Dragon Harem Quest - Or: Saying You Were Gay Wasn't The Conversation-Ender You Hoped For
- Thread starter ZerbanDaGreat
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[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
--[X] War.
I gotta agree here it has to be war, nothing else makes sense... I woulda guessed plague if not for the worship line... maybe industry? but no it lacks the whole "absolve your sins" factor. So ya gotta be war.
--[X] War.
I gotta agree here it has to be war, nothing else makes sense... I woulda guessed plague if not for the worship line... maybe industry? but no it lacks the whole "absolve your sins" factor. So ya gotta be war.
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- Ohio
But if we have too many husbands, won't we be weighed down if we have to carry them all?
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[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
--[X] War.
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Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Wait a second. Something that is both admired and feared, that forgives sins but never lets them go and exists as a festering being far away you cannot forget?
By Jove, I've got it!
[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
-[X] Mom
By Jove, I've got it!
[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
-[X] Mom
NemiTheNen
Perpetual Phone Poster
Or your mom.
NothingNow
Corpse Wrangler
- Location
- Tampa
[X] Try to trick Makram into solving it by playing on his ego. It's clear the only thing he loves more than putting people down is puffing himself up, and you're such an easy target he might just take the bare hook, let alone bait.
Namer
ᵘʷᵘ
- Location
- Bangladesh
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hey, now, I came to the same conclusion too.
Olive
Silent Princess
Hrrrm, the whole design of the tower seems to say suggest it being something along the lines of water or something, but then my first thought was the classic time malarkey. And war is a good guess as well. It's clear then what the real solution is:
[X] Try to trick Makram into solving it by playing on his ego. It's clear the only thing he loves more than putting people down is puffing himself up, and you're such an easy target he might just take the bare hook, let alone bait.
[X] Try to trick Makram into solving it by playing on his ego. It's clear the only thing he loves more than putting people down is puffing himself up, and you're such an easy target he might just take the bare hook, let alone bait.
LaRed
Are you stupid or something
- Location
- Mou Ikkai hell
Old wizards can't just pick the coffin riddle can they
Uhhhhh inclined to go with water but the festering bit makes me think it's not, then again-
*looks at chapter title*
-it's possible the riddle is just complete bullshit soooooo
[X] Try to trick Makram into solving it by playing on his ego. It's clear the only thing he loves more than putting people down is puffing himself up, and you're such an easy target he might just take the bare hook, let alone bait.
Worst comes to worst we just run like hell.
Uhhhhh inclined to go with water but the festering bit makes me think it's not, then again-
*looks at chapter title*
-it's possible the riddle is just complete bullshit soooooo
[X] Try to trick Makram into solving it by playing on his ego. It's clear the only thing he loves more than putting people down is puffing himself up, and you're such an easy target he might just take the bare hook, let alone bait.
Worst comes to worst we just run like hell.
Wiadi
Uncompromising Radical Leftist
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- Something Clever
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Well, I guess we know how he ended up in that lamp.
ChildishChimera
A umbran summon
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- New York
[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
--[X] War.
--[X] War.
Yeah, it's probably something to do with water. Sultanate, sandstone. Water. Tanin. Dug through every mention of the Tanin and Sultanate and couldn't find anything relevant. Though devouring mountains - I don't necessarily think of water doing that? Yeah, it can, but it'd be more like rot, or decay.
I sympathise with Makram's reaction.
There's probably also some backstory there.
Both Issachar (wears Sultanate-adjacent clothing according to Eldingar, admittedly not the most reliable of sources) and Makram (Sultanate lamp, plus Jinn) have connections to it. Then again, he might not have the modern context for it, depending on where and when the lamp's been?
Which would be kind of funny in and of itself, if we turn to Makram and he has no idea because the cultural context has changed.
[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
--[X] Water.
Now, I should clarify here that I don't think this is the right answer - but I do think Eldingar should make an attempt at it. I think Makram would be more impressed at an honest attempt at answering than an attempt at manipulation that's probably going to be comically transparent. Even if it would appeal to his ego.
Salty
Shadow Cabal Assumptor Supreme
- Location
- Sun, Moon, Talia
- Pronouns
- I/Me
[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
--[X] Water.
Come on people, this is riddles 101.
--[X] Water.
Come on people, this is riddles 101.
Floods, storms, drowning, the sea...
Floods, storms, tsunamis...
Rain
Rain again.
This one doesn't even need discussing.
Baptism, ritual cleansing, and even sewer systems
We literally spotted a capped well/cesspit or whatever on our way in here, we're standing in the middle of a gigantic water feature made of constantly circulating water as we listen to this riddle.
You're water, and if you're not water you're a goddamn liar.
[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
--[X] Water.
--[X] Water.
Imrix
Periodically Malevolent QM
Pffft, naturally, this guy is just pathologically a little shit, I love it.
Mmm, tangy!
In contrast to the usual versions, the draconic form of this song counts upwards with each verse, framing it as a dragon passing bags around to be filled with tribute. As a result the song is theoretically endless - once a dragon starts, they tend to keep singing until something interrupts them or they become too lost in fantasies of wealth to maintain the rhythm.
- Location
- The Land of Many Bregrets
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Things Eldingar and Makram can agree on #1: Filthy, filthy wizards.
As for the riddle, torn between Greed and Faith. Of the two I'd lean towards Greed over Faith; yes there's 'absolving sins' but Faith wouldn't cover the scouring of lands and mountains.
- Location
- Patriarchova
[X] Answer the riddle yourself.
--[X] History
--[X] History
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[k] Answer the riddle yourself.
-[k] My Mom.
-[k] My Mom.
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- Location
- Patriarchova
Can someone explain the rationale of how water carries away your sins to me?
[x] Brute-force it.
--[x] Go outside, shift up, and batter the f-word out of the tower until you make your own door.
--[x] Go outside, shift up, and batter the f-word out of the tower until you make your own door.
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I don't actually agree, but there is a, "Wash away your sins/baptism" angle.
But, uh. This is a fantasy world, so I'm pretty sure that Judeo-Christian beliefs aren't a thing.