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Who is your favorite Hero?

Arkun-Sha! Bringing down the chieftan was so badass I almost forgot it was scripted.
- 6 (31.6%)
Alca-un. She's the most badass, of course!
- 5 (26.3%)
Ulla-Sha. Going on a century didn't stop her from whooping ass.
- 7 (36.8%)
Amma-ah, she's so caring and kind, how could you not like her?
- 1 (5.3%)

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Author Topic: The Starborn [Xenofiction?]  (Read 77352 times)

exolyx

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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #540 on: December 25, 2012, 07:10:29 pm »

And posting to watch over here.
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #541 on: December 25, 2012, 09:44:05 pm »

I say fiddle with the cube of cubes, possibly making all the sides match.
Failing that/when that gets too damn frustrating, lets write some stuff with pictorial translations beside each word.
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #542 on: December 25, 2012, 09:47:24 pm »

Wait, do we have a written language? Anyway I suggest fiddling with the smaller movingbox.
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #543 on: December 25, 2012, 10:28:46 pm »

No, no written language. Goblins are on the cusp of agriculture, with a most basic understanding of seeds making more plants, but haven't worked it out much farther than tossing some seeds around fertile gathering spots in hopes of more plants. Thus they have no real need for a writing system, which would be syllabic in nature like Arabic or Katakana, natch.


Ok, so
Mini-Movingbox - 3
Cube of Cubes - 1
Pad and Stick - 3
Old Book - 1

A tie! A coinflip, heads is Mini-movingbox, Tails is Draw what you remember of your recent astronomy lesson...

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Heads! Mini-Movingbox it is!
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You're torn between the miniature movingbox, which is an amazingly interesting little thing, one you wish to explore more fully, or attempting communication through drawing circles and lines, stars and constellations.

You decide to use a little rhyme from your people to choose, flicking your finger from the movingbox to the set of drawing objects, you begin to recite:

gaga-setsu daenae gol
gaga-setsu golga nae
gukka bep seabu faol
setsu set set nae-nae nae
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There's only a slight depression marring the surface, save a few cracks you fail to pry apart. When you touch it, the movingbox hums to life, and you're presented with the image of a set of circles, each a dark grey on the black background, but with a smaller white circle present inside one. Touching one seems to do nothing, but dragging your finger across the screen draws a small blue line, which ends after contacting four circles.Failure

You fail to activate anything else on the movingbox. What do you do?

*Editors note: This rhyme doesn't translate very well into any human language I know. You'd have to speak Goblin to understand it, and fluently. Even to Gi=oblins like myself it's a kind of word salad, but a understandable one on an emotional-

Nevermind.
« Last Edit: December 26, 2012, 04:42:05 pm by Karnewarrior »
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #544 on: December 25, 2012, 10:39:15 pm »

Keep trying to draw lines across the circles. After a bit, if this accomplishes nothing, do the constellations idea.
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #545 on: December 25, 2012, 10:49:29 pm »

Keep trying to draw lines across the circles. After a bit, if this accomplishes nothing, do the constellations idea.
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #546 on: December 26, 2012, 04:30:59 am »

Keep trying to draw lines across the circles. After a bit, if this accomplishes nothing, do the constellations idea.
+1
Okay, Iphone 2099... +1 to the idea above.
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #547 on: December 26, 2012, 11:48:38 am »

Keep trying to draw lines across the circles. After a bit, if this accomplishes nothing, do the constellations idea.
+1
Okay, Iphone 2099... +1 to the idea above.
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #548 on: December 26, 2012, 04:50:10 pm »

47 You fail to activate further function on the device.

2  You fail to activate further function on the device.

28 You fail to activate further function on the device.

In disgust you toss the device to the ground, cracking the clearstone severely. Outside of the room, through a large mirror on the side of it, something thumps about for a bit before dying down.

Usun has the pad and twig, but is willing to give it up to you and go try to make sense of the scribbles inside the pack of leaflets.

You draw what you remember of the circles and lines. One big, one small, two medium... You struggle to remember, but you finally manage to get eight of the circles and one large scribble of a mistake. You circle it and hope they don't think you're stupid.

Nothing seems to happen. What now?
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #549 on: December 26, 2012, 04:55:03 pm »

Grab the small movingbox again. Press the button again.

(I am typing this on a tablet with a pair of cracks across the screen. Cracks aren't a death sentence.)
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #550 on: December 26, 2012, 06:46:27 pm »

Experiment with the "Cube of cubes."
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #551 on: December 27, 2012, 03:49:55 am »

Experiment with the "Cube of cubes."
+1, Don't break it.
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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #552 on: December 27, 2012, 09:38:48 am »

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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #553 on: December 27, 2012, 11:32:12 am »

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Re: The Starborn [Xenofiction]
« Reply #554 on: December 27, 2012, 06:11:14 pm »

After trading Ulla for the cube of cubes, you find it can move. With nothing else apparent to do with it, you set about attempting to make all the sides one color.

Unfortunately you are stymied early on. Ulla had removed six colored leaflets from the sides, meaning there was simply not enough colors to make all the sides solid. You grumble slightly.

Luckily, you don't have to worry anymore. One of the aliens enters through the door and, seeing you are the only one not occupied, approaches you.

He sits in front of you, laying another pad and stick down between you. This pad already had a few doodles on it, including one of the night sky, complete with the constellation you drew for the other alien on the way here. The new Alien pats his chest and says "Donnel," very slowly.
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