[video] School's out, time for homework.

[blastiafreak]

They sure like to throw us off once in a while with these curses that last longer than a day. I wasn't affected, so I could keep working, but...Why's everyone making such a big fuss over some lame school, anyway? The whole thing's pointless and a waste of time. As long as you know how to read, you can teach yourself anything.

[What's it like to study in a school, learn from a person, have classmates? No, really, she swears she's not even the tiniest bit curious. Seriously. After that valuable bit of input, she switches gears with a demand request.]

Hey, take a look at something for me. I've got some documents that were all changed into different languages as a...joke or something, but none of them are from my world so there's no way I can translate them all. If everyone here can read a page or two, I should at least be able to get most of it back to normal. Let me know if you recognize anything.

[Here, Rita provides a downloadable file of scanned pages...hundreds--thousands, actually, each in a different language. They're in anything imaginable: Latin, Russian, Mandarin, Elvish, Klingon, Fonic Alphabet--you name it. Despite this, they're still in Rita's handwriting, the legibility of which leaves something to be desired. To put it mildly. They mostly detail definitions, descriptions, and research data and observations.]

[ooc: Mun is off to work soonish, so apologies in advance for slow and/or late tags. T_T]

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[srsbusinessk.livejournal.com]

What are these documents about? If you don't mind my asking, that is.

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[blastiafreak]

They're all related to blastia and aer--blastia is a technology in my world, and aer is the substance that it used for fuel. It's mostly experimental methods and data.

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[srsbusinessk.livejournal.com]

Huh. Sounds interesting. I can definitely try top translate some of these for you, but there are still a lot of languages in there that I don't even recognize.

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[blastiafreak]

I'd appreciate it. The deities must've used just about every language in existence, so it's seriously a pain.

Anyway, I've got a list of terms that might help you out with parts of it. And it might be really oversimplifying things, but you can think of the blastia as something like power generators.

[She'll send him a text file for the terms! It consists of the following.]
((Terms

blastia - widespread, multi-purpose technology; consists of a body and a core
->blastia types include aque, bodhi, ceres, hermes, hoplon [insert others not named in canon]
aer - fundamental substance with its own properties; serves as fuel for blastia
aer krene - source of aer; similar to a spring
mana - simplified name for aer in a different physical state closer to matter))

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[fromlegal.livejournal.com]

I'm fluent in several of those languages, but if you'd like my help you'll have to provide some. It's a bit difficult to read some of it.

[ooc: Latin, French, Russian, German, Mandarin aaand apparently some others that I suppose I could headcanon into her.]

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[blastiafreak]

Considering the whole "different worlds" thing, that's not surprising. I've prepared a list of terms that might help you with any words that aren't familiar.

[Obviously not getting the point. She remains in denial about her writing.]

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[fromlegal.livejournal.com]

That would be great, thanks. The legibility is a bit of a concern, but as long as I can contact you when it seems to be a problem, I should be fine.

[Trying to be polite. Yelling CHICKENSCRATCH probably wouldn't help...]

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[blastiafreak]

Legibility, huh? Maybe it just got messed up a bit when it was changed...Well, I'll send you the terms, and you can feel free to ask me if there's anything else you need to know. It'd be a big help to even get a few of these translated.

[Somewhat suspicious about the legibility bit, but hey, she's getting help. Rita'll send her a text file with the following terms.]

((Terms

blastia - widespread, multi-purpose technology; consists of a body and a core
->blastia types include aque, bodhi, ceres, hermes, hoplon [insert others not named in canon]
aer - fundamental substance with its own properties; serves as fuel for blastia
aer krene - source of aer; similar to a spring
mana - simplified name for aer in a different physical state closer to matter))

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[fromlegal.livejournal.com]

Of course. Depending on my schedule and how in depth these are you should have at least one per week. Possibly biweekly. Upon a quick perusal - this is research material?

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[blastiafreak]

Yes, it is. Some of it is collections of research and experiments done by other scientists, and some of it's my own. It's mostly experimental methods, data on physical constants, observations--that sort of thing.

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[fromlegal.livejournal.com]

Might I ask whether this is research you've conducted here in the City?

[child-radical.livejournal.com]

I can understand some of the languages represented with your notes...though there's one that should make most scholars in my world cringe.

[blastiafreak]

Is it that difficult to read?

[child-radical.livejournal.com]

It is if you consider slang and inappropriate sentence structure hard to read.

[blastiafreak]

What, just something like that? As long as it's something you can understand, how it's written doesn't matter.

[child-radical.livejournal.com]

The intellectual elite tends to look down on everything they deem to be below their standards.

[blastiafreak]

You need standards to keep consistency and quality, but being stubborn about something so pointless is just a waste of energy. What kind of scholars are they, anyway?

[ooc: And mun's off to work again. So sorry for slow tags!]

[child-radical.livejournal.com]

Those who're only reliant on book smarts.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Looks like one big headache.

[blastiafreak]

It is, but I'll make sense of it eventually.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

You that bored?

[blastiafreak]

Hmph. I wouldn't expect you to understand the appeal, but research is never boring!

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Definitely don't get the appeal. Puts me right to sleep.

[blastiafreak]

It'd wake you up with the right motivation.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think so.