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Does the Comprehend Languages spell work for decrypting wordplay? As it’s written in the DnD 5e rules it wouldn’t, wordplay isn’t a language. It’s similar to how AI’s like ChatGPT are absolutely terrible at solving cryptic clues.

You need to love cryptic crosswords for this adventure to flourish, it’s 100% based around solving cryptic clues and jam packed full of cryptic crossword references. Cruciverbius and Nina for instance are both references to the hobby

15 across: The entrance is blackstone, the words begone, elfin, decay, excess carved out of it. (3,3) The definition part of the clue is ‘The entrance’. The wordplay part of the clue is that the carved out words are removalisms, they indicate that certain letters need to be removed from a word in order to form the answer proper. Begone - remove the letter b, b is gone Elfin - remove the letter l, l is fin and here fin is short for finished Decay - remove the letter k, the answer must be de-K’d. The prefix ‘de’ is most commonly used this way (Detox, degrease, derail, etc) Excess - remove the letter s, here it is the ex-s as in the former s but no longer. Like an ex-president These are all carved out of blackstone and when you remove b, l, k and s from blackstone you are left with actone. The 3,3 is enumeration for the clue and ‘Act one’ is the answer. The entrance to a play for example would be act one. It’s a devious clue even by cryptic crossword standards, in this...

It’s a cryptic crossword with dnd slapped on it. It isn’t the right adventure for our intrepid heroes. I made it for the cryptic crossword community and was using these guys as guinea pigs

You roll a 10 for investigation, you have no further insight as to what the answer is but you think that casting the Comprehend Languages spell might help you out here

What do your robes, hat and staff do?

Would you like to use your inspiration dice to increase your roll?

We’re going to have to sort out what your robes, hat and staff can do @Sigismund

You can use your Inspiration dice to get a boost to your Invest check

You have a +6 to investigation, try an investigation roll. You don’t have to know shit for Shahem to know shit. Throw d20’s at all of your problems

Having thought it over for a long time you reach the conclusion that the way in involved some sort of word puzzle and that the numbers 3,3 are telling you how long the answer is and it’s two three letter words your looking for, probably have to say them out loud to trigger the entrance. You’re 100% sure on this and also 100% sure that there’s nothing else to be found so whatever the trick is involves the four words somehow carved out of the indestructible blackstone Begone Elfin Excess Decay You get the feeling that the answer is close and you’ll soon breach the fortress walls. Also your squire is starting to piss you off with his constant attention seeking all day, you should go kill him, or don’t, I think that’s the sword talking.

The kidnapped girl is still here

Roll a d20

Want to know what the trick to getting inside is?

It’s a relaxed deadline free fuckabout game, yeah you ask the host a lot of shit but that’s dnd

@Ruffles @Ekkologix @Sigismund

I take it you’ve all forfeited before even getting into the dungeon

You’ve undertaken the mission to rescue Nina from the evil crossword wizard Cruciverbius and so far you are all still stuck outside of the fortress unable to figure out the secret to gaining entry The entrance is blackstone, the words begone, elfin, decay, excess carved out of it A closer look revealed the numbers 3,3 carved out nearby, you’re welcome to investigate further The sentient magical sword Blackrazor@Fujishiro has been two days since feeding and you really don’t want to make it three days and it looks squire Batch Itt really wants to get something off his chest

Fuck drama, let’s continue the game

Batch the squire looks like he's about to explode