10-27-2019, 08:24 AM | #1 |
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Revealing the Unseen
So, the party slayed the fabled demon and among it's possessions they found a blank scroll. Now, for some odd reason, they suspect there might be something written invisibly on said scroll (I dunno, is that the sort of thing that happens in DFRPG?), and want to know what it might be. I wanted to give them as comprehensive a list as possible of things that might help them find any potentially hidden information without revealing to them how any such hypothetical information could hypothetically be hidden:
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10-27-2019, 09:50 AM | #2 |
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Re: Revealing the Unseen
If the obscurement is non-magical invisible ink, alchemy would be the way to reveal it. I’m not sure see secrets should work RAW, as it reveals hidden objects, and the scroll(the object) isn’t hidden.
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10-27-2019, 08:15 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Republic of Texas; FOS
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Re: Revealing the Unseen
What if something is written small? Like so small it’d be like an ultra tech microdot. If magic were used to enable writing at microscopic levels, you could use magic to read that tiny... but while just written, it wouldn’t need to be Magical or have any active magic component. It wouldn’t technically be secret or hidden, since the words would be there... you could see it if you just looked close enough and in the right place.
Or perhaps the “trick” of being so small would classify it as Hidden/Secret. Otherwise It would be basically impossible to find unless you knew already where it was.
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10-27-2019, 09:11 PM | #4 |
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Re: Revealing the Unseen
Unless it's two sheets 'glued' together and the hidden writing is betwixt them, then See Secrets would reveal the deception.
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10-28-2019, 03:31 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Montréal, Québec
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Re: Revealing the Unseen
There is a remote chance that Gift of Letters could help if the message is visible but in a non-obvious written language, such as scratches on the parchment or along its edges that look like wear and tear.
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