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Quickleaf

Legend
You folks are too good so I'm going to try and make them a bit harder. Here's to seeing if it works...
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We see escape and push to be free
Our captor, frantic, binds you and me
Caught we turn and slow betray
‘till none could ever get away
And trapped again within our cell
A pressing prison ‘till our death knell

[sblock] The breath of a drowning victim?[/sblock]

And here is my riddle from the last page for your convenience:


When my name is called your children run screaming;
But if you think to find me then surely you're dreaming.

Down your spine I send pin-pricks as if some chill
Had sapped your strength and roasted your will...

...I come at night to take the name of your mother,
For what's fair for the one is fair for his brother.
 

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Rune

Once A Fool
[MENTION=20323]Quickleaf[/MENTION]: Again, right track. You've got the first part, but you'll need to use that to solve the next.
 

Quickleaf

Legend
Ah I'm flumoxed! Will....not...be...bested by a....grammar...riddle....

We need some more people to take a crack at these riddles, so far there's 3 unsolved from AeroDM, Rune, and me.
 

Rune

Once A Fool
You folks are too good so I'm going to try and make them a bit harder. Here's to seeing if it works...
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We see escape and push to be free
Our captor, frantic, binds you and me
Caught we turn and slow betray
‘till none could ever get away
And trapped again within our cell
A pressing prison ‘till our death knell

[sblock]The first two lines make me think of chromosomes, but the last four make me think of DNA...so...my answer is, both?[/sblock]
 

AeroDm

First Post
[sblock]The first two lines make me think of chromosomes, but the last four make me think of DNA...so...my answer is, both?[/sblock]
That's a surprisingly good effort. I'll put a caveat that all these riddles were designed to be used in D&D and I wouldn't introduce real world knowledge like that. Regardless, you're close.
 

Loonook

First Post
Always wanted to use this one for a published setting (guess the setting gain bonus points!)

Come from within to seal the breach
To run red hot my own tight niche
Within I run two flows oppose
Turn in and out violet and rose
To draw me out to be your end
To draw me in too great a sin
I fill the gaps inside the whole
Collect me mouth, tooth or bowl
Ware my sight, foe or friend
Lose me and n'r stand again
My nature fixed, your nature thrives
When I fall all do die
But know me you clever one?
Know me in the lightless sun?

--

A little easier:

Trick and trade and war the best
All my habits, my sins are blessed
I take from one or take from all
As you walk this pale blue ball
Maker's marks and sweet lass kiss
With my blade I shall not miss
Come to call all done in black
Without my life a savor lack.

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From Gaea's Cradle I did rise
I supped and grew from tween her thighs
Then Mother Nature and Father Time
Made me thin and soft sublime
To burn like fire gleam like gold
Endless wit/damnation hold
Grow a season sleep for ten
Do you know who return my friend?

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Lasses sigh and men do weep
Into your bones my sentence creep
Through your ears or out your tongue
On ladders rise black ants each rung
Sweet as honey, dark as night
In some ears I give my insight
Chant and speak through me by rote
My masters know me! Take a note
And tell them once and n'r again
Who is this quiet, raucous friend?

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Ehh, a few off the top of my head, but I figure they are enough. Good luck, please spoiler them :).

Slainte,

-Loonook.
 

Richards

Legend
Come from within to seal the breach
To run red hot my own tight niche
Within I run two flows oppose
Turn in and out violet and rose
To draw me out to be your end
To draw me in too great a sin
I fill the gaps inside the whole
Collect me mouth, tooth or bowl
Ware my sight, foe or friend
Lose me and n'r stand again
My nature fixed, your nature thrives
When I fall all do die
But know me you clever one?
Know me in the lightless sun?
I'll go with
blood
. No particular idea about the setting, though.

Johnathan
 

Rabulias

the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
We see escape and push to be free
Our captor, frantic, binds you and me
Caught we turn and slow betray
‘till none could ever get away
And trapped again within our cell
A pressing prison ‘till our death knell

[sblock]Lungs[/sblock]
 



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