@daylit; audio.

[sunborne]

Hey guys! So, I made a post about studying the language a month or so, right? I made progress on it! Not a lot of progress but some progress? With words and everything? Got a few phrases and descriptives and stuff like that!

Hmmm... It'll be easier to explain this if I demonstrated it to you guys, right? Right- I'll use the ocarina for this but, um, I promise, we'll try to transcribe the melodies to other instruments soon. Anyways-

[ daylight then proceeds to play a series of melodies and notes, taking his time to explain what they mean and how to play it on the ocarina.

when he finishes his little demo, he continues talking: ] Later, in the day, I'll add all of this stuff to the spirit language app we have on the tablet here. So you guys can practice it for yourselves if you want to do that.

And... Um... For the next few months, I'll be more focused on trying to crack the grammar of the spirits' language since I think the lexicon - I think that means the total words and stuff? (sorry, grandma!) - is robust enough that I don't need to keep digging for new combinations to the phonetics anymore.

So yeah... That's it! If you guys, like, have questions about how to play the music and, er, stuff- Let me know? I'll try to answer what I can.

Comments

@riku; text

[equinoctials]

[ A little, he says. He practically doubled what they know about their language! Maybe more? Riku can't be sure, he just can tell this is a lot of work. ]

This is great, Day. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[sunborne]

Aw! Thanks, Riku.

Just glad I can help you guys out while I can. It seemed like something I could do because I can kind of remember my grandma's lessons on linguistics and cryptography.

More of the former than the latter, though.

@lucius

[diastima]

Do you mind teaching me how to play?

[ It seems like a skill he'd need if he is to be useful. ]

[sunborne]

I don't mind at all!

[ daylight's always happy to help someone else out.

and, well, it seems only right to offer a hand out to someone willing to learn the language if someone expresses an interest in it. that's the whole basis of linguistics, as his grandma once told me. ]

Do you have an ocarina yet? Or know where to get one?

[diastima]

I don't...

Do I need to pay for one?

@lucky; audio

[mindofathief]

[That instrument does feel less nerve-wracking than singing. And it's more portable than a double-bass cello.]

Does humming work? Or does it have to be an instrument?

[sunborne]

You can definitely try humming if you want! I've used just my voice in the past and it was pretty successful.

[ er. he was using an alien language but- ] And a friend of mine tried using their voice to reply to one a while back. The spirit we were talking to got the general gist of what he was trying to say and everything!

It's all about hitting the right notes, I think.

[mindofathief]

So it works, but not perfectly.

[An instrument does sound like the best bet.]

Did you make that ocarina?

@langit; audio

[arsarcanum]

[ An audio clip! He's getting the hang of this. He picked up an ocarina in the first few days he was here, and he's been practicing since. Slow, picked out ocarina notes incoming...

In order:
- A friendly greeting
- A polite thank you
- "I'm lost."
- The phrase for "Are you okay?", except he missed some fiddly part where he's supposed to hold down down multiple holes or something
- "Show?"
- Another polite thank you ]

[sunborne]

[ there's a weird fluttering sound in the background. those who know daylight well enough - or seen how he acts on a general basis around the village or beacon - will know by now that it's his winglets, flapping in approval. ]

Wow! That's really good!

[ oh. hmmm. give him a sec- daylight doesn't have an ocarina but he switches to his father's tongue, using the musical(ish) qualities to let out a series of cheeps and chirrs and sounds to reply back with the following:

Thank you, Person-Friend! Great work! Will show! Will show! ]

@langit; audio >> text

[arsarcanum]

[ The sounds throw Sora off, but the answer back is reassuring! He's pretty sure he's heard this voice before, but he doesn't want to assume anything - he could easily be mistaken, after all.

One more ocarina reply - "I am - thank you" - then he'll switch back to text. ]

this must have taken a really long time to figure out
it's so cool that we can talk to them
is this what you did with your grandma back where you're from?

@mollymauk; voice

[mollymocked]

Now that is going to be useful. I've got this melody from Pluto that I'm trying to figure out. Everyone says it might be a spirit message, but fuck if I can figure it out on my own. This could help.

[sunborne]

You did! Oh wow, Molly, that's so cool.

[ now that definitely gets daylight's attention. ] How did you get that? Er- I know it was at the Night Market but did you have to trade something for it or, er, something?

[mollymocked]

I traded the sordid tale of how I died in the bloody mines during that dream thing, which she seemed very interested in for some reason. Personally, I feel like I earned something more specific with that, but she says our tablets don't allow for GPS coordinates or... Something. It's all Celestial to me.

@lonk; audio

[sublimebeast]

Wow...

Uh. Where can I get an ocarina?

[sunborne]

You can find it over at the general store!

There's a lot of designs and styles to pick from and you don't need to pay for it or anything. Er- Money isn't a thing you need to worry about here because, you know, our current circumstances and all.

[sublimebeast]

You mean they'd just let me take one? Or is there some sort of...bartering system?

I'm still new to all this...

[lunchbreaks]

Daylight,
This is wonderful news! Thank you for sharing. We'll have a rosetta stone yet!
-Aziraphale

[sunborne]

Thanks, Mr. Aziraphale!

I hope this can help foster better relations with the forest spirits here since we have a bigger pool of words and phrases to work with. And with the help of others - shout out to Elle and Soldat! - I hope we can find more ways to communicate with them besides the ocarina, so it's more accessible.

- Daylight!

[lunchbreaks]

Dear Daylight,
Indeed. Do you think it might help to show them objects and have them name those in their language? Perhaps we could eventually arrive at more abstract concepts after!
x
Aziraphale.

@nightshade | text

[primordialerebus]

That's amazing!!!!!!!!

[sunborne]

Thanks! I'm really glad people are super enthusiastic or open to the idea of communicating with the spirits.

[ well. the friendly spirits at least. ]

[primordialerebus]

Yeah! Hopefully that means less fighting.

[ After a couple of moments. ]

Could you teach me a few sometime?

@cuttingedge; audio

[knifecollecting]

You're getting good with that. [She hopes his work doesn't involve more visits with the green-eyed spirits.]

How are you learning? [She's starting to realize she hasn't tried as hard as she could with that.]

[sunborne]

Hey Jo!

[ day waves for a second but quickly remembers that this is audio-only. right- ] It's been really weird and hard but I've been learning mostly by trial-and-error.

[ the short and sweet (and very inaccurate) version is this: ]

With the, um, phrases we already had in the app, I tried to write out the melodies' notes. Then I tried to figure out what word was assigned to each note. After that it was a case of stringing the notes along and seeing if my friends responded.

[ ... that'll have to do. sorry, grandma. ]