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Your eyes are immediately drawn to one of the wooden blocks with the Glyphs done up on them, and in that instant, you make your decision to start with them. After all, for everything else, you are only going to be able to make educated guesses – with the Glyphs, assuming that you can Translate and Interpret them completely, there won't be any guesses, educated or otherwise. You will know exactly what that Glyph is capable of – and even better, depending on the extent that the wood block Glyphs are integrated into the Construct, you could end up learning quite a bit about the entire Assembly as well. But of course, all of this hinges on you being able to to make heads or tails of whatever has been Scrivened onto the wooden blocks … and there is a very real possibility that you won't be able to, even setting aside the added difficulty of having the Glyphs moving while you are trying to Translate and Interpret them.
You know that your father Scrivened these Glyphs – and you also know that he is 'lettered' in Languages that you don't even recognize, let alone Translate. Making things worse is that most Languages can be rendered in different Syntaces – and the interpretation of a Glyph in one Syntax can be dramatically different from the Interpretation of the same Glyph in another Syntax. Most cases the Language used is enough to suss out the correct Syntax, or the Language paired with other information about the Glyph – the sort of Ink, what it was Scrivened on – is enough to deduce the right answer. Sometimes the hand can be shown by the Interpretations, when using certain Syntax bears nonsensical or impractical results. Yet … there are times where the hand is never shown. It is possible to Scriven deliberately ambiguous and obtuse Glyphs – and there are cases where it is desirable to do so. Specifically when you want to avoid anyone else breaking, tampering with, or slaving the Glyph. To put it straight and simple, if the other party cannot understand the Glyph, then the odds of them undermining it without endangering themselves are not particularly good.
So, was your father concerned about interference with these Glyphs? Did he make them obtuse and ambiguous? Knowing full well how cautious he can be, you have a sinking feeling – completely unrelated to the continuing effects of the ranged remediation cast – that trying to make sense of these Glyphs will be as easy as pouring water uphill … but once you finally get a good look at one of the blocks, it turns out that you were wrong. For a start, you recognize the Language – it is the very first that you learned – but more than that, the correct Syntax is practically self-evident. You check a half-dozen of the other wooden blocks as they make their way up the chimney, embedded onto the presumed Conduit, but not only are they all just as easy to Translate and Interpret, they are all the exact same Glyph! A very straightforward Mitigator Glyph.
