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...defence systems will engage in 5 seconds.

The voice echoed in his mind, smoothly replacing the pain as if it had never been there. Firdlass tried to reply with his Skel.

Me Firdlass, Karin hurt, need to stop bad place, bad wave.

The voice didn't seem to care, it ignored him and then 5 secons later it spoke to him again.

Defence systems are now active. Error. Defense systems are non-functional. Directive omega is now in effect. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.

Firdlass didn't think that sounded very good. Panicking, he grabbed one of the bodies by it clothing and pulled it with him as he ran back through the corridor. Hopefully the body might have something that could help Karin.

He dived into the water and as he did he felt a rumble as he swam with all his might. He felt a shockwave come through the water behind him and felt himself being pushed and flung up as part of an enormous wave. Something bad had happened.

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darkliquid This is a story that stalled long ago, I've decided to add it to Protagonize in the hopes someone (or even myself) can breath new live into it.

I'm doing it as an addventure so that anyone can take it in their own direction from whatever chapter (out of the ones I've already written) they want. Please don't touch post a branch for the 3rd option, I'm intending to keep those for myself, though if something comes up with something spectacular, I may very well follow on from their branch - this is after all the point of putting this up here!

I hope you like it. Below follows some notes about the pseudo-language I made up for the story.

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Appendix
Old N'Geenr – the Language of Axis Moon

' Prefixes - Change type of words
N' (denotes that joint words describe a person, eg )
Y' (denotes that joint words describe an action (not performing the action), eg Y'Tor == look, watch, observe)
T' (like Y', but denotes the condition of performing the action, eg T'Tor == looking, watching, observing)
P' (like Y' but denotes an action that has already been performed, past tense: P'Tor == watched, looked)
F' (denotes an experience/feeling, eg F'nan == foreboding, F'log == expectance)

- Prefixes - Change meanings of words
Mae- (denotes that joint words have opposite meanings, eg Mae-N'Geenr == not N'Geenr, an anti-N'Geenr)
Ja- (denotes less than, partial, worse, subserviant, poor quality, eg Ja-N'tor == lesser watcher. It also means passive, as it someone who happened to glance at something, as opposed to actively watching it)

Lexicon
Pae (God)
Tor (eye/eyes)
Skel (soul, source of: 'creativity, imagination, ability')
Geen (Creation, created, built, constructed)
Rutin (World, everything, universe, existence)
Nan (pain)
Log (time, history)
Ja (Servant)
(and) (pronounced 'pu')
Brok (curse)
Ba (conditional, eg but, if)
Mae (no)
For (fire)

Suffixes - change contexts of words, by adding 'of' 'for' 'from' etc, to the meaning
k (denotes of, eg Paek == 'of God')
i (denotes for, eg Paei == 'for God')
c (denotes to, as in come to or go to, an intention, eg Y'Torc == come to see)
r (denotes who, eg Geenr == who create)
s (denotes plural, eg skels == souls)
p (denotes in, inside, within, eg skelp == in my soul, within my soul)
l (denotes 'contains qualities of' or x is like ly, eg: Mae-Rutinl == unworldly)

Notes
Rutin Mae-t'nans == World Healings, healing the world wounds, while Rutin Mae-Y'nans would == to heal the worlds wounds, the act of healing the worlds wounds but not actually doing the healing

- Prefixes affect only the words they are connected directly to, unless they are ' prefixes.

Joint words can be grouped to with () so (N'Geenr)k-(Ja-Geen-ja) would be lesser servants of creation (tools) of N'Geenr, but without this would be less clear, though in this case the context makes it obvious.

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