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[Parsely]

...Well, you know what I bet would help?
The rest of the riddle. Because, right now, it looks like the old St. Ives riddle without the twist.

The end of the riddle is just the warning about what happens if you get it wrong.

GWG.

Its not supposed to be hard.

I wasn't trying to make up a super hard riddle.

Its ripped straight from a like a fifth-grade level book I read that was recommended to me.

I'm using it as a plot device.

So lighten up.

Plz? X_X

[Parsely]

And yeah its totally also ripped off from the St. Ives riddle. I've see Die Hard too.

[mastahcheese]

For the record, I've never heard that riddle before.

[Parsely]

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?

It's a trick question. The only person going to St. Ives is the narrator.

But.. that wasn't the case in the book I read. It's not the same riddle. The twist is different in the book but requires context for you to understand, so I just omitted it. So it's just a math problem really. It could end up being challenging if someone asked you on the street and you didn't have a computer or something to write on.

In the movie Die Hard (where I first heard the original St. Ives riddle) the titular characters are told the riddle over a pay phone and have to come up with the answer in 60 seconds before a bomb goes off and kills them. They end up figuring it out.

[Gamerlord]

...Well, you know what I bet would help?
The rest of the riddle. Because, right now, it looks like the old St. Ives riddle without the twist.

The end of the riddle is just the warning about what happens if you get it wrong.

GWG.

Its not supposed to be hard.

I wasn't trying to make up a super hard riddle.

Its ripped straight from a like a fifth-grade level book I read that was recommended to me.

I'm using it as a plot device.

So lighten up.

Plz? X_X

I have also read that book.

[GreatWyrmGold]

...Well, you know what I bet would help?
The rest of the riddle. Because, right now, it looks like the old St. Ives riddle without the twist.

The end of the riddle is just the warning about what happens if you get it wrong.
GWG.
Its not supposed to be hard.
I wasn't trying to make up a super hard riddle.
Its ripped straight from a like a fifth-grade level book I read that was recommended to me.
I'm using it as a plot device.
So lighten up.
Plz? X_X

I was at first annoyed because of how simple it was.
Then I was annoyed because I was sure that ending would include some subtle hint about how to interpret the rest.
Now I am annoyed because you're insulting me.

It's a really simple riddle. Without knowing what the sorceress, her children, and so forth symbolize, it's impossible to figure out what the Hidden Message is, and we don't know enough about the lore of the world to figure out what that might be.

But.. that wasn't the case in the book I read. It's not the same riddle. The twist is different in the book but requires context for you to understand, so I just omitted it. So it's just a math problem really. It could end up being challenging if someone asked you on the street and you didn't have a computer or something to write on.

...So...it is 105?
But didn't you say earlier that it wasn't just a math problem?

[Parsely]

I was at first annoyed because of how simple it was.
Then I was annoyed because I was sure that ending would include some subtle hint about how to interpret the rest.
Now I am annoyed because you're insulting me.

It's a really simple riddle. Without knowing what the sorceress, her children, and so forth symbolize, it's impossible to figure out what the Hidden Message is, and we don't know enough about the lore of the world to figure out what that might be.

...So...it is 105?
But didn't you say earlier that it wasn't just a math problem?

I'm not trying to insult you guy! I was just telling you where I got the riddle from! I wasn't trying to sound condescending when I told you what reading level the book was at.. ;_;

I just told you I omitted the twist I literally just said that..

The twist is different in the book but requires context for you to understand, so I just omitted it.

So, again. I took out the part that was in the book that you would've had to have read the book in order to have understood.

Yes, its 105.
No I never said that it wasn't just a simple math problem. I told you multiple times that, in fact, there wasn't anything hidden or clever about it, and that it was indeed just a simple math problem.

[Lore] is mad because it looks like its just a simple child's riddle, and it is, but its just camouflage (which apparently worked a bit too well..). Its more than it appears to be, and you should be interested in it because you're a child and it would take you a good bit of thinking to solve it.

I said it was a simple child's riddle.

In-character? You treated the riddle like an adult whom a simple math problem like that would come easy to. Definitely not in-character. :l

I said it was a simple math problem.

I left out the warning part of the riddle because of two reasons:
1. I imagined Dran and Jerik, the ones who retrieved the rubbing of the riddle, as either being in immediate danger at the time of finding the riddle and thus not having time to get the whole thing, or not having enough rubbing paper for the whole thing.
2. Not knowing the consequence if you said the wrong answer was supposed to make it feel risky when you did so. But all that's out the window now..

[Gamerlord]

So when do we get something to do?

[Parsely]

I think Dran was preparing to kidnap you, so we'll see how that works out before I toss you guys a side quest.

Also I don't think Oreosome even remembers he was in this game. I'll PM him. For now he's just an NPC ally.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'm confused. So confused.

[Gamerlord]

I think Dran was preparing to kidnap you, so we'll see how that works out before I toss you guys a side quest.

If it's against our will... He's gonna get a spear in his gut. As well as a RAGE-FIST in the face.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I think Dran was preparing to kidnap you, so we'll see how that works out before I toss you guys a side quest.

If it's against our will... He's gonna get a spear in his gut. As well as a RAGE-FIST in the face.

Which is one of the reasons they weren't going to kidnap you.
Another, bigger one, being that only Alex can read.

[mastahcheese]

"So... it's 105?"
Jack finally finished thinking by counting books on the walls when Alex ran out of fingers and toes.
"Is that right?"

[GreatWyrmGold]

Alex glares at Jack, then gestures to the presumably-still-angry Lore.

[mastahcheese]

Jack faces Lore.
"HEY! IS THE ANSWER 105?"