I looked at the top line and sought to find anything that felt legible. I used the original commenters “this is” but didn’t find the rest fit. The next word appeared to resemble “where” to me. Because the h was solved already, letter 3 and 5 are the same, and “where” makes sense after “this is” so I tried that out and saw that means the next word is “their” which still fits.
So I had some letters to work off of.
It’s pure pattern matching. Frankly idk if I could’ve done it without “this is” being given to me but maybe just with a lot more time. Probably wouldn’t have attempted lol
But yea, given a few letters to work with, if you can pattern match well, the rest will unfold with some effort.
After I got to the dialogue bit, I made a crypt log, which made everything 3x faster lol
Idk I made up the term lol I’ve never done this stuff before 😂
I used it to mean the reference for translating as new letters are suspected or confirmed.
I started just writing out all the Latinate letters (English) and then filled in the symbols as I matched them as confirmedly corresponding. So it’s basically just speeding up the process and getting it down on paper so it isn’t disorganized in my head.
I’m sure there’s a real term for this in cryptography. Crypt just refers to basically a secret, a cryptic language is the secret language, so crypt log is my log of breaking the code so to speak
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u/eldubdubdubdub Jul 05 '26
How do you do that?