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Riddles (DMOD: Cast Awakening: Initiation)

Cast Awakening Part 1: Initiation

January 15th 2005, 10:08 AM
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Longdrinker
Ghost They/Them
 
Doe someone know the anwser to the first riddle in this DMOD:
Unlike a peronified conduit of food and drink, I don't like to be tipped by the locals. In fact it is rather hazardous to my health. I am not white or black.
Who am I????????????????????

Please help me further in this game
January 15th 2005, 10:31 AM
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cow
January 16th 2005, 10:31 AM
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Longdirnker
Ghost They/Them
 
thanks! it works but it does not make sence to me?
January 16th 2005, 11:30 AM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Personified conduit of food and drink = a waiter/watress, who like to be tipped with money. Taking the word 'tip' differently, there is something known as 'cow tipping' where some people like to tip cows on their side, with the idea that they won't be able to get back up.

A cow is usually white and black, so it is not white or black, but both.

There were a couple other hints in dialogue choices, too.
January 16th 2005, 01:12 PM
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carrie2004
Peasant She/Her Canada
*chomp* 
It was a very good riddle,redink1.
*pat pat*
July 2nd 2005, 10:09 PM
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tabitha
Ghost They/Them
 
Does anyone know the answer to this riddle, please.

Nine there are of me. near you.
A slice of time itself.
Never to be replaced.
Always to be remembered.
What am I?
July 2nd 2005, 10:36 PM
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rp64
Peasant He/Him
 
*pat* *pat* ??? Dont you mean *clap* *clap*, you drunk beaver ladie?
July 2nd 2005, 10:48 PM
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Poster is the answer, if I remember right.
June 23rd 2011, 02:02 AM
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Poster is the correct answer.

However, what's the logic behind it?
June 23rd 2011, 01:19 PM
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darksign13
Peasant He/Him United States
Hungry, Horney, and Helpless... Take me home. 
However, what's the logic behind it?

There are a total of 9 posters in two rooms including the one you are in. The other is not far away.

And for the record: Most cows are actually brown. The black and whites are just thought to be the best milk cows. (I lived in ranching country.)

Edit: I actually didn't figure it out, either. I just reverse engineered the script to crack it. I hate riddles, but I love math.
June 23rd 2011, 01:50 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
I just reverse engineered the script to crack it.

Sure sure. Now back to play with the toys.
June 23rd 2011, 02:32 PM
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I see. Huh...

(In the following passage, I took a lot of time to really think about this riddle, because it was rather intriguing for thought.)

If I may give my blunt opinion, I think the riddle was a bit poorly written. First of all, I would have never figured out that the word might be "poster", even if I did know that the focus was on the pictures at the hall of fame. Why isn't the answer "picture" or "glass-framed portrait" or simply "portrait"? Why is it "poster"? Was there a clue that these pictures were paper-only and not frame-lamented and glass-covered? Secondly, unlike the other riddles, this one is specific to Dink at that scene and not relating to a thing or concept of the larger general world. No one could have figured that out unless/until he or she goes to DinkSolutions to find the answer and thought about the logistics behind it. (See, I didn't even know what the meaning behind the answer was until darksign13 explained it!). Well, this point maybe subjective, so I leave it open to doubt. On the other hand, my third and most important point is, all of the other riddles had lines that each cleverly, obtusely and even comically gave hints as to what the object was. For example, the table is an important part of a meal but is not good to eat. That's clever. A cow is not black or white. It's black and white at the same time! That's clever. Here, the portraits being a "slice of time" that's "always to be remembered" does not seem to fit this technique of logical wittiness: it doesn't describe, or pertain to the characteristics, qualities and/or behavior of a picture or a poster; it was merely referring to those posters inside the Cast Castle. In line with the second point, had I not known that the riddle was specific to the dink game at that particular scene, I would have simply thought that "never to be reclaimed" and "forever to be remembered" would refer to more general things like a scientific name of a kind of blissful memory or a name for a certain measurement of time on a calender ("day", "week", "month", "year", "minute", "second", etc. etc. But gosh. Which one of these would be made up of nine smaller measurements? There are 7 days in a week. Nah! there are 60 minutes in a hour. Gah... )

Finally, if I'm not mistaken, I only counted 7 posters total. That is coming from a fan who has downloaded this d-mod 3-5 years ago and has become familiar with the different scenes and chain of events in the storyline. If there were 2 more that I missed, which I probably did, I would have had to have gone out of my way to find where these 2 were. What if I never found those 2? See?

In short, there was no possible chance for me to know what the answer was until I visit dinksolution. As for the other riddles, there were chances that I could have figured them out with their references to the outside world. (I came rather close to figuring out the table riddle. At first, I considered the silverware, more specifically a fork; turns out that the fork normally has 4 prods, not 3, so that option was out. I then considered a 3 legged revolver at a restaurant that conveniently passed food from one person to another. However, that would have been too specific to a certain kind of restaurant and aren't an important part of meals...).
June 24th 2011, 10:13 PM
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darksign13
Peasant He/Him United States
Hungry, Horney, and Helpless... Take me home. 
Actually, there are 3 options for right answers. I think picture is one of them.
May 18th 2020, 09:59 AM
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petefoy
Peasant They/Them
 
Apparently it passes as entertainment in the countryside. A group people grab a cow's legs and tip it over.