[What does Nala do when she has access to a tool store? She gets her hands on a tool set. Alhaitham will find her crouched by the screaming Jukebox cursing up a storm. At first, it starts off with rebukes in their common tongue, before it increasingly becomes more exasperated and ends up in dutch, what she vaguely remembers as her birth tongue]
You stupid piece of shitty metal! I am trying to help! Help! Stop screaming at me!
Alhaitham doesn't need to ask if Lobelia was involved to know Lobelia was involved. He's probably the only person in this place that can fuck up the jukebox that badly. But it has made the cafeteria a lot less pleasant and his headphones only do so much which the battery has long died and left him without the full noise canceling.
He kind of wishes his hearing was gone right now instead of his sendet of balance. He uses the furniture for stability as he enters and is drawn by--not the sound of the jukebox, but something else indescribable near it.
He looks over. Nala is shrieking. Nala also has tools, he didn't realize she was handy.]
I assume what you just said wasn't gibberish. [But he also... didn't understand it?]
[She's about to bring the hammer down onto the jukebox (Nala no) when she realises Alhaitham is there.
Oh.
Huh. When did he get there?]
...yes? I am from the Netherlands. [The fake fact sheet wasn't entirely wrong!!] We spoke Dutch there, as with a number of languages. I'm telling this thing it's a miserable shitty piece of work. [Cursing in Portuguese this time, which feels about right]
[He would love that actually, Nala getting to his gap moe and it's letting him learn languages.
She implied it a little when stabbing the shit out of Seymour, but he still watches with some curiosity how well she'll manage.] Then it seems like you won't need my help at all.
[Alhaitham doesn't navigate too far into the junk store because he knows what will happen if he does. Trip and hurt himself. The doorway is Safe.]
If you're willing to teach me. [He thinks back carefully on her pronunciation when he first arrived--and is pretty good at recreating it.] I was wondering what "you stupid piece of shitty metal" meant.
Oh, that? [She translates it to their common tongue] But if you really want to annoy someone, you need to insult them by adding a disease to the front. Like you cancerous piece of shit, go get the plague.
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You stupid piece of shitty metal! I am trying to help! Help! Stop screaming at me!
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Alhaitham doesn't need to ask if Lobelia was involved to know Lobelia was involved. He's probably the only person in this place that can fuck up the jukebox that badly. But it has made the cafeteria a lot less pleasant and his headphones only do so much which the battery has long died and left him without the full noise canceling.
He kind of wishes his hearing was gone right now instead of his sendet of balance. He uses the furniture for stability as he enters and is drawn by--not the sound of the jukebox, but something else indescribable near it.
He looks over. Nala is shrieking. Nala also has tools, he didn't realize she was handy.]
I assume what you just said wasn't gibberish. [But he also... didn't understand it?]
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Oh.
Huh. When did he get there?]
...yes? I am from the Netherlands. [The fake fact sheet wasn't entirely wrong!!] We spoke Dutch there, as with a number of languages. I'm telling this thing it's a miserable shitty piece of work. [Cursing in Portuguese this time, which feels about right]
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I see. It doesn't match any language I've ever heard in Teyvat, so I couldn't make out what you were saying.
[And now it's got his attention. New language! Enrichment for Alhaitham!] You're trying to fix this?
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[She nods and gives the jukebox a little vicious kick ]
I didn't think it would still be screaming.
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Has its power source been removed?
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[ and switching back, abruptly]
Yes. Even disconnected it screams. I was thinking of putting it out of its misery.
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I assume this was Lobelia's doing, so if he can't fix it destroying it is probably the best option. Maybe there's a replacement in that junk store.
[He sure didn't switch back, hope Nala is fluent enough.]
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[ Oh, at least be surprised. She follows along, a tiny pout.]
Shall we go look? I'm strong. I can carry it.
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I'd be interested in hearing all of those languages later. [Enrichment!!
He does switch back to his native tongue.] But let's deal with the situation in front of us first. You can carry it on your own?
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Yes. It's not very bulky or heavy, I believe.
[She is strong. And she'll pick up that jukebox like it's nothing]
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She implied it a little when stabbing the shit out of Seymour, but he still watches with some curiosity how well she'll manage.] Then it seems like you won't need my help at all.
[And since she can, he can be lazy.]
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Probably not. But let me know if I'll walk into something.
[She may not have the best view like this]
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That's the real problem, isn't it.] If you can see me around it, I can lead you back.
[And through the door to start.]
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And absolutely gets bodied by the jukebox.
But it's fine. They're fine. They'll get to the junk store and throw this into the mess and later Alhaitham can ask her to teach him dutch.]
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Oh, you were wanting to learn Dutch?
[Holding a fur seal plushie...a black pom...]
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If you're willing to teach me. [He thinks back carefully on her pronunciation when he first arrived--and is pretty good at recreating it.] I was wondering what "you stupid piece of shitty metal" meant.
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That jukebox must have really angered you.
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Most definitely. But it is now trash.