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Ruby

[ You find yourself in a small room, filled with nothing but straw and a spinning wheel. There are no windows and the door appears to be locked from the outside. ]

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[ On a piece of paper pinned to the spinning wheel you’ll find:

I am as enchanting as a medieval spell,
Charming as a nursery rhyme, as challenging as a duel.
I accompany you from cradle to grave,
Providing laughter for childhood,
Literary games for middle age,
And wisdom tests for elders.
Guess my gnomic name, if you can.

Your task today is to compose a riddle, both creative and tricky enough to puzzle another team. The answer to your riddle must be hero. ]

. . . "hero" . . .

A-and a riddle to make that...

And it has to be hard . . .

We should probably start with the definition.

A hero would be b-brave, right?

Brave, yeah . . . and they have to fight a lot and defeat evil, so . . .

"I have endless courage.
My victories are soaked in blood.
The black falls before me.
What am I?"

[ my face is just going to be like this the entire game isn't it. ]

. . .

-- S-soaked in blood?!

It's not heroic if it's an easy fight! And everyone here has stupid naive ideas about heroes, so it'll throw them off.

C-could we make it something nicer, though...

No.

That was terrible.

What was wrong with it?! Like you could do any better!

Yours could also be a conqueror.

Then add some bullshit about being adored.

"I have endless courage.
I am so adored.
My victories are soaked in blood.
The black falls before me.
What am I?"

. . . still sounds terrible.

W-why would they be adored if it was soaked in blood...

If you kill a demon or a villain, no one cares if it was bloody. They just care if it was defeated.

How about . . .

"The black falls before my courage.
My victories are soaked in blood.
And yet I am adored.
What am I?"

. . .

. . . Come up with something better if you don't like it!!

... I-I think it's an improvement.

My beginning is similar to that of herons and hedges
my end sits in the middle of abroad.
Think of me as empty and yet adored
or full of bloody victories and courage.
The black falls before me.
What am I?

There.

. . . You're lucky it actually sounds good.

[ A piece of paper flutters to the ground. Written on it in citrine colored ink is:

We are like the hours in a day. Sometimes dark and sometimes light, I go with every color. What am I?

Please solve the riddle and rate how difficult it was, on a scale from one to five. ]

. . . Citrine's.

What the hell goes with colors and is . . .

Is it the knights?

Dark and light . . . twenty four? Sounds right, good job.

Aa! It's gotta be them.

It's a one since I got it right away, right?

Y-yeah... good job, Wrath!

Yes, I think so.

Okay.

The answer is "the knights." I figured it out right away, so it's ranked at one.

[ You hear the click of the lock, then the door opens out into . . . ]

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Ruby

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