1 - Have I made you desperate?
Jun. 11th, 2012 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lacksconviction[He takes his time before introducing himself, establishing the purpose of this place, the fact that his magic definitely was depleted and not coming back by any means known to him, and weighing up the odds of his escaping by the usual means, before deigning to make his first journal entry. He has taken off his ridiculous supervillain hat, for effect:]
My my, is this not an ambitious effort? Certainly, a more elaborate one than the last chamber in which I was imprisoned. To whose hospitality do I owe my gratitude, may I ask? Which one-eyed wolf has clamped these strange jaws around my throat?
[He smiles, but it's unconvincing. His eyes look strangely pained.]
Or perhaps I expect too much in assuming this a prison, rather than an arsenal of purloined weapons, or a vault to hold the spoils of war?
[A slight pause, before he decides he's giving away far too much, and clicks the communicator off.]
My my, is this not an ambitious effort? Certainly, a more elaborate one than the last chamber in which I was imprisoned. To whose hospitality do I owe my gratitude, may I ask? Which one-eyed wolf has clamped these strange jaws around my throat?
[He smiles, but it's unconvincing. His eyes look strangely pained.]
Or perhaps I expect too much in assuming this a prison, rather than an arsenal of purloined weapons, or a vault to hold the spoils of war?
[A slight pause, before he decides he's giving away far too much, and clicks the communicator off.]
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-12 04:35 pm (UTC)The myths your world told of me were simple tales for children. The truth is more complex, and not to be guessed at.
The Prince of Puzzles though? How came you to be called this?
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-13 04:39 am (UTC)Well. [He chuckles.] It's an infamous title, given to me because of how I choose to present myself to the stupid and ignorant. Read: I'm fairly blatant about my dislike of them.
I give them a path, but the path to enlightenment is laden with frustration, and the path I provide is especially perilous. Not many manage to reach the end.
[Riddler leans his chin on his hand.]
I'm personally more fond of truth seeker. And speaking of truth, if you would like to regale me with your stories...?
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-13 09:59 pm (UTC)A man who would be a Sphinx. And is your devotion to steering people down your twisting path what led you here?
[He tilts his head, distantly amused.]
Oh, but I've so many stories, and so many of them secret, I wouldn't know where to begin...
I'll give you three questions. Ask me what you will and be assured that I'll answer with nothing but the truth.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-14 12:38 am (UTC)I can't say with certainty that it is. In recent months, before being brought here, I had attempted to make that twisting path something more homely.
[Riddler licks his teeth, thinking.]
I almost don't know where to begin myself...
[Pause, pause.]
Death is almost always our sine qua non, so who, or what killed you, and why?
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-14 09:06 pm (UTC)[Loki points out. No twofers, Eddie.]
If I answer both, you're left only with one remaining. Are you sure this is how you wish to begin?
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-14 11:04 pm (UTC)[The feed jostles as he stands up.]
But we could reduce it to 'why'.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-15 08:51 pm (UTC)I'll answer, of course, but this is your last chance if you'd rather pick something less readily available?
[Not that he's trying to get out of answering, exactly, but he could probably tell you less of importance if you asked him about something more complicated. Something with more wiggle room. Why is inconveniently direct.]
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-16 04:29 am (UTC)I don't feel it's a waste, but I do have something a little less predictable in mind for the next question.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-19 01:18 am (UTC)I suppose it was because I overestimated my godhood. I issued a challenge to a thing quite capable of breaking my bones into dust.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-19 01:25 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2012-06-19 01:35 am (UTC)I never intended to answer them all, and I still don't. The piece of truth which I give you for this is that I antagonized a monstrosity, doubted my mortality, and was proven wrong.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-19 01:55 am (UTC)[He chuckles, thinking himself quite funny.]
What cabin do you occupy? You'll need visual assistance for the next question.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-19 02:17 am (UTC)Level three, room eleven. And that's your second question asked and answered.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-19 02:30 am (UTC)[He hmms.] One left.
You'll hear from me later in the month. I've got some collecting to do.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-19 02:46 am (UTC)And that was your third question, oh Majesty of Puzzles.
[Private]
Date: 2012-06-19 02:54 am (UTC)It only took you three bouts of rhetoric to react, so congratulations on being -- excuse my French-- both slow and a selective dick.
I'm still dropping by later. [He turns off the video feed.] With gifts.