Session Start: Sat Nov 02 21:00:45 2002
Session Ident: Cicada
[21:00] Session Ident: Cicada (Hikari@zaqd378a5f6.zaq.ne.jp)
[21:00] <Cicada> BTW, I would like to spend the XP to increase Linguistics and learn the local language.
[21:01] <Storyteller> you have learned it now
[21:01] <Cicada> (sorry about not saying this before. Was busy with Rebecca. Catching up and things)
[21:01] <Storyteller> it's okay
[21:01] <Storyteller> just let me know 'sup
[21:02] <Cicada> I would also like to increase it one more dot (linguistics) and be gin learning the Wind-Carried Words Technique.
[21:03] <Storyteller> ok what language do you want
[21:04] <Cicada> Is Old Realm ok?
[21:05] <Cicada> Or should I take Riverspeak to simulate her travelling experience?
[21:05] <Storyteller> I can see it either way
[21:06] <Cicada> Riverspeak is the lingua Franca/Nexus thing, yes?
[21:06] <Storyteller> it's whatcha speak if you gotta do with the guild, yea
[21:14] <Cicada> I have always disliked pidgin languages. So Old realm it is.
[21:15] <Storyteller> well it isn't pidgin languages. That would be what beastman langauges are for
[21:15] <Storyteller> it's just the official guild language, like english
[21:15] <Storyteller> for most places
[21:16] <Cicada> Old Realm anyway. Next time I want to be able to read Juniper's diary.
[21:17] * Storyteller nods
[21:19] * Cicada 's player is slightly braindead. What was the name of Arianna's pet/familiar again?
[21:19] <Storyteller> Kimyee
[22:06] <Storyteller> you can't understand what kimyee is saying yet, unless you  want to amke that one of your other beastman languages
[22:09] <Cicada> I know. I just speak directly to him in order to be polite. Puuhda understands. :)
[22:09] <Storyteller> ok :)
[22:55] <Cicada> One question. When I have my Linguistics increased to 5, how can I keep on learning lanugages?
[22:56] * Storyteller shrugs
[22:56] <Storyteller> maybe you can't.
[22:56] <Storyteller> AD&D has a limit.
[22:56] <Cicada> Buuuuuuuut.....
[22:56] <Storyteller> I've been wondering myself, it seems like the limit is like that
[22:57] * Cicada looks at GH with beeeg tearfilled eyes, her sobbing making her chest heave.
[22:57] * Storyteller 's been thinking about it very deeply
[22:57] * Storyteller doesn't let the beeg tearfilled eyes in himself work
[22:58] <Cicada> The heaving chest then? :)
[22:59] <Storyteller> but there is no heaving chest!
[22:59] <Cicada> Maybe it just costs a basic 1 or 3 XP per extra language?
[23:00] <Cicada> There should be no upper limit. After the basic languages, it is all just variations anyway.
[23:03] <Storyteller> I think if I did allow it it would be simply buying a proficiencies in "improvised language"
[23:04] <Storyteller> So you could have say, 13 dice which would net you two autosux on all linguistics rolls, not including any dice adder charms, which could increase it beyond that
[23:04] <Storyteller> effectively, you'd be able to speak any language
[23:05] <Cicada> Profiency? You mean Specialties, right?
[23:05] <Storyteller> er.... yes. yes.
[23:05] <Storyteller> that's what I said.. right?
[23:36] * Cicada would prefer to Specialize in High Realm so as to know its 'poetry' as well or maybe even better than a noble.
[23:36] * Cicada would maybe like to spezialize in Old Realm too, in order to charm Spirits and Demons as well.
[23:37] <Storyteller> then you can only get a +1 specailty to improviseeed language
[23:38] * Cicada would like a +2 in High Realm - prettier high realm than even the average noble dynast.
[23:38] * Cicada 's player is a fluency freak.
[23:43] * Storyteller grins
[23:43] * Storyteller knows how you feel, as a writer
[23:43] * Storyteller 's had to physically restrain himself from getting hurt translating shit he doesn't know
[23:44] <Cicada> Japanese?
[23:45] <Storyteller> yea
Session Close: Sun Nov 03 00:27:25 2002