Scholomance Bella, Aadhya, and Caio in Tree
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Yeah nah.

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They go through more pictures, some audio, and a couple videos, with similar results.

Lata, have the emergency forms you tried done anything useful yet?

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I'm not sure they've even been processed yet.

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No one on the forums I tried recognizes their alphabets either.

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There's a brief argument in sign language, after which yet another one pulls up a video. This one is animated, with subtitles, and the voice actors are clearly making a point of speaking slowly and clearly. The actual plot involves astronauts of some kind but it seems to be intended as a vocabulary lesson for small children. How would these people like to learn some nouns and verbs and adjectives?

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They will buckle down and learn some nouns and verbs and adjectives.

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They are all quite bright and have practice learning languages and take it very seriously.

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Though it is clearly not the most fun they could be having.

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The astronauts (each of whom is wearing a different color spacesuit) have a problem with their space habitat, which looks suspiciously similar to an apartment! The astronauts discuss the objects in their space habitat while trying to figure out the source of the problem! The astronauts find the source of the problem! The problem is being caused by a LITTLE HOLE (here are some more things that are little), which is making a BIG PROBLEM (here are some more things that are big). The astronauts retrieve some tools from their closet (here are all the tools in their closet) and use them to FIX the LITTLE HOLE. Song about tools! The singers still sound kind of amateurish! With the tool having been fixed, they go celebrate with some food and games! Here are some foods and beverages!

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(Maybe they'd have more fun with a show about historical figures or mages or something? Or one of the ones that's sung-through? But this seems kind of hard to communicate.)

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This is fine, it's just a) for children and b) language learning.

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Notes are taken diligently.

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Ce doesn't have a way to distinguish between 'language shows for children are boring' and 'shows about astronauts are boring.' For all they know Forabil will turn out to be right that they shouldn't be showing the aliens fiction at all.

Ce will keep playing episodes of the astronaut show. Astronauts have a medical checkup! Astronauts meet alien flora and fauna (this one has THREE BLUE HEADS, this one has FOUR PURPLE LEAVES) and compare them to real animals! Astronauts solve more problems in the habitat! Astronauts get injured! Astronauts have backstories involving going to schools!

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They don't like these episodes much. Eventually one turns to a live person and starts soliciting help filling in her lists of numbers and colors.

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They can have numbers and colors!

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Eventually they can communicate that they were in a SCHOOL with BAD ALIENS and they are DONE with school and are here but this is BAD because they are supposed to be at their HOUSES.

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?????

There's a brief argument, simultaneously out loud and in sign language. They might be able to catch a few words but none of the participants are particularly trying to be comprehensible.

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"We don't know of any aliens," says one of them tentatively. "Most people think that if there are aliens, they are very very far away. Not on this planet or on any of the close planets."

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"Not aliens aliens."

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That is not really less confusing! Maybe they can make some progress on one of the other things they mentioned?

"We don't know where your houses are either. What cities did you live in? --"City" is many many people and many many apartments in one place."

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"New Orleans."

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Wobbly-hand-gesture "Newark."

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Fe pokes at the computer.

"There aren't any cities with those names on this planet."

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