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[guitar23]

Superrabies is rabies that is super... Duh. XD

[BrochachoNacho]

[Midtime]

More or less correct. It's a Latin formation which, while technically correct as far as I can see, was admittedly made-up. (It was of interest to me that modern 'rabies' originates from rabiēs, rage.) It's a derivation, since one of the most prominent symptoms of rabies is a pathological terror of water: the 'terror' for the Chosen is better-justified, that is all. Thence, 'beyond-rabies'.

The English pronunciation is a literal neologism. This irritates me to no end, of course: it sounds like some kind of faerie-creature invented by parents.

I'm afraid I follow too many horror series already to start on another, Nein.

[Neoplayer2]

[BrochachoNacho]

[Midtime]

D[av]aniel

You flatter me too much. Superrabiēs is hardly a word that will make its way into modern culture; the sound of it is as dreadful as the concept. (I imagined a 'rabie' being a sort of land-crab or earwig that eats the tongues of children who answer back too often.)

I suppose it is a sort of bigotry, but comedic children's cartoons are generally unbearable to me. They always seem to comprise a sort of papered-over dystopian world, and characters who each suffer from at least one debilitating physical [and/or] mental condition; who all undergo unbearable amounts of torture without respite or reason; and who mutually ignore each other's agony. Nothing is begun, and nothing is ended, and now-and-then, a truly nightmarish image shows through the cracks.

Nein

My apologies. I thought that avoiding all the unnecessary jargon would be enough. I believe WiltedTrees has met me already, if he speaks in cyan. I have managed to disappoint him a little. (Good news to me.)


On-topic, I will try and attend the next chat, but since I wake and sleep in UTC+8, and do not always hear the announcements, I may well miss it. If you see fit, don't by any means wait for me to ask those that haven't been answered already. XD My first priority, after all, shall be to ask after the Malaysian Commune. (It is a trilingual country, which is to say, no-one speaks English well at all, but their Malay and Chinese are even worse; and it is always humid, and torrential rains, even in the dry season, can start in an instant. Perhaps they work at the Anti-Corruption Commission - it is the only place where Opposition Party leaders are neutralised thoroughly.)

[BrochachoNacho]

[Midtime]

I did speak to him. I tentatively suggested that Not!Doctor avoid throwing himself into a river without a diving-suit, when* WiltedTrees said, "The new one does not know how we operate, clearly."

Am I using the wrong names? I tend to agglutinate all a person's monikers together, and fail to distinguish between.


*in the sense of 'whereupon', 'wherewith', 'at which point'.

[Not!Doctor]

[Neoplayer2]

[ServoMascherato]

[Neoplayer2]

We asked your questions for you, Midtime, in the chat today;

Q: Why don't the Communes fight the Rebels with hoses and water-pistols, or vice-versa?
A: No sport in it.

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Q: How do the Chosen cope with air humidity? Must they resort to air-conditioned rooms at the descent of ordinary mist?
A: It stings and most cope. Some use fans.

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Q: Could the Chosen submerge safely with Neoprene diving-suits?
A: Yes, so long as the water doesn't touch the skin

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Q: What level of purity constitutes water for the Chosen? Would paint, orange juice, hydrochloric acid, spit or blood effect similar reactions?
A: All of those fine. But tap, bottled, fresh and salt water are all harmful

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Q: Are the Immune freed in any way from this superrabiēs?
A: The Immune do still suffer the water. Immunity has nothing to do with Taint, only Sickness

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Q: What in the world makes Spongebob Squarepants better worth watching than another sadistic self-professed children's show?
A: You are a fool

[Midtime]

[Neoplayer2]

[Midtime]

My reputation is ruined!


Any way, if I were able to do so, would there be any-one who would like to view them? I could likely paste it into Google Docs.