Post-It: ETD 00:07am

[maced_eggs]

Can anyone here understand French?

Only I keep running into ghosts and none of them are speaking any English. Or it's French, right? But it's old, old French. It's fuckin'...Shakespeare French.


Anyway.


No one else is seeing the ghosts?


Of all the fuckin' powers to keep.

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[ichoosefight]

You're seeing ancient French ghosts. Well that's a new one.

[ The most helpful. ]

[maced_eggs]

Seeing and hearing. An' I mean, it's nothing new but it's fuckin' irritating.

[ichoosefight]

If anybody around here speaks ancient French they haven't told me about it.

[maced_eggs]

Well, that's not very helpful, is it?

Some of them seem a bit angry, too.

[ichoosefight]

Maybe you should try talking to them really slow and loud.

[ Don't do this thing. ]

[maced_eggs]

WHO.....ARE......YOU?


WHAT....THE FUCK.....DO YOU....WANT?

[ichoosefight]

Get anything?

[ You moron. ]

[maced_eggs]

One of them made what I think was a very rude gesture but I can't be sure.

[ichoosefight]

Oh man, you can't put up with that sort of thing. You should give them a rude gesture right back.

[ Why are you listening to Steph STOP LISTENING TO STEPH ]

[thefuckup]

You're seeing ghosts? [ Pause pause pause. ] Did you eat the mushrooms?

[maced_eggs]

No I didn't eat the bloody mushrooms.

[He tried. They were immediately slapped out of his hand by smarter people than him]

[thefuckup]

You're missing out. [ Okay, not really. Sure, they're awesome for about ten minutes, but then the BAD TRIP starts. Luckily, TJ's clean and mushroom-free right now. ]

Anyway, I can speak French. I mean. Normal French.

[maced_eggs]

Can you? Where'd you learn it?

[thefuckup]

Boarding school. [ He's quiet for a moment, focusing on walking through the darkness or whatever he's doing, then starts to talk again, because this? This distracts him from how creepy this place is. ] I flunked it at first, but after a while you just [ STATIC. ]

[maced_eggs]

Jus' what?

TJ? Just what?

[thefuckup]

What? Oh, [ MORE STATIC, then the tail end of him muttering: ] --iece of shit.

[maced_eggs]

You can say that again.

No, really. Say that again, I didn't catch a bit of it.

[anewlanguage]

I could give it a shot.

What, uh, power is that?

[maced_eggs]

You speak ancient French?

Power to see fuckin' ghosts. Bloody useless power when everyone here comes back from the dead.

[anewlanguage]

Not like a pro but maybe I can work out how to ask 'em where the bathroom is. [Which is the most important thing to know in any language, right?]

Hey, maybe it's a waste on the ship, but so far all anyone's seen is living people out to hang us. I'll take the ghosts. Any idea where you are?

[maced_eggs]

Why the hell would I want to ask the ghosts that? In a cave of all places? If I need to take a piss, there's all these caverns about.

Nope. Not a fuckin' clue.

Which, you know, is sort of typical.

Why, do you?

[anewlanguage]

[He's trying not to laugh; noise is probably not the best thing right now.] Fine, ask 'em where we can get the hell out of here, then, better?

I'm working on it. I'm leaving marks on the walls, about five feet up--an arrow pointing up. You see one, let me know.

[maced_eggs]

I'm not so sure they'll answer me now. On account of a completely unrelated incident where I may have accidentally pissed on one's grave.

Okay. Yes. I will do this.

[anewlanguage]

[Sympathetic tsking] Shoulda asked for the bathroom.

Are ghosts dangerous?

[maced_eggs]

Nah. Ghosts can't hurt you. They're just fuckin' annoying buggers. Always hanging around demanding things.