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Thread : Desert of Desolation: I3 Pharoah player's map
Started at 04-28-04 10:03 PM by chris7476
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[Post 1]
Author : chris7476
Date : 04-28-04 10:03 PM
Thread Title : Desert of Desolation: I3 Pharoah player's map

The first of the this series, I3 Pharoah, has a player's map of a pyramid with a bunch of runes on it.  I can't for the life of me find any translation of the runes in the module.  Can anyone help me out?

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[Post 2]
Author : chris7476
Date : 04-29-04 04:03 PM

Hmm, lots of looks but no replies.  No one has this old module?

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[Post 3]
Author : Zyphus
Date : 04-30-04 01:28 AM

There is no translation in I3.

A lot of the old modules were like that. I emailed Tracy Hickman about the I3-5 Desert of Desolation series and never did get a response, but feel free to try. Apparently he self-published the module(s?) before selling them to TSR. I have never seen one (well, except on the internet) but it appears to have more info (or at least pages).

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[Post 4]
Author : Algolei
Date : 04-30-04 05:11 AM

It's decodable.  Some of the symbols represent more than one letter (like the Ph in "pharaoh") or could mean one of two letters (like o/u).  Here's what I've got so far:

The TOMB Of AMUNRE _ _ _

ENTRANS Of TOMB

_EM_O_  Of AMUNRE

_ _ _R_ _ Of The PhAROAHS

_A_AS R?YNS

A_ _

N_A_S

BY

S_S
Needs more work though....

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[Post 5]
Author : Algolei
Date : 05-01-04 04:20 AM

Okay, I've been thinking about this all day.  Even tried using an online crossword puzzle dictionary.  I think I've got a couple of mistakes, but I've corrected them:

The TOMB Of AMUNRE _ _ _

ENTRANS Of TOMB

TEMPOL Of AMUNRE

SPRINg Of The PhARAOHS

PALAS RUINS

ALL
MAPS
BY
S_S
So that's most of it.  I don't know what those three symbols are at the end of the title.  And if we knew who drew the maps, we'd be able to figure out the symbol in the last word.

The spelling mistakes threw me for a while.... :behold:
If you look closely, you'll notice I've translated the words as TOMB instead of TUMB, which is how a strict translation would state them. :D But then, who would want to be buried in a tumb?

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[Post 6]
Author : chris7476
Date : 05-01-04 12:31 PM

I kind of figured it out.  In the I3-5 compilation module, the runes are slightly different but there is a key for it.

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[Post 7]
Author : Algolei
Date : 05-01-04 09:32 PM

:uh-huh: You have a key and yet still asked what they mean?

Oh well, I had fun doing it the hard way. :D 

Do you know who the artist was?  I only have part of the initials figured out:  S_S.  What's the rune that sort of looks like a lower-case "d?"

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[Post 8]
Author : chris7476
Date : 05-02-04 12:36 AM

I didn't find the key until after I started asking about it.  Someone in a newsgroup actually told me about it.  The key isn't in the Pharoah module, it's in the I3-5 one.

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