Pirate Lord Team
Captain Salem stood up, placed the cat in his chair, and smiled after Aurora said she was up for it. "Well then I will be watching from here with Sara. We will be cheering you on by firing magic mortar rounds that burst into a firework color of the team and individual colors for each of you!" Captain Salem's smile grew even wider. "NOW! Get your asses out there and win this for Pirate Lord!" With that Soren actually cheered and Merlina gave a giggle then everyone filed out of the bridge and went to the deck.
Soren stood there first and over looked the prelims area. "Well we are a bit late but they will have to deal." He said in almost uninterested voice. He honestly could care less what the announcers or the anyone else thought about their lateness but they did have to make it down to the field in time and start answering those damned riddles. He smirk though, if it was one thing that Soren loved almost as much as cooking it was riddles and puzzles. "Alright everyone gather round. I will be teleporting us to the field." Soren had figured out some time ago while training that he could us his Contain magic around himself as a shield of sorts but he accidentally discovered that by manipulating the sphere that contained him that he and others that touched him could teleport short distances. It left him a little drained but not so bad that he couldn't solve a few riddles. The team gathered around him and each put a hand on Soren. Soren extended both arms outward and hands making each palm face the outward as well. A sphere formed around them, runes on the sphere glowed bright colors and the top and the bottom half began to spin opposite of each other. In another second anyone who had been watching them would now see nothing, as if they had just winked out of existence. Soren willed the sphere to appear before the House of Riddles and it did in the next second. Soren shook off the slight dizzy feeling and then looked back up at the ship right before entering the House of Riddles. "Come along everyone lets get this done."Up on the ship as soon as the others had left Blair transformed back into her human form.
"Well I hope they win it. Still can't believe you put that girl in the team instead of me. Actually I can't believe you let Aurora go either. Salem turned to her as she sat in his chair from where she had transformed. "You know better than to shit there and I hope you aren't questioning who I picked for the games. Plus I would have thought you might want to spend some quality time with me." He laughed a little as he pulled her up, kissed her cheek and then moved her to sit himself down. Blair pouted a little as he did but smiled when she got a kiss from him.
"Well you know I love spending time with you." She said with a smile. "Well good then. Now lets see how they do in the prelims." Blair sat on his lap as Sara brought up a screen that displayed everything that Team Pirate Lord would be doing. She also fired the first mortar for the team as they appeared in the field and entered the house. The mortar firework exploded high in the air and displayed the guilds emblem. It then shifted between the colors of the team's emblems and fizzled out as the last person entered the house.
In the house each of them entered and the first room was empty. A voice then spoke the first riddle.
I have a bed but never sleep,
I have a mouth but can never speak,
I can run but not walk,
what am I?
Soren and Merlina thought for a second, talked to the others, then agreed upon something. Soren was about to speak but them Aurora spoke ahead of him, but they hadn't discussed it with her.
"Has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth that never eats..." Aurora trailed off into thought as she listened to her teammates talk though the riddle, trying to figure it out.
A bed, of oysters? No, oysters eat... What about run but not walk? Running, runny nose? That makes no sense... But I've never heard of a walking nose. Aurora laughed a little at her joke for a second, but then started thinking seriously again.
"What about running water?" She said quietly to herself, then louder to her team.
"Running water, like a river! Rivers have mouths where they flow into a lake or sea, and the riverbed is the bottom!"Correct. Please move to the next room.
A door opened and the team moved on. Soren glared at Aurora a little and Merlina bumped in as if to say Hey she got it right so hush. Mostly he was just annoyed but the next riddle played and he then payed attention.
What is black when you get it,
red when you use it,
and white when you are all through with it?
It took a minute but then Aorura broke the silence.
"This one's a lot harder, do any of you know?" Aurora tried to think through it the way she did the last one, but she didn't have anything to work with because nothing came to mind.
Soren smirked cause he knew the answer right off.
The answer is Coal. As a chef I should know. He said smugly. "It is black when you get it, becomes red when you burn it, and when you get done using it becomes white." They all waited for a second then the voice spoke again.
Correct. Please move to the next room.
The team again moved on.
I am rarely touched but often held, and if you have wit you'll use me well. What am I?
As soon as the riddle was read Aurora spoke ahead of Soren again who had lifted his finger and was about to exclaim the answer but dropped it as soon as she spoke.
"Oh, it's a tongue! I think I've heard that one before..."Correct. Please move to the next room.
They moved on and Soren was steaming a little but shook it off as they entered the room and the riddle was spoken.
Seas without water, coasts without sand, towns without people, mountains without land. What am I?
Aurora out loud spoke to the others, but couldn't come up with the answer.
"A picture maybe? No, a picture of a town could still have people in it..."Merlina giggled at Soren and the others expressions of confusion and smiled as she spoke the answer.
"Why its a map you sillies. A map can show all of those things with out with out the second."Correct. Please move to the next room.
The team did so and everyone gained more confident.
Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mumble and grumble. What are they?
Everyone including Soren looked at Aurora for the answer on this one and she began to think.
"Walk on the dead? No thank you." Aurora suppressed a shiver and tried to focus on the riddle.
"Alright, what's silent if you walk on it while it's alive? No animal I know, unless... It's leaves! Dead leaves dry out and crunch when you step on them, but won't when they're alive."Correct. Please move to the next room.
The team began to answer the riddles one after another and moved to each room as they did.
What regularly changes shape yet remains a sphere, is always there but not often seen?
Malice brushed her hair aside and smirked.
"Why the moon of course its a sphere in the sky with different phases and to us we see a different shape with each phase while its true shape is a sphere. Its also only seen at night."Correct. Please move to the next room.
I am both the beginning and the end of something.
"Could two riddles in a row be the moon? Well, this one would be the new moon probably. Lunar months both start and end on the new moon."Aurora again spoke out loud and almost got it wrong for the team, but Malice corrected her.
Malice tapped her chin then looked at the door.
"A new year. You start a new year but end an old one as well." Malice said with a tilt of her head.
For a moment they weren't sure which one that voice was going to take until...
Correct. Please move to the next room.
If I am fed, I live but if I drink I die.
I can be used to keep you alive but I can also kill.
am found in camps and in homes.
I can be a friend and sometimes a foe.
I am used by day and by night.
What am I?
Aurora began and turned to the team.
"The biggest hint is that if it drinks it dies. It's good to water a plant but not a fire, unless you need to put it out."Malice smirked yet again.
"Fire, you can only feed it as water will kill it. That and it being in camps was a dead give away." Malice said with a confident smile.
Merlina pouted for a second and looked to Bel.
"We should have been able to get there Bel." She produced an emerald flame in her hand and then snuffed it right out as they moved to the next room.
Correct. Please move to the next room.
What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes
And yet never grows?
Aurora thought for a second but again couldn't come up with anything.
"Taller than trees, has roots, and doesn't grow? I'm stumped."No one spoke and Soren even didn't know the answer then there was a guess. Malice hesitated on this one out of all of them and spoke up finally.
"A mountain?"Correct. Please move to the next room.
Finally they entered the last room of the prelims and the finally riddle was asked.
You can see me but your friends have no idea I'm there. What am I?
Aurora spoke with confidence and wasn't far off from the truth of the answer.
"I can see it, but no one else can? An illusion or a dream! In most cases only you can see your dreams."Malice tapped her head.
"Thoughts, just like I thought this was too easy."Both of them answered and Soren stepped in.
Both would have to be correct I would think so lets hope that either works. They waited for a second that felt like ages.
Correct. Please move on to the outside. You have passed the prelims.
Everyone moved outside and saw another team there as well that seemed to be arguing a little. Suddenly another explosion rang out over head and the team looked upward as they saw their emblem in all their colors.
"Alright everyone we have done our Captain good,but there is a whole lot more we got to do to win this. So lets give it out all. For Pirate Lord! He shouted the last bit and they all joined in and then waited there till the next thing was going to happen or be announced.
