[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

The researcher was a bit curious as to their lack of enthusiasm or reaction to his 'Fame and Recognition' comment, as most acedemics like him would be thrilled to be offered such attention and the opportunities it provides,  but decided to shrug it off in the end. It wasn't his place to dictate how one should feel on a topic.....even though at times he wish it was, as was the case with Orthros. Bah.......

"Hmm.......would now be a good time then? I have other plans I want to accomplish today, but they are not urget and can be put off for a little while longer. After all, its not everyday you learn about a language thought to be impenetrable to modern minds!"

Order: Have Ventus spend an Encounter with Nathan catching up/learning what they have uncovered on Old Unown, and auto helping (IE: Using his own Insigh and Knowledge without my interactions) to help him further translate what's hasn't been. Afterwards, Ventus will be heading along to Route 4 to conduct that exchange we'ved talked about, Iron! Learning is fun, when the topic is of interest!

"That's fine.  Rain doesn't look like it's going anywhere any time soon.  3rd round of Little Cup's going to be rather wet, it seems."

Nathan indicates that Ventus should sit in the seat next to him.  He puts the journal between the two of them.

The left page of the journal has the modern alphabet listed, with the modern unown listed underneath those, followed by what old unown he could match to the more modern scripts listed underneath those.  The only letters without at least one symbol listed underneath them are C, J, P, Q, V, X, Y, and Z. There's a notable lack of punctuation based Unown symbols written in blue ink.

Further down that page is a list of combinations of various symbols.  Notably, the symbol listed under F is here by itself, with a ? underneath it.  There's also ITE (IGHT), IU (H), SE (CE), SG (SH), K (CK), and E _ _ IU (?) [If Ventus could help Nathan figure out what that first word in EA _ _ _ Metal is, that'd be convenient.]

The page on the right is as described previously.

Nathan looks at the message Ventus just wrote down, takes a moment to compare it to his notes...fills in what he can...

_ E FOUR WINDS

"Hmmm...that first symbol...that's new.  I think it's obvious what it means in this instance, though."

Nathan adds the new symbol to his notes on the left page, then in the appropriate spots on both pages fills in a TH underneath it, completing the new message.

THE FOUR WINDS

"Ask Heart where he found this text later. This seems somewhat significant."

Back to looking at these notes...

"Alright, first thing to learn: I can't actually read this yet, and the work's far from done.  Solomon is the only modern being that can actually read all this fluently.  His help has been instrumental in translating this."

"Everything I've got here so far, I've pulled from the untranslated messages I've encountered.  Solomon's Hidden Power can create more on the spot, which is helpful, but the messages it creates are specific to what the target of the attack was, and they don't stay affixed to the target for very long. A lot of this is educated guesswork using the context of what you already know. That 'F' for example, or that 'K'. I think they're sometimes more representative of the sounds than the actual letters. Looking at it that way, I was able to fill in either their blanks or the blanks around them easily. The only thing I can really recommend to 'learn' it is to take careful notes on what you know already, which is what you're going to do now, then try translating messages with that and solving any incomplete parts as you go."

When Ventus is done taking careful notes on the script (PM me if you need some help with pinning down the specifics of how I took these notes, Windos.), Nathan points at BRAILLE.

"...golem in the Ruins, right?  I'm worried that whatever this golem related to Sarimanok is, it's similar in nature to the Legendary Titans.  Are you familiar with their lore?"

If Ventus has questions about the various symbols and messages, he's free to ask them before we get to BRAILLE. Gotta fill those 3 hours somehow, yes?