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..