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====== Translate Writing ======
{{tag>activity exploration}}

You attempt to decipher and translate text written in a language you do not fluently speak, or to decode a ciphered message.

**Time Required:**
  * One sentence: standard action
  * One paragraph: 1 minute
  * One page of text: 5 minutes

**Roll+EDU** to translate the selected text. You gain favour if you have access to a relevant lexicon or partial key. You suffer slight if the text is archaic, damaged, or intentionally obscure.

  * **Complete Success**:  The translation is perfect. You capture subtle nuances, wordplay, and implications that might be missed in an ordinary translation.
  * **Success**:  The translation is accurate. You understand the literal meaning of the text without any significant errors.
  * **Partial Success**:  The translation is rough. You get the general gist of the message, but specific names, dates, or technical details remain unclear.
  * **Failure**:  The text remains indecipherable to you. You cannot attempt to translate this specific passage again until your knowledge increases.
  * **Complete Failure**:  You confidently misinterpret the text, deriving a meaning that is completely wrong or dangerously misleading.

=== Increasing Knowledge ===

Your knowledge is considered to have increased, for purposes of trying to translate a piece of text, when any of the following occur:
  * You gain access to an additional sample of the script, that contains different information;
  * You have access to a library, if you did not have such on your first attempt;
  * You gain a level.