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Author Topic: Necromancer: A prologue  (Read 8281 times)

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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #60 on: August 07, 2013, 07:34:04 pm »

Teach her!
This can only end well!
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #61 on: August 07, 2013, 07:35:01 pm »

Teach her. What could go wrong?
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #62 on: August 07, 2013, 07:52:05 pm »

Teach her hell maybe we could get her to be our meat shield when we go in the mansion.

An if not that we could always use a friend to keep us SOME company.
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #63 on: August 07, 2013, 07:59:01 pm »

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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #65 on: August 08, 2013, 05:28:42 pm »

>Teach her.

I sigh and try to fight the unnaturally good hearted urge, but I fail.

Honestly, it's not like I'm doing something important anyway.

The main difficulty will be communication. The written word is a complex beast even for those who can sound out words. She may be capable of copying one symbol, but she doesn't know what it means. Doesn't know how the words flow together.

A moment of contemplation results in a small epiphany. For this unusual case, a unusual style must be used. I'll have to teach her word by word, rather than letter by letter. It has its pros and cons, mostly cons, but it's the simplest way I can think of to teach.

Teaching will take a while though. The difficulty will be setting up a time when she can come learn, if she can't hear me. Simply telling her when to come is obviously out, and if she can't read or write I cannot pass her a note.

I try to pantomime it, to no avail. She simply stares at me, uncomprehending. I try again, pointing furiously at the sun, and then at the point in the sky that it would be at 4:00, but I can't seem to get the point across.

Angrily, I snatch the paper from her hand and scribble furiously with the charcoal. I draw a little pictograph of two humanlike figures meeting in the market. Underneath is a illustration of the sun at the correct point in the sky, and scribbled messily in the cramped space remaining is a drawing of her and me at the inn, with the sun in the same position.

Handing her my opus, I feel certain she'll understand.

She squints and flips the paper upside down. Tilts her head slightly to the left. Rotates the paper diagonally, and then holds it up to the sun. She looks at me, at the page, at me again, and then back at the page, and bites her lip so hard in thought a small droplet of blood appears, like a small ruby on her lips.

Come on lady, my drawings are not that bad.

She holds out the paper, shaking her head.

>Take the paper and leave. It's impossible.
>Let her keep the paper. You aren't going to use it. Maybe she can get someone else to help her.
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #66 on: August 08, 2013, 05:33:31 pm »

Let her keep the paper
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #67 on: August 08, 2013, 05:46:28 pm »

Let her keep the paper. You aren't going to use it. Maybe she can get someone else to help her.
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #68 on: August 08, 2013, 05:59:52 pm »

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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #69 on: August 08, 2013, 10:40:46 pm »

>Take the paper and leave. It's impossible.
>Let her keep the paper. You aren't going to use it. Maybe she can get someone else to help her.
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #70 on: August 08, 2013, 11:11:06 pm »

Let her keep it and see if you can write out I'll help you (Whatever time) come to this location maybe she'll have a mom who will help her understand. Come everyday at that time no matter what!

Besides its a market place and every time she will see us we can help her.
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #71 on: August 08, 2013, 11:13:03 pm »

Let her keep it and see if you can write out I'll help you (Whatever time) come to this location maybe she'll have a mom who will help her understand. Come everyday at that time no matter what!

Besides its a market place and every time she will see us we can help her.
This sounds legit. +1
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #72 on: August 08, 2013, 11:29:49 pm »

Also can we ask our mentor/ring for advice on this.
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #73 on: August 08, 2013, 11:59:20 pm »

Hmmm..... If we are able to get knowledge through trapping a person's soul, why can't we do it with the mute girl?
All we would have to do is kill someone, harvest their soul, and transfer knowledge to the girl!
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Re: Necromancer: A prologue
« Reply #74 on: August 09, 2013, 10:30:08 am »

Hmmm..... If we are able to get knowledge through trapping a person's soul, why can't we do it with the mute girl?
All we would have to do is kill someone, harvest their soul, and transfer knowledge to the girl!

It would have to be a quick and clean kill. No one must know that a necromancer {a very unloved profesion around here} is killing people to
help a mute girl {who are looked down upon}.
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