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[samahl]

WHO: Anyone who wants to come!
WHAT: Cyril plans a surprise party for Sam and Kirk
WHEN: This Saturday
WHERE: Sam and Kirk's home
NOTES: This is the party Cyril started planning here. I'm going to include two header comments for prep before the party, and for Kirk and Sam to come home so everyone can enjoy the 'Surprise!' moment, otherwise, please treat this like a normal mingle post, put in your characters enjoying the party and tag around!

Cyril was pleased with how many had wanted to help with this party. Christine had offered to distract both Kirk and Sam. Adasse had put together some tasty potatoes. Korrin had arrived to help arrange furniture to use the space better for a crowd and had brought spiced wine and sweets. Anders had helped with decorations.

They had done well, even with the food shortage, and the house smelled inviting thanks the the work of everyone coming together.

Comments

[universal_charm]

"Oh, more than a few. My crew and I were responsible for first contact with a number of species, including one that had a very unique relationship with time," he said, his eyes shifting upwards in the way of someone recalling a memory. "They were an interesting lot. A touch scary too, but interesting. They gave me crew quite the scare when they whisked me away for a bit to talk."

[tar_minyatur]

"Ooh, now this sounds a tale!" Elros reaches and grabs them both a flagon of whatever is going past and pops it in Jim's hands.

"Go on!"

[universal_charm]

"Haha, well, it's a bit complicated, what with bending time and such," he said as he caught the drink Elros pushed into his hands. "It started when we discovered a new planet, rich in minerals, and we were also determining if the species we found there were sentient or not. We believed at least three resided on the planet, though the third was... rather difficult to identify. In fact, we couldn't do so at all, practically, and only knew it existed because of the only species on the planet that had any sort of viable language. Or at least one we could understand."

[tar_minyatur]

"You mean they left their scripts about for you to see or...?"

Elros leans forwards, eagerly soaking up the story.

[universal_charm]

"No, we have these things called universal translators, in my world. They listen to alien languages and use a computer program to parse the syntax and other audio cues that form a language so we can communicate," he explained. "As you communicate more, it becomes more exact and eventually it has the full lexicon."

[tar_minyatur]

"That sounds like an incredibly useful device." Elros says, impressed.

"Would have been awfully helpful in some of the trickier negotiations, I tell you! But coming back to your tale... it picked up a language?"