UN | Kues

[mirakills]

Congratulations, I am now sealed within a miracle.
Of course, my congratulations go to the ones capable of such a thing.
Witches should be able to summon and control gods, not the other way around.
So bravo. My heartfelt feelings of applause go out to you, divine captors.
I’ve been truly shamed.

With that out of the way, may I pose a riddle to the rest of your captured?

I am a baldfaced liar, tinged with reddened shame.
You’ll never know me for who I am, for that is just my name.
Astutely bold, encased in gold, I am the one to blame.

I hail the northeast seas as home, but I have not forgotten,
The Swiss mountains I was born, from a time long dead and rotten.
If you’re lost, I’m sitting on the tip of your tongue, it’s…
Who am I?

For who solves it… I will return something that I have taken in this City that everyone needs.
Good luck.

[ ooc; Though I’d love for you to OOCly give it a try, if your character is smart enough to figure it out, PM me ahead of time and I’ll give the answer. I have no intention of giving a riddle too hard to solve when characters ICly can! ]

Comments

[Text]

[timmers]

You know, most people would just have a housewarming party when they move somewhere new.

Can't say I saw anything missing when I went out today. You sure you got the right 'something'?

[Text]

[mirakills]

I'm very sure I have something everyone needs.
In fact, it was one of the first things I took when I got here.

[text | un: flamel]

[alchemyfreak]

we're not captured.

As far as you taking something, that's not really how you make new friends.

[He's not even remotely amused.]

text | @ryo.asuka666

[apt666]

No gods or witches took us. Science did.

[mirakills]

Oh? Then what would you describe this as?

That's a shame. I'm just curious if someone can solve my riddle, and I felt people might be... unmotivated with no stakes.

[mirakills]

Ah, of course.
In that case I'm not very surprised. To rip a magical entity from its plane of existence and reality...
Is probably only something mankind can do.

text; @fromTV

[spellslots]

Doesn't seem real fair that you took something from all of us but your shitty riddle looks kinda Earth-centric

[mirakills]

There's two riddles in the post.
The 'Earth-centric' one as you put it, and the thing that everyone needs.
I assure you everyone can solve the latter.

[spellslots]

Something that everyone needs, huh?
Well I've still got my dick so it's not that 🤔🤔🤔

[mirakills]

Rest assured.
And as a hint, obviously not oxygen or water.

[spellslots]

I mean obviously or we'd be super fucking dead
Not that I really care, riddles are for people who are too full of their own shit to do something useful

[apt666]

Mankind does try to push the limit, doesn't it?

text - > video

[mirakills]

[ Bernkastel flips on the video to face herself-- she very obviously looks like a young girl, a teenager at best. Her clothes can adequately be described as vintage compared to most of the city. ]

I feel the same way about jokes about your genitals to someone of my stature.

[mirakills]

It does.
In the end, they're the only thing that seems to make a difference.
... I should say sapient beings, given where we are though.

[spellslots]

[Okay sure he can do video.]

Oh you're like a baby, whoops. But hey, do you think you're special just cause you're a witch? Cause I'm gonna have some real bad news for you in about two seconds.

[mirakills]

I'm aware there are other magic users. I happen to be a different kind of witch than most. I'd demonstrate, but I prefer not to strut.

Which is why I played a word game. Now that you can see me, can you see what I've taken?

[spellslots]

Take it from someone who does love to strut, you really oughta just own it instead of this weird pseudo-intellectual circle jerk.

[Just threaten to take over the Quarantine like he did? That's obviously more effective.]

My will to live cause this is so boring? Couldn't you just blow something up, that'd be more interesting.

[mirakills]

[ She deliberates. ]

Okay.

[ In an instant, everything behind her is black-- the small set of trees behind the bench she was sitting on is engulfed in a vantablack circle of eyes and yowling before it becomes apparent that this is a mass of black cats, moving together in sync as she maintains the same dull facade.

Taako asked for an explosion, so he'll get one, full of multicolored lights and a resounding boom as her cats shred the little park with a velocity that leaves nothing behind. Trees, scratched down to nubs. Grass? Torn up from the ground to reveal dirt. Singemarks of violet color coat the buildings around her. ]

The answer, by the way...

Was a seat.

@lightemup

[umbrastaff]

Did you not get a briefing like everyone else did or what?

[Ignores the riddle, whoops.]

[mirakills]

My first action upon gaining consciousness was to return to the sea of kakera.
It did not go so well.

[umbrastaff]

Guess you should hop back and get yourself some info before you go threatening a whole place of innocent people, huh?

[mirakills]

It's not a threat, it's a riddle. 'Something I have taken in this City that everyone needs'.
It doesn't mean air, or food, or the secret mechanism keeping this place running. Think outside of the box.

[spellslots]

[Taako, in true fashion of being as much of a shit as possible, summons himself a martini so he can make a very good show of sipping it super casually. It's actually pretty impressive but as if he'll admit that.]

Bold of you to assume I sit.

[mirakills]

My mistake.
Shall I take it you're only ever horizontal or vertical from now on?

[ And she just chastised him for a rude joke, too... she's a shit, too. ]

[spellslots]

Not the worst assumption anyone's made about me.

[This is actually a good martini why doesn't he do this more often.]

So like, was that an illusion or have you got some weird-ass cat demons as friends? I won't judge, we've all been there.