[Event] Lost in Translation

[rubycitymods]

RUBY CITY EVENT
Lost in Translation

Hello, dear citizens.

In answer to several requests voiced over the past few months for an event like this one, we are happy to offer you a translation breakdown event, which is exactly what it sounds like it is! Once the event commences, the mechanism which allows everyone within the city to understand one another will begin to break down, affecting everyone at a different level, depending upon the individual. All involvement will begin from a similar starting point, but it is left to player discretion as to exactly how far the breakdown of comprehension develops.

The event will start on Monday, March 16th with a projected end date of Sunday, March 22nd. However, interaction by the city residents with one Chassie Barrows over the course of the event may have an effect on when it concludes.

While each affected individual will begin from the same start point, there are five possible stages to progress through at any speed the player wishes. PLEASE NOTE: No character is actually speaking nonsense at any level. It's the comprehension of what they are hearing that is affected.

EDIT: Reading comprehension may be affected up to stage two, resulting in hiccups in understanding but still leaving it as a viable means of communication.

Stage One: All affected individuals begin in the same place. There are occasional 'blips' of understanding that might simply be mistaken for mishearing something, as well as confusing homonyms that would otherwise be second nature.

Stage Two: As the problems develop and move to their second stage, full sentences are misunderstood or unable to be comprehended. This could still be dismissed as a bad day if the person has a habit of not paying attention, and proper concentration allows for normal understanding, but it is becoming more difficult to ignore.

Stage Three: At this stage, it becomes obvious that something is wrong. Even concentration doesn't help for any language that isn't already known to the listener, and the lack of comprehension begins to seep into those languages as well.

Stage Four: In stage four, there are massive issues with every language save for one, and not necessarily the individual's native language. It might be one that they only know fragments of, or one that they dislike speaking, but that's the only one they are able to fully understand if they focus on it.

Stage Five: The highest stage results in a full breakdown of understanding. All spoken words, even ones in the listener's native language, are little more than sounds that don't connect to the things that they signify.

Chassie will make her first appearance on the first day of the event. How she is received upon each of her appearances by the majority of those who encounter her will have a secondary (surprise) effect as a background to the main event.

Please use the designated comment in this post to ask any questions you might have, and also use this post for plotting! The comprehension breakdown has been designed to allow multilingual characters and those who may find themselves locked into canon CR to take full advantage of it, and we highly encourage the forging of new CR.

Comments

[lifewithoutrest]

Please excuse my struggle with reading comprehension this week because I've read this several times and am still unsure about things.

So for the first two stages, is it just translation breaking down and if they concentrate, they can still put things together if the speaker is speaking a language they are familiar with? Am I understanding that right? So many languages.

And at stage three is when it starts to become a real issue for even languages they know, yes? That's where it really becomes obviously more than a translation issue and more of a comprehension issue?

But then at stage four, as long as it is that one particular language, they should at least recognize it if not understand it, depending on their level of fluency with the language in question?

And at five, they should just give up on understanding anything that's said to them, yeah?

I just want to make sure I've translated this properly into my language.

[rubycitymods]

You got it! :)