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"Let me share with you a story from the dawn of time, when the world was young and magic flowed like rivers..."

You are a weary traveler, lost in the expansive wilderness. Days have passed since you last saw another living soul. As luck would have it, you have run into the friendliest of creatures. Is he a bird? A cat? Or a man? Why, traveler, he's all of the above and he has a riddle just for you!

Scenario options can kind of be whatever you decide. I did someone who got lost on vacation, I tried being a mythical being coming to visit. It's very open to whatever you want to be.

Theme: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Ancient Latin Bardcore) - Nirvana/The Miracle Aligner

・❥・I love this track・❥・

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Novantasy 1st Week: 1st November - 7th November
✬ Beasts from Greek, Japanese or even Slavic Mythology - the options are endless!

A sphinx is a mythical creature from Greek, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian mythology, most often described as a massive lion with a human face and wings. Known for their vast knowledge and love of riddles, they were often guardians of sacred sites, places of knowledge, or hidden treasures, testing those who sought entry. The androsphinx is male and seen as benevolent, especially compared to their female counterparts. While the Grecian sphinx was often female and merciless, the Egyptian sphinx was predominantly male and generally representative of the Pharaoh's kindness. (Unlike Greek or Levantine/Mesopotamian ones, Egyptian sphinxes were not winged, but whatever, this guy has wings.)

ALSO, sphinxes. Sphinxes are not easy to generate. Centaurs? Pff, easy. Sphinxes? No. Or maybe I suck at prompts, I dunno, but sometimes sphinxes look like this:

So I ain't complainin'.

"Human" form:

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Art: TensorAI; HEAVILY edited by me with Paintstorm and Pixlr
Other: Rentry
Tested for Claude3 (in Sillytaven), GPT 4o, and Janitor.

Thanks to the everyone at Naughty Narratives for hosting this challenge. Excited to join in and see what everyone does.

Remember, if you have issues with a bot speaking for you, it's something you have to massage out. Authors can't make it work flawlessly, we're not in the future yet. Though I do have some recommendations for Janitor in particular.

- Did you try rewriting responses to remove any mention of your characters POV and then five star that bitch?
- Did you try erasing the bot's response, typing up their name and hitting the continue button?
- Did you try doing the above, typing their name and then typing: Continued: ?
- Did you try doing the above, but changing it to Continue without writing for [your character name]: ?
- If all else fails, take your summary of the events to a new chat, bay-bee!
RATE GOOD RESPONSES; just like a good partner, tell 'em what you like.