All rogues know thieves cant. If one rogue in the party is talking to an enemy in a language that an ally rogue in the party does not understand, would the speaking rogue be able to use thieves cant to convey a message to the other rogue who does not know the language being spoken to the enemy? Would this realistically be possible without raising suspicion from the enemy? How would you as a Dungeon Master handle this situation? The key thing to note here is that RAW says that thieves cant:  allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation.  So what happens if said conversation is being spoken in a language that only one of the two rogues understands?
In , it is established that Thieves' Cant is more of an encoding system built on top of a language than a language in its own right. According to the Basic Rules,  is:  ...a secret mix of dialect, jargon and code allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation. Only another creature that knows thieves' cant understands such messages. It takes four times longer to convey such a message than it does to speak the same idea plainly. In addition, you understand a set of secret signs and symbols used to convey short, simple messages, such as whether an area is dangerous or the territory of a thieves' guild, whether loot is nearby, or whether the people in an area are easy marks or will provide a safe house for thieves on the run. (PBR, p. 27)  Can two creatures communicate using Thieves' Cant if they do not have a basic spoken language in common, or if they are speaking different basic languages? E.g. if one creature knows Orcish, Goblin, and Thieves' Cant, and another creature knows Elvish, Giant, Common, and Thieves' Cant, can they communicate with each other by embedding Thieves' Cant into their own languages? Hypothetically speaking, I can see how this could be possible in our own world, if we assume that Thieves' Cant depends on nuances of body language, emphasis, and tempo, e.g., one might say to a non-Spanish speaker:  Tenemos quEEEEEEE ir (wink) a la tieeeeenda de (shuffle left foot) armas para (twirl hair and giggle) comprar una espada (wink twice) para mi herMANO (wag right pinky and nod).  The literal message itself (&quot;We need to go to the weapon store to buy a sword for my brother.&quot;) would just be a carrier - the real message might be hidden within the gestures and the accented and extended syllables. Perhaps the drawn-out &quot;E&quot; vowel means &quot;robbery planned&quot;, the wink means &quot;bank&quot;, shuffling the left foot means &quot;be there at sunset&quot;, etc., and these are things that you wouldn't necessarily need to know Spanish to extract. Is this how Thieves' Cant actually works, or does it require actual comprehension of the literal message transmitted before the &quot;secret&quot; message can be extracted from it?
do_shortcode() within Admin Page I'm using a few plugins that have shortcodes ... however, instead of creating a public page for the content, I've created some new pages within the admin using add_menu_page and I need to know how to utilize do_shortcode() within this context.  As it stands, all the function does it spit out the string. I'm assuming it's because the shortcode API isn't available within an admin page.  How do I get around this? There is no documentation that I can find that explains how to utilize shortcodes within the WP Admin... or if it's even possible.    Specifically I'm trying to utilize WooCommerce shortcodes within the WP Admin. I hate the fact that plugins don't utilize the WP Backend for account/user management. How long would a 150 Farad Capacitor light up an LED I have a bright white LED from a flashlight. Aproximatley How long will it light up with a 150 farad 2.5 volt capacitor. Do I need a resistor? And if so how many Ω? The capacitor is a maxwell 150 farad 2.7 volt boostcap . How to change material's color in blender game engine? Which package can be used to write BNF grammars? unzip error "End-of-central-directory signature not found" I try to unzip a zip file, but got an error:  $ unzip COCR2_100.zip  Archive:  COCR2_100.zip   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not   a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on   the last disk(s) of this archive. note:  COCR2_100.zip may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of COCR2_100.zip or         COCR2_100.zip.zip, and cannot find COCR2_100.zip.ZIP, period.   I googled but didn't find a solution. I was wondering why it is and how I should fix it? Thanks!  The zip file can be downloaded from . It is an application, and here is its website .  My OS is 10.10. This girl that I'm friends with and have actually seen in person before, keeps posting [on social media] that she "loves when the transfer goes through" and gets $2000-$6000 for free quite often. She said you can make up to $6500 a day. She is not very smart and barely spells correctly. She keeps saying that all she is doing is "transfers" and that's it. So many of my friends are feeding into this crap. So I asked her what it is. She basically said "it's legit" and asked me for my bank username and password so she could see how much money to deposit into my account. I said no way and left it at that. She also said she is not stealing or doing anything illegal. She is getting her friends free money and I think they're naive. What is she actually doing? Is it illegal? I am sure she is incapable of doing crazy money wiring to different countries.   Thank you everyone for answering my question. I am not stupid, I did not give her my information. I knew she was up to something illegal, so thank you for giving me some input on what exactly she is doing. I submitted an anonymous tip to my local sheriff's department. I'm hoping they see it and pursue it, or forward it to the right authorities I.e the FBI or something. Capitalization of explanation of abbreviations Do animagi get to pick their animal? Say that I want to become an Animagus, and am really hoping to be a certain animal (say, a stag). I study a whole bunch and manage to perfect the technique. Do I get to pick the animal I wind up as, so that I wind up being a stag like I want? Or is it something where I just find out what I turn into (and if I wind up as a dung beetle, tough luck)?    This is not a duplicate of  because that question is about which animals an Animagus can potentially transform into. Mine is about if I can decide which potential animal I wind up being. Drupal is fast at develop, but the performance is so poor.  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How to tell a wlan card supports RFMON mode Can someone please tell me how to check if a wlan card supports promiscuous mode Dual monitors not working with an Nvidia card Even my main monitor is shown as unknown. I have tried setting up dual monitors using Nvidia settings with no joy however it does recognize that I have 2 monitors.  This was not an issue in 11.04. My problem with the Nvidia settings appears to be that my 2 monitors require different resolutions but even when I set them to a resolution that they both can handle, it is then only appearing in cloned mode. I really hope someone can help or I will have to roll back to 11.04.  Why won't Ubuntu 11.10 recognize that I have 2 Monitors?   Here is the contents of my xorg.conf:  # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings:  version 280.13  (buildd@rothera)  Thu Aug 11 17:28:49 UTC 2011  Section "ServerLayout"     Identifier     "Layout0"     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"     Option         "Xinerama" "0" EndSection  Section "Files" EndSection  Section "InputDevice"     # generated from default     Identifier     "Mouse0"     Driver         "mouse"     Option         "Protocol" "auto"     Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection  Section "InputDevice"     # generated from default     Identifier     "Keyboard0"     Driver         "kbd" EndSection  Section "Monitor"     # HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig     Identifier     "Monitor0"     VendorName     "Unknown"     ModelName      "CRT-0"     HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0     VertRefresh     50.0 - 76.0     Option         "DPMS" EndSection  Section "Device"     Identifier     "Device0"     Driver         "nvidia"     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"     BoardName      "GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a" EndSection  Section "Screen"     Identifier     "Screen0"     Device         "Device0"     Monitor        "Monitor0"     DefaultDepth    24     Option         "TwinView" "1"     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"     Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +1024+0, DFP: 1024x768 +0+0"     SubSection     "Display"         Depth       24     EndSubSection EndSection"   ok I have tried disper -e. Problem is that Nvidia settings appear to be treating both monitors as the same one. so changing the settings to one has no effect, but change the other and it affects both screens identically.  Results of disper -l as follows:      carter@carter-desktop:~$ disper -l display DFP-0: HP vs17  resolutions: 320x240, 400x300, 416x312, 512x384, 576x432, 680x384, 640x480, 720x450, 640x512, 800x512, 840x525, 800x600, 960x540, 832x624, 960x600, 896x672, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x960, 1280x1024 display CRT-0: CRT-0  resolutions: 320x240, 400x300, 416x312, 512x384, 576x432, 680x384, 640x480, 720x450, 640x512, 800x512, 840x525, 800x600, 960x540, 832x624, 960x600, 896x672, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1360x768, 1280x960, 1440x900, 1280x1024, 1400x1050, 1600x1024, 1680x1050, 1600x1200, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 1792x1344 carter@carter-desktop:~$ What torque for caliper brakes onto carbon-alloy forks? I've recently got a new bike with a . This comes with deep-drop calliper brakes (Shimano R451 Dual Pivot). The first time out I bumped one of the brakes and it twisted around the single attachment bolt and rubbed on the rim.  I managed to easily twist it back by hand and carry on, however I thought the bolt probably needs tightening. The question is: How tight can it be?  As the fork is part carbon I've so far only dared to take it up to 4Nm, but it still seems possible to twist the whole calliper around with a bump of the hand. Maybe that's normal? Perhaps it's easier to bump around because of the longer deep-drop lever. Should I be aiming to get it really secure?    I'm not sure whether the brake mount in the fork is all carbon, or some of it is alloy underneath, but either way I'd like to know what a sensible torque is. As far as I can see from the  there is no such specification. How can I find this out? derivative under integral intuition Embed .mov file via 'Add Media' not working Within 300 km of Tokyo: Where for flora, landscape, nature? Examples and Counterexamples of Relations which Satisfy Certain Properties Definition: Given a set $X$, a relation $R$ on $X$ is any subset of $X\times X$.  A relation $R$ on $X$ is said to be  reflexive if $(x,x) \in R$ for all $x \in X$, irreflexive if $(x,x) \not\in R$ for all $x \in X$, transitive if $(x,y) \in R$ and $(y,z) \in R$ implies that $(x,z)\in R$, intransitive (or antitransitive) if $(x,y) \in R$ and $(y,z) \in R$ implies that $(x,z)\not\in R$, symmetric if $(x,y) \in R$ implies that $(y,x) \in R$, antisymmetric if $(x,y) \in R$ and $(y,x) \in R$ implies that $x=y$.   Given any combination of the properties listed above, is there a nontrivial (i.e. nonempty) relation which satisfies that combination of properties?