spear
May 8, 2025, 8:19am
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quaddevil:
I’d probably state something along the lines of, “Serpent, return to your nest; do not ask me something so foolish again, or I will make you into a rug. ” Hopefully, that gets it to leave me alone and return to whatever I was doing at that moment. If it choses to pursue action, say like shoving me in an attempt to capture me, I’m absolutely going to defend myself.
If I’m cloaked, or otherwise, I’d make my presence known and say, “Mammal, you chase only to speak?” Might take a few steps forward out of the dark to see what they do, “You hunt, follow my trail, end up before me, and you want to speak? ” Shove them, toss them away, roar, see how they respond. If they still want to believe its a good idea to be friendly with a pred, I think using the translator and saying things like, ‘WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MICH MONSTER?! SARGE WE-WE GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE! OH MY GOD, IT-IT TOOK HIS FUCKING HEAD SARGE!’ to allude to the fact, that yes, this isn’t just another marine, this is a predator.
I’m not sure if in the second you’re using the translator right off the bat or only in the ‘what did you do with Mich monster’, but if it’s not, both answers are bad.
You are talking too much with prey. Remember that translator messages are garbled and usually simple. Quoting the roleplay standards & lore page:
A hunter’s language with other yautja and with prey is concise, not too vernacular like a marine’s, but nor like a Shakespearian character. Do not call prey nor other yautja ‘r-slur’, ‘fuckface’, and such: get creative with your insults if it’s not going to be something simple like ‘idiot’ or ‘moron’. The translator mimics and repeats words it hears, therefore being choppy and janky, proper conversations are hard to achieve: it’s not the actual yautja speaking. Military jargon like ‘FOB’ is something the yautja do not use, even if they may know what it means.
Here are some comic panels I’ve used in past applications that I think you could also use:
quaddevil:
Now this is interesting, if there’s a new caste, I’m absolutely going to try to watch it, stalk it a bit to see exactly what it is, what does it do? Does it hunt? Does it heal? What is its purpose? All of these I’d try to observe first, and will ask other Yautja, namely the elders and ancients; what they make of it, have they seen it before? If even my elders, or ancients don’t know what exactly it is, then this is something I’d have to understand and see if it is even worthy to be considered prey.
Good enough. If it’s deadly and not a builder caste then assume it’s free game.
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