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eulaliasims said: The ‘influence to’ action is pretty awesome. Think ‘influence to…/appreciate’ will end up with an admire action? Nope, backrubs! Always! It’s like the game picks the most dramatic option.

Oh dear! I really need to use it more often!

eulaliasims said: I feel you on the shitty internet, mine goes out multiple times a day (including while I was writing this comment). I would love to hear about 16th c. naming traditions! Historical naming conventions are interesting. 😀 And ‘The Monsters of Templeton’ looks like an awesome book. I’m gonna go get it from my library tomorrow.

To make it short: Following the Lutheran Reformation, names like Hans and Gretel, the typical German names (which weren’t German at all, but Hebraic or Latin and only became German names during the medieval ages), became less popular as they didn’t fit the zeitgeist (Pietism) anymore. So they named their children “Fürchtegott” (”Fear God”), “Traugott” (”Trust in God”), “Leberecht” (”Live right”), “Thurecht” (”Do right”), which have mostly disappeared, but also “Dorothea”, “Theodor” or “Timotheus” which are still present (”Theodor” is actually becoming popular again in Germany). Most prominent example: Wolfgang “Amadeus” Mozart (Although his real name was “Theophilos”, but he also called himself “Gottlieb” for good measure. But hey, that’s an artist to ya!). Before Pietism, they were really big on names from the Greek mythology or Roman history. A little while after they started ‘adapting’ male names into female ones. That’s where we got names such as “Louise”, “Paula” or “Josephine”, but also names like “Ludgera” (from the German name “Ludger”) which sound a bit absurd. It’s funny how names you think that sound native to your language/ country are really just adaptations/ translations from another language.

Oh, hope you’ll enjoy it! I actually once recommended it to a friend and she absolutely hated it!

eulaliasims said: Loveable dork villains are the best kind! ;D

I love Jodie Larson as a villain/ dork and I’m not afraid to admit it! I mean, even their family bio suggests she made her money in dubious ways!

Stella cleared her throat: “So from what our guests and I have gathered, we are approximately 10 days away from the next city without any means of transportation, which precisely means we’re stuck here. Auriga tries to get the old communication system up and running, but this will take some time. Eri tries to retrieve the emergency switch so we can send a distress signal to our civilisation, but given the state of the wreck, this might be impossible.”

“I don’t think we should try to communicate with them.”, Andromeda sounded cold, “Who knows who will come out here. We should concentrate on getting back to Sixam.”

Stella interrupted her: “I can understand your point Andromeda, but the world has changed. And there are people in this group whose home is on this planet, so it’s only fair to help them.”

“You know we can’t trust Sims! What if whoever we can signal wants to see us dead?” Andromeda suddenly sounded scared.

“Um… You know we usually don’t want to kill you?” Aldric interrupted their conversation.

“But can you assure us others don’t want to see us dead?” 

“Cyngus, calm down.”, Stella glanced over to Percy, who smiled at her superiorly, “I know that some of you or your parents had bad experiences with Sims, but I can assure you that times changed and I can guarantee you that these Sims, in particular, won’t harm you. We don’t know what happened yet and as long we have to presume that there is danger outside, we have to stick together. Guys, I think you can understand that there are some trust issues. You can stay for now and we will help you but please also understand that it might be better if you stay outside. You do have hiking gear with you, right? I’m pretty sure this situation will be solved in no time and we all be home soon!”