Eng. Translation and User Manual

It's an English translatio of Taiwu User Manual. The original link is http://bbs.nga.cn/read.php?tid=15119057

There's a Translation Table of special words in The Scroll of Taiwu[docs.google.com]. You can check the name of martial arts and crickets on there.

If you have any advice or comment, please send it to [e-mail] .

关于武功招式译文说明：因为本游戏涉及门派众多、招式繁杂，故在武功翻译上大家对本文有不少意见，现统一说明。武功招式的译名有两种：短名（通用名）和长名。短名是武功的通用名，适用于所有对话，以及招式面板中。短名的译法主要考虑以下几点：1. 名字须体现招式的特点；2. 参考其他英文原版游戏的招式命名方法，短译名尽量短促、易读好记。而长名作为短名的补充，可替代对话中的武功名字。命名方法参考中餐菜谱译法，包括但不限于以下类型：【门派】【创作者】【形容词】【动作】【使用武器】【类型（口诀、心法）】。但由于长名长度原因，不适宜放在招式界面。所以只能作为补充内容，放在译名表里面(Google Doc). 感谢大家对本问的意见与支持。本译文即将进入游戏的核心内容：斗蛐蛐（划掉）。希望大家能在评论区写上你觉得好玩的蛐蛐名和译名，长度控制在5个单词以内。谢谢大家。

To who concern about the translation of Martial Arts. There’re different opinions about the translation of martial arts. Right now, I’m translating the skills’ name to a short name (less than 5 words, like skills’ name in Diablo, etc.) The motivation of doing that is to provide convenience to players on communication. But, I will also offer the long name as complement in Google Doc. (more than 5 words, including but not limited to [Sect][Creator][Adjective][Action/Motion][Weapon][Class]). Moreover, I will try to make a link/wiki on those special words. Because I did all translation by myself, the primary task is going through all playable sections and directing you to the free world. Hopefully I will finish all sections and go back to those problems you pointed out. Thanks for all your support. We are approaching the most important part of this game: The Crickets Fighting Game : D
Hope you will follow up the coming part.

0. Quick Start

If you don’t understand Chinese, skip the Introduction Short Story by click the Skip icon on right top. Then start the New Game.

1. New Game

After finished the introduction—short story, player can go into the main section of the game, “Free Mode”— the Sandbox mode.


Player has 3 slots to save your different Life.
Click scroll icon on the existed character (Red Arrow) to load player’s saved file.
Click the Skull (Blue Arrow) to delete the saved file.
In New Game mode, click empty folded scroll (Green Arrow) to start your first journal in the world of Taiwu.
After clicking the folded scroll icon, you will go to a new page to create a new character and set the world.

2. Name and Standpoint/Attitude (姓名立场)

2.1 Family Name and Given Name (姓氏名字)

You can name your character or randomly name him/her.
To be aware, once the character becomes successor of Taiwu, character’s Family name will be replaced by ‘Taiwu’, but his/her children’s family name is as the same as the original one. You can set whether to display the family name as ‘Taiwu’ or not in Setting.

2.2 Standpoint/Attitude (处世立场)

There are 5 standpoints of character: Justice, Benevolent, Moderation, Rebellious and Selfish
By dragging or click the red circle bottom to choose your standpoint. The properties of these 5 standpoints are detailed below:
(刚正 Justice, Yellow)
(仁善 Benevolent, Blue)
(中庸 Moderation, Gray)
(叛逆 Rebellious, Purple)
(唯我 Selfish, Red)

The similar standpoints would help the relationship between character and NPC, the opposite standpoints would cause feud.
It’s not easily to make feud with NPC for Justice or Benevolent option, but easy to increase your favorability.
Moderation option would not cause any feud to NPC with any standpoints.
Rebellious and Selfish option will bring you more benefit, but also easily to cause feud and more trouble in your relationship chain.

1. When character choices an option which doesn’t satisfy his/her standpoint, the character’s standpoint will change slightly.
2. When character choices an option which doesn’t satisfy his/her standpoint, the character’s mood will decrease a lot.
3. When character choices an option which doesn’t satisfy his/her standpoint, the character is more vulnerable to be evil, or even more to get demon.
4. When character choices an option which doesn’t consistent with his/her standpoint, the character’s mood will increase.

3. Gender, Appearance and Age (性别相貌年龄)

3.1 Gender(性别)

Gender affects what sects you can join for learning their Kungfu.
Gender sometimes brings your character additional feature. For example, female character would get pregnant then acquire “inflexibility”.

Player could date, propose and marry any gender (heterosexual or homosexual).

Transgender (actually in Chinese version, ‘男生女相/女生男相’ means ‘A man with female appearance/ A woman with male appearance). Characters with transgender feature would be treated according to their appearance, not their natural sex. Moreover, transgender can join into heterosexual sect. However, their natural sexual function is consistent with original one.

3.1 Appearance(相貌)

Character’s fascination (in ascending order):

Fascination/charm is largely determined by appearance. Character with high fascination is probably getting high favorability at the first seen with NPC

In this game, there are some Kungfu affected by your appearance.

The final judgment of appearance would be slightly different even though you use the same profile.

3.3年龄与出生时节 (3.3 Age and Birthday)

The age of ‘Taiwu I’ could be set ranging from 16 to 30 years old.

Taiwu gets 30 action points per month when he is at age 15 to 39, and 20AP in otherwise cases.
Your birthday directly affects your stats.

4. Talent (出身特质)

Character’s stats are randomly assigned in given intervals.
You have 10 Talent points to acquire extra talents from Experience, Wealth and Artistry classes. The talents offer you corresponding advantage.

经历 Experience

锋从磨砺-Sharping your sword: Increase your Muscle to at least 90. Experience precondition: 0, cost 1 TP.

迅由危亡--Alert the danger: Increase your agility to at least 90. Experience precondition: 0, cost 1 TP.

香自苦寒--Success from self-discipline and abstention: Increase your determination to at least 90. Experience precondition: 1, cost 1 TP.

纯凭自然--Natural: Increase your Vitality to at least 90. Experience precondition: 1, cost 1 TP.

形因境变--Adjusting according environment change: Increase your Strength to at least 90. Experience precondition: 2, cost 1 TP.

意随心寂--Inspired by solitude: Increase your Comprehension to at least 90. Experience precondition: 2, cost 1 TP.

谷中密友--A friend met in homeland: You have a childhood friend without negative feature. Your friendship is faithful but his/her stats and appearance are randomly assigned. Experience precondition: 3, cost 2 TP.

梦境中人--Narcissus in dream: Increase your Fascination to at least Longzi/Fengyi. Experience precondition: 3, cost 2 TP.

白额灵蛇--White forehead snake: You have one extra pure spirit. One pure spirit increase 50% of Punch and Pierce while attacking and 20% Block and Airbender while defense. Experience precondition: 5, cost 3 TP.

服芝食玉-Eaten Ganoderma and Jade: Character has no negative feature when you create it. Experience precondition: 5, cost 3 TP.

财富 Wealth

东搜西罗--Collection: You have resource boxes of food, wood, stone, fabric and herb. Wealth precondition 0, cost 1 TP.

十枚碎金--Ten pieces of gold: Your initial money becomes 10000. Wealth precondition 0, cost 1 TP.

褓衣似锦--Brocade Swaddle: You acquire Grade 5 cloth. Wealth precondition 1, cost 1 TP.

桂酒椒浆--Wine: You have some wine in Grade 4 to 6. Wealth precondition 1, cost 1 TP.

驰马试剑--Horse: You have a Grade 5 horse. Wealth precondition 2, cost 1 TP.

泥封古罐--Mud sealed ancient pot: You have a Grade 4 Cricket pot. Wealth precondition 2, cost 1 TP.

怪窟诡物--Weird stuff from strange cave: You have some Grade 4 poison. Wealth precondition 3, cost 2 TP.

灰炉遗药--Drug in Alchemy Furnace: You have some Grade 4 drug. Wealth precondition 3, cost 2 TP.

家传宝物--Family treasure: You have a random God Grade 1 treasure. Wealth precondition 5, cost 3 TP.

盛世集录--Collection of prosperity The building upper limit increases 10. Wealth precondition 5, cost 3 TP.

技艺 Artistry

琴棋书画--Literature: Increase your talent of Music, Playing Go, Poetry and Painting. Artistry precondition 0, cost 1 TP.

一任自然--Follow the call from nature: Increase your talent of Buddhism, Taoism, Appreciation and Cooking. Artistry precondition 0, cost 1 TP.

医相星卜--Astrology and Witchery: Increase your talent of Medicine, Toxicology, Mathematics and Miscellaneous Knowledge. Artistry precondition 1, cost 1 TP.

天工开物--Creator: Increase your talent of Smithing, Carpentry, Crafting and Weaving. Artistry precondition 1, cost 1 TP.

璞玉韬光--Increase your Success rate of breakthrough the barrier of Artistry. +20 points on Stamina, inheritable. Artistry precondition 2, cost 1 TP.

神锋敛彩--Increase your Success rate of breakthrough the barrier of Skills. +20 points on Stamina, inheritable. Artistry precondition 2, cost 1 TP.

天材地宝--Treasure from nature: Acquire Grade 3 Raw Material Artistry precondition 3, cost 2 TP

先利其器--Prepare your tools: Acquire 3 random Grade 4 tools and corresponding raw material. Artistry precondition 3, cost 2 TP

天人造化--Increase your talent of Force, and Stunt. Artistry precondition 5, cost 3 TP

古冢遗刻--Ancient Grave: Acquire one scripture and one secret book. Artistry precondition 5, cost 3 TP

5. Homeland (出生地区)

The homeland determines the location of Taiwu village and slightly affects character’s stats according to the local sect. Tips: It’s a good idea to check the skills and their requirement before you choose your master. Plan your skills tree and path to optimize your choice.

Click this button to preview learnable skills from sect. Press alt to check the precondition of the skill.

Terrain affects the resource distribution in your village.

Flatland: more fertilized farmland, average distribution

Mountain: more mine, dragon mine and spirit mine.

Forest: more thickets and jungles

Lake: more water, mysterious snake caves, poisonous marshes

Beach: more water and bonfire

Snow mountain: more gems and herbs

6. World Detail (世界细节 )

You can change the difficulty in this page. Once you start your game, passing your sword handle (your character dies then transmits abilities to inheritor) is the only way to change the difficulty.
Lifetime: determine all people’s lifetime in this world.

Difficulty of fight: Determine enemies’ stats and AI. Very Hard and Must Die are intitially locked.


Quantity of enemies: The amount of enemies gangster and exiles.

Rate of Invasion: the Xiangshu in Grave of Sword will attack Taiwu Village when it counts down to zero. Once the Taiwu Village is ruined, GAME OVER. Stop = No attack, Very Quick = 12 month countdown.

World situation: it affects resources abundance and recover rate. Recommend starting from Heaven.

Random inheritor: If you don’t have companions, Taiwu would randomly pick an inherior when he/she dies. Strongly recommend to Turn On in case any accident.

Click the scroll on right bottom to create your character then start a new game.

7. The Prologue

The initial dialogue with the adoptive father will also affect the characters.


Father: And for the form ‘Conversely beating as rocking sky ’ from Kongsang Sect – According to its rhyme, ‘Feet to up and head to down, Converse your body upside down’, the gist is not on your strength but your unpredictable action. You attack your enemies at the moment they’re not prepared. It’s not an excellent martial skill even though this trick works sometimes.

Me: (1). Father, you have nattered all martial skills (fighting style?) in all sects and all families. You just let me practice the ordinary Taizu’s Long Fist.


Father:Hey… Silly boy, you know nothing! Practice the boxing style before practice Qigong. Taizu’s Long Fist is the ‘Mother of All Boxing Style’. It is simple but the best way to practice basic skills.

Me:
(1) Ok………I will practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’ because you said that.---- (Proficiency of ‘Taizu’ = 75%, Proficiency of Little Leap Skill= 25%)
(2) You said ‘It is simple.’ Didn’t you mean it is not an excellent martial skill? ---- (Proficiency of ‘Taizu’ = 25%, Proficiency of Little Leap Skill= 75%)
(3) But I don’t like practicing martial arts. ---- (Proficiency of ‘Taizu’ = 25%, Proficiency of Little Leap Skill= 25%, largely increase your talent of Artistry)
(4) (Keep silent) ---- (Proficiency of ‘Taizu’ = 50%, Proficiency of Little Leap Skill= 50%)
[Tips] Option (1),(2) and (4) will go to next picture. Only (3) goes to the first picture in The Prologue 2.


Father: HaHa! Young boy. You are doubting and arguing to me. Let me ask you, what is so called excellent martial skill?
Me:
(1) You always said, Shaolin Kung Fu is the best in the world. There are The 72 Secret Arts in Shaolin Temple. They should be the most excellent martial skills since they’re secret.
(2) I think the most excellent martial skill must be graceful.
(3) Wudang is the orthodox of internal martial arts. You have said that Tai Chi Quan (Taijiquan) defeats quickness by slowness and uses softness to resist violent force. I think it must be the Truth of martial arts.
(4) Throwing needle/stone and casting hidden weapon can beat enemies from a hundred feet away. It must be most excellent martial skill.
(5) It is common to kill people by martial skills. But the marvelous martial art is turning a death to life
(6) There are fangs in snakes’ mouth and there are stings on bees. If one wants to defeat his enemy, he must use poison.
(7) Monsters, Ghost and Qimen Dunjia are unexpected skills that cannot be defended by mortal.
(8) I think the Truth of martial arts is unpredictability.
(9) I…..I don’t know.



Father: Shaolin Monks are good at martial arts. They have always pursued the philosophy of the unification of Chan and Quan. Therefore, practicing Shaolin Forms requires starting from the basic skills. It’s not that useful for the general public. But I have practiced the Shaolin Six Staff Style when I was youth.
(1) Please teach me the Shaolin Six Staff Style.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.


Father: Silly boy, the purpose of practicing martial arts is killing people. The graceful style is useless. However, there is an elegant and powerful martial forms, for example, the Unique Mystery Style in Xuannyu Sect.
(1) Please teach me the Unique Mystery Style.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.

Father: Hey, it is true. But the Wudang Fist Forms focus on the use of "soft and gentle" techniques to overcome opponents who rely on brute strength and force. Do you know how hard it is? Compared to the fist style, the Wudang Swordplay is easier for beginner/novitiate.
(1) Please teach me the Wudang Swordplay.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.

Father: Jieqing Family is the Number 1 on using hidden weapons. But there is no good guy in Jieqing School. You may have to battle them if you meet them in the future.
Fine. If you know the Jieqing 10 Knacks well, you can protect yourself from them.
(1) Please teach me the Jieqing 10 Knacks.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.


Father: How can a mortal determine another to be dead or alive? The medicine can save lives but sometimes kill them. For example, the Skill of Needles Control from Baihua Valley is originally used on rescue. but this skill can kill people without bleeding.
(1) Please teach me the Skill of Needles Control.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.

Father: Bulls**t! How can you compare the martial arts with insects and reptiles! Although your father knows the Voodoo technique from Wudu School in Miao area, I must not teach you this cuz’ you are novitiate. But you just remind me something about the martial arts in the Wudu School. The Yellow Scale Whip Style, inherited by Wudu students, is safe for you to learn
(1) Please teach me the Yellow Scale Whip Style.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.

Father: I have never believed there is Ghost or Demon. But it seems to make sense that the theory of Qimen Dunjia and Yin Yang… If you interest in these stuff, I can teach you the Bagua(Eight Trigram) Five Elements Saber Style.
(1) Please teach me the Bagua(Eight Trigram) Five Elements Saber Style.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.

Father: It is wonderful that ‘we attack our enemies’ important parts and prevent them from protection. Also we defense them by preparing well so that they have to hit our strongest parts’! It somehow makes sense but that’s not the final stage of martial arts. But your word remind me the Five Elements Daggers in Emei Sect.
(1) Please teach me the Five Elements Daggers.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.

Father: Hey silly boy. Even though there are thousands of martial styles in this world, the fundamental of Kung Fu is the practice of the internal Qigong. If your internal Qigong has been trained well, you can create miracle. The martial styles like ditches driving water. The ditches can direct the water only if there is water in ditches. If there is no ‘water’, your martial styles are useless. But if your internal Qigong is abundant like sea water covering the whole land, you don’t need to make ditches anymore. When I was young, I have developed a set of exercises, Peiran Rhythm, to enhance the internal Qigong.
(1) Please teach me the Peiran Rhythm.
(2) Wait…Let me think about it.
(3) I would like to practice the ‘Taizu’s Long Fist’.

Father: Boy. After I have done the Important Thing, I will teach you all I have learned. But….
(1) Father frequently mentioned the Important Thing but has never told me what it is.

7. The Prologue 2

Father: Silly boy, you will get insulted by your enemies if you don’t practice the martial arts. Do you think it is free outside as here?
(1) (刚正 Justice) Everyone will get their Final Judgments. If the bad guys insult me, they must get punishment in future from others.
(2) (仁善 Benevolent) Forgiveness is A Virtue. If you can make the bad guy regretted, it must be better than kill him.
(3) (中庸 Moderation) It’s hard to judge anything or anyone in this world. And it’s not needed to identify everyone.
(4) (叛逆 Rebellious) I don’t like the martial arts exercise. There must be another way to protect myself.
(5) (唯我 Selfish) You’re right. Being stronger than everyone is the only way to avoid insult.


Father: The world is unpredictable. Not all the bad guys get punishment, nor all the good men get awarded. (Sigh)…It’s hard to judge good or bad.
(1) I will listen to you.
(2) (Keep silent)

Father: This is so called “Qian Tou Wan Xyu”, which means I cannot explain it clearly. So I give it up. By the way, could you catch some crickets for me after you have finished your work?
(1) Crickets? What do you want for crickets? I’m busy on fixing the broken wooden cart. I don’t have time on playing with you.

Father: The Big Nose Taoist priest has a powerful ‘Jade Tail’. Ops…I just play it for fun! It is reasonable to ask you to catch crickets. Do it quickly!
(1) You have a duel with people from outside of valley.

Me: I don’t understand my father now. He asked me catching many snails last month. And he asks me to catch crickets. The wooden cart has been broken for long time but he doesn’t care it. Does he get in trouble by something?
(1) The broken wooden cart.
(2) Catching crickets for father.
(3) Anyway. I will catch some crickets for my father after I have fixed the broken wooden cart.

Me: I have parked the broken wooden cart in the storeroom in the bamboo house. There are tools and material. It should be easy to fix the broken cart like a new one.
(1) Catching crickets for father.
(2) Anyway. I will catch some crickets for my father after I have fixed the broken wooden cart.

Me: Before I came here with adoptive father, I played the crickets game with my friends in the same village. We called these funny insects ‘QuQu’. They are sooo aggressive and combative although they’re small. Em….It’s Autumn Begins now. There are crickets everywhere. However, it is not easy to catch outstanding crickets. Where I can find them in this valley?
(1) Anyway. I will catch some crickets for my father after I have fixed the broken wooden cart.

8. Interface

9. Map and Maze

In the Map, you can move to 4 direction (Up, Down, Left, Right) by double clicking nearby grid or using keyboard "W, S, A, D" or "Up, Down, Left, Right".
You can explore the maze in the grid with the purple event icon.

Seven Symbols Puzzle
Father has mentioned the Seven Symbols corresponding to seven properties of human – Intelligence, Delicate, Calmness, Braveness, Stamina, Swimming and Fortune. You will get enlightenment after played this puzzle.


Required Item: None
The ‘-1’ means it costs you 1 Action Point for exploring this area.

Why there is a Seven Symbols Puzzle here? I have heard the benefit of playing puzzle but have never met it before. It looks like a new paint. Could it be made currently by my father?
(1) What are seven symbols?
(2) How can I explore this area?
(3) Explore here.

Father said human’s temperament can be summarized to 5 words: Intelligence, Delicate, Calmness, Stamina and Braveness. Combined with the ‘Swimming’ representing earth and Fortune representing sky, those seven factors are the Seven Symbols! The Seven Symbols are the primary factors for one’s life. For that reason, the Puzzle of Seven Symbols helps you understanding those seven factors. (During exploration, your direction and path are decided by the number of your Seven Symbols.)
(1) How can I explore this area?
(2) Explore here.

There are a lot of bypasses in this maze. I will meet impediment when I make each step. Therefore, I must be cautious and solve all problems by using my skills and knowledge!
(1) Explore here.

Crickets Are Chirping
Here is very silent except the chirp from crickets. The proverb is saying “The King of Insect is coming, animals in hundred miles keep silence”. If there is King of Insect, you cannot hear noise in its hundred miles surrounding. Maybe we can find some rare crickets here.

You need an insect net for this maze.

You leaned your body and followed the insect chirp to here. The sound from crickets is close so you hear it extremely clearly. You’re almost catching a cricket.
(1) Here it is!! I have to hold my breath and wait the perfect time to catch it.

Red Teeth

10. Crafting and Repair

Stand on the grid with Bamboo House and click the Enter Building button; you will go to the construction and manufacture mode. This mode is a squared gridded area with resources and functional building. (Shown below) Player can assign your human resource to construct functional building or collect special resources.

Click the Bamboo House then open your storeroom.


Draw a bunch of wood, carpentry tools and the single wheel wooden cart to your bag.

Open your item panel.
Draw the bunch of wood to the resource area.

Go back to bamboo house and use carpentry function.
The default panel is manufacture interface. You can make wooden weapon/equipment here. If you use Blacksmith shop, you can make iron item.


Click the second button on top-left to switch to repair interface.

Put the tools and wooden cart to right place.
One point of contribution increases one point of durability meanwhile cost some wooden resource.

RH has repaired the broken wooden cart. And he found lost [item name] in his cart when he repaired it.
(1). It was left here.

Open the equipment interface then equip (draw) your weapon and wooden cart. When you hold your item, the suitable area will be highlighted.

Appendix

I made a translation table[docs.google.com] for martial arts and crickets.

[kind_person_online]

well done, bro!

[Sam]

Just like i thought. its way too hard to translate this game.

XD I guess people who cant do mandarin can use this play a bit. But it gonna take so much time to get it right...

[PCG]

clear and bright。。。

[一堆小碎骨]

不说了，茄子需要你。

[FrigidMoon]

@F ve 用Egotistical不是更好么

[无聊]

我觉得茄子需要你~~~好厉害 ，，少年！！

[liyeming1988]

得有一个地方专门讨论英化啊，看了很多招式翻译都不太准确。

[--HoriZon--]

太长了就看了几页，但是觉得有一些建议要提一哈。

我觉得用词一定要慎重，虽然可以理解翻译难度在这里摆着，但再做决定的时候务必考虑清楚。起码要一个团队开个会一致通过比较好。比如“唯我”翻译为selfish感觉不准确也不灵性，self-centered比这个还稍微清楚一些，或者能研究清楚的话干脆用那个什么ism的单词，好像是唯我论的意思。

最大的建议还是以意译为主，不一定非要翻译出对应的单词，反而显得粗糙。

btw，条件允许的情况下，制作组还是要考虑外聘一波翻译组，这个工程实在是太大，而且难度也太大了。有英文文学及环境背景的人很重要，能创造或者提供出许多准确又不四板的英文。这不是第二语言的人能做到的。

加油

[Draco]

大佬

[meteorlxy]

瑶碧好像写成了Biyao