Call of Cthulhu
49 Achievements
12-15h
GOG
Fluent in R’lyehian
Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
3.5%
How to unlock the Fluent in R’lyehian achievement in Call of Cthulhu - Definitive Guide
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WARNING: Starting around June 2019, it appears this achievement is not unlocking when it should. I've contacted CYANIDE Studios and Focus Entertainment about this, though I'm not sure if I'll get an answer since their Technical Support page for this game is no longer in service. Fortunately, we've seemed to have sussed out a way to ensure the achievement unlocks, see updated solution below.
UPDATED SOLUTION (Last Update: March 2020)
To gain this achievement, not only must you respond in R'lyehian all nine times that you can do so, you must also do the following:
1.) Lower your SAN score as much as possible (down to psychotic) by end of game, especially by Chapter 9 (i.e., via reading all the unholy books, getting the hallucination in the sewer in Chapter 2, etc). This will get you the nine opportunities to speak R'lyehian.
2.) Starting from Chapter 9 and on to Chapter 14, make sure to speak R'lyehian in the nine opportunities listed below.
3.) At the beginning of Chapter 11, select both "Submit" and "Accept the Knowledge" during your conversation with the Leviathan.
4.) At the whaling station hallucination sequence in Chapter 13, "submit" all three times, (aka taking the treatment, eating the meat, and taking the gun). Low sanity characters may be forced to take these options no matter what they pick, but better safe than sorry.
5.) At the very end of the game (Chapter 14), select "Perform the Ritual"
Here are the nine times you need to speak R'lyehian, and the chapter they can be found in:
Chapter 9: Sarah Hawkins -- when you first find Sarah in her cell at the institute, you will get this option here. NOTE: If you do not get the option to talk in R'lyehian here you sanity score may be too high to complete this achievement.
Chapter 9: Officer Bradley -- MISSABLE Bradley is located on the second floor of the library at the tables once you return with Sarah to the mansion. Easy to miss him if you're not paying attention.
Chapter 9: Sarah Hawkins -- Once you go downstairs in the library after the Bradley conversation, you get pulled into a conversation with Algernon Drake and Sarah Hawkins. Once Drake leaves, you will talk to Sarah alone. The option is here.
Chapter 9: Algernon Drake -- This option triggers after talking to Sarah where the next objective is to talk to Algernon. NOTE: you have two opportunities to get this, one right before receiving the drawing of the bust and one right after giving Algernon the amulet. If you don't have enough SAN drop to get it the option the first time, finding the amulet will drop your SAN one last time -- so don't despair if the option isn't available when you first see it, as you'll have one last opportunity.
Chapter 11: Leviathan -- This option triggers once you speak to Leviathan again at the beginning of Chapter 11. Hilariously, this is supremely unmissable, as you have six R'lyehian options to choose from. All of them count toward the achievement, so pick what you like.
Chapter 14: "Marie Colden" -- There will be three opportunities to talk in R'lyehian in the same conversation when talking to "Marie" in chapter 14.
Chapter 14: Sarah Hawkins -- Right at the end of the game, when talking to Sarah, your last opportunity is here.
Complete the five tasks above, make sure you speak R'lyehian at all nine opportunities, then select "I will perform the ritual" as you last option, and the achievement should pop during the final cut scene.
(Please let us know in the notes if this method has worked for you -- we're been working on this via trial and error for a few months, and would appreciate confirmation that the above works to unlock the achievement now)
UPDATED SOLUTION (Last Update: March 2020)
To gain this achievement, not only must you respond in R'lyehian all nine times that you can do so, you must also do the following:
1.) Lower your SAN score as much as possible (down to psychotic) by end of game, especially by Chapter 9 (i.e., via reading all the unholy books, getting the hallucination in the sewer in Chapter 2, etc). This will get you the nine opportunities to speak R'lyehian.
2.) Starting from Chapter 9 and on to Chapter 14, make sure to speak R'lyehian in the nine opportunities listed below.
3.) At the beginning of Chapter 11, select both "Submit" and "Accept the Knowledge" during your conversation with the Leviathan.
4.) At the whaling station hallucination sequence in Chapter 13, "submit" all three times, (aka taking the treatment, eating the meat, and taking the gun). Low sanity characters may be forced to take these options no matter what they pick, but better safe than sorry.
5.) At the very end of the game (Chapter 14), select "Perform the Ritual"
Here are the nine times you need to speak R'lyehian, and the chapter they can be found in:
Chapter 9: Sarah Hawkins -- when you first find Sarah in her cell at the institute, you will get this option here. NOTE: If you do not get the option to talk in R'lyehian here you sanity score may be too high to complete this achievement.
Chapter 9: Officer Bradley -- MISSABLE Bradley is located on the second floor of the library at the tables once you return with Sarah to the mansion. Easy to miss him if you're not paying attention.
Chapter 9: Sarah Hawkins -- Once you go downstairs in the library after the Bradley conversation, you get pulled into a conversation with Algernon Drake and Sarah Hawkins. Once Drake leaves, you will talk to Sarah alone. The option is here.
Chapter 9: Algernon Drake -- This option triggers after talking to Sarah where the next objective is to talk to Algernon. NOTE: you have two opportunities to get this, one right before receiving the drawing of the bust and one right after giving Algernon the amulet. If you don't have enough SAN drop to get it the option the first time, finding the amulet will drop your SAN one last time -- so don't despair if the option isn't available when you first see it, as you'll have one last opportunity.
Chapter 11: Leviathan -- This option triggers once you speak to Leviathan again at the beginning of Chapter 11. Hilariously, this is supremely unmissable, as you have six R'lyehian options to choose from. All of them count toward the achievement, so pick what you like.
Chapter 14: "Marie Colden" -- There will be three opportunities to talk in R'lyehian in the same conversation when talking to "Marie" in chapter 14.
Chapter 14: Sarah Hawkins -- Right at the end of the game, when talking to Sarah, your last opportunity is here.
Complete the five tasks above, make sure you speak R'lyehian at all nine opportunities, then select "I will perform the ritual" as you last option, and the achievement should pop during the final cut scene.
(Please let us know in the notes if this method has worked for you -- we're been working on this via trial and error for a few months, and would appreciate confirmation that the above works to unlock the achievement now)
57 Comments
I have played through the game twice now, and after rummaging through all the comments for this solution as well as the solutions for each of the four endings, I think I know for sure what the trigger is. I followed the TA walkthrough to the letter my first playthrough and didn't get this achievement. The second time around the big difference was that in chapter 10 I chose to SUBMIT and ACCEPT the knowledge (walkthrough says to struggle and accept). I also refused the treatment, meat, and gun in chapter 13 in both playthroughs. My second playthrough I also drank as much as I could and lied to and killed Bradley, but I don't think either of those had any bearing on this achievement. The big thing is to get your sanity to psychotic by chapter 9 so it's low enough to be able to speak R'lyehian, submit and accept the leviathans knowledge, speak R'lyehian in all nine instances, and perform the ritual. It's probably not necessary to read all three unholy books as my sanity was low enough by chapter 9 for to be able to respond in R'lyehian, but it doesn't hurt.
By duckonabike on 07 Mar 2020 04:58
Really hoping this pops for me within the foreseeable future, as it did for @bobby trippe
I don’t want to play this fucking game again
I don’t want to play this fucking game again
By DungeonxLurker on 03 Jan 2024 05:23
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For this one you have to choose to reply in R'lyehian every time. There is 9 replies.
- One with Sarah at the Riverside Institute
- One with the police officer at the Hawkins Manor
- One with Sarah
- One with Drake
- One with the Leviathan in the prison
- Three with Marie in Chapter 14
- One with Sarah at the very end.
Finally, at the end, you MUST accomplish the rituel, if you choose another ending, goodbye the achievement.
- One with Sarah at the Riverside Institute
- One with the police officer at the Hawkins Manor
- One with Sarah
- One with Drake
- One with the Leviathan in the prison
- Three with Marie in Chapter 14
- One with Sarah at the very end.
Finally, at the end, you MUST accomplish the rituel, if you choose another ending, goodbye the achievement.
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What about the second R'lyehian reply? I never seem to get to use it even though I gave him the amulet :/
By AwkwardJess on 06 Nov 2018 15:44
No, it's Drake. The first one is about Necrocomicon and the second one I have no idea cuz I can never choose it for some reason.
By AwkwardJess on 06 Nov 2018 16:15
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I have played through the game twice and I think I have chosen the language at every possible instance. Is there any conversations where I need to choose something specific to unlock more?
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you need to invoke Cthulhu at the end and there are 9 dialogue choices starting at Chapter 9 you need to pick also
By Schneidenbaga on 10 Nov 2018 02:59
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There are eight total dialogue choices that will appear in R'lyehian throughout the game. These are quite obvious, as the script is alien instead of your current language. You will come across four choices during separate conversations in Chapter 9, one in Chapter 11, three during the same conversation in Chapter 14, and one final one in a different conversation of Chapter 14. To unlock the achievement, you must use all eight replies, then choose to perform the ritual at the end of the game. See the walkthroughs in the Road Map or the video below for more help.
Easty
Missable!
There are 9 opportunities to choose R’lyehian dialogues through Chapters 9, 11 and 14. The R’lyehian dialogues are obvious to see as this is not actual letters but symbols instead. Make sure to choose these dialogues when you can.
Check this video (Credits to NonstopTrophies)
Or refer to The most trivial object 
for an all-in-one video.
Kok
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When an option with krakozyabrs (hieroglyphs) appears in the answer options, always choose this option. And in the final we select “I will perform the ritual.” After the cut scene, the trophy will drop.
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For the trophy to drop, the main character's madness must be at its maximum, take this into account. Even if the replicas are available for selection, the trophy will not ring if at least one event is missed in Pierce’s Sanity tab.
By Atreyu on 09 Dec 2018 13:06
Correction to the hint above:
The dialogue with Bradley, the second conversation with Sarah and the conversation with Drake take place in Chapter 9.
The dialogue with Bradley, the second conversation with Sarah and the conversation with Drake take place in Chapter 9.
By mysilentscream on 13 Nov 2018 18:25
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To receive the trophy, you not only need to say 9 lines, but also fulfill a number of conditions:
1.) We reduce the level of the hero’s mental health as much as possible (before chapter 14, I had the “Psychosis” level indicated) - we read all the wicked books, we see a hallucination in the second chapter, etc.
2.) We pronounce all possible lines in R'Lyeh (chapter 9-14).
3.) In Chapter 13, in a conversation with Leviathan, select “Obey” and “Accept knowledge”
4.) At the end of the chapter, we take the medicine, eat the meat, take the gun.
5.) At the end of the 14th chapter, select “Perform a ritual”
I had to replay because in the conversation with Leviathan I chose "Fight" and "Accept knowledge"
1.) We reduce the level of the hero’s mental health as much as possible (before chapter 14, I had the “Psychosis” level indicated) - we read all the wicked books, we see a hallucination in the second chapter, etc.
2.) We pronounce all possible lines in R'Lyeh (chapter 9-14).
3.) In Chapter 13, in a conversation with Leviathan, select “Obey” and “Accept knowledge”
4.) At the end of the chapter, we take the medicine, eat the meat, take the gun.
5.) At the end of the 14th chapter, select “Perform a ritual”
I had to replay because in the conversation with Leviathan I chose "Fight" and "Accept knowledge"