WEEK 3

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 3



[The week begins as last week began. But there's is a great difference-murder. It has happened. Blood has been drawn; it cannot be undone. The Game has made itself known. The Game is paramount. The Game simply is.

As morning dawns, those who were not present with the DEAD lock will find that the doors that were locked are now gone-and a whole new area has finally opened up to them. They will also find that they remember something they had not been able to recall beforehand. The question is, was it worth it?

And-is it you, or is the ship getting...colder as the hours go by? No, it's not just you. By the end of Sunday, the ship has started to dip into freezing temperatures. It might be difficult for people to bundle up-unless you're Brain, who will find his closet inundated with winter clothing that fit him perfectly.

Yup. This is going to be a long week, as if last week wasn't bad enough.



There are currently 16 strangers in this place.]

Comments

[superstylishsquid]

Or what other symbols they're combined with, right? It was hard just to learn to read it, let alone write it. Made me glad infernal contracts just use Enochian.

[exequte]

Yes. Although there's furigana most of the time, now, and that makes it a little easier, at least to know how its read.

[superstylishsquid]

Still sounds needlessly complicated. Not as bad as English, but still...

[exequte]

[She grins at him, with perhaps a slight edge of good nature teasing in it.]

Maybe! But actually, I think I could help make your writing a lot easier to understand, at least!

[superstylishsquid]

Oh yeah?

[....He has a bit of a bad feeling.]

[exequte]

Mmhmm! And it should be easier to remember than how to spell everything.

Its pretty simple, really. First, make sure that you are either writing from right to left, or up to down. English shares that with Latin, as well as Egyptian and I think quite a few other ancient languages, so hopefully that will be easy to remember. The second is to make sure that all of your letters are aligned on the same vertical axis. Ideally they'll be right side up, but even if they aren't they'll still be easier to read, I think! And finally, make sure to allow proper spacing! Ideally, none of the letters in a word will overlap, and there will be additional padding space between words.

Maybe that sounds like too little, but I really do think it would help a lot!

[superstylishsquid]

The spacing is where I always have trouble, it's completely different from how the Romans did it. And even then, I'd already been writing most of my non-magical notes in Greek, so it's not like I used it often...

Wait. They weren't all right side up? [This is what happens when you barely learn an alphabet, then go 2000 years without using it.]

[exequte]

I see....

In that case, I would just say to make sure none of the letters overlap with one another, and that each word is seperated enough from the others that the letters form a visually distinct group.

Oh! Uh. I don't think so?

[She moves around to see the poster again and spends a moment examining it to locate a distinct shape.]

Like here. I think this is supposed to be an M, but instead you drew a Σ. Which is an understandable mistake, if you're more familiar with sigma, but it does confuse the message if you're trying to write or read in English.

[She traces the letters with her finger as she speaks in demonstration, as if writing with the tip of it in invisible ink.]