don't speak i know just what you're saying so please stop explaining don't tell me cause it hurts

[taxonmods]

WE DO IN FACT SPEAK AMERICANO. AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

Only with a lot less actual speaking for a while. As outlined in May's State of the Taxon, we’ve got a system glitch starting around midday on Sunday the 22nd.

An attempt by the aliens to stop the citizens from understanding the incoming radio signals will result in the characters losing the ability to speak - or indeed make any vocalizations - and the tablets will only support text transmissions. This will last through the 26th, with some residual effects lingering until the 29th.

List of details!

● At the start of the glitch, there will be a five minute period in which characters will speak gibberish, nonsense sounds strung together.

● After this, spoken communication will be shut off completely and tablets will default to text.

● Characters who know languages other than English will find themselves writing in that language or languages. They can stick to English with a lot of effort, but words or phrases will still slip through.

● On the 26th, verbal communication will be restored. Multilingual characters will still find themselves slipping into non-English.

● This will all be cleared up and normalcy restored on the 29th.

For characters who will be affected by the multi-lingual shenanigans, you can use Google Translate to muck up your tags, or denote things in other languages by bolding the text.

Questions? Plottings? Flailings? This is the post for 'em! Speak now or forever hold... you get the idea.

Comments

[egregiouslypink.livejournal.com]

→ Dawn will be VERY ANNOYED by her lack of ability to talk (and probably carry around a white board) and then will be annoyed by the Tower of Babel effect but eventually will just babble happily away in all the dead languages.

→ Damon will make a lot of obscene gestures idk. Then he'll find himself speaking French and want to die, and will hole up with booze and try to be quiet or at least use Italian instead.

→ Sook and Faith will just be annoyed about not talking (...Sookie more than Faith) and then will be back to English since that's all they speak.

OTHER THAN THAT: I had some half formed ideas about Sook getting her telepath on, idk how. ANY INTEREST?

[secretshame]

EITHER OF MY GIRLS ARE OPEN FOR TELEPATH SHENANIGANS, Jenna more than Willow because of magic witchy barriers, etc

[aintnoconvict]

telepathy: GO AND GOOD LUCK

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

River will draw all over Dawn's whiteboard.

ps. this is the best opportunity for pictionary and dog ballerinas.

[cheerioless.livejournal.com]

SOOK TOTES NEEDS TO GET HER TELEPATH ON.

[selfmadman]

DON IS OF COURSE AVAILABLE FOR TELEPATHIC HORRORS HIJINKS!

(His thoughts will mostly revolve around drinking. ENJOY.)