What Counts

Yulgi Honalgi

I'm lookin' fer a strappin' young adventurer good with her/his numbers to help tally our remainin' supply o' planks and logs...but I suppose ye'll have to do.

• FR C'est une tâche importante dans notre industrie, alors considère ceci comme un honneur. ‘It's an important task in our trade, so consider this an honor.’ English grudgingly says you'll have to do; French tells you to consider the task an honor.
• JA これは造船にとって、重要な仕事なんだ。 ‘This is important work for shipbuilding.’ English grudgingly says you'll have to do; Japanese stresses that this is important work for shipbuilding.

Now that work on the Victory is nearin' completion, I need one final count on the lumber we have, so I can determine if we'll need more.

• JA 大型船一隻に必要な材木は、数千本！ ‘The timber needed for a single large ship runs to thousands of pieces!’ English says Victory work is nearly complete, so a final count is needed; Japanese says one large ship needs thousands of timbers.

I already have Razyn Mylzyn and Ruimo Falaimo started on the tally, so speak with them and see what they've found. Then bring me back the exact number o' quarterdeck logs and forecastle planks remaining on-site. Understood?

RRazyn Molzyn

Just finished me count o' the cedar masts, and the yardmaster ain't going to like what I have to tell him. What? Ye'll tell him for me? Well, be me guest then, lass/lad!

The Victory, bein' as big as she is, will be outfitted with three full-sized masts, and two smaller masts. Each mast'll have its own set o' four to five spars, or crossmasts, from which the sails hang. One need not be a scholarly from Mealvaan's Gate to know that's a whole hell's worth o' lumber.

• FR Il nous faut particulièrement de très grosses pièces pour un vaisseau de la taille du Victoire, que nous sommes en train d'assembler. ‘We especially need very large pieces for a vessel the size of the Victory, which we are in the middle of assembling.’ French only says very large pieces are needed; the counts of masts and spars are missing.
• DE Man muss kein Zahlengenie sein, um zu realisieren, dass das eine ganze Menge Holz ist. ‘One need be no numbers genius to realise that that is a whole lot of wood.’ German says "numbers genius"; English makes it a reference to the scholars of Mealvaan's Gate.
• JA 今、建造している新造船「ヴィクトリー号」は、軍艦としても、かなり大型な部類だからね。 ‘The new ship "Victory" we are building now is on the large side even for a warship, you see.’ Japanese only says the Victory is big even for a warship; the mast and spar counts are missing.

And so, just how many mast-worthy logs did I count here? Four. Not four hundred, not four score, not even fourteen. One, two, three, four. And you can take that to the yardmaster...but don't say I didn't warn ye.

Ruimo Falaimo

Two hundred oak berthing planks. Not one more, not one less. I counted 'em twice, and then I counted 'em thrice more, jus' fer good measure.

• FR Euh, ouais ? Ah, l'état des réserves de bois pour le carénage... Euh, là, j'ai deux cents planches de chêne pour la carène, fraîchement découpées dans les billots qu'on nous a apportés l'autre jour. ‘Um, yeah? Ah, the timber stocks for the hull work... Um, right now I've got two hundred oak planks for the hull, freshly cut from the logs they brought us the other day.’ Ruimo Falaimo hums and haws with this verbal tic. The English Ruimo is crisp and exact.
• FR Euh, là, j'ai deux cents planches de chêne pour la carène, fraîchement découpées dans les billots qu'on nous a apportés l'autre jour. ‘Er, right now I've got two hundred oak planks for the hull, freshly cut from the logs that were brought to us the other day.’ English jokes he counted them twice and then three more times; French says they were freshly cut from logs delivered the other day.
• JA 先日、運び込まれた原木を、ここで製材したばかりだからね。 ‘Because we only just sawed the logs that were brought in the other day, right here.’ English jokes he counted them twice and then three more times; Japanese says they were just sawn from logs delivered the other day.

We may be in trouble, though, if them shipwrights need any more than what ye see before ye.

• FR Mais, euh... à vrai dire, il n'y en a pas beaucoup dans le tas dont les veines sont assez serrées pour offrir une bonne étanchéité. ‘But, er... to tell the truth, there aren't many in the pile whose grain is tight enough to make them properly watertight.’ English worries the shipwrights may need more than this; French worries few planks have grain tight enough to be watertight.
• JA とはいえ、木目が詰まって耐水性が高い良質の板材となると、数は少ないね。 ‘That said, when it comes to good boards with tight grain and high water resistance, there aren't many.’ English worries the shipwrights may need more than this; Japanese says few boards have tight grain and resist water well.

The fires of the Calamity claimed most o' the trees in ol' Oakwood. And what o' those that remained, ye ask? Why, we chopped down the rest to help build the Victory.

• FR C'est un véritable coup dur pour notre activité au chantier. ‘It's a real blow to our work at the shipyard.’ English jokes they felled the remaining oaks themselves for the Victory; French calls the oak shortage a blow to the shipyard.
• FR Le chêne est le meilleur bois pour composer le corps d'un navire, mais depuis le Fléau... euh, c'est devenu une matière rare. ‘Oak is the best wood for building the body of a ship, but since the Calamity... er, it has become a rare material.’ French says oak is the best hull wood and now rare; English says the last oaks were felled for the Victory.
• JA 船体に最適といわれるオークの林が、霊災のせいで減ってしまったのが痛いよ。 ‘It hurts that the oak groves, said to be ideal for hulls, have shrunk because of the Calamity.’ Japanese says oak is ideal for hulls and the groves shrank; English says the last oaks were felled.

Yulgi Honalgi

I trust ye had enough fingers to help ye through the tallyin'. So, tell me now. What did ye find?

• FR Tu as fini de faire l'inventaire de nos réserves ? ‘Have you finished taking inventory of our stocks?’ English teases about whether you had enough fingers to count; French simply asks if the inventory is finished.
• JA 材木の在庫勘定が終わったか。 ‘So you've finished counting the timber stock.’ English teases about whether you had enough fingers to count; Japanese simply notes the count is finished.
• FR Je vois, les choses sont bien moins bonnes que je ne le pensais. ‘I see, things are far worse than I thought.’ French thanks you and finds stocks worse than expected; the English jibe about counting on fingers is missing.
• JA ……むむ、これは予想以上に不足してるな。 ‘...Hmm, this is a worse shortage than I expected.’ Japanese thanks you and finds the shortage worse than expected; no jibe about counting on fingers.

Hm... Those be grim numbers, indeed. The Calamity may be jus' a fadin' memory, but it seems we're still far from truly healin'.

• JA 高地ラノシアの木こりたちの中には、霊災を機に廃業してしまった者も多くてね。 ‘Many of the woodcutters of Upper La Noscea gave up the trade after the Calamity.’ English says they are still far from healed after the Calamity; Japanese says many woodcutters quit the trade after it.

As a salt-blooded Lominsan, it pains me to say it, but we may have to turn to them treefolk in Gridania if we're to finish the Victory on time...

• FR Je n'aime pas ça, mais il va falloir importer du bois d'autres régions si nous voulons terminer la construction du Victoire dans les temps. ‘I don't like it, but we'll have to import wood from other regions if we want to finish building the Victoire on time.’ English names the "treefolk in Gridania"; French only speaks of importing wood from other regions.
• JA 輸入物には頼りたくなかったんだが……新造船「ヴィクトリー号」を完成させるためには、調達先を増やすことも考えなきゃならないな。 ‘I didn't want to rely on imports... but to complete the new ship Victory, we'll have to think about adding more sources of supply.’ English names the "treefolk in Gridania"; Japanese only speaks of finding more suppliers.