KQ Riddles!

[Delling]

yes, please... unless... could it be the cat in Mannannan's house before you change Mannanan into a cat? probably not

[Rosella]

Ok, well, how would you change something TOTALLY ordinary, with no special properties to something different?

[Delling]

By magic, of course.

Thus, the jar of fish oil is used in one spell and becomes just an ordinary empty jar, but when used in another spell, it is changed into the brew of storms... I think it's the brew of storms anyways...

The empty jar from KQ3... *isn't sure how that's "part of [my] scam"*

[Rosella]

Yes for magic, but no for the jar.

The jar itself isn't anything special, it just holds the magical brew.

[oberonqa]

ok.. the magic carpet in KQ2 that Graham uses to fly to the top of the mountain to obtain the second Key.

[Rosella]

Nope. It's not changed and it's definitely not ordinary to start with.

[Delling]

the rose essence in KQ3 I'm not sure if you would consider it to be ordinary in the first place, but it is changed into something considerably less ordinary.

[Rosella]

That never even seemed ordinary to me, so no.

Want a "Which half of the series" hint?

[Delling]

'kay...*wants to put in a guess but can't think of one*


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[oberonqa]

lol I think you stumped us Rosella

[Rosella]

Nah. SOMEONE has to outsmart me.

And, unlike all of my other riddles, it's in the latter half.

[Delling]

the water in KQ7 the salt water... I think the wander says something about your having scammed him when you give him the salt water... or he might just kill you...

[Rosella]

But you don't change that in any way.

And shame on you for giving him the salt water!

[Delling]

BUT BUT BUT you do change it: "Before you change me, I'm part of your scam." Well, if I have recalled correctly that he implies you've scammed him when you give him the salt water, then the salt water is part of your scam until you change it by performing the ritual at the statue that turns it into fresh water.

I wish I could check what he says, but I don't have KQ7 working anywhere at the moment.

[Yonkey]

And shame on you for giving him the salt water!

LOL!   I think I tried that too.   I thought he might go psycho on Valanice.

[Delling]

*guesses again anyways*

the silver spoon in KQ7... it's not only a perfectly ordinary spoon but also just what you need for the spell, and it changes after the spell into the silver pellet.


no, you wrote the riddle out like that: I was just paraphrasing because I didn't want to be exact. Though still, you can't really do anything with the salt water until you change it into fresh water... anyway, the punctuation clarifies matters a bit.

[Rosella]

BUT BUT BUT you do change it: "Before you change me, I'm part of your scam."

Eek. I wrote that VERY unclearly. I'm REALLY sorry. It's supposed to read "Ordinary I seem and ordinary I am until you change me. I'm part of your scam." It's ordinary until you do something with it, THEN you can use it.

[Delling]

  so, just so I get everything clear in my head, it is a perfectly ordinary item changed by magic into an extraordinary or magical item? To be perfectly clear, what is the nature of the item after the transformation? Or is it purposefully ambiguous (in which case don't tell me: it was only the confusion over what the the adverb clause was modifying that caused this and I wouldn't want to get a hint just because I was confused).

The wall on the side of the Castle of the Crown? It's a perfectly ordinary wall until you paint a door on it at which point it becomes both useful and magical.

[Rosella]

It wasn't purposefully ambiguous, but no matter, you're right anyway.

I hate to think that the reason it took so long was a poorly written riddle.

[Delling]

  I thought that one up a while ago but rejected it repeatedly because it wasn't an inventory item... ...then, I was like well, what the heck.

I'll post a riddle when I come up with one