You play the flute and everyone around you is like
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Using an item you haven't identified is always a recipe for disaster. I have not once heard of a group using an unidentified item and finding out it was anything other than the worst possible thing to use in the situation.
I once unleashed an ancient evil on the world in a failed attempt to open an unlocked door.
Or a wrongly identified item...
My party (PF2E) had a spell scroll they completely misidentified as "Silence". It was "Noise Blast". They used it on a stealth mission...
It's not hugely convenient without a VTT like Foundry, but properly codifying lying to the players is one of my favourite bits of PF2e. I encourage all my players to take Dubious Knowledge so I can lie to them even more.
Everyone in the zip code is now deaf, it's all part of the plan
You can't hear us if you can't hear. /:) Ehhh? (Big brain smug pointing meme)
I imagine the players themselves also wished they knew sign language after that...
I honestly didn't even stop to think it was magic. My Autumn side just made a donation of 2 plat to the church (Of the Gnomish kindly trickster god, who teaches and takes. Temple was more like a comfy little home with a fireplace), made a prayer and the old lady minding the place from her rocking chair gave me a flute