WELCOME TO RE/ALIGNMENT

[re_alignedmods]

Hello, players, and welcome to Re/Alignment!

This is Mindy using the mod journal to post a greeting to you all. I'm your Head Mod, aka the local despot - player of Prima, Nexus Prime, and Vector Prime. Assisting me is a whole bunch of others whom I'll let introduce themselves. TL;DR awesome team is awesome.

At present, our tentative start date is a week from now; June 21st. This is to let us get in a few more players, work out a few last kinks in the system, and basically get as prepared as we can to run this new game. Any kinks/errors/etc you see, please do us a favor and point it out!

No, really. Do. (For example, I just noticed that the current Accept(ed) blurb doesn't mention the Player Contact page. Mind filling that out for us?)

ANYWAY. You can hit me up on plurk as artoni, on AIM as 'twixtthestreams' (I'm often invis, so just shoot me a message if you need to get in contact with me), or here on DW as artoni as well. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help make things more awesome for you, but for now, make sure you're acquainted with all the help pages - setting, FAQ, world, etc.

oh my gawd guys i am so nervous ;A;

Comments

[automobile_enthusiast]

Well, they will be able to talk EVENTUALLY, just not necessarily right away. As soon as the communicators are distributed, the auto-translate function will take care of communication problems.

Until then... Hrm. It's probably pretty safe to say that the language in ATLOK isn't English, given how almost every culture aspect of the show is derived from Eastern/Asian/Polynesian sources. They might be able to communicate via Chinese-- is the writing system they use in ATLOK straight Chinese, or is it an analogue/lookalike? Because then you might be able to justify her speaking Chinese, or something close enough to it to be comprehensible to KO or any other Cybertronian with a comprehensive Terran language pack...

Admittedly, I've played non-verbal characters before, ones who had to communicate solely via body language. It can be REALLY difficult, but it's a fun challenge.

[not_halfbaked]

The "Art of" Avatar the Last Aribender book says the writing system is entirely in Chinese. (Though it was said it was typically classical Chinese, and archaic Chinese for texts about the spirits or the elements.)

From http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Writing_in_the_World_of_Avatar:

"All four nations use a common system of characters borrowed from the Chinese system for daily purposes.

Traditional Chinese characters are used for all writing in the Avatar World.

The set of Chinese characters used in Avatar is the traditional set, used regularly in modern Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as overseas Chinese communities."

So it sounds likely enough that with the writing really being Chinese, Korra would speak Chinese, and Korra and Knock Out could communicate that way. Sounds viable enough that we should try. Though the body language does sound intriguing, I think both would try to find a verbal communication first. Maybe a mix of both Chinese and body language?

[automobile_enthusiast]

All right, seems reasonable enough to me! Although you might want to run it by one of the mods just to be sure it's okay to have Korra speaking Chinese. I mean your logic totally makes sense to me, but that's the proper etiquette in a situation like this, since it's not entirely straightforward and she is from a fictional representation of the Eastern cultures.

[not_halfbaked]

Will do.

Do you have advice for RP with only body language?

[not_halfbaked]

Just asked on the mod contact page, waiting for a response now.

[automobile_enthusiast]

Sweet!

Uh. Honestly, not that much. The non-verbal character I played was, um, actually a dinosaur! So she was really physically expressive. Still, there's a lot you can do to convey meaning without words, from facial expressions to hand gestures. Probably my best is advice to actually try and act out any gestures or handsigns you'd want to have Korra use to make sure they don't look to ridiculous, haha.

[not_halfbaked]

Thanks. :)

[automobile_enthusiast]

No problem!

[not_halfbaked]

Mod said the language thing we talked about was okay. :)

[automobile_enthusiast]

Sweet!