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puzzlerprince

Riddle 030: Half-Life (50% Droning)

Jul 03, 2011 23:56

[A - ACTION: The Kitchen of 726 Anderson Lane.Eddie's in the middle of preparing a nice, hearty breakfast for his family. Question: How best to spend this Fourth of July? Take his beautiful wife and kids out for a picnic in John Doe Park? Maybe see if Jonathan and his family want to come along? Honestly? It's days like this that it feels pretty ( Read more... )

it's complicated, i'm the goddamn riddler, identity crisis, droning sucks, all over the place, family matters, event!proud to be a mayfieldan

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puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 07:07:47 UTC

[It sounds like Anna seems to be having some difficulties as well. Before he can question her further, though, she asks him a question.]

The biggest riddle of all...? The answer is life itself, clearly. Simple.

[And yet not simple at the same time.]

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puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 17:26:16 UTC

[Everything this town put him through? Meaning his high school years? His career as a respected ethics teacher? The day he first met his beloved wife---]

It's a lie. It has to be.

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Phone, 100% droning (troll) glowing_science July 4 2011, 07:10:13 UTC

...of course it's real.

Why wouldn't it be? We grew up here. Are... are you feeling okay?

puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 07:16:12 UTC

[No. No, not Ema, too. And from the sound of it, she's in an even worse state than he is.]

...I could ask you the same thing.

[He'll---he'll test her. She's got to remember.]

Look. I need you to tell me about something. And I want you to think carefully before you answer. Can you do that for me?

glowing_science July 4 2011, 07:21:09 UTC

... is this really necessary?

[She sounds dubious. If she hadn't just insisted that they'd grown up in Mayfield, there'd be no indication that anything was amiss at all.]

But okay. If you insist. Although if this is going to be a riddle, I'm going to hang up on you.

puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 07:27:28 UTC

It isn't. I'll need you to...

[Oh, god, is he really about to ask her this? Deep breaths, Ed.]

I want you to tell me about the first time I ever kissed you. Understand?

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B; 50%, derp. riastrad_ridire July 4 2011, 07:13:03 UTC

I'm...remembering things too. Or I'm forgetting them. At this rate I don't know which is exactly the case.

It's like there's two answers to every question. Where I grew up, who I lived with, who my friends are...I don't know which answers are the right ones.

Something's wrong. Something I don't even understand yet.

puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 07:21:15 UTC

There can only be one answer to this question. Is it real? Or isn't it? There can't possibly be more than one answer. It has to be another trick.

riastrad_ridire July 4 2011, 07:26:22 UTC

How are we supposed to know which one's the truth? Logically one of them has to be, I sure as hell didn't spend the same lifetime in two places at the same time.

But I know I've always lived here, and I also know that I lived somewhere else. They both feel like indisputable fact, but there's no way one's possible if the other's true.

puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 17:44:01 UTC

"Tis not, tis is.
Tis good, tis bad.
Tis left, tis right.
Tis day, tis night."

...it's a paradox, plain and simple. But one of them has to be false. So... which is true?

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Phone - also at 50 worstvikingever July 4 2011, 07:13:44 UTC

Actually I've been wondering that too, Mr. Nash... no. Is that right? It's not right. It's... It's not right.

What's going on?

puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 07:24:04 UTC

I wish I knew. You... you were about to call me something, weren't you?

worstvikingever July 4 2011, 16:48:25 UTC

I was... [He hesitates.] ...I was going to wish you a happy Fourth of July, but... I was also going to say...

[What? Say what? He wrestles with himself for a moment longer.]

...cane. Yes. Your cane! You asked me to make you a cane a while ago and I finally finished it!

...I think? Why would you need... and how would I be able to... oh gods I am so confused.

puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 18:46:27 UTC

My... my cane? [That's right. He had commissioned a cane from Hiccup weeks ago. But... why would he even need one? 37 isn't that old.] When can I pick it up?

[Maybe this is a clue of some sort. Another piece to the puzzle.]

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Phone poisonivyforyou July 4 2011, 07:16:13 UTC

[That's... Ed's voice. Her friend. They went to high school together they- she always said she hated him because he was one of the few able to outsmart her in most classes. Not in Botany, of course, but who could outsmart Pamela Isley in that field?

She cared about him a great deal.]

...Eddie? Is something wrong?

[Yet she felt... uneasy about this. Like there was something else, something... more she was forgetting.]

puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 07:33:46 UTC

[Pam. If there's one rogue he knows with a level head, it's got to be her.]

Pam, you remember Gotham, don't you? You remember life outside of this town.

[Tell him he isn't crazy.]

poisonivyforyou July 4 2011, 07:38:29 UTC

Gotham...

[The name fills her mouth, makes her feel... calm, and at home. That nagging feeling on the back of her head disappears, then it's back with more insistence, more urgency.

Like the confirmation something isn't... right. But the memories. They are real, they are there so it's. Better to just latch onto them for now.]

I don't understand- I never left this city. I was born in here...

...wasn't I?

puzzlerprince July 4 2011, 18:49:29 UTC

[She wasn't. Yet she was. He still remembered going through high school with her. Toting her to prom in exchange for doing her homework.]

That's what I'd like to know. i feel... strange.

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