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OMETOTCHTLI and TIAMAT

The walls of the hedge maze close in around you. Before you is a single stone table covered in quill pens and several sheets of parchment. Even if you normally cannot read or write, for the time being, you find that you can.

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[One sheet of parchment before you bears a symbol much like a blank crossword puzzle.]

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[Below it are instructions:]

Fill in the blank spaces with words that fit.

. . . the hell kind of game is this?

[baby's first crossword]

A word game?

[baby's first... anything]

Well, yes, but . . . not one I am familiar with.

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[Submit: down (6 letters), top across (9 letters), middle across (4 letters), and bottom across (6 letters).]

Down: Rotten
Top Across: Arrogance
Middle Aross: Tire
Bottom Across: Burned

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[The words glow faintly as they settle onto the parchment...]

[Another sheet of parchment now offers new instructions.]

Create a saying or short story based on the puzzle you made, without using any of the words themselves. This will be the clue for your puzzle.

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"A man who was quite full of himself sat down to eat some food that had spoiled. He found himself becoming drowsy, but that was interrupted as his stomach writhed as if a fire crackled through it."

Ohh . . . that's rather good.

You think so? Thank you.

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"A man who was quite full of himself sat down to eat some food that had spoiled. He found himself becoming drowsy, but that was interrupted as his stomach writhed as if a fire crackled through it."

[The words glow faintly as they settle onto the parchment, and then the papers around you ruffle in a sudden breeze, which whisks your crossword and your clue away...]

[Another blank crossword puzzle has appeared on a sheet of parchment.]

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[This one, however, is accompanied by a clue...]

"I sleep inside stone, shielded from the hunger that others feel.

Others are the puzzle. I am a word."

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Sleeping inside stone...?

...Is he dead? Rather dark.

[she lifts a hand and murmurs to herself as she counts letters in words that come to mind]

. . . petrified?

That's not 'in stone', that's 'as stone'.

But maybe they made a mistake. Let's see if the other clues match.

For down... Enigma?

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[Submit: down (6 letters), top across (9 letters), middle across (4 letters), and bottom across (6 letters).]

Down: Enigma

Top across: Petrified

Middle across: Guts

Bottom across: Phrase

[The words glow faintly as you write them down...and then the hedge maze opens up again. You can go to endgame.]

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