Chapter 25: English, Miner, Do You Speak It!
Chapter 25: English, Miner, Do You Speak It!
Apple. One word. It was not much to go on, but it was better than absolutely nothing.
“So how are we gonna go about and do this? Ah’m not a teacher and neither are any of you.”
Twilight and the creature turned to the farmer curiously. Pinkie was trying her hardest to regain the creature’s attention, but he desired to ignore her for a moment. Whether it was out of curiosity for what Applejack was saying or he found Pinkie insufferable was beyond Twilight.
“I’m not sure, Applejack. I guess we could try to bring Cheerilee with us sometime in the future.” Twilight scrunched her brow in concentration. She was smarter than most ponies; she knew that for a fact. Often enough, whenever she wished to teach a pony something, she would receive a blank stare in return. It was anything from endearing to aneurysm-inducing to know something like the back of her hoof, but be unable to transfer the knowledge when it needed to be done.
Those situations always had the benefit of a pony that understood the basics of what she was trying to teach, or at least a rudimentary understanding. Now, however, she was dealing with a creature that not only did not speak her language, but did not speak period.
“Ms. Fluttershy? May I speak with you?” A Night Guard parted the tent fabric and beckoned the timid mare from her curled up ball from behind Rainbow Dash. “I’m here to take your statement.”
“I’ll go with her,” Rainbow called to the other girls.
“Good idea,” Rarity concluded. “I believe we can manage well enough on our own.”
Fluttershy ducked her head low and walked slowly out the tent. The Night Guard held the tent open for her, but Fluttershy used the moment to sneak a peek at the alien. He, in turn, was looking at her curiously, but only gave a small wave. Fluttershy ducked her head behind her mane and dug her hoof into the ground lightly. Quick as a flash, Fluttershy scrunched her eyes, gave a small, quick wave in return, and dashed out the door. Rainbow took to the air and followed, glaring at the alien the entire time until she was out of sight.
“Now I don’t mind stoppin’ by to help, but I gotta skedaddle back to the farm; Granny Smith is askin’ for help with her canning some veggies.”
“I suppose. I’m sorry I dragged you all here in the first place.”
“You six are cleared to come by anytime,” the senior officer on duty growled. “You can come back if you need to.”
Twilight brightened. “Well, that settles it! Everypony, do what you need to do and come back here when you can. Perhaps we can talk to him after all. Again, I’m sorry for bringing you all here if three of us have to leave so soon.”
“It was nothing, dear. However, undermining an order from the princess truly is poor form.”
“And it was cool to meet an alien! Does that mean you are going to probe us?”
“Pinkie!”
“...I got nothin’.”
“He’s trying to communicate, Applejack.” Twilight squinted her eyes at the crude drawing drawn on the wood. Somehow, he had acquired a chunk of charcoal and was using that to scratch figures and symbols onto wooden signs. It was simplistic, but effective. Now if only she could actually deduce what he was trying to say.
The first two to make it back were Twilight and Applejack. Big Mac and Applebloom had a fair chunk of Applejack’s work done by the time she returned, so she made a beeline back to the creature’s tent. Where the rest were, Twilight didn’t know.
The creature seemed just as frustrated as they were, gritting his teeth at the lack of comprehension on their faces. Although Twilight was sure the creature wasn’t attempting to be intimidating, he exuded such an aura without much effort. Perhaps it was the rippling muscles under his clothes or the fact that, even though he was sitting on a cube of cobblestone, he still loomed over both of them by a good six inches
“I get that much, sugarcube, but what does that,” she thrust a hoof at the two crude symbols, “mean?”
Volumes of text and streaked across Twilight’s mind. Books about lexicons, word morphology, syntax, and grammar came and went, but little helped her. She faintly recalled some books during her stay in Canterlot castle years ago. Starswirl the Bearded was studying ancient griffonic and Germaneighic dialects. Such texts were rare, but their content was well known for one reason...
“Graphemes.”
“Bless you.”
“No, no, no,” Twilight shook her head for emphasis. “They’re graphemes. Logograms.” Applejack stared blankly back at her, who only facehoofed. One such curse of being too smart was having to explain what she considered to be small details to those who had absolutely no idea what she was talking about.
“Words are phonograms, meaning each letter of a word is a single sound. ‘O’ and ‘F’ make ‘OF’. Alone, they are just sounds, but together, they’re words. What he is writing is a logograph. Each symbol doesn’t represent a sound, but a word or a group of words.”
Comprehension dawned on Applejack. “Oh, so he’s jus’ drawin’ pictures instead of letters?”
“Precisely. Now what each symbol means is a different matter. But still, we’re getting closer.” Twilight let out a childish squeal of delight. “An alien with a whole new language! I could submit a report to the Council of Magic. Maybe even the Magus Society! Imagine if I could complete a lexicon on a whole new language never before seen in Equestria! I – ”
“Twi, we’re losin’ ya.”
Twilight stopped dead and blushed sheepishly. “Sorry. I can’t stop myself when I get like like that.”
Applejack smiled warmly and gave twilight a friendly nudge. Given the disproportionate size in strength, Twilight was almost sent tumbling into the dirt.
“Butterflies,” growled the warden Night Guard.
“What was that?” Twilight asked.
“Butterflies. The first one looks like butterflies.”
Applejack was the first to put the pieces together, the facts coming into completion with an almost audible click. “Fluttershy! He’s talkin’ about Fluttershy! Three butterflies is her cutie mark.”
Twilight’s smile widened. The guard was right; it did kind of look like a group of butterflies, if crudely drawn. “Thank you, sir.”
“It is not a problem, missus.” The warden nodded in thanks and stayed immobile at his post. The tension had slackened, but the guards were ready to jump at a moments notice.
Twilight took the sign from the creature, whom didn’t seem to mind. The creature got up, stretching its limbs. Twilight and Applejack both winced as a cascade of pops echoed through the room.
“What’s he doing?” Twilight asked as the creature planted a fist against the ground.
“Looks like he’s makin’ a farm, Ms. Twilight,” the same guard responded.
Applejack laughed uproariously. “Ha ha ha ha ha! A farm? Ha, it’s going to take more than – ”
Pop!
SplashI
Shhk!
It was so fast, Twilight missed it. In the space of a few blinks, a single whole and nine square meters of tilled ground sprung into being. The blissful blanket of potential knowledge was slowly brushed aside by the knowledge of an impossible act.
“That’s... that’s not...” Twilight’s conscious mind retreated inward to a padded cell where it could remain sane and safe. When the stress of daily activities or lurking deadlines became too great, it was as simple as hitting a switch and Twilight’s conscious mind simply shut down. “That’s... that’s...”
“Not possible...” Applejack finished. her own mouth had gone slack.
The warden pulled her second aside. “Get some backup; we have a potential Lesson Zero-level incident on our hooves.”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“...”
It wasn’t exactly a staring contest, but nothing was quite being done, either. Rarity was alone in the tent with the creature and his guards. The animated discussion that dominated Twilight’s stay was blissfully absent. The guards stood in place, as was their sworn duty to do so, but most wished something would happen to lift the monotony that descended whenever they were alone with the creature, or in present company with Rarity.
Why Rarity was so quiet was a mystery to them, and to the creature. When Rarity first entered, the creature smiled warmly and showed her a very crude picture of her own cutie mark. Rarity stayed silent and the creature’s attempts at attempting dialog dissipated into limbo. Soon enough, they both did nothing but stare at each other blankly.
Without a word, Rarity turned around, rose her head in a dignified manner, and cantered out the door.
“...What was with that shit?”
“No swearing, second lieutenant. Twenty laps around the base.”
“That’s no problem – ”
“Without flying.”
“Horseapples.”
Doctor Hemos escorted Twilight to the creature’s tent, droning the entire way. “Take two pills before the onset of anxiety attacks or extreme emotional response, Ms. Twilight. If you ever run out, I know a pharmacist in Canterlot who will gladly refill this prescription.” Hemos tore a sheet of paper with a name and address from his notebook and gave it to her, along with an orange bottle of pills.”
“Thanks, doctor. My friends have been telling me to get checked out ever since...” Twilight prodded the dirt. “Smartypants...” she whispered in a small voice.
Before Twilight could say any more or Hemos could respond, a tiny projectile rocketed out from the tent and hit Twilight near the base of her horn. “Ah!” she yelped and scrambled backwards. Her hoof caught a particularly stubborn stone and she tumbled head over tail backwards and landed in a heap.
Hemos did not even emote at the sudden injection of events. Calmly, he searched the ground for the source of the disturbance. It was a round object nestled in a small patch of thistles, and using his magic, picked it up and observed it. “A marble? Indeed it was a simple marble, green in color with a tiny dollop of rainwater clinging to the glass surface.
Twilight scrambled to her hooves. “A marble? Don’t tell me...” Twilight trotted towards the tent, while Hemos returned to his office. Inside, Twilight found exactly what she expected.
“By hitting the marble at the right angle and knocking it from the ring, you can get your shooter near the center of the ring for your next shot. It’s fun!” Pinkie lay huddled right next to the alien near the border of a circle in the dirt. Pinkie had tug a small trench with her hooves to create a board for a game of marbles. The creature, on the other hoof, was staring at a marble with the most sublime, devotional look she had ever seen in her entire life. He rolled the marble around in the palm of his hand slowly and gaped in surprise.
“Pinkie, have you been spending this entire time trying to teach him marbles?”
“Well, duh,” Pinkie said as if it were the most obvious fact in the entire wide world of Equestria. “He didn’t know how to play, so of course I had to teach him.”
Twilight reached into her saddlebags for the bag of pills before stopping herself, breathing deeply, and giving a long exhale before responding. “...True. Thanks for introducing the concept of fun and recreational sports to the alien.” It made sense in theory, anyway. “But have you learned anything from him?”
“Nope!” Pinkie shot a marble, displacing two other marbles from the circle. The alien lay prone, mouth open, as if such an act was the most amazing act in the world.
Twilight couldn’t help but facehoof. “Pinkie... we need to learn how he talks and teach him our language.”
Pinkie shot up in a surprising feat of agility. She pointed a hoof at herself. “What’s my name?”
The alien snapped out of its reverie with a jerk. Pinkie pointed a hoof to her chest in earnest. With a flash of brown, a burst of energy parted from his chest and reformed into a sign. Twilight’s eyebrow twitched.
Tick tick tick tick
PINKIE
“He doesn’t know what that means, but we’re working on that.”
“Pinkie... well, it’s a start. In fact, this is great!” There was a very real difference between understanding what he was writing, and just repeating what he saw. Monkey see, monkey do appeared to be the case.
Just to test the extent of whatever Pinkie was teaching him, Twilight pointed at her own chest. “My name is Twilight. Twilight Sparkle.”
Ponies were carefree and emotional by nature. They did what they pleased and prided themselves on what they did best. The very mark of their achievements was plastered across their flanks. Every city was filled with carefree souls, all happy to be alive and living tall.
So Twilight was surprised to see the creature’s face fall. He pointed a finger at himself and shook his head.
“No name? Everypony needs a name, silly! Why, I don’t know what I’d do if anypony didn’t have a name.”
The creature wiped away Pinkie’s name and wrote a few more marks in its own glyphic language.
Twilight scrutinized the symbols. An ‘X’ and a line... X...
“The X... That probably means null or no. No... name? No name?” Three symbols now. It was progress.
“What would I say to Mrs. and Mr. Cake if I didn’t have a name for cupcakes?”
The soldiers were silent for the past hour or so. The Miner, as some had started calling him, had begun burrowing underground in order to open up a subterranean hidey hole once again. What he was doing down there was unknown, for none dared venture into the darkness. Although the Miner had long since returned to the surface, the flickering light of a torch illuminated the underground. Such tantalizing lures for knowledge was strong in the guard, but they had a charge to guard.
He was currently crafting items out of diamonds: picks, axes, swords, and armor. As soon as one item was created out of gem and wood, it was quickly stored away.
“Current count?”
“Sir, five swords, three shovels, three picks, two axes, and two sets of armor.”
“Very well then. Keep a count for inventory purposes.”
At that time, the entrance parted once more. Rarity had returned. Her snowy fur was as immaculate and perfectly groomed as ever. Secured around her midsection were her embroidered saddlebags. She undid the clasp with her magic and grabbed the top item, throwing it at the Miner. A shroud of green wrapped around his head and he collapsed in surprise.
“Put on a decent shirt!”
Twilight reviewed her pages of notes before examining the symbols in front of her.
“Okay... the postfix dash on the triangle is a sign of past tense... but...” Twilight rose from her kneeled state, her joints creaking angrily at the movement. Shaking her legs to get them working once more, she walked in a circle around the alien. “I ran,” she said. He wiped away the charcoal smudges on what looked like a fairly expensive new shirt and wrote a new set of text.
“So this circle is a second-pony personal pronoun meaning ‘you’,” Twilight stuck her tongue out in concentration as she thought. “And the horizontal dash is a first-pony nominative case for referring to yourself. “So...” Twilight examined a third set of symbols in her journal, which happened to be the exact same ones as she jotted down. She had asked a pair of guards to jog in a circle for reference in order to understand the alien’s idea of plural and gender-specific terms. Instead, she received the same symbols.
The gears started winding in her head, although much slower than normal. It was getting the afternoon and daylight was burning. Most of her time had been spent understanding the creature’s behavior. It was prooving to be a much more difficult task than she had anticipated.
“So... ‘You run’ and ‘They run’ have the exact same characters... ooooohhhhh.” Twilight faceplanted into her notebook. “I need a break,” she mumbled into the dry parchment and moaned.
The alien tapped her shoulder lightly. Twilight looked up blearily, her mind rebelling against her desire to continue her word. The desire for some coffee or a strong tea reared its head.
“Fluttershy. What about her?” Twilight asked curiously. It wasn’t a shift in conversation she anticipated in the slightest. What did Fluttershy have to do with –
“I got it!” The alien, who had began scratching new symbols on his workboard, jumped in surprise. He sat back on his stone cube, eyeing her warily. “You don’t have a differentiation between singular and plural because you don’t have one!” Her mental list of facts opened up once more and Twilight reviewed every page.
“Before, you said Fluttershy ran away or something to similar effect. I ran, she ran, and they ran,” she nudged her head to the guards standing at the walls. “But you didn’t make any new symbols to include gender; most Royal Guardponies are male. Therefore.” The alien stared blankly at Twilight, not comprehending a single word of what was being said, “you don’t differentiate between plurals or gender, because you don’t think like that. It’s a ‘me or them’ mentality! A term for yourself, and a term for all others as a whole! He runs, she runs, and they run are all grouped together in your language! They all have the same symbols!”
Twilight began pacing. “But why? If you don’t write a differentiation between you and everything else...” It hit her and Twilight stopped pacing. The creature did not have symbols for gender or groups because it didn’t live a life that required them. “...You’re alone, aren’t you? There’s only one of your kind.”
To Twilight, it made sense. The creature didn’t have a word for female because it didn’t know any females. It didn’t know a terms for second or third person pronouns because there was no one to listen or reply. Why have a word for someone who didn’t exist?
Or for that matter, why bother talking when there was no one around to listen?
“Come on! Make a cake for me! Please make a cake! You can, can’t you? Maybe you need some better materials? I can go back to Sugarcube Corner and grab some eggs, flour and milk if that’s what you need. Of course, maybe you use alien eggs? Oh, what does an alien chicken look like? I bet it’s all big and hairy and covered and slime and goes goes “Roar!” when you try to take its eggs.
“What about milk? Do you have any moo moos where you live? Are they cows or do they looks like you? That’d be weird if they look like you. Can you imagine getting yourself milked? I certainly can’t. Although, I did see some of Rarity’s magazines once showing pictures on something similar to that, so she might like that. I’ll ask her later.
“But you make bread, so you have to add grain. DO you preheat the oven or does you make it pop into existence with space magic?”
By that point, the Miner was on his back, trying desperately to claw away from the hyperactive Pinkie Pie. Pinkie would not relent her verbal assault and stood over him with legs on either side.
Pinkie gasped. “Do you have babies I can babysit?”
“Okay, Mr. Miner,” Twilight began. She pointed a hoof at her chest. “What’s my name?”
Tick tick tick
TWILIGHT
“Great! Now who’s that?” Twilight pointed a hoof towards Rarity.
Tick tick tick
RARITY
“Good! At least he can understand letters at their face value. It’s not quite the same as learning words, but we’re doing well. Very well, in fact.” Rarity gave a disgruntled but ladylike snort. Somehow.
“Three hours, and he’s already ruined a perfectly fine shirt,” Rarity whined. Charcoal stained the creature’s shirt and streaked across his face and into his beard.
The Miner got up stretching his aching muscles. Twilight, Rarity and Applejack thought the notion of a break was a good idea as well, so they each stretched to loosen up tight muscles. The tent was illuminated by a light sphere at the top of the tent, but the room was slowly darkening due to the diminished light from the dying sun. Twilight was more than tired with all the work that she had done, but the alien looked as refreshed as he was in the morning. How he managed to keep such high stamina evaded her, but she concluded it was most likely a trait indigenous to his kind.
A kind of only one. Twilight’s ears folded against her head sadly. To be alone...
“What’s the fella’ doing now?” Applejack questioned.
“He does this,” the warden growled. “He builds stuff in his free time.”
“An architect?” Applejack asked.
“Sort of, Ms. Applejack. Watch for a moment and you’ll see.
Sure enough, the Miner soon conjured a wooden workbench. His movements were simple, yet practiced. Fingers twitched with precision, conjuring eight stone blocks in a square. The creature slammed its fist down on the simple construct and a an unnoticeable to all but him sliver of power brought new life to the construct. Stone warped out of its solid state, twisting into a malformed mass of quivering gray energy.
As quick as it started, it stopped. In the place of stone was a crude yet sturdy stone furnace empty of kindling.
“Now ain’t that somethin’,” Applejack admitted, her previous objections to the creature’s temporarily forgotten. The creature tossed a nodule of charcoal into the furnace. With no warning, tongues of fire burst into existence.
“Woah, nelly!” Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight scrambled backward at the sudden introduction of heat and flame. “Warn a gal next time!”
The Miner looked at Applejack curiously, but said and did nothing. A ribbon of gray energy sprung from his arm and entered the furnace. Together, they watched as the flames flickered and danced, pony eyes wide with awe as a miracle was made.
The sound of clopping hooves could only be heard inside the tent as soon as they were near the door. A pile of frizzy hair parted the tent flap. “Awwwww.” Pinkie panned her head around the room. The alien was nowhere to be seen. “I’ll come back later then.”
The sound of her hooves faded away. The tent was silent for a long time, but the Night Guard did not seem to mind that their charge was out of sight.
Pop!
A cube of dirt vanished and a brown-haired head peeked out of the ground warily. The pink menace was gone.
“Okay, Mr. Miner; how many of us are there?” Twilight pointed to herself and her four current friends, minus Fluttershy. To reinforce the notion, Twilight drew the numeral ‘5’ in her notebook.
Tick tick tick
“Hmmm...” That was odd. “I was expecting a count of five, but that looks like an ancient pegasus numeral.”
“What?” Rainbow asked crossly. It was the first time she entered the tent all day, as she refused to do so without her friends, and only did so grudgingly and under much grumbling. “Like how ancient?”
“Pre-Equestrian. This resembles numerical number counting methods before an octal counting system was set in place.” To test her theory, Twilight drew four dots into the dirt with a hoof. The Miner wiped away the charcoal with the back of his hand and drew another symbol.
“It’s a numerical four!” Twilight pranced in place and giggled like a school filly. “Fantastic!” Her four friends smiled uncomfortably at the foalish display of delight. Twilight opened her mouth to say something, but faltered. “He... Miner...” She rubbed a hoof over her chin in thought.
“You know, we should name him something.”
“Like what? Trouble?” Rainbow joked. “It suits him well enough.”
Tick tick tick
The five looked at the Miner as he wrote something down. They hadn’t taught him the name he was trying to say.
Rainbow growled at the biped; although Barricade attempted to alleviate their concerns that he had pursued Fluttershy, Rainbow suspicious nature of outsiders, especially concerning her oldest friend, made burying the hatchet much more difficult.
“What about Fluttershy?” Applejack asked.
The Miner continued writing. In all of their communication up to that moment, his messages had been short and simple. That was not the case for his next message.
The group looked at the sign, completely baffled. “Well...” Twilight tried to scrounge up a thought to rationalize or explain the message. “Well... there’s a past postfix on that symbol and that one means Fluttershy...” Twilight sighed and looked out the tent flap. Through the bubble of a magus’ magic, she could see the ruby red shroud of dusk on the western mountains.
“I think we can sort through it later. It’s been a long day, and I think we all could use a rest.” Twilight’s friends nodded in relief; it really was getting late and each had work to be done and sleep, for tomorrow was going to be a busy day.
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Found these two strangers.
Progress thy name is twillight sparkle.
A thousand Internets to the person who can decipher what he says at the end.
Oh rainbow...You bitch ^.^
Obviously teeth represents danger of a sort. Danger persuing Fluttershy?
I don't think it's been said if Miner knows about Herobrine or not, unless I missed it.
The feeling I'm getting is that this is a pseudo warning of a sort.
I think 2nd row, 2nd column is "Mountain," and 3rd row, 2nd column might be "cave," but I'm not sure about the rest.
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He is probably worrying about Barricade and since Fluttershy looks like her, and he hasn't seen Barricades cutie mark he wants to know what's wrong.
So I'm going to guess..."Why is Barricade acting so strange." However...
The glyphs are similar in several places. (Oh and letters don't mean anything.
HOMTMND"Fluttershy"
since I know what Fluttershy is I assume the rest of the letters I just put there are words.
"H" "O" "M" "T" "M" "N" "D" "Fluttershy."
The "O" (Represents the eye thing) looks like the 'ender eye'.
The "H" (Or crosshair like symbol) Might be 'location' or 'find'
The "M" or the triangle cluster looks like teeth so maybe 'Monster'
The "T" or Triangle/pyramid looks like a building so. 'Dungeon' or 'fortress' 'building'
The next M should be the same as the first...'Monster'
The "N" is in place of a bunch of squares and lines...labyrinth came to mind. 'Dungeon' 'labyrinth'
The "D" or the dots look like the slots the ender eyes go in. So 'slots' or 'place' or whatever it would be called.
So I assume "Endereye location/find Monster fortress Monster Dungeon/labyrinth slots."
Now read what I wrote....good. Now.
I assume that after a few looksies over it I figured this.
"Endereye tofind Monster 'Home' Monster Dungeon slots Fluttershy/Barricade."
So basically I believe he just stated something along the lines of. "Find the enderman and put his eyes in the slots of the portal to save Barricade/Fluttershy?"
No it doesn't make sense....OH WHAT IF!
"Barricade go to the End to save-"...wait
What if the pyramid isn't home or dungeon? What IF IT'S OVERWORLD! more importantly Equestria! Now it makes more sense. Pyramids are above ground, however the squares and lines look like a maze.
"Endereye Monster 'in' Equestria 'to' Monster Labyrinth slots Fluttershy/Barricade."
Wait what if 'Slots' was replaced with 'portal'?
"Endereye Monster 'in' Equestria 'to' Monster Labyrinth Portal Fluttershy/Barricade."
Oh wow what if...Ok I have a theory.
He believes by finding the enderman and killing him, he will get his enderpearl, then use it to go to The End and fight his way through the labyrinth and into the enderman home world with Barricade? (Maybe by going through the end he believes he can get home)
Although he doesn't know about the portal...does he?
If not then maybe he wants Barricade to find the enderman in Equestria and follow him to the Labyrinth and find the portal?
YES that's the best I got out of those images.
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The First symbol looks like its made of dashes, which makes the subject I... but there are four of them arranged in a crude circle, which is Others.
Second one looks like it is describing something at the centre of a sphere (the world?). The line could be a mineshaft? Alternatively it could show the distance difference between the Nether and the Overworld. Maybe a portal? It also looks like the watch that you can craft in-game. With the sticking out piece at dawn/dusk.
Third and Fifth look like stalactites or teeth. It could mean a cave or a dangerous creature
Fourth looks like a mountain with the peak separated. So either it indicated a mountain peak/top or an amount of something being high.
Sixth symbol is difficult. It could mean something like design or block schematics. Maybe a redstone trail/device?
Seventh reminds me of a colon, but it could also be a word for blocks
I guess he wrote something about a Fluttershy in a cave at the top of a mountain at dawn/dusk where... there is something dangerous?
Or if I wing it: Herobrine watches from a cave from the top of a mountain, his target is Fluttershy.
Eh, its as good as i'll get right now. Symbols 2 and 6 really throw me off.
Half one in the morning where I am. Sleep is for the wea... zzzzz
2416257 I'm sorry... I don't speak wingdings...
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I think I have parts of it:
The 'eye' with the horizontal line has something to do with sight, and I'm guessing it's 'don't look'. I'm throwing a guess, but the 'exploded box' before that was a teleportation symbol, indicating Endermen.
So the first line would be something like 'don't look at the endermen', but with the context might mean that the endermen were the ones doing the looking, and that this was bad.
Second line: symb1; five small triangles arranged in a 'teeth' pattern, possibly representing wolf teeth and therefore danger, as their teeth are only visible when they've become enraged. symb2; a large triangle with a 'cap' of a smaller triangle. While I'd normally think 'mountain' for that symbol, Minecraft mountains don't have obligatory snow-caps. But it could still mean high places, the upper triangle referring to the top of the peak.
So, line two would be something like 'danger on the peaks' or 'the mountains have monsters'.
Third line: symb1; the 'teeth' symbol again. symb2; three boxes of varying sizes, with horizontal lines trailing from them. Closely resembling some of the underground chambers I myself have discovered in Minecraft's depths, and I'm guessing that this particular symbol refers to places underground, such as caves, mine-shafts, and the like.
So my guess for line three's meaning would be something like 'danger in the depths' or 'the deep places have monsters.
Fourth line: symb1; four small squares, arranged in a vertical line with spacing between them. Obviously not meaning 'four things' as he seems to use the Roman Numeral system, but potentially referring to something that happens in groups of four. Other than than, I'm not entirely sure what it refers to. symb2; Fluttershy's cutie-mark. Probably means either Fluttershy or Barricade, as he seems to have a little trouble distinguishing between them.
Line 1: 'Don't Look at the Enderman'
Line 2: 'Danger resides on the peaks'
Line 3: 'Danger lies in the depths'
Line 4: something about fluttershy.
All together?
'Something out there with eyes like an Enderman has been a danger in the greatest heights and the farthest depths to me, and now it's after Fluttershy.'
Very rarely in oldery pictography and simplistic-referral and complex-referral picture/representative languages do larger sections mean the same as simply stringing their components together.
And whatever Brimstone is, this poor, lonely miner has seen him before Equestria, of that I'm certain.
2416537 So...
Simply put...
Herobrine is after Steve and Fluttershy(?).
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Lets see...
First symbol kinda looks like a targeting reticule, followed by what kinda looks like an eye with the past-tense tail thingy, so "When she saw him/me"? That makes sense, seeing as she did in fact look at him.
The third and fifth symbols look like teeth, and rather vicious sets of chompers at that. Assuming we're still talking about when Fluttershy looked at him, I'd say that symbol means "fear."
Seeing as he's still in the dark about Fluttershy's encounter, he's probably asking a question about her reaction. The four squares are the only symbol that doesn't look like it directly represents something, so that's my current best guess for a question indicator. In fact, I'm thinking it specifies a "why" question.
Symbols four and six... I've got nothing, but I think I've worked out the gist of it from context and the wonders of representative symbolery.
"Why did Fluttershy react with fear when she looked at me?"
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Do I at least get partial credit?
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Steve because he's Steve, and Fluttershy because Herobrine hates everything adorable.
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At the least, that something dangerous seems to be after them.
Something with weird eyes.
That said, this fine user here (2416648) also has a perfectly valid view of it, and it could quite easily be a question, rather than a statement.
I'm so proud that I've been reading this since chapter 1 was first released.
Moar.
Hah can't wait to see the miner's pov
I'd love to see his opinion on the pink menace
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that's just... Wow. How did you even 
wat?
Umm... Wow
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WITCH CRAFT
WITCH CRAFT THE LOT OF YOU
First line: four lines, look like wall, or room, second symbol looks like a moat, so, "Protect yourself with water"
Second and Third Line: What appear to be teeth. but the only mobs known to show they're teeth are the enderman, what appears to be a mountain, and what appears to be a tunnel system "It can hide high and it can hide low"
Fourth Line: Four blocks in a column, suggesting that if the enderman is three blocks high, it won't be able to reach Fluttershy on a four block high tower "Towers keep Fluttershy safe."
Did I win?
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Brilliant
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step 1: find endermen/ender pearl
step 2: ????
step 3: ????
step 4: Profit fluttershy??
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4 Enderman went after fluttershy or there are 4 beings who are chasing after her.
So, the symbols at the end. Imma share what I got.
First row: The first symbol looks like a crosshair, the second similar to an Ender Eye. Find the Ender Eye?
Second row: Danger Mountain, Mountain Danger, Danger in the mountain, Danger from the mountain. Probably referring to the portal inside the mountain, but I may be wrong.
Third row: Danger Cave. The second symbol look a whole lot like a bunch of rooms. Alternatively, they might be some silverfish, or even ghasts. Combine that with the first symbol, and it's pretty obvious that he's saying that the rooms in the Portal chamber are dangerous, or that silverfish are dangerous.
Fourth row: The first symbol looks like a Tower of Pimps. With the confirmed Fluttershy symbol, Steve is saying that they should make a Tower of Pimps near Fluttershy so that the Roosterteeth guys come and find her.
All in all, he's saying that the End Portal, once they've found the Eyes of Ender from the mountains and caves and put them in there, will summon the Roosterteeth crew, but only if they've got a Tower of Pimps near Fluttershy.
The portal, find it.
The ender man, they dwell in the mountain.
The ender man, they can teleport/move blocks
(There are multiple)
There are 4 objects needed and fluttershy.
4 beings are after fluttershy.
Fluttershy must destroy four thins meaning the cube shaped crystals at the end that heal mobs.
In the end ender man just wanted a friend or 2, and they team up to defeat herobrine and/or israphel.
The miner (Steve) also most likely will die at the end if I didn't submit this comment. Thanks psychology.
I thank school, deep thinking, and video games for making me able to think like this.
2417028 I love you.
1: pinpoint portal
2: bad guys on mountain
3: bad guys organised
4: 4 after fluttershy
My guess would be.
"I" "Go / Travel / Show" "to" "mountain / cave / home" "to" "gather / fetch / suplies" "with" "Fluttershy / Barricade"
"May I go to the mountain with Barricade to gather more supplies?"
Edit: Checked over earlier symbols and found my theory broken. Anyhow, I think you guys are just overthinking those spikes. The way he formed his earlier "text" makes the spikes feel like they are helper words and not actually representing something.
I am pretty sure its a question about Fluttershy, Barricade or both
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I want to make a fanfic for you, simply because of that explanation. It's too bad I'm a little too busy.
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Some of you are remarkable close on the context and meaning of the symbols, almost to the point I would scream hax or witchcraft. I will throw you a bone, however, and tell you which symbols you got right:
lh4.googleusercontent.com/vUQL-B1avFpO-z25L6hnb0BNzMZ84ZW-hDdXiz8Kfnv5d7Q3TdDNbMo_7fjsAZb4QHuYya9LzInjgdSgIELLyNbqL6lRNkRWLv2Jd0V_Ou4EDJuvgg
This means danger.
lh3.googleusercontent.com/AEexe0WRmBpnIWjojmJ0Oihc12-gHz5kf-uoUbMPPs0-pMGCIMmDBy6V9cW7OGKEid_l0fkxADwvWt2mSVfyka9vqF-V50wo0C8NLxykFwrJ8HSIQw
This means mountain.
lh6.googleusercontent.com/OwKqUdvJdDsqWeNLEetJsLVtk67db-P9f2-odLYwHkVumqC8qKomW1tsnkPj3PD04OgRxP6iC7jVvBBdFqAiv0Dh5H9Ce3FDb_rKS2PjAxX10_QEmg
This is singular past tense see, meaning "I saw"
2417846U MAD BRO???
and status: following
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You do realize you gave clues to incredible minds that will probably right now be terribly bored with the remaining chapters because from that alone they'll find out the plot.
And don't say it can't happen, because all the people I've read I noticed they have incredible interpretation and mental world building skills. I just happened to go a little overboard with my ideas.
More in a way that shows I've been overthinking it and also the last one is kinda misleading.
I actually still don't have any real idea what the last line is.
I assume something is targeting Fluttershy or..............................................................................................................................
He doesn't want Barricade/Fluttershy to go meet the threat on the mountain because he doesn't want her to die.
The line of squares is a barrier or an implied barrier that keeps Barricade from it. (This includes the danger in the dungeon)
If I get this right I'm going to tickle you furiously.
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Or you don't know nearly what you think you know.
Or, perhaps, you already know what the message is, you just don't know that you know it.
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i believe for the line of squares going down means that they come out at night for fluttershy and the line before could mean where a pumpkin on her head so she could look at them without reaction as they appear
the portal is deep underground and must be filled with the eyes of ender but to get there they have to go through a complex tunnel system in a mountain to find it and save fluttershy from the mobs attacks once and for all
That's all I got oh well seeya later
[...] I saw
danger [at the] mountain
danger [in the] town
following Fluttershy
just basing the last line on what he's seen, possible other meaning of 'hunting'. The blocks look like how he'd picture the town, and I don't think he knows about the end portal, and it's implied he doesn't know about the ender dragon or silverfish, so those are out. First line... that second bit is I saw, we know that, but the first bit... dream? vision? or an entirely different word? I'm gonna guess dream, and leave it at that.
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You guys are assuming knowledge he doesn't seem to have, I don't think he knows about those little technical details. Nor does he seem to know about the end, or show any desire to go there. Further, he never encountered the ender portal- the spirit-thing send him scuttling back into the tunnels first, remember? Besides, I think he's staying on a single thought/topic. He's talking about herobrine, obviously, so I think he's saying that he 'saw' the 'danger' at the 'mountain' and 'town', and saw it 'following' fluttershy.
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Hmm, going on what's been confirmed, I think one of those symbols represents "city" or "settlement."
My guess is that it's the squares with lines to the right after the second danger.
Also, I'm thinking that Miner has mistaken Fluttershy for Barricade, since he never saw Barricade's cutie mark and because they look similar. This could also mean that the vertical chain of small squares on the last line could mean "go to."
At The End....the only fan fiction were a degree in Symbology is recomended for an optimal reading experience.
I really enjoyed this chapter as I think it captured the difficultly that one would have trying to decipher a completely foreign language.
That being said I can imagine it was a total bitch to write. Still if this was the end result, I kind of want you to write hopped up on energy drinks all the time. Don't worry I'm sure it's a safe practice.
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You have no idea how long I waited to have a reason to post that clip.
2418207 this might be incredibly close. But in context. He doesn't dream. The first symbol might be somewhere close to "When" or "what". And I think the 6th symbol might also be "Dark" or "Darkness" or it might even mean "Night" seing as a sun sets in the east, wich would be to the left when facing north, and the picture might depict a setting sun. With the seventh symbol might be "Sign/Tell" both being the same symbol because he usually only use signs to tell himself something and that one can only write 4 lines on a sign in MineCraft.(I know Its back to the numerical thinking. But it makes sense to me.)
"What I saw (is) danger (at the) mountains (and) danger (during the) night, tell Barricade/Fluttershy."
I wanted to fit a ''Please'' in front of ''tell'' and ''Barricade'' but seeing as he is a loner he probably don't have a word for please. He probably don't even have a concept for it, as he would never have to ask anyone about anything.
Also, when will he be reintroduced with Lierah? (hurr durr)
I have seen danger in the mountains.
Danger dwells beneath the ground. (In the caves)
It follows The Butter pegasus. (Fluttershy)
To quote a famous German
"I Have no Idea!!!"
- Medic
Even though I'm pretty sure all of the people who have commented before me on this chapter are years older than me, I can't help but feel dumb when I read all those theories
2419157 I am pretty sure it have been established by Journeyman himself #6 is not caves and #7 is not follow.
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forgot her doesn't dream.
I think the last one is probably a description still, because it's a single 'thought', and he hasn't finished what he was saying. But that's just what I think about it. Which would imply it's describing what he saw it doing- hunting/following fluttershy. Or... something. *shrug*
Thanks to your comment I believe I get it
"I protect my self from what I saw, danger in the mountains, danger in the deep, in the shy it is safe, put Fluttershy in the sky
Can I have a cookie
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FUCK YOU AND YOUR RIDDLES RIDDLER!
How could the Miner be simultaneously snoring and gnawing on Pinkie!? Bloody complex alien biology! :P
Hmm...
's butt tattoo. |
| [Blank1] | I saw |
| Danger | Mountain |
| Danger | [Blank2] |
| [Blank3] |
[Blank3] could simply be an ellipsis rather than an actual word. The Roman Numerals earlier means that it couldn't be the number 4 on its own, but it might mean "4 beings" or "4 blocks high" that the others have mentioned.
[Blank1] I'm pretty sure is meant to be a blank, rather than a teleport. As in "I don't know (what I saw)" or "(I saw) something".
[Blank2] My first impression was a mine from the side, or something else underground-related. Perhaps referring to his encounter with Brimstone?
EDIT: For the context, I'm guessing the Miner's trying to explain/ask about his visions from earlier.
O_O damn dude
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Me no speak Wobblejank. Please reset speech card.
The part with Pinkie talking about cake made me think of this
Hmm... That's odd. The Crafter does have the concept of females, as was shown in chapter 5 when he reasoned that Luna was female from her "child bearing hips".
Four possible explanations occur to me:
One, Twilight is wrong in her assumptions.
Two, the Crafter's written language doesn't differentiate between male and female, even though he knows of the concept.
Three, the Crafter can't tell that the guards differ in gender from the mane six.
Four, the author forgot about the earlier occurrence.
I'd guess on a combination of the first three.
Aaaanyway, I don't have a clue what he's telling them, other than the obvious. I'm no good at that kind of thing.
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It's the pictographic equivalent of a homnym. The Crafter is completely and utterly alone in the Overworld, so it's not unreasonable to believe that when he refers to others, he sees them in a different mentality. It's as Twilight said, it's a 'me or them' mentality.
He knows about males and females, and even concepts like 'they' or 'them'. It's just that do to the nature of his life, he doesn't write them any different.
God damn it people, stop making me feel stupid...
first off kudos; this story and specifically this chapter made me sign up for an account I was actually going to see if it was either this or bear, paladin and scribe that would make me sign up, but clearly you are victorious. now I must admit you have me stumped, I have a rough meaning of some, maybe the vaguest idea of what could be the meaning of other but I'll give it a shot here.
First Row: something seen
Second Row: danger mountain
Third Row: Danger building/town?
Fourth Row: Now this one is indeed curious, most assume that the 4 dots represent a number, but as we have been shown, quiet recently. The Miner uses roman numerals for mathematics, this would leave me to believe that the 4 dots/possible blocks are meant to represent something else. Most likely an object, as if it were, a person or peoples it would be a different symbol if I had to guess; this leads me to believe that the dots represent some kind of objects, possibly time? the last pictograph being fluttershy.
there you have it. my guess is now in the open, lets see what holds true. oh almost forgot good work, keep it up.