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Surely gentlebeings, we can do better...for Halloween is rapidly approaching

Originally posted by FlightCommanderSolitude:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by FlightCommanderSolitude:
...After days of probing within the structure, a final vault is breached and within, amongst a lost culture's rotting detritus, a rather crude but somehow disgusting idol is found. ... it is made of a type of stone unique to the waterworld Heguz (Aramis 0306).
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I was just reading my copy of The Traveller Adventure last night and noticed that the brief description of Heguz states that two entire colonies, totalling some 100k individuals, have disappeared from the planet without a trace. A research team, safely tucked away in an orbital facility, are looking into it.

Any thoughts on this planet, Kafka? </font>[/QUOTE]Most intriguing, I wonder if our notions of the Deep Ones merely confined to the frozen oceans of Europa was wrong. Perhaps, Europa was merely a prison world...

The disappearance of the colonists could be something natural that the weather satelites did not pick up on or could we be thinking something more eldrich is at work.

I could see a variation of Arthur C. Clarke's work, The Thousand Names of God, being a real scenario as some sort of aquatic race stumbles onto an Ancient facility triggering another step in Grandfather's final plan.
 
Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by RainOfSteel:
Forgive any misspelling due to poor interpretation on my part . . .

"Pagawa-Sanfa, Pagawa-Sanfa, Pagawa-Sanfa."
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:confused: :confused: :confused:

Can anyone explain what RoS means here? </font>[/QUOTE]Watch Outlaw Star. The "Tau Masters" used "magic", but it might as well have been psionics. They would chant a mantra that sounded like "Pagawa-Sanfa" to center themselves while using their powers.
 
Originally posted by flykiller:
something to do with pokemon ....
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I don't know what they say on Pokemon, as I never watch that. But I'm surprised that the show was using similar phrasing as Outlaw Star.
 
(recovered post from a compy crash hence the delay in posting)

Originally posted by RainOfSteel:
Watch Outlaw Star. The "Tau Masters" used "magic", but it might as well have been psionics. They would chant a mantra that sounded like "Pagawa-Sanfa" to center themselves while using their powers.
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According to a fan script for episode one it sounds like Chinese offhand: Pa gu a sun fa

Since they use "Tao magic" that's likely. FWIW Tao (or for that matter Buddhissim/Shinto/etc.) in folklore can be pretty much like psionics. It worked for Lucas after all.


It's been a while since I've seen Outlaw Star but something like Pagua-sunfa is possible in Mandarin Chinese Pinyin. Without the tonals* though it's hard for a novice like me to pinpoint in Pinyin (link). Also it could be Pa-gu-a-sun-fa, Pa-gua-sun-fa, or some other combination.

There's also a phrase before that "Uh sung fung". <shrugs> Either made up, an error somewhere along the line, faulty scholarship on my part (very possible), or an older Romanization/different dialect form was used.

HTH. I could fudge some characters if you wanted a phrase in Chinese lettering.

* you could guess at the tonals from listening to how it's pronounced onscreen though most Japanese pronunciation of Chinese words in anime is about as good as most Americans ;)
 
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