text [some time before the end of the event]

[muscovy]

[Guess which temple Muscovy is currently in, tucked in a corner somewhere, using his backpack as a backrest and playing around with the new emoji app? It's not that he likes being in the temples, no matter which god_ess they belong to, but considering how things outside took a turn for the worse instead of for the better, he has decided on spending siren times inside - this time in Delight's temple. Which gave him time to waste.]

There are little pictures in the comms. Why?

[None of the comms that he had before had those. And also]

What do these mean? [He can figure out the others - people with different faces, and cats with different faces, hearts and a star. But those four are confusing.]


[ooc: If you'd rather approach him in person, that is fine, too!]

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[strangelic]

The salt is for keeping out evil spirits. The gun is for shooting them with the salt. The single fingered hand gesture subsequent to it is some kind of salute, I'm still not certain I understand it myself, but it's used to ward off evil. The final symbol are the bones that you have to burn, to be certain the spirit doesn't come back.

[muscovy]

But why are the pictures in the comm?

[also...]

I don't think you can load guns with salt.

[Or at least he hasn't anyone seen do it, ever, so he figures that there is a good reason that they don't do it.]

...It doesn't look like a gun, too.

[Most of everything else makes sense, even though he isn't sure if it really connected.]

[strangelic]

Pictographs are an ancient kind of language. I suppose that this is just another way of humans conveying information to each other.

[ Probably not what he's asking. ]

[ A pause. ] Salt makes a good projectile. Namely, it will injure spirits but not the living. Of course, while it would be easier to say "Bring guns and salt" in case of a haunting, rather than use the pictures, I do rather like them. They're pleasantly whimsical.

[muscovy]

[Now that he puts it like that...]

They could be for humans who do not know how to read!

[Like people will use pictures and carvings to convey messages to the common layperson.

Even if he gets the feeling that they are not quite talking about the same thing, Castiel's words make some measure of sense.]

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[64th]

We don't have little picture things where I'm from but I'm 90% sure you're wrong.

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[strangelic]

How can I be wrong? It's a story, and as such open to interpretation.

[64th]

No it's not, the pictures mean whatever it is they mean it's not open to interpretation

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[kickingand]

[ SIGH. ]

Ignore Cas, that third one's the one-fingered hello.

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[muscovy]

...I have never seen someone greet another person that way.

[Nor has he managed to see it at all, which all things considered is quite a feat.]

Does it have a special context?

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[kickingand]

One of those things you only give to guys you probably never want to speak to again.

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[muscovy]

[What kind of greeting...

Oh.]

It asks people to duel you to the death?

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[skelebro]

They're for adding an emotion to your text. Mostly just for fun.

[The Underground was full of 'em. Mostly thanks to Alphys being Alphys. He kind of misses Alphys.]

Bottom row's, uh...salt's for if you're upset, I think. The gun's for when you're real angry, and so's the skull. And the third one in is...

[Cripes, really? This is a kid.]

It's kind of a rude human gesture. For five-fingered folk.

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[muscovy]

But if I want to add emotion to my text I can just write it down.

[And why would you, anyway? The beauty of text is that you can use it when you don't want your emotions to be carried across.]

...Why is salt upset? [Oh, that's a skull. He studies it for a moment before moving on the the one that Sans refuses to define fully.]

I have five fingers, too. What kind of rude gesture is it? Like telling someone that they are a bastard even if it isn't true?

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[skelebro]

[Alllllll righty then, this kid knows his stuff. Yikes.]

I think it's just, you know, shorthand. I'm probably not the best person to ask. Probably best not to go around busting out that finger, though.

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[muscovy]

Do you sometimes use it?

[That's always a good way to figure out if something should really not be used or if people just think that children shouldn't use it.]

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[ushahin]

If you discover what they are for, do inform me as well.

[Ushahin still has yet to discover how to use a comma in his texts. But considering he's from a medieval world where magic is the source of information rather than technology, he's been doing alright in adapting to the new forms of communication.]

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[muscovy]

They say that they are for emotions.

[He sounds so confused. Why would you not just write out what you feel if you really want to let the other person know what you feel. ...Which honestly, the fact that it doesn't come through in text seems to be the advantage of text for him.]

Or shorthand for other words. [That doesn't make much more sense to him - writing more isn't more expensive here because writing material is free, and picking a picture takes more time than writing out "I'm happy".]

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[ushahin]

[Ushahin is likewise confused. Symbols seemed to be going back instead of forward in his mind. Primitives used symbols when they had no other way of communicating. Words were supposed to be a step up from that.]

People are strange. Why do they need little symbols? Is that not what words themselves are meant for?

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[muscovy]

One of them means something very bad and one means that someone is being bad, maybe they're afraid of writing the things down that they want to say?

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[keep_smiling]

Those are fun! I kind of like building them myself still though. ◦°˚\(*❛‿❛)/˚°◦

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[muscovy]

[...squinting at that... picture thing and trying to figure it out. He can see the face, but all else...]

What does it show?

[keep_smiling]

Think of it like someone throwing confetti. ◦°˚\(*❛‿❛)/˚°◦

The sky's the limit on what you can do. Here, have a bear! ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ

[64th]

The salt means you're being an asshole

[muscovy]

That the person you're sending the picture to is an "asshole", or that the person sending it is an asshole? You should be more precise when you talk, yes? People could get angry at you because they understand the wrong thing.

[64th]

It could be either one, it depends!