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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 8, 2014 23:18:01 GMT -8
Ru- "That's alright. What does he want? It's amazing we can understand them like that. Does it work with every animal? Or just ones like Pineapple?" It loves you. I love you too! He tells Pineapple as he follows Demetri. He thinks that the little creature more than deserves a snack. He tries to straighten up his stride as he follows Demetri and attempts to imitate his general fashionableness and dainty walk.[/i]
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 8, 2014 23:57:15 GMT -8
Demetri- "Everything you think of as an animal, probably. It's not very good with amphibians and might not work at all with fish, and everything more distant from us than that is impossible. I have no idea how it works."
Pineapple- "So weird."
Cameron- "That's funny. What if you're not an animal person?"
Demetri- "How can you not be an animal person?"
Cameron- "Well, I mean, not especially. I think they're cute, but I don't go out of my way."
Demetri- "It makes no difference. The power is yours."
Pineapple- "Vampires make weird noise."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 9, 2014 0:13:10 GMT -8
Ru- "Oh, you don't have to be, but maybe you could ask them to get your keys if you get locked outside or something, right Pineapple?" He doesn't ask the cat to respond to his inquiry, but seems happy enough with that exchange, and goes to pet Pineapple again. They were going to get that foodsnack soon little Pineapple! SOON.
Ru seemed to be all smiles today, as he avoided thinking about what his family might be wondering today."I'm sure it would come in handy, who knows when you might need the help, Cameron!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 9, 2014 0:24:52 GMT -8
Demetri- "They have a very limited understanding, but a more clever animal could have such uses. Say a trained dog, or an ape."
Pineapple- "...Hm. I'd rather be walking." Demetri put him down, and said to Ru, Demetri- "Remind him where we're going. He probably has forgotten by now."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 9, 2014 0:28:25 GMT -8
Ru- "That makes sense, but it isn't mind control, so we can't force them can we? We have to offer them something in return if they want to have it. Ru looks at Pineapple, and then concentrates on conveying information to Pineapple.
"Going to food."
He tells Pineapple with his mind. He figures this message is indeed simple enough for little Pineapple to understand, and hopefully it was true.
He bent down to scoop Pineapple back up.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 9, 2014 0:55:53 GMT -8
Pineapple- "What? I'd rather be walking." He outpaced the hand and looked like he must not have understood & might leave.
But when Ru reached for him, he had a flash of intuition. The communication wasn't telepathic - it was just nonverbal. And if he felt it out, the language came to him like magic. He knew if he moved his hand one way, it would mean one thing, the other way another. And he could make sounds that would have some kind of meaning to the cat as well.
((When writing animal speech powers, just have your guy speak to the animal in quotes and white text. I'll decide if a concept is too complicated or not, and we'll assume the "out loud" text is just a translation of cat-ese.))
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 9, 2014 4:27:56 GMT -8
Ru- "..Food this way." Ru makes the appropriate accompanying gestures and a motion for Pineapple to follow towards where Demetri and the others are going. It had worked the first time somehow, but not this time, and somehow he had managed to interact with it. It was like another language, but perhaps, another sign-language. "Demetri, it's a useful skill you taught us today. Who knows, we might need the help" Or it was just neat by nature to talk to cats and dogs and birds and whatever else might be interested in communicating with us. He waited for the cat to respond before continuing in the appropriate direction.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 9, 2014 5:49:23 GMT -8
Pineapple- "Food? This way? Aw yeah."
He was on it, yo. Demetri- "You taugh-"
Cell phone- "Oonts oonts oonts oonts DiddyDiddyDiddyDiddy Dance Trance!"
Cameron- "Whoa. That brings back memories."
Demetri- "Florence? Any developments? ... Yes. My sentiments exactly. Where should we meet? ...Sensible. We should talk. ... The Gargoyle Garden, if you don't mind. Good night." He hung up.
Cameron- "What was that?"
Demetri- "After we visit the pantry and the DeGeorge room, I'll be dropping you fellows off at the Sombreta Estate. From there, uncle Vitus will take you and your friends somewhere for training. Not sure who will be there, but certainly Eli, Jason, Courtney, and Trevon."
Cameron- "Nope."
Demetri- "Trevor."
Pineapple- "Why do I feel like I'm going to food? I don't smell food. These vampires. They're going to food. I think."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 9, 2014 5:58:12 GMT -8
Ru- "That sounds good to me, I hope they are all getting on well." Ru mentally added 'and alive' to the end of that, before venturing a tentative smile to Cameron. Well, as alive as they could be with the circumstances, they had after all been distributed to maniacs and monsters."You'll learn us all I am sure." Ru wondered vaguely if there was a cure for vampirism besides a stake to the heart. Somehow he didn't think so. He readjusted his jacket and followed Demetri to feed the cat. This power was fun, a shame the cat wouldn't understand questions.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 9, 2014 6:12:23 GMT -8
They came to the pantry. Pineapple looked around in curiosity. ((He might understand a limited range of simple questions. To what extent can a cat get information from another cat?)) Pineapple- "Food has been here." Demetri- "Edward, this cat requires sustenance."
Edward- "Not a problem." He got up and went to the food.
Cameron- "You like that, you little monster?"
Pineapple- "That human is going to get food! Holy crap!" *ziiing*
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 9, 2014 6:19:55 GMT -8
Ru- "Food is coming." Ru kneels down and looks away from the feline friend before offering a hand to rub on it. Casual cat language! "I like you Pineapple." He offers Pineapple. He wondered why Demetri had a feline friend, and then decided that it was probably lonely without baby vampires to keep him company. Maybe it hung out at his studio while he made artistic art and thought deep thoughts about undeath and death, and did some contemplation about mortality and other Babette-type stuff. He seemed like a sensitive artist guy!
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 9, 2014 21:03:00 GMT -8
Ru had to follow him into the pantry a short ways to make his communication. Pineapple- "Yeah, food... I like being liked. FOOD!"
Demetri- "Seems Mister Pineapple is distracted. Shall we move along?"
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 9, 2014 21:42:54 GMT -8
Ru- "Of course, I'm coming Demetri.." Ru walked quickly to try to catch up with the amazing vanishing vampires, and joined them on the way to where they were off to. "That was neat. Thank you Demetri."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 9, 2014 22:04:33 GMT -8
They came to the DeGeorge room, so named for the artisan whose shop produced most of the furniture two hundred years ago. Tomasz was lounging with Sarah and Tristan close at hand. Demetri- "Tomasz, good evening."
Dragomir- "I've got no complaints."
Sarah- "Yo."
Cameron- "Yo."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 9, 2014 22:07:47 GMT -8
Ru- "Hello Tomaz, hello Tristan and...Sarah." He was getting used to this he had to say, though he flanked Demetri rather closely in the meantime. He put on his best smile, and wondered if Tristan and Sarah had fed while he was busy learning to talk to cats. Couldn't be that fast could it? "We're just dropping in."
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