The Babel Curse
The Babel Curse is one of the oldest and most feared curses in human history. Those placed under it loose all capacity of language. You cannot write or understand the written word (this includes typing and languages that don’t use letters), you may not speak or understand the spoken word, you cannot sign or understand sign, braille is meaningless, you cannot read lips. Any attempts to use any form will be gibberish to you or to whoever you are trying to communicate with. As you can imagine this is an incredibly isolating curse. It is often use as a prelude to an ambush, particularly against magic users and people with powers of persuasion.
How to beat it…
One can Cast Magic to disrupt the curse temporarily and gain back one aspect of your language abilities.
On a 10+ you gain the ability to done one of the following:
to speak or understand speech, writing or reading, sign or understand sign, read braille or read lips. Or gain two the above plus a glitch of your choice.
7-9 as usual.
6 or Less…who knows? You spread it somehow? Maybe all the words on paper near you turn to gibberish? Or everyone in the room loose speech for a few hours? Knock yourself out GM!
The only way to truly beat the Babel Curse is through a Big Magic Ritual.