Brontoforumus Archive

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:


This board has been fossilized.
You are reading an archive of Brontoforumus, a.k.a. The Worst Forums Ever, from 2008 to early 2014.  Registration and posting (for most members) has been disabled here to discourage spambots from taking over.  Old members can still log in to view boards, PMs, etc.

The new message board is at http://brontoforum.us.

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5

Author Topic: Riddle Me This  (Read 7371 times)

0 Members and 11 Guests are viewing this topic.

Friday

  • Admin
  • Tested
  • Karma: -65374
  • Posts: 5122
    • View Profile
Riddle Me This
« on: November 13, 2010, 06:17:56 PM »

A THREAD FOR RIDDLES

THE RULES:

1. First person to post the correct answer to the riddle gets to post the next riddle.

2. Spoilertag your answers so you don't ruin the riddle for other people!

3. It's up to the person who posted the riddle to decide if your answer is right or not!

4. Riddles must be fair! Feel free to make up your own!

5. A lot of you will have heard some of these riddles before! That's cool! Let some people who haven't give it a try before you come in all like HAHAHA I AM SO MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU BECAUSE I READ THIS IN A BOOK WHEN I WAS TEN

6. If you just want to guess the riddle but don't want to give the next one, say so in your answer.

7. Guild Envy

8. If nobody can get your riddle in like three days post another one.

I'll start.

I have a bed, but never sleep,
a mouth, but never talk,
always running, never walking
Logged

Koah

  • Tested
  • Karma: 4
  • Posts: 1008
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2010, 06:26:24 PM »

[spoiler]A river.[/spoiler]
Logged

Friday

  • Admin
  • Tested
  • Karma: -65374
  • Posts: 5122
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2010, 06:34:23 PM »

CORRECT YOUR TURN
Logged

jsnlxndrlv

  • Custom Title
  • Tested
  • Karma: 24
  • Posts: 2913
    • View Profile
    • Website title
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2010, 06:59:27 PM »

I've got a riddle, but I guess I can't post it until the delegate from Hakubistan goes? Tch.
Logged
Signature:
Signatures are displayed at the bottom of each post or personal message. BBCode and smileys may be used in your signature.

Friday

  • Admin
  • Tested
  • Karma: -65374
  • Posts: 5122
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2010, 07:23:44 PM »

OK YOU GO TOO WE'LL HAVE TWO RIDDLES RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME
Logged

Koah

  • Tested
  • Karma: 4
  • Posts: 1008
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2010, 07:50:59 PM »

I am always to be, but never was
None have seen me, nor they ever will
Yet all are certain of my coming
Logged

Beat Bandit

  • be entranced by my sexy rhythm
  • High-Bullshit
  • Tested
  • Karma: -65418
  • Posts: 4293
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2010, 08:01:33 PM »

[spoiler]Brentai's penis[/spoiler]
Logged

jsnlxndrlv

  • Custom Title
  • Tested
  • Karma: 24
  • Posts: 2913
    • View Profile
    • Website title
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2010, 08:47:56 PM »

So, Guild is out skipping through the post-apocalyptic Alps one day when he stumbles upon the Village of Werewolves. Now, contrary to the name, this village doesn't have any werewolves in it—so far as anyone knows—but it has had a history of being infiltrated by werewolves, of suffering werewolf attacks, of hosting werewolf-lynching parties, et cetera. The fact that this village still exists after generations of such attacks is a testament to the villagers' logic, perception, and absolute selflessness and ruthlessness.

This village is not without its scars. All of the windows were shattered in attacks and boarded up. Every mirror was ground to dust for their silver... which proved ironic during the subsequent vampire infestation. An ongoing consequence of which is that nobody's willing to look at their own reflection. The argument at the time was that, because of the scarcity of mirrors, anybody who's trying to see their own reflection is obviously aware that other people can see them trying to see their reflection, they're paradoxically more likely to be vampire trying to prove their innocence by being too eager to attempt the impossible. Tortured logic, but while that policy may have killed more than one innocent, the vampire infestation was wiped out, so the tradition remains.

After so many years of exposure to various strains of lycanthropy, a new and particularly subtle lycanthropic virus has been plaguing the town for a long time. The only observed effect of this version of the virus is that the carrier's eyes turn permanently red. No hostility, no transformation, no compulsion to spread the virus: just red eyes. So far.

Every person born into the village must swear to kill him or herself, in his or her house at midnight, if he or she discovers that his or her eyes are red.

Ten years ago, a traveling druid was passing through the village, and witnesses who saw his wolf form mistook him for a werewolf, and burned him at the stake. He'd heard of the disease, and in his anguish and wrath, he cursed the inhabitants of the village: no-one living therein may talk or write about eye-color, except to take the village suicide-oath. With the subject of eye-color forbidden from discussion, the villagers lived together in peace, with normal-eyed and red-eyed villagers living side by side, and nobody ever killing themselves.

Guild, being an outsider, is not subject to the curse. He announces: "At least one of you people living here has red eyes." With this knowledge, something dramatic will happen to the village. What is it, and when will it happen?
Logged
Signature:
Signatures are displayed at the bottom of each post or personal message. BBCode and smileys may be used in your signature.

Brentai

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnXYVlPgX_o
  • Admin
  • Tested
  • Karma: -65281
  • Posts: 17524
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2010, 09:50:41 PM »

[spoiler]Death.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]All the villagers will kill themselves at midnight.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]You guys are kind of macabre.[/spoiler]
Logged

LaserBeing

  • invisible murder cube
  • Tested
  • Karma: 25
  • Posts: 1261
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2010, 10:42:09 PM »

but first they will lynch Guild
Logged

jsnlxndrlv

  • Custom Title
  • Tested
  • Karma: 24
  • Posts: 2913
    • View Profile
    • Website title
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2010, 08:44:22 AM »

[spoiler]Death.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]All the villagers will kill themselves at midnight.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]You guys are kind of macabre.[/spoiler]

Not that dramatic, and not that soon. You're on the right track, though.
Logged
Signature:
Signatures are displayed at the bottom of each post or personal message. BBCode and smileys may be used in your signature.

R^2

  • Not in the game.
  • Tested
  • Karma: -61931
  • Posts: 5164
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2010, 11:58:25 AM »

I have a bed, but never sleep,
a mouth, but never talk,
always running, never walking


This one has two answers!
Logged

Brentai

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnXYVlPgX_o
  • Admin
  • Tested
  • Karma: -65281
  • Posts: 17524
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2010, 12:41:26 PM »

Not that dramatic, and not that soon. You're on the right track, though.

I think a key piece of information is missing.  Is this strain of lycanthropy transmissible, and if so, how is it transmitted?
Logged

Friday

  • Admin
  • Tested
  • Karma: -65374
  • Posts: 5122
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2010, 04:01:10 PM »

Quote
I am always to be, but never was
None have seen me, nor they ever will
Yet all are certain of my coming

[spoiler]not sure on this one, but, Tomorrow?[/spoiler]
Logged

jsnlxndrlv

  • Custom Title
  • Tested
  • Karma: 24
  • Posts: 2913
    • View Profile
    • Website title
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2010, 04:36:31 PM »

Not that dramatic, and not that soon. You're on the right track, though.

I think a key piece of information is missing.  Is this strain of lycanthropy transmissible, and if so, how is it transmitted?

It is transmissable, but the vector of transmission is unknown to the villagers. For the purposes of this puzzle, nobody who is uninfected at the time of Guild's announcement will become infected before or during the dramatic thing that occurs.
Logged
Signature:
Signatures are displayed at the bottom of each post or personal message. BBCode and smileys may be used in your signature.

Classic

  • Happens more often than you'd think.
  • Tested
  • Karma: -58471
  • Posts: 7501
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2010, 05:13:12 PM »

Quote
I am always to be, but never was
None have seen me, nor they ever will
Yet all are certain of my coming

[spoiler]not sure on this one, but, Tomorrow?[/spoiler]

That was my first answer, but since you've already given it I'll try to give a slightly different one word answer and hope that it's the one word answer he wanted.
[spoiler]THE FUTURE[/spoiler]
Logged

Koah

  • Tested
  • Karma: 4
  • Posts: 1008
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2010, 07:20:24 PM »

Quote
I am always to be, but never was
None have seen me, nor they ever will
Yet all are certain of my coming

[spoiler]not sure on this one, but, Tomorrow?[/spoiler]

That is correct!
Logged

Friday

  • Admin
  • Tested
  • Karma: -65374
  • Posts: 5122
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2010, 08:12:09 AM »

Step on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
Step on the living, and barely a whisper.
Logged

Classic

  • Happens more often than you'd think.
  • Tested
  • Karma: -58471
  • Posts: 7501
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2010, 08:42:47 AM »

The familiarity of these riddles makes me think that I've been reading a riddle book in some time I don't remember...

[spoiler]It's leaves/grass?[/spoiler]

Logged

JDigital

  • Tested
  • Karma: 32
  • Posts: 2786
    • View Profile
Re: Riddle Me This
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2010, 01:52:01 PM »

[spoiler]A roleplaying game?[/spoiler]
Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5