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<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Vollkorn+SC&display=swap" rel="stylesheet"><style> #mythicalquest{ width:600px; border:1px solid #8d6a5b;} #mythicalquestcontainer{ width:600px; position:relative; z-index:1; background:-webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(243,230,221,0), rgba(243,230,221,1)180px); background:-o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(243,230,221,0), rgba(243,230,221,1)180px); background:-moz-linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(243,230,221,0), rgba(243,230,221,1)180px); background:-linear-gradient(to top, rgba(243,230,221,0), rgba(243,230,221,1)180px); background:-ms-linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(243,230,221,0), rgba(243,230,221,1)180px); margin-bottom:-190px; padding-top:25px; padding-bottom:50px;} #mythicalquesttext{ width:500px; color:#8d6a5b; font-family: 'Vollkorn SC', serif; font-size:16px;} #mythicalquesttext a:link, a:visited {color:#8d6a5b} #mythicalquestimg{ position:relative; z-index:0;}</style><center><div id="mythicalquest"><div id="mythicalquestcontainer"><p id="mythicalquesttext" align="justify">The bravest of believers come, stepping through the door. Some hesitantly, some eagerly, some without thought, but nevertheless they all cross the threshold.
For a moment, there is only darkness. But then it begins to clear, a dry, arid wind stirring to wipe the darkness and replace the scentless void with dust and burning sand. As those daring few blink away the darkness, they would find themselves squinting against the impossibly bright sunlight and blowing desert dust.
It’s immediately clear this is no longer home, or wherever it is they had come from.
Once the fog clears, the first thing one would note in this desolate landscape is the massive sandstone sculpture that looms before them. An odd thing with a feline form and human features. Some might know the creature. Might have heard the impossible stories held fable by ancient fairytales. But as the still, stony features begin to stir with life, it becomes clear this is no fairytale.
As improbable as it may seem, the ancient statue shifts and rumbles, dust rising as stone scrapes against stone, unbearably loud after the hush from whence they’d come. As those harsh, disapproving features turn down, staring at the intruder, a voice rumbles in a startlingly deep and booming echo from vocal chords that should not function. <b>“WHO DARES DISTURB MY PEACE?”</b>
Perhaps they answer, perhaps the do not. Their apologies, their stunned or recalcitrant silence, nor even their petulant arguments would change the sphinx’s demand. <b>“FOR YOUR IMPUDENCE, MY RIDDLE YOU MUST ANSWER. CHOOSE CORRECTLY, AND YOU MAY PASS. CHOOSE POORLY, AND FACE MY WRATH.”</b>
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Welcome to round two, the Sphinx’s Riddle! In this round, your task is easy. Or hard, depending on how you like riddles.
Each and every one of you has been given a different riddle to answer (the riddles were assigned randomly using this randomizer: https://www.random.org/lists/).
You have twenty four (24) hours to answer the riddle (September 25th at Noon central standard time).
Posts are not required in this round, though if you choose to write a few words to continue the story or express reactions, please feel free! Ultimately however, this round will be judged solely on the accuracy of your response to the riddle.
You are welcome to use whatever means you have available to discover the answer, but the deadline is a hard one. Any late responders will be booted.
Failure to respond will result in a temporary defect. Even an incorrect answer is better than none, as far as the sphinx is concerned.
@[Velkan]
Whoever makes me can hear me, but they are the only one who can. What am I?
@[Demetyr]
I am not known until I am measured, but somehow you still miss me when I have flown. What am I?
@[Rebelle]
What starts with the letter e, ends with the letter e, and only has one letter?
@[lilian]
I am an ear, but I hear nothing. What am I?
@[Kha]
I build up castles, yet I can bring down mountains. I will blind some met, yet help others to see. What am I?
@[Popinjay]
Everyone is attracted to me, everyone falls for me. What am I?
@[Aedan]
If you walk on me while I live, I don’t make a sound. If you walk on me when I die, I mutter and grumble. What am I?
@[Beulah]
I have a bed, but I never sleep. I have a mouth, but I never eat. I’m always running, but never walking. I often gurgle, but never talk. What am I?
@[Aislyn]
When you do not know what I am, then I am something. When you know what I am, then I am nothing. What am I?
@[larke]
The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?
@[Pteron]
You must give me before you can keep me. What am I?
@[flutter]
You have heard me before and you will hear me again, but I will die until you call me again. What am I?</p></div><div id="mythicalquestimg"><img width="600px" src="https://i.postimg.cc/HLC7n42D/Quest.jpg"/></div></div></center>
For a moment, there is only darkness. But then it begins to clear, a dry, arid wind stirring to wipe the darkness and replace the scentless void with dust and burning sand. As those daring few blink away the darkness, they would find themselves squinting against the impossibly bright sunlight and blowing desert dust.
It’s immediately clear this is no longer home, or wherever it is they had come from.
Once the fog clears, the first thing one would note in this desolate landscape is the massive sandstone sculpture that looms before them. An odd thing with a feline form and human features. Some might know the creature. Might have heard the impossible stories held fable by ancient fairytales. But as the still, stony features begin to stir with life, it becomes clear this is no fairytale.
As improbable as it may seem, the ancient statue shifts and rumbles, dust rising as stone scrapes against stone, unbearably loud after the hush from whence they’d come. As those harsh, disapproving features turn down, staring at the intruder, a voice rumbles in a startlingly deep and booming echo from vocal chords that should not function. <b>“WHO DARES DISTURB MY PEACE?”</b>
Perhaps they answer, perhaps the do not. Their apologies, their stunned or recalcitrant silence, nor even their petulant arguments would change the sphinx’s demand. <b>“FOR YOUR IMPUDENCE, MY RIDDLE YOU MUST ANSWER. CHOOSE CORRECTLY, AND YOU MAY PASS. CHOOSE POORLY, AND FACE MY WRATH.”</b>
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Welcome to round two, the Sphinx’s Riddle! In this round, your task is easy. Or hard, depending on how you like riddles.
Each and every one of you has been given a different riddle to answer (the riddles were assigned randomly using this randomizer: https://www.random.org/lists/).
You have twenty four (24) hours to answer the riddle (September 25th at Noon central standard time).
Posts are not required in this round, though if you choose to write a few words to continue the story or express reactions, please feel free! Ultimately however, this round will be judged solely on the accuracy of your response to the riddle.
You are welcome to use whatever means you have available to discover the answer, but the deadline is a hard one. Any late responders will be booted.
Failure to respond will result in a temporary defect. Even an incorrect answer is better than none, as far as the sphinx is concerned.
@[Velkan]
Whoever makes me can hear me, but they are the only one who can. What am I?
@[Demetyr]
I am not known until I am measured, but somehow you still miss me when I have flown. What am I?
@[Rebelle]
What starts with the letter e, ends with the letter e, and only has one letter?
@[lilian]
I am an ear, but I hear nothing. What am I?
@[Kha]
I build up castles, yet I can bring down mountains. I will blind some met, yet help others to see. What am I?
@[Popinjay]
Everyone is attracted to me, everyone falls for me. What am I?
@[Aedan]
If you walk on me while I live, I don’t make a sound. If you walk on me when I die, I mutter and grumble. What am I?
@[Beulah]
I have a bed, but I never sleep. I have a mouth, but I never eat. I’m always running, but never walking. I often gurgle, but never talk. What am I?
@[Aislyn]
When you do not know what I am, then I am something. When you know what I am, then I am nothing. What am I?
@[larke]
The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?
@[Pteron]
You must give me before you can keep me. What am I?
@[flutter]
You have heard me before and you will hear me again, but I will die until you call me again. What am I?</p></div><div id="mythicalquestimg"><img width="600px" src="https://i.postimg.cc/HLC7n42D/Quest.jpg"/></div></div></center>