# WTF is the girl saying in Tribez : "\ \ please the chief"? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 24, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617 "2014-01-24T15:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/1 "2014-01-24T15:51:26Z")
The Tribez is a city building game that I play on my Android tablet (although it’s also on iOS and Facebook). You tap stuff, and an NPC “Aurora” says stuff. One of the canned responses is driving me nuts, because I cannot figure out what she’s saying. It ends (I think) in “please the chief”. It kinda sounds like “The inhabitants try to please the chief”, but not exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/2 "2014-01-27T14:31:52Z")
It could be that the mystery phrase ends in “BE the chief”, like “You might actually be the chief!” since I think the girl is supposed be evaluating you to be the chief that was prophesied. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/3 "2014-01-30T14:15:00Z")
So is it that fewer people than I thought play the game, or is it that I have misunderstood her her so badly that no one knows wtf I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/4 "2014-01-30T19:44:24Z")
I haven’t played the game, but it looks like there’s a lot of gameplay videos on YouTube. Maybe you can find one that has the line you’re wondering about, and link to it? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/5 "2014-01-31T00:07:44Z")
What an excellent idea! Here’s a link to one at the exact time she says it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dVQLhnIF0Jw/hqdefault.jpg "The Tribez - gameplay") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVQLhnIF0Jw) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/6 "2014-01-31T00:12:03Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > It kinda sounds like “The inhabitants try to please the chief”, but not exactly. That’s how I heard it too. Kinda but not exactly that. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/7 "2014-01-31T02:21:48Z")
Sounds to me like a bad audio edit — she gets cut off mid-syllable in the word that sounds kind of like “inhabitant,” and the “try to please the chief” part immediately comes in in a really stilted manner. I’m going to go with someone mucked up the sound file, and it didn’t get caught before launch. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/8 "2014-02-01T02:08:08Z")
Unfortunately, since I’ve read your possible interpretation, I can’t hear it as anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-the-girl-saying-in-tribez-something-something-please-the-chief/679617/9 "2014-02-02T00:34:21Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Unfortunately, since I’ve read your possible interpretation, I can’t hear it as anything else. Yes, I realize that’s pretty much squashed any chance of getting the answer. Oh well.