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Kilvan
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Canada
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 Posted - 22 Feb 2010 : 12:42:43
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| Im interested, I just have no idea who it is. |
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 22 Feb 2010 : 16:26:32
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OK, then: If this doesn't tip someone off, I'm gonna have a hard time coming up with any more clues: So, Sage, you might just have to jump in and answer this one anyway
He has been known to advise Bara, Druid of the High Moor |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
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Posted - 22 Feb 2010 : 20:11:51
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| Ohhh, well that would be Vincin, Elminster's Ecologies Appendix 2 p.5 |
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
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624 Posts |
Posted - 22 Feb 2010 : 21:58:25
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Originally posted by Kilvan
Ohhh, well that would be Vincin, Elminster's Ecologies Appendix 2 p.5
Spot on, old sport.
The floor is Kilvan's. |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 23 Feb 2010 : 11:18:35
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| I don't have a question ready at the moment, I'll try to post something today. |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 24 Feb 2010 : 22:20:40
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| Sorry for the delay, here's an easy one: Who wields "the captain's cutlass" |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2010 : 12:34:18
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| Hint: Its owner is said to be able to pilot any sailing craft, in any conditions, and to never shy away from a challenge. |
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Bakra
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 26 Feb 2010 : 13:34:52
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Originally posted by Kilvan
Hint: Its owner is said to be able to pilot any sailing craft, in any conditions, and to never shy away from a challenge.
The owner sounds godlike to me. |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2010 : 20:12:57
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| Does he? But then, you know rumors... |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 27 Feb 2010 : 20:29:50
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| need another hint? Ok, here it is: He is (or was) a captain from Mintarn who dared challenge Umberlee and won. |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 01 Mar 2010 : 12:14:50
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| Hmm, Im not sure what hint to give, without giving the answer away. I'd say that Bakra pretty much gave a hint already, and a good one. |
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 01 Mar 2010 : 17:40:41
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| I know it but am not allowed to answer again so soon... and I doubt that this will take 2 more days for someone to answer. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2010 : 00:40:39
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I may have to take this one... But I don't have another question handy! 
Ditto! I just haven't had the time to flick through my books lately, so... |
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2010 : 03:59:16
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| So while we're waiting for an answer... what sort of question is a good one for the trivia challenge? The one that I just used (which Kilvan answered), for instance: was that too cornercase? I kind of thought so, but then again, anything less obscure tends to be answered in minutes. So, how obscure is too obscure? |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 02 Mar 2010 : 05:09:32
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Originally posted by Knight of the Gate
So while we're waiting for an answer... what sort of question is a good one for the trivia challenge? The one that I just used (which Kilvan answered), for instance: was that too cornercase? I kind of thought so, but then again, anything less obscure tends to be answered in minutes. So, how obscure is too obscure?
Perhaps the most obscure question I've seen thus far was in the original Trivia Challenge, when someone asked a question that could only be answered with one source (at the time, at least) -- and that source was the manual for an old computer game. It was things like that that made me formulate the rules as written on the first page of this thread.
Sometimes it's not so much an obscure question as it is that not many people have the source material, or they have it and can't find or get to it. I myself prefer to make a question more obscure by clever wording.  |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2010 : 23:22:25
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| Actually, I thought the question I'm currently asking is really easy (considering the hints so far), but then, what's easy for one is not necessarily easy for another. As for how much obscure a source can be, I think that with the sourcebooks I own, I could answer about 2/3 of the trivias. If the source is a dragon magazine, I cannot answer, so I'd consider that obscure, but that's just me. |
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_Jarlaxle_
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Germany
584 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2010 : 10:49:55
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I think that was Valkur
When I'm right the next question would be: What is the name of Vangerdahasts warpony in 1370/71 DR? |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 03 Mar 2010 : 11:15:20
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| Indeed, the floor is yours my friend. |
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_Jarlaxle_
Senior Scribe
Germany
584 Posts |
Posted - 04 Mar 2010 : 12:01:35
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No ideas?
Hint: I think you need to have read Beyond the high road or Death of a Dragon to know it.
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_Jarlaxle_
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Posted - 05 Mar 2010 : 10:23:16
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hmm ok if nobody knows this I've got an alternate question:
Who found the basic material Karsus needed for his Avatar spell and what was it? |
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wintermute27
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 18 Mar 2010 : 00:50:21
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| As for your original question, Jarlaxle, I believe Vangerdahast's horse's name was Cadimus during those years. |
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_Jarlaxle_
Senior Scribe
Germany
584 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2010 : 09:49:21
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Yes thats correct :)
If you want to post I new question I will post the solution of the other one |
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wintermute27
Learned Scribe
USA
179 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2010 : 21:57:10
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Originally posted by _Jarlaxle_
If you want to post I new question I will post the solution of the other one
That would be great, I did a bunch of reading and never could find the answer to it.
The next question is:
How is Death Cheese reputed to be made? |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 18 Mar 2010 : 22:58:14
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Originally posted by wintermute27
quote:
Originally posted by _Jarlaxle_
If you want to post I new question I will post the solution of the other one
That would be great, I did a bunch of reading and never could find the answer to it.
The next question is:
How is Death Cheese reputed to be made?
By casting raise dead on old wheels of cheese. Undead cheddar, in particular, is known to be quite vicious. |
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2010 : 23:04:16
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| I don't know the exact process but I do know that it uses catoblepas milk. |
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_Jarlaxle_
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Germany
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Posted - 19 Mar 2010 : 09:45:41
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Originally posted by wintermute27
[brThat would be great, I did a bunch of reading and never could find the answer to it.
The answer would be the wizard Candlemas who found some star metal which has fallen from the sky and so he was teleported 300 years into the future by Karsus into his timeline so he could use the star metal for his expieriments with super heavy magic that lead him to his avatar spell.
What the answer to your question is, I have no clue ;) |
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wintermute27
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 19 Mar 2010 : 12:13:51
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Originally posted by _Jarlaxle_
The answer would be the wizard Candlemas who found some star metal which has fallen from the sky and so he was teleported 300 years into the future by Karsus into his timeline so he could use the star metal for his expieriments with super heavy magic that lead him to his avatar spell.
What book was that in?
You're halfway there, Knight of the Gate. So here is a clue:
Oversensitive nares are involved.
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Edited by - wintermute27 on 19 Mar 2010 12:17:40 |
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_Jarlaxle_
Senior Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 19 Mar 2010 : 13:13:13
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Originally posted by wintermute27
What book was that in?
Its in Dangerous Games from the Netheril Triology. You can also find some hints in Netheril Empire of magic |
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wintermute27
Learned Scribe
USA
179 Posts |
Posted - 21 Mar 2010 : 13:24:32
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There was a little bit more that I was looking for, but I will accept the catoblepas answer.
Taken from Aurora's Whole Realms Cataloge (p.122):
"...the cheese is reputed to come from the services of blind monks who locate their herds by sense of smell. Actually, out of work adventurers are pressed into service to herd and milk these creatures, and the monks do the actual production."
Now, who gets the next question, Knight of the Gate or Capnvan? |
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Forgotten Realms Trivia Challenge 2.0
