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Post by Tiger on Aug 7, 2018 20:48:25 GMT -5
I haven't really been following the latest round because Rui was offed, but seeing Tiger 's commentary in her latest post via the Recent Posts about the raptors-and-gang not realizing that half-dragon-half-horses ARE longmas got a good chuckle out of me, especially as part of Rui's character is her not knowing the correct species name for anything other than longmas. :P If only they could have worked together, then they would have had...well, still not a complete bestiary, but something closer to one!
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Post by Rabbit ♠ on Aug 22, 2018 11:26:48 GMT -5
I've done a couple doodles of Naelus stuff over the last few days, so I'm sharing them. Kopi and Taakeyrr, guardian buds. And spoilers for the epilogue if you haven't read it yet. (I don't think it's too big, but you never know.) The kits under Kopi's and Tash's care. Pewter, Mulberry, and Solier. I have yet to assign heights in case that's important, but all of them are smaller than Kopi. (So they're smol.)
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Post by Shinko on Aug 25, 2018 6:15:29 GMT -5
Artseses! Alive again Beech!
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Post by Shinko on Aug 29, 2018 17:00:02 GMT -5
Hey everybody! Gueeeess what? If you participated in the Naelus roleplay event, you are now eligible for *Drumroll* A shiny new forum badge! If you'd like it added to your profile, shimmy on down to our profile and rank changes board and one of your friendly neighborhood spidermods will apply it for you!
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Post by Lizica on Sept 7, 2018 23:17:22 GMT -5
Uhhhh *belatedly flings post* <_< >_> Hahaha...ha... Oh man, I meant to put this list together ages ago, closer to the beginning of the game. XD I actually had most of this collected and written several weeks ago, but at that point I sort of went, "...eh, I might as well wait for game end at this point." But I still wanted to cite my sources and show how much/how little I tweaked on all those riddles anyway, and plus, they usually make more sense without the lies, as well. xD Anyway, it's a giant list of the original riddles that my Naelus characters used because no way was I clever enough to make these up myself. xD Round 1Ah yes, the classic "one of us always lies, and the other always tells the truth" You are a traveling warrior in a mythical land. In your travels you come to a fork in the road that is guarded by a two-headed dragon. It explains to you that one of its heads always speaks truth, while the other always speaks lies. One of the roads from the fork leads to certain death, while the other leads to safety. You are allowed to ask just *one* question to *one* of the dragon's heads in order to determine which path leads to safety and which one leads to death. The problem is, you don't know which head speaks truth and which one speaks lies. What one question can you ask of either head to determine which road leads to safety? Answer: "Which road would your brother tell me is the correct path to go down to stay safe?"
(Note that 'brother' in this sense would be referring to the opposite head than the one you're speaking to).
No matter which head you ask the question, you'll get the same answer directing you to take one of the roads. Whichever road you receive as the answer - you then take the opposite road. Four feet in the morning, you know this one xD Source: Greek mythology What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening? Answer: Man
(A baby crawling on all fours, an adult walking on two, and an elderly person walking with a cane.) Round 2 Hot or coldWhich is faster, hot or cold? Answer: Hot is faster. You can catch a cold.
Ba dum tssch! *finger guns*
In DarknessI come in darkness, though not always at night To some I bring joy To others I bring fright What am I? Round 3 Sharing is caringIf you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I? Round 4 Journey without itJourney without it and you will never prevail, but if you have too much of it you will surely fail. Round 5 A prison you feel safe inA prison you feel safe in, yet never quite happy. Whenever you try to leave, it only grows bigger. Answer: Your comfort zone
[Intermission for Important Riddles~] Round 8 IslandWhy is an island like the letter 'T'? Answer: Because it is in the middle of waTer.
[Intermission for a Trip and Spoilers and Catching Up] Round 16 If I should breakIf you break me I do not stop working; if you touch me I may be snared; if you lose me nothing will matter. Let me ramble about this one, please let me ramble about this one *bounce bounce* =O Okay, so I originally found this riddle super early on while I was brainstorming--May 18th, actually, before the game had even started. I knew this riddle had enough potential for heartbreak and dramaz that I transcribed it in my journal notes.
*scrolls through notes* And on June 15th, I wrote the tweaked Verso and Recto version:
(If you vaguely recall my saying in the Discord chat that I had an idea for an “Any last words?” sort of line if V&R died, this was what it was.) And it tickles me so much in hindsight, because in retrospect, that tweaked riddle is super reminiscent of the whole Papa Wolf situation (which I didn’t know about at the time) and also of the corruption and death situation (which hadn’t happened yet), and in that interpretation it could unintentionally implicate Verso and Recto as the riddle’s answer. But the “your heart” answer also sort of gained more meanings, too--in addition to the “we’re dead because of a heartless action” thing, there's also the Spirit’s heart, since it was a literal place that people were trying to reach.
...Probably nobody read that far into it, but I was laughing behind the scenes about it. X3 I’m glad I got to use it, anyway, since I feel like it made a neat, slightly ominous post that also made a cool intro to flashbacks.
</ramble> TL;DR, Embrace your happy writing accidents and recklessly elaborate on them.
Round 13 / Round 17, what are flashbacks They're not twiiiiinsTwo girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be? Answer: The two babies are two of a set of triplets. Round 18 / Round 20 Taken AwayWhat is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?
Aaaannnnd vague references to other riddles (I won't link the posts in which these were vaguely referred to, because they only referred to them using the answer of the riddle. And since the second is one of my favorites that I came across, I want to preserve its surprise a little. xD) Thirty white horses 30 white horses on a red hill: first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What am I? Four jolly men Four jolly men sat down to play, And played all night till break of day. They played for cash and not for fun, With a separate score for every one. When it came time to square accounts, they all had made quite fair amounts. Now, not one has lost and all have gained - Tell me now, can you explain? Answer: The four jolly men are members of an orchestra hired to play at a dance.
Go forth and plague your friends with riddles! *shot*
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Post by Reiqua on Sept 8, 2018 8:29:53 GMT -5
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Post by Celestial on Sept 8, 2018 11:05:51 GMT -5
Reiqua, your voice is amazingly soothing and I love how you read those. <3 ...I may have misheard "Beech" though. xD;;
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Post by Reiqua on Sept 8, 2018 16:03:58 GMT -5
Celestial - XD yeah that’s the funny thing with accents. What is definitely a long vowel to one speaker could very easily be a short vowel to another! (Didn’t even cross my mind as I was recording!)
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Post by Liou on Sept 10, 2018 5:47:51 GMT -5
Thanks for starting the party, Reiqua ! =D You sound very sweet.
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