Practise the Unspoken Languages

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From: Deceased Languages (Storylet)


A collective term for the disused, forbidden and speculated dialects of the hinterlands.

Unlocked with Lead: Ancient Languages 401-403

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Narrow, Mithridacy 10 (50% base)

  • 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 7 - high-risk (20%)
  • 8 - high-risk (30%)
  • 9 - tough (40%)
  • 10 - very chancy (50%)
  • 11 - chancy (60%)
  • 12 - modest (70%)
  • 13 - very modest (80%)
  • 14 - low-risk (90%)
  • 15 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

The words of Hell

Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of Lead: Ancient Languages.

Lead: LanguagesDescription
402The waterways of Jericho Locks are alive with the merry cadences of the Gondoliers. It is a much less romantic thought, of course, when one understands what the words mean.
403There is a specific dialect of English spoken only at Crathie where the more English the word, the worse its invocation. To speak of tea and scones in that place is to invite a swift drubbing and then trussing up in the woods for the not-deer to find
404There are a hundred languages of the devils. Learning even one is an exhausting process. Luckily there is a comfortable chair in the Reading Room...

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]


Failure

Literary hazards

A minor fire erupts as you practice from a decaying glossary. It does suggest a commonality between one of the languages and the hazardous Correspondence, but also, alas, takes out an entire shelf before it dies.