Talk:This is Madness! Chapter I: Roma Delenda Est (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20200301224354

Theresa Sullivan
12th April 2020 (c. January 477): I have started to actually talk to some of the locals around here, mainly women. They tell me that this is the city of Parisius. (will refer it to Paris since Theresa is gonna slack on the name) Wait, this means that... I'm in Paris then? After all this time, I thought I was in this strange fantasy world, but it turns out that after two months of disbelief and still struggling to learn the language, I've actually understood what the name of the city. Some begin to really notice me in my own English as this strange language that people often get so bizarre with.

6th June 2020 (c. March 477): I can't believe it in my eyes. I've seen... Napoleon down at the streets of this place? It can't be. I thought I was the only one here and now I feel that I'm not the only one in the city of Paris. This feels so exciting to see one of the first historical figures!

I do not want to mess with him, ever and I have no idea what he'll do to me. I may have learned a little bit of French in my own place, but he's too rusty for me to remember and speak. Better hide from him, cos you know, I don't wanna mess with this guy, he's very tough and he has conquered much of Europe back in his days.

People thought that he was short, but actually, I found out it was a myth that I was fed into by my history teacher at high school. He's actually slightly taller than I expected - thought he was 5'0 inches. American education is basically flawed and I feel that I learnt something more than what the curriculum told me.

28th June 2020 (c. March 477): I saw some guy with some fancy cap. Unlike Napoleon, I do not know who this guy is. My history teacher didn't tell me about this guy and I feel a little rustic about this side. I know about WWII a little bit, but it is about Americans winning against the evil Nazis and that the Nazis were killing much of the Jewish population of Europe (and they failed). (Theresa doesn't seem to know about the Pacific front aside from the atomic bombs dropped on two cities. Seems too fixated on European and local history more than anywhere else.)

I like Joan of Arc. But I never seen her. Unlike my history teacher, I learnt about her when I was cute as heck at the age of 10 when I read up about her in a local library in Framingham. She means a lot to me and I don't know when I'll see her, if Napoleon is here and that dude is there as well, why couldn't I see her? This seems a little bit off about this world...

4th July 2020 (c. April 477): I ran out of blue ink, so I'm moving to red this time. Soon I would run out of pages and that I cannot keep track of time anymore from this. I might even need to recite it by word instead or keep it to myself. I am really desperate for something to write on. I gotta cut my hair too, but I don't have anyone, so I'll need to find some dagger that someone forgot to keep blending into the community.

27th July 2020 (c. April 477): I found some sort of writing material (parchment) that is quite different. It is basically leathery and very different from paper, which quickly deteriorates, that is according to Google. I snatched few of them and I also sourced a little bit of ink (apparently made from squids, I guess) from someone else too. Unlike paper, where my diary came from, getting that kind of medium is harder in this world. There is no paper equivalent here, so I'll make do.

I need to also bind it with some string that I've also taken. I literally hate doing this. Once I run out of pages in my own diary, I'll need to move it here. They also told me that the date is supposed to be 27th April 477, not 24th July 2020, which is what my 2020 journal says. I'm torn on whether to keep using my previous date or move on to the local time there.

4th August 2020 (c. May 477): I begin talking more to other girls and women of similar age as me and they are starting to make sense for the first time, except for the really big words, I've started to see something familiar, not something alien like Klingon (Theresa watches some Star Trek movies, but she is no Trekkie) but something that kind of went by in my head. I don't know what language it is, but I feel that it might be Latin.

I finally told them that I came from the skies (literally "I went down from heaven") and that I am the woman who can write. I told them that I can save them, but the response is very, very mixed. Like they seem to not understand me, even when I'm speaking their own language at the most basic way.

I'll need to do something.

29th September 2020 (c. June 477): I've grasped about most of the basic items and words, along with some phrases. I'm not that fluent yet because it'll take years, (she's roughly around level 0.7 [assuming it is done with decimals] in that ILR scale that 'measures' language fluency) however it turns out that I can cope with some of the people's understanding here. It turns out that they speak a really conjugated version of Latin and I've pieced bits of my rusty Latin from my Bible learning of a Latin language Bible (She did say that she studied a little bit of Latin years ago in her uptime world as I said in the last turn) just a month ago to this kind of Latin so it really helps me a lot. (Would've been level 0.6 if she hadn't fortunately studied random words and written words, verbally recited it for just two months before quitting. But that doesn't contribute a lot.)

There's also another language that I cannot comprehend, Gallish (or whatever that is). They also locally speak this language as well, but it kind of doesn't help me as Latin is slightly my better strength not that I'm super fluent, but...

What a stupid person I am! For over I guess eight months, I haven't been thinking straight. It took me eight months to piece the jigsaw puzzle and I was in disbelief.

Anyway, I feel that Napoleon and that WW2-uniformed dude [Charles de Gaulle] is likely to make me uncomfortable. These strong men are going to eventually come to me and harass me for being a good girl. I told a man about where I should go, in really bad Latin. He told me to go to a place called 'Noviodenum' [Noviodunum, which is in OTL Soissons], which is some town up north.

If that's the place, then I'm packing up whatever I got. With some of this new writing patch and ink that I've stolen from the locals, I could still write my journey and tell the world, even to women around here that I'm looking to blend in and live like them.

In the meantime, I've continued my interaction with these girls, regardless if they don't want me or not. I'm now starting my intention to convince them that I came down from the skies and that I'm here to save them (with the intent of making them literate of course). Writing it in a different language for them is a big thing. It's going to save their lives a lot. (This kinds of reminds me of the Woman Script from Eon, which I'm currently reading but who knows?)

Eventually, they'll understand some of my language, not all of it, I tell you, but it's going to be beneficial. Strong women need to have their own written code of language and my written language may help them to resist men who might be corrupt.

tl;dr:
 * Theresa discovers Napoleon and Charles de Gaulle about weeks after their arrival eventually (it is ambiguous, so I assume its February 477, apologies!) and she fears both of them as she is no longer alone in Parisium.
 * She also has grasped this Gallo-Latin language thing (only 65-70% of the basics, next turn she'll be level 1 in the ILR scale) and used her rusty knowledge on what she learned about Latin in her uptime world to slightly enhance (not dramatically boost) her understanding of their speak.
 * Theresa tries to convince women of her similar age that she came from the skies (or heaven) and she is here to save them from men. She has the intent of trying to spread literacy to women in both their language and use modern American English (c. 2020) as a secret writing code or something using some stolen parchment eventually.
 * But because Theresa is threatened by the simple existence of Napoleon and de Gaulle (they aren't a threat to her yet), she plans to simply move to Noviodunum (written as 'Noviodenum' in her interpretation, in OTL city of Soissons) and also spread her message of literacy and message to other women. This is going to happen if she learns all of the basics by approximately October 477.