CAMPUS WIDE EVENT: THE LANGUAGE BARRIER REINSTATED

[intercom_voice]

[Today, something somewhere went wrong. On the evening on the 15th, any bilingual (or otherwise) knowledge granted by the Campus has simply...disappeared. At least for anybody walking by the North Wing.]

Tja ... det här kommer att lägga sordin på våra studier, är nu inte det?

[Translation: Well...this is going to put a damper on our studies, now isn't it?]

((ooc: So! For the next 5 days (the 15th~20th), your character officially only knows their native tongue. Aka, whatever language they primarily grew up with. They can no longer read, speak, or understand any other language but.

For fun you can even use Google Translate to show what your character is speaking at a glance! Don't worry, we all know it's probably gibberish :P

If you go the Google route, please be sure to put a translation at the bottom. If not, then please take care to specify what language your character is speaking in at the start of every thread.

If you have any questions, just head to the mod plurk or send this account a PM, but most importantly--have fun!))

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[vengeance_driven]

[How does one ask "does this happen a lot?" in stick figure form. He's not sure he can.

So he goes for another question. He draws a sun and a moon the very best he can.]



[He shows it to Bakura, points at the sun and makes two tally marks under it, and points to himself. Just two days here. Then he gives Bakura a questioning look and hands him the paper.

What would he give for a calendar right now.]

[stealshinies]

[Two. The Sun and the Moon.

Bakura takes the paper, thinks he understands the question, and then realizes he hasn't been keeping track of time. Instead he shrugs and makes a looping gesture several times with his hand, as if to say "many".]

[vengeance_driven]

[How long can people stay here?

Oh this language barrier is a pain in the ass. After a couple of attempts to motion outside and indicate the weather- trying to work out a way to ask if it's been over a year? Instead he nearly shoots the intercom.

But that urge only lasts for a second, and his pistol is put back away.]

[stealshinies]

[Good question. Bakura knows the answer: too long.

However, what he doesn't know is the question. Niko's sign language is fruitless, and it looks like the Thief King is starting to zone out on him until he pulls out the gun.

Bakura grins like a wolf, pointing towards the holstered weapon and then at the intercom. He nods in enthusiastic approval.

Come on, shoot it! It serves that bitch right. It also saves him from being electrocuted trying to stab it.]

[vengeance_driven]

[He shrugs and gestures at it hatefully and dismissively. It wouldn't do any good. In fact it would probably just get him laughed at, and now he's not in the mood to be laughed at.

He's in the mood to get piss drunk and try not to worry he just dumped a whole language out of his head.]

[stealshinies]

[Bakura wouldn't mind getting piss drunk himself; too bad they can't share that sentiment in a way either would understand.

But for now Bakura will just pout irritably at Niko, looking fully disappointed by the fact he didn't shoot the damn thing. If Niko won't, then Bakura will.

Glancing sidelong, he pulls out a spare dagger and carelessly tosses it at the intercom, hitting it fairly off center and causing the thing to spark and fizzle out.]

[vengeance_driven]

[He wonders how often this happens. Probably a lot. He uses his glove to yank out the knife so he doesn't shock himself, flipping it over in his hand so that he can hand it back hilt first to Bakura.]

Блејд Први је лоша срећа. [Blade first is bad luck he says whether Bakura will understand it or not.]

[stealshinies]

[Bakura shrugs and takes the knife back.]

╜ы┌ы�ظ��اŮع�ع�┬ы.

[I still can't fucking understand you.

He's sort of at a loss here. Having nobody understand you, was just one more thing to deal with in this damn place. Pouting, he finds himself missing the spirits of Kul Elna. They couldn't talk, but communication with them had never been difficult. Maybe he was just used to it.

After a moment of just standing there he shrugs again, indicating his frustration and loss.

Then he makes a little controller holding and button-pushing gesture.]

[vengeance_driven]

[Buttons- what? He'd pulled out his cell phone. He'd been saving batteries on it, but he turned it on for this. His is a touch screen, but then his brows go up when he looks at it.

He can't understand his own cell phone. That is bullshit.]

[stealshinies]

Eh?

[What the fuck is that?

Bakura leans in to get a better look at the screen, narrowing his eyes at it. Was it some sort of "card"? It looked flat enough. He pokes at it with his finger, moving some buttons around and accidentally deleting some shortcuts in the process.]

┘н┘В �ظ Д╪ع� ┘Ж?!

[What is this thing?!]