"Hmmm!  I suppose to be properly terrifying it should chase you down, snatch you up, and maybe hold you there while the tickle devices approach closer and closer.  Which is going to take magic if I want to build it here without waiting an additional one hundred years to climb the technology ladder first.  Is that cheating?  I ask because I want to know whether what I'm doing is cheating, not because I'm going to do it any differently depending on your answer."

"Hmmm!  I suppose to be properly terrifying it should chase you down, snatch you up, and maybe hold you there while the tickle devices approach closer and closer.  Which is going to take magic if I want to build it here without waiting an additional one hundred years to climb the technology ladder first.  Is that cheating?  I ask because I like to know whether what I'm doing is cheating, not because I'm going to do it any differently depending on your answer."