Riddling

Riddling is the ninth encounter in Grand Games: The Ascent
==Enemies==
* Riddler Gargoyle (975 Gold, 120 XP, 75 Energy, 5 HP)
==Transcript==
===Introduction===
Your adversary's wearing an athlete's tunic, but it doesn't succeed in concealing his monstrous face, clawed appendages, wings, and long tail. Nor the fact that all these things are sculpted from black stone.
"What's a gargoyle doing at the games?" you ask.
"Soon I'll be tearing your intestines out. But first I'm going to defeat you and win this event."
"Riddling isn't even a real sport. It's just a silly children's game."
"You'll think differently when I'm feasting on your guts."
"Less murderous threats," the nymph says, "and more riddling!"
"Of warlike metal forged, I battle wind and wave," the riddler gargoyle says. "Scouring the water's depths, I bite into the world."
It's hard to tell if he's grinning, but his stone visage has a certain smugness about it. He might even be smacking his lips in anticipation of tasting your innards.
"An anchor," you say.
His yellow eyes flash. The nymph who's judging the contest nods.
"Pose your riddle, %player%," she says.
"I'm a demure thing, quiet and meek. Unless spoken to, I never speak."
"A woman!" the gargoyle says.
The nymph and female spectators gasp. He looks around at them.
"What? Back when I was sculpted, women didn't speak unless spoken to."
"It's an echo," you say.
"Oh..."
"%player% wins," the judge says.
"I'll tear %his% head off, and you'll have to declare me the winner!"
The nymph clicks her fingers. A satyr runs over to you, and holds up a rather large mace.
"Smash that gargoyle for me."
===Conclusion===
"Wait!" the gargoyle cries. Yellow light shines from him, pouring out of each crack that laces his black stone body. "If you destroy me, you'll never know the answer to the ultimate riddle!"
You pause.
"What's the riddle?"
"I walk in darkness like the-"
"Actually..." You raise the mace. "I don't really care."
The gargoyle wails. The mace descends. Yellow arcane light blazes, then fades away -- leaving a heap of shattered, lifeless stone in its wake.
Category:Grand Games: The Ascent