plasmid Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 A blinding light, a deafening blast While mocking your social taboos Arrived, in all directions we're cast This battle we'll surely not lose We crawl with bellies hugging the ground And cling for our lives at our post We fly through sky, bring barricades down Revealing a terrified host The victims flee or perish if stalled We pray we leave none in our wake A jumper finds us, goes for a fall Survival itself is at stake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WitchOfDoubt Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Hmm. The day this was posted makes me REALLY want to say New Year's Eve fireworks or rockets, but I can't quite see how all the clues fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted January 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 As a matter of fact, I decided to hold onto this riddle for a little bit and post it now because that was one of the first things I thought of on a re-read looking for alternate answers. The clues that make it seem to not quite fit are probably the ones I added to keep fireworks from being an answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WitchOfDoubt Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Hmm... another guess. Sparks of electricity/lightning?: A blinding light, a deafening blast (A pop of static electricity, or the shorting-out of a piece of machinery) While mocking your social taboos (?) Arrived, in all directions we're cast (Sparks fly) This battle we'll surely not lose We crawl with bellies hugging the ground (Electrical sparks literally go to "ground") And cling for our lives at our post (They follow lightning rods) We fly through sky, bring barricades down (And can strike like lightning) Revealing a terrified host ("Host" is a tricky word here - it seems to imply many people.) The victims flee or perish if stalled (Unclear - people in a lightning storm?) We pray we leave none in our wake A jumper finds us, goes for a fall (A literal electrical jumper) Survival itself is at stake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 EDM Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 would it be funny if I thought that it was... a snake? The first 4 lines made me think of HP... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Hmmm, this is an interesting one I'm thinking of either termites or a bug spray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted January 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Not sparks or lightning, it leaves some clues unanswered as you've noted. Neither snakes nor termites. Unless they create a blinding light and deafening blast because they are exploding snakes and termites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Not sparks or lightning, it leaves some clues unanswered as you've noted. Neither snakes nor termites. Unless they create a blinding light and deafening blast because they are exploding snakes and termites. If you have a termite problem you don't know about, they could definitely create a deafening blast as your foundation crumbles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 itachi-san Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 maybe, but not certain cameramen? paparrazzi and nature photographers fit most of the lines. the barricade could be the shutter and the jumping could be skydivers using the gopro cameras on their helmets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted January 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Not a shutterbug. I suppose that you could somehow force a cameraman into some sort of situation to fit any of those clues. But I feel the answer I have in mind would be more satisfying and give the reader a sense of why those particular clues were appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shakeepuddn Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Maybe viruses from a sneeze (jumper and blinding light (sun?) elude me)v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thalia Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 It kind of makes me think of Capture the Flag (Capture the Flag at camp was rather. . . interesting) but I can't get that to fit everything. The first line or two make me think of a starting pistol. The other lines make me think of various games like Checkers and Chess but I'm not sure what kind of game would use a starting pistol. Maybe some sort of sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 it doesn't fit all of the clues but...I was thinking smoke pellets or gunpowder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shakeepuddn Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Sounds like infants being born and raisedv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) A burning building or a bulldozer. But the more I think of the burning building, the more I like that answer... it just might be too close to an actual grenade... Edited January 3, 2012 by Molly Mae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 itachi-san Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Sounds like infants being born and raisedv I thought this too, but it clearly doesn't fit all the lines. at least imo so another guess along these lines would be: sperm? all the lines make sense except the first one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Wilson Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Hey plasmid, how are you doing? First line made me think of "lamping". For the recipient of the blast...... cockroach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shakeepuddn Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Mosquitos (zapped in bug light) Cicadass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted January 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 A burning building or a bulldozer. But the more I think of the burning building, the more I like that answer... it just might be too close to an actual grenade... Molly's has been the closest guess yet. I'll just say that it might help to think of this riddle as describing at times parts of a larger whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shakeepuddn Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 anti-aircraft gun or maybe arc weldings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 itachi-san Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 then how about firemen, police or an evac team? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 then how about firemen, police or an evac team? I think you've got it a fire brigade makes the most sense to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shakeepuddn Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Concur . . . well done Itachi-san Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plasmid Posted January 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Once again, I find myself about third in line in confirming that one of my riddles has been solved. The middle stanza I thought might have been the toughest a fire hose hooked up to a hydrant, and a firefighter's axe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WitchOfDoubt Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 That one was tough. Nice solve, Itachi-san. What threw me was that the first verse was so literally true. I'm so used to riddles where non-human objects are anthropomorphized that actual humans in a riddle can throw me off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 itachi-san Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 thanks, great riddle btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A blinding light, a deafening blast
While mocking your social taboos
Arrived, in all directions we're cast
This battle we'll surely not lose
We crawl with bellies hugging the ground
And cling for our lives at our post
We fly through sky, bring barricades down
Revealing a terrified host
The victims flee or perish if stalled
We pray we leave none in our wake
A jumper finds us, goes for a fall
Survival itself is at stake
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