Sasquatch, questions about lang. Options

[blakmetalmedik]

Hey dumpshock.

One of my players recently requested to play a sasquatch, now I am pretty open as far as playing what you want as long as I don't detect munchkinism. So, with my blessing the player in question started work on his sasquatch shaman. Now he came to me with something I can't for the life of me figure out.

Sasquatch apparently can not speak/understand spoken language. The text mentions that there a free programs that work with linguisofts in order for him to use sign language and for spoken words to come out of his 'link, and listen to peoples words and show them as sign in a AR display. which is fine. The expliation they give is that for some reason or another they cannot comprehend spoken lang. as a form of communication.

But then however, when you look at the Mimicry ability that they have things get weird. It says that they use this power to communicate over long distances when hunting/tracking prey. It says they can mimic almost any natural sound to a cougars mating call to speech. That last part has me confused. Apparently they can use mimicry to mimics someones voice and speak. But that contridicts what was said before.

Has anyone ever ran into/resolved this issue?


EDIT: In case someone needs/wants to know the Info for playable Sasquatch are in the runners companion. I think they are described in pages 65 and 84. those may be wrong however