Write Like Cthulhu!

Daddy Warpig · May 19, 2014, 11:31:57 AM

Or maybe Shub-Niggurath, "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young", with a font of ancient and malefic sigils, brimming with dark portent:

Spoiler

(Hidden behind a spoiler, because it's a big pic.)

And yes, that is the Elder Sign right there. So you just know the author's serious.

A TrueType version of the font is here, free for the download. Good for all your CoC, Delta Green, Trail of Cthulhu, d20 CoC, etc. etc. handout writing needs.

(You may need to join to download, plus the font link is kinda small — it's on the top right corner. Just FYI.)

(A post from my geek blog, link below.)

Benoist · May 19, 2014, 01:19:51 PM

*reads thread title*

*Crushes the thread with his massive tentacles, including all those who live in it, and eats it*

Catelf · May 19, 2014, 02:39:57 PM

This "translator" is complete hogwash and completely worthless.

Letters from A to Z, and numbers 1 to 0?
Not even the greek alphabet used A - Z, and neither did the old egyptians or the sumerians.
The language used by unspeakable's and their minions is allegedly older than that.

Their alphabet would more probably be like the cyrillic or any of the Asian ones, plus that they would also have signs equalling the multi-dimensional aspects of some .... things.

Oh, and they might be counting with numbers from Origo 358 to Infinity-9 instead of simply 1-0.

crkrueger · May 19, 2014, 03:21:58 PM

It's a symbol font. They need to be bound to keys. Do you think Zapf Dingbats is a language too?

Daddy Warpig · May 19, 2014, 08:30:28 PM

Quote from: Benoist;750356*reads thread title*

*Crushes the thread with his massive tentacles, including all those who live in it, and eats it*

:eek:

JeremyR · May 19, 2014, 09:45:45 PM

Quote from: Daddy Warpig;750322And yes, that is the Elder Sign right there. So you just know the author's serious.

Both of them, Derleth's and HPL's...

OTOH, isn't that Kevin Ross's Yellow Sign, which I believe he's copyrighted? I think you would need his permission to use that...

Catelf · May 20, 2014, 05:08:42 AM

Quote from: CRKrueger;750416It's a symbol font. They need to be bound to keys. Do you think Zapf Dingbats is a language too?

Ah, you found the severe flaw in my reasoning.
Sorry for my stupidity, I take things literally sometimes.
(But now i'm almost wandering what kind of language that could give rise to Zapf Dingbats as an alphabet/sign language .... )

P&P · May 20, 2014, 06:51:49 PM

Cthuluh fhtagn.
Iä-R'lyeh ! Cthulhu fhtagn ! Iä ! Iä !
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Iä ! Iä ! Chtulhu fhtagn ! Ph'nglui nglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgahnagl fhtagn.
Malitia vetus / Malitia vetus est venit tandem venit
Ya-R'lyeh ! Ya-R'lyeh ! Cthulhu fhtaghn ! Nigurat-Yig ! Yog-Sothoth
Tibi Magnum Innominandum, signa stellarum nigrarum et bufaniformis sadoquae sigillum
Ya-R'lyeh ! Ya-R'lyeh ! Cthulhu fhtaghn ! Nigurat-Yig ! Yog-Sothoth
Malitia vetus / Malitia vetus est venit tandem venit...
Iä ! Iä ! Chtulhu fhtagn ! Ph'nglui nglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgahnagl fhtagn.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Iä-R'lyeh ! Cthulhu fhtagn ! Iä ! Iä !
Cthuluh fhtagn.

RPGPundit · May 22, 2014, 03:50:25 AM

I just find that silly; especially when there's real-world occult alphabets that could be used!