Oh, these little tricky things some old crafty wizards leave after their death within their stylish lofty towers free to be found by all kinds of adventurers! For example, a figurine of a tortoise, sitting still on a desk, all brass, cogwheels and springs, and yet looking so much alive, sparkles of a nimble mind inside its glass eyes. It must treasure a magical secret there behind its shell, some powerful spell, some hidden knowledge or an exquisite enchanted artefact, who knows what it might be but it must be crazy expensive! And the necessary key is right here, hanging on a chain the tortoise wears on its neck and it looks just like it craves for someone to grasp it and take the secret out! But the key is so tiny and the keyhole is huge, why do the wizards dig leaving their riddles without any hint so you have to break your head before gaining the treasure? Nobody has managed to solve the tortoise’s riddle yet; those who tried to force the lock lost their fingers and you can easily predict what happened to those who tried to break the figurine itself; not a scratch has left on its surface though.
The secret the figurine keeps is actually quite simple: the tortoise is a treasure itself for something non-alive by its very nature can become alive in a moment, yet the sense of Wonder is way less usual than greed for profit. If anyone got it, they would understand the key is here to wind up the tortoise and bring back life to its mechanical body - in return, they would get an option to make any wish they’d like to come true. As for the tortoise, it was that crafty old wizard’s mind you saw sparkling in its eyes; after death, his soul haunted the figurine he made for this purpose long ago and now keeps on testing the adventures. Stay away from the wizards’ towers for you can never tell what an old enough magical mind would find amusing!
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