Dungeon Master Crafts Note for Players but Forgets to Write Down Translation, Internet Hilariously Helps Him Crack the Code

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    [OC] I made a handout for my players and completely forgot what it says because I didn't write down the translation
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    52购 里的Go 25號 HA 旺
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    There are three things that worry me about this. 1.) I know that this piece of paper is significant to the plot 2.) I know I didn't make up an entire cypher for the English language because that's entirely too much work. 3.) this language is not in any of the D&D books that I own.
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    If you are able to help please do so, if you're not able to help I openly look forward to people joking about my incompetence as a DM... But be clever and I will upvote anything funny that is posted.
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    Bestow_Curse 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago 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. 5.4k Reply Share
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    TheSmellofOxygen 1 day ago DM 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! 2.2k Reply Share
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    Devin Massie OP. 1 day ago Holy s t dude I really wish I had thought of that 1.9k Reply Share Devin_Massie OP . 1 day ago Holy st, I've played myself.... Reply Share 1.6k
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    Devin_Massie OP. 14 hr. ago 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 understan
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    1.) My memory is hot dog it 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 magic
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    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 h
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    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.
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    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 ANY
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    F K?!" MOMENT FOR EVERYONE AT MY TABLE! WHY DID I DO THIS? IM EITHER A GENIUS OR F NG STUPID 240 Reply Share neznetwork 14 hr. ago DM 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 it your memory is is actually amazing 145 Reply Share
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    vbrimme 1 day ago 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. 762 Reply Share Sporkfortuna 1 day ago Bonus points if you reuse it in a few weeks and they don't notice it's the same one A 203 Reply Share
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    OkZombie1648 - 1 day ago I'm a little rusty, but it might say, "weve been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty." Reply Share 3.4k afoolishyouth. 1 day ago Ooh that's good! Imma have to use that one somehow Reply Share 215
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    Discord Draconequus. 1 day ago Bard Based on the suggestion of others that it's the Falmer Language: FIND THE ON D (one?) WHO MADE YOU FORGET ME ? (meb?) HEAR ΝΟ SOU? 400 Reply Share
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    jand2013 1 day ago 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? Reply Share 133 Devin Massie OP. 1 day ago One symbol represents one letter, languages that use separate symbols for entire words confuse me so I don't think I would use one A 139 Reply Share
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    pwntallica 1 day ago 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
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    Monsjeuoet 1 day ago Nice try... Now go ask your DM for an Intelligence check to see if your character can figure it out :P Reply Share 16 MalDevotion 1 day ago Plot twist. Its not the DM. Its one of the players who got tired of trying to figure it out.... A 13 Reply Share
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    wraithstrike 1 day ago "Loosely translated from the Black Speech it reads 'We're no strangers to love. You know the rules, and so do I..."" Reply Share 15 1 more reply teketria 1 day ago . In case of emergency brake the glass Reply Share 7
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    Forgotten_User-name · 1 day ago 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. Reply Share 9
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    IMight BeAWeebLol. 1 day ago 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. Reply Share 5

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