Translator's Work is Dark and Full of Terrors [EE2]

[Sharn]

[Strange Charm, Closed]

Sharn got back to applying the discovered pattern to the rest of the text, isolated in his room, his holoboard for notes active.

[Ender]

Working from what you had learned, you began to fill in words from your cipher. Grammar was still an issue to figure out, but you were beginning to learn things.

A calender, rudimentary, but it was very apparent as to what it was. Notes of lunar and solar rotations in relation the area around the 'Gate'.

What was unusual, though, was the lack of knowledge about the voice in your head. As if it was deliberately omitted.

[Sharn]

If there was calendar, there was dating. He wanted to get the dating, and the geolocation if possible, so he started calculating...

EE2. Superior Astrodating.: 2eP+3eA+3eD+1eS 0 successes, 1 advantage


...and couldn't get over one garbled sentence! Infuriating.

[Ender]

The book was old. Old enough to show that it has been well taken care of over the years. Old enough that whoever had done the caretaking, had rebound and preserved the book.

[Sharn]

So it was a tome that held value for many generations...

Sharn was exhausted and unnerved. He decided for a change of pace and went out of his room to repair the freighter's systems.

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