Riddles in the Dark of Exilian

[Jubal]

All you that compete
With victory a desire

You that may gather
To plot and conspire

No longer a guage
To reach destinations

Make an alleigance
And unite the nations

Hm, thoughts.

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A gauge and reaching destinations make me think of rail gauges, or trains. Competing with victory as a desire also feels like it might be train. Can't get it to fit to 2 or 4 though.

The other thought I have was something about wreaths - obviously the United Nations has a wreath on its flag, and laurel wreaths are the traditional symbol of victory. I can imagine that at some point wreaths were used to mark the houses of some sort of conspirators... and maybe were on trains at some point? I dunno, bit of a stretch.

Also, toady, check your PM inbox

[Tusky]

Nope, good guesses though

Somewhat easy clues:

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1: A group of sports teams
3: Old unit of distance

Very easy clues:

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2: to be in ____ with someone
4: the ___ of nations

[comrade_general]

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League, because I cheated 

[Tusky]

yep!!

[Jubal]

CG's turn to do a riddle

[Tusky]

I can only assume CG is thinking about what riddle to post in vast amounts of detail. Does anyone else want to post a riddle in the meantime?

[Jubal]

OK, not sure if this is too easy or too difficult, but try this one...

Coaxed into a Grecian play,
Then ten thousand eyes I lay,
Then comes no-legs,
Then comes long-legs,
Calling death at close of day.

Tell me, friend, who am I, pray?

[Tusky]

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Autumn?

eye = middle of a flower so they are all losing their blooms
no legs = slugs coming out in the autumn rain
long legs = daddy long legs tend to appear in that season in the UK
death at the close of day is winter?

No idea about the Grecian play reference though

[Son of the King]

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Frog

[Jubal]

SOTK is correct, though valiant effort from Tusky SOTK's turn to do a riddle!

Explanation:

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Coaxed into a Grecian play,
"Brekekekex Koax Koax" is the famous call of the title choir in Aristophanes' The Frogs
Then ten thousand eyes I lay,
Frogspawn...
Then comes no-legs,
Tadpoles...
Then comes long-legs,
Frogs!
Calling death at close of day.
Evening is when frogs vocalise most, and "croak" - synonym for death.

[Jubal]

OK, since we're still sans a SOTK-riddle and I wrote some riddles lately:

Green the father, brown the daughter,
Avoid the arrow, witch to water,
Lake or river, earth or air,
Faces hid, they dabble there,
No nimble hands or lips to kiss,
What family, do tell, is this?

[comrade_general]

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Willow

[Glaurung]

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ducks

... though I don't see how witch to water fits.

[Jubal]

Glaurung is right and it's his turn to riddle

As to that line:

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It's a reference to "ducking stools" which were sometimes used to supposedly identify witches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucking_stool

[Glaurung]

I don't have a riddle ready, and I'm unlikely to come up with one any time soon. If anyone's got one ready, please jump in.