Study and reconstruct the principles of her sign language

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From: The Resident Gravetender


A little biology, a dash of epistemology, a healthy dose of linguistics and a heaping spoonful of intuition.

Unlocked with Beneath the Utmost Grave exactly 1


Challenge information

Narrow, Shapeling Arts 13 (50% base)

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

Each point of Mithridacy adds 1 point of Shapeling Arts.

Success

Words in common

Myriad layers of redundancy exist here: many axes transmitting the same thoughts. The Starved cannot rely upon their interlocutors' bodies being congruent with their own, […]

[…] working completely in silence – you establish a conversational vocabulary.

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Failure

Elusive

Where is the meaning found? In the shape of her palms, or the distance between them? In the arrangements of her fingers[…]?

There are too many variables, too many possible bodies, too many possible truths. […] Worse still, she is so kind about it.

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