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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Before you are three gods, named true, false, and madman, although you do not know which is which. True speaks only truth, false speaks only lies, but madman will randomly choose whether to be truthful or lie before answering. The three can only say yes or no, but will only say hug and bah, and you do not know which means which. They will understand your questions. With only three questions in total, each to only a single god, determine which god is which.

Q1: Ask the second god, "If I asked you 'Is the first madman?', would you say hug?". If the second answers hug, either the second is madman (and is answering randomly), or the second is not madman and the answer indicates that the first is indeed madman. Either way, the third is not madman. If the second answers bah, either the second is madman (and is answering randomly), or the second is not Random and the answer indicates that the first is not madman. Either way, you know the identity of a god who is not madman.
Q2: Go to the god who was identified as not being madman by the previous question (either first or third), and ask him: "If I asked you 'Are you False?', would you say hug?". Since he is not madman, an answer of bah indicates that he is True and an answer of hug indicates that he is False.
Q3: Ask the same god the question: "If I asked you 'Is the second madman?', would you say hug?". If the answer is hug, the second is madman; if the answer is bah, the god you have not yet spoken to is maan. The remaining god can be identified by elimination.
 
Okay, tried to add most of the other riddles I could find with listed answers to the Warded Post. Exceptions made for some that were super long or in weird formats.
 
i suffer iron's ire
and it suffers mine
my mother is the mountain
and my master is man
when i am wet i ache
for something to grind

what am i?
a whetstone
(i swear on my name and the grace of the stump and the stone that i did not mean to make the whetstone horny)
 
TheCount said:
So.... We die a bodily death or be kidnapped/taken as a trophy?
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Perhaps you will see?

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The riddle is:

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
Who am I?

And, in the interests of fairness since you told us about the mythology thing, it is not a mythology riddle.

EDIT: Thinking about it, it's also worth noting in the interests of fairness that a lot of our riddles tend to use who/what interchangeably on that last question.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Fair enough. #2 probably is the least clear.



Fair enough. Gathering them together is a project, though. I'll go back through and add more, but the timing may be such that it only happens after this first one.
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its no problem, I do appreciate the effort you make here as I am sure all of us do. it just seems important to let as many people participate as possible. even if it takes time
 
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Exmorri said:
My 2c of public advice: the riddle should be clear in retrospect , so that Heklr won't call us a cheater or come up with a wild guess that also fits.

Err on the side of making it obvious. Riddles are much harder than they look when having to solve them, as opposed to knowing the answer and checking if it fits. If it's too vague, Heklr gets angry. If it's too obvious, Heklr guesses correctly and we have another round. Kennings are fine, but the kenning should definitely describe the object.
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This is why I tweaked mine, FWIW.
 
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    • 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
    Who am I?
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    After a moment of thought, Heklr grins while frowning and gives you an appraising wink, "The answer to that little conundrum is 'a lawsuit'."

    A bead of sweat drips down your brow as you breathe, "That... Is correct, yes."

    The grinning frown widens as Heklr offers you another riddle,

    Strongest man of the Lying Island, I be
    Friend of the unmanly, you see
    Doing Crime for Crime sees me wave goodbye
    So, who will be I?

    What is your answer?
    [ ] Write in

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    AN: We're kicking things up a notch or twelve, as you can see ;P

    No moratorium.
     
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    • Feels like this might be a very derogatory way of referring to one of the Gods?

    "Friend to the unmanly" could mean a friend of Odin, since Odin practiced Seidr, something he gets frequently called out on/disparaged for during flyting matches with other gods and giants. "Strongest man" also feels a lot like Thor, but I don't know what "lying island" refers to.

    "Doing Crime for Crime sees me wave goodbye" feels a lot like it might be the Jotnar's perspective on how the Aesir behaved in a famous myth, where the Aesir once again manage to wriggle out of the consequences of Loki's their actions.

    Oooh, wait... alternately could "the lying island" be that group of giants who were related to Loki who he and Thor visited one time, who deceived them both? (Tricking Thor into drinking the sea, hitting mountains, etc..) They left after their deception was revealed, never to be found again, so that might also sorta fit? Did they live on an island?
     
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