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|Success description = [See tables below]
 
|Success description = [See tables below]
 
|Success summary = The first paragraph varies depending on if you're a {{IL|Midnighter}} or not. The second paragraph varies based on your {{IL|Intercepted Document}}.
 
|Success summary = The first paragraph varies depending on if you're a {{IL|Midnighter}} or not. The second paragraph varies based on your {{IL|Intercepted Document}}.
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{{Variant table
 
{{Variant table
 
|Condition = Midnighter|Condition alias= Midnighter?|Effect = First Paragraph|Condition type = Text
 
|Condition = Midnighter|Condition alias= Midnighter?|Effect = First Paragraph|Condition type = Text
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|Effect 1 = A mind cleansed with irriginous rites is like a freshly washed slate, free of distracting marks. This now works to your advantage.
 
|Effect 1 = A mind cleansed with irriginous rites is like a freshly washed slate, free of distracting marks. This now works to your advantage.
 
|Value 2 = No
 
|Value 2 = No
|Effect 2 = The more you know about the documents you decipher, the more easily the solution comes. You now recall everything you have ever known about the circumstances in which a letter like this might be written.}}
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|Effect 2 = The more you know about the documents you decipher, the more easily the solution comes. You now recall everything you have ever known about the circumstances in which a letter like this might be written.
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{{Variant table
 
{{Variant table
 
|Condition = Intercepted Document|Condition alias = Document|Effect = Second Paragraph|Condition type = Text|Compact = yes
 
|Condition = Intercepted Document|Condition alias = Document|Effect = Second Paragraph|Condition type = Text|Compact = yes
|Value {{Intercepted Document|1-5, 7-10}}, {{Intercepted Document|40}} = The story of this letter becomes suddenly evident to you. It's a common story – you recognise the circumstances and the likely players. […] this correspondence is too simple to deserve the attention of an expert like you.
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|Value {{Intercepted Document|1-5, 7-10}} = The story of this letter becomes suddenly evident to you. It's a common story – you recognise the circumstances and the likely players. […] this correspondence is too simple to deserve the attention of an expert like you.
 
|Value {{Intercepted Document|6}} = The story of this letter becomes suddenly evident to you. It's a common story – you recognise the circumstances and the likely players. An entire paragraph of protestations resolves itself under your gaze.
 
|Value {{Intercepted Document|6}} = The story of this letter becomes suddenly evident to you. It's a common story – you recognise the circumstances and the likely players. An entire paragraph of protestations resolves itself under your gaze.
 
|Value {{Intercepted Document|11}} = The letter becomes significantly clearer when you realise that it uses the language of a Surface industrialist; it is filled with the idioms of business and the particular concerns of Surface commercial law.
 
|Value {{Intercepted Document|11}} = The letter becomes significantly clearer when you realise that it uses the language of a Surface industrialist; it is filled with the idioms of business and the particular concerns of Surface commercial law.
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|Value {{Intercepted Document|21}} = It is difficult going, this text. It is full of Infernal idioms and evasive language. And if you're not mistaken, the rose-scent of the paper is part of the message.
 
|Value {{Intercepted Document|21}} = It is difficult going, this text. It is full of Infernal idioms and evasive language. And if you're not mistaken, the rose-scent of the paper is part of the message.
 
|Value {{Intercepted Document|22}} = The breakthrough comes when you think to try another chemical developer, one that turns its invisible ink the colour of rusted blood.
 
|Value {{Intercepted Document|22}} = The breakthrough comes when you think to try another chemical developer, one that turns its invisible ink the colour of rusted blood.
|Value {{Intercepted Document|30}} = You realise that this is […] built like a nesting doll of ciphers, each encoding the keys to the next as well as a series of rotating fragments of the plain text, which have to be assembled in an order that is itself encoded by one of the ciphers.}}}}
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|Value {{Intercepted Document|30}} = You realise that this is […] built like a nesting doll of ciphers, each encoding the keys to the next as well as a series of rotating fragments of the plain text, which have to be assembled in an order that is itself encoded by one of the ciphers.
* {{Success Increase|Watchful}}
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}}
* {{Gain|Deciphering...|+7 CP, or +9 CP with {{Use|Shrine to Saint Joshua|Type=Math}}}}
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* {{Airs|The Airs of London}}
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*{{Success Increase|Watchful}}
* {{Airs|Airs of Balmoral}}
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*{{Gain|Deciphering...|+7 CP, or +9 CP with {{Use|Shrine to Saint Joshua|Type=Math}}}}
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*{{Airs|The Airs of London}}
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*{{Airs|Airs of Balmoral}}
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{{Rare Success
 
{{Rare Success
 
|Rare Success title = A leap of insight!
 
|Rare Success title = A leap of insight!
 
|Rare Success description = [See tables above]
 
|Rare Success description = [See tables above]
This page suddenly has far fewer secrets than it did.}}
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This page suddenly has far fewer secrets than it did.
* {{Success Increase|Watchful}}
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}}
* {{Gain|Deciphering...|+10 CP, or +15 CP with {{Use|Shrine to Saint Joshua|Type=Math}}}}
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*{{Success Increase|Watchful}}
* {{Airs|The Airs of London}}
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*{{Gain|Deciphering...|+10 CP, or +15 CP with {{Use|Shrine to Saint Joshua|Type=Math}}}}
* {{Airs|Airs of Balmoral}}
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*{{Airs|The Airs of London}}
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*{{Airs|Airs of Balmoral}}
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{{Failure
 
{{Failure
 
|Failure title = Unfortunate error
 
|Failure title = Unfortunate error
|Failure description = For a moment, you think you can make sense of a whole paragraph – you have almost grasped the matter […] But... no. Two, perhaps three words in a row work out to English, but then what follows is a string of nonsense. […]}}
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|Failure description = For a moment, you think you can make sense of a whole paragraph – you have almost grasped the matter […] But... no. Two, perhaps three words in a row work out to English, but then what follows is a string of nonsense. […]
* {{Failure Increase|Watchful}}
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}}
* {{Gain|Nightmares|+3 CP}}
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*{{Failure Increase|Watchful}}
* {{Loss|Deciphering...|-3 CP}}
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*{{Gain|Nightmares|+3 CP}}
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*{{Drop|Deciphering...|-3 CP}}

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