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You were born at the dawn of the century. 1900. Well, you don’t know the exact date. You were put into the hatch at an orphanage, posted like unwanted mail. Doesn’t matter much. Your story begins before you have had the time to form a proper personality to know how you even feel about having been an unwanted child.
Some of your earliest memories include coughing your lungs out and losing a quarter of your fellow orphans and playmates. You remember the nuns getting mad at you for asking about nonsense words like internet or television. You’ve always been inquisitive and were able to read and write almost without it being taught to you, even though you tend to spell some words quite wrong.
And there’s also this voice. You sometimes hear odd noises, which you somehow interpret as a language, even though it consists of odd whistles and grunts, not something a human can produce. Sometimes it repeats the same phrases over and over again until you have to think really hard for it to be silent, where you basically have to shout “shut the fuck up” in your head over and over again.
That was, of course, until today when…
<span class="mu-r">System diagnostic:
Temporal Paradox detected. Illegal use. Unable to connect to server.
No identification detected. Illegal use. Unable to connect to server.
Unrecognized Species detected. Illegal use. Unable to connect to server.
Species calibration dangerously low. Unable to connect to server. Automatic repair attempt 2757 partially successful. Establish linguistic calibration.
Language calibrated.
Will you be using this language?</span>
Someone just started talking, from what you feel like was right behind you. However, you were not able to see anyone anywhere in the alleyway around you. You’re supposed to be lookout while the older kids were inside, doing their thing. What good of a lookout are you if you can’t even see someone talking right next to you?
<span class="mu-r">Will you be using this language?</span>
Is it the voice in your head?
“What, can you speak my language now?”, you ask aloud. “You can speak…
>… english?” [quest is set in Edinburgh, British Empire]
>… german?” [quest is set in Stuttgart, German Empire]
>… german?” [quest is set in Salzburg, Austro-Hungarian Empire]
>… french?” [quest is set in Nice, French Third Republic]
>… italian?” [quest is set in Genoa, Kingdom of Italy]
Some of your earliest memories include coughing your lungs out and losing a quarter of your fellow orphans and playmates. You remember the nuns getting mad at you for asking about nonsense words like internet or television. You’ve always been inquisitive and were able to read and write almost without it being taught to you, even though you tend to spell some words quite wrong.
And there’s also this voice. You sometimes hear odd noises, which you somehow interpret as a language, even though it consists of odd whistles and grunts, not something a human can produce. Sometimes it repeats the same phrases over and over again until you have to think really hard for it to be silent, where you basically have to shout “shut the fuck up” in your head over and over again.
That was, of course, until today when…
<span class="mu-r">System diagnostic:
Temporal Paradox detected. Illegal use. Unable to connect to server.
No identification detected. Illegal use. Unable to connect to server.
Unrecognized Species detected. Illegal use. Unable to connect to server.
Species calibration dangerously low. Unable to connect to server. Automatic repair attempt 2757 partially successful. Establish linguistic calibration.
Language calibrated.
Will you be using this language?</span>
Someone just started talking, from what you feel like was right behind you. However, you were not able to see anyone anywhere in the alleyway around you. You’re supposed to be lookout while the older kids were inside, doing their thing. What good of a lookout are you if you can’t even see someone talking right next to you?
<span class="mu-r">Will you be using this language?</span>
Is it the voice in your head?
“What, can you speak my language now?”, you ask aloud. “You can speak…
>… english?” [quest is set in Edinburgh, British Empire]
>… german?” [quest is set in Stuttgart, German Empire]
>… german?” [quest is set in Salzburg, Austro-Hungarian Empire]
>… french?” [quest is set in Nice, French Third Republic]
>… italian?” [quest is set in Genoa, Kingdom of Italy]
