Heaven's BBS | Text

[fontechnician]

Posted: 7 May
From: Anonymous

I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see.

What am I?

[A couple more are added a few minutes later:]

I can bring tears to your eyes, resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a life time.

What am I?

I'm measured in temperature and time, but have neither.

What am I?

Comments

[anon]

[missingache]

[This... is certainly different.]

A cloud?

[permanon]

[fontechnician]

[That it is!]

Right in one. How about another one?

Without me, nothing exists.

What am I?

[missingache]

[Hmmm... oh! He's hears this one before!]

Time

Not anon, that's for meganerds

[commoncurtissy]

The second one would be a memory.

If you're the sentimental type, anyways.

still anon

[fontechnician]

ahh, I take it you aren't?

[commoncurtissy]

I have nothing to be sentimental about. It's all a blank canvas before ending up in my god's backyard.

Not anon

[hontobakabaka]

A storm cloud, memory, and longitude/latitude.

Why are you posting old riddles on the network? The second one may be a bit mean to post with the shinki though.

[still anon]

[fontechnician]

Boredom, if you wnat me to be honest.

Mm, depends on the shinki. I'm one myself and i'm not too bothered by it.

[hontobakabaka]

Ah. That was one of the things I was expressly told not to do. Go into the past of the Shinki.

I was told it was bad. My apologies.

Voice

[purehonkproject]

[At the very first one]

Oh no that sounds so sad.

text, still anon

[fontechnician]

Just a little. Makes you feel a bit sorry for clouds, doesn't it?

voice

[purehonkproject]

It's really sad. Do you think they're okay with seeing only the upper light? That seems really lonely, but there are lots of clouds right? Maybe they aren't as lonely as they seem?

audio;

[glazedonutholes]

A star!

text, still anon

[fontechnician]

Not quite.

Re: text, still anon

[glazedonutholes]

But what else could it be?

[brynwieldr]

A cloud and most likely memories. I've no idea about that last one, however.

[fontechnician]

Right.

Hm, how would you find a point on a map?

[brynwieldr]

I would look at it and then, assuming I wanted to go there or direct others there, determine the distance and scale.

Text

[oviraptor]

Annoying.

Text, anon

[fontechnician]

Sorry to hear that, sir or ma'am

[oviraptor]

I mean, that many metaphorical questions and/or riddles...you don't have anything better to do with your time?

Text; Anon

[deniles]

A waste of time.

still anon

[fontechnician]

I'm sorry to hear that, sir or ma'am.

[tadanokusuriuri]

The first is a cloud.

The second is memory.

[And it bothers him a little bit -- which is about as much as anything seems capable of bothering him, so far -- that he doesn't know the third. Mostly because he's unfamiliar with Western cartography terms.]

[fontechnician]

Those two are right. What about the third, do you know that one?

[He's passingly familiar with the terms, so he's not that much more knowledgeable.]