Post by irontaurus on Apr 5, 2017 10:57:26 GMT
Thinos & Thanos is a room with a battle and riddle that I wrote as an example for a Thread down below about a certain Pyramid Dungeon. I continued to write on the idea of Thinos & Thanos and thsi is the result. I would love to hear your critique and feedback, anything is helpful
Link to the whole thing: docs.google.com/document/d/1cT57-9_pCm2bnnfuQCyTAW8V2QBF5hsvxu6o6M-h2V0/edit?usp=sharing
The room is a Hexagonal shaped room, it has small stairs that goes up on each side with a statue of almost 2,5 meters standing in the middle with four arms and four eyes. There are 6 pillars in the middle section surrounding in a circle. The walls of the room are mostly covered in painted pictures of war and two men in midst of battle. There are however three large panels where there is writings, the writing is in “Insert language here” and the panels are placed in the north, west and east wall. As soon as the players go further into the room the gate behind them close and the statue starts moving.
The Riddle
"Thinos born with a beauty of a swan and the mind of an owl, with his heart on the right side he was loved by all. Thanos born to be complete opposite of his brother fierce and foul, with a love of blood, fighting was his call"
"Thinos and Thanos cursed by magic only fate can make, while one is asleep the other is awake"
"Thinos and Thanos now a forgotten name, with a body of stone only their hearts remains the same"
The enemy is a humanoid man with four eyes and four arms, two of the eyes are closed and if the players defeat him the two eyes which are open close and the two that are closed open and the fight continues and vice versa.
Note that the art is not made by me but I have used Photoshop to make it look more like what I pictured. In this case the head and the additional arms and eyes. The Original art is made of Mathias Verhasselt and danielokeefe.deviantart.com/art/Frontshot-of-ceremonial-helmet-159253415
The Answer:
The statement of “body of stone but their hearts remain the same” both the word hearts as being plural and remains the same is important here, making it plural states that they don’t have one but two hearts, remains the same states that only their heart remained as flesh and blood meaning that it is their hearts that is the weak spot.
Thinos and Thanos is in one and the same body, four arms and four eyes but they also have two hearts. In the text it is said that Thinos has his heart on the right side, it is not talking about his kindness but that he actually has his heart on the right side of his body and Thanos being the complete opposite has his heart on the left side. Unless both hearts is pierced at the same time the fight would continue.
Notes:
If the players pierce a heart (let us say left heart) and leave whatever they used to pierce it inside the body and then pierce the right heart it does count as being pierced at the same time.
If the right heart is pierced Thinos won’t wake up anymore and Thanos will continue the fight, Thanos will after 2 whole turns try to take out the object of which is pierced in his brother’s heart. If he does Thinos will once again wake up and continue the fight as usual.
Hints:
When the heart is pierced but the players don’t know the full answer you can give them visual hints, for example: If Thinos is dead even if the players defeat Thanos and he closes his eyes as if defeated he will soon open them up again but Thinos still have his eyes closed to give the players a hint of that the statue is only half dead.