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{\Huge \bf Riddles for 1st Level (or lower) Characters\\}
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{\large \sf \copyright \ 1990 Aaron Miaullis. All Rights Reserved.}
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(possible solutions are on pg, more than one solution possible) \\

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{\large 1) Posion riddle}\\


	Character slides into room with:\\

		Pool of water in the south corner.  Torches on the other
		three corners.  One table. one spoon on table.  Cock-
	        roaches are busy eating something in the north corner.
		On the table is two gobblets, one with rubies, one with
		diamonds.  There is a leaf of parchment on the table
		before the glasses.  The paper reads:\\

	"The only way to get out of the room is to drink one of the 
	 cups.  Be forwarned, one cup has a powerful contact posion
	 on it, but the liquid in it is a potion of permanent water
	 breathing.  With the ability to breath water, you will be
	 able to escape through the water passage.  The other cup
	 contains a powerful liquid posion, but is ok to touch the cup.
	 If you drink the posion, you feed the roaches.  Choose well
	 and think first."\\

		On the glasses it reads:\\

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\item[Ruby gemed gobblet:] ``The lips that touch liquore,"
\item[Diamond gemed gobblet:] "Shall never touch mine."
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	Which gobblet do you drink?\\


{\large 2) Ice riddle}\\

		The characer slides to the EDGE of a tank of sharks.  On
		the bottom of the tank are some bones.  Across the room is
		an archway with blue gems.  Above the character is an   
		incription: \\

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	``When I am warm, I flow like alchohol.\\
	 When I am cold, I am slow like mud.\\
	 When I am very cold, I float on my brothers.\\
	 When I am very cold, what am I?"\\}
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		On a ledge is two wands.  One is red, one is blue.\\
		
		The object is to escape the edge and go through the door.\\
		
  
{\large 3) Friction riddle\\}

		The character is sucked up a shaft and is deposited in
	a room with at FRICTIONLESS floor.  Around him are 8 pictures
	in a circle.  The ceiling is high and a heavy crossbow hangs
	from a o-ring 1m above the adventurer (just out of reach). One
	of the picture animates and says:\\

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		``How nice of you to drop in.  One of us is a glass 
	window to the main cavern.  The rest of us are windows to
	a starving troll.  One of us is not the same as the others,
	which one of us is it?   A hint, we were all warriors in 
	life, one of us dishonnered his King and expelled from the
	company.  It is through him you can leave.  Don't try to
	stand up, the floor is completely frictionless"\\
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		The object of the riddle is to escape the room.\\

		For pictures, use playing cards.  The one without a
	weapon is the window out.  The troll is dead, long since 
	starved to death.\\


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{\Huge \bf Traps for The Larry, Currly and Moe Dungeon\\}
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{\large \sf \copyright \ 1990 Steven Owen, Aaron Miaullis.  All rights reserved (as if we really care)} 
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Editor's Comments: Well, they are traps --- in a sense. \\

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{\center \large \bf Whipped Cream Trap --- Ego Buster\\}
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	Start with a normal pit trap (add spikes if you really want to).\\

	Fill it with whipped cream.\\

	Note:\\
\begin{enumerate}
\item{You can't breath whipped cream.}
\item{You can't swim in whipped cream.}
\item{Whipped cream makes walls and ropes too slippery to hold.}
\item{Casting a spell with vocal or material components is damned
		hard in a pit of whipped cream.}
\item{Nothing is quite as humiliating as explaining your character
		died in a pit full of whipped cream.}
\end{enumerate}

	For effect, try scattering a fine grayish powder on top of the cream (to
	disguise the floor).\\

	For the piece de resistance, have a little robotic hand come out of a
	wall and carefully set a cherry on top of the "adventurer sunday".\\



{\center \large \bf The Black X Marks the Splotch" Trap - Greed Buster\\}
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	This trap is for those characters who are either too greedy or 
	just not aware of their surroundings.\\

	In the center of a typical adventures' setting (meaning ANYWHERE)
	have a black X with a bag of gold on it.\\

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{\Huge X}
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	If evil is being detected for let the black X glow mildly evil.  Usually	a character will decide to go somewhere else and not bother to try to
	set off a deadly trap for fourty gold peices.  If the gold is lifted
	from the X then the change in weight triggers a spring an shoots 
	anything that was within one yard of the center of the X about 50ft
	in the air and the character (+gold) goes SPLAT at the same point his
	or her feet orginally left the floor and 50 gold pieces richer.\\

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