and she didn’t really know if she even knew how to greet someone in Jauharan. She cleared her throat and followed the noise, trying to reproduce the sound of a greeting she had heard the day prior. It was probably terrible but it was what it was. No one would accuse Amoe of being a polyglot.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:41 am
Mayra heard the greeting through the dark forest and sharply turned to face its direction. Who would be out here at this time and in this place? Mayra was right outside of the alkidike village and whoever it was… didn’t have the right accent for around here.
She heard the next thing called out and furrowed her brows. What was that even supposed to be?
She took a deep breath in and eyed her sacks before leaving them where they were. They would be there when she got back.
“Whatever that was, it wasn’t real words.” She tossed out into the darkness, addressing whoever it was. She cleared the trees and saw the very very tall silver woman in front of her.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:44 am
”Ah s**t, was that not Jauharan? Please tell me I didn’t insult you or something?” Amoe responded with a sheepish grin. She looked over the girl in front of her and tried to discern what was going on. She was short, but that was probably her age. She was muscular and sweaty. She looked like a shifter… but her eyes were bugs’. And her hair was dreaded. She didn’t see that very often in her travels beyond the Obans.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:47 am
Mayra laughed out at the woman. She assumed it was a woman. She was impossibly tall, even for alkidike standards, and very large. She looked like she was strong that was for sure. ”Wouldn’t matter to me if it was, I don’t speak it.”
”So what are you?” She asked the woman. She hadn’t left her village, settling in to start training as an alkidike there was no room for travel for her yet. She had the silver coloring of a shifter, but blue and green markings. And her ears just weren’t quite right. It was off putting. Mayra didn’t like not knowing who she was dealing with.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:51 am
Amoe was surprised. She was clearly part shifter… all shifter? Some shifter? There was shifter in her but she didn’t speak Jauharan. ”Well then what do you speak? Besides common? Your gray coloring makes you shifter, yes?” She asked out bluntly.
”I’m kaha’iko. Been in Tendaji for a few months now traveling. Still a lot to see.” She told the girl. ”I’m Amoe.” The younger girl seemed to be a little more gruff and standoffish so she was alright to make the introductions first. Hospitality in a foreign place and all that.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:02 am
Mayra grinned in pride and arrogance. ”Aishan of course.” She answered Amoe. ”My name is Mayra and I’m going to be an alkidike sister like no other.” She spoke out in Aishan. She words sounded sharp and staccato but left pride in Mayra for knowing it fluently.
”Don’t be fooled by my coloring. I’m an Alkidike Sister.” She told Amoe in common. She loved her shifter mother, but she had a desire to be better than her peers, and her peers were all taught the Aishan ways. It wasn’t something that Mayra even felt to question.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:08 am
Amoe heard the sharp words leave Mayra’s mouth and stared with her mouth open in concentration. What was she even saying, Amoe had no idea. But she heard the word Mayra come out clearer than the rest. Maybe that was her name then? ”Mayra then is it? Cute name. Good fit for a little kid.” Amoe teased.
She could tell that this one wanted to prove herself and had an attitude to accommodate that, so Amoe took some fun in poking the bear.
”I haven’t met an alkidike Sister yet, what are those?” Amoe asked in earnest. She hadn’t heard much about Aishans and couldn’t tell one apart from another. Were alkidike the dark green ones, the pink ones, or the yellow ones? She wasn’t even sure how many different kinds of Aishans there were to be totally honest, but she felt like she was probably missing a couple.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:12 am
Mayra sneered and tensed her stance. Kid. What did this giant know about her anyways? ”Don’t call me a kid.” She warned just once. She didn’t like being talked down to.
”The Alkidike are the first Aishans and the sisterhood is stronger than any earthling race. We’re not open to visitors from outsiders.” She lashed out the last word. ”It’s no wonder you don’t know anything about us.” She used the term us loosely. The pure alkidike still had a stigma against the hybrids and earthlings that shared their space, but Mayra would break that label they threw her into and prove her worth among the pure alkidike.
”Maybe it would be better if you moved along.” She offered to Amoe. She had overstayed her welcome in the forest and Mayra needed to get back to training anyways.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:14 am
”Whoa whoa, I was just playing around.” Amoe held up her hands in surrender. ”I didn’t mean to cause offense, chalk it up to my foreign manners.” She offered to Mayra.
”To be honest, I do have to get going, but I don’t know where I’m going. Can you point me in the direction of the nearest place willing to give me a bed and some food?” She asked Mayra. If the alkidike weren’t welcoming of newcomers, then she needed an earthling town she supposed.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:17 am
Mayra felt the prickle under her skin of annoyance. Amoe might have been a good person to strike up a conversation with on a different day in a different place, but she had pissed Mayra off.
”Look, if you follow the trail back that way you’ll find signs to Sol. Probably just go there.” She offered. She turned her back to the kaha’iko and started to trek her way toward her sacks. Shouldn’t have even stopped her training at this point.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:22 am
Amoe didn’t think that the one small dig she made would have ended their very short relationship as acquaintances, but hey, there they were. It was alright, in the long run she would probably never see Mayra again.
But she did get to hear a snippet of Aishan and that was pretty cool. ”Well thanks for the directions anyways.” She called out with a way at the back already turned to her. ”Listen, if we ever see each other again I’ll make it up to you.” She added, before calling out a common kahakan farewell. It was only fair to swap language for language after all.
She spun on her heels in the direction that Mayra had pointed and headed down the trail, working on getting closer to Sol.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:24 am
Mayra held up a hand on her way through the brush to signify that she had heard Amoe and she felt an ear twitch at the foreign language thrown at her from the distance.
She better not have been insulting her, that was for sure, Mayra thought to herself.
She grumbled back to her sacks and spent the rest of the morning frustrated at having been called a kid.
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