(1406)(AFD) Translation contest

[Samaritan]

  nocando

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-06-30 08:31:59		[04] Bishop rolls 4 to translate into Atlantean (Int 2 + Academics 2) (10 Again)		1, 2, 1, 6		failure
2014-06-30 08:31:59		[03] Bishop rolls 4 to translate into Atlantean (Int 2 + Academics 2) (10 Again)		3, 1, 10, 7, 4		1 success
2014-06-30 08:31:59		[02] Bishop rolls 4 to translate into Atlantean (Int 2 + Academics 2) (10 Again)		3, 1, 4, 9		1 success
2014-06-30 08:31:59		[01] Bishop rolls 4 to translate into Atlantean (Int 2 + Academics 2) (10 Again)		9, 1, 2, 8		2 successes

Bishop was exhausted. He had no more reserves and a throbbing headache was building behind his eyes. He tried to focus, but this time he was somehow distracted. He suddenly realised, that he had not eaten anything since he got here and maybe he was low on sugar. It was therefore no surprise...at least to him...of what had happened to his translation.

You are all going to cry. Only two serpents of you are here today and would be cooked in a big kettle. Every pan is scarce in this first faction. If we say it's hot, we need a goddamn plier. But the real chef is the man who fries even though it's rare. Some meals will be turned over at night in a minute in the fire, some take an hour, and for some it takes days. But the real chef never lets his fear of rare meat overpower his hunger, his sense of dignity to his tablemates, and his innate meathood.

[Sirith]

  4 rolls, 4th roll e-suxx

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-06-30 07:27:03		[04] Faith rolls 6 to Translation (Int+Academics) (10 Again)		1, 10, 10, 10, 6, 8, 7, 10, 10, 4, 1		6 successes
2014-06-30 07:27:03		[03] Faith rolls 6 to Translation (Int+Academics) (10 Again)		6, 8, 7, 2, 6, 9		2 successes
2014-06-30 07:27:03		[02] Faith rolls 6 to Translation (Int+Academics) (10 Again)		7, 6, 8, 3, 5, 4		1 success
2014-06-30 07:27:03		[01] Faith rolls 6 to Translation (Int+Academics) (10 Again)		6, 6, 4, 8, 2, 4		1 success

Faith didn't like how the translation contest was going. Speed as a main - and only - measurement of success? The First Talon looking like he barely understood what he read? Damn. If all Talons were like that...

The Thearch didn't know what worried her more - lack of tacticians and thinkers in the Order that relied on proper tactics now that the Consilium needed them or lack of teachers to teach young Talons in future.

I don't want to have to keep them on leash and tell them to smash things. I know most of them are completely green, but...

Maybe that's why the passage was going so slow at first. It was more crude in language and Faith had trouble finding truths and proper runes to reach the meaning. But in the last hour...

In the last hour she starts drawing.

It's grand. It's in simple runes, but those making the meaning more visible and grand, and the form more clear.

In just one hour, she gives Leo the paper with a wide smile of satisfaction.