FF7 Neo Riddles

[musenji]

Repost (with updated hints):

Like heiroglyphs from old Egyptian days,
the "teller" is gone but the story stays:
Pharaohs to heaven must pay a great fare
with riches they often postmortemly wear.
Or, if that reading is quite incorrect,
and the item in question was meant to protect,
well clearly the wearer neglected to stay,
so perhaps we conclude 'twas a curse either way.

-the answer is in a picture, part of the background in the game
-on the first continent but not in Midgar
-the answer/picture has nothing to do with the plotline

I'd say try to ascertain what the riddle is trying to talk about, even if you don't know where to find it. Lines 4, 6, and 7 are pretty key.

[Melissaur]

Well if I have this correct Other than Midgar there is Kalm, Chocobo Farm, Fort Condor, and Junon left. I'm doubting it's at the Chocobo farm. The hint "the answer/picture has nothing to do with the plotline" makes me want to say it's in Fort Condor because that place is optional, but I don't recall anything that would fit the riddle there. Which leads me to believe it's in one of the houses at Kalm, and that's all I've got so far....

[FFIX Choco Boy]

Mithril Caves are also on 1st continent, and depending on the way you look at it, Old Nibelheim and Old Mount Nibel could be considered on the 1st continent.

[Kyros]

meteor

[Shinwa Tsuki]

An armor of some sort? No, I think it's something related to armor. And I have a hunch that it is something worn after death.

[musenji]

Meteor relates to the plotline, and isn't referred to on the first continent at all.

K I'll specify: the picture is something created by an NPC in the game.

It does have something to do with an item worn after death--in the picture.

[Shinwa Tsuki]

Mmm, that leaves locations with a population, such as Kalm, to be the city or town which the answer is in. I wonder if the NPC and the picture in question can be viewed before or after Aeris dies.....

[FFIX Choco Boy]

I vaguely recall a picture of dogtags in Junon, I think. Could that possibly be it?

[musenji]

Nope, not dogtags. The thing in the picture is clearly dead but still wearing the item.

I really think BG should take a crack at this... heh heh heh...

[BG-57]

Is it the model of Midgar in the glass pyramid in the Kalm store?

[musenji]

Nope, as mentioned (though not said quite so explicitly until now) the (in-game, two dimensional) picture is of a clearly dead person, still wearing some sort of item--and the item could be construed (as far as we know from the picture) as either decorative, or protective.

This is the sum total of the information that could be gleaned from the riddle itself.

Plus, there's a specific reason why you ought to know the answer. I wasn't talking necessarily about skill as a guesser (though of course you're a good one)--I mean to say: I know for a fact you have seen the picture.

[Shinwa Tsuki]

Doubt is armor, a ribbon perhaps - no that not it either.... Doubt is materia..... Have a good reason to doubt Zack (when would you see that picture anyway?)....

Hmm, I'm a bit lost. Maybe water of some sort *looks puzzled*

[musenji]

The item in the picture is not an item that any of the characters can wear. It's just in the picture. Sorry if that was implied, my bad.

Hint: the answer is found in Junon proper.

[BG-57]

Sneaky devil.

It's the accessory pendant worn by the skull with the sword through its head mentioned in the previous riddle.

[musenji]

Yep. I wanted to illustrate that there's so much potential for riddles that the same answer (pretty much) could be riddled about in totally different ways.

Also, yeah, with the joke-making.