Error 4639

[voidtreckermods]

Day Twenty Two starts as any other day onboard the Voidtrecker Express. The morning announcement and then passengers are free to fall back to sleep or get up and start the day. Breakfast is made. However not so long after the wake up call anyone near an ICP point will see it flash bright white.

A moment later there is a message. It shows on the screens for fifteen minutes and indeed anyone trying to use the ICPs for anything else will have trouble as it seems determined to be all that they can access. Then the screen goes white again. Bold text flashes up.

Error code 4639. Program must end.

The screen goes black and stays black. Every ICP on the train is down. That is not all. When passengers try and speak to each other they will learn that whatever it was that allowed them to understand each other has stopped working.

Hopefully that won't cause too much mayhem...

(OOC: Information and plotting for this event can be found here)

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[flatteries]

Luke and Telli? Inigo doesn't really know the latter, but he does know the former. Judging by what Taiki said, Misa must have said something about her being able to understand those two, right? Inigo is mulling it over in his head for a few moments to give Taiki some time to catch up - it can't be easy being the middle person for literally everything that's being said right now.

"I'm glad she has people she can understand," he settles on in the end. Because it's true. His own experience of being the only one to speak his language is a very, very shitty one, and he wouldn't wish that upon either of the other two present here.

[longforgottenpromise]

"Ah... they must still speak a similar language though, throughout your galaxy." She was from a place with many planets then. Much like the mission they had gone on or many of the stories about space he had known on earth.

"Um... Inigo says that he is glad you have people you understand and um... Misa says we will figure something out." He smiled at them both reassuringly. "Um... Sorry... I know it must be hard for both of you. If you need to speak to anyone I can translate for you..."

He's so often useless so having something he can do, he is determined to help those around him as much as possible.

[sensitiveapple]

She reaches over and squeezes Inigo's hand, then touches Taiki's arm. "Thank you, for doing this. Not being able to talk to people is... frustrating, at best, isolating to be sure, and making the train a lonelier place." She takes a deep breath, and straightens her shoulders. She is a Mistress in training. She will not be brought low by this.

"We should find something to do. I spoke to Joss a little earlier. Would Inigo like to learn some of my language?"

They could play the cypher again.

[flatteries]

It's amazing how much a slight touch can do sometimes. Misa grabs and squeezes his hand like that, and instantly some light returns to Inigo's eyes, making his smile seem more genuine than before. He's of half a mind to just straight up hug her, but he notices the way she straightens herself a moment later and still recalls the time he told her she couldn't afford to have friends. She's obviously trying to be strong right now, just like back then, so he holds back the hug for now out of fear it might bother her at a moment like this.

The smile on his face, however, remains very strong and genuine when he glances over at Taiki.

"Don't worry about it, Taiki. How could anything be hard as long as we're surrounded by friends, hm?"

[longforgottenpromise]

He nods at Inigo with a smile and then back at Misa. "Misa asks if you would like to learn any of her language. Also she spoke to Joss earlier."

He is only vaguely aware of who Joss is but considering she mentioned him, he thinks Inigo might know him better.

"And Inigo says, how could anything be hard as long as we're surrounded by friends."

He smiles at that. Inigo was always good for seeing the light in situations, despite the fact that in all their travels today they had not found anyone who spoke his language he was still making an attempt to speak and reach out to others.

[sensitiveapple]

Well, she and Inigo had had a talk about friends already. So, she's not so sure that that's a good thing to think. About her, anyway. But she's not going to argue. It gains her nothing and might cause a rift when there's no need for one. The Little Mistress, already playing politics.

She pulls out her colored pencils. "Can Inigo draw?" She asks, curious. But she offers the pencil and paper to Inigo. This works much better if no one allows her to draw.

[flatteries]

Joss. Inigo doesn't really know him, but he does recall Misa saying that she was waiting for him back at the party - a topic he quickly tries to divert his thoughts away from, considering the many awkward feelings surrounding said party.

At least he's happily oblivious to any of the thoughts that form in Misa's mind at his usage of the f-word. Instead he just grabs the paper from her with the same smile, already starting to draw something on it before holding it up so both of them can see. It's a smiling face - not quite the emoticon, since Inigo doesn't know those, but it's close enough. It's probably him trying to emphasize the fact that he's fine. (Even though that's only a half truth at best.)

"Does she want us to learn her language like this? By drawing?"

[longforgottenpromise]

"It seems so." He answered with a small smile as Inigo drew a smiling face. "Is that how you plan on teaching him? With pictures?"

He translated as he watched them both, it was good that they could at least attempt ways to communicate.

[sensitiveapple]

"It worked a little with Joss. We got some basic vocabulary done anyway, before I had to come back here to work." She draws a dress on a piece of paper, and writes the word underneath it. She shrugs. "Unless you have a better idea?"

[flatteries]

It's like Taiki and Misa are two parents talking at kindergarten while their kid Inigo is just going wild with some activity. Because boy, does he ever seem to be excited to do this whole drawing thing. He may be overcompensating more than just a little bit in order to cover up his sadness and worries, but whatever! Who cares as long as it works, right?

So even with the two of them talking, it seems Inigo doesn't bother to do so for the moment. Mostly since he's busy drawing. He couldn't understand Misa's explanation, but even without it, he can figure out what she's doing here. He's busy drawing a dress too while they talk, and putting the word for it underneath it as well. His handwriting is very neat - maybe neater than expected from someone as puppy-like as Inigo - but obviously the letters are completely foreign.

He holds it up so proudly though. Is this it? Did he do good?

[longforgottenpromise]

"No... I mean. It's a good idea." He smiles at her softly before he looks back at Inigo who seems to be having a lot of fun.

Taiki can't read either of their words, both Misa and Inigo use letters that are completely foreign to him and his ability to understand only stretches to the spoken word, there are still many words in his own language he can't read, or that he reads wrong, reading them like kanji instead.

He smiles at them both though. "You should say it outloud Inigo, so Misa knows how to pronounce dress in your language."