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Welcome to ~~The Elder Futhark Speak And Spell Game~~ Runic Ascendancy! Your goal is to crush the evil denizens of the cursed forest and come out the other side. This will not be easy, but you have a powerful tool to aid you: runic magic. Combine runes to cast spells, defeat your enemies, and then discover their binding invocation to gain a new spell.

Keyboard

The keyboard is small when not full screen. That's basically fine, as you can type things out almost normally. Here's some caveats:

• There is no V sound in runes; v is f.
• There is no Y sound in runes; y is j.
• a, like "lance", is a. a, like "bark", is a different rune, mapped to q. Or shift-A.
• "sh" is mapped to x. Or shift-S.
• "ng" is mapped to c. Or shift-n.
• "th" is mapped to y. Or shift-t.

It takes some practice, and you can sound out the words! That's the point! Learn your magic and you'll be disintegrating (an actual spell) your foes in no time!

Uh, the theme?

When I think of "Signal" I think in terms of "signal and noise". So, I thought I would make a wordle with lies (e.g. Fibble) but based on the elder futhark. As the gameplay unfolded, it became obvious mixing lying with a new alphabet would be asking way too much of the jam crowd. So, there's not a lot of "noise". But, that's where the theme came in.