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{{Variant table | {{Variant table | ||
|Condition = Intercepted Document|Condition alias = Document|Condition type = Text|Effect = Deciphering Description|Compact = yes | |Condition = Intercepted Document|Condition alias = Document|Condition type = Text|Effect = Deciphering Description|Compact = yes | ||
− | |Value {{Intercepted Document|1-10 | + | |Value {{Intercepted Document|1-10, 12}} = You cannot recoil from counting the number of semi-colons on each side of the page and subjecting them to cryptomathematical equations. |
|Value {{Intercepted Document|11}} = Letter frequencies must be tabulated; minor variations in letter height and ink shade must also be considered. Whoever wrote this document has mastered the Surface arts of deception, if not some of the wilder methods in the Neath. | |Value {{Intercepted Document|11}} = Letter frequencies must be tabulated; minor variations in letter height and ink shade must also be considered. Whoever wrote this document has mastered the Surface arts of deception, if not some of the wilder methods in the Neath. | ||
|Value {{Intercepted Document|21}} = The cipher makes use of both substitution and transposition, following the rules of certain Hellish dances. Just here, at the bottom of a paragraph, the letters swap round in a Petal Unfurling, which means you can next expect[…] the Decaying Promenade. | |Value {{Intercepted Document|21}} = The cipher makes use of both substitution and transposition, following the rules of certain Hellish dances. Just here, at the bottom of a paragraph, the letters swap round in a Petal Unfurling, which means you can next expect[…] the Decaying Promenade. | ||
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|Effect = Description | |Effect = Description | ||
|Condition type = Text | |Condition type = Text | ||
− | | | + | |Value 1 = 1 - 10 |
− | | | + | |Effect 1 = invokes a thing that crawls in the dark and seeks the Light-in-Exile. |
− | |Value | + | |Value 11 = 11 |
− | |Value | + | |Effect 11 = is a title, a title that has not yet been given to anyone: how best to translate it? Secretary-Overlord? Pope-Bureaucrat? Triplicate Overseer, Emperor of Reports? |
− | |Value | + | |Value 12 = 12 |
− | |Value | + | |Effect 12 = is cold on the page. Your eye goes fuzzy, as though the lens itself were freezing, just to look at that symbol. |
− | |Value | + | |Value 21 = 21 |
+ | |Effect 21 = invokes the rose and the marigold and the lily with the broken stem. It names the weeping of Hell, in Hell's own tongue. Forget it, forget it as fast as you can. | ||
+ | |Value 22 = 22 | ||
+ | |Effect 22 = invokes the death of kings and the slaughter of his people and the burning of their bodies, and the faces of the men who perform such deeds. Forget this, as fast as you can. | ||
+ | |Value 30 = 30 | ||
+ | |Effect 30 = is encodes the name of a Fourth City priest subjected to ''damnatio memoriae''. How the sender got it to stay on the page and not squirm away is a mystery. | ||
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*{{Failure Increase|Watchful}} | *{{Failure Increase|Watchful}} | ||
*{{Gain|Nightmares|+3 CP}} | *{{Gain|Nightmares|+3 CP}} |