Way Too Much Work To Escape
Often, Daring Do, archeologist extraordinaire, wondered how she found herself in situations like these.
Oh, it was easy enough once she was back at her writer's desk penning the aftermath of her last great adventure, but while it was still HAPPENING, it all seemed somewhat of a blur.
It was so routine. She had heard of the legendary Skull of Agesand, and having ridiculously itchy feet and a thirst for adventure (and money) she set off to find it. Unfortunately, for reasons that she would eventually have to sort out in her head once it was all done, she had stumbled into some sort of magic-based trap created by her nemesis, Ahuizotl. Well, enemy, nemesis, it really depended on how involved he got and what he was doing during daring's escapades.
So, this was just another adventure, really. So far nothing unexpected. Even if the trap was somewhat of an annoyance: she was right under a circular dome made of purple magic that covered the air above her. She recognised the magic well enough to know she could probably walk out of the sigil if she tried, but she knew Ahuizotl wouldn't leave her without a guard.
It would be sort of romantic to let her assistant Herpy rescue her, she thought, but she never liked stereotypes.
"...so, gremlin," Ahuizotl's talk with a small red demon from Tartarus he bound to his service shook daring out of her musing. "I have every confidence you'll be fast enough to catch her should she try to escape, as long as you don't enter the magical sigil..."
Daring tried to get herself airborne, beating her wings as furiously as she could, but soon found that her wings felt...heavy for some reason. After a few seconds, she was panting rather deeply out of exhaustion.
"Oh, don't try beating those wings now, my dear. The gravity's increased in that space. You'll just get tired." Ahuizotl shook his head. "Did you think I WOULDN'T think of that?"
"Honestly, sort of, yeah," Daring admitted. "Worth a try, though."
"Unlike that glorious relic, which will be worth so much more than a mere 'try'," Ahuizotl grinned. He turned to the gremlin, and adopted a considerably more serious face. "Make sure she doesn't leave that sigil. Fortunately the magic involved is so thorough not even you could screw this up, but you know me: I'm saying this just to make sure you're better. By any means necessary. Are we CLEAR?"
"C-crystal." The gremlin looked nervous. Daring had to admit she felt a bit sorry for the small demon: no-one ever deserved to have to play intern to anyone like Ahuizotl. She supposed even he could make actual creatures from Tartarus wet themselves.
"Excellent," Ahuizotl grinned all to malevolently. "Now if everyone will excuse me,I have a tomb to plunder." And he walked off, cackling to himself in the distance.
"Geez. I get it, you're evil. Seriously, you're just missing the moustache to twirl."
Daring allowed herself a small smile. "Oh great, now I can't get the image out of my head." However, as amusing as the thought of her arch-nemesis adopting and even more stereotypical look was, she had a trap to escape from.
Daring started to gallop towards the edge of the sigil as best she could with the increased gravity, but she soon found the gremlin, with a wicked grin on his face, right at the end of the edge. So she turned around and headed back to another, but that was to no avail as well.
Realising that the sensible thing to do if she was going to escape the clutches of the infernal creature, she made her way back to the centre. By her estimates, she was moving four times slower running than the gremlin could fly around the sigil.
Once she was out, however, the magic paralyzing her wings would wear off, and she could fly: a much faster means of travel than galloping. She wasn't as fast as her rabid fan Rainbow Dash at Daring-Con, but she wasn't a slowpoke.
Actually leaving was the tricky part, though. But there was truly no inescapable trap, in her knowledge. there would be a contrived coincidence or flaw that would allow her to get free (even if her readers would call it a flank-pull when the adventure actually hit the pages). So she sat at the centre of the sigil, and began to scratch what she knew so far on the floor with her hooves...
-
Rather astonishingly, despite having seemingly covered all the bases, by the time Ahuizotl returned, all that was left was a rather frightened looking gremlin and a rather pointedly archeologist-free magic sigil. The news, as one can imagine, didn't sit well with him.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE ESCAPED!?" Ahuizotl roared.
"S-sir! I swear on my demonic existence that it wasn't my fault!" stammered the gremlin.
Unfortunately, he couldn't, and the gremlin was dismissed. Painfully. Not even his ability to go from zero to top speed could save him from the wrath of Ahuizotl.
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When she scratched out all the information above she wound up disrupting the sigil, breaking the spell.
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I wish. There was actual logic involved here.
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Yeah, I know, but not all problems in life need a complex solution.
This is probably the hardest one yet
Ok, so after consulting my math nerd friends i cant explained with numbers but i have a general idea to escape
dont walk from the center to the circumference in a straight line, you need to zigzag in a way so the guard more or less stays in place
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/371406869992046602/495701907873202190/unknown.png this shows daring in the center walking a distance to make the guard move about a little less than 1/4 of the circle
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/371406869992046602/495702247712227338/unknown.png
This shows daring changing direction so that the other way around is faster for the guard
Rinse and repeat till escape
Excuse me, what happened to the answer for this riddle?
So how long is too long to wait for this answer?
The only other option i see is walk in a circle with a diameter of 15 and opposite ends are the big circle's center and the edge where the guard is
If its not that then i give up, even tho my zigzag path could work in theory
My guess is: she approached the end of the circle, but not too close, and then tried flying. She is four times heavier, than before, but she'll get a relief sooner, than if she were in dead centre.