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<blockquote data-quote="Tellerian Hawke" data-source="post: 7627465" data-attributes="member: 6790669"><p><strong>A Puzzle To Solve!</strong></p><p></p><p>[gm]</p><p>Normally, the DM rolls for Decipher Script, because you're not supposed to know whether or not you read and interpreted it correctly. But Respen's minimum result (26) is so high, that only exotic or truly ancient writing has the chance to elude him.</p><p>[/gm]</p><p></p><p>[gm] To speed things along, assume that Respen conveys the following to the party: [/gm]</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><u>The Uli inscription reads:</u></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: red">"...Poisoned pride once broke our pact. We bound the deathless and buried deep, to wait for shadow's bane. Two legs now walk where four legs failed, and Khubsheth's word will break the seal. The Cursed One waits, within. The would-be heroes are bound by fate to pass the test, complete our task, and break Ankharet's Crown."</span></p><p></p><p>The magical runes below this prophecy are not a spell, per se; they are a series of symbols. Respen, you can tell that the runes move, when touched. The object here is to put them in the correct order. When they are in the correct order, a spell effect will be activated, but there is no way to tell what that effect will be. The runes form normal, alphabetic characters, but they are composed of thousands of tiny symbols. The alphabetic characters (using the Common tongue) are:</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: blue"> T A Z L O E </span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>EVERYONE: What do you do?</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tellerian Hawke, post: 7627465, member: 6790669"] [b]A Puzzle To Solve![/b] [gm] Normally, the DM rolls for Decipher Script, because you're not supposed to know whether or not you read and interpreted it correctly. But Respen's minimum result (26) is so high, that only exotic or truly ancient writing has the chance to elude him. [/gm] [gm] To speed things along, assume that Respen conveys the following to the party: [/gm] [B][U]The Uli inscription reads:[/U][/B] [COLOR=red]"...Poisoned pride once broke our pact. We bound the deathless and buried deep, to wait for shadow's bane. Two legs now walk where four legs failed, and Khubsheth's word will break the seal. The Cursed One waits, within. The would-be heroes are bound by fate to pass the test, complete our task, and break Ankharet's Crown."[/COLOR] The magical runes below this prophecy are not a spell, per se; they are a series of symbols. Respen, you can tell that the runes move, when touched. The object here is to put them in the correct order. When they are in the correct order, a spell effect will be activated, but there is no way to tell what that effect will be. The runes form normal, alphabetic characters, but they are composed of thousands of tiny symbols. The alphabetic characters (using the Common tongue) are: [CENTER][B][COLOR=blue] T A Z L O E [/COLOR][/B][/CENTER] [B][I]EVERYONE: What do you do?[/I][/B] [/QUOTE]
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