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From: The Russet Spindlewolf is Gone

You have the proper lure.

Unlocked with 1 x Baited Riddle

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 600

• 410 - very chancy (41%)
• 510 - chancy (51%)
• 610 - modest (61%)
• 710 - very modest (71%)
• 810 - low-risk (81%)
• 910 - straightforward (91%)
• 1000 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of Attempts to capture the grey man reduces the base difficulty by 75 points.

Success

At last!

The trap is laid, the question presented. Any Londoner would be tempted to guess an answer. The Grey Man is no exception. He stands there contemplating. [Riddle]

You reach for him and seize the leash at the top, near the collar. […] You have him now. […]

Description summary:
The riddle varies based on the Airs of Irem, and an additional passage is added to the end of the second paragraph if you own a Brachiating Spindlewolf.

Airs of Irem	Riddle
1	What is due?
2	What is forgotten?
3	Who is Salt?
4	What lies at the bottom of the High Wilderness' wells?
5	How many Masters are there, really?
6	What lurks in the sixth coil?
7	What is the Seventh City?
8	How much does the Sun know?
9	What is the message?
10	Who plays with the red pieces?
11	What does the Stone-Tentacle Key unlock?
12	What happened to the Empress' issue?
13	What is the path to Nidah?
14	How many Presbyters have there been?
15	Who sits at each of the Prester's hands?
16	What did devils leave behind in Irem?
17	Who is December?
18	Who is May?
19	Who is March?
20	Who is June?
21	What is the taste of black honey?
22	Who sits at the high table?
23	How many Judgements are still in their thrones?
24	Who is the Halved?
25	Who is Lady Black?
26	What did the Fathomking marry?
27	Which love felled the First City?
28	Who loves the Cantigaster?
29	What happened to Aigul?
30	How many days are there?
31	Who condemned the Masters?
32	What were the Masters' crimes?
33	What lies East?
34	What lies behind the Avid Horizon?
35	What new Power will rise in the West?
36	Who is the Moon's sibling?
37	What was drowned in poison at Jericho?
38	What awaits behind the Gates of Marigold?
39	What is death?
40	What have the Admiralty been building?
41	Who slew the King of Hours?
42	What did St Eligius become?
43	What use have devils for the candles of the Lilymire?
44	What price were the justificandes coined to pay?
45	What debt does the Bazaar owe?
46	What hides in the basement beneath Chapman's Boarding House?
47	What is inscribed on the Skin of the Bazaar?
48	What does the sphinxstone weep for?
49	What battles do cats fight, in dreams?
50	Who is Storm?
51	Who is Stone?
52	Is the Neath truly the skull of a long-dead god?
53	How did rats learn to speak?
54	What are the Yule rites of the Church in the Wild?
55	What is the Vake?
56	What is the value of a soul?
57	What is the wax-wind's sibling?
58	What became of the Melipone Parliament?
59	What are the Prester's laws?
60	Who were the Seven Against Nidah?
61	What is written in the Discordance?
62	Who is the Taimen truly loyal to?
63	What is the value of a soul?
64	What are the Stone Pigs?
65	What lies beneath the Bazaar?
66	What are the False-Stars?
67	What is an orbit?
68	What does the Red-Handed Queen play for?
69	Why do Londoners bear masks during Hallowmas?
70	Who is the White?
71	Who is the Black?
72	What lives in a cell within a castle that does not exist?
73	What do the Fingerkings desire?
74	What is Parabola?
75	Do you recall how you came to this place?
76	What lies behind the ruined path?
77	What future remains when all futures have been consumed?

Spindlewolf	Second Paragraph
Yes	You allow your own Brachiating Spindlewolf hold the Grey Man's leash. That should make him feel more at home.

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• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've lost 1 x Baited Riddle
• [Airs of Irem change…] (random) (hidden)

Redirects to: The Grey Man Confined

Failure

Ignored

The trap is laid, the question presented. Any Londoner would be tempted to guess an answer. But the Grey Man catches sight of you and turns away.

But you've learned a little of how he moves. It will be easier, next time.

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  The City Waning is increasing… (+4 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Attempts to capture the grey man (hidden)