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[puppy_lancer]

[For the most part, Lancer had been avoiding the comms. He knew where to find his friends and Master in person. The language barrier wasn't that much of a problem because both he and Ayaka spoke Japanese, and most of the other Servants should be speaking it too unless they had been caught up in the language switching.]

[However, right now, there was something he really wanted to ask the tower at large. That is, something besides whether or not he could still communicate with his fellow Servants. That morning, he had found a stack of papers in his room. Papers that told him he was now a janitor. He's not quite sure what it means.]

[So now he's standing at a console, papers in hand. He also has a pen which he snatched from one of his roommates, just in case he ran into someone who didn't speak the same languages that he did. He speaks in English first, as slowly and clearly as he can.]

Hey, my name is Lancer. How many of you can still understand me? How many of my kind can still understand me? If you understand what I am saying, contact me back, maybe with video. I have a question I want to ask.

[He repeats the words in Japanese, and then Gaelic on the off-chance that someone can speak that.]

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Video

[nonacquiescent]

[Oh thank God, someone he knows speaks English.]

I understand you. What's the question?

Re: Video

[puppy_lancer]

[He holds the stack of paper up at the screen.]

This. Do you have any idea what these things are?

[nonacquiescent]

...That would be paper.

[Text, Japanese]

[tohko_amano]

Good evening. I can understand you. What do you need help with?

video

[puppy_lancer]

[He holds up the paperwork.]

これ。

[Video]

[tohko_amano]

[And Tohko has finally managed how to work the video camera! It has taken her awhile, but it would make explaining things and helping this guy a little easier.]

All that paperwork looks like the stuff I got when I had to become a librarian. [Tohko squints, trying to read exactly what job he got. When she finds out, she stops squinting.] Ah, you're a janitor..sorry to hear that. That's going to be a huge pain.

Video, Japanese

[geometry]

I understand... what is your question?

Re: Video, Japanese

[puppy_lancer]

[He lifts the (English) paperwork up to the screen]

これ。何だ、これ？

Video, Japanese

[geometry]

Uh, it... it looks like English. I think.

I can't read it right now. Sorry. The Tower made it so that I could understand this and another language instead of English...

video;

[vermicompost]

Hello. I can understand you, Lancer.

[Kariya speaks in Japanese.]

What's wrong?

[puppy_lancer]

[He points at the paper, and then answers Kariya in Japanese.]

Why are they telling me to be a janitor?

[vermicompost]

They gave you a job?

I didn't know they did that here. That must be what they want you to do, then. Maybe it's another part of the experiment.

video; japanese

[pengeen]

私はあなたを理解する。 あなたは何をお願いしたいのですか？

Re: video; japanese

[puppy_lancer]

これ。

[He holds up the paper.]

説明せよ。

[pengeen]

[He looks at the paper carefully, reading what he can.

In pretty accented English:] They gave job to you? [He looks closely at the screen.]

"Janitor"? Janitor.... janitor.... Ah!

用務員!

あなたが塔を掃除しているだろう？

[calculatedfire]

I understand you.

[puppy_lancer]

Can you understand this?

[He holds up the paperwork.]

Why are they assigning me a job just now?

video!

[beknightedheroine]

Geez, I'm jealous of your english! I think I got, like, two, three words of that first loop, tops.

'Sup?

_{[Sayaka, it seems, was lucky enough to be left with her native Japanese]}

Let's just handwave the Japanese because it's hard to type alt text?

[puppy_lancer]

[He matches her Japanese.]

Circumstances are a bit special in my case, kid.

[It was all the Grail giving him a crash course.]

So yeah, I got papers saying I had to be a janitor today.

[video]

[prayed]

[God is she ever sick of hearing every language but her own--whatever that might be right now, both on the network and throughout the tower. The absence of any sort of communication is frustrating in a way she can't even begin to describe, though it's also given her something of a new found appreciation for never having to deal with it up until now.

Same deal here; can't understand a word out of this guy's mouth. She's not even going to try to communication with him, instead choosing to air her grievances before starting the feed. So, all Lancer will get just is a video of her going to offer a thumbs down, a shake of the head, and a look that says all that she can't put into words: that he's a complete and total moron, even more for even making this post.]

Re: [video]

[puppy_lancer]

[Well, this is pretty much what he was afraid of. She doesn't seem tou understand his language. He uncapps his pen and scribbles a quick picture.]

[ VIDEO ; ]

[prototyper]

[ She decides to simply read the other answers. A janitor, huh? Well, it'll keep him out of trouble, that's for sure. ]

I'm not saying you need to do it, but it might be good for you? If you're a janitor, maybe you could get a better look at the tower. Maybe we could find something useful for us...

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[puppy_lancer]

[He nearly jumps back when Ayaka actually appears on the screen.]

I-is that how you see it? Well, then I'll gladly take up that task!

[Even though he might still only give a halfassed effort when it came to the toilets.]

[Video]

[koncubine]

[Caster understands some of the English, but the Japanese is what's really clear to her. She responds back in Japanese.]

I can understand what you're saying just find. I'm not sure if I'm going to listen much longer, though, if you don't give me a reason to~.

Re: [Video]

[puppy_lancer]

[He just waves the stack of papers at her.]

Did you wake up with these papers telling you to go be a janitor in your room too?