Reaction

Friendly
All Nysalor Illuminates (Oakley will swap riddles with you.)

Neutral
Anyone who is insane and can prove it. To convince Oakley you must fly......yes fly! Wind Children are obviously going to fit into this category, but the Flight spell or a Sylph will do.

Hostile
Everyone else.

In any round you fail your riddle, you may proceed with melee as normal. If Oakley is Demoralized he can continue riddling, as it does not constitute a "hostile" act. Indeed, Oakley considers his riddles to be positively beneficial.

For each riddle you answer, add 1% to your chance of illumination next Sacred Time. Illumination is described fully in Chaosium's Cults of Terror and the Avalon Hill version Lords of Terror. Oakley will continue riddling you until you answer each of riddles correctly. Only after he has finished his riddles will he cast his spirit magic.

Melee Sequence

1. Make Statement of Intent
2. Resolve Oakley's riddles: if you succeed in answering, you can't do anything but reply this round; if you don't you may continue normally
3. Resolve spells. Remember, Oakley doesn't use his spirit magic until he has finished riddling. He then Heals if neccessary, and casts Bladesharp-3. If he still has trouble penetrating your armour, he'll attempt to dispel your protective magic with his Dispel Magic-3.
4. Resolve attacks and parries.