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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6249796" data-attributes="member: 20323">Wow! I can't believe it's been so long since we had some riddles!I'd like to open it back up with something different: the behind-the-scenes creation of a riddle.The scenario: At dawn, a wounded female high elven White Knight is brought in on a gurney by three battle scarred cavaliers who claim she saved their lives from an ambush. When the PCs go to check on the unconscious White Knight, she awakens in a trance only briefly to utter a riddle. What does she say?Some other relevant details: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The White Knight is actually a ghost (not the incorporeal kind, so maybe spirit is a better word) cursed by a hag. She couldn't save her beloved from the hag, and so she attacked the hag.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The 3 cavaliers actually died. The White Knight's curse has made them appear alive by capturing their souls in a sort of time loop. Once they arrive at the castle the characters are at, however, the time loop begins to spread with supernatural weirdness.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The answer to the riddle should provide PCs with what they need to know to counter the time loop effect.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The encounter is meant to feel spooky and fey. The White Knight is meant to test how the characters honor the fallen and deal with bereavement.</li> </ul>The Riddle (rough draft): Someone wanders in the fane, twist the nothing and the twain, an honest man sometimes true, ever carrying me to you.Right now it's a bunch of jibber-jabber, but I just wanted to get a feel for the paradoxes it alludes to, establish a rhyming/syllable scheme, and the faerie tone of the riddle. As I work on it, I'll get something that makes sense...Any ideas so far?</blockquote>

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