Converse with devils
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From: Deceased Languages
If anyone knows the old languages of the hinterlands it is they. Care is required, however, for some secrets are guarded zealously.
Unlocked with 
Lead: Ancient Languages 430-433
Locked with 
Librarian's Progress 200
Challenge information
Narrow, 
Mithridacy 11 (50% base)
- 7 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 8 - high-risk (20%)
- 9 - high-risk (30%)
- 10 - tough (40%)
- 11 - very chancy (50%)
- 12 - chancy (60%)
- 13 - modest (70%)
- 14 - very modest (80%)
- 15 - low-risk (90%)
- 16 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Hidden tongues
Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of 
Lead: Ancient Languages.
| Lead: Languages | Description |
|---|---|
| 431 | Hours of research and practice […] are required, but at last you think you have it. You ride out to the walls of Marigold Station and sing […]. You can hear silver bells in the distance […] – and then at last, the sound of a dozen voices taking up the chorus. […] |
| 432 | The Keeper of the Menagerie at Balmoral […] finds it improbable that any language was ever spoken but that of the Fallen Cities or Hell's own […] Her fervency draws attention to her omissions, which you must only conclude are deliberate. |
| 433 | A silver-eyed devil visits you […] he hums slightly, swaying upon his silver spurs. He carefully does not tell you of the songs of the Brazen Brigade, nor from where they originate, nor what will happen if sung on a cold night above certain graves. |
| 434 | An anonymous scholar from the Celebration of the Sacrifice […] the location of a particular tributary of the Waswood, upon which one can hear sometimes the echoes of a unique dialect. Its resemblance to London military slang is surely only coincidental. |
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You've gained 41 x Librarian's Progress
You've gained 1 x Lead: Ancient Languages
You have a lead in the Liminal Studies section of the library. (Sets 
Lead: Liminality to 430, if below 401)
You have a lead in the Partial Historiography section of the library. (Sets 
Lead: Partial Historiography to 430, if below 401)
You have a lead in the Unanticipated Ecologies section of the library. (Sets 
Lead: Ecology to 430, if below 401)
Failure
Antiphonals
An esteemed huntress from the Perfection offers a soiree in your library. […] When you come to your senses days later in a puddle of wine and mixed blood, your limbs still twitch in sympathy with the echoing vibrations of that infernal concerto. […]
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Nightmares is increasing… (+5 CP)
