A bold and original plan

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From: Investigating the Stones: Conclusion


Your philologist friend thinks he can find out more by placing the Correspondence Stones on his chest as he sleeps. Will you let him?


Challenge information

Narrow, Investigating... 7 (50% base)

  • 5 - high-risk (30%)
  • 6 - tough (40%)
  • 7 - very chancy (50%)
  • 8 - chancy (60%)
  • 9 - modest (70%)
  • 10 - very modest (80%)
  • 11 - low-risk (90%)
  • 12 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

The language of where?

[…] he leaps up, his hair on fire, screaming […] tell you that the language is known as the Correspondence, […]. This one represents a span of time more than four million years. […] His hair bursts into flames again […]

Description summary:
The language is known as the Correspondence and its symbols are written on the Bazaar. Each symbol has a strange and quite specific meaning. Oh, and it tends to set people on fire.

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Failure

The screams! The screams!

[…] He sleeps for no more than a minute before he leaps up, his hair on fire, screaming. […] His eyes are wild with fear as the fire consumes him. The image of the man burning and screaming may never leave you.

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