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Tusky
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Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
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July 29, 2020, 10:23:52 AM »
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August 14, 2020, 11:05:45 AM »
Correct! Your turn!
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Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
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July 08, 2021, 08:10:24 PM »
Take an oracle to the sea,
Then you have a sort of me,
Like a kind of deer I run,
My longer kin from north may come,
Push me out to try for fame,
So, friend, tell me: what's my name?
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Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
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July 21, 2021, 01:29:42 PM »
I'm stumped on this one
Each bit of the clue gives me an idea, but none of them seem to be connected. Maybe time for a hint?
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Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
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July 21, 2021, 03:47:10 PM »
There's at least one sound-based clue, at least one spelling-based clue, at least one idiom based clue and at least one historical based clue in there.
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Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
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July 21, 2021, 04:21:55 PM »
After some more thought, I have come up with:
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boat
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- longboats from the north (historical)
- "push out the boat" (idiom)
- after further idle musing aloud, and with a groan, "sea oracle" = "C oracle" = "coracle" (is that sound-based or spelling based?)
But I still can't get the link to deer running.
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Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
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July 21, 2021, 04:39:46 PM »
You're correct
The remaining clue:
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Is the sound based one - to get a boat to move, you row, or as this suggests, "roe" it.
I'll see if I can think of any more...
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Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
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August 17, 2021, 09:41:09 AM »
Okay, a new one:
I am the giver of sweetness before the wise moon's daughter:
Throw me once and I am here, throw me twice and I am gone.
You entrust to me that which you need to survive,
Then with cold steel take it swift anon.
I likewise am the launch of orbs to flight in summer haze,
And when I am over, 'tis my power to amaze.
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April 11, 2024, 02:57:55 PM »
So I found this while browsing for possible riddles to put into an upcoming DnD game. I am terrible at riddles and don't have a good guess but I'll post some thoughts and maybe someone smarter than me will spot this and take a stab:
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"Wise moon's daughter" makes me think either of stars or possibly of a mythological deity. I have some knowledge of Greek more than anything else in this area, but then I don't think Athena (Goddess of Wisdom) was typically associated with the moon. Possibly a link with owls there that come out at night, although that seems a stretch...
"You entrust to me that which you need to survive, then with cold steel take it swift anon" makes me think of planting seeds and then harvesting crops, but I can't see how that fits elsewhere.
"the launch of orbs to flight in summer haze" makes me think of dandelions scattering seeds as well but then it's the wind that actually launches those and "wind" doesn't seem to fit either
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April 30, 2024, 01:19:08 PM »
Some good thoughts! And some feedback on them:
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I'd say that Athena is not associated with the moon (though she is associated with wisdom), but owls are associated with both, that's a good call.
You're not totally wrong on thinking about crops, but you're not at the right stage of that process.
I don't think dandelion seeds count as orbs; you want a less natural-world analogy for this one.
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