| [NC] The Mystery of the Lost Letter |
An odd crisis has risen amidst the intellectuals in Pacifica - a letter has been lost! Whilst all the literature mentions twenty-six letters in the alphabet of common Pacifican speech, anybody who attempts to list them falls short by one letter:
A B C D E F H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Chancellor Jonathan Relean of Roavin has announced additional funds for hasty research into this area to resolve the mystery, and wishes for international cooperation to swiftly resolve this matter. OOC: You may not use the Letter between F and H, but you should consider yourself emboldened to look for that letter! ![[Image: XXPV74Y.png?1]](https://i.imgur.com/XXPV74Y.png?1)
The Union has a simple solution: switch to another writin' system
Deputy Regional Minister of the Planning and Development Agency(March 8-May 19, 2014)
Local Council Member(April 24-August 11) Court Justice of TSP(August 15-December 7)
Namartis Daily News
Scientists remain baffled at elusive mystery letter As analysis continues, a reason behind the recent discrepancies in the alphabet has yet to be found. Chancellor Jonathan Relean continues assure that the case is currently studied intensively, and stated furthermore that "[..] we will leave no stone unturned in our continued efforts to come to the bottom of this event". Confusion and upheaval arose amidst the citizens of Roavin early this week after many individuals found it odd that, while commonly assumed that 26 letters exist in the alphabet, no one person could enumerate more than 25 of them. The current assumption is a letter omitted from that alphabet that has apparently disappeared from Roavinian life completely based on further observations to that effect. Included in those observations are several citizens that have reported a sense of a switch in their name, as if their name was modified in any place it was ever mentioned; one hypothesis considers that these citizens may have had names that included the mystery letter. Pre-school teachers report confusion in forenoon classes, as both children and teachers alike have become rhythmically out of sync with the popular "Alphabet" children's lullaby. Popular speculation remains elevated with respect to possible causes. With scientists still left without a lead, some citizens have turned to satirically cite the popular phrase "there is a mishap in the matrix" from the popular 1999 blockbuster movie, "The Matrix".
"I don't remember my full name," said Chancellor Mar'aret Harrison, "Why can't I remember it?" The Chancellor felt madness overcome her. On the brink of insanity, the Chancellor has ordered the State Intel Directorate to redirect all of its resources to find out what she is unable to remember, "Wait, since when was this bureau called the State Intel Directorate? Intel?" The Director of the SID was furious, "Why did you order us to do this? This is not important!" The Chancellor fired back at the director, "If you will not carry out my order, I will fire you and find someone else who will!"
President Kerenkiy sat around in his office. He had heard rumours about a letter that "disappeared" out of nowhere. "Ridiculous!" he said to himself as he drank a cup of coffee. It was a really slow day.
Kerenskiy called the Vice President on the phone. Tomorrow was the birthday of Sasha, the Vice President's wife, so the President decided to ask how they would celebrate it, to pass a bit of time. There was no response. Fortunately, he heard that he had shut himself in his office. He walked and walked (the Presidential Palace is pretty labyrinthine), until he finally arrived. He opened the door. Vice President Voroshilov sat silently in a chair. He looked... broken, to say the least. "Mr. Voroshilov! How's your...?" said Kerenskiy before a sudden interruption. "Say my name," said Voroshilov. "What?" "Say. My. Name" "Vorosh..." Kerenskiy attempted to answer. "The first name" "Seryei?" Voroshilov repeatedly punched his desk. Thirty seconds later, he had a complete nervous breakdown. "No! It's not fuckin' Seryei! Now nobody can pronounce my damn name! Not even my wife..." he paused, but continued before Kerenskiy could respond. "Worst of all, some asshole chan... chanjed...modified all sites on the internet to show the bastardized version of my name... Am I becomin' insane? Why do I speak with an accent!?" Kerenskiy started to feel suspicious. Somebody had modified all internet sites to remove one letter, ministry names were modified as well (there were now a Ministry of Cultivation and Ministry of Electricity Production, for example). Minister of Defense Benson van Heyden furiously asked why his NIA was now called NSD (National Security Directorate). However, the one that provoked the most fury was without a doubt the new name for the capital, "Karnetville". "I have to solve this shit before somebody calls for my head," said Kerenskiy to his secretary. "I want each and every Ministry and/or Department to obtain intel on this. This is a crucial matter for national security!". Every ministry started to work to solve the problem. Well, every ministry except the now named External Relations: the Deputy Minister, Randall "Yadirov", suffered a breakdown of his own.
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Yena Yamera-Hyudo, Ura'sia of the Democratic Republic of Erinor, skimmed the article on the third leaf of the early copy of Anturin Vrassad and shook her head. She could understand why other nations would be upset, but this vanished letter issue didn't seem to be one that would affect Erinor. Last time she checked the Erinoran alphabet had all the letters it needed: A, V, C, D, E, F, H, I, J, Kh, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, W and Y. A little self-satisfied smile started to rise at the corners of her mouth, when suddenly the phone started to chime.
She let out a breath of frustration and picked the receiver up. "Yes?" "Ura'sia, this absent letter issue is a disaster!" "Sirea? Why, what effect could it possibly have on us?" "Well, it doesn't affect anything in Syaqin aren, but it'll drive us all made here in the Court of Overseas Affairs. Our translators will become mad, because no words seem to have the same semantics anymore!" "Ah," Yena replied as she realised the severity of the problem, "we have to translate a lot of words into the speech of other nations, don't we?" "Yes. When we try to write in Austral, for example, it seems to take forever, and it's not just the effort to find different words that don't use the absent letter, the whole structure has to alter. We can't use the present participle at all!" "Then this is very serious," Yena said as she nodded to herself in her office, "we'll have help somehow." "Should I offer our help to this international body on the search for the wayward letter?" "Of course. Send our best lin... our best philolo... our best spoken word analysts." "We'll start at once!" |
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