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Vega
01-30-2014, 03:25 AM
Was doing the gem inlaid gauntlets quest today, and noticed that I could read the Tanned Split Paw Skin scrolls, even though I have no proficiency in gnoll. According to old quest descriptions, this should appear as gibberish:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011217062246/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=782

maximum
01-30-2014, 12:38 PM
Good find! More sources would be good.... do we know if this language barrier is Classic or later?

maximum
01-30-2014, 06:38 PM
Found this note from May 2001:

"...You can also identify which one(s) you have by reading it. Even if you cannot read gnoll, there's a number in the text that doesn't get turned into gibberish..."

http://web.archive.org/web/20011126093421/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=2739

A screenshot of the gibberish would be nice!

Vega
01-31-2014, 02:14 AM
Yeah, that comment on the scroll is nice, backs up what the quest description was saying. Might be tough to find a screenshot of the scrolls though.

As a side note they did also look weird when opened. I don't remember scrolls looking like that when read, but maybe that's a side effect of the titanium UI.

maximum
04-17-2016, 04:31 PM
Bump 2016.

nilbog
04-21-2016, 01:00 PM
This is an issue which has been identified for source development. It's on the list.

maximum
04-26-2019, 11:40 AM
Bump 2019.