[HQ Ignorance] Re : Scene 127: Off To See The Wizard

[Mark Mohrfield]

"All we have been told is that the first one either speaks the truth or lies. We have been told nothing about the second. Although, the first did speak the truth when he identified the banner, did he not?"

 

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 From: Loran <aillet_l at yahoo.fr>
To: HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:12 PM
Subject: [HQ Ignorance] Re :  Scene 127: Off To See The Wizard
  

Azhur turns on Jareena who seems wise in the ways of Riddles.
- "To me it is just a pure simple problem of Logic as we are taught as children in the West: a negation plus an affirmation equals a negation, if we only have one question, we have to find a way to collect both points of view... for example by asking one of them about the answer of the other. They will then both indicate the wrong door, no?"





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>À : Mark Mohrfield <markmohrfield at yahoo.com>; HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com> 
>Envoyé le : Mercredi 25 janvier 2012 4h59
>Objet : Re: [HQ Ignorance] Scene 127: Off To See The Wizard
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>>
>>>>"You carry the banner of our enemy", says the first.
>> "And of a stranger", says the second.
>> "One of these doors leads to the Wizard. The other to the Void. Open it
>> and all material beings will be sucked in, and gone forever.", says the
>> first.
>> "You may ask one of us, and one alone, a question before choosing", says
>> the second.
>> "But beware! Of the wrong choice!", says the first.
>> "My fellow
 always lies", says the second.
>> "It is not so. I tell the truth", says the first.
>> "You might want to decide among yourselves first", says the second.<<
>>
>>
>> "An old riddle," says Jareena. "But I notice that we have not been told
>> that one of you always tells the truth."
>
>"I said I tell the truth!", says the first.
>"Oh, you lie! You always lie", says the second.
>
>and so on for a few minutes :)
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