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Edward Nigma | The Riddler ([personal profile] questionauthority) wrote2011-02-23 09:24 pm

Riddle 020: Calling All Crooks

A. [At Mayfield High, Edward is taking to his new job as Ethics teacher with very little enthusiasm. Any kids in his class? Your first assignment is being written on the board in a neat, tidy scrawl:

"How far would you be willing to go to escape this place?"]


Discuss.

B. [Later on that afternoon, Edward makes a public phone call, filtered away from drones, Grady, the Mayor, the Smiths, and the like.]

Mayfield, Mayfield, Mayfield. You know what I like to do every Sunday night when I'm not scheming a daring escape? I like to think up riddles. Like this one, for example: "What is the one question you can ask at any point in the day, and still get a different answer?" Give up? Hmm?

Answer: "What time is it?" See? Simple. I could say "7:26" just as easily as I can say the time is 9 o'clock PM. Or this one---actually, my old college roommate, Andrew, was instrumental in helping me think this one up.

"Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son!" I'll let you figure out the answer to that one on your own.

Hmm. Perhaps this Sunday night, I'll think up another good riddle. Or perhaps I'll finally find a way for all of you to get out of here. Who knows? Maybe I already have. Interested? Well---you already know where to find me. I've practically given you all the answers, regardless.

[He chuckles obnoxiously.]
roadroller: (♪ Drive You Flat)

A.

[personal profile] roadroller 2011-02-24 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
Well, so far, being here doesn't bother me that much. I can't die now that I'm a robot, and that seems to be everyone's biggest problem with the place, right? Except for being here in the first place.

Buuuut... ♪

Let's say, if they messed with Miku-nee, who is still a human, or if they didn't bring Len here, or if they brought him here and then messed with him?

♪ I'd flatten the place entirely! ♪

... If I could, that is. [and at that, she pouts. Having her cute outfits is nice, but she liked being able to run things over with her roadroller.]

[identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com 2011-02-24 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Edward nods.]

Interesting. So, you would take action if your friends were threatened.
roadroller: (Default)

[personal profile] roadroller 2011-02-24 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup! ♪ Or I guess, if one of them just made me really mad. It's hard to say what a girl can do, isn't it? Hehe.

[identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com 2011-02-24 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
roadroller: (♪ I can take my panties off!)

[personal profile] roadroller 2011-02-24 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
You got it, teach! ♪

[she leans over and puts her chin on top of her folded hands, tilting her head slightly]

But, just because I don't feel like flattening everything yet, doesn't mean I don't still want to go home. For the record, you know. ♪

[identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com 2011-02-24 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course.