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

[commoncurtissy]

I suppose I could be.

Ah~ I remember so fondly waking up scared, helpless and confused. Just a frightened little spirit. So vulnerable.

[He's being an ass because he can be.]

[fontechnician]

I don't mean memories like that.

I don't know why I doubt you even though you're likely telling the truth.

[commoncurtissy]

Who knows? Doubt only paves the way to cynicism.

Anyways, continue on with your riddles. It's one way to pass the time if you're bored.

[fontechnician]

It's working well so far.

Do you know the answer to the third one?

[commoncurtissy]

Yes. Longitude and Latitude. Anymore?

[fontechnician]

[Boo. He didn't actually know that one until he looked up the answer.]

If it's information you seek, come and see me.
If it's pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three.

Who am I?

[commoncurtissy]

A bookkeeper.

Go on, give me a challenge.

[fontechnician]

I'm not sure what can challenge you.

we hurt without moving, we poison without touching. we bear the truth and the lies. don't judge us by our size.

what are we?

[commoncurtissy]

I'm guessing the answer is "words".

[fontechnician]

It is. I'm starting to think you're too smart for me to stump you with riddles.

Meganerd meet Ultimatenerd.

[commoncurtissy]

Isn't that interesting? We're somehow able to pull knowledge from somewhere in our minds save for any of its source. Though deduction can figure out riddles by itself, that's a skill learned through some kind of means that remains a mystery to all shinki.