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So far, we already were, for the record, but yeah, that's totally fair.
As good as those are, they're distinctive and from a popular published work
I mean, you can guess and one or more of us can confirm or deny? I could do it.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
- Start date
- Original Fantasy Action
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- norse mythology (mythology) original xianxia cultivation western cultivation ask sirihand did your mother tell you anything? discussion pleases yggdrasil farming gloating gets people killed granary management hubris is a coward's word you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings
So far, we already were, for the record, but yeah, that's totally fair.
I mean, you can guess and one or more of us can confirm or deny? I could do it.
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- Many Places
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
It can be anything or everything
We all know it's name and nature
Anyone can evoke it with words
Yet us here disdain what it is
What is it?
(Answer: Lies)
We all know it's name and nature
Anyone can evoke it with words
Yet us here disdain what it is
What is it?
(Answer: Lies)
Mine were? Dayum.
We can probably quote the relevant spoilerbox with the correct answer.
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I've always liked this one:
He who built it doesn't need it
He who buys it doesn't use it
He who uses it doesn't know it
(A coffin)
And after a brief look into it, coffins were sometimes used in this era, especially in Norway, so it's a valid choice.
He who built it doesn't need it
He who buys it doesn't use it
He who uses it doesn't know it
(A coffin)
And after a brief look into it, coffins were sometimes used in this era, especially in Norway, so it's a valid choice.
I like that one. Might want to fiddle with the wording very slightly...but I like it.
I was referring to alexanderthealright's. Yours were also good, but those were the ones I was referring to there.
Yeah, that seems legit.
CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
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- Somewhere
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Love that IF is just reading an SCP article at this point
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Difference between this and an SCP article is that I assume there's actually something underneath the redactions
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Not sure we could actually get away with that
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- He/Him
This is a way to say you won a riddle contest, not to get the other party to acknowledge your victory. If the Jotunn decides we didn't win, then we didn't win. He has all the power.
We can trick him, but it needs to be the kind of trick where he admits afterwards 'Yeah, you got me.' not 'My answer was just as good.'
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Personally.. I think that's cheating. If there's another valid answer it should be valid still even if you didn't consider it.
Now, it would be different if your answer is unambiguously the most 'correct'.
Woven every moment
All-Knowing
More Final than Fated Days
Unchanging
Herald of Glory and Shame
All-Seeing
It was there when Askr and Embla were given life,
It will be there when Ragnarok has come and gone.
We chart our path through it's tempestuous tides,
We take their words as guide to speech and deed.
What is it, I speak of?
(Answer: History)
All-Knowing
More Final than Fated Days
Unchanging
Herald of Glory and Shame
All-Seeing
It was there when Askr and Embla were given life,
It will be there when Ragnarok has come and gone.
We chart our path through it's tempestuous tides,
We take their words as guide to speech and deed.
What is it, I speak of?
(Answer: History)
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- Many Places
No it's actually all just song lyrics
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Inspired by a much shorter riddle I found:
I can take all a man has, or grant him all he desires
I can end feuds or start them, make paupers of the rich or a rich man of a pauper
Yet men are my hands and my will, and my word is done only by them
Few want to have me yet all fear to lose me once they do
What am I?
(A lawsuit)
I can take all a man has, or grant him all he desires
I can end feuds or start them, make paupers of the rich or a rich man of a pauper
Yet men are my hands and my will, and my word is done only by them
Few want to have me yet all fear to lose me once they do
What am I?
(A lawsuit)
[X] Challenge him to a game or contest of your choosing
-[X]"Who can come closest to touching the Sun"
The riddle challenge is generic, and has some annoying logistic problems with the quest format and everything. The touch the sun idea someone else had just fits the character more, and is a lot more original.
-[X]"Who can come closest to touching the Sun"
The riddle challenge is generic, and has some annoying logistic problems with the quest format and everything. The touch the sun idea someone else had just fits the character more, and is a lot more original.
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I'm pretty sure we flatly lose this contest, is the big problem here. The Jotun can almost certainly fly, and do so for free via shapeshifting into a bird, while our flight costs us Orthstirr and is thus limited in duration. He will just beat us in a 'who can get highest' contest.
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If we face a minor god in a physical contest we are going to lose.
HARD
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I think we should engage in a lawsuit. That's a type of contest right?
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We'd need someone to be the judge and jury. Also, this guy definitely doesn't care about the law. I don't see a way that works logistically, unfortunately.
Actually...I think that means we'd get a Speaking Out Of Law progression for beating him? Well, for getting him to agree to a contest anyway. That'd be cool.
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If he agreed to the lawyering contest then we would both need to proceed to the next/closest Thing and present our arguments before the judges.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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- He/They
Small correction, Jotnar are proper, capital G Gods. These aren't your local forest or streams, no siree, these are entities capable of creation and destruction at mind boggling scales.
- Location
- Many Places
We don't have any unbiased judges
I'm sorry so is this guy more a mini Thor or is he something Blackhand could have killed?
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Yeah that's how we win.
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He knows that so he won't do it
[X] Challenge him to a game or contest of your choosing
-[X] Specifically, challenge him to a contest of riddles
-[X] Specifically, challenge him to a contest of riddles