From Tome of Battle, under Swordsage

From Tome of Battle, under Swordsage

>The Eighty Empresses have a different selection process for their protégés. The masters bring each young lady separately into the Dressing Room of Opala I, whose walls, mirrors, incense lamps, pots of rouge, and songbird cages are draped with 1,080 shimmering gold, red, pink, orange, and fuchsia silk ribbons. The girl is allowed to stay as long as she likes in the dressing room; she has but to give a signal when she is ready to leave. After she is led away, one ribbon is removed from the room. Then she is brought back. If she can name the color of the ribbon that was removed, she is accepted; otherwise, she is turned away forever.

DM mandates that you have to come up with a solution to this to take a level in Swordsage. What is your solution?

Let her stay in a forest for as long as she wants, then you kill one animal and she has to guess which animal was killed.

Meditation. Become at peace with the room, one with all that is within it, perfectly in tune with the atmosphere and resonance of the locale. Returning to it, I simply must return to that same state and find the single note that is missing from the symphony.

Start the game as a Swordsage.

Be a crusader instead

I guess the ribbon removed was gold, red, pink, orange AND fuchsia. Because if they aren't all the colours, all of them, well, I'm going to need a pretty large sack of ribbons to replace them all during my time there.

Or just bribe the exam official.

Simply picking a different school, with more saner selection process, could be a thing too.

Take all the ribbons, all of them, tie them in a large circle in sequence. If I run out of a certain color, I start a new sequence and count the sequences and remainders.

Then I go through each ring to make sure that there is only ONE break in the pattern. If there are multiple breaks, I extrapolate how many there were based on the number of sequences in each ring and find the odd one out. If there is only one break, then the missing color is the color of the ribbon.

>"Okay write it into your backstory on how you did it."
>"SHIT!"

My character's memory is just that good.

"I took the test and answered correctly."