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

Post by **IrrationalSanity** » Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:57 pm

samrw3 wrote:i have no idea how it was decorated. But I will make a wild guess just for the fun of it.

Was it decorated with war/fighting type objects? Such things as swords/spears/long knives/etc?

I will tell you how it should have been decorated - as a hospital room full of patient monitoring systems/IVs/gauze/sterile equipment. That man was bleeding or recovering from bleeding most of the first book.

LOL! It is for Avatar to judge, as it is his question, and I would just be on the fence, and might even be breaking the rules if I were to do more than post a few cloaked clues.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:14 am

samrw3 wrote: Was it decorated with war/fighting type objects? Such things as swords/spears/long knives/etc?

It was decorated with one type of such objects.

However, there is something about the objects of that type that makes them notable...

--A

Post by **IrrationalSanity** » Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:48 pm

Avatar wrote:
samrw3 wrote: Was it decorated with war/fighting type objects? Such things as swords/spears/long knives/etc?
It was decorated with one type of such objects. However, there is something about the objects of that type that makes them notable...

--A

And if he gets the point of my clues, he'll easily crack the code...

Post by **samrw3** » Wed Feb 03, 2021 9:55 pm

Hmm I guess I am not very good at clues.

But here goes nothing. Is it more along the lines of knives - possible sheathed knives? The notable part is more used for hunting than fighting per se?

Post by **samrw3** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:44 pm

Is it too late to change my answer? I just realized I am pretty sure of the answer now.

Was it decorated by fencing type swords and equipment - fencing outfits and such? My guess is he used a foil.

Post by **starkllr** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:45 pm

I f I remember right, it's not merely swords, but specifically broken swords - swords that had "failed him" I think was how it was phrased.

f I'm right, I will cede my right to choose the next question because I can't think of a good one offhand...

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:19 pm

starkllr is right.

No ceding, take your time, post a stumper.

"Swords that had failed him" is exactly right.

--A

Post by **starkllr** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:06 pm

Well, if I can't shirk the responsibility, I'll come up with something, hopefully over the weekend...

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 4:13 pm

Good man.

--A

Post by **samrw3** » Fri Feb 12, 2021 11:15 am

Good job starkllr! Nice to have another guesser and clue giver in crowd!

Please join us any other lurkers out there!

Post by **starkllr** » Fri Feb 12, 2021 1:17 pm

OK, here goes...I hope this hasn't been asked before, and I hope it's not too easy (or too obscure):

Who would the Tor have wanted to marry his daughter off to (if he had one), and why that person?

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:29 am

Ooh...uh...Ribult?

(I can't remember why...or was it the other one...)

--A

Post by **starkllr** » Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:51 pm

Yes on the name, but we still need the Tor's reason why he would pick Ribuld...

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:11 pm

Hmmm, was it during the final battle scene?

Anybody got the reason? They can have the question...

--A

Post by **IrrationalSanity** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:00 pm

I actually like this question, and had to think on it a while, replaying the scene in my head, to get the reason.

I think you are not going for just why he was in such gratitude (but I'll include it just in case: Ribuld was honoring his dignity by helping him prepare for his final battle), but rather why this particular expression of his gratitude - which was (in so many words) to enable him to squander her inheritance.

Post by **starkllr** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 8:59 pm

IrrationalSanity got it - that's exactly the phrase the Tor used.

So the next question is yours!

Post by **IrrationalSanity** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:21 pm

Once he discovered the truth of his talent, Gereden had one final "unexpected" translation result. What was it, and how did he correct it?

Post by **samrw3** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:56 am

Every so often I like to throw wild guesses out there and hope for slim chance I may be close. This is one of those times....

Was it the time he translated himself and Terisa to Terisa's old apartment? Then if I remember it correctly he resolved it by finding a curved mirror after he realized/remembered his mastery was not with flat mirrors.

I am pretty sure I am off on both counts but hey what the heck

Post by **IrrationalSanity** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 3:41 pm

samrw3 wrote:Every so often I like to throw wild guesses out there and hope for slim chance I may be close. This is one of those times....

Was it the time he translated himself and Terisa to Terisa's old apartment? Then if I remember it correctly he resolved it by finding a curved mirror after he realized/remembered his mastery was not with flat mirrors.

I am pretty sure I am off on both counts but hey what the heck

You aren't totally off. In fact you're half right. Almost 3/4, actually.

With a clue, you might have a remote chance of calling forth the right response.

Post by **samrw3** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:20 am

IrrationalSanity wrote:
samrw3 wrote:Every so often I like to throw wild guesses out there and hope for slim chance I may be close. This is one of those times....

Was it the time he translated himself and Terisa to Terisa's old apartment? Then if I remember it correctly he resolved it by finding a curved mirror after he realized/remembered his mastery was not with flat mirrors.

I am pretty sure I am off on both counts but hey what the heck
You aren't totally off. In fact you're half right. Almost 3/4, actually.

With a clue, you might have a remote chance of calling forth the right response.

Based on your clues I am going to guess he used a television screen to translate them back to Mordant?

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