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The skeletons will be Union, try to quietly rattle your way into the group, flash your union card, and hang out with them for a while. It's been lonely since our congregation stopped coming to church
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Head over, talk about purple light, give business card, as we leave
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Answer to the riddle: Rotten John's I mean we can't really answer that on the path we've been along - we could if we happend this way after going to Bilgeton Rotten John runs a vegetable stall in the market, it has 2 potatoes (potatoes have eyes) 2 ears of corn A thousand heads of broccoli and cauliflower, variously One foot is the width of a market pitch there Two arms are 2 spears of asparagus The spine is is ledger book for sales (some print editions had this as a spine gourd) The two sides are of the coins he takes (heads and tails) And the belly is Rotten John himself, gut all swollen and gassy from his leafy diet - hence also the stench There is a red herring in the market too, a poet bookseller reciting loudly in one corner of the market square - one foot per line in a poetic sense, so each poem takes reams of paper making it one book per poem (spine), two sides to every story, one of the people reading his poems finds them amusing and is described as having 'a deep belly laugh', a thousand heads because he draws in the punters, a foul stench because our protagonist thinks his poetry 'Stinks', he has two coats of arms awarded to him by nobility and responds with 'aye aye' to his customers from his days as a young man sailing the oceans in search of stories. But - and it's hidden very subtly - he "wears only one gold earring in his left earlobe, having lost the other in a fight". Now, you could read that as ring, lobe, or ear, so it's a bit of a dick move. But I mean the entry for the market stalls (there are like seven or so) runs several drat pages and it's only useful for this one riddle that's admittedly hard to get to once you've already hit Bilgeton, so most readers just skim over it anyway.
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Dinosaurmageddon posted:Riddle Answer (if we're cheating, obviously): Ah yes, the one-legged blacksmith is there too, with a thousand nails, obviously the arms are the twin swords he's crafting (nice weapon with good bonuses if you can get it), a couple more things I can't remember off the top of my head, but the catch on that one is bellow/belly and the tuneful ringing of his and his apprentice's hammer could be construed as two 'ears' for the two notes they sound, but it's a bit of a stretch even by this book's standards simplefish fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jun 2, 2016 |
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