RVA: Yeah, I'm going with Lovecraft...

[jeriendhal]

Melanie stared at the... table? ....altar? It was made of a large flat rock set on two squared off boulders, at the edge of the cliff overlooking the island's small bay. Along the edge was carved several words in a script she didn't recognize.

"What are these?" she wondered aloud, kneeling in front of the table.

"I recognize it," Rolas said. "It's one of the human lettering systems."

"'One of...?'" she asked.

"They've got at least four that I know of," he sai. "Didn't you ever study xenolanguages?"

"I took the course in Gliten," Melanie answered testily. "Do you know what it says?"

Rolas shrugged. "No way to tell without a translation program. They've got hundreds of languages, even today." He knelt down beside her and started sounding out the letters.

"Fah.. glu... something something... naf.... Cu... thew... lu...."

Comments

[seawasp]

Cthulhu fh'tagn! What a wonderful phrase!
Cthulhu fh'tagn! It's the end of all days!
Cthulhu fh'tagn!

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

[singing]"It Hastur be you...."

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

"A spoonful of ichor
Makes the sacrifice go down!
The Sacrifice go dow-own.
The Sacrifice go down!"

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Okay, at this rate people are going to start checking out the Dagon Tabernacle Choir on YouTube.

[seawasp]

Shouldn't the title be "RLYEH" instead of "RVA" now? :)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Boooo!

[zarpaulus.livejournal.com]

I think you've got one of the few sci-fi settings where there's a formal common language and English is still extant and not that language.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Thanks for noticing. I can't decide if it's because everyone agreed to go with a completely constructed language, or because humans weren't the FIRST race to achieve starflight...