The Mordant's Need Trivia Game (Spoilers!!!)

[Cord Hurn]

CH = big dog - Correct!!

CH - egret - sorry wrong
CH - 2 crows - sorry wrong

Although scavenger bird is on right tail

Remember my clue - doorbell bird - now think scavenger bird


Or possibly another clue in similar trail...bee bird and think scavenger bird

Thank you, Sam! It's nice to know I'm getting closer! A "bee bird" and think scavenger bird".

Hmmmm, okay, really thinking about it: a hummingbird buzzes and flits about like a bee, and it has a dietary need for nectar and pollen a lot like the bees; but it's no scavenger in the sense of eating animal flesh. T

Therefore, the clue "a bee bird" doesn't reference a bird resembling a honey-making insect but refers to a type of bird whose name begins with the letter B. The brown smoky being is no smaller than two buzzards!

Also don't forget the other question

Sounds like: HINT [Aegan; Adriatric; Mediterranean; Black; Red; Caspian; Persian]

"B" sounds like "sea".

[samrw3]

Here is the question with a few parts:

1. Who brought the Image that destroyed Kragen's catapults - CH - Adept Havelock - Correct!

2. What was the object that actually destroyed the catapults? - CH - big rock - Correct!

Of 3 following correctly identify 3 of the following --bonus of getting all five!!
3. a. Color -CH - brown - Correct!
b. sound like? -- CH -- Sea -well my clue was cryptic but that is half the answer so I will accept it the totally correct answer is seabird
c. no bigger than a? CH - large dog - Correct!
d. no more than twice the size of? - CH - two buzzards well close enough I will allow it - Correct. Technically the correct answer is just buzzard.
e. type of form - correct word is somewhere is this list: Gas, giant, wooden, leaden, corrosive, smoke,liquid, puffy, vapor, cloudy, acid, fiery, wavy --CH - smoke - Correct!


Now for fun question who does Tor remind me of from a film character? Before you say how could we know - I am giving three gigantic hints. also I will not hold up the game if after the hints you get the answer horribly wrong

Hint 1 - character in Austin Powers films
Hint 2 one famous quote: "Get in my belly!!"
Hint 3 - Played by Mike Myers
-CH - Fat Bastard - Correct!!

Quotes:

he saw a brown shape as imprecise as a puff of smoke

it was no bigger than a large dog, no more than twice the size of a buzzard

thought he heard a faint thin cry, like the wail of a seabird.

So congratulations Cord Hurn!!!!!!!!! Thank you for being patient through my hints and clues!!

Your question!

[Cord Hurn]

Thank you for the challenging question! It was fun to think about and work with, Sam!!

I'd forgotten it was described as sounding like a seabird (a gull or a sandpiper, or what, we don't know).

Your "go-to" image of the Tor is interesting to know, and I can see how the Fat Bastard could fit the descriptions of the Tor, for sure; whatever works for you while you're enjoying the story is what counts. I don't know if I can name a character or actor that is imagined as a model for what I imagine the Tor to look like. I think I visualize him a bit differently every time I read the Mordant's Need books, just remembering to think of him as fat, old, and often appearing sorrowful or in physical pain.


I will give some thought to the next trivia question, Sam! Yours will be a hard act to follow, it is acknowledged!

[IrrationalSanity]

For the Tor, I always think of William Conrad or Orson Welles later in life...

[Cord Hurn]

For the Tor, I always think of William Conrad or Orson Welles later in life...

That could work for me. Kind of steely-eyed old fat men.

[Cord Hurn]

New question: When Eremis has completed the task of refilling Orison's reservoir, he visits Barsonage and inquires what research the Congery is doing to defend the castle.
What does Barsonage tell Eremis the Congery is doing to defend Orison?

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Damn...I remember it was a diversion, but I can't remember what he claimed they were doing...

--A

[Cord Hurn]

Damn...I remember it was a diversion, but I can't remember what he claimed they were doing...

--A

Not so much a diversion as it was an exaggeration by Barsonage meant to fool Eremis.

Talking to Eremis, Barsonage made it sound like this research project was all the Congery was doing for defense, when there were other research projects going on with the Congery that Barsonage didn't mention to Eremis..

[samrw3]

Although the exaggeration was used as a diversion in a way. It kept Eremis from snooping further and thinking the Congery was in poor control of possible defenses.

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That was what i was thinking. Still can't remember what he claimed though.

--A

[Cord Hurn]

Although the exaggeration was used as a diversion in a way. It kept Eremis from snooping further and thinking the Congery was in poor control of possible defenses.

That is very true!

It could also be characterized as a time when Master Barsonage chose not to tell the whole truth to Eremis, if that clue helps.

[IrrationalSanity]

I'm sure if they look hard enough, they'll find their way through to the answer...

[Cord Hurn]

Perhaps for them the answer will seem to appear from out of nowhere, and it won't seem as if they've gone crazy, after all.

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Ok well...

--A

[Cord Hurn]

Another hint: what fundamental tenet of Imagery known to the Congery do the renegade Images seem to violate by their ability to appear anywhere in the world at will?

[Hunchback Jack]

Maybe, two tenets?

1) That you need a flat glass to translate to somewhere else in the same world, and ...
2) Such a translation should drive the translator mad?

Edited to add: dammit, I answered the hint and not the question!

HBJ

[Cord Hurn]

Maybe, two tenets?

1) That you need a flat glass to translate to somewhere else in the same world, and ...
2) Such a translation should drive the translator mad?

Edited to add: dammit, I answered the hint and not the question!

HBJ

True, HJ, but it looks to me that you are VERY CLOSE to answering the question!

[Hunchback Jack]

Does it have something to do with trying to create mirrors that show locations within the castle and then placing them in those locations such that invaders would see themselves in them?

HBJ

[Cord Hurn]

Does it have something to do with trying to create mirrors that show locations within the castle and then placing them in those locations such that invaders would see themselves in them?

HBJ

Unfortunately, no.

[Hunchback Jack]

Well, that would be rather convoluted, given that most Imagers can't really control what location mirrors show.

(Aside: I love the rules that Donaldson created for Imagery, by the way.)