Tower Of Riddles (Restart)
As everyone is just getting into the Epic Rap Battles, a haggard old Judge in Black Robes suddenly appears in a flash of fire and brimstone. He sits behind a high bench with a flaming gavel and burning coals where his eyes should be. A brass noose has been affixed to the front of his bench and a placard set thereon reads: “His Honor, ‘Hanging Judge’ Ichabod St. Luther.”
To the right of the Judge, stands a tall man in a black business suit with a lawyer’s briefcase.
Lucky Akki the Leprechaun meanwhile, spins around and drops his jaw at the sight, clearly shaken by the strange interruption. “W… What is the m… meaning of this?” Akki asks; taking a huge gulp and suddenly wiping the sweat now beading up on his brow.
“Lucky Akki,” the tall Lawyer intones; “you have been accused of cheating! In that you aided and abetted a known scoundrel of the Kingdom! The mallet-wielding penguin BZ, by slipping him answers to the Riddles, whilst letting his fellows pass or fail on their own merits. How do you plea?”
“Why, I never!” Akki protests, but the Judge’s gavel comes down and before the leprechaun can say more, he vanishes in a puff of sooty smoke.
“Guilty.” The Hanging Judge adds as an afterthought to his gavel.
The tall Lawyer then turns to BZ, but the penguin is halfway out the window by that point. The Lawyer sighs heavily and raises his hand and BZ is dragged across the room and to the foot of the Judge’s bench.
“BZ,” the tall Lawyer intones; “You have been accused of cheating! In that you accepted answers from Lucky Akki the Leprechaun! How do you plea?”
BZ just glares at Aman and calls him a “no good dirty tattletale.” Anyone actually looking closely can see Aman’s Mustache curl itself up into an evil smile…
“Guilty.” The Hanging Judge says; and brings his gavel down once again.
BZ doesn’t disappear like Akki did however, but does suddenly fade partially from view. “What’s this?” BZ asks in awe.
“For your crimes,” the Judge declares loudly, “you are sentenced to carry out the duties of Lucky Akki the Leprechaun, until a winner (not you) can be determined to this mad contest of wits. Until such a time, you are hereby bound as a ghost to the tower and each of its levels.”
“Ooh, ghosty!” BZ replies, and then turns to point an angry flipper at Aman – “I’m so going to haunt you for this!”
“Oh no you’re not!” the Judge bellows at the outburst – “You are going to do your duty, or be forever trapped in this tower! Understand?!?”
“Yes your hanginess!” BZ replies humbly and then remains silent.
The Judge and Lawyer then vanish together in a great puff of sulfuric smoke. Once he’s sure they are gone, BZ turns to stick his ghost tongue out at Aman “Nyah!”
At that point however, the tall Lawyer returns suddenly. “I saw that,” he says, handing BZ a huge stack of papers and disappearing once more.
Rifling through the papers, BZ sees that they are the reports and paperwork for the last set of Riddles and such. “Aw man,” he cries in dismay, “I got to do paperwork?!?”
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Once sorted out BZ makes the announcements:
“Alright folks (and Aman),” BZ begins, saying Aman’s name like it was the Black Plague or something, “it says here that everyone got the ‘yellow rock in a purple stream’ Riddle correct. It wasn’t really a riddle so much though, as a check to see who was still posting. So good job everyone. Hurray for us.”
Then flipping some pages he adds, “As for the Rap Battle, well I totally won that hands down! But it says here that I’m no longer eligible for the prize – which is totally bogus BTW – so it goes to Silverfox and Romulus. Both won their rounds by virtue of posting one Rap more than their opponent (or something like that). As such, they each get to advance an Extra Level this Round, but as per the Rules, Romulus can’t do so. He gets to save his Advancement for when he is no longer in the lead or gets bumped back a level somehow.”
“Also, there was a Bonus Riddle, about what Bo was doing this Round. Fireplay has won that with the following: ‘Bo is considering again that dot. He's thinking that's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. That is what Bo is doing.’”
“Yeah, that’s what I said too, but what are ya going to do?”
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New Rule
At this point, everyone is racing to the Final Riddle on Level 20! As there are only 6 Riddle Levels left, we need to give folks in the back a chance to catch up somehow. So here’s what we are going to do:
There will be Two Riddles Each Round. The Level Riddle (Hard) and a Bonus Riddle (Easier – subjectively speaking of course).
On all Levels, you must Answer the Level Riddle to Advance.
On all but the Lead Level, You may Advance Two Levels by correctly Answering Both Riddles.
If you miss the Level Riddle, but correctly Answer the Bonus Riddle, then you get to be Bumped up One Level (and saved) if you’re on the Level about to be consumed in Fire.
The Winner will be whoever (among those on the last Level) answered the last Riddle first.
Non-Winners get burned in the fire and must haunt the tower forever - unless they answer the last Bonus Riddle correctly, in which case, the Winner manages to take them along when he leaves with the Princess.
