I came up with something that I think would be entirely accurate if we said it to Mami, though I have my doubts that she'd understand it. That said, kudos to the first person to figure out what language this is and what it means!

Was apea erra melenas yor
 
I came up with something that I think would be entirely accurate if we said it to Mami, though I have my doubts that she'd understand it. That said, kudos to the first person to figure out what language this is and what it means!

Was apea erra melenas yor
Not too difficult with the help of Google. :V

I think it means something like "I will be eternally happy to love you forever"?

But man, I don't think Mami will actually understand that. She might play some games to pass the time in PMAS, but this is excessive. :V
 
Ar Tonelico, of all things?

Incidentally, are those games any good to actually play? The music's great, and the sheer nerve of making a game with a strong focus on song and then putting a significant portion of that song in a conlang is... impressive. But I couldn't stand the only LP-er I found so I don't know much about the quality of the gameplay beyond the rough description on Wikipedia (which goes into far too much depth on the story, I feel).

And, yeah, confirming that; word-for-word is [very] [blessed/happy] [I want the feeling to last forever] [strong love] [you]

(sentences have an implicit first-person subject by default, and the speaker's emotion takes up the first three words)
 
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I will never fail to be impressed by EXA_PICO worldbuilding. It's stupidly ambitious. It isn't even limited to one conlang, there's like three or four depending on what you interpret as just dialects. Plus they went deep on the underlying physics properties of the world in the lore.
 
Still super huge vote but cleared it up a bit. I can sleep now.

[X] Be happy that Oriko's doing better, more than that she's getting new superpowers.
-[X] Share what you see in her Soul Gem.
-[X] Show curiosity about the 'random snatches'. Maybe they're hints you could puzzle out together?
-[X] Theorize what her new powers are meant for.
--[X] To watch over Kirika?
--[X] To protect the meaning she found in her life?

[X] Ask about Feathers:
-[X] Behavior.
-[X] Could it act outside Mitakihara?
-[X] What triggers it? Despair, tragedy?
-[X] What are its apparent goals and what are the actual consequences of its actions?
--[X] Example: Maybe it tried to kill Sayaka, or maybe it wanted Sayaka to be saved, or to Contract.

[X] Double down on FRIENDSHIP.
-[X] Hugs.
-[X] Tell O&K (specially Oriko) they're Good people.
--[X] They don't need to save the world or risk their lives to prove it to anyone.
-[X] Promise them a gift once they move to the new place.

[X] Thank Kirika.
-[X] You meant to make the manacles first. Oops. Fix now or later?
--[X] Maybe retcon? The vote line was to make the manacles, for the purpose of detaining meguca. Chain is rather flimsy compared with what we used on Anri.

[X] Hang out.
-[X] Feed Aurora happy magic.
-[X] Optional:
--[X] Talk about your respective dates.
--[X] Congratulate O&K on Oriko's new shitposing powers.
--[X] Offer to fix the rosebushes.

[X] Yuki.
-[X] Arrange a visit later today, you need to...
--[X] Talk with Anri.
--[X] Somehow get therapists involved stat.
--[X] Share contact information for meguca Befriending.

[X] Kyouko.
-[X] Meet up for brunch. You need to talk.


@Firnagzen, while the pun can be overlooked,
--[x] Ask Kirika to help you make Anti-Magic Manacles. They could've come in handy last night.
This vote was to make Anti-Magic Manacles with Kirika's help, as in make them, then have Kirika enchant them. We already knew O&K don't have manacles, I think, if we needed to actually know. :p

Maybe I should've been more clear with the phrasing, but I figured we'd be re-shaping some metals into manacles (meguca tier, like we made for Anri) , and it'd be kind of silly to have Brina somehow forget she can do this with Grief Control and walk away with chains instead of something more useful we could have made.

Unless we could reshape the chains without losing the enchantment... Could we have a slight retcon to brush that away and just have made the manacles the past update, rather than have to come back to this later?
 
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I will never fail to be impressed by EXA_PICO worldbuilding. It's stupidly ambitious. It isn't even limited to one conlang, there's like three or four depending on what you interpret as just dialects. Plus they went deep on the underlying physics properties of the world in the lore.
More than that, now. Hymmnos (and it's seven dialects, plus whatever Corrupted Pastalie is given that it's existence is attested to by a grand total of three lines; all from the same hymme), Ar Ciela, Carmen Foreluna (shares a script with Ciela, but is definitely a separate language), Emotional Song Pact, REON-4213,....

And the physics really is just an extension of our quantum mechanics. Posit that will is a basic form, coequal to and interchangeable with matter and energy, give it waveform properties like the other two, and a lot of the rest kinda falls out on its own.
 
And the physics really is just an extension of our quantum mechanics. Posit that will is a basic form, coequal to and interchangeable with matter and energy, give it waveform properties like the other two, and a lot of the rest kinda falls out on its own.
Oh, oh yes, that... makes, sense yeah...

*Eyes glaze over*

:V

(I mean I'm sure it does, just never got into quantum mechanics.)

I'd personally like to ask a bit more about the potential bomb, but eh.

[X] Onmur
Like what? I'm squeezing my brain (ow) but I can't think anything else Oriko might be able to tell us...

"I apologise," she says. "I... don't remember clearly."
(How much does she not remember because she doesn't remember and how much so as to not spoil the plot? :V

But wait... does that mean Feathers is interfering with Oriko's memory? :thonk: Is Feathers the cause for every single bad thing that happens ever?)

BTW, this it too cute:
She nods jerkily, frown deepening into worried furrows that Kirika reaches up to smooth away. Oriko sighs, slumping and pressing a kiss to Kirika's forehead.
 
I can't help but appreciate a setting that starts with the premise of "what if singing was magic and could change the world" and takes it to the natural conclusion of genetically engineered artificial life forms perfectly optimized to be able to sing an entire chorus with instrumental backing by themselves.

On a side note, Sabrina could totally provide background vocals and sounds for herself by using her grief fog to vibrate air directly...
 
I can't help but appreciate a setting that starts with the premise of "what if singing was magic and could change the world" and takes it to the natural conclusion of genetically engineered artificial life forms perfectly optimized to be able to sing an entire chorus with instrumental backing by themselves.

On a side note, Sabrina could totally provide background vocals and sounds for herself by using her grief fog to vibrate air directly...

Yea okay except Sabrina also has a mechanic for doing the Soul Dives and it's just as terrifying as when someone does it in Ar Tonelico with the brakers off.
 
but sabrina cant use a soul dive to stream herself playing video games inside her mind, now can she

actually shit wait maybe we can, we gotta try this

And as a bonus, we get to explore our soulspace!

Now, if that's not just a fancy name for our barrier, looking around inside Sabrina's soul will be very informative. Yeah, it's dangerous, but so's a lot of the other shit we've pulled.

Besides, how many livestreamers can say they're streaming from inside their own soul?

Fuck, we actually have to try this.
 
I can't help but appreciate a setting that starts with the premise of "what if singing was magic and could change the world" and takes it to the natural conclusion of genetically engineered artificial life forms perfectly optimized to be able to sing an entire chorus with instrumental backing by themselves.

Strictly speaking, the music is actually part of the tower's response to the revatiel's will. It's never spelled out in the games, but that is how Aurica or Misha can cast EXEC_PAJA/. and battle magic at the same time, Frelia maintains EXEC_META=FALSS/. while casting EXEC_HAIBANATION/.; and Infel (rather ridiculously) is simultaneously projecting her own disembodied consciousness into SOL=MARTA from the Infel Phira, summoning a data image of Nenesha from AR=TONELICO via SOL=MARTA's link with both the first tower and the Infel Phira, summoning a boss monster, casting battle magic, and casting EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/. all at the same time.

Why the tower sings with the revatiel's own voice is anybody's guess.

(edit: removing stray punctuation: why did they have to insert punctuation marks into the names of all the magics :confused: )
 
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