Riddles

[vexx32]

Geothermical vents.

Nope.

Decay....?

Nope.

[r4pt0r]

is it oxygen?

[StrandedonEarth]

Geysers???

[Starwhip]

Is it oil?

[vexx32]

is it oxygen?

[Starwhip]

Vexx, it's not a writing utensil again, is it?

Words? (Politics )

[vexx32]

I crawl about from deeps of Mother Earth

To the sparser reaches of highest holt.

A savage taint marks where I make berth,

My deft fingers bring all to tumult.

I am that which exists without form or mind,

An empty shade in the lifeless flesh of reality.

My skin is scarred only in the eyes of the blind;

My worries are dust to my neighbours' travesty.

My ceaseless wandering follows ancient ways,

And I wander endlessly from one to the next,

Inscribing them anew in the span of days,

Lest they be forgotten, or I become vexed.

Who am I?

Vexx, it's not a writing utensil again, is it?

Words? (Politics )

I try to make a point of not reusing the same subjects; it just gets too old.

Nope.

[KerBlam]

Chaos (10)

[B787_300]

I want to say it is some sort of snake...

[TheMoonRover]

So we know it's close to "a deadly form of natural gas" and vaguely connected to "earthquakes" (from a few pages ago)

The only thing I can think of that connects those is a volcano. Or a volcanic eruption?

Other thoughts:

Continents/plates/continental drift?

The Earth?

The Universe?

Dreams and/or memories?

[KerBlam]

Oil <10char>

[vexx32]

Chaos (10)

Nope.

I want to say it is some sort of snake...

Hehe, nope.

So we know it's close to "a deadly form of natural gas" and vaguely connected to "earthquakes" (from a few pages ago)

The only thing I can think of that connects those is a volcano. Or a volcanic eruption?

Other thoughts:

Continents/plates/continental drift?

The Earth?

The Universe?

Dreams and/or memories?

None of these.

Oil <10char>

Nope.

[TheMoonRover]

Mankind/Humanity? (Sort of fits if you were a hippie)

Fear, hatred, anger, jealousy, loss... (in short, any strong negative emotion which could "lead to the dark side")

EDIT: If someone doesn't get it soon I'm tempted to give up...

EDIT 2: A rocket/missile/kontraption?

Edited January 26, 2015 by TheMoonRover

[vexx32]

None of those, sorry.

[Xorth Tanovar]

Sulfur Dioxide? Specifically, the vents found near volcanic regions...

Edited January 27, 2015 by Xorth Tanovar

[vexx32]

Sorry, nope.

I crawl about from deeps of Mother Earth

To the sparser reaches of highest holt.

A savage taint marks where I make berth,

My deft fingers bring all to tumult.

I am that which exists without form or mind,

An empty shade in the lifeless flesh of reality.

My skin is scarred only in the eyes of the blind;

My worries are dust to my neighbours' travesty.

My ceaseless wandering follows ancient ways,

And I wander endlessly from one to the next,

Inscribing them anew in the span of days,

Lest they be forgotten, or I become vexed.

Who am I?

[Starwhip]

Is it the soul, or death? The first lines could be showing heaven and hell.

[Uberlyuber]

Sorry, nope.

I crawl about from deeps of Mother Earth

To the sparser reaches of highest holt.

A savage taint marks where I make berth,

My deft fingers bring all to tumult.

I am that which exists without form or mind,

An empty shade in the lifeless flesh of reality.

My skin is scarred only in the eyes of the blind;

My worries are dust to my neighbours' travesty.

My ceaseless wandering follows ancient ways,

And I wander endlessly from one to the next,

Inscribing them anew in the span of days,

Lest they be forgotten, or I become vexed.

Who am I?

A gun, perhaps? Not any specific gun, just firearms in general.

[vexx32]

Is it the soul, or death? The first lines could be showing heaven and hell.

Nope. It doesn't really fit with the second half of the second stanza.

A gun, perhaps? Not any specific gun, just firearms in general.

Nope.

[Bill Phil]

Hydrogen? Helium? Lithium? Beryllium? Boron? Carbon?

I can go on...

[B787_300]

is it water?

[vexx32]

Hydrogen? Helium? Lithium? Beryllium? Boron? Carbon?

I can go on...

To save you time, it's not any of the chemical elements.

is it water?

Nope.

[Red Iron Crown]

Six pages of wrong guesses, might be time for another stanza or hint, vexx. For the good of everyone, totally not because I'm thoroughly stumped.

[vexx32]

Perhaps... Ah, fine, I'll take pity on you.

I crawl about from deeps of Mother Earth

To the sparser reaches of highest holt.

A savage taint marks where I make berth,

My deft fingers bring all to tumult.

I am that which exists without form or mind,

An empty shade in the lifeless flesh of reality.

My skin is scarred only in the eyes of the blind;

My worries are dust to my neighbours' travesty.

My ceaseless wandering follows ancient ways,

And I wander endlessly from one to the next,

Inscribing them anew in the span of days,

Lest they be forgotten, or I become vexed.

This way, that, first here, then there,

My talons grow most everywhere.

The weakest link, the frailest note;

My mindless limbs, the Ancients wrote.

Who am I?

[DavidBowman]

A black hole??