Backdated to early 8 Feb | Text | Unseelie locked

[gordianknots]

By now I think everyone knows that the monarchs are asking us to run after the Jabberwock to try and return it back to them. We know that it responds to touch, that it likes puzzles, and that lavender will help soothe it.

But there are problems with what we’ve been told that need to be solved now.

1. It’s the middle of winter. We need sources of lavender, and I do not imagine that this will be easy. If anyone knows where to begin, and can say so on an open post here, you’d be doing everyone a great favour.
2. The Jabberwock isn’t small. Making puzzles that will be the right sie will be a struggle. Thoughts on how to go about that are welcome. I’m not imagining that it is going to be possible to walk up to this thing and ask it why did the chicken cross the road?
3. Touch. If this thing’s aura of rot is as true as old accounts have presented it, we need to find ways to deal with that. Quickly.

I’m encouraging brainstorming on this network post because anything that can be thought up together will have a greater chance of working.

Chime in if you can and for the love of whatever is dearest to you, stay safe.

Comments

[gordianknots]

Good, good. I'm going to look into ways to magically amplify voices, and go from there.

[enthraller]

If worst comes to worst, just find someone who can yell really loudly.

[gordianknots]

Oh, I know a few of those.

i apologise for this tag

[enthraller]

[He doesn't bother responding to that statement directly, but he does come back to this conversation a few hours later.]

What do the poor have, the rich need, and if you eat it, you'll die?

The man who makes it has no need of it, the man who buys it doesn't use it, and the man who uses it doesn't know it. What is it?

What kind of room has no doors or windows?

What word is always spelled incorrectly?

If you have it, you want to share it, and if you share it then you no longer have it. What is it?

What gets broken without being held?

What needs to be fed to live but dies with a drink?

What is heavy forwards but backwards is not?

What can be caught but not thrown?

What is light as a feather, but can by held by no man for more than a few minutes?

What has one eye but cannot see?

A pair of children are born at the same time on the same day of the same year to the same mother, but are not twins. How?

What occurs once every minute, twice every moment, but never in a thousand years?

it is absolutely fine

[gordianknots]

These are perfect. Thank you.

[enthraller]

Everyone in Redgate likely thinks I'm insane now, rushing around asking for riddles and books of them, so I hope it's worth it.

[gordianknots]

Sod it, if we don't need it now we'll need it in the future. We're better prepared for it.

[enthraller]

Yes, I'm sure there are many situations aside from this one where a large collection of riddles will be just what we need.

[gordianknots]

You're being sarcastic, I'm dead serious.

[enthraller]

Hush. I'm trying to keep our people in good humor.

[gordianknots]

I knew I liked you and your tactics for a reason.