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Post by nobledreamhome on Jun 30, 2005 12:08:24 GMT -5
Noble stuck around the inn longer, watching little children run by, playing with their saurian nannies who were busily trying to get them to settle down or at least play outside and to not "bother the nice people in the inn". Of course, there were so many people at the inn, making so much noise that she wasn't exactly sure how the children would be able to make much more noise than the crowd and even bother anyone unless they ran up to them.
Finally she turned back to DJ and Christopher. But she wasn’t sure what to say since she wasn’t able to speak that well in the common human tongue and it looked like Christopher was still having a bit of trouble with it. Noble feared that if she talked she’d cause them both to get headaches trying to figure out what she was saying. Now was when she really wished she had her translator friend back.
So she stood there in silence for several moments, shifting her weight. Finally, she spoke, very slowly, so she could be understood, hopefully, by at least DJ. "Wheel, I have come do check deh…ekks…ad deh hacherieee. Myee hacherieee has no ekks wide now. Oderwise I wood have checked dem fuhirst. Dseeink as I was bone…and waised…ad deh Bonnaba hacherieee, I fuh-eel…um… compelled…do heelp dem. Also, all childwen ees like myee childwen and dees loss ees…quide sad. Ifuh yuh dwo wand do come wid meh, yuh can. And I will ket a twanslatow. Will bee kettink wun anyway. Ifuh nod, I need do be ko-ink now.”
She waited for DJ to see if he understood what she had said and hoped that Christopher could make it out and waited for their answer.
(OOC: Translation of what Noble says: “Well, I have come to check the…eggs…at the hatchery. My hatchery has no eggs right now. Otherwise I would have checked them first. Seeing as I was born…and raised…at the Bonabba hatchery, I feel…um…compelled…to help them. Also, all children is like my children and this loss is…quite sad. If you two want to come with me, you can. And I will get a translator. Will be getting one anyway. If not, I need to be going now.”)
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Post by Christopher on Jul 1, 2005 18:23:45 GMT -5
Chris listened to Noble speak. He understood a little of it. Something about how she wanted to check on the eggs at the hatchery. It was best to just wait and see what DJ said, since he probably understood the whole thing.
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Post by aric on Jul 1, 2005 22:46:03 GMT -5
DJ listened to Noble struggle with human common. It was a valiant effort on her part, seeing as how her physiology didn't allow her to reproduce human words to the effect that she may have wanted.
When she finished, Dj nodded. "Ah." He turned to Christopher. "She wants to know if we are interested in coming with her to the hatchery. She's compelled to help in any way possible there, in the hatchery's current dire straits."
(OOC: Since everybody seems to be moving off, perhaps it's time to move away from the Inn. Since Vorchia started this, it's up to her to get the story moving in the direction that she ultimately wants it to go. Since she's no longer at the Inn, I gather it's not ultimately important. I thought we could meet up with a couple of more people, though I suppose that could happen at the hatchery or the caravan preparation areas as well.)
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Post by Christopher on Jul 2, 2005 0:27:40 GMT -5
"Oh, right. That raptor...Vochia mentioned a problem with the eggs. Well, seeing as how I have nowhere else I need to be, at the moment, I see no reason why I can't come with you. Though, I am afraid I know nothing about hatchery work."
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Post by Stouthorn on Jul 3, 2005 21:21:51 GMT -5
Stouthorn arrived at Bonabba as the sun dipped below the horizon. Lanterns began to wink to life, and the scent of jungle wafted to the Triceratops' nose from the Basin. He nodded his greetings to the people he passed, called his Breathe-Deep-Seek-Peaces over his shoulder, but he headed straight for the Hatchery. Besides the problems he had heard, the Hatchery was often the place to go for information.
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Post by nobledreamhome on Jul 5, 2005 0:45:27 GMT -5
(OOC: *sigh* I had a nice reply and it suddenly erased because I moved my keybored. *sigh* Anyway, I said in my original OOC that I was sorry I dissappeared for a few days, but I went over to my dad's house, which I didn't know was going to happen. Just thought I'd let you all know why I was gone for a few days.)
After Noble 'applied' for a translator, she had gone to the hatchery to check out the eggs with the two humans. As she had suspected; she had no idea what was wrong with them. They didn't smell, look or feel strange.
As they were leaving the hatchery, her translator arrived; a blue and green protoceratops with a purple and dark blue crest. She said her name was Rapidwater and that she was willing to go anywhere their group was going.
She was quite a lively little protoceratops, though she had an air of maturity about her that suggested someone who had lived a century or more.
"Well, where are all of you headed?" She asked as she followed them. "I am guessing it has to do with the recent dilemma involving the eggs?" She asked in the common human tongue. She also repeated herself in English (she loved learning languages and had taken a lot of care in learning the most commonly-spoken languages of the outside world that she could).
"Yes, among other things. We will be following Vorchia. I really know very little. I...was more preoccupied with the thought of the eggs instead of paying close attention to what everyone was saying." Noble admitted lowering her head and neck a little in embarrased shame. "Sometimes I let myself be distracted by other things instead of paying attention to what's currently going on. But it doesn't happen often." Noble added quickly.
"Oh, well, we all have our faults." Rapidwater replied. "You'll understand more once things get going, I'm sure. You shouldn't be embarrassed."
(OOC: Uh, I'm at a writer's block, that's why my characters are babbling, heh.)
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Post by Stouthorn on Jul 5, 2005 10:30:19 GMT -5
Stouthorn caught up with his protoceratops companion inside the Hatchery and found a group of humans and a single carnosaur standing about pensively. He swung his head about the room, regarding those there even as they regarded him. Finally, Stouthorn broke the silence.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything...my name is Stouthorn, I've just come from Sauropolis. I see you've already met my little friend, here. I was wondering if there were any caravans entering the Basin anytime soon...I have business to attend to there."
He blinked. The others in the room exchanged looks as the protoceratops chattered the translation.
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Post by Christopher on Jul 5, 2005 18:38:21 GMT -5
The young soldier was glad to be out of the hatchery. He enjoyed watching the attendants keep watch over the eggs, but the constant temperature and humidity they kept the rooms proved to be too much for him, in his coat.
He behind the group he was travelling with, and said nothing when the small dinosaur started speaking with them. He just left the conversation up to DJ, and Noble.
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Post by SilvanoshiS on Jul 6, 2005 17:56:10 GMT -5
((OOC: I can no longer fly, the muscles have changed and fused to adapt to 21 years of ground-walking, Also, I forgot to mention that Silvanoshi is a historian, specializing in 'ancient' times (on and off island history)))
Silvanoshi sees commotion outside the hatchery and decideds fo go find out what's going on. "Hello, I am Silvanoshi, has anyone found a cause to the 'egg situation' that the hatchery attendants told me about, Or is there an expedition planned? I would so love to see some of the things I've read about in the Basin. Many ancient ruins and other amazing things." He begins babling about some of the basin's history probably to the ammusement and annoyance of everyone.
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Post by SilvanoshiS on Oct 9, 2005 21:47:29 GMT -5
Silvanoshi began to stray from the group, people in large numbers made him slightly uneasy. He still liked the open, just not the sky kind of open. He passed a clearing where he saw a carnosaur and a human hugging and laughing. Silvanoshi clicked his beak and chuckeled to himself in skytopian (a mix of the skybax's native language and pure dinotopian) about how happy they looked. he couldn't wait for this journey to start, he'd wanted to strech his, well, he couldn't really call them wings anymore, so apendages seemed like the best word for them, he wanted to strech his apendages. He looked again the the odd pair and let his mind wander, wander to times gone by and things that never were, or might still be.
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