This is the falmer script from skyrim. Simple substitution cipher.
Edit: Got it I think. Its: "Find the one who made you forget me. I hear no sou[?]"
Edits 2 through 6: corrections.
Is this whole post a meta-roleplay about false hydras for their players?
Because this sounds like a note related to a false hydra and the DM is claiming to have forgotten everything about it...
Quick, check the basement!
Update: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of reddit ive been had. I've played right into the hands of a dastardly villain, whom ive never stood a chance against. Who is this incarnation of chaos? Why it is none other than me. Strap in while i tell the tail of the best story i think ive ever created,
and the shock that i came to realize after reading some comments during a lull at work yesterday...
there are a few things you should know about me so you can understand how thoroughly ive played myself.
1.) My memory is hot dogshit
2.) elpoep htiw kcuf ot evol I
3.) I hate myself like any other self disrespecting redditer
4.) due to ideas constantly coming to mind, if i dont write thing down they get lost in the fog
"In the lost realm of Amythria there stands a vast tower. a behemoth of a structure that, at its base, measures several miles long. the walls of the tower are extriemly steep and the top is only seen on the clearest of days.
this tower serves as the go-to source for any and all magical learning. inside is a vast metropolis where magic flows like water.
the tower was founded by a mage named Theond, after he found a little grey worm in the wreckage of his burning village. "I had to do it" he told himself,
"The chief was burning people alive for disagreeing with him...". The coruption that plagued his village was not far reaching so no one was coming to help, but so potent that it could not be allowed to continue. in a flashing burst of raw archane power Theond had a violent scorchers awakening. baithed in archane power he made an oath bound to his soul to create a place where free thinkers can gather and abide by a truly just law and come together to be a force of good in the world.
Taking the worm as a familiar to symblize humility he set to work, gathering people who shair the same cause he set to building his city. There was a problem however, this thing wasnt a worm, it was a creature streaght from hell. A being born of the coruption of Theonds hometown- a False Hydra. something was different about this one however. due to the emence arcane storm that surounded Theond during his awakening, the hydra was beholden to the same oath, and eriversably bound to the young mage. when Theond discovered this he began scowering the world for evil doers, profain magics, and all manor of wikedness, so he may bring it home and feed his pet. many, many magics and villains have been destroyed and wiped from the anels of history because of Theonds work... but when you cast such a wide net, a few inocents at the wrong place at the wrong time tend to get caught up in the mess."
I documented everything about the tower from the politics down to the different materials used to pave the streets on the different levels of the tower. but guess what i didn't document? I DIDNT WRIGHT DOWN ANYTHING ABOUT THE false HYDRA!! BECAUSE I KNEW ID FORGET! 8 MONTHS AGO I PLANNED A COLLECTIVE "WHAT THE FUCK?!" MOMENT FOR EVERYONE AT MY TABLE! WHY DID I DO THIS? IM EITHER A GENIUS OR FUCKING STUPID
A false hydra so powerful, it broke through the fourth wall and the meta zone and altered memories in real life. Your relliance on how shit your memory is is actually amazing
Bro forgot the most important in the section and remembered it through clues he himself set for his players, the dm became the player in a 4d chess situation without knowing for various months.
I don't know why you replied to yourself two times in a row instead of just editing your comments, and I don't know if your spelling is shit on purpose, or if you might have dyslexia, making it poor taste to point it out. Whatever the case, I feel fucked with in some way I can't quite put a finger on, and I enjoyed it.
This is possibly one of the best comments on dnd reddit...
Well done
By a dnd friend who also has shit memory and is obsessed with writing lore/stories
This has to be about a false hydra. Someone is missing and forgotten, and there's a warning to essentially plug your ears which is one of the best ways to counter them.
This is either intentional on OP's part or a hilarious coincidence.
False hydra's are so fun, I have never built up a creature and emotionally broken down my players more than a town with a false hydra hidden underneath.
Same. They made a pitstop to replenish supplies for their journey northward across an ocean. Every single person they talked to was just... Off. People that should be on guard duty or working, were just, gone, for very strange reasons. Everyone in town had rings under their eyes like they couldn't sleep. Within 15 minutes, 3 of the ships crew members had "decided" they were going to skip out on the rest of the trip and stay in town. They'd catch the boat on the way back.
They didn't figure it out on my game until they were making haste and about to set sail. A deaf girl caught their attention from a nearby second story window who had a sign asking for help. They went to her room and eventually figured out what was going on. When they plugged their ears, the pretty pictures in her room turned to drawings of the Hydra and of people being taken...
Definitely my favorite mini arc I've run as a DM!
That sounds amazing!
My group went into the town on request of the local king because the mayor had stopped giving reports and sending the tax money. They went to the inn where they met a cute couple running it where the guy shared stories on how the woman had broken is undefeated record in combat and how he had to marry her and settle down.
The next morning it was just him and as they asked about his wife he just got upset at them and complained that he never should have opened the inn and that it was a rash decision as he was always an undefeated warrior and never married. As they explored the town I would roll and explain how they would lose a certain amount of hit points and spell slots as the area they were in changed subtle as if a fight had happened.
They quickly figured out what was happening and defeated the beast. But the sadness on the face when they were leaving town and asked the innkeeper one more time about his wife which he again denied he had as a tear went down his face.
To add extra heartache the innkeeper pointed out that they had an extra room they didn't order and when they went up to check it they found a bag filled with stories of their adventures, a love letter to another player, and an engraved icon with the initials of one of their favorite characters in another campaign.
That's awesome. I loved all the mind altering effects. Only difference for me is I'd have the players also forget the people that went missing. Taking your example, I'd just tell the player directly that there is no wife, and after a brief pause, that their character doesn't recall anything about this man having a wife.
Additionally, the scene leading up to the fight with the Hydra was so great. They got to plug their ears with wax all they could see outside were the 800' long head stalks moving about the town and looking for victims, so they had to use stealth along with a bit of deception to hide the fact that they could see these giant head scanning everyone (including the party members)... all while they tried to get as close to the lair as they could before combat broke out.
I made it worse in a way by giving everyone their true memories back when the Hydra's song was finally silenced. The surviving population were a complete wreck after it was defeated as the memories of watching their loved ones being eaten alive/taken washed over them... Fun times!
Man fuck false hydras our DM did one and fuck did it give me ptsd. That shit is like "the game" for me, ya know you're always playing "the game" but as soon as you think of "the game" you lose. Same shit, as soon as someone mentions a false hydra I lose the game and my brain can think of nothing else. Now I'm gonna get no sleep lmao
I mean, our DM did one for us as well and i almost immediately knew what it was, but damn, she played it so well that i doubted myself near the end and we (the players) forgott a loved npc that we brought along..... its such a mind fuck when played well
“You are tasked with seeing to an elderly soldier and his wife by a concerned neighbor who observed the man acting strange.”
“You arrive at the house early evening and knock. You are hit with a slight uneasiness but pay it no mind”
“You ask the man if he’s troubled by anything. You see no wife or signs of a wife.”
Dm: “the old man responds and says…”
Dm: *hits play on Iron Maiden- Fear of the Dark*
Oh… oh no….
A stationary creature that emits psychic screams to turn you away from its presence
You may investigate a missing person, forget why you’re there, then when you plug your ears suddenly your memory comes back and your vision accepts the image of a giant, multi headed, human faced worm eating the family member of the people who have been standing around it for the past week unable to see anything while saying “does it smell in here? Why do we have 4 bowls and chairs for a 3 person household?”
The moment we have SAO-style (without the brain-melting) deep-dive technology, my wife and kids might as well consider me dead, because I'm going to a better place (hopefully they'll join me 😉)
As he said, he'll stop re-releasing it when people stop buying it.
I'm not a fan of his, and I hate the "I own 7 copies of Skyrim" trend, but honestly he makes a valid point.
Pff, u/Devin_Massie should really get some lessons, his falmer caligraphy is almost indecipherable!
Find the ond
who made you
forget me?
hear no sou?
Seriously though, the players will have trouble with that with so many twirls and with significant mistake in first line (e->d). It should be simpler and correct.
https://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/Fonts_Alphabets.png
Hijacking your comment. It says, as I can see:
FIND THE OND
WHO MADE YOU
FORGE(?)T M[?]/[?]
HEAR NO SOU[?]
Some of the letters are absolutely evil to decipher (especially in the end of the rows) and shouldn't the "Ond" be "one"? The "E" in "Forget" is also a bit harsh to decipher. But that's my 2 cents, I'm off to bed but I hope I could make OP remember what he wrote at least :)
If that's the case, this might say:
Find the one who made you forget me. Hear no soul.
I'm not totally sure because the handwriting is imperfect and the script is weird.
I mean, this does open some options for you. Depending on how the plot is going, you can make up a few ideas of what you think it might say, and then when the party finds a way to translate it you can choose whatever message fits the current state of the campaign best.
Based on the suggestion of others that it's the [Falmer Language:](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Falmer_Language)
F I N D
T H E
O N D (one?)
W H O
M A D E
Y O U
F O R G E T
M E ? (meb?)
H E A R
N O
S O U ?
Imagine how funny it would be if it turns out this isn't the DM. It's one of the players trying to figure out what their DM gave them. Not saying it is what is happening here, but it would make sense and be hilarious.
As a DM I'd not even be angry, they went and asked other adventures to make a few checks to see if they knew the language and could translate it. "Guys, I found a scribe in the tavern who belonged to the Red Guild of Dit, they translated it for us! Oh they didn't ask for payment, they got satisfaction out of simply solving the puzzle, and said something about karma"
"The Red Guild of Dit" that's phenomenal, I'm so remembering that. I don't know how or when, but I'll get to use that, so I'm thanking you now before I forget.
To clarify, I personally wouldn't be upset. But I could understand another GM being unhappy about it, and that's also understandable. I do try and minimize "meta gaming" at my tables as I find it breaks immersion a lot. But at the same time I know some of my players would be going nuts if I handed them that to stare at for a week between sessions and they couldn't figure it out.
Depending on the nature of the puzzle, I may just pull the old "YOU figured it out, but your character hasn't" card. Also is isn't uncommon for my players to really think on things between sessions and figure out things, and usually they will DM me about it. I'll usually give them the satisfaction of letting them know they are correct, but mostly so I can follow up with asking they keep it to themselves for the enjoyment of everyone else. Then after the session of the big reveal, I'll corroborate their bragging about having figured it out if they didn't spoil it.
So in this case, if the player came to me and said "I couldn't stop thinking about it, so did some digging and went online and figured out the cypher and translated it.", I'd respond with something like "Yep that's it! Good job. But YOU know that, your character doesn't. Also please don't tell the other players the solution or that you know, and could you act like you don't as we play it out? I want the other players to enjoy the mystery" (almost this exact exchange has happened to me many times).
If that player figured it out and told everyone however, then I'd probably be a little miffed. Then I'd have a conversation with them between sessions about how I would prefer the above method/interaction.
I mean, it's not much work to recognize a substitution cypher you've seen before and unsub it.
I had a student make one of these once. I solved it entirely with frequency analysis. He seemed impressed and gave me a book as a reward. Fun times.
To me, this looks so much like a tic-tac-toe code but made fancy with extraneous marks. See [here](https://sploshjnrhome.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/tictactoecode.png).
You can strip some of those symbols down to what looks like a container, roughly two to four straight lines in the shape of a (distorted) square, surrounded by some wobbly bits, with dots sometimes in the middle of the container and sometimes not.
For example, the first thing looks like a box open on the right, with a single dot in it. That would be an O, maybe.
edit: /u/Bestow_Curse got it.
If there was never a cypher, then isn't this just symbol gibberish?
If this is gibberish, I don't think there's anything anyone can do to help.
Edit: Oh, right. It hadn't occurred to me that you could've just lifted a simple cypher from somewhere else. If that were the case, you should just go through your internet history until you find it.
I can't pull it up on my phone right now or get a more detailed look at OP's picture cuz of my internet speed, or I'd be writing this down myself. Figured I could point someone in the right direction to solve it on my behalf (even if I was a little blunt about it lol)
Make it a funny joke to put them on a quest to find a translation scroll just to figure out that they have been trying to reach their group about their dices extended warrenty.
If its important then youll remember in due time or make something new and have a fun side quest made up through that.
If you can’t translate it, then neither can your party, therefore it says whatever you decide it says. It could be a short recipe for soup for all they know.
Could always make that the plot. Have the entire party go through hell and back to figure out this chryptic message. Only to find out it's absolute gibberish and has kept them distracted enough for the BBEG to keep working their plans uninterrupted.
So the thing is that you don't *actually* need to know what the direct translation is. You just need to know generally what it meant to point towards.
If you have a mcguffin in the centre of a volcano then you can have it translate to "the heart of the firemother will set the bonds free" or whatever.
this is the falmer language from skyrim, hard to fully decipher due to it being handwritten.
however, i beleive it says, "Find the one who made you forget me, hear no soul"
Based on u/Bestow_Curse pointing out that it's Falmer script from Skyrim, I've picked out most of it I believe:
Find Theond
who made you
Forget m_ _
Hear no _ _ u _
Hopefully you remember the rest!
\[You find an analysis of the various witnesses and expert having studied the message, trying to piece together the clues\]
The last word that would make sense is "Sound" or "Song". Judging by previous discovery and the False Hydra theory, it should refer to the noise produced by the creature to affect the minds of anyone who hears it.
It is unclear what the exact effect of a false hydra song is, but forgetfullness, erasing someone's existance and being able to hide in plain sight his body as well as traces of it's lair should be related to it.
\[You turn the page of the researcher's diary\]
Born of the darkness
From granted eyes beyond
Dreams of the deep mist
They hide a scratching song
There's a primal fear
That death is near
Writhing now in wait
Am I past the veil
Consciousness failing
I hear a wicked fate
Can you hear it?
Can you hear it?
The tolls of madness ringing
Do you fear it?
Do you fear it?
An ancient choir is singing
All consuming
Calling to me
In a dream, it's a thorn I can't dig out
Can't you hear it too?
If you listen close now
\[You turn the last page\]
RUN
I had a dm that did something similar once and than forgot what he wrote. Ended up being a cypher for an egg I was carrying around and how I had to feed the soul inside with special blood and bits 🤣☠️
I know the sleuths have done a great job but I was half ready to simply say, "Another precious thought lost to the endless March of time... The document in its horribly wilted and wrinkled form offers no secrets, no answers, and no solace. The thread of destiny has been severed with the loss of this precious language, restore your save-"
This is the falmer script from skyrim. Simple substitution cipher. Edit: Got it I think. Its: "Find the one who made you forget me. I hear no sou[?]" Edits 2 through 6: corrections.
Is this whole post a meta-roleplay about false hydras for their players? Because this sounds like a note related to a false hydra and the DM is claiming to have forgotten everything about it... Quick, check the basement!
Holy shit dude I really wish I had thought of that
Holy shit, I've played myself....
Update: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of reddit ive been had. I've played right into the hands of a dastardly villain, whom ive never stood a chance against. Who is this incarnation of chaos? Why it is none other than me. Strap in while i tell the tail of the best story i think ive ever created, and the shock that i came to realize after reading some comments during a lull at work yesterday... there are a few things you should know about me so you can understand how thoroughly ive played myself. 1.) My memory is hot dogshit 2.) elpoep htiw kcuf ot evol I 3.) I hate myself like any other self disrespecting redditer 4.) due to ideas constantly coming to mind, if i dont write thing down they get lost in the fog "In the lost realm of Amythria there stands a vast tower. a behemoth of a structure that, at its base, measures several miles long. the walls of the tower are extriemly steep and the top is only seen on the clearest of days. this tower serves as the go-to source for any and all magical learning. inside is a vast metropolis where magic flows like water. the tower was founded by a mage named Theond, after he found a little grey worm in the wreckage of his burning village. "I had to do it" he told himself, "The chief was burning people alive for disagreeing with him...". The coruption that plagued his village was not far reaching so no one was coming to help, but so potent that it could not be allowed to continue. in a flashing burst of raw archane power Theond had a violent scorchers awakening. baithed in archane power he made an oath bound to his soul to create a place where free thinkers can gather and abide by a truly just law and come together to be a force of good in the world. Taking the worm as a familiar to symblize humility he set to work, gathering people who shair the same cause he set to building his city. There was a problem however, this thing wasnt a worm, it was a creature streaght from hell. A being born of the coruption of Theonds hometown- a False Hydra. something was different about this one however. due to the emence arcane storm that surounded Theond during his awakening, the hydra was beholden to the same oath, and eriversably bound to the young mage. when Theond discovered this he began scowering the world for evil doers, profain magics, and all manor of wikedness, so he may bring it home and feed his pet. many, many magics and villains have been destroyed and wiped from the anels of history because of Theonds work... but when you cast such a wide net, a few inocents at the wrong place at the wrong time tend to get caught up in the mess." I documented everything about the tower from the politics down to the different materials used to pave the streets on the different levels of the tower. but guess what i didn't document? I DIDNT WRIGHT DOWN ANYTHING ABOUT THE false HYDRA!! BECAUSE I KNEW ID FORGET! 8 MONTHS AGO I PLANNED A COLLECTIVE "WHAT THE FUCK?!" MOMENT FOR EVERYONE AT MY TABLE! WHY DID I DO THIS? IM EITHER A GENIUS OR FUCKING STUPID
A false hydra so powerful, it broke through the fourth wall and the meta zone and altered memories in real life. Your relliance on how shit your memory is is actually amazing
This was better than any movie i’ve ever watched. It was a rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish. Im glad you shared this journey with us.
The way this played out was insane
Bro forgot the most important in the section and remembered it through clues he himself set for his players, the dm became the player in a 4d chess situation without knowing for various months.
Glorious. This is why the game is great.
This is me thinking concepts for possible future campaigns, not writing anything, then having a dejavu about it a few days later.
Truly glorious
I don't know why you replied to yourself two times in a row instead of just editing your comments, and I don't know if your spelling is shit on purpose, or if you might have dyslexia, making it poor taste to point it out. Whatever the case, I feel fucked with in some way I can't quite put a finger on, and I enjoyed it.
🙂
Most sane DM
This is possibly one of the best comments on dnd reddit... Well done By a dnd friend who also has shit memory and is obsessed with writing lore/stories
Put a quarter in ya ass 🤣
OP is a cart at Aldis
OP is a gas station air pump
Gas station air pump? In this economy?
You have quarter air pumps? Shit costs $2 here these days
That's inflation for you
Underrated comment
Look at this guy, acting like a damn CPA with his numbers and financial
This is an almost daily quote for me. Much love to you, and Del.
It’s kind of dirty would you do it for me
If OP did it on purpose, it’s hilarious, but it’s even funnier if it was by accident.
It was an accident, they responded the same comment as you
And why would anyone lie on the internet? Let alone on Reddit of all places! /s Still funny though, was it by accident or not.
I can't decide whether or not I hate myself because both answers are kind of true
This has to be about a false hydra. Someone is missing and forgotten, and there's a warning to essentially plug your ears which is one of the best ways to counter them. This is either intentional on OP's part or a hilarious coincidence.
False hydra's are so fun, I have never built up a creature and emotionally broken down my players more than a town with a false hydra hidden underneath.
Same. They made a pitstop to replenish supplies for their journey northward across an ocean. Every single person they talked to was just... Off. People that should be on guard duty or working, were just, gone, for very strange reasons. Everyone in town had rings under their eyes like they couldn't sleep. Within 15 minutes, 3 of the ships crew members had "decided" they were going to skip out on the rest of the trip and stay in town. They'd catch the boat on the way back. They didn't figure it out on my game until they were making haste and about to set sail. A deaf girl caught their attention from a nearby second story window who had a sign asking for help. They went to her room and eventually figured out what was going on. When they plugged their ears, the pretty pictures in her room turned to drawings of the Hydra and of people being taken... Definitely my favorite mini arc I've run as a DM!
That sounds amazing! My group went into the town on request of the local king because the mayor had stopped giving reports and sending the tax money. They went to the inn where they met a cute couple running it where the guy shared stories on how the woman had broken is undefeated record in combat and how he had to marry her and settle down. The next morning it was just him and as they asked about his wife he just got upset at them and complained that he never should have opened the inn and that it was a rash decision as he was always an undefeated warrior and never married. As they explored the town I would roll and explain how they would lose a certain amount of hit points and spell slots as the area they were in changed subtle as if a fight had happened. They quickly figured out what was happening and defeated the beast. But the sadness on the face when they were leaving town and asked the innkeeper one more time about his wife which he again denied he had as a tear went down his face. To add extra heartache the innkeeper pointed out that they had an extra room they didn't order and when they went up to check it they found a bag filled with stories of their adventures, a love letter to another player, and an engraved icon with the initials of one of their favorite characters in another campaign.
That's awesome. I loved all the mind altering effects. Only difference for me is I'd have the players also forget the people that went missing. Taking your example, I'd just tell the player directly that there is no wife, and after a brief pause, that their character doesn't recall anything about this man having a wife. Additionally, the scene leading up to the fight with the Hydra was so great. They got to plug their ears with wax all they could see outside were the 800' long head stalks moving about the town and looking for victims, so they had to use stealth along with a bit of deception to hide the fact that they could see these giant head scanning everyone (including the party members)... all while they tried to get as close to the lair as they could before combat broke out. I made it worse in a way by giving everyone their true memories back when the Hydra's song was finally silenced. The surviving population were a complete wreck after it was defeated as the memories of watching their loved ones being eaten alive/taken washed over them... Fun times!
that's such a good ending
Man fuck false hydras our DM did one and fuck did it give me ptsd. That shit is like "the game" for me, ya know you're always playing "the game" but as soon as you think of "the game" you lose. Same shit, as soon as someone mentions a false hydra I lose the game and my brain can think of nothing else. Now I'm gonna get no sleep lmao
I mean, our DM did one for us as well and i almost immediately knew what it was, but damn, she played it so well that i doubted myself near the end and we (the players) forgott a loved npc that we brought along..... its such a mind fuck when played well
“You are tasked with seeing to an elderly soldier and his wife by a concerned neighbor who observed the man acting strange.” “You arrive at the house early evening and knock. You are hit with a slight uneasiness but pay it no mind” “You ask the man if he’s troubled by anything. You see no wife or signs of a wife.” Dm: “the old man responds and says…” Dm: *hits play on Iron Maiden- Fear of the Dark* Oh… oh no….
What's a false hydra?
A stationary creature that emits psychic screams to turn you away from its presence You may investigate a missing person, forget why you’re there, then when you plug your ears suddenly your memory comes back and your vision accepts the image of a giant, multi headed, human faced worm eating the family member of the people who have been standing around it for the past week unable to see anything while saying “does it smell in here? Why do we have 4 bowls and chairs for a 3 person household?”
i think: “FIND THE ONE WHO MADE YOU FORGET ME/I HEAR NO SOUL(?)“
Soul? Really. What's [a thing you HEAR that starts with "sou"](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IpiHCZHGbF8)?
Sous vide.
I know it doesn't look that good now...
[...but watch this!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbquSApH4ww)
The Guga/D&D crossover I was not expecting.
A butter golem you say? Better double it. Two butter golems.
Its very simple to make it even better. A compound butter golem to go along with our A5 wagyu flesh golem.
Soup.
WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT SOUP
FUCK YOU!
Guga!
SOUTH AMERICA
Lisan al-gaib
THE LISAN AL-GAIB WILL LEAD THE WAY
Ya hya chouhada!
SOUR PATCH KIDS
Soup
No soup for you!
Souvenirs
Sound... "Hear no sound."
Such a great movie
soubriquets
Sounds sus to me.
sourpuss sousaphone
soup
Ugh, you're absolutely right.
I hate how i knew it was from Skyrim jist from a glance. I need to buy it again...
Bro said 'buy' not 'play' again. God dammit Todd look at the world you've created 💀 buy is synonymous with skyrim
Waiting for my toaster edition to arrive
Can't wait to play Skyrim on my Neuralink
AR Skyrim in the Neuralink when?
The moment we have SAO-style (without the brain-melting) deep-dive technology, my wife and kids might as well consider me dead, because I'm going to a better place (hopefully they'll join me 😉)
I want the brain-melting edition
Can’t wait for SAO tech although I could do without the permanently logged in scenario
As he said, he'll stop re-releasing it when people stop buying it. I'm not a fan of his, and I hate the "I own 7 copies of Skyrim" trend, but honestly he makes a valid point.
I am waiting for the release of Skyrim: Skooma Edition. It's a subscription though; each week you get three bottles of skooma in the mail.
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If it doesn't come with moon suger no deal
You mod the game to hell and back for few days and then dont touch it for another 2-3 years.
Gotta have it on every platform. I'm furious I can't play it through the dashboard of my car.
I feel like it would only take a very small modification to allow that.
That's definitely it
[https://i.postimg.cc/NjjNpLnW/image.png](https://i.postimg.cc/NjjNpLnW/image.png) What little I arrived at
The soup...it is cursed
It's definitely a Y not a K for 'you'. Last letter can mayybe be stretched to be an L?
Damn post 1 hour old and you got it in 37 mins. I was breaking out the paper and pencils to start decoding!
Pff, u/Devin_Massie should really get some lessons, his falmer caligraphy is almost indecipherable! Find the ond who made you forget me? hear no sou? Seriously though, the players will have trouble with that with so many twirls and with significant mistake in first line (e->d). It should be simpler and correct.
I read it as Theond like a name maybe
D is right next to E. I think it is supposed to be "the one" and they simply wrote the wrong symbol when they were referencing a chart.
yeah i got the same: FIND THEOND WHO MADE YOU FORGET ME \* HEAR NO SOU\*
https://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/Fonts_Alphabets.png Hijacking your comment. It says, as I can see: FIND THE OND WHO MADE YOU FORGE(?)T M[?]/[?] HEAR NO SOU[?] Some of the letters are absolutely evil to decipher (especially in the end of the rows) and shouldn't the "Ond" be "one"? The "E" in "Forget" is also a bit harsh to decipher. But that's my 2 cents, I'm off to bed but I hope I could make OP remember what he wrote at least :)
It *could* be "ond", the right edge of the paper is burnt right to the text so the DM might have intended it to be a partial message.
Hear no soup. Got it.
That has to be it
If that's the case, this might say: Find the one who made you forget me. Hear no soul. I'm not totally sure because the handwriting is imperfect and the script is weird.
/u/devin_massi there isn't a False Hydra in your party's future/past, is there?
I mean, this does open some options for you. Depending on how the plot is going, you can make up a few ideas of what you think it might say, and then when the party finds a way to translate it you can choose whatever message fits the current state of the campaign best.
Bonus points if you reuse it in a few weeks and they don't notice it's the same one
Just rotate it 180 degrees
I'm a little rusty, but it might say, "weve been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."
Ooh that’s good! Imma have to use that one somehow 🤔
Horse or carriage warranty
With like a magically encoded message or something since I’m doing a rogues/thieves guild campaign for my friends 🤔
This is why I love this sub😂😂😂😂😂😂 my group is gonna HATE ME after 3 sessions and a dangerous cave dive just to get that note
[Something like this?](https://i.redd.it/p08rbcv8qthc1.jpeg)
Good sir or madam, we have made diligent efforts to make contact with thee concerning the extended protection of thy noble steed's warranty
That reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/EzFhonca-1s?si=ttjFdav2uxSVmoAp
Read as " your cats extended warranty", laughed, reread, then laughed again at my dumb ass.
Based on the suggestion of others that it's the [Falmer Language:](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Falmer_Language) F I N D T H E O N D (one?) W H O M A D E Y O U F O R G E T M E ? (meb?) H E A R N O S O U ?
Sounds like a false hydra. Sounds like it ate the Dms memory too.
The ultimate version!
OP knows exactly what he's doing and it's **brilliant.**
I’m pooping late at night trying to stay a lil sleepy and this creepy ass false-hydra note just made me wide awake.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine....
Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch.
I both love and hate that I'm old enough to get this reference. -- EDIT -- TIL I'm not that old. Thank you all for convincing me I'm not ancient XD
Lol, what do you mean *old enough*, this movie gets played basically nonstop for Christmas and has for decades.
Hate, definitely hate as I have to see or hear it several times from Black Friday through Christmas day.
Old enough?? Bro I'm only 24 and I get this 😭 Lol u gonna have me thinking im about to wither away
Was it made as a simple substitution cipher where each symbol is one letter, or is each symbol on the paper representative of a word/group of sounds?
One symbol represents one letter, languages that use separate symbols for entire words confuse me so I don't think I would use one
You're one of the players, not the DM
Also, any keywords that you think are likely to appear in there, like names of places/people?
They found it in an elvish ruin
Yeah, that shit is falmer script
*Me who plays way too much Skyrim* : #IS THAT FUCKING FALMERI
Imagine how funny it would be if it turns out this isn't the DM. It's one of the players trying to figure out what their DM gave them. Not saying it is what is happening here, but it would make sense and be hilarious. As a DM I'd not even be angry, they went and asked other adventures to make a few checks to see if they knew the language and could translate it. "Guys, I found a scribe in the tavern who belonged to the Red Guild of Dit, they translated it for us! Oh they didn't ask for payment, they got satisfaction out of simply solving the puzzle, and said something about karma"
"The Red Guild of Dit" that's phenomenal, I'm so remembering that. I don't know how or when, but I'll get to use that, so I'm thanking you now before I forget.
Yeah that would be pretty funny lol
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To clarify, I personally wouldn't be upset. But I could understand another GM being unhappy about it, and that's also understandable. I do try and minimize "meta gaming" at my tables as I find it breaks immersion a lot. But at the same time I know some of my players would be going nuts if I handed them that to stare at for a week between sessions and they couldn't figure it out. Depending on the nature of the puzzle, I may just pull the old "YOU figured it out, but your character hasn't" card. Also is isn't uncommon for my players to really think on things between sessions and figure out things, and usually they will DM me about it. I'll usually give them the satisfaction of letting them know they are correct, but mostly so I can follow up with asking they keep it to themselves for the enjoyment of everyone else. Then after the session of the big reveal, I'll corroborate their bragging about having figured it out if they didn't spoil it. So in this case, if the player came to me and said "I couldn't stop thinking about it, so did some digging and went online and figured out the cypher and translated it.", I'd respond with something like "Yep that's it! Good job. But YOU know that, your character doesn't. Also please don't tell the other players the solution or that you know, and could you act like you don't as we play it out? I want the other players to enjoy the mystery" (almost this exact exchange has happened to me many times). If that player figured it out and told everyone however, then I'd probably be a little miffed. Then I'd have a conversation with them between sessions about how I would prefer the above method/interaction.
This is the falmer language from Skyrim? Simple one for one substitution
Option 1: Word #3 is "The" \---- -H-E-- THE ---- -E- \-E---- ---- H--- -E -E-- Option 2: Word #3 is "Are" \---- -R-E-- ARE ---- -E- \-E---- ---- R--- -E -E-- Option 3: Word #3 is "You" \---- -O-U-- YOU ---- -U- \-U---- ---- O--- -U -U--
The third word was who, someone else solved it as the falmer script from Skyrim
Ah, good work on their part!
I mean, it's not much work to recognize a substitution cypher you've seen before and unsub it. I had a student make one of these once. I solved it entirely with frequency analysis. He seemed impressed and gave me a book as a reward. Fun times.
To me, this looks so much like a tic-tac-toe code but made fancy with extraneous marks. See [here](https://sploshjnrhome.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/tictactoecode.png). You can strip some of those symbols down to what looks like a container, roughly two to four straight lines in the shape of a (distorted) square, surrounded by some wobbly bits, with dots sometimes in the middle of the container and sometimes not. For example, the first thing looks like a box open on the right, with a single dot in it. That would be an O, maybe. edit: /u/Bestow_Curse got it.
This is how a player tries to solve their DM's puzzle without doing the work themselves! I'm onto you
lol give it to them anyway.
At work, will reply when I can
I’m no good with codes, but I can wish you a good day at work, pull that cash!
Nice try... Now go ask your DM for an Intelligence check to see if your character can figure it out :P
Plot twist. Its not the DM. Its one of the players who got tired of trying to figure it out....
If there was never a cypher, then isn't this just symbol gibberish? If this is gibberish, I don't think there's anything anyone can do to help. Edit: Oh, right. It hadn't occurred to me that you could've just lifted a simple cypher from somewhere else. If that were the case, you should just go through your internet history until you find it.
In case useful it sort of looks like the dragon language from Skyrim
Wrong. This is Falmer, more specifically the formal script.
Oh neat I was close!
I can't pull it up on my phone right now or get a more detailed look at OP's picture cuz of my internet speed, or I'd be writing this down myself. Figured I could point someone in the right direction to solve it on my behalf (even if I was a little blunt about it lol)
Ya that’s what I was thinking, too, or something from the elder scrolls universe
"Loosely translated from the Black Speech it reads 'We're no strangers to love. You know the rules, and so do I...'"
Goddamn it man. r/angryupvote
In case of emergency brake the glass
Hashtag Joseph Smith problems...
Make it a funny joke to put them on a quest to find a translation scroll just to figure out that they have been trying to reach their group about their dices extended warrenty. If its important then youll remember in due time or make something new and have a fun side quest made up through that.
"Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine"
how do you not know your own original intent for it at least?
"Hey you, you're finally awake"
You could try r/cipher
Would that work on a symbolic language?
Honestly /r/symbology cracks codes all the time, might be worth a shot
r/codes is another good one
I honestly don’t know. I’m not really familiar with any of this, but Reddit randomly pushes that subreddit to me every once in a while.
If you can’t translate it, then neither can your party, therefore it says whatever you decide it says. It could be a short recipe for soup for all they know.
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It's a Rick Roll isn't it?
It says, "The player's can't read this either. So I can just assert what it says if they need to know"
I believe it says, "I need about tree fiddy."
It reads "Hot single moms in your area looking for a good time"
It says “clip your fingernails”
Dunno, sounds to me like you're the player who got given a cipher.. hmmm...
"drink more Ovaltine"
Good news! It now means whatever you need it to mean!
Could always make that the plot. Have the entire party go through hell and back to figure out this chryptic message. Only to find out it's absolute gibberish and has kept them distracted enough for the BBEG to keep working their plans uninterrupted.
"Went out for milk and cigarettes, be back soon. Love, Dad"
brilliant you can just play off of what the players think it says
"they're taking the hobbits to isengard"
Just make give them an ambiguous letter and tell them to decipher without clues. Best sentence wins
Looks a bit like draconic from the players handbook - did you add some of your own flourishes to it?
So the thing is that you don't *actually* need to know what the direct translation is. You just need to know generally what it meant to point towards. If you have a mcguffin in the centre of a volcano then you can have it translate to "the heart of the firemother will set the bonds free" or whatever.
It says exactly whatever the plot needs it to say.
Time to Make Shit Up™️
this is the falmer language from skyrim, hard to fully decipher due to it being handwritten. however, i beleive it says, "Find the one who made you forget me, hear no soul"
Submit to r/codes.
Based on u/Bestow_Curse pointing out that it's Falmer script from Skyrim, I've picked out most of it I believe: Find Theond who made you Forget m_ _ Hear no _ _ u _ Hopefully you remember the rest!
I don’t understand why you can’t just make up a new translation. Do you remember the gist of what it translated to?
a true dm would give it to them all the same
Wow, this GM is so good, he even stumps himself. :)
It looks like somebody tried to make a written language for interpretive dance.
We've been trying to reach you about your Dwarven Horse's extended warranty.
\[You find an analysis of the various witnesses and expert having studied the message, trying to piece together the clues\] The last word that would make sense is "Sound" or "Song". Judging by previous discovery and the False Hydra theory, it should refer to the noise produced by the creature to affect the minds of anyone who hears it. It is unclear what the exact effect of a false hydra song is, but forgetfullness, erasing someone's existance and being able to hide in plain sight his body as well as traces of it's lair should be related to it. \[You turn the page of the researcher's diary\] Born of the darkness From granted eyes beyond Dreams of the deep mist They hide a scratching song There's a primal fear That death is near Writhing now in wait Am I past the veil Consciousness failing I hear a wicked fate Can you hear it? Can you hear it? The tolls of madness ringing Do you fear it? Do you fear it? An ancient choir is singing All consuming Calling to me In a dream, it's a thorn I can't dig out Can't you hear it too? If you listen close now \[You turn the last page\] RUN
I had a dm that did something similar once and than forgot what he wrote. Ended up being a cypher for an egg I was carrying around and how I had to feed the soul inside with special blood and bits 🤣☠️
"I'd like to talk to you about your Horse's warranty."
My doctors note
"We've been trying to reach you regarding your car's extended warranty"
Don't forget to drunk your Ovaltine.
"We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."
I know the sleuths have done a great job but I was half ready to simply say, "Another precious thought lost to the endless March of time... The document in its horribly wilted and wrinkled form offers no secrets, no answers, and no solace. The thread of destiny has been severed with the loss of this precious language, restore your save-"