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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5780083" data-attributes="member: 54707">Some very good ideas so far.     Back during the Iraq war some buddies of mine  started noticing new graffiti all over the city walls. So they contacted me  about it and I told em that terrorist cells and dissident groups and Saddam's  old RG survivors were likely using it as means to communicate positions,  operations, etc. It was made to look like ghetto graffiti which is often just  gang-graffiti describing basically the same things anyway, on a different scale.  Of course that's been going on in cities since the Romans and before, but people  keep forgetting it too.      So we made a study of it as a code/crypt and  eventually cracked it, and I understand it was used against them.     I think that graffiti like that would work very  well in a city adventure, especially if you had dissident groups,  revolutionaries, agents of espionage, criminal cartels and gangs, etc active in  certain areas of the city.     In some active underground areas that might work  well too. Coded, cryptic graffiti.     Someone suggested graffiti enviable except to  certain frequencies of perception. I think that an excellent idea.     Another idea that occurred to me are glyphs and  glyphing traps disguised as graffiti or glyphs painted over with graffiti as  traps. Or to trigger certain events or situations, or even to mislead or  misdirect.     A third idea would be "floating graffiti." If you  touch an object in a room then floating graffiti might appear in the air, maybe  even with verbal components. If certain images or symbols keep re-appearing then  they might trigger certain events, or what they represent might become  eventually apparent. Or it could be a floating  code. Or key to a code.     A fourth thing that could be done is to place  mapping elements within the graffiti images so that if you study it carefully  enough you might realize it is a coded map. Perhaps with real and valuable  information, or misleading information.      You could also have shifting graffiti. Suppose the  adventurers stumble into a maze filled with graffiti. They think the graffiti is  a way to naturally account for where they have already been (we've already seen  those exact images). But as they move through it perhaps the graffiti is part of  the maze and it shifts and changes form every time they encounter it, so that  they think they are using the graffiti to map their location, when in actuality  it shifts making the maze that much more difficult to escape.     Perhaps there are magical graffiti monsters that  take shape out of the graffiti images.     And time-graffiti, or magic graffiti. Graffiti  that changes over periods of time, is magically designed to do so, or graffiti  that changes, alters or only exposes itself in the presence of magic or a  magical item, or near a miracle (such as a clerical spell).     You could do a lot with graffiti. Very good thread  idea BG. Unfortunately I cannot give out more XP today.     I blew my XP wad already.</blockquote>

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