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[onlyanapple]

Who: Crowley and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Málum
When: Right now!

Well, as pleasant as this star system is, and as much as I don't want to say the 'B' word and incite horrible things upon us, I feel the need to fill my time a little bit. So I've decided to stretch your minds a little bit with some riddles. Because why the hell not. Answer as many or as few as you like.

RIDDLE THE FIRST:

There was once a wealthy old man with three sons. He was coming to the end of his life and instead of dividing his money up equally amongst them like a normal person would, he decided to set his sons a task. He gave them each a paltry sum of coins, and told them to buy something to fill a room with. (Before you ask, the room is the same one each time)

The first son bought some bales of hay, but he didn't have enough to fill the room with. The second bought a bunch of rock, but these, too, failed to fill the room. The third son bought two things with his coins, and together, they filled the room and he inherited his father's fortune.

What did he buy?

RIDDLE THE SECOND:

There is a dead man in the centre of a field. He carried with him an unopened package. Before he got into the field, he knew he was going to die. How?

RIDDLE THE THIRD (spoilers: this one is the easy one):

I'm at the end of time and space, at the beginning of the end, and at the end of life. What am I?

Comments

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[sylphystia]

A candle and a match

Old age

Death sounds too obvious

[forcesensitive]

the first one is music and poop right the music fills the room with sound and the poop is smelly

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[onlyanapple]

Excellent, well done, that was the hardest one, too.

NOPE.

And yes, it is far too obvious.

[onlyanapple]

Wow that's...uh.

An interesting way to put it.

I mean you're wrong but good job on thinking outside the box, I guess?

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[save_the_souls]

Candle and a match.

He was meeting a mob leader and didn't have the right payment.

E.

[What? Points for creativity.]

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[onlyanapple]

Oh well done, you got all of them but the middle one. I'm impressed.

[Don't be silly, Crowley doesn't give points.]

[forcesensitive]

if you dont think the smell can fill a room you obviously havent been on a ship during legume rations

oh i got one for the second one too its a mine field right

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[sylphystia]

It was the only one I could figure out right away.

I got more supplies for the bar. There's alcohol too if you want it.

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[onlyanapple]

I'm pretty impressed, honestly.

I always want alcohol, my dear employee. How good of you to go get supplies, too. Tyrion will be thrilled.

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[save_the_souls]

Thank you. I've been practising riddles all month.

Um...then the field was bear country and the package was full of meat?

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[sylphystia]

I just spend a lot of time in darkness is all.

[It's true.]

If I depended on other people to get ingredients for gelato I'd end up with a half-chewed bone and Hawke's pocket lint.

[onlyanapple]

Well thanks for that mental image. I mean, sure it's possible, but that's not the answer to the riddle.

...It's not what I was going for but that's an acceptable answer, too, when I think about it. So sure. Points for you.

[forcesensitive]

too bad cause if i was the father i would have called that a win

awesome as for the last one it is a supermassive black hole

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[onlyanapple]

Do I even want to know why?

Nope, afraid not.

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[onlyanapple]

Well, yes that's... a good point.

And no one wants that. We'd end up with really crappy deserts if that were the case.

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[privatizes]

He didn't have a parachute.

[onlyanapple]

He does come off as rather eccentric, doesn't he?

No, it's not, but that one is pretty bleak as things go. I don't really know science all that well, though, so I'm going to assume it does those things.

[Crowley you have been living in space for nearly two years, come on dude.]

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[spontaneouscombustion]

Ooh, OOH! I know the first and the third ones!

The youngest son bought a candle and a match, and he filled the room with LIGHT.

And "e" is at the end and beginning of all of those!

[E's an incredibly important letter to her, after the girls' meeting together.]

The second one's kinda trickier, though, how many guesses do I get?

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[onlyanapple]

Ding ding ding we have a winner. Congrats on being the first one to get that middle one.

[forcesensitive]

no kidding

i guess you could get philosophical and say its the force because thats everywhere all the time but its kind of a cheating answer

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[onlyanapple]

Wow look at that, the horse got two of them off the bat. Colour me surprised.

And you can have as many guesses as you like. Knock yourself out.

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[save_the_souls]

For dates, mostly. It's easier for me to learn riddles so I can get into Spirit establishments than it is for Clay to learn how to brawl to get into Moxie ones.

Then...what is it?

[onlyanapple]

I have no idea what that is

Is it some sort of religious stuff?

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[onlyanapple]

That makes sense.

Why don't you ever have a date in my bar? :(

What, you expect me to just give your the answer?

[spontaneouscombustion]

YAY, I got them right!

Hmmm... let's see... the box COULD'VE had something the man was really allergic too, and stuff from it could've been outside the box too, and the field was the only shortcut he had to getting medicine?