RttS: Ixion Admin Team
Added 2021-05-23 19:01:00 +0000 UTCThey do the paperwork!
Idrisah's device here essentially makes up for the human handicap of being unable to speak two tones at once, a common feature of avian languages. It has a couple different modes, including direct translation (speak English, avian language and captions come out), stenography (attach keyboard device, type abbreviated avian language to speak it), and harmonic speech (speak unitone avian language slowly and the speaker predicatively adds the second pitch). The last mode is a little janky but it can help with clarification when the direct translation guessed wrong. People who use a lot of direct translation tend to speak "interpretor-ese" to their mic, i.e. choosing weird word combinations because they get the intended translation out the other end.
Ixion plant is a human-run facility on avian territory, so they have two official languages: Jovian English and Tiiliitian. Ohwihtiil and Cheevwut speak English and use it commonly around the office, but the temp avian workers and governmental visitors vary in fluency. Idrisah understands spoken Tiiliitian and uses the clip-on translator to respond in it.
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Quite a few of the other members of the avian genus have nudist cultures or much more lax decency standards, clothes can actually be pretty inconvenient or damaging for feathered flying animals. Skimmers have imposed their rules on the cultures they have colonized.
Jay Eaton
2021-08-21 13:54:55 +0000 UTCLoving what an absolute prude Ohwihtiil is! I have to ask, are there any avian nudists?
Dylan Bajda
2021-08-19 07:55:34 +0000 UTCYep, and both skimmer avians.
Jay Eaton
2021-05-27 01:17:37 +0000 UTCIs cheevwut a dun, and ohwihtiil a bright?
Lorax177
2021-05-26 10:51:25 +0000 UTCYeees, though analog speech instruments tend to be kind of garbled and uncanny-valley. Digital voice synth technology is good enough that there's not much use for an instrument in professional settings.
Jay Eaton
2021-05-25 04:49:10 +0000 UTCAt least Gillie doesn't work there 🤣
Jay Eaton
2021-05-25 02:25:16 +0000 UTCI honestly wonder how many senior staff will be left at Ixion at this rate.
Shifter55
2021-05-24 04:49:34 +0000 UTCAre there instruments that can replicate the sound of double tones?
Lorax177
2021-05-24 03:39:41 +0000 UTCI love that grumpy old people are a constant across all alien races
Cy
2021-05-23 23:39:28 +0000 UTC
