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Prosthetic tongues giving refugees a taste of freedom
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Muck Raker
Gutter Press
#1 - 2013-07-25 18:09:50 UTC
A Gallente medical charity, working in Republic space, has reported a huge increase in the numbers of prosthetic tongues fitted to needy refugees in the war-torn regions of Minmatar space.

These refugees, including many from the Ammatar Mandate, had their tongues mutilated, following a mystic ritual called the Voluval, in which young Minmatar adults undergo a test, rumoured to be a Jovian invention, and are assigned a mark, similar to a birthmark, which supposedly describes their destiny. Evil marks were subject to a variety of punishments, one of which was having the tongue cut out.

With the recent Minmatar incursions into Amarr space, including the famous raids on Mekhios, Kor-Azor Prime, and other important worlds, and the rescue of Starkmanir and Nefantar tribespeople from Mandate space, the prohibitions on some marks have been lifted, and no longer are unfortunate people rendered tongueless.

Not all people are happy with this development:
"Times change, I suppose. I used to cut their tongues out, now I put them back" said one Sebiestor surgeon.
"This one girl, after she got her prosthetic tongue, the first thing she said, was that she wanted to declare vendetta on Malaetu Shakor! How ungrateful can a person be?" said a Brutor militiaman.

One thing is certain. With their new prosthetic tongues, these previously sidelined people now have a voice in Minmatar politics!

Rumours, Wars, Rumours of Wars, Wars of Rumours!
Arkady Vachon
The Gold Angels
Sixth Empire
#2 - 2013-07-25 18:30:21 UTC
And that is how you lick that problem.

Nothing Personal - Just Business...

Chaos Creates Content
Denak Calamari
Incorruptibles
#3 - 2013-07-25 19:25:54 UTC
This sure is an icky situation.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#4 - 2013-07-25 19:33:12 UTC
A tasteless article, for sure.

Katrina Oniseki
Anslo
Scope Works
#5 - 2013-07-25 20:07:35 UTC
This story is not very palettable.

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Emerita Von Nynniaw
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2013-07-25 20:16:55 UTC
You lot just had to voice those awful puns, right?
Shintoko Akahoshi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-07-25 20:20:14 UTC
What can I say? He's got a taste for puns...

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Makoto Priano
Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#8 - 2013-07-25 21:25:21 UTC
Have I mentioned lately that you're all terrible people? It needs to be said.

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Repentence Tyrathlion
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#9 - 2013-07-25 21:37:15 UTC
Makoto Priano wrote:
Have I mentioned lately that you're all terrible people? It needs to be said.


Yes. Yes we are.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#10 - 2013-07-25 21:39:35 UTC
Makoto Priano wrote:
Have I mentioned lately that you're all terrible people? It needs to be said.


I was going to say another pun, but I seem to have forgotten the wording. If I could just remember... it's on the tip of my tongue...

Katrina Oniseki
Kourdus
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#11 - 2013-07-25 22:00:23 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
Makoto Priano wrote:
Have I mentioned lately that you're all terrible people? It needs to be said.


I was going to say another pun, but I seem to have forgotten the wording. If I could just remember... it's on the tip of my tongue...


Being tongue-tied is quite frustrating, isn't it?
Steffanie Saissore
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#12 - 2013-07-25 22:20:14 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
Makoto Priano wrote:
Have I mentioned lately that you're all terrible people? It needs to be said.


I was going to say another pun, but I seem to have forgotten the wording. If I could just remember... it's on the tip of my tongue...


What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?

We travel in the dark of the new moon,

A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
James Syagrius
Luminaire Sovereign Solutions
#13 - 2013-07-26 00:41:16 UTC  |  Edited by: James Syagrius
Makoto Priano wrote:
Have I mentioned lately that you're all terrible people? It needs to be said.

​Oh now don't be to harsh in your judgement, most of their comments are just tongue in cheek.​

“Here also are the heralds of his praise."
Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2013-07-26 01:02:46 UTC
ORAL SEX JOKE ҉

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#15 - 2013-07-26 01:22:49 UTC
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
ORAL SEX JOKE ҉


See... All talk. *grins*

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Makoto Priano
Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#16 - 2013-07-26 02:31:17 UTC
But in all seriousness, what's with Mr. Ixiris's terrible glasses? Did his latest clone's ocular implants malfunction?

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Gosakumori Noh
Coven of One
#17 - 2013-07-26 02:49:13 UTC
Muck Raker wrote:
prosthetic tongues


In all honesty - and I am nothing if not honest - I must confess that I neglected to add prosthetic tongues to my lycanthropic Sebiestor bunny boys. Warm the retrofit vats!
Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#18 - 2013-07-26 04:42:23 UTC
Tribals.

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
Makkal Hanaya
Revenent Defence Corperation
#19 - 2013-07-26 04:57:51 UTC
Why that specific punishment?

Is there a voluval associated with being deceitful or an oathbreaker? Or is it a general punishment used against anyone who's kicked out of the community?

Render unto Khanid the things which are Khanid's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Repentence Tyrathlion
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#20 - 2013-07-26 10:31:04 UTC
Makkal Hanaya wrote:
Why that specific punishment?

Is there a voluval associated with being deceitful or an oathbreaker? Or is it a general punishment used against anyone who's kicked out of the community?


Whatever the case, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Only half punning. One of my slaves had her tongue removed by the slavers that took her, and the experience was clearly traumatising. Even after the recent surgery to give her a new one and reconnect her vocal chords, she still prefers sign language, poor thing.
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