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So here’s a thing I did

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I’ve just finished translating Insinuation 2.9 to Norwegian, all the way to the wham line:

“De virker som gode folk,” løy jeg.

I’m not going to publish it, because that feels like too much of a breach of copyright to do without Wildbow’s express permission, but it’s a thing I feel I should mention that I did.

As for why? Krixwell life update time! I have quit my web studies (just didn’t work out for me) and am now looking for a job instead, and translator is a tempting option. I figured I should try it out on a non-commercial basis before making any decisions, and a past Worm chapter simply seemed like a natural first subject. I picked 2.9 specifically because of the wham line it ends with.

Some stats:
It took me about three hours total over two sessions, and the document ended up at 10557 characters including spaces. According to standard translator rates in Norway (205.12 kroner per thousand characters), I’d earn 2165 kr ($266) for the entire chapter, for an hourly rate of about 722 kr ($88.72)… Maybe I’m missing something about how the rates work, because everywhere I look, people are saying this is a poorly-paid profession.

End of Buzz 7.10

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Well.

That was kinda anticlimactic. The boss encounter that half the arc was building up to boiled down to “hi we’re innocent and we know where Aster is so please don’t vaporize us or what’s left of the neighborhood okay”.

I mean, yeah, things were resolved, and we got some decent fights along the way – the fight against Night was pretty good – but even for a peaceful solution, it kinda felt too easy once they actually got to Purity.

Maybe it’s just me being too used to the pattern of each Arc having a proper boss fight (hell, even Insinuation had one, and that Arc wasn’t combat focused at all outside that one fight). I don’t know.

What I also don’t know at the moment is if the Arc proper ends here and the next chapter is an Interlude. I’m guessing we’re having a 7.11 as a wind-down and tie-up chapter. We kind of wound down a bit at the end of this chapter, but Tattle’s text doesn’t strike me as an end-of-Arc line.

Let’s take a look at the link…

/…/buzz-7-11/

Yup. 🙂

Maybe it’ll give us some insight into exactly what put Coil in a less friendly mood than last time we saw him, and/or maybe have Brian and Taylor talk to each other about what happened at the mall.

See you then!

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He checked my stomach, which required me to take off the top of my costume, and he prodded the bruise Cricket had left me with cold, dry fingers.  Then he had me remove my mask to examine my ear.  Apparently, he didn’t deem Brian’s job satisfactory, so I was sat down on a stool so he could clean it up.

Well, here we go.

This Arc contains quite a bit of medical work, huh.

He was partway through the job when my phone vibrated.  I read it and heaved a sigh of relief.

Tattletale:

Avocado c.  she got what she needed.  omw

Nice 🙂

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I stood by Grue’s bed with my arms folded and watched.  Dr. Q checked the work the medics had done in suturing up Brian’s chest and muttered to himself that it was competent.

Well, that’s good to hear.

When he’d verified they hadn’t screwed up, he took the time to clean Brian’s chest and remove the remaining threads from the first job. 

“The bug girl,” he finally commented.

Heh – memories. Perhaps not so fond memories for Dr. Cleese.

“Yeah.  I’m really sorry about bringing the bugs to your place, last time.  I see they’re gone now.”

“They are,” was his response.

Hehe.

I nodded.  I checked my phone again.  Still no response from Tattletale.

Minutes passed.

Hrm.

“Okay,” he pulled off his latex gloves, “Nothing more we can do for this lug.  You unhurt?”

I shrugged, “More or less.  Got jabbed in the stomach, I have my aches and pains, hurt my ear earlier, but I already got it taken care of.”

Doesn’t hurt to have it looked over while you’re here, if he’s offering.

“I’ll verify that for myself.”

Yeah, this guy doesn’t automatically trust others to be competent.

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I sent Tattletale a text:

Frog A.  Got Coil’s people to pick us up.  Brian is getting help.  Dogs are mostly ok.  Text me back.

Um.

What’s the point of using the code if you’re gonna drop critical information like Brian’s civilian name and that you’re working for Coil in the same text? If Purity had confiscated Tattle’s phone, for whatever reason, she’d know those things now. At least one of which is highly interesting to the Empire and might get Purity to target the Undersiders again once Kaiser tells her who was really behind the e-mail.

…either way, I wonder what she’ll think when Hookwolf mentions there being someone with the Undersiders who he suspected to be a Coildier.

We pulled in behind the doctor’s office, and Tattletale still hadn’t replied.  I was surprised that the ambulance with Bitch, Regent and the dogs hadn’t come with us.

Hm, okay. Well, Alec didn’t come along in 4.11.

The doctor was a cranky old guy that Coil’s medic referred to as Dr. Q.

Hello, John Cleese.

He was a thin-lipped man, about my height, which made him fairly small.  His hair was either recently cut or he got it cut regularly, was slicked close to his scalp, and seemed too dark given how old his face and hands were.

Except for the hair color and height, the description kinda fits.

He took over for the medics as they carted Grue in, and they left with a nod to me.  I nodded back, unsure of how else to respond.

Yeah, what else can you really do? Hehe.