Becky: ...Sal! When'd you get here?
Sal: Oh, y'know me, Ah just kinda MATERIALIZE at parties.
Sal: They handed me a beer at the door. Y'wannit?
Becky: Sure!
Alice: Becky, introduce me to your friend.
Becky: OH! Sal, this is ALICE.
Alice: HI, SAL.
Sal: Ah gotta boyfriend.
Alice: Not "I'm not into women," but "I have a boyfriend." INTERESTING.
Sal: On the unlikely occasion Ah end up both single AND somehow gay, y'gotta form a line behind HER.
Marcie: SHARE, I can.
Sal: Not translatin' that fer ya.
133 thoughts on “Materialize”
NGPZ
i doubt that really needs translating XD <3
FlameAndLight
I mean if you look at those signs on LifePrint they’re not exactly intuitive to a beginner hearing signer. Some ASL is but def not all of it. Like I’d consider Ice Cream and Milk to be some pretty intuitive signs, but idk, *i* don’t find share and can (to be able) to be intuitive and I would solidly put myself in Beginner
Mturtle7
I think NGPZ just meant that the facial expression renders the signing redundant, not that the signs are intuitive to a non-ASL speaker.
Olofa
Maybe it does. I know “word” order is different between ASL and English (although I knew someone who signed SEE with her daughter), so is the Yoda-esque word order part of ASL or a Star Wars reference?
kat
That’s a pretty standard ASL grammar structure tbh. I /think/ you could also say I share can but the subject is technically Sal so that might confuse things? I’m intermediate ASL so my knowledge is questionable haha
suddenlyStan
That look on her face. Alice ***knows*** what was signed.
Formedras
I kinda feel like it might. It could very well have meant “She’s mine, I tell you! MINE!”
Ana Chronistic
“she takes up the, like, first ten billion spots in line ahead a’ all y’all”
IntangibleMatter
Oh god, everyone who shows up mysteriously is coming at once.
…looks like Becky won’t be able to avoid Dina after all
clif
Dina is already there. She’s just behind the door.
Alaric
Too obvious. Dina is there, but she’s not behind the door. No one will see her until she strikes.
LordCastigator
……..Clever girl…….
JessWitt
What’s the maximum occupancy of this karaoke room?
Thag Simmons
Gonna say at least a dozen people, it looks decently large.
TrueSurvivor
Tenor something
(Get it)?
Poskie
You’re having alto-gether too much fun.
clif
What do you bass that on?
ValdVin
That’s a mezzo-mezzo comment.
Shogeton
I think they can have A capella more people inthere
Charlie Spencer
We bari tone it down.
Dibullba
Maybe 6 or 7… I will let myself out
Wraithy2773
The line starts with Marcie and goes around the block.
Pylgrimm
Yep, after Marcie, Joyce and Becky, then probably Billie, and who knows how many people after those.
Astariel
Damn, people just keep showing up here! You’d think this room would be beginning to get uncomfortably crowded. Good to see Sal and Marcie, though.
Stormtide Leviathan
c’mon Sal, Marcie deserves to get to be a horny sapphic like everyone else here :p
Just_IDD
If the room gets warm enough, people will peel off layers!
Bill Erak
Ok so, I’d like to say it’d be funny for her to turn out gay (Danny cracks) before ending up single, but then we wouldn’t have the long teased Danny/Ethan thing which is bound to end in disaster but HAS to happen or we riot.
HOWEVER, it can still happen if she realizes Danny is a good Egg and it sort of throws her off and the relationship breaks or maybe just sort of becomes awkward, and before she makes up her mind that she does, indeed, like girls, Danny and Ethan end up having a thing which she destroys by kicking open Danny’s closet doors (They opened outwards).
Then, of course, Walky also cracks and the whole thing with Amber breaks apart and Sal and Amber/AG deal with a lot of their tension in bed. heheheheeheh
(I’m a fanfic writer. Can you tell.)
Masha
Sometimes I think Digitan is an extreme exaggeration and then fanfic writers prove me wrong.
Bill Erak
what’s a digitan
QueenofSodor
Agnes Digital, a pink horsegirl who really wants the other horsegirls to make out in front of her and writes doujinshi about it
Bill Erak
Ah, yes, that would be very much like me, very based.
zee
Yes she is in fact the best character in the game. She started racing to watch her horse girls in action up close. She’s a late surger so she can see them all in front of her. She runs both turf and dirt (freak shit in the horse world) so she can equally appreciate the runners on both. She might be a horse but she is also the GOAT
(Shes my oshi can you tell? *Someone* needs to show her the same appreciation she gives everyone else)
Searcher
Danny gives up on the ukulele and the cap, magic lost, relationship over.
AntithesisConundrum
I really do see how Alice & Billie ended up as friends — they show it differently but they’re both VERY into The Drama
mindbleach
Maybe I should just start a list of characters I WOULDN’T ship Alice with. Apparently it would be shorter.
RassilonTDavros
Characters I wouldn’t ship Alice with, Part I:
1. Druggo McStabbed, aka Ryan
2. Druggo McNot-Stabbed-Yet-But-My-Fingers-Are-Crossed, aka Chester
3. The various evil parents
4. Mike, but more because he’s dead than anything else
5. Riley, for reasons that should be obvious; ditto Howard and Faz
6. Ninja Rick.
mindbleach
Almost started with “Mike, pragmatically speaking.” But they did attend high school together. There could be blue panels.
Wack'd (Mod, Click Name for Rules)
billie, walky, asher, and alice attended a different high school from amber, ethan, and mike. amber and ethan were only in the convenience store that night as a layover from a trip.
Pharmadan
Hey there’s still a chance for Ghost Mike to be available. Unless Willis has already ruled out anything SciFi/Fantasy
thejeff
There’s always Amber’s Head Mike.
BarerMender
Yeah, Alice is the prettiest girl in the cast. But not the sexiest. That would have to be…. But you already know that.
clif
Truly, none can compare to Carla.
BarerMender
Oh, bull. It has to be Amazi Girl.
Quinn
Just realizing the parallels between Becky and Marcie until just now. I’m slow. Also I never thought about these two ever meeting for some reason.
Side note, I thought only Amber/Amazing-Girl was versed in stealth.
TrueSurvivor
That is actually very insightful. However, I do think many of the characters are very stealthy – namely Dina, Charlie, and Joyce. Then again, I am unsure if that quantum tunneling thing they seem to have going on counts as being stealthy.
eh, whatever
It does not. The thing about quantum tunneling is you go from A to B without ever being in between.
…if you’re a single elementary particle. The more you are, the harder it gets, I think exponentially.
Quinn
How did I forget about Dina and Charlie!? Great infiltrators in their own right, but together there is nowhere they can’t gain access to.
Cbwroses
Sal is pretty, cool, and can sing, so of course she’s a Toreador.
Which means she gets access to Auspex (other worldly senses to notice a party), Presence (to get free beer), and Celerity (she just ran in faster than the human eye could see).
As for Marcie, she’s silent and a security guard (at least she was before), and that reads Banu Haqim for me, which also gives her Celerity as well as Obfuscate.
(If you can’t tell, I recently started playing VtM 5e).
TrueSurvivor
Serendipitously, I was actually thinking about what Dumbing of Age characters would be what VTM clan this afternoon. I find it hard to pin many of them down, to be honest. However, I do think Billie has to be a Malk. She drives Ruth and her hallmates crazy (even when she doesn’t want to), is basically invisable to other people (that she really wants to be seen by), apparently has pratically useful, but utterly untrue, beliefs about her classmates, and possesses supernatural levels of self-delusion.
I guess, Dina’s a Tremere? She’s supernerd with, from what I can tell, maybe has a tiny bit of a dominant-streak when it comes to Becky fun-times(?). However, Tremere can’t teleport or become suddenly terrifyingly strong like she can… Hold on is Dina a freakin’ Lambrosa? She can seemingly teleport and go unnoticed (oblivion), can pose a threat to a man four times her bodyweight (potence), has the afore mentioned thing with Becky (dominate), and has a highly cynical releationship with religion but none the less is willing to overlook or engange with it when it is of benifit to her. I guess Becky is right to be upset, Dina really is a Keeper.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Amber/Amazi-Girl is Brujah. Warrior for a cause, fast and strong.
Ruth and Raidah are Venture, but not that good at it.
Cbwroses
@TrueSurvivor
Well, depending on your Predator type, you gain a dot in a specific Discipline that may or may not be one your clan has access to, so I think we need to go with personality as much as powers when deciding if there’s a toss up.
@SBBB I was thinking Brujah for AG, but I feel each alter should have their own clan and that Amber would be more Nosferatu; she has Potence for strength, Obfuscate for wanting to avoid people, and Nos have been stereotyped as spending a lot of time online (usually to hack and spy, but still). She also thinks she has a garbage personality which is like being ugly, but on the inside.
Raidah is definitely Ventrue.
But I’m thinking Ruth might be something else. She definitely has Potence and, if we assume that’s a clan Discipline for her, that would make her Brujah, Nosferatu, or Lasombra, and I’m actually leaning towards the last one.
Because, aside from having access to Potence, they also have Dominate.
And the kicker for me is the Paradox wiki says “ Ruthlessness is a sought-after trait in progeny, making their reputation as betraying interlopers well deserved.”
Her nickname is Ruthless and both Jennifer and Rachel treat her like she betrayed them (still don’t know what Rachel’s deal is).
TrueSurvivor
So Mary is just Second Inquistion, right? Or is she Sabbat?
Are we doing Mike, or just assuming he is playing Wraith: The Oblivion now?
Cbwroses
Mary is definitely Second Inquisition.
I don’t know anything about Wraith the Oblivion, but I assume it’s ghosts, so probably.
Thag Simmons
Sal absolutely seems like a Brujah to me. Not pretentious enough to be a Toreador.
Holly
It’d be more interesting if Sal WANTED to be a Brujah but was actually turned by something else, and more fitting to her current character arc and growth.
AMagicalDuck
And now I’m thinking about Becky and Marcie kissing. Nothing more romantic than both being in love with your childhood friends that don’t feel the same way
BarerMender
Sal, according to Walky (IIRC), is “basically batman.”
Steamweed
Only Amber/Amazi-Girl was versed in stealth?? Do you not recognize Dina’s worldscale mastery?
Li
Sal’s introduction involved her vanishing silently after class and Walky telling Joyce, “here’s the cliff’s notes on my sister: she’s basically Batman.”
Cbwroses
People keep showing up.
If Walky and Amber don’t, I have to assume it’s only because of Ambers injury…and her aversion to social interactions.
Stormtide Leviathan
I think Malayla is higher up in that queue than either of them would ever like to admit.
Stormtide Leviathan
*Malaya
anon
sal might still be too ‘fakey’ for her lol
Steamweed
Marcie does have a type. And her imagining a Mal/Sal sexing would probably shut her mind off for the day.
anon
gonna be at least one hookup at least
nadamás
Sal is here! NOW this is a motherfucking party!
Effie
Is it a motherfucking party? Is it a party where mothers are gonna be fucked?
deliverything
Hopefully they’ve got enough nickels.
Astariel
Mothers have needs too.
Deanatay
*Sal and Malaya studying in their room (NOTE: they are NOT studying TOGETHER)*
*Sal starts to sparkle and glow*
Malaya (noticing): What the-
Sal: Crap, there must be a party somewhere, ah’m bein’ summoned! Don’t let-
*Sal disappears in a flash of light*
Malaya: *blinks* God, she is SUCH a drama queen… *back to her studies*
springeverafter