Mountain of Mystery

Remember that if you have partners, you can only answer once at a time.


Darkhilt and Keirova_47.
You have been making your way through the mountain steadily without coming across much danger. In fact, you've seen very little that could pose harm to you, let alone much of anything at all. You find yourselves in a barren part of the forest where the trees are withered and the grass is dry. You can see scattered around the remnants of other adventurers, trespassers, and inhabitants of the mountain. Little nick-knacks and bones. You see a figure sitting not to far from where you are, and before you can utter a word, its cold eyes find you. The figure asks... "Why have you come to my mountain? No... not my mountain. Why have you come to my home? No... not my home. Why have you come to me? No... it doesn't matter..." It looks away and begins rambling some more. To be honest, the figure is not likely insane, but it seems very dangerous. Around him are the most remnants. It's likely that it was the cause of the remains being left behind.
[size=10]"what really matter is..."[/h] He looks your way again. "Why does everyone fear me?"



Zero_Hour, mangaexpert, and artcellrox.
Unlike the team of two, your team of three hasn't gotten around to do much traveling. With so many, decision making is hard and you've been arguing. The noise and stagnant scent of your waiting has attracted attention. The Dark-Beast of the forest Skoll has graced you with his presence but you aren't aware of that yet. He's been watching all of you for some time now. A being of darkness, he can only be seen at night, and so he waits. When your trio has fallen asleep, Skoll treads into your dreams giving each of you the same vision. A great wolf. The wolf is larger than a house and asks each of you the same riddle. "Like a Tree we have roots or branches, but never both. Like a Phoenix we are reborn if one of us dies. Like a Knife we are sharp or flat, but never both. Like a Rock we are strong, but small in size. Who are we?"


zaron420.
You know what? You in particular have had a long day. All on your own you've managed to travel pretty far on the mountain, and have even found a castle, but this guy just takes the cake. What the fuck is his problem? For the supposed "Mountain of Mystery," this guy doesn't seem too mysterious. It's just quite painfully obvious that he's an idiot who out of sheer luck has managed to survive on the mountain. Perhaps it's because he has his own castle... anyway, the stupid French guy taunts you and insults your intelligence by implying you can't answer his question correctly. He asks, "I wear a red dress. I hold a staff in my hand. There is a stone in my throat. What am I?" Clearly this guy is off his rocker.


TheObsidianLoli.
Three genie have found you. They've been quite impressed so far with your skill for riddles so they've created one specifically for you. They also tell you that if you're able to guess it correctly on your first guess, they will grant you a wish! (tell the wish with answers). However, if you can not answer them correctly, they will kill you in a way worse than that which can be conceived by mankind. It turns out that these genie have become quite bored with the mountain. They've uncovered all of it's secrets, and know all of it's answers. So they decided to make some more secrets... this is their finest creation. "Half a body, there is no doubt. I'll sing out loud when my guts spill out. Twist my arm, and I will shout. Push me more, and I'll fall out. who am I?"

((what are the rules for guessing if your partnered with someone?))

[color=green]A cherry.
An apple.
A coffee Berrie. [/color]

You can post, then someone else must post, then someone that wasn't that second person even if they were also the first person.



Incredible! You proved a French man to be off lesser intelligence than you! He doesn't care though and continues to make assumptions on the odor of your father and and species of your mother. As you walk away in disgust, he flings a dead rabbit at you.
It smells rotten.

As you leave the foolish man and head toward the hopefully much less annoying forest, an armored figure runs towards you. She is keen and suspicious of you who has no smell of the forest and has come from the castle. The wood elf, ever vigilant in her duty to protect her home form intruders, comes to the conclusion that you are a threat. As is her custom, she offers you the chance to save yourself. She asks you a cryptic riddle. "When safe I am alone. When given I am lost. When found I am stolen. What am I?" You notice that there is some fresh blood on her blade.

1. Because of your creepy smile?

[color=green]A secret
Money
hidde thought[/color]

1. tooth?

Oh yeah, and obsidianloli is dropping out

You've gravely insulted a dangerous and unstable person. That wasn't smart.
Guess what?
You got your hands chopped off.



The wood elf stays her blade and allows you to enter the forest. But she'll still be watching you...

The forest behind the trees is lush and teaming with life. Unfortunately for you one of those teams happens to be a team of dragons. Dragons are smart creatures. They aren't silly enough to play with riddles, and they're not stupid enough to let a meal walk away. They are however very prideful. Enough that they think they're better than you. One dragon speaks to another, "Look. There goes breakfast." "Goes? Why it's hardly moving. Humans are so slow..." "I think we aught to put it out of it's miserable life. Crawling on the dirt is no way to live, so we might as well help it stop living that way." "Well said."
The dragons want to eat you, just in case you were too slow to catch that. I doubt that though... it turns out you're a little faster than you look. You sprint away from the dragons! Naturally they catch you... "What do you think you're doing?" "Running away? I thought we said you were too slow for that." "No, we said it was slow, not too slow to run away." "Shut up, and let me eat!" "No. I caught it so I get to eat it." "I saw it first, so I get to eat it!" These two make a terrible team it would seem.
"Human! Which of us should eat you?"
(Be careful on this one. Only one kind of answer will get you away safely. Think about it.)



The great wolf is pleased with this answer. It bares it's wide fangs and swallows you whole, and you wake up.

Duly noted. Thank you for saying.

You aren't where you thought you would be when you wake up. You and your party have been moved... or maybe the place where you slept has changed. Either way, the bitter cold and ice seems to be centered around a small girl. No doubt she's the cause. The girl tells you that she saw Skoll talking to them last night and that she going to kill you all. She says that no one can speak with Skoll, for he is far too important to lower himself with the likes of you. You didn't actually meet with Skoll but rather a dream manifestation he created to toy with you, so you don't know what she's talking about. When you ask who Skoll is she replies with another question. "Who is greater than all other creatures of the mountain. Who walks the shadows in the forest, and swims through the depths of the river? Who is greater and darker than all others in this world?

[color=green]none of them....I'll tell them to fight each other the one who will win will be the one who will eat me.......then while they are fighting each other I would run/hide to safety.[/color]

"Fight?" "Why would we fight each other if you told us to." "We're dragons!" "We aren't like the other beings of the mountain." "We're smarter than that, foolish human." "We aren't the kinds to follow orders..."
(very close, but not quite the right answer)
Upon being told to fight by a human, the dragons laugh at your obvious attempt to run away. Perhaps if you'd tricked them into fighting somehow rather than outright telling them to fight. They dragons tear you in two and eat you.

[color=green]Jack-in-a-box

I wish to answer more riddles.[/color]

((awesome, I had lost hope that anyone would remember the thread. I edited the rules so that it doesn't rely on a number of players anymore. I'll just post a riddle and anyone can answer it.))

Correct. The genies are impressed by your logic. They devised the riddle specifically to be cryoptic and yet you've bested even some of the Mountains more powerful magical beings. True to their word they grant your wish, though they no longer have a riddle or question to ask. Perhaps you will see them again when they've devised a suitable one...
For now the send you off with a magical poof to a run down looking hut. Why there is a hut on a supposedly abandoned mountain? Who can say? Perhaps something fearsome but intelligent as well. Perhaps a survivor.



Or perhaps it's a pair of nutjob freaks who obviously lost their minds years ago. Their dolls seem strange though... you think you've seen monsters with their likenesses in the forests before.
Before you're even able to utter a word of curiosity the barrage you with this question. They speak in harmony and in rhymes.
"Foolish Mortal would be you, who, to this Mountain is new... what have we here? Fear? Fear not us but what is near. We'll give you shelter in our home so that you will not be alone, on one condition that we ask... what we hold is who's mask? A wrong answer we can't condone, for it would attract a fiend to here... what is your answer? Who?

"A couple of drama queens these two..."
One of the dolls spoke.
"All they want to know is who I am. I'll tell you if you want, but you have to promise to kill these two. Will you do it?"

(you have two questions to choose from. either is fine to answer. both have a correct and many incorrect answers.)

So what exactly are the two riddles/question?

It won't always be an exact riddle, nor will the riddles always make sense.
In this case you have a choice of either of those. And remember that now you won't die if you get it wrong... and go on to the next riddle regardless.

You can say who the doll is/name it (to the insanos), or you can say whether or not you will kill the insanos (to the doll).

I promise that neither answer will directly influence the party uninvolved. (there's no eavesdropping between the insanos and the dolls).

[color=green]I will help the doll. In turn I will tell it's name to the insanos, and then kill the insanos when the time would be the most opportune.[/color]

I hope that works? Otherwise I would just help the doll and not tell it's name to the insanos.

You can only answer one of them, and it should be in the form of a reply to whoever is asking.
But ok, you choose to do as the doll asks and kill the insanos?

The pair somehow don't seem to realize that you're talking to the dolls. Perhaps they're suffering from some sort of split personality disorder? You do as the doll asks and you kill the couple.
*bloody sound effects*
Oh no! What have you done!? You've just killed a pair of perfectly harmless psychopaths? Oh well... you can't save them all. The dolls fall to the ground lifelessly without a master to control them. Or maybe it was the other way around? Were the dolls trapped or were the couple?
About a hundred different scenarios go through your head but you can't decide on which to believe. they're all pretty far fetched though. As you leave the dolls get up and so does the couple. You do not notice. They do not follow.

What is it they were planning...? Hope you never find out.


As you come away from the forest, again you come to the more barren lands of the mountain. You happen across a tribe of oddly dressed nomads. It looks like they live on a big monster. Better not upset them.
Before you can sneak away they notice you and accuse you of an ambush. After all, you were sneaking.
"Halt!"
As much as you try you can't convince them to let you go. Not unless you can answer their riddle. Again... they're strangely dressed, so why wouldn't they have strange customs for prisoners of war too?
"Don me most, mostly those who don themselves. Don me most, mostly not by those who made me. Wear me proudly should you have chosen me. Scoff at me should you not like me. All who wear me know me. None who wear, were without me.
Who am I?"

This is by far, the most difficult riddle I've ever had to do... And I am still not confident in my answers, but here they are:

[color=green]1) A smile
2) Courage
3) Pride[/color]

I probably didn't get it right though.

The band of missfits jump on you and strap you to a pole.
"Interogation time... who sent you?!"
You can not say who sent you obviously because you were not sent, only unfortunate. It takes a while for them to realize this though, and after a few heavy bruises on your body they let you go willing to just accept that you were in the wrong place a the wrong time.
As you leave, battered and bruised, another tribe can be seen off in the distance running with the belongings of you captors.
They're none too pleased with that and start chasing you again.
This time you were a little more lucky and got away.

The answer is less metaphorical unfortunately. I hoped the wording would help.


Further along in the day, most of your minor wounds are healed, but you're still pretty sore. If only there was someone who could heal you!
Oh look! A wood-witch!
THAT'S a good idea...
Well you've taken one too many blows to the head from the last mountain inhabitants you met, so you weren't thinking clearly when you approached the which and asked for healing.
You can not understand what she says because you don't know the wicken language, but she does understand you. She translates her words magically for you.
"I'll heal you mortal... if you can answer me this. I need one last ingredient for an enchantment I've been saving... what I need is the heart of human that can not be held, except for by one thing. I must have it. Perhaps you can help me find it.
It can hold anything the mind can fathom. It has neither a lid, a floor, or walls. It can understood by those who were taught to know what it is. It lives as long as the shelf it rests on."
Where can I find it?

Hmm... gotta think...

[color=green]1) A book
2) The printed word
3) Imagination[/color]

That's all I can think of...

Yeah i too think

[color=green]1. book
2. a watch
3. an ipad[/color]