riddlenet | ( miavi. un: x )

[ If you're feeling fancy and bored tonight (today, this morning..), here's a magic puzzle for you. It looks something like:

The parts can be re-arranged into two dozen different runes, which can then be translated into spells. The simpler ones, of which there are fifteen, simply make everything disappear when 'solved'. The remaining, more difficult nine are:

✧ Shimmery, translucent flowers appear around your head and shoulders, for about five minutes.
✧ BANG. Jumpscare.
✧ An enchanted doodle plays Hangman with you, the winning word changing periodically.
✧ Displays a recipe for zucchini bread. The best zucchini bread you've ever fucking had.
✧ Suggestions for what to try at the curry house in Hogsmeade.
✧ Creates a very cold feeling for about five minutes.
✧ Causes the message What else could you have been doing with your free time? to appear.
✧ Displays directions for a spell to turn nicotine cigarettes into clove cigarettes.
✧ Nothing. Unless you have a Dark Mark, in which case, a small black snake slithers into existence from the base of your wrist, wriggling to the inside of your elbow before vanishing.

Once each rune has been 'solved', the drawing vanishes, making doing more than one very difficult; the witch or wizard (or wizich) will have had to have made a copy or cast a charm to preserve it prior to fussing through everything.

( OP's username, x, is not anonymous, though Severus's general disinclination to socialize might leave even 'friends' in the dark. up2u, my sweet beans. ) ]

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The flowers are very lovely, but I feel sorry for someone who hasn't so much as tried the yellow curry.

[ of course she went through more than one. ]

Is this recipe for zucchini bread your own?

[ she's going to try it out either way, but it doesn't hurt to ask. ]

( C'mon, of course Bella enjoys a good Riddle. )

Adorable. Who thought you had it in you?

( She actually draws a small snake. It slithers along the words of the message and disappears into the ether. )

[ Antonin tried most, but not all. He stopped halfway when the message What else could you have been doing with your free time? appeared.

He stars writing his own runic riddle, nonsensical at first, until solved — then a bright flash of purple burst out, like whiplash. Antonin hasn't quite gotten the hang of that spell, however, and either it hits Severus in the face — if it does, it'll hurt like a damn feather — or it won't. In which case, it will disappear just as quickly, something into nothing. ]

Something like that.

What a lovely snake.

[ maybe he's prodding. just a little. but someone is acknowledging the mark and that's what he's been looking for. ]

Cigarettes are detrimental to your health.

[ Always a healer. ]

What an absolutely clever bit of magic. My hats off to you.

What's this meant to be?

[look he is good at chess, not puzzles]

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