Choose a Name for your House
Once everyone is gathered around d’Spys and the new Card, a Discussion begins.
Velle: “What could we name our House? We haven’t even gotten everyone’s Stories yet. I hardly know anything about Y or Anise. Säve, you’ve been so busy interviewing, we don’t know much about you, either.”
Nolle, masked in Black, having finished his d’Spys: “What was the bit about… Opposites? Are we going to be introduced to people who are precisely unlike us?”
Säve: “What would that even mean? Isn’t it more likely some… poetic or metaphorical meaning?”
Y, smiling darkly: “Our… Rivals."
Anise: “Oh! Goodbye House!"
Everyone looks at you.
Anise: “What if it was a House named Goodbye? Our House. Coming here required us all to say Goodbye to what we had. That’s the only thing we’re sure we have in common, so far. So that should be our name.”
Everyone looks at each other. They make faces like, “not bad”. Your idea passes without rejection nor explicit acceptance. The conversation returns to its Track.
Y: “We’re going to be tested, right? Don’t you think they’ll put us up against someone to put some pressure on? I’m ready.”
Velle: “I’m curious how you intend to compete with your Vocation. Is there competitive Conlanging?”
Y seems about to respond when Säve tilts her head and says, “Perhaps I should have asked sooner, but…”
Nolle: “Oh thank goodness, I thought I was the only one who didn’t know.”
Y: “A Conlanger is someone who constructs Languages.”
Nolle seems very interested indeed: “You can… construct Languages? Well, of course you can, why not? But… people do? As a Vocation?”
Y: “We do.”
Nolle, excited: “Have you, then? Constructed one?”
Y: “Aq. Ens ollem.”
Everyone looks appropriately impressed that Y has created an entire language by himself.
Y basks for a moment, and then: “Well, just the beginnings of one. And not all by myself. It’s a long process.”
You wonder what will happen if Y is ever called upon by a Card to WORK.