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From: The Professor of Antiquarian Esquivalience


Scratches then silence. The academic melts into the fog. Marks on slate. A code.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 120

  • 82 - very chancy (41%)
  • 102 - chancy (51%)
  • 122 - modest (61%)
  • 142 - very modest (71%)
  • 162 - low-risk (81%)
  • 182 - straightforward (91%)
  • 200 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A tunnel?

Hieroglyphs, albeit simplified. A woman. The earth. The sun. The tunnels to the Surface, perhaps? You brush mossy earth over the marks as a trio of junior diplomats pass.


Failure

Perhaps not for you

Akkadian? The Professor was always a traditionalist. Something about longing, a key and a palace. A message for another.