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>Once upon a time, in a faraway land...

You're a dragon! The great beast of legends, a fire-breathing monster bringing terror and death to the land!

Or so the legends say, at least. In truth you're just a fledgling dragon barely an adult, but having recently emerged into the outside world, you've accomplished some impressive things in a short time and fancy yourself queen of your growing domain.

And so it is Riona, red dragoness, young and larger than a horse... as you sit in the throne room of your castle and look upon the nation belonging to you. A lush valley of forested highlands and grassy lowlands, frequented by small settlements here and there, broken by roads and a river leading out to the sea. All reaching to the horizon and awaiting your will.

>What do you do?
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So far, since emerging from mother's lair you come to settle in this valley and taken control, united it under your rule by force to create a country. For now your uneasy neighboring nations seem to tolerate your existence, allowing you to focus on progress and prosperity within your land. For it is your land, your people, and as a dragon whatever is yours must be the best!

In total your nation occupies this valley region primarily, in which sits several small settlements and two prominent towns, with a total (mostly human) population of several thousands. Largely agrarian and trade focused, yours is a decently prosperous land now recovering and adjusting to your rule. As an absolute monarch you don't bother yourself too much with actual governance, you just delegate to a small council of leaders to carry out your will while you benefit off a... reasonable tribute from your people of mostly food, as well as items of value and monetary tax.

Though, for as nice and idyllic as your little valley is, you're increasingly torn between two avenues to take; merely dwell and grow fat off the land you have, or expand ever outwards in your hopes for not just a queendom but an empire.
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And for those interested, a link for the previous threads;

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Riona
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>>3705098
Nice to have you back,

Let's check on the mines, or on the people we want to build the mines, whatever we managed to get done by now.

And while flying there, just pass over where we left the goblins to see if they still live
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>>3705130
I wanted to talk with the culties but let's start with this, more money to grow our empire!
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>>3705098
Have some brief us on the progress of the road improvements
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>>3705150
The public interest in roads is not that great, when there's a prominent river down through the center of the valley out to the coast. But not everyone has access to a boat, so at the suggestion of your planners, the plan seems to be to construct a road that follows along roughly parallel to the river, and from it other roads branching off to the smaller settlements. The biggest focus will be to connect your two towns but a road running up through the valley will also attract traders seeking to reach the mountains.

In terms of actual progress it's slow going but that's to be expected, they expect a few months to properly link the two towns and then from there it should be much easier to reach the outlying villages.

>>3705149
>>3705130
Mines? Yes, riches from the earth! Normally you'd delegate this to your subordinates but it's a topic you have particular interest in, and you feel you could use some time out after spending much of the month inside your castle lazing about and feasting.

So from your castle you can take flight, having to get used to flying at your grown size. There's a few particular local mines you know of within the valley, that you want to check on so probably for most off the day today you can visit each one to see the progress.

>Make a roll, 1d100, to see how the mining effort has gone!
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Rolled 48 (1d100)

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Rolled 6 (1d100)

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Rolled 15 (1d100)

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Rolled 72 (1d100)

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Rolled 68 (1d100)

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Rolled 94 (1d100)

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>>3705183
gold ladies and gentlemen!
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You are all welcome
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Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>3705166
And a roll for random chance!
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>>3705188
I'd much rather have iron and copper because its easier to use and trade
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As the anon who made the winning roll I would like this to be a mineral rich mine with a verity of valuable minerals.
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>>3705209
Don't think that's how it works.
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>>3705248
You maybe correct, but I am going to try anyway.
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>>3705209
Normally you don't get to really choose what the roll will mean when it's for something like this; a roll for what the world has to offer, or a roll for finding things. But worries aside since it was such a good roll anyway.

>>3705183
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>94

You can stop by each mine then, one after the other. It's been a month since last after all, you asked your subordinates to create something of a program to incentivize new workers and talent, and better funding for the mining effort. It's too soon really for mining infrastructure to have improved much, but there's definitely an increase in workers and the effort. And upon seeing you land and approach with interest, it's a definite increase to morale; not only is it nice to be paid better and to have more help, but it's nice to know you're appreciated by the monarch!

"More workers means more iron, your majesty! What to do with the coals though..."

The new foreman already has some good hauls of ore to show for it, and no longer are the miners simply digging for subsistence living, with more mined to actually start considering transport and sale. Or supply to the nearest town for wage, whichever you prefer. This first mine is a good source of iron, and seemingly useless black rocks though they are combustible.

"You like castles, my queen? Have I got the stone for you!"

More of a businesswoman than the first mine's foreman, but this lady has the right idea for high quality stone on the far side of the valley along with other various mineral deposits. She imagines the sheer value of such sales but there's also always uses for stone.

"My, so it really is a dragon leading these people! Well I suppose that includes me as well now, a ruby, my queen?"

The last mine is run by a strange being, you've never seen one before... they call it a "dark elf" and it calls itself a "drow". Apparently the workers of this third mine were digging deeply and broke into a cave system where they discovered this dark elf fellow lost and trapped down there for who knows how long. They didn't think much of him besides offering rescue, but in time he actually proved himself a prospector prodigy! Really this third mine had been thought exhausted (of copper) in the past, but under the new leadership of the drow they are turning up new deposits and even gemstones. As well, though no one else has much interest due to the new copper finds, the drow tries to persuade you himself that with proper funding and support he could lead an expedition into the actual mountains (the three mines are all within the valley) to look for rare ores he believes are here, and originally had gotten lost underground trying to find.

>What do you do?
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>>3705275
Tell the drow we have just the people for the job!

We should send the adventurers with the drow to explore the cave, if we fit we could even go ourselves! It would be nice to go in an adventure. And this way we can check if the adventurera found anything(or even came back from) on those ruins we sent them

Lets use the stone to trade and to infraestructure projects later
The first project is to build a furnace and smithy at the nearby town to make use of the coal and iron so we can sell iron products and ingots.
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>>3705299
Support

Accept the ruby, the reds stones are beautiful, remind me of someone....

Ask the drow where he's from, if there are more of his people underground and whatever he knows about the dwarves, alternative access, information about them, weaknesses
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>>3705299
Support, but don't go ourself
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>>3705299
Which cave are you referring to in this instance?

>>3705319
Yes, rubies are nice.

You can talk a little with the drow while he oversees the mining effort. Unfortunately he can't give an idea of where he's from since for one thing he's not familiar with the surface world geography in regards to the under world he's used to, and for another thing he got lost underground anyway so isn't sure which way and where he home would be anyway. There definitely are more of his kind down below however, but he's not sure if he'll see them again now.

As for the dwarves, he's not too familiar with surface ones but he has nothing good to say about any. Seems his kind are not on the best terms with any sorts of dwarves. He could be of use in relation to the dwarves you know of up in the mountains, but he would have to encounter them and get an idea of their land first.
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>>3705358
>As well, though no one else has much interest due to the new copper finds, the drow tries to persuade you himself that with proper funding and support he could lead an expedition into the actual mountains (the three mines are all within the valley) to look for rare ores he believes are her

this, it's the mountains not cave, sorry
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>>3705362
>>3705358

the idea is to check on the adventurers progress or survival and if everything is ok, send them with the drow as security to his expedition
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>>3705369
You can let the drow that he might expect help before long for his expedition idea. With that in mind then you can return to your nearest town having checked on all the mines and seeing the progress of your desire for a better mining effort in the country.

>Rolling for the adventurers.
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>>3705369
Yeah that sounds like a good idea I'll support it plus he gives us an excuse to go check on our lady Knight
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>>3705375
Reminder that we sent one of our cultists who was an ex-adventurer to go with them to check and see how they are
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>>3705375
Returning to Eisling, your town on the coast, then and surprising people with your arrival and your increased size, you seek out those adventurers.

"You know it's the funniest thing, but they're all dead!"

The dragon cultist rogue is the only one you can find, apparently with bad news... or good?

"They were causing such trouble here like you wouldn't believe! And no one could do anything because of your debt to them. So while we were exploring that old ruin, up in the mountains, they... well, had a little accident. Several, little accidents."

You suppose that's one way to deal with a problem, and a great help to Brigid, your governor of Eisling since she had been complaining about the adventurers causing problems. Though you're impressed how just one human rogue was able to wipe out an entire adventuring party, you suppose it speaks volumes to the quality of your dragon cultists and their collective skills.

Of course you can still muster an adventurer effort to assist the drow on his prospecting, but you can't very well use a party of dead people for that. So either you'll have to put an effort towards attracting others, or seek some other avenue. Also you're not sure you'd want... or trust your cultists to go with a group of people after this. You had told them to handle things more delicately, not such an evil hand in everything. But like with the rogue here, if they see problems caused for you their dragon goddess, then they apparently won't hesitate to act. Though in this specific case, you're probably grateful for it. Sure those adventurers helped you capture Eisling and unite the country, but they let it go to their heads.

>What do you do? Also here's a map to show your country, in red, and the other countries of this region of the continent.
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>>3705394
are there any of the veterans here interested? I imagine some of the soldiers who fought in the war would be interested in paid work for security, tell Briget to assemble a few and take send them upriver to the drow

for the rogue, tell him to meet the others that we will soon have a mission for them(my intended next stop if you anons let it)

since we are here let's speak with Briget
meet her alone and see how leadership is treating her, are the grey hairs already showing? is there any loyalist faction giving her trouble?...she can tell us...we can make it all better like we always do
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>>3705394
See how the town is doing, are there any mercenary companies around even after 2 months? If there are send them away

>>3705404
We can give the order to the rogue right now, send him to get the others and head to the nearest free town to investigate them and see what they think of us and if there are any faction we can use
These guys are too valuable to be used as preachers
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Crap, I’m late! I was going to suggest Riona tried eating some coal to see if that helps increase the power of her fire breath.

>>3705404
>>3705431
Supporting these.
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>>3705431
>>3705404
both of these
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>>3705394
I want to consult the elves regarding the drow and the dwarves. I'm worried that there may be problems if we encounter their nation unprepared.

Coal has many uses. Is steel a thing in this setting? Are any of the townsmen or elves good at metal working?

Whatever happened to the Eisling knights, especially the one we butt heads with? Maybe one of them would be willing to go along with the Drow expedition?
Regardless I'd feel more comfortable if we consulted the elves first regarding drow.
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>>3705488
You can meet with the elves when you return home, sure. And steel is most definitely a thing, it's what most of the lesser races presently use as the dominant metal. In each of your settlements there are smiths and metal workers, though only as skilled as you would expect of humans and elves.

As for the knights, they're still around, they're just your knights now. Well except for Sir Praden, the knight who fought you personally. He sits in a cell because he refuses to accept your rule. The rest though, they're your knights and you can send them on an expedition if you wish, them or just normal veterans of the conflict.

>>3705457
Eating rocks? That can't be good for you!

>>3705404
>>3705431
>>3705471
You've already sent the other cultists into the free territories to gauge the viability of expansion there. The rogue you kept here because he's a capable spy and handled the adventurer problem, and in the meantime he's been preaching and trying to spread your faith in secret. But if need be you can surely send him to join the others.

The overall problems in Eisling (due to the civil war) are declining as time goes on, people are gradually coming to accept your rule as you've proven to be... not all that different from before, stability is welcome. Thankfully the mercenary problem is drying up as they aren't finding work, so the town itself and the streets you can see are not so unruly nor unstable.

"Ah, your divinity... before you leave, there is... someone I think you should meet."

You'd hoped to meet with Brigid, but before you leave from the cultist den the rogue (now that the other matters have been seen to) seeks your attention in a more... private manner. Asking you aside to a separate area, he introduces you to a hooded, cloaked person.

"Y-You are... your name is Riona?"

A young man, only in his teens if you are not mistaken about human ages, he appears quite nervous towards you though that's to be expected of a dragon. When he lifts back his hood though you can see why; human though he is, there's black horns sprouting from his head between his brown hair, and black scales in patches across his skin in places. A pair of draconic eyes as well, in shape at least but without the burning color instead just normal human green.

"I... c-can you help me?"

You thought you recognized the scent of another dragon, of your sister, when the rogue led you into this back area.

>What do you do?
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>>3705532
HA, looks like our nephew is here.

Let out a sigh sitting down "Hello nephew I assume you are here because your mother is causing you trouble. am I right?"
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>>3705539
adding on start by giving him a dragon hug with both front legs. then do the stuff in the first post
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>>3705532
Fucking hell!
Sister problems spulled here it seems, sigh damn, I was hoping to avoid that

What does he need help with?

Probably he wants refuge or help hiding from sister

See if he has any skills, we could hide him somewhere quiet to do his craft
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>>3705532
Illirie will come sooner than later
this kid is extremely bad news
why did the rogue bring him here and not just killed him? well, I guess he wouldn't kill anything dragon related

see what is the kid's problem
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>>3705547
Nah, if he needs a place to hide then he is coming to the castle he is family. Family helps family especially when it comes to saving family from crazy family.
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>>3705557
Are you mad? The castle is the first place she would look, for his own safety we have to hide him somewhere very quiet and out of the way, we can check on him from time to time
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>>3705562
what about with the elves? it's very hidden and out of the way
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>>3705557
>Family

have you forgotten that family are actually our most dangerous enemies?
Illirie is a master manipulator, for all we know the kid is here under her orders to infiltrate our kingdom, she certanly already heard about our rise to power here

>>3705578
not gonna hide the kid in the middle of flamable trees from a dragon, we will find someplace, let's hear him out first
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>>3705562
>>3705578
How about we just fucking ice the brat and bury the body in the mountains, preferably beneath one of our mines in a convenient shaft no one will ever go to.

This is not our problem. This does not need to be our problem, and if he lives, or even just stays in proximity to us, it will bring us hell.

Fuck black dragons. But never literally.

Unless of course you want to bite a plot hook, in which case yes, castle for maximum drama.
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>>3705593
like killing the kid won't cause drama?
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>>3705590
the kid isn't fully dragon, was raised by humans and has come to us his only other relative looking for help. I somehow doubt this kid is a top tier spy.
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>>3705611
how do you know that? we don't even know if this kid is the one we talked about earlier
remember, our sister is a whore, she has probably hundreds of kids about

like I said, let's hear him out first
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>>3705618
ok, we can agree on that let's hear what he has to say. I just don't want our default reaction to be I should destroy this.
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>>3705532
>"I can't promise you anything, but what seems to be the problem, kid?"

In that case, please consult the elves regarding the drow and the dwarves when we return.

We should also check on our apothecary; it's been a while since we're paid him a visit.

Does dragon fire have any special qualities? For example, would it confer special properties to things made with it? Would Riona know?
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>>3705640
If we get big enough we can melt through stone
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>>3705539
>>3705547
>>3705553
Well this is a surprise. Instinctively you go about the dragon form of greeting and circle around him fanning your wings, whipping your tail, and swinging your head... all it does though is seem to frighten the poor lad as he trips backwards over his own tail when you first start with your wings. He seems bewildered, scared, so chances are Illyrie never taught him the dragon ways. Then again she probably taught few if any of her children anything considering she more or less abandoned all the children she had, you doubt this boy even knows the dragon language.

"Hello nephew. I assume you are here because your mother is causing you trouble. Am I right?"

"N-Nephew? No, my name is Arren... there was trouble with a dragon though. People heard it was coming down from the mountains. When they did, they... my father..."

If he doesn't know the ways of your kind then you can at least speak to him like a human. But again he seems utterly confused when you call him nephew and talk like you know his mother and problems. He tries to explain himself but you can see he's deeply troubled by something and when he gets to the topic of his father he starts crying, he can't help it. The rogue puts a hand on the boy's shoulder for support, it seems he has some familiarity with the lad and perhaps has been taking care of him for a few days or weeks even.

"...th-they... they k-killed him. They... tried to kill me too, but Lucia... a servant, she helped me escape... I think they might have killed her too. The people... they were so scared of the dragon coming, even my own family... they tried to kill me."

"You ran away... from Cestion, that is?"

"N-No, from Ruenvel. I've never been to Cestion."

It seems you... might have made a mistake. He's family for sure, but he's not the child of your sister that you know from the neighboring country of Cestion. From another place altogether, on the run from humans rather than a dragon. Well, humans reacting in fear to a dragon.

"I cannot promise you anything, but what seems to be the problem?"

"I... I had heard, this w-was a safe place? For dragons? You are the queen anyway..."

So he does seek shelter, but not in the way you'd expected. What sort of rumors and reputation are spreading through the lands about your country, you wonder? In any case the rogue helps the kid to his feet and pats him on the back before moving to you to whisper.

"I'd rather not kill him myself, but if you want I can pass a vagrant some coins... take the kid down the docks, slit his throat, be done with all this."

Yikes, well at least your cultist has your interests in mind!

>What do you do?
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What happened to getting clothes? I love the idea of a dragon wearing a turtle neck.
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>>3705593
Absolutely based. Just murder all your problems!

>>3705676
Although you're not opposed to the idea, the problem is that because you keep growing, it's not really feasible till you settle to a size you prefer then the elves can make you clothes that fit.

>>3705640
Dragon fire is magical by nature, everything about you is. But you've never tried doing something like forging with it. It could be worth a try for sure, if you get bigger and able to produce fire capable of melting metal.
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>>3705593
>Fuck black dragons. But never literally.
Why not literally?
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>>3705686
That's how you were made, mother likes her males as she likes her coffee; black. Though you took after her as red, while your two siblings took after your father as black.
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>>3705673
Well shit I miscalculated

Be gentle, well as gentle as a dragon can be. "I am sorry for your loss. I do not know what you may have heard about my lands, but yes this land is safe for dragons and half-dragons alike. If you are up to it can you tell me what has happened to you and what brought you here in detail? "
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>>3705695
This
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>>3705673
Well, no one will bother you here, and if he is not running from our sister we can just leave him in town to find a job and live his life, tell him that he will only vet in trouble if he causes trouble and he can look for a job and work like anyone else

If sister comes we can just tell her we let the kid stay

Wew, this is way simpler than I thought

Warn him tho,that he should keep a simple life, we do not like to share things with others of dragon blood so don't take more than you need to live
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well, this kid isn't from Cestion, but he is apparently still family we can sense it. how about we take the kid in? he doesn't seem to have anywhere to go.
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>>3705673
Yes, this is a safe place for dragons, as safe as it can be, you can stay at the town and live as you see fit

Tell the rogue to hire someone to keep an eye on him just to be safe

All this confusion and sappy talk can be an act, specially because we never heard of him, but since he asks nothing more than entry to the country we can let him stay here in Eisling

But I repeat, tell the rogue to get someone to keep an eye on him and inform us of his activities from time to time
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>>3705713
Nope, not ever, we can find him a job here but we are not taking sister's reje ted spawns in
Remember, family is bad news, not good news
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>>3705713
He is family, but do you want to let him know that? He isn't aware, seems he only knows Illyrie by name as his mother and nothing more.
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>>3705716
This, tell the rogue to have someone watch him.

>>3705713
We can think about that after he proves useful and not a plant.
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>>3705723
Do not let him know

The little shit can try to use it to get a highway to power, and since he is black and not red most people will assume we are nlt related anyway, like he didn't assume we are
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>>3705720
He is just a boy in his teens who has lost his whole world. the kid needs a rock we can be that rock.
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>>3705731
Don't be naive dude, we owe nothing to him, and the fact that he is family makes him dangerous, not endearing.
Let him live here and keep an eye on him, then we can make a more informed decision
You are thinking like a sentimental human
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>>3705723
No, don't tell him

This is the best that could happen given the situation, he came here on his own will and we did not interfere with him, if sister comes looking we are not liable to anything
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>>3705723
let him know
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>>3705713
A part of me wants to take him in just to hook him and Nissia up.
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>>3705750
he is still a kid, for mother's sake!
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>>3705750
You can't just collect your sister's many offspring to play matchmaker with them! What is this, some sort of draconic eugenics program?!
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>>3705752
>still a kid
Is he really? hey scales is this true?
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>>3705755
in Scales post, he said the age is teens
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>>3705753
>You can't just collect your sister's many offspring to play matchmaker with them!
Watch me
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>>3705753
She doesn't know, and what she doesn't know or make a fuss about won't hurt her or us.
So it's K.
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>>3705753
why yes, yes it is
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>>3705723
don't let the kid know.

let him stay in town
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>>3705723
Nope. All we're offering is a safe country for him to live in and nothing more. We know next to nothing about him, and what little we do know is bad news. We are being very generous just even not getting rid of him.
Arrange someone to keep an eye on him, maybe make him a live-in apprentice to someone who practices a trade he has some talent in.

>>3705692
Better than charred, rotting, and partially eaten, I suppose.

Speaking of males, we should pay our caged knight a visit, have a little chat. It's a waste to keep him locked up forever now that things have called down internally.
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>>3705760
You imagine she would be very upset if she showed up and it were the case. Though, whether she could defeat a cooperative effort of all her children is questionable.

>>3705755
>>3705757
You're not exactly familiar with the biology and physiology of the lesser races. Despite governing them it's only been about two months so they're still new to you, and you've never really taken the time to sit down and learn about them.

You at least, by now, can sort of tell the differences between them even if it's hard, and you know some basic details like they grow as they age and they come in two types; male and female, similar to dragons. But otherwise in most ways they are still strange to you.

"How old are you?"

"Uh... not yet fourteen years, your highness."
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>>3705723
Don't let him know, invite him to our castle for dinner as a welcome gift.
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>>3705774
The kid is 13 years old! we can't just throw him to the streets! as his aunt, we have a moral obligation to take him in.
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>>3705774
>>3705792

get him a job in briget's castle then, as a server boy or somethin

please let's just move on from this, we can see if he can be useful later
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>>3705794
agreed

please guys, let's not be hasty here. do not fall for this trap

let the kid live here for a while, get the rogue to hire someone to watch him and then later we can think about doing something else

the last thing we need right now is to bring this kid to our castle and give sister a reason to pay a visit
please don't sabotage us on purpose,please
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Hey scales, does our sister keep tabs on her kids?
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>>3705794
Fine, we can take him to Brigid, but I want to make sure we can a personal eye on this situation.
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>>3705806
like I said, we tell rogue to get someone to watch him and give reports, from time to time when we visit the city we can check on him also

and don't tell Bridgit he is related too
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>>3705780
The last thing you want is anything to do with any of your family. There isn't hate between any of you, but it's just too risky and not worth the trouble. Particularly with Illyrie, you wouldn't put it past her to usurp you of your nation like it were a friendly challenge. Of the lot of your family though, you always had the most compassion, mercy. Disgustingly un-dragonlike, but having to take care of your feeble red brother Ymirro fostered such weakness in you.

As such, for as much a liability as this kid may be, you can't bring yourself to just kill him. Certainly you're not going to hold him to your bosom in loving familial embrace and welcome him into your home, but if he's just to live in your country... as a haven away from those who want him dead, you can't see much harm. Just so long as he doesn't rock the boat, and remains unaware of your kinship.

"I am sorry for your loss. I do not know what you may have heard about my lands, but yes this land is safe for dragons and half-dragons alike. If you wish it, you may find a new life for yourself here."

"Th-Thank you your highness, I will try my best... and I p-promise not to make trouble for you."

You do strongly consider killing him of course, but in the end your big heart wins over. The rogue can take care of the rest for the kid as he's been doing since Arren showed up, or if you prefer you can see that the boy ends up in a stable environment.

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"You look tired, dear Brigid... good."

After that little family reunion of sorts, you really could use a distraction to take your mind off things! And Brigid fits that role. A knightess you placed in charge of Eisling, her defiance against you before, makes your ongoing torment of her quite sweet. But despite it all she is loyal and competent so you try to make sure she's getting along in her position. And she does look tired as you meet up in the castle audience hall, but she seems to be managing well enough, having appointed some advisors and assistants since last you met with her.

"Hail, dragon. All is well I hope?"

After, you can check on the knights as well.

>What do you do?
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>>3705815
>see that the boy ends up in a stable environment.
Tell Brigid that you have a charge for her and that she is to take care of him as if he were her own. this kid is going to live with Brigid. also ask how things have been in Eisling
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>>3705815
is it?

I should hope so, I left a capable and worthy knight leading this town didn't I?

ask her about the situation, if anyone is resisting our rule and if the death of the former council caused any problems

ask her opinion of the knights, if they are loyal and such, tell her to chose one to lead an expedition to the mountains to accompany a drow there
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>>3705839
live with Brigid? wait wait wait, just let him work in the castle, we don't want to give him a position of importance that our sister could exploit, please dude, let that big heart of yours rest for a bit, it's becoming un-dragonlike
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>>3705805
You don't know for sure if she had some method like that, but you do know she was specific about who she had offspring by. Important or powerful men of the lesser races, you know for the purpose of later cashing in on those offspring. It seems likely that if she was going to go as far as carry and bear eggs for men to take, she would not forget that.

The one thing you know for sure when you all left mother's lair, is that her first interest was to find out which men actually did as she commanded and took and raised their children, and which men did not in order to hunt down and exact punishment on those that did not. An envious creature by nature that you are, you can honestly say you envy nothing of those men who may have upset your sister.
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>>3705840
Support
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>>3705854
Brigid is the mayor of Eisling, not nobility it will be fine.
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>>3705865
she is in fact nobility, the last heir of the family that ruled the vale, please dude, please, stop sabotaging us, I beg of you, the kid will be fine, we can use him later, but let's not put him in a position that can harm us and then we will be forced to kill him, it's for his own good, the less his sister can use him, the more safe he will be
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>>3705858
>later cashing in on those offspring
Yeah that could bite us in the ass later on, but fuck it. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
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>>3705815
Let's torment her a little, but I can't think of anything to torment her with...
Let's just make her unconfortable with proximity while we talk, that seems to get on her nerves.

Ask how is the city going and what does she need to make the city run better.

>>3705839
The cultist rogue is taking care of him, he will be fine, he likes dragons
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>>3705876
as useful as the cultist is he is demented. not someone you let RAISE A CHILD.
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>>3705882
He will not raise the child, he will see a stable environment for him and keep tabs on him, no need to worry, the kid will be fine
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>>3705893
>no need to worry

Truer words never spoke, in regards to this entire quest in general!
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>>3705898
See, he's fine, no worry at all

As long as we don't roll a 1 that is
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>3705902
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>>3705903
See? What a nice 79 house he got? The kid is better than before!
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>>3705882
as much as I want to agree with you, >>3705893 is right, let the kid be taken care of for a while, check on him later and then start thinking about taking him in.
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As long as the kid ends up in a safe environment I am fine.
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>>3705815
>"You look tired. Is there some boy keeping you up that I don't know about?"

I'm against foisting the boy on Brigid. That's far too close to power, he may hear many things that he's not supposed to.

>>3705876
>"Dragon? Brigid my dear, we know each other far better than that. Tell me, are you lonely at nights, is that why you can't sleep. If there is some boy or princeling you fancy, I'd be all too happy to acquire him for you... It would warm my heart to see you... Fulfilled."

>>3705898
I vote to set him up with an apprenticeship with a tradesman in town.
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>>3705839
>>3705840
>>3705876
It's good to check on how your country is being run, but there's nothing wrong with having some fun. You have to remember, you very nearly kept this knight locked away in a tower considering her value, she's the closest thing you have to a princess!

"Dragon? Brigid my dear, we know each other far better than that. And I should hope all is well, I left a capable and worthy knight leading this town did I not?"

Having dismissed those others present with a threatening stare, you curl about Brigid by pulling her chair from beneath her to instead have her sit against you. By this point she's so utterly defeated that, you can tell it bothers her but she can't even muster the effort to complain. She just slaps your claws away when you try stroking through her hair playfully.

"You look tired. Is there some male keeping you up that I do not know about? Or perhaps you are lonely at nights, that is why you cannot sleep? Tell me, if there is some boy or princeling you fancy, I would be all too happy to acquire him for you... it would warm my heart to see you..." at her gasp and attempted resistance, you caress a draconic hand to her belly and whisper to her ear with flecks of your tongue to her face, "...fullfilled."

"...a-and... what about you? What is a Queen without a King?" in return she draws attention to your obvious unpartnered status.

Well, enough torment for now. You can discuss matters with Eisling then, and how it's been since your last visit. Thankfully the adventurer problem is gone now and the mercenaries are fading away. After you had the council killed there was a lot of upset but Brigid just used much of their confiscated personal funds to return to the people in the way of bread and circuses. This quickly shut the commoners up and turned to praise instead. Most of the council members' families just fled after, though from abroad they've been supporting resistance efforts... honestly though it's not that serious a threat she thinks. As each day goes by, people accept your rule more and more and in a small way are growing ever happier with it for the stability you bring. You could assign your cult to this matter, but Brigid seems confident she can manage on her own.

As for the knights, well except for Sir Praden they're all loyal now; after you killed off the council they had nothing to remain loyal to so they just swore themselves to you eventually, accepting the defeat. Brigid does express some concern though, that nobles are complaining and want some position. Before you took over, things were like any feudal system with the nobles afforded priority, but now after... you didn't abolish the system but the nobles are upset for their reduced or unrecognized positions. Particularly when they hear you hold court, but only for your leaders rather than having a general presence of nobility.

>What do you do?
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>>3705963
>>3705910
>>3705893
>>3705876
That's good, I was worried they were trying to matchmake him with Brigid.

If you want though, certainly doing something like making the boy her squire is too high a post for him and too risky. But if you want him safe and watched, perhaps just some other job in the castle? He could apprentice to the blacksmith, have serving duties, or even some managerial position but without power like archivist or account keeper. You're sure Brigid could find him a role in the castle that keeps him busy but doesn't come with position/power. Otherwise if you can settle for the boy living in town under watch and just setting him up with some common job.
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>>3706079
Let Brigid find him a job in the castle. also, why do we need nobles when our leaders are handling things just fine ask Brigid exactly what the nobles have been doing for the nation.
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>>3706079
a common job, for now, seems good, maybe set him up as a trader or fisherman so he can get some skills, after we learn more from him and how he acts we can think about improving his station, don't comment anything with Brigid for now, leave it up for our rogue to find him a place

>>3706060
well, I think that covers what we did for the month right? some anon wanted to check on the elves so I'll support that
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>>3706097
I vehemently disagree with letting the rouge find the kid a home.
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>>3706060
The nobles can be happy where they are or be gone since we have no use for them, do they produce something? Do they have any skill other than ass kissing that we could use? Let them be satisfied that we let them live and live leisurely like they are right now

Tell Brigid to send one of the knights with some vererans to the drow

Can we check on the progress of the cultists on the mission we gave them?

>>3706079
Keep him in a normal life for now, give it some time before getting him an apprenticeships, maybe as a blacksmith or a carpenter so he can get a decent living
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>>3706113
that's what he is good at, trust the guy, he cares for the kid, so much that he wouldn't even kill him on our command, he would find someone else to do it, he will find a good place and he is the only one we can trust without involving anyone of notice on this
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>>3706118
>>3706092
>>3706097
A common job then, one of the human trades sounds good, whatever the rogue can manage and to have the boy watched closely. In time his standing may improve or you might even recognize him as deserving of your attention. But till then, just give him someplace safe to stay and something to keep him busy each day. You wouldn't afford him any less, if he just wants to have a new life.

As for the nobles, you're confused as to what they actually do, what benefit they have to the kingdom. According to Brigid though, they own everything and organize and keep things running. If they don't have a seat at the table and continue to remain upset, then she worries they may leave to other countries not only hurting the economy but also they may support the resistance or fund your enemies as well as those council member families who fled.

Not that nobles are absolutely essential, you're sure there's ways things could be done without them. But Brigid is so used to them and the way things are and traditionally always have been, that any other system she simply cannot even imagine it or what it would be like.

In any case you can depart if you like and see to other matters. Did you want to check on the imprisoned knight though, or simply continue as you had been either with your cultists or the elves?
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>>3706079
Oh shit its back!
Some questions i forgot to ask last thread
Are half dragons just humans with scale and shit or can they turn into dragon form?
What is the diferrence between black and red dragons if any?
What happened to our wingless brother and how he lost his wings?
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>>3706186
hmmm

the nobles might turn into a problem, tell her to entertain their wishes and transfer them to you if they have any so that we may judge them.

I'm seriously thinking about puting up the cult here to undermine, steal and appropriate the noble's things so it all belongs to us instead of them, Red Widow can see to them being silenced.

I'd like to check on the cult first actually
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>>3706186
two words
Merchant monarchy only the top 10 most economically successful nobles will have a set in our court.
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>>3706186
Do not invite them to our castle but make her organize a meeting here so we can meet and talk with the local nobles, it can be in a couple of days, after we are back from checking with the cultists, they may give us news and opportunities we can share with the nobles
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Don’t you hate it when your internet cuts out? Because I sure as fuck do! Just want to mention a few things I read.

>>3705685
>clothing
We’re done growing for now. Let’s get some clothes!

>>3705723
>tell he’s family or not?
Why was this even a choice to vote on? We had already called him nephew here >>3705673 , so he already knows he’s family.

>>3706060
>What is a Queen without a King?
Just to clarify, IF we ever get a husband, I vote that he has less authority than the us, the Queen. I don’t remember what that type of system that’s called, but I know that’s how things are run in The Rising of the Shield Hero and that’s how I want our kingdom to be!

Now for the current problem, I’m supporting >>3706250 .
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>>3706271
Oh we are going to eventually find someone to bone with just not now
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>>3706278
Yeah, I know. I just wanted let it be known that whoever that guy is, he’s going to have less authority than Riona.

Speaking of boning, we’ll probably have to stay at our current size, otherwise we might end up too big and crushing whoever that lucky bastard is.
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>>3706311
dragons don't have that problem I think

but I agree on staying on our size

but I agree that dealing with kids, and worse, with someone around that could give orders would be a pain right now
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>>3706311
>we might end up too big and crushing whoever that lucky bastard is
Oh, are you implying a human partner? OhHOhoho, how delightfully scandalous! I wouldn't mind supporting that in the future.
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>>3706271
Prince-consort?

>>3706186
I want to check on the knight. If he's bit outright hostile and gives his word not to undermine order then that is enough for me. Having him rot in a cell does no one any good, and seeing how things are run now first hand may change his mind about us.

Then consult/tease the elves.
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>>3706354
I was thinking of finding a suitable dragon like mom did, not whoring around like sister
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>>3706370
agreed maybe a nice blue dragon
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>>3706311
Dragons vary in size, you probably wouldn't crush one unless you tried to rob the cradle so to speak.

>>3706271
He doesn't seem to know, you think you just confused him by calling him nephew.

>>3706196
You actually have no idea how half-dragons work, you just know that because dragons are so highly, naturally magical they can crossbreed with just about anything. This is the first half-dragon you ever encountered though. You strongly doubt that they can transform.

From what you know, red dragons are usually more robust and can breathe fire, while black dragons are more agile and spew toxic miasma. Though you and your siblings are half red/black; though you take after either your mother or father when it comes to "type" like red or black, you have some traits of both.

As for Ymirro your feeble red brother, he had been meeting in secret with lesser races to educate him on whatever they could teach him. While Illyrie was busy sneaking off behind mother's back to mate with petitioners, Ymirro was busy sneaking off behind mother's back to learn from them. Unfortunately for him, he was paying his teachers with gold from mother's treasure hoard which she might not have noticed if Illyrie hadn't ratted on him and told mother. For this, mother bit off Ymirro's wings. A sad fate for him, since he was always the runt of the brood already. Surely he would not have survived either from mother's disfavor of him, adventurers attacking, or Andrier and Illyrie trying to kill him, if you did not stand up for him and protect him. You know he's always loved you for it, but you've only ever felt pity for him.

>>3706271
>We're done growing

Are you?
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>>3706386
>Are you?
no, no we are not
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>>3706386
that's it Ymirro for incest husband and fuck Illyrie a thousand times over for rating on bro
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>>3706400
what no, what is wrong with you.
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>Are you?
Dragons don't really STOP growing.
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>>3706400
Familial love not romantic love!
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>>3706404
>>3706410
forbidden!

let's go see that cult already
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>>3706410
>>3706404
>"It's not that we didn't intentionally let mom bite your wings off before saving you so you couldn't fly off and escape our love now Baka!"
Man this Doujin took a weird turn at the start didn't it?
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>>3706429
GOD LET IT END
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>>3706410
Too late! Love can blooms in the battlef....family reunion?

>>3706429
Lol

Want it to get weirder? We eat and consume everyone we mate with so they will be part of us forever!

Yandere dragon quest!
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>>3706439
No, let cut the shitposting.
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>>3706370
You seem to have misinterpreted, I said partner, as in non-plural.
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>>3706229
Competition among them? That sounds dangerous!

>>3706220
>>3706271
>>3706361
All this talk of nobles is annoying and boring to you, but actually giving a chance to listen to Brigid voice the concerns, you suppose she might be right in her worry. Well, at the very least it couldn't hurt to see them. Let her occupy and entertain them for a time, and when you're ready you'll give audience to these nobles and see what can be worked out. It sounds like they just want to have their fancy dress parties and to dance around to music and get drunk as they all kiss your tail, you'd hate to be surrounded by that.

Wait... would you?

"Come to... come to gloat, dragon? This... could have been a free city, a free people... if not for you."

Before you depart Eisling to check on the cult, or the elves, you make one last stop to the dungeon, to see the one knight who stood against you at the end. Stuck in a cell, in chains for over a month, you can see and hear that he's weak but still unbroken. He refused to bow to you and even as you look upon him, he's still one to refuse.

You consider killing him, but you like collecting your knights, they're like little treasures of status. And as well... he's a curious one. A chance to learn about the human psyche, and condition perhaps? Why it seems that, sometimes at least, the harder you try to break them the stronger they resist.

>What do you do?
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>>3706437
>"No! Now get back on the bed or else I'll fetch the trolls to hold you down."

>>3706443
K
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>>3706458
ah how fun another knight for us to break
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>>3706458
>Actually I'm here to talk about you. You're the single most difficult fight I've had, thus far. The troll was a close second, simply for its sheer strength, but I just mauled that thing, and the spider queen burned far too easily to really be called a fight.

>I'm getting sidetracked. In recognition of your skill and valor, I'm giving you a say in how you'll be dealt with, long term. I can try and ransom you back, if you think anyone will pay, or I can get you better furnishings. Chains, yes, but also a softer cot and some books, if that interests you.
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>>3706478
backing
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>>3706458
No need to have someone who doesn't appreciate us

time for dragons speech

"free city? under the rule of Praven and slave to their desires? are you even listening to yourself or your defeated pride makes you deaf?

Your town was never free, I reinstated the ruler of this land as the head of it, I made it peaceful and prosper without foreign intervention, I welcome you to take a look for your self foolish knight

I united the land, I gave them purpose and order, I gave them a place to be under my command as my subjects, if you cannot see that your precious town is better than ever, and will be even better with time I can only consider you a fool, a coward before the face of changing times or simply stubborn.

I'll leave you to think about it, and to see how your own people feel about it, in time, you may choose to bend the knee and serve your people once again, or you can stay here and serve no one but your own hubris and foolishness"

let's hope we can worm some doubts into his thick skull
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>>3706478
playing accommodating will only make his pride bigger I think, we have to make him see that we offer a better way, I'm against this
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>>3706498
supporting
let's put the human in his place
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>>3706458
He might hate us but still can be usefull one day if we go to war against one of our siblings.
Since he probably hates all dragons we set him free and in a quest to murder them when the time comes
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>>3706498
Support

The fool must see his own foolishness

He will obviously not at first, but it will be on his head later, in time he will bow....or not and he will rot, whatever he choses

We took every step to preserve and prosper this land, the Valley is free, if he can't see it he is blind.
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>>3706565
>>3706557
Nope
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>>3706386
>Are you?
I mean, for now, we are. I think we should stay at our current size for a while, before we decide to start growing again.

And the elves really want us to wear some clothes, so it’s only polite to humor our 2nd most loyal subjects and let them make us some clothes.

>>3706458
>noble party
This is what I’m talking about! We’ve gotta be wearing some fancy clothes for a party!

>come to gloat, dragon?
“No, I just came to see if you’ve changed your mind yet. It seems like you haven’t.”

“In case you haven’t noticed, everyone is very happy under my rule. Everyone except for you. So, I’ve come here to talk to you. I’d like to hear you explain why you don’t want to accept me as your queen.”

I wonder if he’s like this because of some past tragedy he suffered through because of a dragon?

>>3706478
Also supporting this.
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>>3706575
>>3706565
And there we have it again, can we mix both?
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>>3706575
You say that like our form is not resplendent enough as it is.
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>>3706498
Support, I guess.

I'd say if he's willing to give his word that he won't cause trouble, I'm willing to let him go free. There's no reason for us to be enemies at this point, all he has to do is promise to end hostilities and that's be enough for the time being.
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>>3706478
>inb4 we fuck the knight
kidding, kidding
Unless...
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>>3706662
>humans

ugh
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>>3706575 #
I find the idea of soft clothes kind of insulting, like making a dog wear clothes. Light, decorative armor plates? Sure. But clothes... We're a dragon, our form makes the only statement that needs to be made, and that statement needs no embellishment.

Maybe a few sets of pajamas or bibs for feasting in private? P-purely just to humor the elves, of course
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>>3706599
The elves were the ones that told us that people are starting to spread rumors about Riona being naked all the time. Riona even considered wearing clothes to put an end to those rumors.
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>>3706723
O-of course not!
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>>3706728
an important question on dragon clothing, is a dragon cloaca visible? maybe that is what Tanith was refering when saying people were whispering, I know we don't have boobs but maybe the cloaca is visible for all to see, but we never had a problem with that

>>3706744
y-yeah, t-those pointy ears, w-we don't even like them!
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>>3706740
Nah fuck that. Our scales are a set of armor fit for any battle or ball. If we get a breastplate to protect our softer underside, maybe a mask or faceguard to better protect our sensory organs, and possibly a scythe for our tail, I might consider it, but we aren't here to kow-tow to human norms.
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>>3706680
>>3706753
>humans

ugh
>y-yeah, t-those pointy ears, w-we don't even like them!
pick one and only one
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>>3706753
until QM says otherwise I am assuming we have normal genitalia
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>>3706765
we do! reptiles have cloacas, I just don't know if it's covered by something or just between scales so it's not visible
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>>3706770
like I said until QM says otherwise we have normal genitalia
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>>3706770
Probably between scales. Scales would provide at least a basic defense against ambient stray fire. Exposed, sensitive flesh would be a glaring design flaw for a creature that typically lives in stone enclosures and breathes excessive amounts of fire.
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>>3706776
I get it it's a normal cloaca, I'm not disputing that, I'm just asking if it's covered or if it's visible, maybe that is what was making Tanyth uncomfortable or if it was just the fact that we weren't wearing any clothes
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>>3706498
>>3706478
A defiant knight? Where have you seen this before!

"Actually I am here to talk about you. You are the single most difficult fight I have had, thus far. The troll was a close second, simply for its sheer strength, but I just mauled that thing, and the spider queen burned far too easily to really be called a fight."

Yes, never let it be said that this valley was subdued without a fight. You had to fight for it every step of the way!

"I am getting sidetracked. In recognition of your skill and valor, I am giving you a say in how you will be dealt with, long term. I can try and ransom you back, if you think anyone will pay, or I can get you better furnishings. Chains, yes, but also a softer cot and some books, if that interests you."

"If you're smart you'll kill me."

Well that was sudden, he didn't even hesitate and you don't doubt what he says.

"I wanted to see if you had changed your mind yet. It seems not. In case you have not noticed, everyone is very happy under my rule. Everyone except for you. So, I have come here to talk to you. I would like to hear you explain why you do not want to accept me as your queen.”

"You can't... you can't always please everyone. Why I don't accept... because I'm free."

What nonsense is this? It seems this imprisonment has rotted his brain! If he's trying to play games with you it's not funny and it makes no sense. And this stubborn knight's petty principles are starting to annoy you! Free? Who could be less free than him, right now?

"Free? Under the rule of Petrar and slave to their desires? Are you even listening to yourself or has your defeated pride made you deaf? Your town was never free, I reinstated the ruler of this land as the head of it, I made it peaceful and prosperous without foreign intervention, I welcome you to take a look for yourself foolish knight."

Losing your temper some, you approach him... and sick of him looking at the ground, you shove your draconic hand forward to grip his throat and force him to look up at you. He chokes and struggles, but he never loses his defiance.
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"I united the land, I gave them purpose and order, I gave them a place to be under my command as my subjects, if you cannot see that your precious town is better than ever, and will be even better with time I can only consider you a fool, a coward before the face of changing times or simply stubborn."

It takes a mighty strength in you to avoid burning him alive or biting his head, every instant you look at him your rage increasing. Before you go too far then, you shove him against the wall, and with a snort withdraw your hand.

"I will leave you to think about it, and to see how your own people feel about it, in time, you may choose to bend the knee and serve your people once again, or you can stay here and serve no one but your own hubris and foolishness"

Of all you say, this seems to have some effect on him, as his expression falters. It's not about servitude or submission, but to do right by his people... if you really are so terrible in his eyes, then wouldn't the best thing be for him to help the people rather than you? He might not accept you but that doesn't mean his people are in any less need. You can leave him here, to think about that.

Of course maybe he might someday come around, but you like having a knight to torment. Brigid isn't the same, she broke before you and going too far with her may negatively impact her ability to govern. This fool in the cell though, you can torment all you like, a toy you can break as many times as you want without worry!

>What do you do?
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>>3705774
>you know some basic details like they grow as they age and they come in two types; male and female, similar to dragons.

>>3706792
normal genitalia
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>>3706801
>Release him. "I hope you'll reconsider my offer. You'll need better than the gruel they serve here to keep your strength."
>Leave him. You aren't your sister. You won't stoop to torturing mortals just to get your kicks.
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>>3706792
We're a dragon; if we're not making her uncomfortable then there is something wrong with us. I mean, if seeing THAT be visible makes them uncomfortable, just what kind of "uncomfortable" thoughts are they having?
We should ask the she-elf, I'm sure she could explain to us what mortals find uncomfortable with their beloved queen's exposed, resplendent form.
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>>3706801
leave him be and think about it a little, we got to him and pierced his wall, now we just need to let it crumble

let's check on the cultists
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>>3706811
support for the lol
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>>3706753
It's not an issue of people spying your dragoness parts, so to speak, though would one to be in the right position and look you suppose they would see... not that you even remotely care though.

But it's more like the position of governance, people have expectations of you even if these are based on stereotypes of rulers that don't apply to you. People expect their ruler to be covered in fancy clothes and decorations, and you already wear a crown so it's not like you're opposed to clothes, not really.

An analogy would be like with the dog. A dog wearing clothes might be patronizing, but what if the dog was intelligent and ruled over you? It would seem weird if such a minded and souled being lived in a more primitive state, without any clothes, than the people it ruled over.

At least that's what the rumors sound like. At the end of the day it comes down to what you prefer. Though when has a dragon ever not wanted to show off... and as far as you can tell, it seems like nine out of ten times, the lesser races only wear clothes in order to show off.
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>>3706816
oh, that's a marvellous Idea, we should ask her

>>3706809
now you are not making any sense, reptiles come in male and female form and still have hemipenis and cloacas
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>>3706801
Do not torture him, just keep him in prison for now, we made our case, it's his choice to make and join his brother knights.
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>>3706826
Scales you are going to have to clear this up. in your universe what kind of genitalia do dragons have? yes, this is a real question.
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>>3706826
That's why I want something more practical. Clothes are an extension of wearing furs to stave off the cold, however impractical they might be. I want to wear armor. Light, decorative, expensive, gaudy underplates that still show off the resplendent gleam of our natural red scales, which we can swap out for more practical underplates that would serve to protect our vulnerable underside in battle.

Accessories can include a headpiece, equivocal to a battle mask for protect important sensory organs, and an addition to our tail, which would be swapped out for a scythe to make it an even more deadly weapon in combat.


Everything we wear must, at least theoretically, have some practical purpose. Going too far from that point gets you into the 'Pigs in Tuxedos' territory.
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>>3706839
supporting
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>>3706845
yeah, this sounds great, though we will need to have it refitted from time to time as we grow.
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>>3706853
Sure, and nobles get new outfits made from scratch every other week.

Hell, even if we eventually STOP growing for some reason, I'd still support swapping out our wardrobe every now and then.
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>>3706819
When you say check on the cultists, do you mean those currently in the free territory? Because to check on them would mean, I assume, travel to them. You, queen by right of conquest, traveling to unclaimed land...

Might send out some messages...

>>3706843
What do dinosaurs have? What do t-rex have? That.

Dinosaurs are not exactly reptiles and neither are you, you have warm blood after all. But unless I'm mistaken, dinosaurs don't have "equipment" flopping around exposed. You're certainly not a mammal nor have any mammalian features, if that's the question.

>>3706845
So you're only interested in show-offy battle armor? And you'd wear this at a fancy dress ball?

Again, you can act and dress however you want, just want to make sure I'm getting the right idea here.

>>3706839
>>3706850
>>3706821
>>3706811
>>3706819
You consider releasing him for the sake of your own self, to not dwell in cruelty. But rules are rules and you can't tolerate dissent. The knight will be left here till he comes to his own decision.

Otherwise then you can depart from the castle, and Eisling if need be, to take care of whatever business you decide upon.

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This will probably be my last post of the night then, we'll continue tomorrow from here based on what the player responses are till then. And as usual, if you have any suggestions, or questions I'll answer what I can and clarify if anything is confusing.

In the meantime, thanks all for playing!
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>>3706875
>When you say check on the cultists, do you mean those currently in the free territory? Because to check on them would mean, I assume, travel to them. You, queen by right of conquest, traveling to unclaimed land...

>Might send out some messages.

That's a good point
can we instruct the rogue to get us a report to deliver at the castle then?
and after that is done we fly to the elves
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>>3706875
Oh no, I didn't mean actually release him. I meant just stop choking him.

As for armor, I more meant decorative plates. There's a difference between a suit of battle-worthy armor and the gold/silver/gem engraved fancy shit we can wear to a ball. As for it being armor plates...

Why would we wear literally anything that is, as a concept, worse than our scales.
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>>3706898
>Why would we wear literally anything that is, as a concept, worse than our scales.
To cover that embarrassing handprint on our ass.

We’ve been painting it and that’s worked so far, but if someone stands close enough to us, they’ll see there aren’t any scales in that spot.

Wearing something to cover that up will help us hide it.
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>>3706875
Have we arranged an expeditionary force for the drow prospector yet? If not, arrange something as per other's suggestions. Then visit the elves. Should they give counsel against, we still have time to intercept and cancel the expedition.

The dinosaurs had cloaca, like birds (did some quick research). It's three orifices in one, kind of nasty if you think about it.

>>3706885
We could consider rotating them in either three teams of two, or two teams of three in the future. They are just gathering information, not adventuring against known adversaries.

>>3706898
Having more layers offers more protection. Besides, it's meant more as a symbol of office as anything. For fancy events we could consider precious mental chain or scale maile. It doesn't have to be all encompassing as if for battle, just in place where clothing would otherwise be (or likely be; as dragons don't tend to wear clothes).
We're a warrior queen (or more like a war-machine queen), not some soft heiress that received our position through marriage or inheritance. [spoiler[Can you imagine Conan (the barbarian) dressed in a similar manner as the historical Louis XIV? Heels and all?[/spoiler]
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>>3707054
Didn't that get covered by perfectly good red scales?

>>3707055
And that's my point. Cloth and fabric are a liability, compared to our skills.
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>>3707095
>Didn't that get covered by perfectly good red scales?
Now that I think about it, the scales did grow back. Unfortunately, they were still white and in the shape of a handprint.

As far as I can tell, Riona is still painting them red.
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>>3707112
QM never clarified if the scale that grew back where red or not.
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>>3707112
I don't think it ever got clarified, actually.

We should probably check that, given how relevant it is to the current topic.
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>>3707112
Huh, I don't remember that.
Well, if the integrity of the bleached scales aren't compromised, we could just bleach the surrounding areas as well so it's no longer a hand print.
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>>3707123
it was never clarified
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>>3706898
I desperately need us to wear a turtle neck.
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>>3707131
support for the turtle neck but it must be blue
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Meme voting is the death of any quest that has even remotely a serious tone
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>>3707123
And ruin our beautiful red scales with a huge white dot on our ass?!
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>>3707145
Who says it has to be a round dot? It could be any shape we want.
If we're unimaginative we could even just make an uneven blotch that destroys the shape of the hand so it looks like a birth mark.

This is, of course, is assuming the scale came out white.
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>>3707112
The skin beneath was scarred white but the new scales to come in are red. Anyone else looking would not be able to tell, but you'll always know the mark is still there underneath.
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>>3707330
Nice we have perfect scales again
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>>3707140
True words anon, too true, we were doing so well and now it's "lets do this lol"
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Hey all just a reminder that we'll be playing today, it just might be a little later than usual to start.
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>>3706875
I want to hire a private tutor we need some education
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>>3709073
I think we already did, learn to read was something we put on the timeskip, of course, we will probably need to study more next time we skip
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>>3709085
alrighty then, any suggestions for this action turn I personally want to try and bring the dwarfs into our domain
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>>3707055
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>>3706898
>>3706885
If the rogue is to oversee the boy while here, then he can also communicate with his fellow cultists in the free territory and organize things from here. Once they get a foothold there, they can probably work out some kind of rotation where not all of them are away at the same time. It might take a week or more to get this taken care of (since first he has to ensure the boy has adequate accommodations) but it isn't too difficult of a task.

Between that and organizing an assistive expedition for the drow here to be led by one of your knights, you can take leave of Eisling and return home. Well, the direction of home, you want to make a stop by the elven village first. With the usual reception; a welcoming tolerance of your presence but not particularly happy with you otherwise.

"The dragon comes, what does she want?"

"We already agreed to trade with the urban elves, what more is there?"

It used to be that you were barred from entry without a fight. Now you can come and go as you please, the guards don't stop you but that doesn't mean common folk present or passing by are accommodating of you here. Your primary focus though is their leader, and what you want to meet with her about.

>What do you do?
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>>3709132
Check on the wispers Tanyth may have heard and how the spying is going

Accept her hospitality and see how they are faring after this time to adjust and adapt to ourselves

Ask her about the drow and if she knows about their kind and if there are any concentration of them nearby
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>>3709202
support, I want to know about the drow

ask her how she would feel if we brought people from other regions here, I feel a protected and isolated elven village would be quite popular among her kind, as long as she can teach them some respect
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>>3709202
support
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>>3709202
Your presence never goes unnoticed, and it's not long before you find yourself in the presence of the elven leader.

"We fare quite well thanks to your efforts. In fact we have seen such an increase in population that we must consider expansion."

"I suppose that is what you wanted, no? And tell me, what do you think of drow?"

Like a cat to water her reaction and that of the elves within earshot, is instant and seemingly instinctive. Looking like she tasted just about the worst thing in the world, Tanyth spits curses in their elven language and is joined by all the others. The conversation had been pleasant enough till now, talking about how your decree for any elves in your land to be informed of and offered living in the elven village, was going quite well for them. Tanyth's biggest wish was always seeing more people in her little realm and you've accomplished just that, so they hardly have anything to complain about. But talking of the dark elf, any pleasantness to the conversation is quickly expelled.

"Why do you want to know about... I will not speak it. If there is... a situation, with any, you will let me know. Else we will not be long for your realm, there are plenty of elven colonies the world over we shall join."

You've seen her displeased before, but never angry. It's a strange and sudden change you're not at all used to. Normally she and the other elves are so dainty and restrained, especially to your imposing form and mannerisms, but now she feels the bigger one bossing you around. So sore must this topic be for them it seems.

Now you want to invite drow to live here just to see what would happen, at least a thought for it.

>What do you do?
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>>3709289
Tell her to clarify, what is their relation to the drow and what is the cause of such repulse? Are they dangerous in any form?
We want to know more, now I'm curious about their history.

We should take one of these guys to teach us their language too, send him to the castle

Do the goblins have a different language? We should learn that too when we have the chance

And before we leave, in a more private manner, why did she leave her land to live with a handful of people in a land she had no control over and with threats everywhere, what was so terrible at her place that made her escape if she is nobility there?
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>>3709309
support
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>>3709309
support
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>>3709289
“Woah, calm down! I was just asking what you thought about them! You’re acting as if I told you to let them live in your village!”

“.....just to be clear, no, I’m not going to tell you to let them live here with you.”

Then we should explain about the one and only drow we met in the mountains and how we’re pretty sure he’s going to stay up there, far away from their village.

With that out of the way, we say, “Tanyth, you said something about people whispering things about me for not wearing clothes, correct? Perhaps, it is time for me to consider wearing some.”
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>>3709369
two words: ornate armor
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>>3709369
Don't cokent on the drow I think, he's in the mountains and is of no concern to them, let them rest easy or they will be all nervous about the black dude
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>>3709387
>>3709369
Or let them know I think

But only privatly to Tanyth to not cause panic among the others
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I don't think we should let them know about the drow in the mountain they seem they racist against drow
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>>3709369
Time for turtle neck
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>>3709395
They do, but hidint is worse, we should tell only Tanyth, and like anon said, he will stay in the mountains because he provides us metals, and she should get that out of her mind, maybe even prevent her people into wandering around the mountains
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Hey just a heads up I unexpectedly have to step out for like 20 minutes but we'll resume here when I get back.
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>>3705098
>>3709407
Excuse the intrusion, but with your 3rd thread your quest has made it into the quest timeline. Do you have any preference for the image or should I just use the OP's?
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>>3709471
I think this one is a good image approximation, thanks!

>>3709309
>>3709369
You wouldn't expect that just by asking such a question, your relationship would be in jeopardy however she certainly makes it seem that way.

"Hold on now, calm down! I was just asking what you thought about them. You are acting as if I told you to let them live in your village."

Along with her pouting now, at this mention you see her eyes practically go red and a dainty little elven snarl.

"...just to be clear, no, I am not going to tell you to let them live here with you."

"Good! Then we shall talk no more of it."

"Wait hold on, I want to talk more of it."

You upset her greatly by even asking, but surely you must know what the fuss is all about. She is very reluctant to speak of anything in great detail and is short with you on every point. But you get a rough impression from her that in times long, long passed the drow were originally just other elves but they worshiped foul, evil gods and were cast out for it. They retreated underground and ever since have dwelled there, but always have their evil sights upon the surface and always there is a hostility between their peoples.

"...and what does that have to do with you leaving your people?"

"They were considering trade! To even think, with... them!!"

Maybe not all elves have such hatred of their dark cousins but Tanyth and her people certainly do, hence why they left elven society proper and secluded themselves far away, here. Though at this rate you're starting to wonder what people if any these elves actually do like, certainly not you when you arrived and not even their human neighbors.

>Do you want to tell her about the prospector drow then? Or focus on other things like rumors about you?
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>>3709511
OH, SHIT we got the racist isolationist elves.
>focus on other things like rumors about you?
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>>3709511
Let’s just focus on those rumors and that offer to make clothes for us.
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>>3709526
Blue Turtleneck when
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>>3709511
ask about the rumours and about having some dude teach their language

if we are alone, approach her

"Tanith my dear, now listen to me and listen good, the world is big out there, and many things might upset your fragile elven tastes"
get really close
"what are you under my wings?"

goad her into saying something like safe and content

"good, now, I can protect you from those evil eeeeevil dark elves, you'll never have one here but no matter where you go in this big world you may find them, maybe even around my lands, what I can give you is that you won't ever interact with them if you do not wish, but as always, your loyalty and the respect of your people is required.....now Tanyth, about clothes...I was more interesting in armor"
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>>3709545
Support, she won't have to deal with them but we can't patrol every corner of our expanding realm because of her sensibilities, nowhere in the world would be like that, they were on the brink of a crysis when we found them, with encroaching humans, giant spiders and a tribe of orcs lead by a troll, those threats could very well have annihilated them, we could have done so, but we didn't because they served well and alerted us about the worse crime ever commited against us to this day when Lila died.
Now, she has to calm down and be grateful for her life and the life of her people, by the preserved way that they maintained because of our generosity.

Sweet and beautiful Tanyth, don't test us and calm down
No drow will come to her village.
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>>3709511
>"Hmmph. Is there any folk on this land, or beneath it, that you actually enjoy the company of?"
>"Should my people encounter them, what can we expect? Outright hostility? Deceit? Would they respect our sovereignty? How would we best deal with them, or combat them, if it comes to that?"

Hopefully this will open her up to discussion and let us find out just why she detests them do much. Surely it has more to do with it than just religion?
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>>3709539
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>>3709615
Of course you had to be saddled with the racist elves. Though, in a way you kind of like them because they're few in number and isolationist, they're kind of like your own little pets in their own way like an ant farm. Not that you would, but you could just bully and push them around and not only could they not do anything, but no one else would even care.

For now though, you want them in good standing and not upset, as you approach Tanyth and you see her become a little nervous.

"Tanyth my dear, now listen to me and listen good, the world is big out there, and many things might upset your fragile elven tastes."

Though she is a prim and proper elven noble lady, she still gasps in surprise when you pull her close to you, skin to scales.

"What are you under my wings?" quite literally, you have your wing unfurled over her to demonstrate.

"Small- secure! I mean, secure."

Some instinctive panic at the difference between you, that she tries to suppress but nervous as she is, she doesn't do a good job of it.

"Good, now, I can protect you from those evil eeeeevil dark elves, you will never have one here but no matter where you go in this big world you may find them, maybe even around my lands, what I can give you is that you will not ever interact with them if you do not wish, but as always, your loyalty and the respect of your people is required... now Tanyth, about clothes..."

You can set her worries more or less at ease, you can't promise you may not tolerate drow in your lands, but certainly these elves will never have to worry about them nor would you much consider having a drow as a leader or advisor to yourself. With her fears put to rest then you can change topic to those rumors she had talked of before. It's something that's been on your mind, after all.

"I suppose it is a matter of... people expect their queen to be finely dressed. How are we to think of you, if you are no different in appearance than some other wild dragon? Side by side, what is there to tell you apart, what is there to speak of your many... accomplishments? I would think that when people see you, you would want 'queen' to be the first thing that comes to their mind before 'dragon'. You have never had a problem with that before?"

Well come to think of it, nine times out of ten strangers seem most surprised that you can talk even. The first impression always seems to be monster, well if you wore clothes that would very obviously broadcast that you are civilized.
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"What about rumors of indecency, like being naked without clothes?"

"Do... d-do you feel that way?!"

At your suggestion, Tanyth blushes quite strongly even out to her ears. The humans turn red, the elves turn a light pink underneath their fair skin. Probably to do with the fact that you're more or less pressing her body to yours and bare skin in places. If only to make a point it's just something uncomfortable for her, but the thought that you might view yourself in that way makes this contact embarrassing to her... lucky she asked for privacy lest any see you together like this with you speaking such things.

"Well I was actually thinking more like armor."

"A-Ahh... s-sorry but elves are n-not known for armor... u-unless you only c-care for style..."

It sounds like they could do something nice, and better than the humans. Though she would prefer clothes; hateful of the thought of having your life potentially be her responsibility, when others would make armor better. Just fancy clothes, there's no worry there.

>What do you do?
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>>3709744
You can also respond with this before you leave. Had already written everything out though to be able to add it in.
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>>3709769
human armor it is
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>>3709769
Well accept their clotges since they are offering
Before that, since she is close and embarrassed, examine her clothes and style very closely and thoroughly, to understand it of course, not to see if that shade of pink can get any stronger.
Tell her we will take the clothes ahe offers and we will seek armor elsewhere, each type of attire for each situation
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>>3709773
I do want to find out more about the drow, but now that the moment has passed, I'm not sure if it's convenient to bring it back up again.
Though, I think it's cute she got so worked up;
>"You were so livid, for a moment, I thought you were going to breathe fire!"
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>>3709893
>>3709860
Support
Will Tanyth ever get used to this? Kek

>>3709786
Even better, if we manage to get the dwarves we could get armor from them, but for now we should see something about protecting our underbelly atleast, it would have to be light enough to not get in the way of our flaying tho

So much flying for a day, we should rest after this and maybe start working on those dwarves while we wait for news from the cult?
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>>3709769
>Actually, that would be more or less the point. Decorative plating, something that I could move in without having to fear ripping. I also think the glimmering of metallic artistry would compliment my scales nicer than any silk or sheer could manage on its own.
>Metal plating, beautifully engraved and capable of smooth, if not silent movement, while still covering my underside. I can get something more practical for battle commissioned by humans, but for simple artistry and style, something elegant and magnificent, something fit more for a ball than a battlefield, I want elf-crafts.
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>>3709913
>>3709893
>>3709860
>>3709786
Well better than nothing you suppose. If you are to get clothes from these elves then it couldn't hurt to get an impression of them, even if you can't expect exactly the same style as you take the chance to look Tanyth over.

Hmm... not really that much...

It should be fine for you though if you end up liking the style, not like you have much of anything to hide. She gets some idea that you're examining her and has a degree of uncertainty, on how she should feel, but before long you let her go anyway having gotten your point across. She breathes easier though tries not to let on her discomfort about being held by you. Probably still bad memories from when you forced her to be cooperative by handling her like a doll and scratching blood from her.

"You were so livid, for a moment, I thought you were going to breathe fire!"

"I would do worse than that to any of... them."

"Hmmph. Is there any folk on this land, or beneath it, that you actually enjoy the company of?"

"Other elves, are good!"

With that all taken care of then, you settle things with the elves and bid their lady farewell. If you remain at this size then they'll try to have some clothing made for you within a week or two, however it would be easier if they had your measurements but it's not required.

>What do you do? Return home then, or do you want to focus on the dwarves? Besides that you've seen to all the most pertinent issues since taking the previous month off to laze about, so what your focus going forward now is up to you.
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>>3710009
At least from what you know, as long as it's light armor then the elves could manage. They don't work with iron but if you're ok with something in bronze or silver, or on the other end of the spectrum something more exotic like darkwood, magic glass, or something expensive then the elves can manage that.

If you want something tried and tested then the humans would be better, they can work with steel and sturdier metals. The best that you know of would be dwarves to make something as they can work with most any substance, but you'd actually need some dwarves for that. At present you have an abundance of humans and elves.
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>>3710021
lets send an envoy to the dwarfs maybe work out a trade agreement. I also want to form a magic college, I still hold out hope that with enough research and our help we can develop the magic that works on dragons.
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>>3710042
Human armor is superior I want human armor.
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>>3710042
Comission a bronze armor with them along with the clothes, we can wait some time while they take measurements.

After that let's fly over where we know the dwarves are and see if we can find alternative ways to get in

>>3710043
Wait dude, no trade, they are in our lands, they either bow or burn like any other, we can't have independent factions on our land, that would be terrible, they are using our land and not paying tribute
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>>3710042
>Light armor
Technically, it doesn't have to qualify as armor at all. Just as long as we can flex in it without having to worry about accidentally buckling it.
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>>3710042
What I want:

>Elf-made ceremonial and decorative armor
>Human made suits of proper "medium" battle-armor
>Dwarf-made Heavy Armor for linebreaking and ground assaults
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>>3710042
For armor I like this guy's idea >>3710009
we get a fancy and beautiful one from the elves and then a more pratical one from the humans to use in battle so we can change according to the situation, tell Tanyth to have someone make a very beautiful one and that we will be very pleased with her.


Lets look for caves and other places where we could access the dwarves, the we can hire adventurers to try and find an alternative way in, but scouting first
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>>3710062
Oh if it's in our land send that envoy with a demand for their peaceful integration into the nation. then when they obviously refuse we go fuck shit up.
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>>3710042
>At present you have an abundance of humans and elves.

Hmm I feel like humans and elves are really cheap and value inflated whats the current exchange rate of humans to dwarfs?
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>>3710079
we have elf clothes, let's get human armor.
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>>3710021
>If you remain at this size then they'll try to have some clothing made for you within a week or two, however it would be easier if they had your measurements but it's not required.
It’s a good thing we plan on staying at this size for now. And if it will help speed things up, then we should let the elves take our measurements.

Also, we should get something that doesn’t obstruct our wings. That way we can put on our clothes and fly to one of our towns/villages.

>What do?
Get a tutor to teach us how to read.

>>3710043
>we can develop the magic that works on dragons.
That’s neat, but it also increases the potential of it being used against us. Is that worth the risk?
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>>3710081
Yup, the first peaceful offer, tell them to pay tribute and live, but while the envoy goes, let's look what we can find about them
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>>3710096
if we make magic that can affect us we can grow as large as we like. Then use a size amulet to control our size. and fit inside buildings.
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>>3710074
>>3710055
>>3710062
>>3710065
>>3710079
Also note that while magic doesn't work on you, and you can't use magic for the same reason, magic items are possible, and of the lesser races you have access to, humans would be the best for that. Basically it's like;

>If you want something all fancy and elegant made, or made from very exotic materials, then the elves are the ones.
>If you want something that's plain but just simply works and is easy to make and fix, or if you want magical equipment, then the humans are the ones.
>If you want something that is incredibly made and unyielding (though perhaps lacking in style), or made from legendary materials, then the dwarves are the ones.

Different races tend to specialize in things differently so you might expect that orcs for example have their own signature style of smithing, but the above three are the most prominent to you.

>>3710096
>>3710079
>>3710086
As you know, either by trade or kidnapping, it's not like you can't obtain other races if you wanted. If for example you really wanted some dwarves, you could do something like incentivize them to come to your land, or you could just fly around looking for some and steal them.

Though it seems you have an interest in the dwarves within your land. So you can get your measurements taken for awhile, and ask for the elves to make you something nice. After that though you can turn your attention to those mountain dwarves. They refused you last time so maybe send an envoy this time? While that takes place though, you want to try and see if there's other ways to get to them?

>You can survey the mountains around them by flying around, and make a roll!
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>>3710091
I hate the idea of cloth on scales. Absolutely hate it. I'd rather armor plating, even if it would be useless in an actual battle. The elves can do that.

>>3710121
I want fancy, purely decorative or ceremonial armor from the elves, and I want cheap, reliable, battle-worthy armor from the humans. We can get better armor from the dwarves when we have the funds.
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>>3710121
>>If you want something that's plain but just simply works and is easy to make and fix, or if you want magical equipment, then the humans are the ones.
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>>3710121
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>>3710121
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>>3710140
Hello short shitheads!
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You've already been learning how to read the common language, but learning the other lesser race languages may be in your interest so you can certainly get an elven tutor to teach you to speak and read elven.

Writing will always be out of the question unfortunately, or at least very difficult, since your draconic "hands" are capable of grasping and manipulation but you lack opposable thumbs for fine motor skills. The best you could hope for is holding a writing instrument in a clenched fist and struggling to write that way... best to just have someone else write for you.

>>3710140
>>3710132
>>3710131
>99

Well as it turns out, upon your flying around the particular mountain that seems dwarf occupied, you catch sight of what you might guess to be the output of their mining effort; great furnaces and passages to shafts within the mountain with many visible laborers... few of them if any dwarven.

Like the entrance it is a fortified position, basically jutting out of the mountainside and to reach it conventionally would be impossible for any normal foe. You however can fly. So while you can't just simply fly into/through the main entrance, you can in fact just fly up and land among the exposed portion of their mine... still very dangerous though, the place is fortified just like the entrance. But you imagine quite deviously, you could take others with you if need be, carry them up if you like.

The important thing is though, it's another way into the city albeit a roundabout way, which itself is quite a miraculous thing since dwarves are more than anything careful and cautious. Usually at least, so things like back doors past their defenses is a rarity indeed!
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>>3710185
And we'll take a break here for now, maybe continue later, or otherwise tomorrow. In the meantime thanks all for playing, and you can plan whatever action you may have in mind against these dwarves. It's likely though, given their nature, that a battle will be required to take their settlement, much like the battle to take Eisling.

If you have any questions besides, or suggestions either, I'll answer what I can. If we are to continue tomorrow, ideally I'll try for a more normal time compared to today.
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>>3710198
have a good night QM until tomorrow
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>>3710198
thanks for running

So guys, I guess we will need armor to burn those ballostas and open the way for our troops
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>>3710231
Human armor with enchantments we will carry a strike team of adventures with us
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>>3710239
We should see if we can fashion that super strenght and resistence magic item the knight was using into something we can use
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>>3710198
>great furnaces and passages to shafts within the mountain with many visible laborers... few of them if any dwarven

This is perfect, if they have humans there we can infiltrate our cultists or even adventurers diaguised as laborers to sabotage everything from the inside in preparation for our attack.
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>>3710185
So are we straight up attacking these guys or are we gonna try diplomacy again?

Because I highly doubt our subjects would approve of us making an unprovoked attack against the dwarves.
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>>3710021
>"Other elves, are good!"
Hah! Apparently not, seeing as you are here because you can't stand the thought of them trading with drow. (This is meta, not directly at the elf-woman)

>>3710042
Light, darkwood plates with bronze and silver embellishments sounds good. Gives us a palette of red scales, black plates, with bronze and silver highlights on the black plates, and a light bronze helmet (covers just the sides of the head, top of the snout, and the side of jaws).
Decorative light armor for daily wear as we fly about our business.

>>3710185
>many visible laborers... few of them if any dwarven.
What are they, slaves? If they weren't I'm sure there would be more dwarves among them.
Like >>3710274 & >>3710209 said, we could drop in allies here, and if they are slaves, weapons and see if they'll join in on the fun.
Ideally this would be done after the dwarves are already engaged at the main gate so they would have to diver their force back. Drop in a few assassins/rogues and have them infiltrate deep into the mountain away from the main fighting could cause further chaos.

I wonder if the drow would have any ideas on how to conduct an underground assault, specifically against dwarves. We could consult him?
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>>3710803
Well, we could attempt diplomacy so that they'd inevitably insult us enough that our subjects would totally understand why their dragon ruler would want to take the dwarves down a few pegs.

I'm also rather sure that if we asked the humans, they'd have perceived grievances against the dwarves as well, greedy as they are
>wahwah, access to their mines
>wahwah, access to their good stuff
>wahwah, they charge too much for entrance to their train ride, their ceilings (and urinals) are too low, and they won't tell us their secret recipe for beard wax!
See? The humans have plenty of reasons to attack the dwarves.
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"Fly high my queen, fly high my queen
in the morning light
Why does the queen fly?
to burn us all alive!
See the queen on the horizon
fear not to be under
she is not here to burn us
but to give us all some plunder!
fly high my queen, fly high my queen
at the afternoon red
why does the queen fly?
To be sure they are all dead!"

-Heard at Eisling tavern
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"..So the forest was taken by beasts everywhere, and the good people had to hide, but one day, the dragon queen appeared, she took out the mother-spider's leg one by one-"

"Mother-spider? the one that took daddy away...?"

"The very same, she took all her legs and then set her on fire, the mean greens, she challenged their leader and burned him to ashes and scattered his followers and finally, she told the short ears to stop hurting the forest and invading our homes!"

"So...is she good? Why is everyone scared of her?"

"Good?No, she's just waiting...Because, if troublemaking little ones like you give too much trouble or try to leave the forest and interact with the others, she will EAT YOU TOO!!!
NOMNONOMNOM"

"AAAAAHHH! mother! stop!"

-Children monster story
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"She ate my goat....it was my favourite goat...."

-Disgruntled farmer


As you can see I'm very busy at work
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"There was only pain, pain and chains, pain, chains and bad food, pain, chains, bad food and giving foot massages to a troll"

"don't forget the beatings!"

"that's included in pain stupid!"

"Anyway, then, a great orb of fire came! and cleansed the pain, chains, bad food and troll foot massages from the world!"

"wait, wasn't it Riona?"

"Of course it was Mistress Riona you git!"

"She gave us freedom and a place under her wings! glory to Mistress Riona the fire born!"

"wow, and here was I thinking she just killed those noisy orcs..."

"That's it, I'm gonna crack your skull!!"

-Goblin creation myth
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>>3711291
pfffft

I want to make the gobbos into the cultist minions. Have our cult manage them, instead of doing so directly.
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>>3711291
>>3711269
>>3711224
>>3711201
Very creative I like it.
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"you should have seen her face, you'd have loved to see Tanyth like that, I know how you enjoy seeing their arrogant faces all bothered maybe even write a song about it..."

"My queen? where are you? it's time for your mid-afternoon belly rub!"

"I have to go, Lila, I'll tell you how things are later"

-Riona, dragon queen, fire born, flying death, divine serpent, knight breaker, goatsbane, first of her name
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>>3711363
Autistic, but I don't hate what you do.
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"Hey Joel, weren't you going to marry Princess?"

Joel, who was blind drunk and depressed, lifted his head to address his friend

"Princess? PRINCESS?! Her name is Zula and plowed her right here at the back of this tavern not 2 months ago! She's no princess!"

"Get over it Joel, she's a princess now, everyone knows that dragons only kidnap princesses"

"Bah! That's a load of bullshit! just because she lifted her up during the attack on the village? that is no basis for a royal mandate!"

"you are just jealous because she's gonna marry the landlady's son."

-Joel, doesn't care for royalty
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>>3711679
>>3711363
>>3711291
>>3711269
>>3711224
>>3711201
This is certainly worth a reroll!
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Also a little idea for the curious, for some things you could possibly get armor of.

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment/special-materials/

Along the lines of, this story/setting isn't a 1:1 creation of D&D, but you get the idea.
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>>3711963
any chance of getting our hands on mythertal armor?
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>>3710864
>>3710847
>>3710803
Your first sense is always to try diplomacy, you're not your brother to just rampage and kill everything as the first option. So you can fly home for the night since it's getting late, and grab one of your new servants to carry off to the mountains. You'd use Nissa but you don't want to risk anything happening to her as you head servant. Much to the fellow's dismay, your new cook, you carry him through the sky and drop him off a distance from the main entrance and push him on to approach the dwarf town.

Then, just the waiting game, till he returns... or doesn't.

"They'll uh... they'll deal, or trade I think."

"Well that is good, I will go talk to them now then-"

"-uh no! Not with you personally. They... don't want anything to do with you, but they'll trade with... people like us, people that work for you."

Whatever distaste the dwarves have for you, it seems to be constrained specifically to you personally. Even your most loyal servant might be able to deal with them, as long as it's not you yourself. Though, whether you want trade and dealings is one thing, compared to subjugation and belonging to your domain. On that, it doesn't seem they're interested at all.

>What do you do?
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>>3711963
I would like a sunsilver(or just silver) with bronze details and one made of whipwood for a decorative armor from the elves

And then we get a regular steel one from the humans for battle armor, or wait a little and see if the drow finds better materials at that exploration he went
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>>3712021
Well, fuck that, we will have to subjugate them in time, now that we have some ideas on how to do it

Let's go back home and rest for the day, tomorrow I'd like to explore a little beyond our realm, see what else is out there while we wait for news from the cult and the drow
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>>3712035
Seems good to me, time for a belly rub and tormenting Nissa just a little, a little push here or a squeeze there, she grew on me and today was a good day.

>>3711928
Well thanks!
I'll think of some more Tales of The Timeskip next time we do one.
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>>3712021
And order something special from the chef today....I'm thinking goat!
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>>3711993
You mean mithral? It's rare but on the total rare scale it's pretty low, so you could get it but it would be expensive.

>>3712025
That's possible sure. Whichever you prefer. Again though it'll come down to cost and what you're willing to pay.
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>>3712061
Pay for the sunsilver/bronze one first

Tomorrow we can comission something out of steel to the humans, but first we will have to grab some weights and see with how much steel we will be able to fly normally so they can use that much
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>>3712061
really I am only want enough to make a belly plat and helm to protect our eyes.

also, I want to hire mercenaries may be the same ones that helped us last time to subjugate the dwarfs.
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>>3712098
Yeah, when we attack them we should hire more mercs, now we probably have more funds to do it

I want the underbelly armor too, I'm just worried about the weight

Would like to use that knight's armor or whatever magic item game him super strenght on the armor too

Ask for report from both our towns on how many men we have availible for a campaing
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>>3712110
we can have it enchanted with weightlessness, hell we can have all the enchantments!
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>>3712035
>>3712046
>>3712052
>>3712110
>>3712098
You can carry your chef back home then to figure out this dwarf problem. Taking the chance this evening to rest while appreciating fine goat and bigge rubbes from Nissa who you playfully tease and torment and cause her to blush and urge you not to bully her so.

Come tomorrow you want a report of what your military looks like. Unfortunately you only have servants here in the castle, they can send the word but it will take a couple days perhaps. Maybe you should consider appointing some ministers, separate of leader roles, that you have at the castle to simply keep you up to date and manage things in the kingdom. Like a treasurer for example, that's something very pertinent to you.

Well in any case while the dwarf problem persists, you can divert your attention for the time being. Either seeking out what mercenaries you can, or going off exploring. For the latter though you might want to be careful about going into other countries, but if you want to travel you can more or less pick a direction on the map and go, for as long as you want really.

>What do you do?
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>>3712182
ask for the reports then

reports on the military
tell Nissa to start counting coins
and ask to see what mercenaries we could have here in a reasonable time frame

for the military and public order ministry we could appoint the forest town sheriff (we need a name for that town btw) he was pretty loyal and seemed to be on top of the militia business

a treasurer I'm not ready to appoint right now, this is a very sensitive position because the person will have access to our GOLD!, maybe an elf for that since they don't seem to have much interest in material wealth so it would be less tempting
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>>3712182
I am definitely ok with hiring ministers we can draw from the nobles and finally give them something to do. maybe we can form a constitutional monarchy. as for the dwarf issue I say we hold off until we can get our armor. as for traveling let's not do that for the moment. If we really want to expand our knowledge of the world we can always buy maps. Finally, I want to look into buying/forging Size controlling magic amulet a time skip of a week should give us enough time to accomplish these goals.
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>>3712205
oh, and while we wait for reports let's fly north, over the mountains in that direction and see what lies beyond
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>>3712205
>a treasurer I'm not ready to appoint right now
we can force any candidate for the position to drink a truth potion and ask point-blank if they would try to steal from us. I want to hire someone to manage our gold.
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>>3712205
I support the sheriff indication, the guy was nice.
For spymaster we can appoint the Red Widow when she is back, gathering the reports from the spy elves and going on covert missions for us.

>>3712182
Before we fly off, we should order the underbelly combat armor too so they can start working while we look around.

>>3712211
Good enough for me

>>3712206
While having the nobles do something might be nice, I want people we can trust as ministers.
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>>3712217
ok, we ask for Tanyth for an elf good with numbers and make him drink the potion before appointing him to be a treasurer, deal? He should be someone of minor importance so the position doesn't bring any ideas

that way we can have reports on what tributes are coming in and what is late or not, so yeah, it makes sense

>>3712206
we should also get a leader for the miners to be around so we can have reports on how the mines are doing
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>>3712226
we can truth potion all the interviewees, that way we get only the best and loyal
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>>3712240
That sounds like a hassle and expensive as fuck, remember, the potion costs us 2 scales or something like this. Let's get those we know

We should save the money for the armor and for paying for mercs, not for truth potions when we can have loyal people without spending
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>>3712252
your right, I agree that is much better

>>3712235
instead of a minister for just mining why not a minister of economic activity
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>>3712252
>>3712240
guys, guys

so, how does it sound

Military and Public order: Sheriff dude (who also needs a name)

Treasurer: Ask Tanyth for some dude good with numbers and have him drink the potion

Miners: Mining leader

Spymaster: Red Widow?

Trade: we should appoint one from each town and one from the elves(as a cover-up since their trade is just to spy on people) so that the minister will not play favourites to anyone

did I forget something?
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>>3712276

Military: one of our knights

Public order: Sheriff dude (who also needs a name)

Treasurer: Ask Tanyth for some dude good with numbers and have him drink the potion

Economic minister: someone

Spymaster: Red Widow?

I separated the military and public order. also instead of having a mining and trade minister we should have a economic activity minister.
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>>3712276
Agree I think

We should also hire an old and wise scholar to write stuff for us and serve as our google when we need it.

Maybe the guy who is teaching us to read already.
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>>3712299
>>3712276
we should Hire an R&D Minister to push our tech up
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>>3712295
I was thinking of appointing a knight for the ministry but I think it would be best to leave them to lead the troops and dedicate themselves to fighting instead of sitting around in the castle looking at spreadsheets

of course, when we are actually in a campaign or fighting a war we can bring the knights to give us advice

and ok, I agree we can take out the mining representative, but for the economic activity how about we appoint 1 from each town so that there would be no favouritism depending on where the guy comes from?
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>>3712276
>>3712265
>>3712252
>>3712226
For what it's worth, while elves might be more trustworthy, they are also not money-minded. So you could probably count on an elf to keep your funds safe, but if you want someone manage your money and the economy of your land at large, another race would be better for it.

As for spies, the literal spy would be better than the assassin.

>>3712211
>>3712206
Before you depart then you can take care of some small business, like asking that combat armor be made. The elves are all fancy so you might take some time to imagine what sort of decorative armor they could make, but to the humans right now you can request sturdy steel armor be fashioned for you. Though it will take time for sure.

In any case you can leave Nissa in charge of things around the castle, and to impart to your leaders to run things as usual while you're away. Given that, you take flight and head north to the mountains. Past the dwarves even, to lands beyond...

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"Aaah! Dragon!"

It seems to be the same everywhere you go, unless perhaps like Tanyth suggested, you had clothes to show you aren't just some wild monster. Having cleared the northern mountain range though, you find yourself in a strange new land... but in some ways the same, as you descend from the mountains to highlands, and encounter a shepherd on the outskirts of a village.

>What do you do? Also if you give me a bit, I'll expand the map to accommodate your new travels. Any idea of how long you want to be away exploring for? If you're crossing the northern mountains, at the very least it won't just be a couple days, but the longer you're away the more lands you can explore. Even if it's simply surveying, taking flight over just to get an idea of the terrain.
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>>3712310
>and ok, I agree we can take out the mining representative, but for the economic activity how about we appoint 1 from each town so that there would be no favouritism depending on where the guy comes from?

good god no that would turn into a never ending pissing match. we should only have one guy be the economic minister hire the best and only the best.
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>>3712321
I don't want to be gone more than a few days 5 at most.

ask the sheepherder about this land and for direction to the closest settlement. also, eat a sheep to assert dominance.
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>>3712321
halt shepherd
what lands are these and who is your leader?

fly around until we can find a town or a major city and instead of landing there just observe it's size to compare to ours
I was thinking just survey to expand the map actually, then we can come back

>>3712321
>>3712324
ok then, let's update

Military and Public order: Sheriff dude (who also needs a name)

Treasurer: Ask Tanyth for some dude good with numbers, while he will not deal with trade and such, but will deal with our treasure and how it is

Spymaster: The actual spy( who needs a name)

Trade: some dude more focused on numbers, to give us estimates and such, maybe an economy scholar instead of a trader

Old and wise Scholar dude to be our teacher and general source of information
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>>3712342
Yeah, I am fine with that minister line up, just one more thing I want to appoint a prime minister. I want a human to be our number one.
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>>3712321
And just a heads up but I have to duck out for a little while, but we'll resume right here when I return. Also I'll try to have the expanded map provided, the more time you choose to be away the more of the map can be "seen" so to speak.
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>>3712342
Good for me

>>3712355
I'm against a prime minister, thatbwould focus too much power in a single person, and it's not needed for now.

Maybe when we expand for several kingdoms we can appoint someone to manage the provinces
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>>3712358
I'm ok with the 5 days like anon here >>3712339 said, it should be enough time to have most of the reports back when we come home

>>3712355
well, we already have a number one, Nissa, that got that place from Lila
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>>3712361
All right I guess I can agree to hold off on a prime minister for now, but once we start conquering other lands we will need one.
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>>3712365
For sure, the more we expand the more people we wilk need to manage things
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>>3712321
>"Aaah! Dragon!"
“Oh come on. I’m not that scary.”

>>3712339
>5 days
That’s a good amount of time to explore. Let’s not be gone for too long or else everyone will think we’re not coming back and then it’ll be a power struggle to fill the void that we left.

>>3712342
>minister line up
That sounds like it’ll work.
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Yeet, resuming shortly.
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>>3712689
Apologies, it took a surprising amount of work with the map, due to the annoying program.

>>3712379
>>3712363
>>3712342
>>3712339
It's taken you a few days at least to cross the mountains, and a couple more to explore around the other side. Figuring to have landed in the highlands though, you want to know about where you are.

>A roll for chance.
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>>3712828
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>>3712828
wew
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>45

Someone screaming from you and running in fear? You can't be that scary. You charge after the fleeing human through the thick rain and trip him with your tail, pinning him to the wet ground with a paw. You used to just be able to sit on people entirely, but if you tried that now you think you would crush them.

"Halt, sheepherder."

"Aaah! Please no! I don't want to get in trouble, my taxes!"

He squirms and struggles and tries to crawl out from your pin, as water pours and runs off your back all around.

"What lands are these and who is your leader?"

"This is Retley! I'm begging you, let me go! There'll be hells to pay if anyone knew I was talking to another dragon!"

Hmm what a strange fellow. You can take a sheep from him though, and given the late time of day you might want to impose upon him for a place to sleep for the night, before you make the return flight home.

>What do you do?
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>>3712870
ask him what he means by another dragon
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>>3712878
>>3712870

this, what another dragon, what's the name, who rules here, to whom he pays taxes, SPEAK!
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>>3712870
>Other dragon
Oh fuck me
Demand answers
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>>3712870
>>3712878
>>3712892
Thirded. WHAT other dragon? Who rules these lands, what did the other dragon speak about, and what does that have to do with your taxes?

I'd say we sleep in the mountains. Something tells bee we're should be discreet, and definitely not mention where we came from.
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>>3712878
>>3712892
>>3712925
>>3712924
How odd, surely there must be some sense to what he speaks.

"Stop struggling!"

"No!"

"What do you mean by another dragon?"

"Nooo!"

"Who rules here, who do you pay taxes?"

"Nooooooooo!"

"SPEAK!"

"nnnNnnnooooooOOO!!"

This is stupid, you don't have the patience for this. Probably just take a sheep and kill this fool for the trouble. You let him go as he staggers up, but when you grab a bleating sheep and are about to bite down, the shepherd screams and pleads with you.

"No not the sheep, anything but the sheep! I'll talk, I'll talk! The fine for talking is less than lost animals!"

"Go on then, answer my questions."

Precariously you clamp your jaws on the struggling animal, much to the dismay of the human but it also prompts him to hurry. Imagine the ridiculous sight of anyone to see you, a human begging a dragon not to eat a sheep while you all stand in the pouring rain.

"A-Alright, alright... uh... this is Retley, owned by Saren the Great! This is his land and everything belongs to him, the taxmaster is sure of it!"

It's not the easiest information to glean from this peasant but it sounds like a great and ferocious dragon rules over these highlands, and no one can do anything because he has a captive princess from the larger country proper (Eugeira) who he threatens to kill if there's dissent. So unfortunately it seems the country has abandoned this province more or less for the sake of their princess. You wonder how a nation could give up something like that for a hostage, these humans must really place a lot of weight on their royalty. But by the sound of it...

"Wait, two villages?"

"And a town! Yes, we are helpless and have no choice but to serve!"

Of course two villages and a town might sound like a lot to a peasant, but you personally own two towns and more than five villages. Not that a mighty dragon has to rule over anything at all, your brother wouldn't. But no one in your country seems afraid to death of you nor hail you as some mighty unstoppable being, like this peasant does with the dragon ruling him, even though you control more. Maybe you're doing things the wrong way back home...

>What do you do?
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>>3712951
> Maybe you're doing things the wrong way back home
Nah we are doing great

give the man back his sheep and head home. we should send a message to Eugeira asking about the situation with Saren.
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>>3712951
Ask how big this Seren is, and what color too, and how long has this being going on

This dude gave me an idea, we could get some princess fron Praven.

After that give him back his sheep and head home
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>>3712978
support, but I am not so sure about the princess kidnapping we have gone done queen dragon route kidnapping a princess seems kinda out of left field.
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>>3712951
>Maybe you're doing things the wrong way back home...
No, your way works. Besides, since you own more, you get more tributes compared to the dragon here.

Ask about the dragon. What color is he and how big is he compared to you?

Once you’re done asking questions, release the sheep and be on your way home. You can ask your people if they’ve heard of any of this.

>>3712966
>send message
Looking at the map, I’d say that would take a couple of months. I’m not sure how helpful it would be to send messages like that.
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>>3712951
>>3712966
Seconded. I also want to ask the guy if he's seen, or knows anything about the dragon (color, size, temperament, deeds and accomplishments, etc.)
I wonder if we're should take him with us (or otherwise disappear him, if only temporarily) to make sure he doesn't talk.

A princess you say?!
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>>3712987
It's instant land grab for our kingdom, it's very queenly, but first we have to make sure they actually have a princess to kidnap

Besides, it's tradition. How will we have knights come and challenge us if there is no princess to save?
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>>3712996
If we had gone down the classic dragon route I would agree, but we didn't so its a hard no from me
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>>3712987
Basically if you've never kidnapped a princess you're a big loser. By dragon standards at least, though whether you care about those or not is your call.

>>3712994
>>3712992
>>3712978
>>3712966
You can't help but be curious, it's interesting to know that there's something of a mirror to your own country just opposite the mountains. In fact, this dragon is probably an impostor!

"How big is this other dragon... and how long has he been here?"

"Oh, five... seven years? I've never seen him though, but I'm sure he's as big as the mountains themselves, and he's as green as the land itself!"

So a green dragon of indeterminate size. To the shepherds immense relief, you spit out the sheep but you also wonder what to do about him. If you should just leave, or maybe kill him off to keep things under wraps...

>What do you do?
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>>3712996
So you want our knights in our kingdom to turn against us? No, thanks.
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>>3713009
Eat him instead, leave sheeps alone like he asked to, carry the rest of the body for a travel snack so there is no evidencs, no one must know we were here.

>>3713009
Now we need to find a princess, damn, maybe Petrar has one
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>>3713009
Fine then we declare one of our loyal humans a princess and kidnap her to our castle then have one of our knights show up and we give her back.
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>>3713009
leave the man be and head home.
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>>3713015
No no, you got it all wrong, the knights in our kingdom would not turn because its no their princess, it would be knights from other kingdoms, good sort of prestige and magic items, not mentioning the fact that a primcess kidnapping is almost a requirement, mother would be hugely dissapointed, maybe enough to clip our wings like she did to Ymirro
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>>3713021
>tfw Zula actually becomes a princess and Joel rages endlessly

>giving her back without a flight
That's just cheating!
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>>3713026
you are not going to sell this to anyone let it go. We went down the ruler path. queens don't go around kidnapping princess. I am not about to throw the last two threads away for a fucking meme. stop.
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>>3713029
What is conflicting about ruling and kidnapping foreing royalty? Theres nothing preventing the two from happening. Hell, taking hostages was a very common way of bargaining
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>>3713009
>whether you care about those or not is your call.
You can live above those standards.

>>3713025
Support

>>3713029
>not selling the kidnapping idea.
Correct. I’m not sold on it at all.
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>>3713040
We don't even have hostile neighbors! by kidnapping a royal we would have hostile neighbors. we don't even have a military! how the fuck are we going to fight them when they declare war on us for kidnapping one of their royals. I am not going to let this quest die to a FUCKING meme
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>>3713058
Lol
Dude, look at you, just look, lol
When the time is right, when war rages, we kidnap, mwahahaha
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>>3713077
you are nothing but a nuisance, please sit quietly in the corner.
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>>3713020
>>3713025
>>3713048
You leave the guy be then, and take flight in order to return home. You got an idea of the north of this land but don't want to shake the branches too much so you satisfy your curiosity with this.

>What will be your effort then once you return home? Just business as usual, and pick up where you'd left off?
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>>3713089
Don't tell people not to play. Disagreeing with someone is one thing but everyone is allowed to post and play and have their opinions and desires for how the quest proceeds.
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>>3713095
Maybe the reports we asked will already be back, or some news from drow or cult, and we appoint those ministers we comented earlier
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>>3713095
Let's look into having a size altering magic amulet made. that way we can continue to grow without fear of being unable to enter buildings

>>3713105
support

>>3713098
I am not sorry, but I respect you QM so request granted
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>>3713095
Follow up on the drow expedition and hammer out the terms of trade with the dwarves. We still haven't checked on our old elven alchemist yet. I wonder what he's made with our... excretions.
Kuchikamizake
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>>3713117
>hammer out the terms of trade with the dwarves.
No, we are going to take these guys over did you not read through the thread?
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>>3713117
Wait dude, no trade with the dwarves, we are preparing for war with the dwarves, they are independent and inside our domain, they bow or burn like everyone else, and they just rejected our peaceful offer of serrender

>>3713105
This

Also, are the 2 armors already being made?
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>>3713095
Another thing, look for someone who can give us a rough description of all those new lands we just learned about
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>>3713095
Our trip has taken us at least a week and it’ll probably be almost two weeks by the time we get back. The elves said those clothes would be done within that timeframe, so we can check on that and maybe try them on.

Then with our fancy new clothes, we can entertain those nobles by inviting them to a party at the castle in Eisling. Gotta deal with them before they leave and take their money, like Brigid said they might do.

>>3713122
>>3713125
An unprovoked attack might cause some of our followers to turn against us. In order for us to justify an attack on the dwarves, they’ll have to have done something to us.
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>>3713134
I am down for a swanky party we can eat and drink until we are in need of a belly rub
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>>3713134
Its not unprovoked, they did not accept our rule, they did not bowed and they are not reconizing us and not even accepting us, we are a dragon, this is our land, we have to control it. They bow or burn, like every other living being that lives in our domain
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>>3713141
exactly, we can get the nobles on our side at the party. then no one will have an issue with us taking over the dwarfs
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>>3713134
>>3713140
I'm down for a meeting and seeing their case, but let's not drink with them, the last time we did that mayor pulled a number on us, I have a hard time trusting these noble types.
We should meet them for a business occasion and see what isnitbthat they would like to propose
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>>3713145
This works for me.

Let's bring our newly assigned ministers to discuss things too, and bring Nissa to advise us in case they are trying to fool us somehow.
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>>3713141
Last time I checked, we took over this valley because we tried diplomacy, got attacked, retaliated, and won the fight.

The dwarves have not attacked us, so we have no reason to attack them.
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>>3713145
good point no drinking

>>3713149
Nissa is no Lila she is a simple barmaid

>>3713150
we took over because we wanted to that is it. it is the same with the dwarfs.
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>>3713150
Ah, no, we went around and declared we ruled, and demanded tribute, some of them refused and we started killing cattle and destroying property until they retaliated
We already offered the dwarves to give us tribute, so now is the time to start harrassing them

No one will question us because this is what we have being doing and in bringuing the dwarves wealth into the queendom everyone will benefit
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>>3713149
Agreed, bring Nissa and the ministers over with us.
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>>3713155
>Nissa is no Lila she is a simple barmaid
.....then why do we keep leaving her in charge when we leave the castle?
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>>3713165
that is a good question
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>>3713165
Well, she was a barmaid, now she acts like a heaad of the staff, and she is the current closest thing to a friend we have.....until she dies horribly by some terrible betrayal and we have to find another
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Just caught up and currently SEETHING at the fact we don't have a blue turtleneck
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>>3713165
She handled things ok and we can trust her so far so I sse no issue there, it's more a trust position to just keep things working than anything else
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>>3713141
I'd rather slowly bind dwarves with promises and debts than through military action. Dwarves are not the type to bend the knee through forceful coercion, at least not for long. The gold grudges and are the very definition of stubborn (they are not the same thing).
There is also the matter that we'll be fighting on their home turf, for which none of our forces are prepared or experienced in, where we ourselves will be extremely vulnerable (enclosed space, an entire mountain above our heads the whole time). Morale will be low not only due to the unfamiliar, dark, and deadly environment, but also low due to no one having any skin in the game.
At the end, even if we do win the battle, we are still left with an entire grumbling, grudge-bearing population living in an isolated and easily fortified and defended location.
There are cheaper, safer, and more effective ways of winning the dwarves over. We just need to be more patient.
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>>3713177
Bend or burn, we can't set a precedent here, we are the dragon, not them, if they stubornly refuse we just burn them to the last like we did with the orcs and hand the mines over to the humans

They either learn to serve or not, we can't have subjects who do not know their place
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>>3713113
Magic of that nature doesn't work on dragons.

>>3713105
>>3713117
>>3713125
You had already wanted the human-made armor to be started, though the elven one I wasn't sure if you finalized the details on that. You can certainly visit the alchemist though next time you're in town. As for the drow expedition, they were headed off into the mountains so it's not really feasible to check on them unless you go looking, probably easiest to just wait till you hear news from them.

>>3713134
>>3713140
>>3713145
>>3713149
You can throw a fancy party, however maybe best to leave Nissa out. If you are meeting with actual nobility, Nissa could be taken as an insult since she's basically just your head maid.

>>3713165
You've been leaving her in charge of the literal castle itself, not the country. For actual governance that's been up to your leaders.

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So you can return home in a few days, and get settled back in. How soon do you want to conduct this party, and how fancy do you want it to be? And of course, if you have any particulars in mind for it.

>Depending on what you have in mind, you can make a roll for the party, to see how well the reception will be.
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>>3713177
I agree with this. We don’t need to be forceful with the dwarves.

Although, we’re going to need to meet with them in person. Can’t keep doing everything through someone else going to speak for us.

>>3713186
Don’t compare the dwarves to the orcs. This is an entirely different situation than that and can’t be resolved the same way.
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Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>3713211
Lots of great food
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Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>3713211
Leave her ouf but still bring the ministers, a formal dinner with a business discussion afterwards.
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Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>3713211
As soon as possible I imagine
A fancy dinner, make the chef work extra hard.

>>3713218
This too, let them discuss things with our ministers so they can see what can be done and all that.

The armor was something about silver and bronze for the cerimonial one wasn't it?
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oh and make sure we are in the elf clothes on with our belly armor on under it.
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Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>3713211
Eh.
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>>3713214
Sigh...really? Are you afraid?

They have a giant mine and are draining OUR resources.
They insult us and refuse to talk or even see us.
We have to make preparations to deal with them
We have two entrances, they probably use human slave labor as we've seen on their mine and we cam infiltrate adventurers and ouf cult there. And we can throw mercenaries at the thing until it breaks.
I know it won't be easy but it's the last thing left to dominate here, and will bring great fortune as the dwarves are as much hoarders as dragons.
Let's take action
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>>3713211
>How soon do you want to conduct this party, and how fancy do you want it to be?
Let’s send out an invite a few days ahead of time to give everyone time to prepare.

As for how fancy it should be, let’s get some food and drinks for everyone and some sort of musical entertainment.

>>3713225
>mixing elf clothing and human armor
Isn’t that a fashion faux pas? We’re the queen! We can’t embarrass ourselves like that!

Stick with the elven clothing only!
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Of the expanded view of the world you have now, you can ask just for some basics of what you've found;

>Cestion, the land of castellos and cavaliere, it's quite a big country but it's more a confederacy of city states rather than one true nation. Wreful is the nearest neighboring region and one of these city-states.
>Ypren, the land of chateaus and chevalier, an old kingdom with several duchies sworn to a monarch. Petrar is the neighboring duchy, and Oiren is another on the other side of the valley mountains.
>Eugeira, the land of castles and knights, with a king but tracts of land that are "independent". Daguil is a kingdom of this type, which claims independence. Retley is the little highland valley you visited, ruled by a green dragon.
>Bercio, the land of castillos and caballero, a sizeable land though it only "united" in recent centuries after being occupied by outsiders. There is joint rule between a monarchy and theocracy.
>Zethai is a little mountainous country which originally had been part of Cestion but because the great red dragoness Enlyth came to settle in the mountains nearby, Cestion could not maintain control. Less a country that became independent and more just a region that was abandoned and became its own thing, and is a republic.
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>>3713231
You have your opinion on how to handle things and I have my opinion on how to handle things. You think I’m wrong and I think you’re wrong.

Let’s just agree that we disagree on this.

Besides, I’m too busy thinking about the party to care about the dwarves right now.

We can talk about it later, when we’re done with the party.
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>>3713248
I don't care I want to be able to look in the face of the would-be assassin when his blade tinks against our steel armor. then eat him
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>>3713261
>Using a blade against a dragon
That's more foolish than using a blade against an armored elephant. A bigger concern is poison and having yet another building dropped on us.

>Open-air party
>Personally catching a random sheep out in the fields for our party meal
Solved.
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>>3713223
>>3713218
>>3713216
>66

You give it a few days then, but let people know of the party you intend to host in Eisling, the castle there. Unfortunately your human armor won't be ready in time but your elven clothes are, you can even try them on in advance. They're both well made and look quite stylish; the important thing is color. Nothing could be more majestic than your pure form, but sadly you are mostly just red. Clothes, especially these elven ones add a lot of different colors and contrast to your appearance and it really is quite marvelous even if you know nothing of the style of lesser races. What more, while the same outfit might come off as revealing on an elf or human, for you who is used to wearing nothing and being seen that way, the elegant cloths that drape your impressive body do well to frame and show it off. You're not restricted in movement, but you feel showy and stylish.

Perfect.

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Come a few days later and you can make the travel from your castle to Eisling. The party has been mostly set up in advance, though it seems there is a problem. Unfortunately a portion of your land and particularly Eisling have been hurting for a little while now because Petrar has since embargoed trade and even travel. Traditionally people relied on this and the town is heavily invested in that transfer so for it to suddenly be cut off, quite quickly puts the hurt on people. Brigid calls it "economic warfare" even, though you're not sure what that means.

The ultimate result of this is that people are struggling and unhappy, and particularly your party is lacking in some necessary goods, and to an extent reflects badly upon your reign. But what do you care when you'll have yourself a good time and get to show off your new clothes!

>Any way you would like to welcome your guests when the time arrives? The party is set in the main hall of the castle, decorated for the occasion with musicians and plenty of food and drink... though nothing really to wow people, just a lot of standard goods.
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>>3713321
>economic warfare
WAR YOU SAY

We should welcome them as the powerful, yet benevolent dragon ruler we are.
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>>3713321
also if the kingdom of Pertrar wants to play hardball we can play hardball we will give them one chance to normalize relations with us or we will have to engage in some 'economic warfare' of our own. let's see how they feel after we burn down a few farms and grain stores.
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>>3713321
That's a shame.
We can ask Brigid if she requires our intervention later on, either in the form of economic policy, diplomacy, or "aggressive negotiations".
For now though, let's see where these soft-bodied folk fit into our world.
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>>3713321
>Brigid calls it "economic warfare" even, though you're not sure what that means.
If your not sure what it means, then ask what it means. Then after that, ask how we can get Petrar to drop the embargo.

No, we will not give Eisling back to them. At least, I’m sure that’s the reason they’re doing this. They’re just being sore losers after we took Eisling from them.

Wait, no, just wait until after the party to talk about this.

>How do you welcome your guests?
Walk up to them, give a polite bow, and tell them, “Thank you for coming.” That’s all I can think of doing that hopefully won’t scare anyone too much.

Just make sure when we bow, we don’t let our crown fall off our head.....we did remember to wear our crown, right? It’s a special occasion, so we should be wearing our crown.
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>>3713384
>Thanking them for coming
They should be thanking us for inviting them, really. We should start this party in a position of strength. They should be begging us for a place in the new hierarchy.

>>3713321
Have a designated greeter, we should just chat with those who interests us, or those who approaches us. This is their opportunity to show us what they have to offer, not the other way around. Things are going just fine if not better without them being in the loop.
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You've never really done any sort of lesser race gathering before, though you're not at all scared, it's hard not to be nervous. First impressions, and going out on a limb to try something new and unfamiliar, all that. When you see Brigid though, the one to act as your greeter and herald of sorts for this event (as she's the one in charge really), you gain all the courage you could need.

"Rah! A knight indeed! That clothing suits you, it makes you look like a proper human female!"

"...it is called a dress."

Not particularly fancy but nice and formal, you've never seen Brigid out of at least arming clothes, as if always ready to throw on armor if need be. Seeing her dressed like most other women though is a sight you won't soon forget, nor her embarrassed resignation. Fortunately it doesn't impact her ability to do her job, as she stands at the entrance to the hall to welcome and announce people when the time is right and the sun starts to set.

The lovely view of the sea is quite distracting to you but the more nobles show up the more your attention is in the moment, seeing this strange collection the humans call "nobility". Their extravagant style of dress is the first thing to catch your eye, particularly the abundance of draconic symbolism or even accessories. But each and every one of these persons behaves so far beyond what you're used to that they might as well be some different race. So many strange "manners" and procedure to everything, as if they have rehearsed simply being themselves. You try to put your best foot forward, but you end up feeling like a creature on display.

Though, thankfully it seems, not in a bad way as the nobles all regard you with amazement and wonder. Everything about them might seem alien but through it all you still recognize genuine emotions and expressions, you've become familiar with humans enough for that. Most have probably never seen a monster before let alone a dragon, and here you are not only their new ruler but more than just a creature, dressed in exotic clothes to them. Score one for the elves you suppose, your attire is as much a benefit to you as your very draconic being, with no shortage of remarks and compliments. Overall; a deluge of cautious interest, as the nobles try to learn about you and particularly, how they should behave towards you. No doubt you're the center of attention even to those not directly interacting with you, for all the weapons at your disposal, from ruling position all the way down to clothes.
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Naturally, you just try to rely on power and position and simply nod to each person who bows to you and offers up such magnificent praises that you'd think they were speaking a different language entirely. As they continue to filter in though and you see each one, gradually they filter out and the hall starts becoming more and more lively as people wait for you to "start" things whether it be a formal feast first, entertainment, or something between.

>What do you do? And, how involved with the party/your guests do you care to be? Aloof and regal, or friendly and receptive?
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>>3713611
>Flutter our wings to catch their attention and get them to quiet down, then a short speech welcoming them to the event (to celebrate the occasion, whatever it may be...)
>Pass it off to Brigid, she planned the event anyway, and would know how to proceed with such things (likely introductions, dinner with light entertainment, entertainment, then mingling before finishing the night).
>Aloof and regal by default, friendly and attempt to be friendly & receptive for personal conversations (but is still somewhat aloof and regal)
This event is probably best used for getting to know all the faces instead of deciding anything concrete. Let's use this chance to pick out a few important and/or capable individuals to talk to privately in the future.
Stick to pleasantries and being vague/noncommittal to anything they may ask.
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>>3713611
This will be my last post of the night, but we'll continue tomorrow from here, and how any other player input has to say/do.

Till then, thanks all for playing!
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>>3713633
Agreed, keep a regal distance but act friendly when prompted
Just look at the faces and recognize the lesser races' positions so we are better informed.
We should keep a tasteful distance from all of them so to not appear favoring anyone for now and because the last time we droped our guard we were compleately fooled.

"Welcome, nobles of the humans, to this gathering, I ask you to enjoy the evening our host Briged prepared for us."
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>>3713633
support, but for the Personal conversations just be friendly and receptive.
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>>3713611
I actually want to act friendly and receptive. I think it is better to inspire trust and respect than fear and obedience. we want them to not only submit to our will but completely trust and rely on it. I believe the best way to get there is for them to see us as approachable light. hell one day if we live long enough we might have everyone so use to the idea of a dragon ruler that even suggesting a human king/ queen is laughable
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>>3714574
Supporting this.
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>>3713633
+1
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Will be continuing in awhile now.
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>>3714574
Support
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>>3714754
Ok ok, writing up the post now, sorry for the delay.
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>>3714574
Changing to support this
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>>3714997
Hey QM please tell my vote change
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>>3715007
well, I wasn't gonna vote but since you change I'll vote to tie things up so we can have a nice balance between distance and friendly

>>3713633
this
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>>3715003
You're not sure really how any of this should be done, it's a first time in all ways for you. Doing your best to act as you believe would be wise then, rather than roaring for attention for example, you instead fan your wings.

"Welcome, nobles of the humans, to this gathering. I ask you to enjoy the evening our host Brigid-"

"-Dame Henbane." she interjects with a whisper.

"What? Oh, our host Dame Henbane has prepared for us."

Your voice rings through the hall, but in a courteous and inviting way, not mighty and imposing. This seems to put people more at ease since they've not heard you speak yet, so the first words being normal enough is a relief. There's polite applause around and a few cheers, before people move to take their places then. One side of the hall is a big table with space for you at one end (and Brigid at the other) and castle staff haul out the food. Some tens of minutes later and people have found places and are enjoying quite a feast... or would if there weren't so many toasts to your name and rule!

Your instinct of course is to chow down and you'd make a mess for sure, but some visual clues from Brigid get you to act wisely again; this isn't about the dinner but about appearances so you behave in a measured manner. Some of the nobles in fact dig in more heartily than you by comparison where you're just (as much as a dragon can) daintily lifting morsels to your mouth with a pinch of your claws. You notice this again serves in your favor, the people seeing you're not some ravenous beast but have care of propriety. And though you would normally remain aloof, nervous as you are, you try your best to put yourself at ease and the gathered guests make it easy with all the interest, praise, and talk of you. Initially among themselves but when it's learned that you're open to answering questions and even conversation... why, it's quite hard to try and hold a talk with so many people at once (with folks even down the table calling out remarks or questions), but you have no trouble at all holding their attention.

Maybe... this isn't so bad, and if nothing else it is a valuable learning experience. Charisma is as deadly a weapon for any dragon as their lethal breath, so even if you would never consider yourself even remotely as low a being as these humans, the ability to mingle and navigate your way socially among them is a powerful skill to learn. With the right behavior, the right things said, the right manners and traditions observed, you can rule these people just as easily as if you had your jaws around their heads. And best of all, it visibly increases their confidence and their favor in you. Graduating from a tyrannical monster occupying their land, to a legitimate monarch they can believe in and support.

If their queen is as worthy as you are, then why should they care if she's not human, perhaps?

>Make a roll!
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Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>3715053
>Make a roll!

oh no another roof collapse!

it seems we managed to fool these worms into being at ease, good
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Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>3715053
ah fuck
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>>3715064
Actually this is just a roll to see how competent/capable your nobility are.
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>>3715080
oh good
they can be shit as they want as long as the roof doesn't collapse

I was ready to abandon and ban such events if another shit like the one with Lila happened again kek
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>>3715080
>Actually this is just a roll to see how competent/capable your nobility are.
looks at 34 and 41. SOMEONE ELSE ROLL!
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>>3715093
It's good they are not that good, less chance of they being good enough to betray us, I'm actually hoping we can swap nobility for some kind of rich ionvestors and people who actually work
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Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>3715053
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Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>3715053
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>84

Over the course of the banquet then, you observe your guests as much as you're sure they do for you, and you start to size them up and gain a rough understanding. In total, there are about five entities of interest with different areas of focus.

>Rochat family, the most prominent landlord family of the lowlands, after Brigid herself they are the "highest" nobles and quite rich and fancy and owners of several businesses
>Keller family, the most prominent landlord family of the highlands, not as rich or fancy as the lowland nobles but more numerous and in tune with the commoners
>Hefti family, a family associated with the seaborne focus of the land, both in resources and trade
>Lady Nora, a noble who is most responsible for the industry of the region, something her family historically has done and now falls to her
>Mr. Matteo, not a noble but a sir, he's the most prominent artisan in the land and largely represents others like him in the arts

Not all of these people seem that worthy of your attention or time outside of social events like this, but you feel you can tell with are worthwhile for giving importance in your queendom, and there's a fair few from the gathered lot here. Certainly any of them would be more than happy to take whatever role you may offer up within your government, such as the ministerial positions you've opened up.

In any case you continue to observe your collection of nobles and ponder whether to actually hold a noble court, in between answering questions and responding to folks who want to know about you or your plans for the country. When the entertainment, and particularly the music gets underway though, speaking of plans for the country there's some attention to your partner status. Just a lone queen? That won't do, linage is important to people's faith in the future stability of a land!

Though they aren't so bold as to suggest any of this to your face, there's a concerted effort by more than a few noble lads, either bold enough themselves or pushed to it by their families, to ask you to "dance" or whatever that means. Like some of the other humans do, and take to the other half of the hall which is cleared space, allowing them to... move about due to the music? Such a strange display, what is this, some strange mating ritual? With their costumes you'd liken them to birds and the rituals those animals have, but to your utter confusion they... just seem to be enjoying themselves innocently enough?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaRNvJLKP1E

How totally strange to you...

>What do you do?
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>>3715263
Observe them

We should look for a suitable dragon eventually, but we are far too young to think about children now I think

After the party we should talk to Briged about making ab oficial visit to that guys that embargoed us to try and open up that embargo
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>>3715263
enjoy the music maybe try gently moving along to the rhythm. making sure not to accidentally kill anyone in the process. also, let "Dame Henbane" know that you have indeed decided to form a nobles court of the [guys you mentioned in the post], also ask how we can help with the embargo situation. also, we need to look for a dragon mate.
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>>3715263
Continue responding to nobles and entertaining them while the party ends

A dragon dancing would be the most ridiculous thing ever, if we ever try something like this we should at least train and have some classes before this

>>3715283
Support seeking Petrar, maybe tell her to send an envoy to let them know we are visiting so they don't react with hostility
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>>3715285
Too soon for a mate I think, we have much expanding and governing to do before raising a child
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>>3715289
no, let the music flow, let in consume you, feel the rhythm taking hold, and let go WE MUST DANCE!

>>3715296
Its never to early to start looking tho
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>>3715300
My real worry is that whoever that dragon may be it coukd try to take over our lands, we just left mother's lair so I imagine we are one of the weakest dragons around

We could investigate more into that Saren that we learned about the other side of the valley, but we should only get involved with a dragon weaker than us to make sure he would not be able to take over

>dancing

Better we learn how to do it before we embarass ourselves in front of the lesser races
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>>3715300
>WE MUST DANCE!
Please stop "lol so funny XDDD" meme posting

I believe you said something similar before
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>>3715323
are you going to tell me with a start face that you aren't even a little interested in seeing what a dancing dragon would look like?
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>>3715344
Its not about seeing what it looks like, as the post stated, this is all aboit appearence, and we have no idea what they are doing, so no, I'm not the little bit interested in playing the fool in front of the nobles
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>>3715358
I feel certain that we will have to roll for it and I am confident that we will Ace that roll
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>>3715367
Well, you can roll if you want to do it. But if player majority is against dancing then it won't matter.
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Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>3715377
even if it won't count, let the music flow through life
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>>3715377
Also support dancing
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Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3715377
Rolling for dancing
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>>3715377
Support Dancing
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3715392
>>3715399
>>3715323
>>3715283
I think that's two for and two against? Coin toss then I guess!
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>>3715392
HA HA HA, YES!
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>>3715474
Oh, well nevermind. If you are to do this then, are you actually answering any requests of the humans? Or only doing it on your own?
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>>3715486
lets dance with a few humans then just let the music flow through us on our own
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>>3715486
On our own I think
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>>3715479
get fuck
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>>3715486
Either on our own or rotating between a lot of them so as to not show favoritism
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>>3715486
On our own, display that dragon superiority

After we are finished with this noble nuisanse we should get a report on our sister kid and see how he is adapting while we are here.
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>>3715502
>>3715541
>>3715494
>93

Well you can accept the invitation to dance, but you prefer to do so on your own, making sure at least to take off your crown. You try just observing the humans at first but realize the folly of it due to the difference in physiology. There's a rehearsal to this as well, but if they can get along with some simple practiced movements enough, then why should you have any trouble doing what feels right? Listening to the music and doing what comes naturally, you may not have some instinct like the humans seem to for their music but you can match movement to rhythm and attempt to "dance".

Quite an impressive display too, as you prance and swing and jump about the hall, fanning your wings and kicking your legs and swinging your head to the music. It starts out mostly just random movements and what you feel is fun with the music, but getting an idea of your range of motion for fun like this, you eventually go about it in a measured fashion with showy but deliberate and methodical movements. While the event had intended to be fun for everyone participating, you soon end up with an admiring little crowd about you who clap and gasp and cheer at the display. You feel a little embarrassed since it's your first time and you feel like you're on display for them, but you actually manage such an impressive show that you can tell their reactions are genuine, and you end up with more than a few admirers before the evening is through even you won't entertain such interest from humans.

Well then you can enjoy yourself for a good while and then take it easy for the rest of the night while people alternate between eating and drinking, and appreciating the entertainment, with plenty of conversation between. Eventually the event will draw to a close as people party themselves out, but if you have any other actions in mind before them you can do so. Otherwise, it'll just be what you want to do to conclude things, then you can see about any other remaining business for the night before you get some sleep... probably here in Eisling.

>What do you do?
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>>3715656
Get a report on the sister's kid to see if he is adapting well, then go to sleep
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>>3715673
>>3715656
Btw are we sure he is our sisters kid and not some other randon dragons kid?
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>>3715656
Discuss with Briged the Petrar embargo, tell her to send a diplomat to let them know that we would like to talk with them
Is there any cultist in town after the rotation? we could get a report from them about the situation on the free city
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>>3715693
We felt her smell on him
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>>3715693
You know her scent, and also he spoke her name as his mother, or who he was told is his mother at least.

>>3715699
>>3715673
There would be at least one cultist in town sure, if you want you can simply meet with them tomorrow to also find out what's going on with the kid.

In the meantime, you can thank people for coming one by one as they give you their thanks and farewells for the event. Nervous as you were, mostly bad memories from what happened with Lila, you actually feel pretty good after all is said and done and the last nobles take their leave (or rather their servants come to collect them from having drunk too much). Not only did you get to learn some experience about the humans and enjoy yourself, but also you got a valuable impression of the concept of "nobles" of the lesser races. You don't see any huge reasons they are essential to anything, but you're convinced they aren't totally useless either. With some careful and clever managing you could turn them into a potential benefit for you land you think, and there's something nice about being surrounded by the best among the lesser races. Lazing about at home and getting belly rubs is one thing, but you wouldn't mind some fun of having folks like this around, even just a few to entertain you and maintain a social presence.

"...a dancing dragon?" Brigid has a slight smirk, the first time you can recall her doing so in a long time if ever.

"By gods you are right! Now, what is the situation with this endbarlo?"

"Embargo."

"Right, yes. Send word I want to meet over this, and see it resolved... for the good of my people!"

You're not sure how long it will take or if it will even work, but Brigid can do as you ask and try to engage in diplomacy for this matter. Failing that, you can always just rip and tear at the problem like usual!

---

Leaving the remains of the banquet to be cleaned up and appreciated by the servants, you seek a place to sleep. The lordly bedchamber seems right, since Brigid avoids it and takes a common room herself. You try to get some sleep but you hear commotion outside. A few noble fellows in a bit of a spat it seems, trying to claim the right to be the one to attempt to catch your attention from the balcony with sweet words and praise.

>What do you do? Come tomorrow, is your first interest meeting with the cultists?
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>>3715760
listen in this will be funny, as for tomorrow meet with the cultist after an extra filling first and second breakfast.
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>>3715760
Sleep well and content.
Meet the cultists, let's see what they have to tell us about the city and the kid
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>>3715808
This
Can we get a list of the 6 cultists? We got the red widow, the spy, the rogue bit what about the other 3?
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>>3715760
>Hide by the window/balcony and listen in while staying hidden.
I wonder what these lads find so captivating about a dragon cloaca.
Also, we're probably old enough to be their mother, or even grandmother, depending how long we spent in mother's lair.

>cultist
>sister's son
>the alchemist and hisand his legendary dragoness kuchikamizake
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>>3715930
ah, you have made a common mistake see dragons like alligators have vaginas this is an easy mistake to make given the amount of misinformation that exists about dragons these days.
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>>3715930
our cloaca bring all nobles to the yard
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>>3715950
>>3716036
second verse same as the first
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>>3716055
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon#Reproduction

Komodo DRAGONS

kek
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>>3716076
,,,this...this proves nothing
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>>3716091
embrace the cloaca anon
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>>3715829
The original cultists are;

>Losha, assassin, very skilled
>Kule, rogue/spy, very skilled
>Ezun, jeweler, decently skilled, an actual priest
>Virra, criminal, decently skilled
>Osto, merchant, average skill
>Saldo, sorcerer, average skill

You didn't really bother to learn much more about them than that, since they were already so devoted without effort.

>>3715808
>>3715790
>>3715930
You dwell by the balcony and listen to the humans bickering down below for a time. Their arguments vary and they accuse one another of different things and nearly come to blows. While some seem to be interested in your position though, or your power, at least one or two sound interested due to romantic reasons. Or so it sounds like. You just find it amusing, since you could just kill and eat them all, while instead they fancy you their mate or something akin. They should have tried with your sister instead, she'd entertain them and answer their dreams... only to later turn them into nightmares.

In any case when the group of them are discovered by guards and harassed away for trespassing, you can crawl into bed and chuckle yourself to sleep.

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Come the next day you can be up and active, get something to eat and then go looking for your cultists in town. Walking through Eisling as people withdraw or respond in fear, nervousness. Ruler or not, seeing a dragon walk down the road is not something everyone can adjust to.

"The boy is getting along well as an doctor's apprentice. I doubt he's ever worked a day in his life as a princeling, but it seems his dragon descent affords him safety from diseases. Or something like that, we also found him lodging with an old maid."

As you'd hoped, the cult were able to take care of the boy and provide him with a livelihood, keep an eye on him and out of trouble. His mother will have to try hard to find out what became of him, if his fate remains as trouble-free as this. On the other matter of the free territories, your cult have been working their way around the nearest free town. Presently the priest of the cult is here, and has been spreading the faith while the others on rotation act in secrecy. As far as they've gathered, that specific free town is governed by a militant order who are not the kindest of rulers but they keep the peace and maintain independence so the locals are happy. But it is definitely not a strong/stable government, to say the least. Just a militant dictator really and supporting officers, of this order.

>What do you do?
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>>3716122
Tell the cult to start spreading there that the Valley is so much better now that a dragon is ruling over, they are used to strong leadership so a dragon will seem way stronger than anything they have already

Let's fly back home and see if we have those reports on gold, military forces and nearby mercenaries
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>>3716149
support
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>>3716122
Lets visit them using our fancy elven clothes so they don't mistake us for a monster

Maybe promis of expansion and war against dwarves for profit may make them turn over our side
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>>3716122
Visit our old alchemist friend and see what he's been up to with buckets of our spit and some bleached scales
dragoness wine~~
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>>3716192
>>3716156
>>3716149
>>3716248
You can have the cult start spreading the word, and the faith, that your way is better. Then in time if you like (or now, even) you can personally visit there to show people firsthand that you are their best option.

As for the reports, you can find out those things just by asking. Brigid for example, has her own assistants who've done their own research, you hope for persons like them at your castle in time as you appoint them but right here and now you can just ask Brigid's assistants.

>Rough population of your land
8500, mostly humans. Elf village not counted since you can't conventionally tax them.
>Current prosperity of your land
Average, on average people earn a silver a day, give or take between the poor and the rich.
>Current worth (1 gold = 10 silvers, 1 silver = 10 coppers)
About 25,500 gold per month for the total monetary value earned by the land (-500 for administration), again give or take between poor and rich.
>Current tax rate
5%, mostly due to nobles and landlords, you can change this of course as well as determine how much a cut you personally get.

As for military, due to your priority of this the last few months,

>Ready for service, no training
250 irregulars you could expect, if you rely on conscription the numbers can vary
>Ready for service, average training
500 of your "standing" military, that also acts as public works laborers
>Ready for service, specialists
100, in the way of veterans, those trained for certain field roles, and other standout volunteers
>Ready for service, elites
10-15, in the way of knights and adventurer types or other local prominent figures

As for mercenaries, as with the last time you can roll. 2d100 for the quality, and the reliability.
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>>3716356
And this will probably be my last post of the night, we'll continue tomorrow as usual, including any other player input by then and also the rolls if you want. In the meantime you can decide what you want to do after this, like if you want to travel to the free lands now, or return home and visit the alchemist along the way if you like.

Till next time, thanks all for playing!
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Rolled 59, 13 = 72 (2d100)

>>3716356
rolling for mercs

>>3716363
travel to free lands using clothes, to see how things are

thanks for running
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>>3716363
have a good night Scales
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Rolled 10, 12 = 22 (2d100)

>>3716356
visit the alchemist, let our cult spread the faith before we visit.
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this is fine
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Rolled 100, 78 = 178 (2d100)

>>3716356
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>>3716390
Remember you have a reroll to use, if you want to try for double 100s!
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>>3716390
>100
>quality

it seems we have found the fabled dragoon knights or mother's personal troops have arrived
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>>3716390
don't fall for it its a trap!
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now I just hope we can actually pay for the guys

it seems we have found the people to finally bring the dwarves to their knees, let's not waste this opportunity, we either use them to attack the dwarves or Petrar who is embargoing us, but they are a little more risky since they have the country of Ypren behind them
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>>3716390
Oh and one other thing, as usual with 100s and 1s, kind of like when players roll the same number, you can suggest what the result of the roll could be. Not guaranteed that it will happen but your suggestion may probably be taken into account.

Just you though since you rolled it. And remember as a hundred crit success, you can think of it as a miraculous chance, something that would never occur otherwise. Smiled upon by the (dice) gods, as it were!
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>>3716122
>romantics
I’m still not against finding a mate among the lesser races. They’ve just gotta be a very special person and they’ve gotta win our heart.

But that’s a discussion best saved for some other day, when we’re ready to try and start a family.

>Ruler or not, seeing a dragon walk down the road is not something everyone can adjust to.
Oh come on! We’re wearing clothes and our crown! We’re not that scary!
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some ideas for mercenaries

>The Dragon Order, they used to defend mother's lair but since she has no intention of expanding and they heard news that Mistress Riona was expanding her queendom they decided to make their skills useful to us, they come equipped with fire weapons, heavy armour decorated in dragon style, light siege weapons like ballistas and scorpios (used to chase away smaller dragons that mother didn't want to receive) and they even have the secrets of a strange potion called Graeek Fire, Decimus, the commander that comes from a faraway land and calls himself a legionary, bows deeply in front of the queen and asks for the honor of serving her.

>A sorceress of considerable power named Bruhylda came looking for the dragon queen, reports said that a small army of the dead followed on her wake, after she heard that a dragon was making herself a ruler she decided to come and offer her services, imagining that a dragon would not pursue and try to kill her for being prejudiced against her craft like many other rulers, in exchange for her services she asks for a place where she can conduct her experiments safely, she promises to not harm anyone, as she doesn't make new materials, she just uses those who would normally go to waste.

>Korwin Steelbeard, son of Bragan Steelbeard was the sole heir to the dwarven town in our mountains, or so he thought, after his father died he suffered a political coop from the family controlling the human fueled mine and was exiled from the mountain, his loyal followers came with him and the group of tunnelers, sappers and heavy armoured warriors wandered the land as mercenaries to gather funds, after hearing that a dragon unified the valley and was its ruler he made the unthinkable, if the dragon queen helped him get his revenge and take back his father's throne he would swear allegiance to her and become part of her queendom

>The goblins have done it again, after her morning fire bath the goblin priestess looked for a suitable rock to praise the Sun (who is actually Mistress Riona's oldest son, see, sun....son...makes sense for the goblins) she slipped and fell through a shaft, upon waking up she was surrounded by other goblins, that have lived underground for quite some time, she manages to impress them with her stories and now they worship (in their goblin way) Mistress Riona and would do anything to please the Fire Born!
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>>3716491
Yeesh well what a nice thing to see when you open the thread. I made that post and then saw that the thread close for the night and didn't bother to see what I even rolled, and then this.

Only real companies I can think of to liken a group like this to be would be the Swiss Mercenaries or maybe the Great Company/White Company. Groups that have the ability and power to rewrite history books and reshape how warfare is fought for decades if not centuries after them. veteransfrom many nationality and from many a war, staunch loyalty to one ruler until their lieges death frees them to pursue other contracts and willingness to carry out any task given no matter how abhorrent.

Or just for laughs, it could just be one person but he is literally the greatest warrior/mage/ranger/ etc. of modern times. Liken to Lü Bu but minus the bad behavior and betrayal due to the high reliability roll. could also be joined by other famous heroes or something of that ilk if that's too far fetched. but I also want to wait and see what other people have to suggest like>>3716741
did as I like his idea for the Dragon Order.
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>>3717030
I wouldn't mind having this universes sun Tzu on our side
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>>3717030
I liked the swiss army and the dragon order too, a very hard and versatile force composed of different tipes of soldiers from different backgrounds to cover most bases
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More mercs, not necessarily for the 100 but because it's fun to make them

>Professor-Magus Arksus originally wanted to strike a deal with the dwarves, but after being rejected by them he sought Riona instead, he has made great advancements in flesh and steel contructs, replacing big parts of his own body for magical constructs, together with his followers and a number of flesh and steel golens they wish to use the mountains and it's mines for resources and are willing to fight the queen's battles to make that happen

>"The Southrners have arrived! Run!" that is what was heard at the coastal village near Einsling, the southerners, or frost elves, are nothing like their mainland cousings, prefering to live off pilaging and dragging people back to their island as thrals, but this time, as soon as they landed, instead of attacking they started breaking up their ships to form houses, it seems a great tragedy occured at their island, they do not get into great detail about what it is but it drove then out and they are seeking a new place to stay, as they see a dragon as a strong enough and capable leader they offer to pay for their stay with the only currency they know, blood and steel.

>"Les enfant de la patria" is more a revolutionary group than a proper mercenary band, after failing to depose Ypren's monarchy on an attempt to create a republic they found themselves in self imposed exile to escape the guillotines, their incredibly idealistic and charismatic leader Robespierre manages to spark the passion and desire for justice in most people, and recruiting those who listen they form a tenacious band of irregulars and guerrila fighters.

> The Clan, little is knows about the origin of this band of mercenaries, but a few things distinct themselves from others, when soneone joins them, they adopt a new name, the clan takes everyone, and their past and previous position dies the moment they sign in, they are fiercely loyal for one another and never break a contract with their employer, they stay until the cobtract is fulfilled or the employer dead, they divide themaelves into stormtroopers, regular infantry and rangers to serve as a versatile force that can operate alone is needed, their leader, Jotun, offers their services after they have just completed a contract for our Cestion neighbours
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>>3717030
>I also want to wait and see what other people have to suggest
Well, I’m gonna have to disappoint you there. I don’t really have anything that’s all that creative.

The only thing I could ask for is a bigger variety of races to come live in our country. You know what I’m talking about? All of the usual races you can find in a fantasy setting. Races like dragonborn, centaurs, fairies, hobbits, etc.
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>>3717366
So basically dragon enforced equality and freedom for all?
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>>3717377
Unless they are trolls, they can go all to hell

I miss having kobolds too, what is a dragon without those little fellas?
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>>3717391
if it is any consolation we have goblins.
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>>3717377
Sure, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just personally think it's pretty boring only having humans and elves, with a surprisingly small amount of other races in our kingdom. A little variety would keep things interesting.
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>>3717556
CITIZEN, YOU WILL EXERCISE YOUR RIONA GIVE FREEDOMS BY VOTING IN YOUR LOCAL ELECTIONS PAX DRACONICA (it means enforced Dragon peace)
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wowo lot of posts!
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>>3717796
Love ya babe
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>>3717030
So with this in mind, taking into account, what would you prefer? A number of groups to choose from, or a number of individuals? You can expect them all to be exceptional, but what appeals to you more; a great group, or a singular great person?
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>>3717822
Top down or bottom up? I'd leave it to a coin flip honestly.
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>>3717822
I say a great group
We are the great individual
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>>3717840
exactly

>>3717822
we need an extraordinary group of individuals.(great group)
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>>3717822
Groups I think?
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>>3717864
>>3717854
>>3717825
>>3717840
Groups it is then, because of your admirable work you can choose then which among these you might want >>3717147 >>3716741

A little meta to know, but you can pick two, one which will remain loyal for awhile as per their contract, and one which will remain loyal for an extended period of time or longer depending on their role and your use of them.
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>>3717886
>>The Dragon Order, they used to defend mother's lair but since she has no intention of expanding and they heard news that Mistress Riona was expanding her queendom they decided to make their skills useful to us, they come equipped with fire weapons, heavy armour decorated in dragon style, light siege weapons like ballistas and scorpios (used to chase away smaller dragons that mother didn't want to receive) and they even have the secrets of a strange potion called Graeek Fire, Decimus, the commander that comes from a faraway land and calls himself a legionary, bows deeply in front of the queen and asks for the honor of serving her.


>>The goblins have done it again, after her morning fire bath the goblin priestess looked for a suitable rock to praise the Sun (who is actually Mistress Riona's oldest son, see, sun....son...makes sense for the goblins) she slipped and fell through a shaft, upon waking up she was surrounded by other goblins, that have lived underground for quite some time, she manages to impress them with her stories and now they worship (in their goblin way) Mistress Riona and would do anything to please the Fire Born!
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>>3717886
Oh and as per someone's request, if you want (and you end up choosing) the goblin option, if you'd prefer it can instead be kobolds. Since they work in a similar niche.
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>>3717886
The 100 roller liked the Dragon Order so it's just fsir that it's one of them, maybe the extended contract

The other could be either
>Korwin Steelbeard
Because it's a way into the dwarves or
>"The Southrners
Because not!vikings are cool
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>>3717896
we agreed on groups instead of individuals
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>>3717901
The dwarf one can easily just be worked into a group, same as the other few individuals suggested here >>3717147 >>3716741
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>>3717901
Yes I was refering to the groups that come with those individuals
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>>3717907
then we are rocking and rolling
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>>3717886
>The Dragon Order, they used to defend mother's lair but since she has no intention of expanding and they heard news that Mistress Riona was expanding her queendom they decided to make their skills useful to us, they come equipped with fire weapons, heavy armour decorated in dragon style, light siege weapons like ballistas and scorpios (used to chase away smaller dragons that mother didn't want to receive) and they even have the secrets of a strange potion called Graeek Fire, Decimus, the commander that comes from a faraway land and calls himself a legionary, bows deeply in front of the queen and asks for the honor of serving her.
can we have the necromancer be part of it too? I find that it would make sense that a necromancer would search for a dragon or something similar to live under to have protection against other ruler's moralities or religion.

the other group is a hard choice since I love them all =)

maybe we flip?
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>>3717941
You can choose the necromancer but it would be a separate choice.

In any case it seems like the dragon knights are the primary choice, so it's just settling for a secondary one.
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>>3717896
I had this pic with me for some time and that's where the Southerners came from

>>3717951
nah, let's not then, maybe later, I wanted the necro to see if we could actually contact Lila

I think we can roll for the other one from the ones already voted for
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>>3717887
Support
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if it's the goblins can it be kobolds?

praise the Sun, Son of Riona!
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strangely familiar necromancer
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>>3718002
nice dwarf
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Kinda dig the dwarf for the potential pay off in the end.
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3717975
>>3717887
Gobs

>>3717896
>>3718029
Dorfs

>>3717896
Erfs

So, roll between dorfs and gobs.
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>>3718036
Gobs get it then it looks like! Just a quick question then, did people prefer kobolds, or gobs it is?
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>>3718040
kobolds!
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>>3718040
In a perfect world we would have both, but If I have to pick only one then its the Gobs
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>>3718040
Kobolds would make for better devout followers imo
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>>3718040
Gobs, they are very fun.

Now we have to make sure the cult doesn't kill them all
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>>3718056
we told the cult to be peaceful so It should be fine.
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>>3718052
Kobold cleric of Riona!
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>>3718063
plus a bit of diversity never hurts right?
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>>3718063
that is fucking adorable
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>>3718075
be bold, choose kobold!

they are crafty and come with their own cave to fill with traps!
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Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>3718056
>>3718052
>>3718050
>>3718049
Another tie, need of a coin toss. Kobolds and gobs.
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>>3718095
Goblins it is then, maybe some day you might encounter kobolds, but it shan't be anytime soon.
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Oh shit, they are getting organized, kek!
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>>3718123
kek
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>>3718123
There's two moons in fact.

Also this, in conjunction with the effort made by the players towards the mercenaries, I feel that's worth another reroll, so you have two now.

>>3716390
>100, 78

It seems you have a need of forces beyond those which you already control! Before you return home you want to go check out these free territories, ripe for the taking! Sure the situation with Cestion precariously rests upon you not expanding, but some humans aren't going to constrain you or your land! You make preparations to depart then, but there's a bit of alarm in Eisling that you become aware of; some knightly order has shown up, making demands?

Well, you will certainly get to the bottom of this!

"Wait, you want to do what?"

"We pledge our lives in service to you, oh Riona."

The Order of the Dragon, you remember these guys. Although a lesser race, these knights were devoted to mother... originally in fact, they were quite evil but mother reformed them into an organizing force for the lands around her lair. Not terribly different from bandits exacting tolls, but orderly and with codes of conduct, and all towards mother rather than themselves.

They were instrumental in making people adapt to her reign and the insurance of tribute, but now that such standards have been in place for decades, mother doesn't really need them anymore... well she never needed them at all. But they feel they could do more good for you, than her anymore and of mother's offspring they consider you the most worthy as her only red daughter. As you have things more or less under control though, they might not be so helpful at their intended role, but they're still plenty happy to fight for you. A cautionary detail however, one you may not be pleased with, but many among their number are themselves draconic to a degree, as much as half-dragons. Over the years mother had many fellow dragon suitors and the Order served as a filter for that... at the cost of themselves becoming interbred with the same dragons they were keeping at bay. All sorts of colors to them, and a few abominations (due to severe mixed breeding) they have to keep near enough imprisoned. And as you might expect, one among their number is your niece. Also perhaps most significant of all, they bear the influence of mother; though they seem intent to become devoted to you, mother is the one who formed them and you know her methods and motives are different from yours.

These drawbacks aside though, they are formidable warriors, orderly and disciplined, a true knightly order, and they seek to serve you now if you'll have them...

...though, it may take a significant period of adjustment to fit them into your queendom comfortably and... safely.

>What do you do? You're interested in visiting the free lands then?
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>>3718153
Well! Time to build a keep to keep (hehe snicker) our order, get those public work guys to do that using the premium stone that comes from our mines, the roads can wait to be paved since we already have the river to transport things up and down.

Visit the free city diplomatically, wear our fancy elven armor if its ready or just clothes if it isn't

Let's meet their leader and greet our neighbors
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>>3718153
Let's visit them

Hey, this might be a good place for the nephew to go after he learns his medicine, he can be part of the order as a healer and even meet his half sister
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>>3718153
we accept the Order of the Dragon into our lands and welcome them.

as for visiting the free lands how long has it been since the cult started preaching there? I want to give some time for our faith to develop in that land.
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>>3718231
Only about a month and a bit, but more than preaching, they've been focusing on learning whatever weaknesses there are and what can be exploited. Since as you indicated, they're more a clandestine force rather than a traditional religious cult.

>>3718231
>>3718221
>>3718197
You accept the offer of the knights then, better they ally to you than your siblings. Though you may not want to house them in your settlements, but to construct a fortification for them will take time (and if you care to specify, a location in your land), potentially a problem because you had your construction force working on roads (which are coming along nicely) so to take them off that to put on this effort will stall the road effort.

In any case though, you can let Brigid figure out what to do with them for the time being till you return, for now you want to visit the free lands! You probably can't wear all your fancy clothes though since the more regal articles actually take help to put on you. But some basic elven clothes you can bundle up and carry in your draconic hands, then dress yourself when you land, since flying in clothes (at least elven ones) doesn't work that well.

In your travel then, in what manner do you want to make contact with these other people? Do you want to just go right up to their town and seek diplomacy, something more indirect, or something else altogether?
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>>3718305
Fly over the town a little bit and then land some distance away, let's wait for a bit there and see if any of the local cultists come visit us

A monastery or a keep for the order would increase their prestige, I was thinking of doing it near Einsling in some strategic defensive position maybe, on the way to Ypren.
They seem to be disciplined enough
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>>3718305
we should bring a diplomate along with us, humans have proven themselves very cunning in the past.

as for the order I think we should have a Keep build for them close to Eisling
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>>3718328
This

>>3718342
We can send embassadors later if the talks with us go well, remember this guys are beligerant militants
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>>3718328
Well there is the abandoned monastery in the mountains. It's a bit remote though, but otherwise it's already been built.

>>3718342
>>3718355
Well a bit late for that now. What's a matter, you don't doubt your own cunning do you?

In any case to fly for about a day, and nearly crash into an airship in the process going over the mountains. But you can land by evening on the outskirts of the town and throw on your clothes before looking around. Nothing particularly, that you're not used to, tracts of farmland across the lowland slopes of the mountains.

"Dragon! It's-"

A... some sort of cow-person-woman-thing? Carrying a basket of vegetables, she panics when she sees you at first, but quickly notices the clothes and your nature of not attacking and killing her.

"...oh, uh... what are you doing here? Do you want something?"

Well that's an odd exchange. But it's nice to see that you aren't immediately regarded with fear and panic. Or, to an extent you are, but it seems like you're not unmistakably some evil monster. At least you don't have to chase anyone down or plead for them to come to their senses.

Having flown over the town at least, you expect your cultists, but probably not for awhile at least so you've got time to yourself here.

>What do you do?
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>>3718467
Cow person? Its a minotaur?
Hello, I'm the ruler of the valley, I came here to meet my neighbours, where could I find your leaders?
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>>3718467
say " I have never encountered someone like yourself what Species are you exactly? As to why I am here, I am Queen Riona leader of Firebreath Valley and I have come to meet with the leadership if the land." be Regal with the cow women
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>>3718500
>>3718493
Good for me
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>>3718500
>>3718518
>>3718493
The hells is this, some kind of prank? Who would dress up like a cow randomly, unless...

"I have never encountered someone like yourself, what Species are you exactly?"

"Well I've never seen a dragon before, but I'm a minotaur."

Well that's something new.

"As to why I am here, I am Queen Riona leader of Firebreath Valley and I have come to meet with the leadership if the land."

"Firebreath valley... you mean Ostrela? I didn't know Ostrela had a queen... if you want to see who's in charge here, you'll want to go to Moritz, it's a town down the way... you probably saw it already if you flew here."

Nothing you don't already know. Well if you are to play it safe then it's just a matter of time waiting till your cultists arrive. You might need to spend the night somewhere since it's getting dark, no need to just stand out here waiting all night.

>Where do you want to lodge?
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>>3718689
Look for a Traven in town that is willing/can be intimidated into letting to spend the night.
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>>3718689
well, thank you
is there a place where I could rest here?

let's walk around the city and see how they live, then rest in the tavern

I hope there aren't any goat people, we would have a hard time resisting not eating them...hmmm...goats....
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>>3718707
>>3718731
Well if you want to go into town you can, but that may defeat the point of waiting outside before diplomacy.
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>>3718756
Oh then spend some more time having an informative conversation with the cow lady
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>>3718756
I was refering to wait around here not going to the town tho
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>>3718756
Don'rlt go into town, wait here for a day.

Ask the woman how many more of her kind live around here, are they the majority
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>>3718765
>>3718788
>68

You just need a place to spend the night then! You spend some time talking with the minotaur till the sun goes down and she wants to return home, but you learn that while there are others like her, humans are the majority in this land. But she's happy enough to talk about the land here at length, she likes it because there's no government rule so she's left alone and fairly free, they just support the town nearby with food but otherwise no one bothers them.

Bad news for her then, when you plan to take over!

"The uh... you can stay in the stable for the night?"

Parting ways with the minotaur, you follow the road a ways to a river crossing where there's also a water mill and a cluster of buildings including a tavern for local farms and such. You cause an initial fright with your approach and entry, and while people don't ever seen to get used to you, they at least aren't panicking and fleeing. You try to get a room though, but can't fit up the stairs to reach the few rooms. The owner offers you the stable to sleep then due to your size but you probably don't want to stay there when you actually go out and look. The stable boy though, after his own fright towards you, offers a barn you can stay at, and where he spends the nights.

Sadly it seems this may be your only option unless you either want to just find some place in the wild to curl up, or you want to intimidate some farmer into giving you his home for the night.

>What do you do?
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>>3718847
sleep in the barn with the stable boy
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>>3718847
we will eventually rule this people so I say we sleep at the barn and send the stable boy to the....stable
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>>3718877
The barn is big enough for the both of you, as you accompany the stable boy away from the tavern after the remainder of his shift (and appreciating a few drinks yourself). He just sleeps up in the loft meanwhile there's a big pile of hay you can make use of at the back, so you get off your clothes and fold/hang them up over the night. Not the best sleeping arrangements but you've had worse and in a pinch it's better than sleeping among horses.

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"My lady? Your grace..."

You're awoken the next morning by appropriately enough, one of your cultists. Losha, the assassin, nudges your tail with her foot, while you stir among the hay and open your eyes to see her holding the stable boy in a choke with a knife to his throat.

Just waiting for the approval to kill, the poor lad utterly confused and afraid, but unable to struggle without cutting himself against her knife pointed to his skin.

"Praise be for coming to see us. We heard about your flight over, and came looking. What is your bidding?"

Thankfully your cult is quite skilled indeed, and sure enough they found you somehow in a random barn in the countryside overnight. Well, you've met up with them now, so can proceed as you need to.

>What do you do?
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>>3718965
SIgh say "Let him go" then ask "what is the current situation in the city I want a full report"
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>>3718965
Also this will probably be my last main post of the night. We'll continue tomorrow as usual, with any player input till then. See how things go with these free lands perhaps.

In the meantime, thanks all for playing!
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>>3718965
Let the kid go and tell hin to run off so not to hear anything
Ask her what is the situation on the town, who could be our supporters and who could be our detractors
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>>3718153
>And as you might expect, one among their number is your niece.
Was it another one of our sister’s kids? Or did one of our other siblings have a kid that we didn’t know about?

And does this niece know we’re related?

>>3718965
Have her let the boy go. Then tell him to leave.

Might as well put on your clothes while you’re chatting with your cultist.
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>>3719577
You can tell this is your sister's child, but besides that you don't think your brothers ever had offspring. Not yet anyway.

As for knowing, yes this niece knows of your relation since the Order had regular enough presence and contact with your family, so growing up and being raised for a group that serves dragons, they obviously let her know of her importance and relation to those same dragons they serve. The girl's father is still alive in fact, effective leader of the Order, so you personally recognize him. Vaguely, as just one of many faces your sister lured off to privacy over the years, but still.
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>>3719813
... that's worrying...
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>>3718965
Caress his cheek with the tip of our tail
>"A night's company and breakfast in bed? How thoughtful you are, my darling!"

Let the kid go and discuss business I suppose, make sure no one is eavesdropping.
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>>3719813
So does this mean both our niece and her father are in that group that wants to serve us?

And would our niece's father be our brother-in-law?
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>>3721031
Not exacly btother-in-law since sister didn't marry anyone, just our nieces father
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>>3721031
The knightly order which has pledged to serve you, are like the cultists; there's a larger portion of them that still serve mother. However like a small group of the cultists broke off to serve you instead, so too have this group of knights broken off from the larger order to serve you.

Of this detachment, includes your niece and her father, who have high positions. Despite the relation to your sister though they both share the same sentiment of serving you; upon asking, your sister Illyrie moves around too much for her plans, so a knightly order can't really serve her well. But you've chosen to settle down and make a domain for yourself, like mother, so that they can serve without issue.

As for the father himself, you suppose he's something like your brother-in-law. He never "married" your sister like the humans did, only had a child with her, but dragons don't do marriage ceremonies and all that anyway. So to the humans there's nothing between you but from the dragon perspective he's family in a way. In no small part because his daughter, your niece is family, and she's the obvious result of his blood and that of your family joined together.

>>3720794
>>3719577
>>3718984
>>3718995
With a sigh you can tell Losha to let the stable boy go, and thank him for his hospitality... but letting him know it would be best for his sake, if he were to keep quiet about all this. He's just happy to be alive now and runs off in a panic, much to your assassin's dismay.

"What is the current situation in the city? I want a full report."

"The others have done a good job spreading your faith, there's a few converts to our numbers. But word of your divinity, and even simply your queendom, is spreading on its own. Travelers and traders, coming here from there with stories of your benevolence and the stability, security you bring. People thought you were just killing and eating folks but are learning that's not true."

Having sheathed her blades, you emerge from the haystack to shake yourself off and try to get dressed, but Losha offers to help so that you don't have to lift a claw. As she pulls the elven clothes onto your mighty form with such admiration and rewarded faith, she tries her best to explain how things are. But you take your spy would be better at that, she's just a trained killer.

"I wouldn't say they're singing your praises in the streets and begging for liberation... but everyone is talking about it, and it is causing upset and fear among those in charge. I would guess... if it continued, and the resorted to harsh measures to ensure control, the people wouldn't be far from desiring your rule."

Well that's good to hear. This is of course just one town in the free territories, but if you can construct a situation where the people themselves throw off the reigns of their rulers in favor of your reigns, then it wouldn't appear as an invasion or expansion of your territory.

>What do you do?
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>>3721691
We shall meet them, appear in our godly display, prepare a great entrance, tell her to mark those who are our greatest opponents so they may have unfortunate accidents, but they MUST look like accidents
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>>3721691
Ok so here is the plan we use a group of adventurers to undermine the local government. while our cult continues to spread our faith and encouraging rebellion in our name. just when it looks like things are about to kick off we show up and offer to fix all the governments problems by absorbing them into our kingdom. the local elites would retain some power and we get a new town.
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>>3721691
Keep on spreading influence, but make no official moves. Let word spread that we'd help if help is requested.
Let them ask us to to "assist" them instead of us simply stepping in and making claims.
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>>3721757
>>3721797
we can combine these
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>>3721797
>>3721757
>>3721726
You can allow the more clandestine approach to continue, until the town is brought low enough to either need your help or end in revolt. That will take time though, and do you still want to personally go there yourself?
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>>3721805
we should meet with the local government to establish official relations
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>>3721691
I think this is a good situation. We'll just let them stew, wait for Draconian (kek) measures to be put in place against us, then lead an assault on the town to 'liberate it from its tyrannical rule.'

If actions can be taken to encourage rebellious grumbling and hurry things along, that'd be for the best.
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>>3721834
Assassination of those more moderate and leave the radicals in rule, that way the crackdown will come sooner

We have to make use of our assassin to cause unfortunate accidents
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>>3721849
Hmm...maybe not assassinations, too obvious and heavy-handed (unless we can implicate said radicalized elements) but vandalizations and the like upon the more radical members might work. It's a slowly warming pot, so stirring up shit would help as long as we don't do it too often.
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>>3721814
Ok then, make a roll for your engagement towards town!
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>>3721864
Accidents, unfortunate accidents
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Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>3721894
These bean are made of wood, I bet skyship fuel could melt them
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>>3721894
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>>3721894
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>>3721924
>>3721976
>>3721900
>78

You could just fly into town and roast people, kill your opponents and be done with it. But it seems wise to let your cult continue doing their thing and let the people accept your rule. Then at least your neighboring countries can't complain. But before any of that you'd still like to get an idea of this place.

"Halt! What do you want, dragon?"

"I seek to meet your town's leadership!"

It seems your reputation precedes you, or simply the folks are paranoid, because when eventually you depart from the barn and follow Losha along the road to town the place quickly shuts the gates ahead of you... with a humorous display of people shut out desperately trying to get in. Those atop the walls want your purpose, and eventually a man you assume to be in a position of power takes their place.

"We want nothing to do with your kind, dragon! If you want to trade, see the merchants. Otherwise, we ask that you leave us to mind our own affairs!"

You would guess that they've probably already been talking about you and the threat you pose, among themselves and for some time even. Such is the response given that you'd expect they have protocol for interacting with you, though they're visibly perturbed by your arrival here. Not that you can't talk to them though if you want to, but they seem independently hostile. For what it's worth though, after the initial shock of seeing a dragon approach, once people recognize you there is a comparatively positive response to you as you're regarded with interest and even admiration.

>What do you do?
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>>3722004
"I offer no ill will, I'm Riona, ruler of Firebreath Valley, and what I seek is to greet and know my neighbours, I come bearing friendship, if you refute me I can only imagine you do not seek my friendship, as sad as it would be to you and yours to not partake in my gifts, I would understand, it is your choice to make?"

A benevolent image to go with our reputation
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>>3722022
Support
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>>3722065
>>3722022
Of course your intentions towards this town are less than friendly, but you can of course hide your motives behind a fanged smile and fancy elven clothes.

"I offer no ill will, I am Riona, ruler of Firebreath Valley, and what I seek is to greet and know my neighbours, I come bearing friendship, if you refute me I can only imagine you do not seek my friendship, as sad as it would be to you and yours to not partake in my gifts, I would understand, it is your choice to make?"

"Firebreath valley? What's that?"

"We have enough problems of our own, without talking dragons!"

The guards and their leader don't seem at all happy, or even accepting of your presence or your rule. But the slowly gathering townsfolk voice their complaints over these few men speaking for the entire settlement. Normally you imagine they would suffer beatings from the guards, but given that there's a facade of stability attempting to be maintained, they can't visibly abuse their people in front of you. So, begrudgingly, they open the gate to let the people in and permit you entry.

No funny business though! Or so they say. They're not keen on your being here nor formally meeting with you beyond conversation shouted like this, but they'll accept your presence in the town for a time if you speak truly. More and more it seems, really they're just like the local authorities simply took control through some crisis, and simply never gave it up. So hardly willful figures enough to deny a dragon, as much as they may hate it. In fact, it makes you wonder if you couldn't just impose your will over them simply with your charisma and force of personality alone. You've talked and tormented your way around elven ladies and knights alike, all of them caved to your fire that burns within as much as without. Surely some lowly guards wouldn't be a challenge?

Well in any case, you can enter the town if you want to see how your cult is doing or simply look around. Otherwise if you're not interested and merely wanted to make yourself known, you can depart.

>What do you do?
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>>3722121
We should tour the town, being friendly and open, we are going to charm these people into submission.
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>>3722121
Enter the town, greet the people, play with the young with our tail and have laughts with them
Get our cult to use whatever funds they secured to shower those who approach us with drinks and food

"What a lovely people you are, and you seem so content, I'm sure you are well treated and not abused right?"

When the bold ones start to voice their complains, encoraged by our presence we say.

" but that cannot do, I'm sure your rulers would not stood to so low practices, because if they did they are no tulers at all, just brutes bulling those bellow them...I wonder, what kind of life is that? Is it any better than slavery?
I pity you, under my wings I seek safety and contentment, it is really a shame you can't be part of it as it is."

Fan the flames of rebelion, maybe today a mob will form
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>>3722004
"I am queen Riona, and as foolish as your supposition is that I am worth closing your gates for, I can insure you that nothing of the sort can stop me regardless of how you feel. If you want me out of your lives despite my benevolent intentions, I will remember keenly. But I am not here to speak to you so much as your leader, and if they are not willing then I will speak to whoever will listen. Such as the poor souls you willingly closed your own gates on. And if none are willing to listen and parlay or engage in civilized behaviors, then I will simply treat you lot as nothing better than filthy barbarians. Will you allow me to give bread and circuses unto you? Or hand yourselves to me on a spit?"
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>>3722141
Can we not roll yet qm? Disregard this and see the effects? Or do you want us to roll for it?
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>>3722149
Fuck I was way too late. Phoneposting bullshit reeee
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>>3722149
They opened the gates already
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>>3722148
Support, this is basically what I wanted.
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Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>3722152
You can roll just to see how well you can pull it off, sure.

As for reception of it...
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>>3722157
Don't remind me, damnit

>>3722121
Jump onto the walls where the gaurds were telling from to make a point, then ask who rules this place etc.
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Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>3722163
Rolling them

The lowest they roll the better for us right?
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>>3722163
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>>3722168
Roll for it dude, we are in need
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>>3721894
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>>3722163
Wrong post
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>>3722163
dice+1d100
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>>3722220
Doh
>>3722163
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>>3722121
>Firebreath valley?
Seeing as how everyone keeps getting confused when we say that, I’m thinking that maybe we should workshop the name a little bit, so that we can come up with a better, more impressive name.

.....shit, I actually don’t have a more impressive name. Naming things is hard!
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>>3722231
Could just go with the traditional name. Otherwise imagine a name which could serve for something more expansive than just the valley!
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>>3722231
My suggestion was Junaar, dragon word for kingdom.

Though i'd prefer anything over the mouthful that is Firebreath Valley.
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>>3722247
Well, the valley can continue to be there and once we rule more than it we cam come up with a name for the queendom while the valley stays as just the region's name
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lets just switch back to the traditional name
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>>3722223
>>3722216
>>3722208
>>3722195
>>3722176
>>3722141
>83, 27

These fools don't know who they're dealing with! Their hostility is well placed, but how suicidal must these sheep be to let you into their pen?

So in a manner most regal your tour about the town greeting everyone along the way with a charming and equally disarming smile. Among your deadliest weapons, your teeth on plain display for all to see, by all their instincts they should fear and revile you and flee for the hills... and yet sold with honeyed words and covered in fine elven clothes, and carrying a weight of your mighty and majestic dragon will...

"What a lovely people you are, and you seem so content. I am sure you are well treated and not abused?"

Like a wolf in sheep's clothing, you worm your way into their hearts, all your charm working to lower their guard. Assisted of course by some cultists you recognize, some you don't, more than generous with gifts and foodstuffs everywhere you rear your majestic head. Before long you've got an adoring crowd hypnotized by your beastly magnetism, and before that you've got people admitting and whispering such awful things of their captors. Of course you're sure hardly any of it is true, just these feeble little humans' attempt to win your favor and attention, but it's all you need to hear.

"...but that cannot do. I am sure your rulers would not stoop to so low practices, because if they did they are no rulers at all, just brutes bulling those beneath them... I wonder, what kind of life is that? Is it any better than slavery?"

It's ironic, and brings you such glee, because you notice of course a number of the guards either watching you or following you, but there's nothing really they can do. The people seem so taken by you that to break it up would cause upset, and it's not like you're calling for open rebellion... yet. And besides, any poor fool who might try to stop you, a fierce gaze his way is enough to make him think twice and let you alone.

You find the central plaza and a comfortable seating position as folks gather around you in awe, most never having seen a dragon before but completely baffled over how untrue the rumors were. So gentle and caring, and benevolent a creature as this, surely could never rain fire and death? The adults admire, the children play on you, and you unfurl your wings to their awe almost as a kind of shelter. And all the while your cultists circle and mingle through the crowd with baskets of food and goods and other gifts of your glory.

"I pity you, under my wings I seek safety and contentment, it is really a shame you cannot be part of it as it is."

You're not a wolf in sheep's clothing. You're a damned rival shepherd in sheep's clothing, luring away the flock from the current rulers with sweet lullaby's of merriment and harmony, and the current rulers are powerless to stop it. All they can do is look on, in fearful furious impotence.

>What do you do?
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>>3722253
That's a good point too.
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>>3722312
Perfect absolutely, perfect, It's time we take our leave. have the cultist keep us updated on the situation as it develops. have them quitely fan the flames of rebellion until its ready to burst into flames that's when we will make our move.
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>>3722312
Question, how is their quality of life? Just from what we can see. Is it better than our people in general or worse?
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>>3722312
Ask for music and enthrall them like we did the nobles, laugh and ask them to tell stories and show how they are.

Ask them for stories, for their tales and myths, they may talk about their time of crysis and how they come to be under these brutes
Then tell some of ours, how we saved the region from the spiders, or how we united the people after a noble duel and how even now we mine, trade and feast at our lands, even elves as wary as they are, bowed and served.

During this the cult should entice them in how things are so much better under us

It is such a shame that they are in this situation, but, whatever it may be, we are sure they will make their own parh to the future and choose their own way.

I hope to see pitchforks and torches before nights end
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>>3722360
why the hell not, in for a penny in for a pound.
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>>3722345
It's different from your own people. On average they seem better off, but because they are alone as a single settlement, they only have access to what is within their domain of control. So people in your towns can have access to good from anywhere within your queendom, not so here where they can only get what little they have access to from their territory.

So, more abundance of things they have than your people, but a limited range of things they have.

>>3722367
>>3722360
You can keep enticing them down this path to hell, but your cultists whisper and suggest moving it to a more... secure location. You'd be out of the way of prying eyes and able to speak more openly about your intentions, but at the same time access to less people. Than if you stayed out here in the plaza, where anyone and everyone can see you but under scrutiny, you have to watch what you say to a degree.

...but, maybe you prefer the spectacle of it all?
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>>3722559
trust the judgment of our cultists and move to a secure place.
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>>3722559
Move it them, continue enticing and then we can leave, I doubt their peace will last for long, tell the assassing that as soon as the flames of rebelion start burning she can start taking care of...nuisance s
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>>3722575
>>3722578
Very well then. Screw it, you'd planned to let the town collapse on it's own and the people to revolt. Well that still may happen but you can't be bothered to wait possible months for it; if the people love you so much that they break their chains, then even if it happens this very day much more the better. The fact is, these lesser races are so drawn to you that they become an extension of your own will.

Truly the recognition of a superior being!

You can heed your cultists then and withdraw to where they themselves have been dwelling and spreading the word. From there you can continue to preach your view of a better tomorrow and see what happens.

>You can roll once again, the first was to see how receptive people were of your message, now to see how receptive they are of you... as their potential ruler. We'll take a break here too for a time, also a chance to give other players a chance to roll.
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>>3722595
hippity hoppity your now dragon property
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>>3722312
>the children play on you
How exactly are they playing on us? I’d like a description because I want to picture in my head how these little kids are interacting with us.

>>3722559
I trust our cultists. Let’s move this somewhere more secure. Just make sure all of the little kids that are playing on us are politely moved off of us.

We don’t want to accidentally take one with us because they could hear us talk about our plans and then they’d go and tell someone else.
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>>3722611
someone forgot to refresh the page didn't they
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>>3722618
Yes, I did. I always make myself look like an idiot when that happens.
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>>3722630
just use the Auto-update function my dude. its that white box next to the update butten
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>>3722640
nice
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>>3722595
Rollan
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>>3722662
rollen
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>>3722595
I want a drink...
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>>3722595
Hey all just a heads up but I'm going to be busy today so we probably won't run later. Just wanted to let you know so you're not stuck waiting, but things should resume as normal tomorrow, or might even get to do a bit later tonigt.
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>>3722611
Like trying to climb on you and playing with your tail and digits.

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>>3723111
>>3722686
>>3722662
>>3722644
>>3722640
>>3722606
>86

As much as you'd like to win these people over by sheer force of personality and will, you're new to this game while your cultists have been working hard here. Best not to let that go to waste, so you figure to pack it up and go with them. Because of this you lose some of the crowd charmed by you, but a fair few follow after, to what the cult has been using as a safehouse and base of operations here; some clothier's they "appropriated" for the building use but also a small square accessible only by alleyways.

"Tell me, about yourself. I want to know about your life here."

"M-Me?"

"Of course!"

Having found new comfortable seating in the back square, you slowly accumulate a new crowd. This time enticing them with how personable, how down to earth you can be. You're not just some distant legend, but a living breathing being just like them, here and interested in them as people. Well not really, you couldn't care that much about any of them and the idea that any could even approach your level is insulting. But you put on a charming air and a wide smile, and act as personable as you can be, brushing the shoulder of a farmgirl from the market who followed the commotion. Startling her with your unexpected direct, personal interest, and causing people to smile and whisper in awe and admiration. Did you see that? The dragon, the queen, actually touched a commoner and wants to hear from her personally! What noble would ever do such a thing, care so much about the common folk?

"A giant spider?!"

"That can't be true!"

"I may be many things but I am not a liar!"

You take the time to hear from many of the locals at random, and all the same relate your own experiences to them, amazing them with such incredible tales. Not just some fancy-pants queen-dragon, but a ruler who actually gets up off their throne for once! And in conjunction with such wondrous stories your cult spins of what your country is like and how the people live, it sounds like a paradise on earth for sure! Compared to their current rulers, you are like a blessing from the gods for sure, and not only would they be foolish not to act on that blessing but they would have to be stupid no to take actions for their own best interests.
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"It is such a shame that you are in this situation, but, whatever it may be, I am sure you will make your own path to the future and choose your own way..."

The whispers and murmurs of your praise shift towards criticism and even hostility towards their current rulers. What begins as just idle complains over comparing their town to your land, is stirred up both by your charisma and charm as well as your instigating cultists, to where it's becoming muted calls to action. The people are clearly upset and some even want change, but they're just not sure what to do or how to act. All they need... is a push in the right direction. You suppose you could act yourself, or leave it up to your cultists as provoking agents. Certainly your assassin or your spy, could cause some significant trouble before nightfall, as the spark to ignite a potential powder keg.

>What do you do?
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>>3726487
As cool as it would be to rally these guys into an angry mob and march on the town leadership. we need to make it look like it was an internal power shift. What I propose is that we have the cult continue to grow and spread throughout the city. have them make a plan that takes out key leaders in the town all at once then have someone loyal to us be"elected" into power. at which point the town will voluntarily join our kingdom. by doing it this way Qestion can't claim we invaded and has no grounds to contest our annexation of the land.
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>>3726487
Tell the cult to offer food and drinks for those present and then we depart, tell them to continue growing our support and even more now that we showed up and they actually saw us
The assassin and spy can handle the necessary adjustments in regional leadership and even 1 or two events to cause ultrage among the populace, maybe the farmer girls was arrested for becoming close to us and a mob forms to free her along with the head of the rulers, we can set her up in a cult position after that to keep the town pacified.
The important thing is to have this all coordinated with us so we can send help as needed, a concerned neighbor
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>>3726515
yes, exactly this is the kind of thinking befitting a dragon.
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>>3726524
>>3726515
>>3726504
Sure, your cult is well capable of that. And considering they've been spreading influence already, for you to show up is a major benefit to their efforts.

Still, you expect it will take time, a week or more at least. Assuming you aren't staying here, what's your next plan then? Keeping in mind that this is just one town in the free territories out of three (and a number of villages).
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>>3726590
Has the cult been active in only this town or all three?
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>>3726594
Only in this town currently, there's only about five of them able to be active after all, since you have one stationed in Eisling.
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>>3726590
For now, I think we should Go home we don't have cult support in the other towns. On the way home If we have time before night, I want to stop by the goblin settlement to check upon them.
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>>3726504
>>3726515
I like these ideas. I think we should push these people into a revolutionary fervour with our cult, and organize a kind of rebellion. But the key factor I want to explore is if we can take the town over without even low intensity conflict. I think we can accomplish this if the cult keeps the people on a leash and at the point of no return, we swoop in and end the violence. That way we gain the Goodwill of the established rulling body (which we will put under 'house arrest' and put in appropriate administrative rolls) and the good of the people at the same time. At that point we can mull over the specifics of governance and such.
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>>3726636
No sorry the current leadership is the guards/military if I understand scales right. the only way we take this town "bloodlessly" is if the current leadership dies and we enstall a puppet into power. then diplomatically annex them.
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>>3726636
>>3726644
In a sense you may be able to manage it simply through your cult alone, with the right extent of assassinations, sabotage, and power leveraged. Though it would take the most amount of time, but it's something the cult can just passively do overtime on their own, wherever they are. As you know, both by skillset and experience, it's just something they're quite good at and well-equipped to deal with.

Which may or may not be to your liking but it is what it is.
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>>3726663
I vote we let the cult handle the soft overthrow of the local government. we can make visits to the town every now and again to help bolster our and the cults image. Of course, we will step in if the local gov starts to try and crush our cult.
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>>3726663
The important part is to not annex wkth our troops but make it seem voluntsry so Cestion doesn't have a rightous cause to get mad, just speculation


And lets check on the fun cilt, the gobbos
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>>3726485
>Like trying to climb on you and playing with your tail and digits.
That is an adorable mental image.

Makes me think that we should do this in our own towns and villages. Once the adults see us playing with the children, they’ll stop being so nervous around us whenever we visit. Instead, they’ll be greeting us and cheering upon our arrival.
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>>3726725
we will become their benevolent dragon overlord. spreading forced equality and liberty to all lands under our draconic rule.
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>>3726725
>>3726727
You can leave it up to your cult then for the time being. However no matter how peaceful or willing any annexation of land may be, you expect your neighbors won't be happy.

In any case though you can depart from the town, making some distance away so that one of your cultists can help get off the clothes and bundle them up for you to fly with. After that, it's just a normal enough flight home, no airships encountered this time thankfully. You fly all night to try and make it, and indeed cross over the mountains though you are left quite tired by the time you return to your forest a little after midday. You'd like to just get home of course, but while you're out, for curiosity you go to check on the goblins why not? They had relocated from the mountains at your invitation, so it's worth seeing how they're faring.

"Hail hail!"

"Red one return!"

"Pray for, save us!"

They're faring rather well it seems! Before there were just five of them total plus that "captive" human boy. Now though there's... gods, maybe a hundred or more. Did they... do they reproduce that quickly? Not exactly it turns out, though they do breed and grow very fast, in this case it seems the preaching of your priestess or the rumors of it spread far enough to reach the ear of a goblin king. News that a mixed tribe of orcs and goblins, came to be dominated and ruled by goblins? Now that's something to migrate to see and be a part of!

Leaving out of course that this all came about because you burned and killed most of the tribe and the goblins were just some remaining refugees. But as far as they're concerned that's quite alright! They've never complained or be ones to dwell on the past. Now an entire goblin clan has moved in more or less, and their faith (in all senses of the word) in the priestess has been proven. True to her word, there is an actual dragon looking out for them and that you would be willing to extend your wings for the newcomers as well.

"Hey ho Red Queenie, want king some? Big pretty pretty!"

"What for to do, you want us for Queenie?"

"Here here, come come! Look sit and foodie!"

It might be a bit before they get over their initial awe, as enamored with you as they are to simply want to marvel at you and invite you to enjoy their hospitality. That said, while they dance and sing your praises and offer up all they've scavenged since their short time arriving here, they would very much like something to do that would please you. They just came here because of rumors but to see the truth, well now they want to devote their lives to that truth. Or at least, they value a dragon goddess's wisdom over their own.

>What do you do?
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>>3726815
let's speed the afternoon with the goblins enjoying their hospitality and generally reinforcing our Image with them. we must also eat what every food they bring us it wouldn't do to look weak in anything we do.
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>>3726815
"Ahem
Aaaa....my faithful green....and pinky.
A time of tribulation may come in the future, the dwarves may become a problem, I want you to settle NEAR the mountains and learn to live of the land there, plant and raise, pinky here can help you learn and priestess shall guide you.

Look for caves, for tunels old and new, look for opportunities for your queen, but remember, do not hurt those that serve me because they are my property, and try to remain safe from danger, learn how to hide and be subtle."

Pull priestess aside and tell her to keep usinf our faith, pat her head as a blessing
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>>3726824
if we are doing that we have to make sure to let the miners and others around not to mess with the gobbos
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>>3726821
>>3726824
>>3726834
Supporting all of these.
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>>3726824


>>3726834 raises a good point I think it is better to let the goblins stay where they are now. besides we planned to use mercs on the dwarfs remember?
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>>3726834
Well there's no one of your domain really in that region, people don't head that far up into the valley.

>>3726824
>>3726821
>>3726836
You can spend time among the goblins then, as they are giddy with your presence and the unheard of scenario of not only a friendly dragon but one to stay among them. They gladly feed you and entertain you, though you have to disappoint them because they want you to stay and more.

You can impart your orders to them though about settling near the dwarves and learning to live there, see what they can find. They had only just got here and the forest is a bountiful place, but if you want them to move again, then they will after a few days time to gather what they need.

And, when you get the chance you can pull the priestess aside and talk to her personally. Give her instructions to further foster your faith, and that she's done a good job. She squeals in delight when you pat her, and she hugs your leg with such faithful love. Almost at that same moment, the campfire of the goblins erupts into a blood red crimson flame which frightens them at first but they take as a sign and cheer, praise your presence and attention to them.

Well, you offered to spend the rest of the day with them, and make them very happy and grateful in the process. Your call though on how long you actually stay among them and how much hospitality you accept.

>What do you do?
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>>3726855
>blood red crimson flames
Did we do that? Or is the priestess doing something magical and doesn’t know she’s doing it?

>how long stay?
We can spend the night here to rest, before we head back to our castle in the morning.

>how much hospitality?
Whatever food they offer. Except for sacrificing themselves to become your food, don’t allow that.
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>>3726855
Spend the night with the goblins and accept and eat all food offered to us accept sentient people.
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>>3726855
Aceept food, and watch their displays of faith and entertainement, we should rest here too since the travel was taxing and it would probably fill them with joy.

As the location, I meant for they to still stay on the forest but near the mountain and maybe send small teams up there, so they are relatively safe.

Now it's time to test the priestess, her powers are interesting, at night take her somewhere clear and light a small fire, then we point somewhere and tell her to send the fire to that place, to try and make it burn brighter.
As a kicker we stand behind her and whisper
"You can do it, for your godess, your godess will be pleased, more head pats..."
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>>3726892
support

>>3726855
let the Goblins stay in the forest
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>>3726892
Why not let the goblins stay at there current location and have them send teams to the mountains? for that matter why do we want them going into the mountains?
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>>3726913
For them to do something useful like they asked to and for we to have a beteer picture and explored area of that part of our domain that we know very little about
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>>3726915
ok so have them stay at their current location and have them send out expeditions into the mountains. this way the main settlement is safe and we have them exploring. we Literally just had them move into the forest out of the mountains I fail to see a good reason to have them move again.
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>>3726922
A bit meta, but they won't be staying forever. That was part of the mercenaries roll, you "recruited" a big increase of goblins but it won't be forever.
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>>3726927
Wait, is that old monastery ruin safe after the adventurers and the spy went there? The goblins could turn it into a proper Riona temple!, maybe we can even convince some to stay and those who go on their way may spread our faith to other goblins, we should try to send them there as a center of goblin faith
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>>3726927
Ok, so we have our goblins stay at their current location and build-up a settlement. While sending the merc goblins to the mountains to explore and scout around.

I also fail to see what is meta about my post but ok :\
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>>3726936
Oh, I like that, can they plant and raise goats there? Find food at all?

But only if they can survive relatively ok at that region
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>>3726937
All the goblins are included in that now. And I mean, my telling you is meta.

>>3726936
The monastery is actually safe yes, but it's remote so it would be hard for any sizeable population to maintain a living.

>>3726895
>>3726892
>>3726884
>>3726880
You're not sure why the fire turned red like that, but the goblins all take it as a miracle so you won't refute that. You agree to spend the night and appreciate the chance to relax and be entertained, among these strange little creatures that love you so much. They're not as refined as the humans or the elves, but there's an enjoyment to their simplicity. There's nothing to have to learn or "get" when it comes to the gobs and they hardly expect anything of you so you don't have to act in any way other than yourself.

Well yourself would be killing and eating them, but you're feeling pretty tired for all that effort and they're happy to feed you anyway. When you say no people though, they hush and hurry away some girl from town they must have kidnapped.

"You can do it, for your goddess, your goddess will be plea-"

"BLEEEEAAARGH-!"

Some time later, late that night when most are asleep you take the priestess aside and try to understand more about her. She's only too happy to oblige and treats any time with you like time with one's very deity. You're curious to her nature though and try to get her to direct some fire you ignite. Before you can even finish though, she alarms you by opening her mouth wide to bellow out a stream of fire almost like a burp.

She's left coughing up smoke and has trouble breathing, clearly not used to such a feat, but looks at you with a wide smile.

"Some like that?"

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Come the next morning, the goblins are happy to involve you in their big morning communal meal, after which you can return home again for the first time in several days at least. If there's anything else you wish of the goblins though before you depart, you can.

>What do you do?
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>>3726952
head pat the adorable priestess again and make it very clear for her "stop. kidnapping. my people."

I'm thinking of going home and getting a report on our gold/appointing the ministers if we haven't already after we deided on them and then making a visit to Ypren to deal with that embargo, with clothes and all
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>>3726952
give them words of encouragement and tell them you are pleased with them. also, tell them that the more they spread the faith the more we are pleased.

>>3726960
support
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>>3726952
When we get home, I believe it’s time for us to take a bath. It wouldn’t be good for our citizens’ morale if their queen smells terrible!

Also, a bit off topic, but I’d like to know what kind of food we’ve been getting. Besides meat, have we also been given fruits and vegetables? How about sweets, like cookies, cake, or candy?

If we’ve been given any sweets at all, what was Riona’s reaction to eating something like that? I doubt she’s ever eaten anything like that while living with mother!

>>3726960
Support
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>>3726994
Support, I want to see Riona's reaction to sweets.
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>>3726966
>>3726960
"Sweets"? "Cookies"? "Cake"? "Candy"?

What are these things you speak of? You've just been having an abundance of meat, supplemented with bread, vegetables, and some fruit when you can get it. You're not a fan of things besides meat... although the fruit is quite delicious, but Nissa says it's good for you to eat a mix of things and so you do.

Surely that's all there is to life though, the range of possible things to eat; just meat, bread, vegetables, and rarely fruit.

In any case you let the goblins know you are pleased with them and that they are doing well and should continue to do so. The goblins are gladdened by this of course and promise not to steal more people... although you're not sure how reliable that is, since they promised the same last time. With that you can take your leave and return home, it's not far from here.

"My Queen! It's been ages!"

"It was... not three days... four?"

"Aaaaaages!"

Nissa is lazing about as usual when you find her, though to her credit the castle is being kept well and the new servants by now have become used to their stay here, and duties. A bath? Before you had to content yourself with just an oiling, but by now there's a tub at the castle big enough for you! Originally it was for making wine or some such, but it's plenty big enough for you and enough hot, soapy water to fill up. You'd appreciate maids to help wash you but unfortunately due to your size, that's not really possible without them entirely getting in the bath as well. The best you can hope for is to hang portions of your body, like your tail, over the edge of the tub to be washed individually.

"Ah, and before I forget, the Duke of Petrar accepted to meet with you! I'm sure this nasty embargo business can be sorted out peacefully!"

That's good to hear, as Nissa reads out the various bits of business to have occurred since you were gone these several days. A nice chance to relax as you think about what to do next, both immediately and in the coming days...

>What do you do?
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>>3727022
miss the queen Nissa?
ask her about these sweet things maybe?

compliment her on her work in keeping the castle running and tell her that some more nasty business may be on the horizon, but it's good to relax and be pampered for now

after a good bath and enjoying ourselves fully after the travel we should visit our treasurer and get a picture of how much we have stored
maybe in terms of mercenary companies like we spent the money last time

as well as the trader to see how our new mines are generating trade for the valley

then we can plan a trip to Petrar, maybe a delegation with some servants and ministers so we can stay there a little or just fly there and see what's what?
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>>3727039
support
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>>3727039
Support

The girl has served well, maybe she deserves a gift, is there anything she would like? Whithing reason of course.

As for the visit, if it would not take too much time we could go with the ministers, take some nobles or merchants that trade and deal with Petrar so they can make new contracts but leave Nissa at the castle to keep everything running smoothly, we can give her some vacations on elven waterfalls some other time.(the elves would hate that kek)
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>>3727022
>"Sweets"? "Cookies"? "Cake"? "Candy"?
>What are these things you speak of?
Unacceptable! We must fix this at once! .....after we take care of this embargo.

Where is this meeting going to take place? If it’s in Eisling, we can just go there. But if we have to go to Petrar, we might need to bring people with us, since Riona doesn’t exactly know what an embargo is nor does she know how to get rid of it.

And if we bring anyone with us, then we might have to walk to the meeting, since it wouldn’t be good to fly ahead of our people. And I doubt we can carry more than one person with us.

>>3727039
Support

>ask her about these sweet things maybe?
Especially this.

>>3727051
>gift for Nissa
Definitely. She deserves something nice.
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>>3727051
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>>3727039
You're thankful for Nissa's ongoing service, and feel the need to thank her properly.

"Me? A gift? Oh no, your highness, I couldn't! It's a gift enough to serve you!"

"I insist."

"I don't... well, I'd rather not, but my brother... if he could get a position in town, that would make me happy."

Nice girl, even when you demand it, she still asks for something for someone else. You know she lived with her brother before you took her here, so she must still worry about him. Her request shouldn't be so difficult though, you can just command it so.

In any case you can relax in the soapy water and ponder the plan... and ponder other things. These, "sweet" things you heard Nissa speak of before. You'd like to get to the bottom of that, though it seems the best she can manage is honey, due to the embargo. Hmm... you remember honey a little bit, delightful stuff that the former mayor had glazed on bread you were eating. Just about the only reason you'd eat bread anyway, it had some taste to it.

Well you can see about that in time. For now you want some reports, and you need to plan your travel, since according to the communication you're expected to meet in Petrar. To travel there and see the Duke if you want this mess resolved. So you might want to plan your journey, and anyone you might want to take with you like any assistants or minsters. The more the merrier you think, but at the same time it could be a risk to bring anyone. Not to mention you can't throw your weight around and be ferocious, when you have to worry about squishy allies easily killed...

"Your own finances, your grace, are twelve hundred and ninety three gold pieces, on last count."

Your finance minister, to give you the sum of your treasury once you're done bathing and have some fancy clothes dressed on you. It does seem low but as of yet, you've not specified what your cut of taxes will be. Once that's given you can expect the money to come rolling in.

Also a side matter of your ministers, speaking of them, that you might want to consider appointing actual nobles in their place. That's what Brigid suggested at least, either that, or consider allowing nobles to come freely to your castle or even live there; a royal court as it were, for them to make requests and whisper suggestions. Not terribly different from a minister after all...

>What do you do?
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>>3727097
Finally, form the noble court, but keep our current ministers. for the meeting, we should bring our trade and economic ministers so we don't get fucked over in negotiations. spend the coming week getting these things set in motion.
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>>3727097
I think we can accept visits from the human and elven nobles no doubt, keep our ministers tho

for the trip invite whatever nobles might have business there and a small detachment of the order of the dragon as escorts, when they are nearing the border we join them flying there

I doubt Tanyth would be interested in a trade but if she wants to send a representative to maybe get in touch with the elves in Petrar she is welcome to do so too
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>>3727128
>>3727108
You can make these preparations then sure enough. Anything you want to do during this week besides, while you set in motion the preparations?
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>>3727128
Support

I'm ok with visits but I'm not ready to let them live at the castle yet, for one, it would be kind of impractical to have the guys running the business so far away from Eisling and the forest town(that still needs a name)

Add the goblin priestess to the list of visitors allowed!
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>>3727148
get a feel for our armor breaking it in by practicing in it for a few hours a day. Also, Eat unreasonable amounts of food to have more belly rubs
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>>3727148
order that Nissa's brother position

get the elven armour made, sunsilver with bronze, it will be quite the view for the foreigners

and while in the castle, keep an eye on the neighbour situation and receive people from the elves and the humans with their suggestions
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>>3727097
>if he could get a position in town, that would make me happy.
What kind of position? You’ve gotta be specific so we don’t give him something he doesn’t want or a job he can’t do!

Does he want to be a doctor? Chef? Builder? Soldier? Politician? We’ve gotta know these things, you silly human!
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>>3727156
>>3727157
+1

But limit our growth so we still fit in our clothes and armor, don't want to look like a slob
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>>3727163
Nissa is quite silly isn't her? the sweet thing, maybe just ask what he does for a living and get him on a position similar but with more importance
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>>3727163
He was just a laborer so really anything would be fine as far as Nissa is concerned. She just doesn't want him working his back out for the rest of his life. Probably just a foreman of labor or something, or even just an organizer.

>>3727151
>the guys running the business so far away from Eisling

Well assumedly, this would be the less involved nobles, like members of the families of those who have an active hand in things.

>>3727156
>>3727157
By now in fact the elven armor is made so you can try it on, and more importantly get used to wearing it even while active. Though, if you continue to gorge yourself on food you're going to continue growing and oustrip not only your armor but your clothes too! Also eventually the castle and conventional buildings.

Which may not be a problem but that's for you to decide.

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In any case we'll take a break for now then, probably to resume tomorrow, where we'll see how your travel to Petrar and the negotiations go. In the meantime you can decide if you have any motives for that, since you'll be meeting face to face with the leader of a neighboring "enemy" country, to discuss the embargo... but free to talk about whatever you want really, not like they can stop you from speaking.

Also give other players a chance to catch up, since we continued today after nothing yesterday, so people might have missed out. Till next time then, thanks all for playing!
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>>3727170
have a good night Scales
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>>3727170
Oh and on a semi-related note, I notice the thread is in autosage now. Normally we'd just make a new thread by page 5 or so, however with classes starting up soon it's sure to impact the schedule for the quest. So my preference would be, probably to run this thread till it's completion and in that time see how class schedule is.

With this in mind, would you players like to see this continue to a next thread? Same as always, just checking player interest, as well as any comments, critiques or suggestions. If there's ongoing interest, then as said above, we'll probably see the next thread when this one nears completion.
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>>3727176
I am here for the long hall Scales as long as you are still interested in running I will be here
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>>3727170
the main issue discussed there will probably be the dead ambassador, but their own knights will be able to confirm that we offered them safe passage and he refused and even attacked us

other things we can do there is learn about the country, it's origins and culture, maybe see if there is anything interesting there that we may want to bring to the valley as culture, entertainment, practices or the like

>>3727176
I'm all for it
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>>3727170
>Nissa’s brother
Let’s give him that promotion. Tell him that his sister was worried about him and asked us to help him.

And while we’re in town, let’s talk with the people and play with the children, like we did in that other town. A boost to the people’s morale will get them to stop being so nervous around us.

>growing
>Which may not be a problem but that's for you to decide.
It is a problem. I don’t want to do anymore growing, for now. I want to stay at our current size.

I also think we should (eventually) have a child to inherit our kingdom, once we’ve grown too big for it. Like, maybe after a few years, we can look for a mate.

This is why I also believe that our (eventual) mate shouldn’t be a dragon because then our child will face the same problem of growing too big for the kingdom.

If our child is half dragon, then (hopefully) they shouldn’t have to worry about growing too big.

>>3727176
If you’re interested in continuing the quest, then I’ll participate whenever my schedule allows me to.

>>3727189
Support
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>>3727170
>Which may not be a problem but that's for you to decide.

open a mage college

fund research into why dragons aren't affected by size-changing magic

solve this problem

have magic size controlling amulet forged

grow as big as we want using the amulet to get smol when we need to go inside or just feel like being smol.

Profit


Growing larger is not a problem.
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I'm still around, but I can't generally get on until about now, unless I'm phoneposting.
I'm going to be around for the long-haul, as well.
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Hey all just a heads up that we will be running today, but maybe a little later than usual.

>>3727253
Everyone knows the reason why though; it's because dragons are so naturally magical! You imagine it would be possible to make use of magic if the magic was stripped from your body, but then you would die or at least become sickly and feeble.
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>>3728444
Ok then since we are already magical then all we have to do it find a arch magic that is willing to help us manipulate our innate magic so that we can control our size at will
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>>3727239
Planning for the future, huh? Perhaps a little too far in the future, if you ask me.

But I'll admit, you might be onto something there. A half dragon child might not have the same worries of becoming too big. And they'd also be able to fit in with the people more easily.

But we're nowhere near ready to be thinking about that, so lets wait a few more years before we have to worry about any of that.
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>>3728748
My beef with a half dragon heir is that it will be half something, either human, elf or possibly dwarf, and that may cause some important imbalances
I still prefer a full dragon heir, and tge kid can worry about size later
But as you said, its very far from now, I want to focus on expanding and prospering, and if the valley needs an official heir for now we can declare Brigid the heir since she is official royalty from the valley from some time ago, and if we die it doesn't matter anyway.
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Ok resuming now, writing up.
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>>3728587
um no u cant do dat

>>3727167
>>3727164
>>3727163
>>3727157
>>3727156
>>3727151
You can spend the coming week or so in preparation then, not just gathering the right things you expect to need but also learning what you can about Petrar and its people. The last thing you want to do is go blindly into this situation, even if you could.

Of course Tanyth doesn't really care but she'll send someone anyway, and all your humans have a keen interest in ensuring things run smoothly between your land and your neighbors. Because of this, besides advisors, a few nobles would even be happy to attend so you'll get a decent procession of your people to go with. The rest, well you can leave it up to your planners, as you personally see about Nissa's brother and while in town you can check on your friendly alchemist and his works (and money, which he has for you) as well as act benevolent and approachable of the people such as behaving kindly towards the children.

On the one hand fear is good for rule, but you simply appreciate people's love for you too much. You know you're the best thing around, and the love of lesser beings is undeniable proof.

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About a week later and some then, you get notification of the procession traveling out towards Petrar. Your advisors, some nobles, and even some of your knights. You plan to meet them at the border, so with a bundle Nissa made of your fancy clothes and your crown, you can take flight to descend from the valley and reach everyone at the border before everyone is to cross into the other country.

>What do you do for your travel? That is, have you anything in mind on the way, or a manner in which you want to travel?
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>>3728982
Well, appearance is half the battle so we need to arrive like a true royal so let's ride in a fancy dragon-sized carriage(it's basically a fancy looking cart).
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>>3728982
do not forget to don our elven armour meet them at the border
I would say to have some form of transport because walking is for peasants, but if we can't have a cart big enough we should let them go ahead and fly to catch up
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>>3728993
and make sure they have enough goats for the trip, wouldn't want to go hungry
of course, we take them away to gorge themselves and maybe the people in the caravan won't notice that the goat population following them is decreasing
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>>3728993
we can say we had the transportation made during the week of preparations
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>>3728993
>>3728988
Well you can get "transport" but it's not really a fancy carriage per se, it's just a cleaned and painted up wagon really. A week's notice isn't really enough time to make a dragon-sized royal carriage for you.

As for the other side, you're only meeting an envoy and some guards at the border. You have a good distance to travel across Petrar to their capital city, so you'll actually be passing by many sights and people, and making stops along the way if you have anything particular in mind.
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>>3729012
Oh boy we are going to charm the whole damn county side into loving us. what we will do is take our sweet as time going from settlement, village, town on our path charming with will our draconic grace and benevolence. we will turn the enemies people against them.
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>>3729012
Visit any cities or villages we pass, properly dressed with our fancy armor, pay patronage to the taverns and be friendly to the locals, we may yet rule them one day mwahahaha!

Get to know the most we can about the country from the locals too

If we pass any mountain our forest we can have a look around to see if we find anything interest or of note.

Encourage our traders and nobles to talk business at the places we pass to reach the capital with some trade opportunities already in mind

If we find any concentration of elves envourage Tanyth envoy to advertise or village and do it ourselves too

If there is any dwarf around let us know, we would like information about how their towns usually set up defenses

Do we have our Order of the dragon mercs with us to make escorts and security? I imagine they are quite impresive so we could show off a little
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>>3729019
>>3729015
If you want to treat this like some grand tour, near enough a parade through each settlement, you sure can. If you'd like then, you can make a couple rolls. One for how well a presentation you can put on, and one for how well your entourage can.
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>>3729019
support
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>>3729012
wee

road trip!

one thing we must do at the first tavern we find is to taste those "sweets" as Lil-..Nissa told us. but do not eat in front of them, we don't want to grace them with our reaction

do you have the map, let's see what we are going to pass by

we will cross the enemy duchy to get there so we could pay them a visit too, even better if they refuse, we can tell it to the king of Petrar later
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Rolled 67, 42 = 109 (2d100)

>>3729025
time for a 1 and to be attacked by and angry mob/professional dragon hunters
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Rolled 87, 12 = 99 (2d100)

>>3729025
Please Dice Jesus let me have this!
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Rolled 36, 27 = 63 (2d100)

>>3729025
Rolling
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>>3729027
You'll learn more about the land as you go, but according to your guides this will be the rough route you'll be taking through Petrar to their capital.
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>>3729036
Is that an actual forest? maybe we can explore those woods
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>>3729035
>>3729034
>>3729032
well at least Riona nailed it, but our entourage oh, oh no.
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>>3729039
Forests, each tree is a forest more or less. So you will be passing through forested land, but whether you want to leave the road and your group is your choice.

>>3729041
You have two rerolls, you can use them if you like. Double 100s!
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Rolled 2, 68 = 70 (2d100)

>>3729025
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>>3729047
nope, save those for emergency 1s, we already had double 1s
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>>3729047
will you take the highest roll for Riona and the entourage for each roller our is it a bundled deal
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>>3729056
Bundled, but if you want you can choose to reroll simply one of the values. Like just yourself, or just your group.
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>>3729056
there you go, giving the qm ideas! kek

I say we take this>>3729032
we did good and the nobles didn't fuck up that hard
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Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>3729061
then I am rerolling for the entourage
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Rolled 38, 19 = 57 (2d100)

>>3729025
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>>3729064
no dude, I veto that reroll
we have to vote first
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>>3729068
we have two banked rerolls, if we never use them then what is the point of having them. as long as we keep one for a crit fail scenario we will be fine. Also, Scales asked me if I wanted to reroll and I choose to reroll.
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>>3729072
That was a pretty shity move dude, you should not use our rerolls without consulting the other players, what if I decided to reroll again and use the last one, I hope you recognize that and don't do it again.
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>>3729072
This was a pretty inconsequential roll, traveling to lands that don't belong to us and where a low roll could actually lead to interesting scenarios, I was firmly against using a reroll here and would like to keep them for a roll or moment where things could get really ugly, like a fight or for some character we cared about.
You fucked up.
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>>3729083
>>3729076
That 12 would probably guaranty some kind of trouble.
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>>3729089
We could have just not taken that bundle, admit it was wrong to not wait for other player imput before rerolling and we can move on or else I'm rerolling your reroll on principle.
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>>3729092
Give this is 4 chan I believe that you would reroll just for spite. therefore in the interest of preserving our last reroll I Anon am sorry for not waiting on the input of the other Anons of this quest.

sorry not sorry
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>>3729097
See, because of that spoiler I'm going to reroll in five minutes if you don't properly recognize that you are not playing this game alone and should wait for the imput of everyone else before using our limited rerolls

It's on you anon, do you really are that autistic that you can't see that what you did was not cool with the others, no matter how high you rolled?
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oh god, all the rerolls will be gone because of a fucking trip! we should have not used any reroll here and suddenly we will lose them all! fuck, now I'll have to think of more stories to tell about the people around....not that it's a bad thing
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>>3729066
>>3729064
>>3729049
>>3729035
>>3729034
>>3729032
Well I know there's some upset about a reroll being used, but a double 87 was rolled.

So given the odds I think it's fair that you can choose, either it doesn't count as a reroll, or it's the usual situation of a double roll where you can suggest something special to happen.

Though, normally yes, rerolls are not just for free use unless you are the specific player to have made the effort which earned the reroll in the first place, or it's like a critical fail 1 situation.
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>>3729104
>>3729109
Ok to prevent >>3729109 from having a heart attack. I am sorry for not letting others have a chance to give input. It was uncool
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>>3729111
>it doesn't count as a reroll

I was about to roll the other reroll but I'm glad that at least you made something clear
>
Though, normally yes, rerolls are not just for free use unless you are the specific player to have made the effort which earned the reroll in the first place, or it's like a critical fail 1 situation.

Let's just keep playing and forget about this thing this is supposed to be fun
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>>3729111
make it not count and it's all good then
we keep the 87,87 then?
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>>3729111
>the usual situation of a double roll where you can suggest something special to happen.
this works for me
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>>3729012
>dragon-sized royal carriage
Fuck no, we are not going to do that! You know who has to pull that? Our soldiers. You know who will be too exhausted to fight from pulling us around? Our soldiers.

Basically, I see nothing good coming from a carriage for us to ride around in.

>>3729047
>whether you want to leave the road and your group is your choice.
Oh, no. We’re going to stick with our group. It wouldn’t look good for us, a dragon, to wander around. Petrar will panic and think we’re attacking their towns and villages! Even though they’d be completely wrong.

>>3729111
I vote we keep the double 87 for something special.

>>3729121
No, the options are that the reroll counts and we keep the double 87 OR we do not count the reroll and we DO NOT keep the double 87.

We can’t not count the reroll and keep the double 87, like you’re suggesting.
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>>3729150
We have horse's you know we can have the horse's pull us
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>>3729150
I think we actually can, exacly because its a double 87 and because the guy jumped the gun on rolling the qm is saying we can keep the reroll and the double 8u1
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>>3729111
Make it not count as a reroll

>>3729156
This, we can use horses to pull
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>>3729150
Well I already started writing out but if you have suggestions for something special you can. Might still count, some of it.

>>3729122
>>3729121
>>3729118
Ok then it won't count as a reroll. Just super lucky you got another 87!

>>3729034
>87, 87

The travel would normally around a week or less by road, but you end up stretching it longer. Why? To show off of course! Every stop along the way, every little outpost or burg, is a chance for you to display your draconic majesty and glory. The dragon Queen herself, preceded by such amazing rumors, now plain to see for all those who wish in magnificent clothes and armor and surrounded by an equally impressive entourage of nobles and dragon knights! Indeed, you and yours are like something people have never seen before even in this feudal land of Petrar, and your attention... eventually admiration, is immense.

Yesss... yes you worms, recognize your superior...

It's starting to become a thing you notice, more importantly that those close to you notice, that you have a... strange, subtle but definite sway over people. Over, what you would deem, lesser races. Like animal magnetism, but because you are so mighty and superior, an "animal" magnetism even towards beings which wouldn't think of themselves as animals. People, humans, are certainly something more than livestock and for it have souls... but perhaps your soul is so mighty, or some other reason, that you hold sway over them too. In a way more than just your charisma and your ability to inspire awe. At least if you put the effort into it; as long as you actually try to, it seems you can influence people in ways more than any lesser race individual may.

Or so it would seem. It could just be instinctive fear of you leading to acceptance, but either way it gets results.

In any case, you make the most of your journey. You stop at each stop, visit who there is to visit, give patronage to whatever enterprise there may be, and generally share your presence... spread the rumors of your benevolence and might. And your entourage follows suit, your knights and nobles themselves an impressive enough sight alone, but a step further to amplify your grandiose nature. Who of the small folk... hells, who of anyone could avoid the intrigue and allure of a Queenly dragon dressed to impress, surrounded by devoted nobles also dressed well and knights of strange appearance and genealogy?

Even in these fantastic times, even in this fantastic world of magic and monsters, you and your group are like some fantasy fairy tale come to life before them. And it awes the people, captures both their hearts and their minds. If you weren't in another land, you'd think these were your own loyal subjects.

>Have you any desire for specific/personal interactions (usual playstyle), or simply proceed along like this till the capital?
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>>3729166
use the same charming benevolence that we did in the free town and with our own subjects in the forest edge town. also enjoy all of the sweets

(I want Riona to have a sweet tooth)
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>>3729166
Do we have any cultist with us? We could talk with them to spread some more things about us here.

During the trip talk with our niece if she is around or any other of the dragon knights if she isn't ask how things are in mother's land and how she is faring now that her children left, maybe if they know about what our brothers and sisters are doing or where they went
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>>3729178
I'll support yours if you'll support mine.
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>>3729166
Maybe we could encounter fellow travelers, maybe a different race passing by or some other nomadic folk that we could meet on the road?

>>3729178
Support getting news from hometown


Also, speak with the elven dude if he found anyone interested in joining our village back in the forest.
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>>3729185
Sure I want Riona to taste sweets too but I didn't understand the first part to be honest, we are really far from the forst edge town, we are traveling through Petrar now.
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>>3729193
yeah, I need to improve my proofreading.

Basically, we should act the same way we did in the free lands town and how we have treated our subject for the last week in the town on the edge of the forest. basically, we should act like everyone grandma kind, caring, someone, you can take your problems too. This way when we inevitably take over Petar the people will already like us
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>>3729198
Yeah, keep using that charm no problems, these dude are so easy to manipulate.
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>>3729166
I’d like to imagine that the image used here is exactly what’s happening. Every time we stop somewhere, a group of people ask Riona if they’d allow them to paint her and she allows it and poses for them!

>>3729176
Supporting playing with more children.

Also supporting Riona’s eventual sweet tooth.

>>3729178
I’m pretty sure all of our cultists are back home.

>talk to niece
Support
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>>3729204
you know how dogs get all friendly around humans, apparently, dragons can have the same effect on other races
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>>3729207
kek
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>>3729178
I think it's fair to say you could have brought a cultist along, though their ability to spread favor is limited when you're traveling.

>>3729176
>>3729178
>>3729187
>>3729207
Even if it's all just an act... you tell yourself it's just an act, you behave in the same manner as you did to those freelander people before; like benevolent matriarch. In another life you could have been their mother or some such, you act so kind and generous despite your monstrous physical form. People have a hard time getting over their initial fears or simple awe of you, but inevitably you burn your way into their hearts and lower their guards. People feel they can talk to you personally, children are amazed to be able to touch you and hug onto you where they can. Plenty of folks hide in their homes when they hear of a dragon coming, but plenty end up lured out like a piper's song by your magnanimous presence.

And all these things, your escorts uncomfortably notice... but are powerless to do anything about. Though as much as you bring to Petrar, it's not as though this land offers nothing to you. Two times in particular...

"By Tiamat, what is that thing?!"

"A giant, my Queen."

One of the few times in your life when you instinctively cower in fear at something, during travel between towns when a monstrously huge humanoid passes by seemingly without care and almost steps on some of your entourage. You're not used to seeing things bigger than yourself apart from mother, so the sight of what looks like a massive human more or less, is sure frightening at first. Apparently though, they are not so rare a sight in the lands of Ypren.

"Yhi yhi! This this, what is?!"

"It's called a cake ma'am."

Even a giant couldn't make you lose your composure however, but a few days later upon trying a type of food... well you act very unqueenly when you start hopping up and down and clapping your draconic hands together, bobbing your head with glee as you savor the taste. As giddy as you are, you've never tasted anything like it before, anything so good.

"It's made from flour, eggs, milk, some other things of course but especially there's cream and suga-"

"No mind no mind! More! MORE!!"

Perhaps... the beginning of a bad habit.

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The remainder of the journey, you figure to spend time with your niece who accompanied along as her father stayed behind. A dutiful young lady of seventeen years, you can smell your sister from her but also see the signs of black scales in patches of her skin (where visible), horns protruding from under her hair, and a tail. She bears the seriousness and competence of the dragon knights, but she must not have been raised in the same way as the rest of them, since she's able to be at ease with you once you become familiar. Doubly so because even though she has arms and armor, unlike the other knights she doesn't travel in them... it seems to them she's more like a noble lady than just a fellow combatant. Though, because of her half-dragon nature she could surely out-compete any human.

"Imaline. And was it your father that gave you that name?"

"Mother. I... didn't know her, but got to see her sometimes. I think... because we lived close, outside grandmother's home."

You snort fire at the thought of mother being a grandmother, but you suppose it is indeed true. Interesting to meet one of your sister's children though that she actually had contact with, rather than just give away to be taken back to distant lands. Though not that much contact it seems, beyond some short visits now and then over the years. Your short time speaking with the girl during the travel, is more than she ever had with her own mother.

"Mother... she went around looking for her other children, we couldn't really keep track of her but she is around this land. Andrier went north and did as he does... I've heard the others say. And Ymirro... no one knows, just some rumors about him wanting wings? I'm not sure what that means."

You learn from the girl how things are in mother's "land" since your departure. No significant difference it seems, though now all the tribute food goes to her rather than you and your siblings getting the scraps. You would have liked to know how mother herself is doing, and her lair, but unfortunately the knights aren't privy to that as they kept vigil outside. You are able to hear about your siblings though, which the order heard some about before they too left after your departure.

>Anything else particular? You near the capital in a couple days at the most.
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>>3729262
your wish is my command

>Perhaps... the beginning of a bad habit.
yes, yes it is
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>>3729261
ask her if her father plans to stay at our lands and be our defenders

invite her to visit our castle sometime, we have a Nissa that can take good care of her scales, she is our obviously so she better not get any ideas of taking her away, that would be bad for her.

on the last night before we reach the capital call for a meeting with the traders and nobles to see what strategies they think could be useful to negotiate with Petrar, if they don't listen fire will talk for us unfortunatly
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>>3729277
support but also ensure we continue to sample the local sweets
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forever and ever Scales
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>>3729282
just as long as we refrain doing it in front of the nobles and the Petrar people so we don't act like dumbasses
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>>3729285
quest done i quit
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>>3729289
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-3GOo_nWoc

OH NO!
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>>3729296
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWu-32hR4GY
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>>3729289
Well if this really is the end I can mark of single-handedly killing a quest off of my bucket list
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>>3729261
>though now all the tribute food goes to her rather than you and your siblings getting the scraps.
Sounds like mother is gonna be growing much faster, now that she doesn’t have any children to share food with.

Obviously, she can’t fly anymore, but can she even stand or move anymore?

>>3729282
Support!

>>3729288
Also supporting this. I’m sure Nissa won’t tell anyone about how we act when we eat sweets in the privacy of our own castle. Or else she won’t be allowed to touch our scales as punishment.

>>3729289
Please no. ;_;
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>>3729282
>>3729311
Mother was still able to move, when you left. As for your niece, you can consider inviting her to your castle, although it seemed you had been against that with your nephew before...

On the last night you meet with your ministers and relevant nobles, to discuss a plan. Really though it's more like you assemble them to discuss while you just listen bored. The talking and negotiating will be up to them, you're just there to be present in person and intimidate if need be. And of course, the final say on whatever deal is presented.

By the next day then, late morning you approach the coast and sight Kelna, capital of the duchy of Petrar. Even you gasp at the sight, for you've never seen a settlement of the lesser races so large; a city. That's the thing about the lesser races, no individual of theirs would you imagine could ever impress you, but their combined efforts in some ways rival even your own dragon race. Mother has an impressive lair but what is it really apart from caverns and treasures dumped in them? She didn't build anything, yet these humans have constructed a small mountain it seems out of buildings!

"Bid thee welcome, Queen Riona! We are most honored to have you all as guests, at your leisure the Duke invites you to the heights. Accommodations have been prepared for your stay!"

A lordling greeter awaiting you some distance from the city, as the nearer you get the more the roads fill up with people of all sorts, even many races (though still mostly human). Not to mention a small crowd growing as it follows you, of people headed to or from the city but distracted by your approach enough to stick around and watch what happens.

Of course the greeter and those officials with him are polite, friendly, and welcoming but it's their job to be. You don't doubt that most folks here, at least those of high position, have no love of your presence nor you yourself. There's an ongoing economic war waged against you, and they aren't likely to give it up without a fight, such is their distaste for you and your reign.

Interestingly though, those opponents of privilege are not who you find yourself warned against by your entourage.

"You have never been to a city before, my Queen?" one of your nobles asks.

"Best not to... act so kindly as you have before now. Settlements of this size, more importantly of this population... they are dangerous places even for a dragon."

"Dangerous? To me?! Rah! What nonsense!"

"I do not think it would be a stretch to say, you could go missing scales if you aren't careful."

It seems the knights too are worried, because they can't exactly protect you from threats they imagine here, if for example you get swept up in a crowd; they can't just start cutting people down even if an assassin were among the crowd. For all their warnings as you approach the city though, it just alights your curiosity, and your interest!
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>What do you do? It would seem you are expected here, but it's not as though the Duke demands you by noon, and there's no official limit on your stay here. Within reason, you're free to go about or do as you please... at your own peril!
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>>3729363
Let's take the advice of our guards and nobles and only stop at only the sweet shops on the way our of the city. for now head to the castle for the meeting.
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>>3729363
If accomodations have been prepared, then let's go see to them first. Once we're settled in we can go and see the Duke about our business here.

Be on the look out for any thieves. Our scales are like gems, and like any gem we own, stealing one is grounds for ~punishment~
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>>3729372
we should still be friendly but at a friendly distances
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>>3729359
>you could go missing scales if you aren't careful.
Suddenly, Riona imagines the worst possible scenario in her head! An entire mob manages to pick off all of her scales, leaving her entire body as vulnerable as her underbelly!

“Yes, missing some scales would be very bad. I’ll heed your warnings.”

>>3729363
>What do?
Let’s go check out those accommodations first.
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>>3729385
While you're not particularly worried about literal thieves, you can imagine problems where someone were to steal from you and you wouldn't not have to burn them in the street... probably send a bad message.

"Yes, missing some scales would be very bad. I'll heed your warnings."

As curious as you are to this fascinating new world that is a human city, you heed the advice and agree to see accommodations first. You are here for a reason, as much as you are guests so it is best if you determine the landscape before going exploring.

And well for it, you find!

"Agh! Ah, too many! Is there no better way?!"

"Apologies my Queen!"

You saw some attention approaching the city, and once you get inside there's an abatement. Some screams, some panic, even some minor alarms as people realize there's a dragon in the city. Before long though people notice you riding in a wagon and with an entourage including knights (and Petraran escorts), none of whom are attacking you... nor are you burning and eating people. When word spreads that you're not hostile, quite quickly people approach to investigate. Buildings high on either side of the road, the windows and doors open, and from side streets people pour. At first thinking you're some captured dragon for the park, but rumors dissipate among the gathering crowds; you're not just some captured dragon all dressed up, you're a queen! Yes, the one everyone heard some such about in regards to that mess over the border!

You're used to people surrounding you, but you're not used to being swarmed by noisy and curious crowds of people, plenty of them not human. Good thing you're on a wagon, else you'd be overrun with interest, and your knights do their best to hold people back... to great difficulty since some of your knights themselves are draconic so they get blunt interest as well! Several times you nearly panic, partly from claustrophobia as the high buildings in places seem to close you in. And none to tell you that... relatively speaking, it's not that many people or that imposing buildings, just that it's vastly beyond what you've ever experienced before. Perhaps even, your perception of it all a little distorted by your own inexperience...

A rough time to say the least, for a couple hours or so it takes to navigate the city from your particular point of entry up the rising layout of the settlement; typical locales below and places of importance built higher and higher up, atop some old fortification.
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"Bah! Finally, I can breathe!"

Eventually your group reached the heights of the city where nobles and people of importance reside, finding your guest housing, something of your own little estate on high overlooking the city and the sea. Something else you realized being in a city with so many people; it stinks! Maybe the natives are used to it, but in your time you haven't become accustomed. Bursting out onto a balcony while the escorts show your group around, you breathe deeply of the fresh sea air. All while your niece holds onto your side for support, it seems she's become a temporary confidant in lieu of Nissa.

"You can take your time, I believe they said the Duke awaits your say on when this whole... big meeting should take place."

It looked so great on the approach, and really it is something marvelous this city. But it definitely will take some time to get used to, if you even care to. From a first impression, you wouldn't hate just spending all your time here in the guest estate. But maybe it's worth a second chance? Again, not like you need to meet the Duke immediately, you could give it a few days to become accustomed here... or if you'd just rather be done with it all you can seek a sooner meeting.

One thing for sure though, and a point of bitterness for you; even in your short time here, just a cursory look around the guest estate and you can see that it's much, much nicer than your castle if smaller. You can only imagine how the Duke lives... a Duke, while you a Queen. So say your human advisors, that one is a higher position than the other.

>What do you do?
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>leaving her entire body as vulnerable as her underbelly!
And expose her shame too!

Head for our accommodations. We can mingle when business is done, so in the event anything were to happen, it wouldn't affect the outcome of the reason why we're here in the first place.
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>>3729517
We should some time to get the lay of the land so to speak have our cultists find out any useful information. in the meantime, we can enjoy sweets while we wait.
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>>3729517
Take a break for a day or two, then we can arrange a meeting with the duke.
Consult with our nobles meanwhile on what we're looking to accomplish, what we're willing to compromise on, and what we're willing to offer.
If possible, encourage our entourage to mingle with the natives; nobles with nobles, knights with their soldiers, and whatever agents we have, hang out in shadier places. Let them soak up the sights and sounds of this city and report back to us.

I wonder if it would be inappropriate for us to "stretch our wings" a little.
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>>3729517
>just a cursory look around the guest estate and you can see that it's much, much nicer than your castle if smaller.
Remember, your castle was occupied by a giant spider that only cared about putting up webs as decorations. Once you get the money to afford fancy decorations, your castle will look much better than this place!

>What do?
We can take a day or two of relaxing before meeting with the Duke. But no matter what, NO GORGING! Even a day or two of gorging might be enough of a growth spurt to cause you to outgrow your clothes, which you don’t want to do when you need them for your meeting with the Duke!

>>3729539
>I wonder if it would be inappropriate for us to "stretch our wings" a little.
I’m going to say, yes, it would be inappropriate. Especially if Riona gets the bright idea to try and land somewhere in the city. Crashing into things and people laughing at her would not look good. Nor would it look good if she accidentally lands on a few people and kills them!

And we can’t land outside the city, then walk back in, since we’d have to deal with a swarm of people again!

It might be best if we just stay grounded for now.
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>>3729554
I agree no gorging in the city, we will just have to be content with consuming in dragon-sized portions sweets
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>>3729556
No, no, no. Dragon sized sweets would be very unhealthy and give us cavities!

Let’s just stick with eating sweets every once and a while, not all the time.
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>>3729561
I feel pretty confident that don't have to worry about cavities being a magical dragon. also, Yes, yes, yes we are totally taking this downtime to develop Riona's sweet tooth with dragon size portions of sweets.
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>>3729561
You imply that you have a choice, once you taste them.
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>>3729566
We're a mature adult, surely we have the self-discipline to resist such base temptations...
Right? Otherwise where would we be if a particular dashing male specimen were to flash us a smile?
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>>3729585
You know how it is with dragons, all emotions and impulses are turned up to 11.
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>>3729589
We're so boned.
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>>3729517
Explore the castle a bit, with a dragon order escort of course, let see their garden where we can be less constrained and talk with whoever approaches.
See what interesting things they have in this castle so we can get ideas for ours
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>>3729607
>>3729589
At least, they're supposed to be. You've been playing fairly restrained and careful, though. But maybe Riona is special like that, unique.
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>>3729611
Maybe being repeatedly bashed in the head (troll, castle, and knight) broke something?
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>>3729589
I think Riona will have a hard time keeping her sweet tooth in check.
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>>3729956
But that's not treasure!
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>>3729963
The Flavors are the Treasure.
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>>3729963
Treasure doesn't have to mean gold and jewels. For example kidnapping a princess for dragons, often enough is its own reward because of the value they inherently have, not the expected ransom. You might find value in something else too, and become obsessive over a "treasure" that isn't just gold. In this case it seems your domain is that treasured obsession.

In total, dragons simply are the deadly vices personified. Pride, greed, wrath, and the others, these are all prime aspects of yourself and your kind, are they not? And oftentimes individually, some vice tends to prevail over the others, as is the case with your own family, like how your black brother is certainly wrath, and your black sister is certainly lust. However, even as primarily wrathful or lustful as your siblings may be in this example, they are still no less possessed of all the other vices. And neither are you, just a wonder if you have a primary vice yourself, or seek a balance.

Importantly though, like a dark mirror, these evils which would bring ruin to the lesser races instead for your kind are the source of your greatness. Such is the dragon way, and why everything about dragons is amplified to the max; the rage of a billion burning suns because they are wrath personified, the laziness to make the entire world slave for tribute because they are sloth personified, and so on and so forth.
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>>3729556
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>>3729528
As much as you'd like to venture out and explore this strange new world, you decide it's for the best if you remain cautious and prepare. You are technically enemies with these people, after all. For the next few days then you foster an attitude among your followers to explore in your stead, but not just the city, the people too. You want your nobles, your knights, and even your cultist to learn what they can in preparation so that when you all gather again you have a good idea through them of the situation.

You meanwhile can at least become familiar with your surroundings, as you adjust to living in the guest estate. As you soon find out, it's not part of any castle but just it's own grounds within the city, probably some noble family's holdings in times past but now set aside for situations like your own. Seeing it all though does fill you terribly with envy, as you have imaginings of owning this city for yourself.

And as well in your free time, partaking of these... "sweets".

"You ate how much?!"

"I uh... bought the entire store."

To your niece's alarm she found you in one of the estate rooms, a sticky mess lying among an array of wrappers and crumbs and trouble breathing from a painfully distended belly. You learned of a bakery nearby which made delicacies like cakes and tarts and other sweets, and after so many runs of your servants back and forth bringing you everything you could eat, you just purchased the establishment outright. An impulse buy, but it was inevitable when you tasted just a little morsel at first and asked for more, then demanded more and stuffed your face with entire cakes.

In fact you probably wouldn't be able to contain yourself after all that sugar, and feel the need to go flying and engage in activity, if you weren't so gorged to the brim where you can feel it coming back up and have to keep swallowing to keep it down.

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After three days time then and everyone having the chance to adjust, apart from some minor incidents there hasn't been any trouble so it's time to plan. Gathering your nobles and knights, you want to develop a strategy for these negotiations. Before you had a mind to just intimidate your way through all this, but that was before the situation become serious.

The news, that the king of Ypren arrived in order to see these negotiations take place, as you are to meet with the Duke tomorrow.

>What do you do? And, what is your plan for these proceedings? What role do you intend to play, either passive or active?
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>>3730424
We should greet them as neighbors and express condolences for their late embassador, even if he was the agressor after we guaranteed his safety as their knights can attest, we should enquire why they feel the need to engage in economic embargoes with their neighbors if we never had official hostilities with one another, we wish to remain on good terms with them but if that is not their wish we can adjust our ambitions too.

Be courteous and friendly, but firm, show them what a dragon is.
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>>3730445
I like this plan It's very "speak softly and carry a big stick" as to our role in things we should let our experts handle most of the negotiating only Directly intervening when needed.
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>>3730424
>"I uh... bought the entire store."
nice, we should look into hiring a dessert baker for the castle once we return home.
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>>3730424
*facepalm*
Well, hopefully our clothes still fit.

>>3730445
Support
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>>3730549
they will remember we only have growth spurts when we Gorge AND are sedentary. we have been active so it's fine.
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Dollars to donuts, they want us to capitulate/become a territory of the greater kingdom or they are going to assassinate us. Probably both.
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>>3730599
they can surely try, shame they live in a highly flammable place, and with a couple of dead nobles on our side we could well use a situation like that
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>>3730599
I want them to try something, maybe using the logic that we are a monster not a ruler, if they breach the hospitality trust and attackbtheir guests I bet other countries would not look favorably to them.
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>>3730445
>>3730549
Come tomorrow then, you make all the necessary preparations; your relevant ministers assembled as well as a couple nobles with ties to Petrar, a pair of your best knights, and yourself to wear the finest elven clothes you have and your crown. Truly an impressive host to be reckoned with. After that it's just the travel the rest of the way up the heights of the city once an escort arrives.

"...I did not know humans could build such things."

Even you find yourself gasping in awe at the pinnacle of achievement that is the palace of Kelna. With walls and halls grand enough for giants, let alone humans and little dragons the size of horses. Even mother would have to be impressed by the grand edifices these humans have constructed, and for as mighty a being as you are... you can't help but feel small.

And ironically enough your followers don't seem at all awed the way you are. Perhaps because they've seen places like this before... or perhaps because as humans or partly human, it's an achievement they can share in while you're the odd one out. In any case though, you are escorted through the impressive halls of the palace on high over the city, eventually to the grand throne room. You've seen plenty of guards around the place of course, but by now plenty of others too following and observing at a distance; servants, Petraran nobility, officials and even visitors. It's not every day you see a civilized dragon much less a monarch.

Your focus though is to the end of the hall before expansive windows facing the sea, an impressive fellow oddly standing beside the throne.

"Announcing, her royal highness Queen Riona of Ostrela, first of her name!"

A crier proclaims your presence to the hall, a fine introduction to the curiosity of all those present, a help to dispel their concerns of why there's a dragon prowling the halls. You suffer an intense bout of depersonalization for a few moments however, as you realize the supreme strangeness of the situation; you a red dragoness dressed like a lesser race inside their structures and playing along in their games, accepted participant of their customs as if you were one of them. Of course you aren't one of them and never will be, in a sense you're just a monster in queen's clothes playing the part, and everyone knows it. And yet... no one says it, and indeed everyone plays along like actors on a stage in some farcical comedy orchestrated by the gods. Scratch the surface, reveal the truth and the whole thing would come crashing down, but no one dares to.
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It's not a bad thing, or a good thing, it suits your purposes just fine. It's just... very strange. These lesser races and their ways. In another world you'd just as easily be burning their homes and kidnapping their spouses while fighting against their warriors, but here you are feet to velvet carpet and a crown atop your head in their home as a welcome guest. It takes the speaking of the duke as he approaches, to bring you back to reality.

"I trust the road was well? We expected you sooner but I hear tell of your... amusement to our fair land."

A middle aged fellow, dressed well but not so fancily as the other nobles, you detect the air of a military background upon him per his behavior and mannerisms. The discipline that you know these humans value when it comes to conflict. You couldn't say what kind of ruler he is, but you take him to be a capable man beholden to order and tradition.

"You would know me as Duke Gaspard Lacombe du Petrar... shall we resolve this matter then?"

The nearer he gets the more officials gather... not to mention guards, but he stops at a tolerable space between you, stern to look you in the eyes but respectful enough to hold out a hand. Though, it's just a gesture since he actually has no idea how to properly greet one such as yourself, and simply defaults to the most basic form of greeting to segue into whatever you prefer. That is, before you all relocate to chambers more suited for negotiations.

>What do you do?
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>>3730629
Give him a claw to shake or kiss or whatever they do

"I'm happy to meet you Duke Gaspard, the smaller races(its a fact not an insult since we candidly switched from lesser to small) never cease to amuse me your [whatever title we use for Duke], indeed I was entertained and enjoyed my way to our meeting. Shall we?"
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>>3730629
We walk to meet him we raise paw/claws we tend a single claw and "shake hands". then say "I see you're a man of business wishing to get straight to business so be it." for this social engagement we need to be regal, yet Imposing, gracefull, yet Terrifying. we need to make them understand that we aren't looked in here with them, they are locked in with US!
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>>3730629
Well, we're here, let's lay down the facts.

Ostrela was, until recently, considered a part of Duke Gaspard's domain, a subsidiary of Petrar. He will no longer be receiving taxes from it as a result of our takeover, which puts him at a loss already.

However, he clearly doesn't want this to resolve violently, which there could be a whole host of reasons for. It could be simple curiosity, it could be that we provide a buffer state between his lands and the dragon-derived lineage of that other country, it could be that he really just doesn't care about the lands in question for whatever reason, it could be that reconquering the lands would not be profitable in his lifetime. Regardless of the reason, he wants this to end with as little bloodshed as possible, or at least without him being the one to instigate.

We can't really act until we know WHY he wants to resolve this peacefully, when conquering the lands over again is a definite possibility.

So, that all boils things down to a simple question:
"What do you want?"
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>>3730642
I agree this should be our first question once we are at the "table" so to speak. I still want to maintain the air of superiority. these nobles are like sharks if they get a hint of blood they will go for the kill. we must look strong and act strong.
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>>3730637
>>3730640
I like these

>>3730642
I agree, they know why we are here but we don't know why they accepted to see us, they know we want the end of the embargo and our greatest bargaining chip is to not become allied to Cestion and stay as a buffer between them
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>>3730642
You can extend your own draconic hand to his, skin to skin contact between species and to the murmurs of those gathered.

"I am happy to meet you Duke Gaspard. The smaller races never cease to amuse me Sir, indeed I was entertained and enjoyed my way to our meeting. I can see you are a man of business then, shall we?"

You speak your piece, and with formalities exchanged on all sides all around, you follow after as everyone is led through the palace to a proper meeting hall, one where you won't have to worry about other peoples butting in where they don't belong. Just only those immediately privy to the situation. Along the way though one of your ministers corrects you, you're not supposed to use his first name!

In any case though it's a fine enough room with a big table, interestingly off to the side rather than in the center. It seems the way dealings are done here, any relevant paperwork and such as well as those responsible for them are shunted off to the side to give room for the important matters, the actual meeting between parties to take place in the main portion of the room with nothing to stand between them like a table. Just chairs on either side facing each other, though without a proper sized chair for you, they just bring several footstools side by side for you to sit or lay on, whichever suits you.

"...for which the matters of, pertaining to these-"

"What do you want?"

There's all sorts of formalities that seem to have to take place before the dealings get underway, like the two sides to prepare and get situated, those with papers to lay and organize things out. Even some friendly talk first and food to be served. But over it all you know what the true purpose is, so you interrupt and speak up over all that formal nonsense to get to the point. You notice some surprised gasps as your breach of conduct, whispers about how improper it as and all that, but all you care about; the Duke smiles at your directness, the first time you've seen him smile even if only for a moment in approval of your action.
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You surprise them all with a break of custom, well he can surprise them all too by responding. He doesn't need some fancy-pants official to speak for him with flowery words.

"I want what is ours by right. Ostrela historically belonged to Ypren, the madness of some long dead Duke does not change that. Well... you fancy yourself its owner now? We played your little game, called you Queen, and if Ostrela is yours then so be it. That valley isn't worth Petraran blood, but it is worth our pride. We do not need to draw swords to crush you, so I want a reason to continue with this little charade. You may be a Queen now, so act like one, tell me what you have to offer that is worth Ostrela? To us, at least. Provide value that is worth ending this embargo."

People gasped at you, and now people gasp at him! Quite the scandalous breach of tradition this, but really, it all boils down to the two of you. One ruler to another, bargaining individual to individual, personally like the rulers of old. If you can shed all this worthless pomp and procedure, then so can he, and would prefer it that way if it settles the matter quickly and cleanly. Not to be lost in all that legalese wordplay babble the ministers and officials engage in to the confusion of all others, and likely themselves.

>What do you do? And, go ahead and make some rolls. Just one for yourself in negotiating if you feel confident alone, or two to bring others into the dealings besides yourself.
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>>3730700
the fucking stones of this man, to talk like that to a dragon, this guy is the real deal
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Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3730700
It is simple, I want you to end this embargo nonsense, like you said, It's not worth any more blood than it has already been spilt, the offer is quite simple, we look for trade partners and allies, and as I understand I have a very eager partner waiting for me at the other side of the valley, what I offer is that I do not favor neither of you and deal with both of yoy, a nice and stable buffer between the game of one upmanship and false bravado your nations partake to entertain your people and remind them the need of your noubles and knights.
Instability of worse, favoritism serves no one from where I sit.
And of course, I'm sure these merchants and pedlers that followed both of us here can sing the song of gold and present other multiple profitable reasons to do so.
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>>3730714
don't be fooled friend, he's just used to having power, but he has just the assumption of power, given to him by paper or titles, we are power, this rat could never hope to compare to us, but his arrogance comes from the acceptance of the others, unworthy acceptance since he cannot even fly or burn his enemies, he may command a nation, but in the end he is just a feeble man, he just doesn't realize it
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>>3730700
Rolling both us and our adds
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Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>3730700
Don't really know what to say
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>>3730718
God has forsaken this quest
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>>3730735
we could use more rolls
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>>3730721
Ignore what I said if its idiotic, I really don't know what I'm doing
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should we reroll guys?
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Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>3730700
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>>3730700
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>>3730741
no, we should save rerolls for a death saving rolls
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>>3730749
You changed your stance on them pretty quickly lol jk
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>>3730752
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

jk in case it wasn't clear
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>>3730746
thank you anon, that was rough

>>3730744
>69
>duke is suddenly aroused
kek
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>>3730746
>>3730744
Alright, so it's not a total failure...

...but what do you actually say to the guy?
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>>3730774
the thing is, we have nothing of value to offer that it's not peace and trade, I mean, if he keeps the embargo we will have to raid his lands, if we do that they will be forced to invade and if they invade we will call upon Cestion even if that costs us dearly, the real question is how far is he willing to go
we can offer trade deals, or even good prices on our ores since they don't seem to have much mountains but if he is not willing to trade with us we will look for those who are
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>>3730774
We need to make it clear that we will not be bullied and that Cestion is more than willing to draw more closely together it trafe and perhaps even an alliance. Of course, that would only happen should this economic Continue. What he needs to ask himself how far is he willing to escalate, how far is he willing to go Because we will meet him escalation for escalation.
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>>3730785
>>3730783
And between the two of us, if he burns and razes our cities we will just do the same to his and start over somewhere else, we have numerous of his lifetines to play this game and a long memory, I doubt he could defend every little crop of every little vilage from fire from the sky
But those threats are for when we are alone, don't want to show our people that they are compleately expendable if it means to exact revenge on this dude.

He has to remember he is not dealing with a lesser being like him, we can take action with our own hands, faster than any army and whenever we want.

Dragons are great at guerrilla warfare
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we could ask him how high a noble is their Dragonborn kek, sister probably planted someone here too, we could actually help them deal with that
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"My oh my! I knew it! There is a backbone in the mortal races, I just had to dig to find it. Most admirable. So then, you want a clear and present reason as to end the embargo? I had planned to sweeten you with whispers of the future war in Cestion had you the weakness of your court, but I see you have more robust desire. I am in the process of rejuvenating that stagnant valley, stoking fire and industry to its apex. The roads are being paved, the mines are being opened, and soon bellows will scream with my fire in the capitol. I want to enter into a most profitable venture of supplying you cheap and exclusive access to the product of Firebreath. I spare no subtlety. Cestion is facing an impending secession war in quite short order. I can give no more proof than word that it is the work of dragons that this begins. As such, in exchange for free and open travel across my borders, perhaps a small and reasonable tithe, and exclusive access to the power of industry I shall soon represent, I will give you all due strength in reaping your neighbor for all they are worth. What say you?
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>>3730800
I like your poxy, but we don't have to give him shit.
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>>3730800
>venture of supplying you cheap and exclusive access to the product of Firebreath.

very very against that
that's slavery
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>>3730800
oh, and before deciding to fuck Cestion over I would like to meet with them to see what they can offer for our support
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Does the Duke has a son or a daughter? If the negotiations fail we can resort tobthe oldest dragon tradition and kidnap someone to end the embargo
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>>3730809
How so?
>>3730807
Other than the tithe would we actually give him anything? Wouldnt it just be securing a buyer for the things we sell? Whats the alternative?
>>3730811
That might be nice. But we arent selling ourselves as a part of the war per say. You are right, we should probably talk to them a bit.
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>>3730824
its our only valuable commodity and we would be selling it cheap and exclusively to them, like we are their employees or servants
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>>3730830
>>3730824
and again, he is not the only country around, just the one giving trouble
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>>3730824
Appeasement never works, all we would be doing is arming our enemy with arms to use against us.
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>>3730799
"Out of curiosity, do you happen to have any black scaled half dragon frequenting your court?"
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>>3730837
Arguable, but there is some truth there.
>>3730832
>>3730830
Fine, well, war profiteering always involves picking sides. Consider what you can bear to do away with or prepare your biggest charm pants and some ego speeches
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>>3730850
I would throw my lot in with Cestion they sent troops to help us in the mini civil war and has maintained trade relations with us even when Petrar embargoed us
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Apologies for the little delay there, internet was spotty but should be good to go again.
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>>3730905
It happens man it cool
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>>3730744
>>3730738
>>3730732
>>3730730
>>3730726
>>3730718
>80

What a bold fellow this human is, the little worm! If he thinks he can dictate to you, he's got another thing coming!

"I can offer peace for a start, unless you like Petraran blood spilled! How much value is there in your lands and people remaining unburned?"

Gasps!

"Delightful the thought, I have always wanted a dragon head to mount on the wall."

More gasps! You and the Duke have at each other verbally, and stare one another down. This human is a bit more willful as to not bend to you so easily nor be influenced. You can see why he's the ruler here.

"Now now, is that any way to talk to a Queen?!"

What in the hells is this? Some older human fellow forces the doors to the room open despite effort to keep them shut, followed by some anxious looking servants trying to placate him and his well groomed and finely dressed self.

"Your highness, please!"

"My king you shouldn't-"

"Nonsense! Gaspard you devil, trying to have a party without me?! I'm wise to your tricks!"

The man shrugs off any attempts made to stall him from approaching you, and takes your draconic hand with a courteous bow... both confusing you and embarrassing you some. With all the commotion and efforts by the Duke to regain control of the situation, bitter look about him for this interruption, you learn this is in fact the king of Ypren. You'd heard he was going to spectate this meeting but for whatever reason was left out. Funny, you never would have guessed his royalty due to his lack of a crown, even the Duke has one.

"Forgive me my dear, I had wanted to welcome you earlier but was told this gathering would be the proper time. Well, who's gone and started it without me!"

A jolly fellow and seemingly none of the reserved fear or mistrust of you for being a dragon, he treats you like any other royal lady. A few guards would try to stop him from being so close to you, a monster, and several officials try to encourage him to the sidelines but he'll have none of it as he pats the top of your hand held up by his other.

"Come, come my dear! Let us walk, I feel it due to properly make acquaintance! Let this talk to the scribes, it is far beneath a Queen!"

"Your highness... I must insist, that is too dangerous."

The Duke scowls at the interruption while the royal guards now try to intervene, but the king yet again brushes them off... you notice this time with a vice grip of the guard's hand to remove from his shoulder when grabbed, and a deadly stare to the fellow.

"Nonsense! I'm not going to hurt her!"

Still spoken with the usual cheer however.

>What do you do?
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>>3730946
Obviously, we take the man up on the offer it's not every day you meet someone who is like this man. Since he has been nothing but respectful to us I feel we should reciprocate.
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>>3730946
"And neither will I hurt him, I had quite a nice meal before coming and I'm not hungry at all you don't need to worry your small little head Duke."

I love how the Duke hate this new development, time to stab a little
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>>3730958
Add the Duke Gaspard at the end for bonus and we are golden.

After we are walking

" So a king? I don't supose you breath fire but I imagine you still had to burn your fair share of insolents to reach where you are."
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How much do you guys want to bet that the king has a half dragon kod?
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>>3730958
>>3730957
Assuming this isn't some big ruse at your expense, you can't rightly deny a king! Accepting his hand, you allow him to lead you out of the room as you signal your own knights to stand down, to remain here and mind the proceedings while you're gone.

"And neither will I hurt him. I had quite a nice meal before coming and i am not hungry at all. You do not need to worry your small little head Duke Gaspard."

You speak with a cruel smile, but don't expect the king to also burst out laughing.

"Hah! Oh come now my dear, don't be too hard on him! He is a right and capable man I would trust with my life!"

There are some murmurs sure as you leave the room, but before the door is shut you can hear people starting to resume talking. Probably to get to the more official and documentary side of the negotiations, to has all the important things out and figure from either side what is tolerable, and reach a conclusion assumedly by the time you return.

Once the door is shut though, the king surprises you with a hug, and a quick kiss to either side of your face. You draw back half out of reflex, half out of intense confusion, but he tries not to offend you.

"-what are you doing?"

"Customary greeting in Ypren, apologies. I thought it appropriate at least for my royal sister-in-law. Come, there is a lovely garden here I know, that we can have some privacy... some."

He speaks of course of guards, both royal and local. Despite his commands unfortunately, you can't shake them as they always remain at some distance observing carefully and nervously, ready to dash in to protect and attack if need be... clearly their king with a dragon is discomforting. But he imagines in the gardens at least, it would be easier to find some space alone, and especially away from prying eyes of other peoples in general as you can already see folks gathered on the periphery watching and whispering.

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Well, privacy or not, he's right about the gardens being lovely. You're used to living in a forest, but you've never really gotten to appreciate the ways these humans can cultivate nature.

"King Ara.. zure... is it?"

"Please, just call me Mathis. At least as easy to say as Riona!"

While walking among the trees and hedges and privy to the fresh sea breeze, you try to pronounce his name, but unlike the Duke he is fine with you being on a first name basis. Well, even if Riona is not your real name.

"Now tell me, my Queen, what can be done to put this all behind us?"

"The embargo?"

"The separation! Forget this spat with Gaspard, let us unite our lands, as they once were. What would you desire for it? Tell me, anything. Fancy yourself Queen of Ypren? Anything!"

This is certainly a more pleasant way to have the same conversation, but it seems the King is keen on reaching a tier above what the Duke had in mind.

>What do you do?
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>>3731018
"If only you would step down and pass all your lands to me that would not do I'm afraid, since I would not share what is mine, I'm sure you know that since you called me sister-in-law, I assume you've met Illyrie?"

we obviously meant the passing of land as a joke, keep a friendly atmosphere
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>>3730971
>>3731018
>royal sister-in-law

I knew it!

"Why would I want to unite? Or better yet, why would you want to unite and bow to me as queen? Not that it would be strange to do so but humans usually need a little more incentive to reach that conclusion"
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>>3731031
support
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>>3731018
"Sister-in-law? Ah, well there is one thing that must be addressed before we may reconcile. Which of my siblings do you speak of?"
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>>3731049
>>3731031
You would assume that the king supersedes the duke in these matters, but of the two you already prefer talking to the king.

"If only you would step down and pass all your lands to me. That would not do I am afraid, since I would not share what is mine. I am sure you know that since you called me sister-in-law, I assume you have met Illyrie?"

Your mention of your sister brings a sentimental look to the king, and a sigh.

"Ah, Illyrie... I do miss her, she was something special... but wisdom is a requirement of any ruler, and I dare to say I would rather you to rule Ypren than her."

You're not sure if he's just speaking idly or if this is his real line of thought, but you can see how it would make sense if he speaks truly. If indeed he is one of Illyrie's pet projects, past lovers, then just as Cestion was worried about her coming to collect so might Ypren be worried. You can just imagine the sort of ruler your sister would be of these lands, and probably the king can as well... hence his appeal to you.

"Why would I want to unite? Or better yet, why would you want to unite and bow to me as Queen? Not that it would be strange to do so, but humans usually need a little more incentive to reach that conclusion."

"Royal marriages, political marriages are nothing strange, often cause for celebration through the land in fact. And what other noble... no, royal ladies have Ostrela as a dowry?"

"Rah! Marriage? To you?"

"Gods no my dear! I'm too old for that, and I have a wife already. But my son, the crown prince. He will inherit Ypren as King when I am gone, and you could as well, as Queen... and a restored Ypren at that, united once more with what was lost, Ostrela."

A bold suggestion more than you could imagine, if the old king intended to have you as his wife. But intending you for his son instead, essentially naming you as princess of Ypren to succeed him, although less bold is something that makes more sense. Though you don't fully understand human royalty and all that, complicated matters of succession and inheritance, by the sound of things at least you would indeed end up the Queen of the entire land. Perhaps only intended as safeguard against your sister, but Queen nonetheless, and because of the king being able to recognize the success of your reign and your competence as a ruler.
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At the very least it's a funny thought, you had envy of this city in a way, and imagined if you could take it for yourself. But something else entirely, to end up owning the whole land, setting aside just the city. Though, by your nature you imagine taking everything you want in life, taking it by force and by your will alone. Never to bargain, and certainly not bargaining yourself, as that's essentially what is on the exchange table currently; a fine dragon queen specimen up for sale. You would not even deign to imagine putting a price on yourself, though... there are much harder and much worse ways to get what you want...

>What do you do?
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>>3731152
"I see, I indeed would make a more accommodating ruler for your people than my sister, but I'm sure you know I could never accept such an offer, to accept would mean to be beneath you and your queen, and then even have to share the rule with your son, which is utterly unnaceptable, I only bowed to mother, and not even her anymore now that I'm away from her nest.
Tell me, do you worry my sister might come to collect what she is due?"
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>>3731152
Ask him"So you expect my dear sister to come to collect what she feels she is due and to keep her from taking control of your realm you would see it under the rule of your son and me?" We bow to no one. however, Taking over would be nice even more so if we can do it without bloodshed.
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>>3731152
"To be very honest to you I could never see myself under the rule of a lesser being, no offence intended, but your concern is valid if you are talking about my sister, who is the half-dragon? Your son?"
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at the end of the day only one question matters, if we were to disagree who would be given reason by right of rule? as an outsider and a female, they would probably defer to their king and that does not work for me
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>>3731191
exactly we would be a queen in name alone.
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Let's make it a matrilineal marrage anons so that we are the primary ruler and any children carry our name.I would accept that.
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>>3731211
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality
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>>3731211
but even if we did, we would still be under the king until he dies, what kind of dragon bows to a fucking human?
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>>3731211
See here is the thing, even if we do that how can we be sure the nobles of Petrar would ever accept our rule?
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>>3731152
"I will not lie, and say that this is not an enticing offer you present. Were I human, such an offer would be taken quite easily. All the same, it is not in my nature to accept, nor should you be so ready to offer.

"I am not bound by age as men are. Were I to accept, there are two possible outcomes. Either I outmaneuver your son, or his son, or his son after him, and take the throne solely for myself, ousting your lineage entirely, or, and I believe this far more likely, I am disregarded. Relegated solely to the role of an immortal advisor to the throne, the title Queen made an empty trapping that holds no authority. Your Dukes would ignore me as best they could, your son would tolerate me as little as possible, and I would become a mere pet. A showpiece, a conqueror who was conquered. Either your son or his son, or further down the line would have me killed as I chafed at my bonds, or I would leave myself.

"Moreover, the offer itself runs counter to my very nature. I am a dragon, to take what I want is intrinsic to what I am. While I need not be a reckless berserker, like my elder brother, or a thoughtless tyrant, like my elder sister, neither am I a scheming hedonist like my sister Illyrie, content to whore herself out to as many royal lineages as she can in the hopes of having a new nest to fly to, wherever she goes. It is simply not in me to accept an entire kingdom handed to me in anything but tribute, nor do I consider myself simply another pawn to be sacrificed for the right price.

"But that does not mean I am...intractable. If Illyrie has indeed gone to Cestion, as I suspect, she will turn her eyes upon the wider world soon enough. I, meanwhile, am content not to expand east or west, for the moment, but instead northwards. My intent is to, to an extent, fortify and militarize Ostrela, so that no army, however large, could simply march through in casual conquest. With Illyrie agitating your neighbor across the mountains, how appealing do you see a fortified Ostrela bottlenecking and delaying any force she tries to send to you?

"I need not even fight her, not truly. Simply make it far too expensive to do so. Taxing the trade and ensuring safe passage for merchants over land will fund my venture, and I need only balance it against appealing to Cestion and Ydren in my own tax laws. Ones which, at the moment, would certainly favor Ydren as recompense for taking Ostrela in the first place. Ostrela is safe, trade by land is cheaper and easier than trade by sea, and I like to think I can be quite reasonable in matters of taxation and tribute.

"What say you, King?
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>>3731226
BEHOLD MY AUTISM! MY ESSAY! MY TL;DR!

I'm going to bed now.
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>>3731226
>would certainly favor Ydren as recompense for taking Ostrela in the first place.
Take this part out and you have my support
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>>3731226
I like it

One thing the king is failing to see is that his bloodline dues with his son, when he dies and his son dies and we are made queen, we simply won't leave the throne, his descendants will never rise to.power and we will probably marry again

The worry the king had is that sister has a hold in Cestion, but I think she has a hold here too, he wants to bring us over so our sister can't take over his kingdom
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>>3731226
Expand northwards would mean going after the dwarves and the the green dragon? Good for me

>>3731244
I agree with you
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>>3731244
>>3731246
>>3731251

Hey, the entire thing is open to editting. Feel free to cherry pick things or take things out. My autistic ramblings are here to work with you.
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We could turn the tables and ask him to merge his kingdom with ours. basically Ostrela+Petrar= the greater kingdom of Ostrela
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>>3731255
Petrar is just the duchy I think, his actual kingdom is Ypren, which is quite larger
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Forgive me, I'd already written this out by the time you posted. I'll try to work it in next though.

>>3731174
>>3731165
>>3731159
An interesting proposal but not a very realistic one you think.

"So you expect my dear sister to come to collect what she feels she is due, and to keep her from taking control of your realm you would see it under the rule of your son and me? Tell me, who is the half-dragon? Your son?"

"My first born, yes. Born out of wedlock I am ashamed to say, this was before I met my wife of course, when I was myself a young prince. It is not my fear alone that she will come for the son however, others fear it too. What she may be capable of, if we refuse her..."

You can see how it would be a scary situation to be in, the same predicament Cestion is in. Indeed it is a cruel and cunning web your sister has woven, sowing her seeds in the form of eggs years ago, to let them take root and now come to harvest now that fruit has come to bear. If indeed she has her own little checklist of sorts, of all the important children she bore to the lesser races, then her potential for wealth and power is... immense. Possibly more than mother even, if Illyrie were to play her cards right, and she's the sort you expect would.

Even a kingdom as mighty as Ypren, to be faced with the threat of a black dragon and one like her, is no laughing matter.

"To be very honest to you I could never see myself under the rule of a lesser being, no offense intended. I indeed would make a more accommodating ruler for your people than my sister, but I'm sure you know I could never accept such an offer. To accept would mean to be beneath you and your queen, and then even have to share the rule with your son, which is utterly unacceptable. I only bowed to my mother, and not even her anymore now that I am away from her nest."

"Ah, well you may look at me and see... Gods willing I may yet live a long and happy life, but I am not a young man, nor is my wife a young woman. We will not be around forever, certainly not a dragon's age I wager. As well, I feel it would be remiss of me to not indicate that my wife was a noble lady before we wed, but indeed not a queen. Things would be different for one of your stature."
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By now, for as serious a topic as this, the two of you cease walking and find a place to sit and converse properly without distractions. You just find a wide open spot on the grass to lay, and while the king had intended for a bench for himself, rather than to have to sit at a distance and talk between you he hesitantly comes to sit down on the grass as well... after looking around for anyone watching, and with a laugh himself once seated, probably years or even decades since having done something as carefree as reclining on a lawn.

"You will forgive me for being very honest to you, but I had thought more of dragons. If you do not think yourself capable of taking control even starting from a position as high as queen, then I suppose we should not have much reason to fear your sister. Perhaps we overestimated your kind, and she shan't pose a threat to our land."

Ouch, that hurt. But it's not like you weren't disrespectful yourself, nor does the king speak maliciously to you. It's more just a revelation for him, it seems those with the knowledge of it are terrified of Illyrie rearing her head, but maybe you dragons aren't such a danger after all. Not even just physically, but in terms of ambition, your sister might not even bother rearing her head around here. Not that any of this is true, just simply the king hopes it is; then he wouldn't have to bother you about alliances and he could rest easy about his son.

>What do you do?
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>>3731226
>>3731265
This, but change the first line to something more appropriate, and remove the bit about favorable tariffs with Ydren as per that one anon's request. We can always negotiate on that later, and he's right that we shouldn't offer it immediately.

All in favor?
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>>3731272
yup, your posts answer his question very nicely
I think for a human it's difficult to understand that no matter what he may offer it's against our very nature to bow to one of them, even for as short as his life may be, they are so used to serving and bowing and kneeling that they can't understand someone incapable of doing so
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>>3731272
Sure but maybe we offer him the reverse deal on his death our two kingdoms merge but in our favor. Ypren becomes apart of the greater Ostrela and his son becomes our king
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>>3731281
one edit we should do it to remove
> and I believe this far more likely

add at the end,

Just because I don't partake in your little human games of power and do not bow to any human it doesn't mean my sister would be beneath it, she is especially dangerous because pride means nothing to her and she can grovel and skulk in your lie riddled courts to get what she wants, the offer you just made me, she would accept in a heart beat and have you and your son removed as soon as possible.
Dragons, as men, are not all the same my deal Matthis.
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>>3731246
Well it seems he assumes you would have children with his son, thus his bloodline doesn't end, just becomes partly draconic. After all, he knows better than anyone that dragons and humans (or dragons and anything for that matter) can crossbreed. Now, whether or not you're willing to step aside and let your children rule, or simply occupy the throne yourself till your own distant death, isn't something he's seemed to have taken into account because as you said as a human he has a hard time conceptualizing the concept of a being as long-lived as you being involved in the scene. He would eventually just die to let his children rule after him, before they were old or died, but you of course could outlive all your children, grandchildren, great and possibly even great-great grandchildren or more, if they were half-human.
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>>3731287
If the other anon supports it, we can add it in.
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>>3731287
support, I still think we should offer him the reverse of his deal on his death we absorb his kingdom into ours and we take his son as our king
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>>3731289
Yeah, I was meaning to let him know that, as a dragon, he can hardly expect us to ever let go of the throne, and even if we gave children with his son, they would never see the crown as we would outlive them all, effectivelly putting an end at his royal line, he cannot expect us to be a widow forever after his son eventually dies of old age too.
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>>3731293
Though, one would assume that when you do die, your distant great X grand children from his son would be there to take over.
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>>3731297
that is discounting the descendants of our many many other future lovers.
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>>3731303
Well he doesn't take you for that kind of dragon, like your sister. Is he wrong?
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>>3731305
humans have short life spans compared to dragons if love blossoms after we are widowed then we will answer.
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>>3731297
Would they? Or will one of the descendents of the 10 or so husbands we had after him try to claim the throne? Will his family even be relevant or have a claim after so many centuries away from the crown? What if we meet a dragon and start a pure dragon family line?
Realistically, it would be very hard for his blood to ever see the throne after his son, unless he plans to have us removed after our sister is dealt with, which brings its own set of problems

>>3731305
Not lovers, but proper husbands, or does he expect us to remain a widow for centuries after his son dies?
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anyway, I'm going to sleep guys, don't do anything hasty while I'm out, see ya
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Sure, support this. We should also warn him about similar situations in other kingdoms, if he doesn't already know about them, as a gesture of good will. Regardless of whether our sister personally comes to collect, Ypren is going to have to deal with her or those under her influence.

>>3731289
We are young, and barely free from mother. Is being tied down with a marriage and be stuck with the tedium of managing a large, mature kingdom (basically managing old noblemen) what we want to do?
I miss adventuring, and dealing with adversaries and potential allies on an individual basis.
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>>3731287
>>3731272
>>3731282
>>3731226
In any case, distill it. See a lot of edits and changes brought up, so what's the core of your response to him?

>>3731316
One would assume that any partners you have after his son, if they resulted in children, would have a lesser claim than those with his son. Like you very well could after his son died, marry yourself a dragon, and have full dragon offspring. But that dragon is an outsider as would be the children, compared to your firstborn with a double parentage claim to the throne rather than single. Not to mention the country's support of any such situation. Just because you'd be queen possibly, doesn't mean people will automatically follow every choice you make, like if that includes removing any Ypren blood from the throne in favor of outsiders. You're an outsider yourself, the people might accept one level of outsider but probably not two levels of it.

More than anything it seems, the king may mistake you for being the sort who would care more about her firstborn children than subsequent ones. You very well could just remarry after his son dies, but perhaps he's wrong to think that you would still care about your children already had. That you wouldn't pass them over for your heirs, in favor of later children.
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>>3731323
Time to use all rerolls! Mwahahaha!
>>3731330
I want to get on that dwarven business soon, maybe make a nice campaing like Eisling was.
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>>3731330
Bro we are a dragon even when we have a mature kingdom we can do what we want including disappear for weeks at a time to adventure and generally raise kan
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>>3731330
I mean we could let the son do all the managing while we adventure and then everyonce in awhile show up and wave our big dragon dick around and show dominamce feed for a couple months and go out expanding the kingdom again. Having a human part er honestly dosnt sound too bad. As long as they recognize we are head bitch.
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>>3731331
Basically just this>>3731226 and this>>3731287

>>3731331
Would we even be outsiders after 300 years? Every noble that was born was born under us and would never have had Matthis family in rule, and as we would favor our children, our children with his son would be long dead, while maybe, our children with our newest husband would be alive and well, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but there are plenty of what ifs for him to consider.
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>>3731331

this
>>3731226
with a warning to take sister seriously with this>>3731287
maybe even tell him she has her claws on Cestion too
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>>3731331
part 1 mega edit

“No, my dear king you haven’t let me clarifiy a few things for you. Just because I don't partake in your little human games of power and do not bow to any human it doesn't mean my sister would be beneath it, she is especially dangerous because pride means nothing to her and she can grovel and skulk in your lie riddled courts to get what she wants, the offer you just made me, she would accept in a heartbeat and have you and your son removed as soon as possible. Dragons, as men, are not all the same my dear Matthis.
I am not bound by age as men are. Where I to accept, there are two possible outcomes. Either I outmaneuver your son, or his son, or his son after him, and take the throne solely for myself, ousting your lineage entirely, or, and I believe this far more likely, I am disregarded. Relegated solely to the role of an immortal advisor to the throne, the title Queen made an empty trapping that holds no authority. Your Dukes would ignore me as best they could, your son would tolerate me as little as possible, and I would become a mere pet. A showpiece, a conqueror who was conquered. Either your son or his son, or further down the line would have me killed as I chafed at my bonds, or I would leave myself.
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>>3731357

"Moreover, the offer itself runs counter to my very nature. I am a dragon, to take what I want is intrinsic to what I am. While I need not be a reckless berserker, like my elder brother, or a thoughtless tyrant, like my elder sister, neither am I a scheming hedonist like my sister Illyrie, content to whore herself out to as many royal lineages as she can in the hopes of having a new nest to fly to, wherever she goes. It is simply not in me to accept an entire kingdom handed to me in anything but a tribute, nor do I consider myself simply another pawn to be sacrificed for the right price.

"But that does not mean I am...intractable. If Illyrie has indeed gone to Cestion, as I suspect, she will turn her eyes upon the wider world soon enough. I, meanwhile, am content not to expand east or west, for the moment, but instead northwards. My intent is to, to an extent, fortify and militarize Ostrela, so that no army, however large, could simply march through in casual conquest. With Illyrie agitating your neighbor across the mountains, how appealing do you see a fortified Ostrela bottlenecking and delaying any force she tries to send to you?

"I need not even fight her, not truly. Simply make it far too expensive to do so. Taxing the trade and ensuring safe passage for merchants overland will fund my venture, and I need only balance it against appealing to Cestion and Ydren in my own tax laws. Ostrela is safe, trade by land is cheaper and easier than trade by sea, and I like to think I can be quite reasonable in matters of taxation and tribute.

Or I could offer you the reverse of what you have asked of me. on your death, our two kingdoms merge but in my favor, Ypren would become part of the kingdom of Ostrela and your son would become my king.

"What say you, now my dear King?

One more thing my dear Matthis, Illyrie was the most cunning and dangerous of us all. Your kingdom is not the only one that is facing her terror. She has sown her children far and wide. Dangerous time are ahead for us all.
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>>3731357
>>3731359
So this is basically an edited version of the other anons post with all of our changes added in. feel free to check if I made a mistake or forgot something.
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>>3731331
We will love all our children equally and watch over all our descendants. we will be great grandma Riona even to our great great great....great grandchild. half dragon or full dragon.
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>>3731359
I think that reverse offer is too wild and might actually offend him dude, it's basically saying, bow to me instead.

Let's see how he reacts to what we say before we go there, what do you think?
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>>3731359
Ill support this

I wonder how things change the more % dragon they get. What if we fuck our kid for 75% dragon do they end up living longer amd just being a bupedal dragon. What about 87.5% is there a sweer spot where they get all the benefits of both human and deagin kind.
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>>3731378
No incest.

>>3731377
ok I agree, we can hold off on the reverse deal for now
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>>3731378
You could probably just look for pics of transformation between human and dragon and get an idea of what it would look like with an increasingly more dragon-gene person.

I think maybe not look for pics like that though? Not sure how likely you are to find clean pics of that.

>>3731377
>>3731349
>>3731359
Very well then, you can pose this to him and see how he responds. As far as you can tell though, most of his decision is based upon the worry of your sister possibly taking control. So he's basically weighing two options of two futures for his land; rule between one of two dragons. Either you who has proven to be a benevolent and capable ruler, or your sister who is a scheming and cruel being without much care for people. Neither choice for him are ideal but he thinks it's a choice that may need to be made and he'd rather choose you.

In any case, we'll give other players the chance to see and catch up with all this by tomorrow and then we can continue from there. Till then, thanks all for playing! And as always if you have any questions or ideas you can post them and I can clear up any confusion.
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>>3731437
Goodnight 1 ID post maybe Scales
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>>3731440
Indeed it is I, 1ID post Scales. For a limited time offer, choose a member of Riona's family and you get to play as them instead!

>Mother
>Andrier
>Illyrie
>Ymirro
>One of Illyrie's many children
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>>3731443
Nah I am sticking with Riona, I have grown attached to her.
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>>3731443
>>Mother
but I would be completely open to the idea of an interlude where we play as mother
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The way I see this whole situation is like this:

If we accept and unite Ypren with Ostrela, then according to the map >>3731152 , Petrar would be completely surrounded by us! But like everyone has pointed out, that would mean that we’d be beneath humans. And I agree with everyone saying that’s not going to happen.

Hmmm, I actually don’t know what to do here!

And I’m confused on which son he wants us to marry. Is he talking about the child he had with our sister or the child he had with his human wife?

We should probably give the king a warning. If the people are afraid of your sister coming, they may attempt storming the castle to kill him and the son he had with her, thinking that might stop your sister from coming.

If he asks why we brought that up, we’ll tell him about our other nephew, Arren, who had to run away from Ruenvel because the people there had killed his father and attempted to kill him as well. He’s currently hiding in one of the towns in Ostrela. We’re not sure if our sister is going to come for him or not.

>>3731461
*cuts to mother*
Nom, nom, nom! I’m so glad my children have moved out. Now I don’t have to share food with them anymore! It’s all mine! Nom, nom, nom!
*interlude ends and we switch back to Riona*
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>>3731443
>Ymirro
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>>3731505
Petrar is part of Ypren.

As for intended to marry, it's his human legitimate son who is set to inherit. Since one, he wouldn't expect you to marry your nephew and two, his half-dragon son is illegitimate and can't inherit except like if everyone else in the family died.
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>>3731505
I see it differently.
At this moment right now, we are between both Cestion and Ypren.
Cestion already made nice to us and secretly voiced their concerns about Illyrie, and now we hear the same from Ypren. All three of the kingdoms currently have something in common; we don't want Illyrie to gain influence any where near our region.
However, should we, a neutral country separating these two greater kingdoms were to lean one way or another, it would threaten the balance of power and leave the other more vulnerable to her influence, what with now having to deal with a rival kingdom right on your doorstep, with access to a dragon, no less. For the now weaker kingdom, gaining the favor of a dragon of their own will now seem much more attractive.
I guess the question becomes; do we want to potentially rule a great, preexisting kingdom while gaining a rival kingdom as a neighbor, or do we want to peddle influence as the only gateway between two kingdoms AND also being the constant counter to whatever ambitions Illyrie may have in this entire region.

I mean, do we really want to get married already? I don't think it's been even a full year since left mother's lair yet. We've also yet to capture our own princess, gather a horde large enough to sleep on, and see our certain knightess happily married with children.
I mean, what would our she-elf think if the first time we went to a city we came back married? To a human, no less? (who couldn't even hope to sweep us off our feet and drag us tail-first atop his enormous and glistening horde)
The absolute SHAME!
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>>3731265
I can see why so many fell for her. What man wouldn't be enamored by the thought of leaving your mark on her and seeing white run down her black scales?
I can see now why she is so dangerous
It'd be hard to refuse any offer she makes.
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>>3731613
To be fair, you're not that young by dragon standards. Fifty years, mother kept you all under her wings for such a time, since her previous broods didn't survive being let out at younger ages.

>>3731510
>>3731505
>>3731461

You are Enlyth! Great red dragoness, mightiest of the age and possibly in the world at present, certainly the continent. You have power and wealth beyond measure, and now more space to breathe without your children around... where did those little wyrms get off to this time?

An issue with having such wealth and power though, it seems someone is trying to steal it from you! At your age and the amount of time you spend sleeping on your gold, you're keenly aware when someone is snooping around and stealing treasure. The problem is, this fucker is invisible! Wherever they are, must have some magic item obscuring them from sight...

>What do you do?
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>>3731905
"well well well, who could it be this time?"

make it rain gold with a swing of our tail, see where the thief is when the gold hit them, we were getting a little hungry
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>>3731965
+1
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>>3731905
>Wherever they are, must have some magic item obscuring them from sight...
Invisibility only prevents you from seeing them. It’s doubtful that invisibility covers their scent. Try smelling for them.

Or you can try listening for them. Grabbing anything from your treasure pile would make noise of some kind. Especially if they’re unfortunate enough to grab something from the bottom and cause an avalanche!

>>3731965
That could also work.
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>>3731990
>>3731965
Both
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>>3731990
We could also try rolling around until we feel something go crunch under us. We’re big enough that it’s doubtful the intruder could get out of the way before getting squished.
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>>3731965
>>3731985
>>3731990
>>3732055
Someone stealing from you? That won't do.

"Well well well, who could it be this time?"

From deep within your voice rumbles and echoes about the cavern, without even moving yet as your eyes peer around and your nostrils flare to your breathing.

Sure you could roll and crush them but that would be so much effort. Instead, you can smell them... you can hear them. You listen for the sounds of treasure shifting and smell for the scent of outside. Eventually you feel confident of having located the relative area the intruder is, and with a whip of your long tail you scatter treasure in that direction. A shower of gold and jewels fly across the area but some collide with something invisible, as you quickly slam down your clawed hand, shaking the cavern and scattering more treasure every which way.

A panicked yell, the sound of a fall, and the intruder becomes visible; a grubby little human? Or is it a human child, but do they normally have hairy feet?

"There you are... thief."

"Th-Thief?! O-Oh n-no, n-no th-thief! I-I... ahem, I m-merely came to gaze upon your majesty, and s-see if the legends were true!"

Crawling backwards out from between your massive claws, the little intruder flies into some blithering excuse about his true purpose here. You can sense his fear though, how quickly he's breathing.

>What do you do?
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Ok guys, after some thinking I came up with something different that may open the king's eyes to the situation

the last thing he said was

>"You will forgive me for being very honest to you, but I had thought more of dragons. If you do not think yourself capable of taking control even starting from a position as high as queen, then I suppose we should not have much reason to fear your sister. Perhaps we overestimated your kind, and she shan't pose a threat to our land."

we should respond that with a very hearty and draconic laught

"Oh my dear Mathis, you identify my pride as my biggest weakness and immediatly attacks it to try and make me abandon it? daring me to not have pride and accept? I comend you for the effort but you can't help but see the situation from your point of view, while mine is very different.
We dragons are almost timeless my king, if I want your lands I'll take my time and take them at my leisure, create an opportunity, build support and foundations for my rule, I like things that stand, not ephemeral court intrigues in search of power."

we get close to him, so only he can hear us and not all those people watching

"Where you see danger in my sister arrival, I see great opportunity, she has laid with every monarch and high noble from every kingdom I know, when she comes she will try to usurp, one by one, maybe yours will be the first, maybe it will be Cestion, but what it is innevitable is that there will be those who will resist, she will not be able to charm and seduce all your dukes, I'm sure you know those who would be loyal and whose who would not be loyal, and civil war will come to your kingdom."

Let him see that a little bit

"I could marry your son, and then when she comes we both would have to try and secure the loyalties of everyone, but with my presence she would probably take it as a challenge not a danger, a friendly wager between sisters that would cost your kingdom it's people and it's wealth"

"But dragons, as men, are not all the same Mathis, where she desires quickness I desire firmness.
That is not to say that I would not help you however, you will lift the embargo, you will offer me great deals and advantages, to bring prosperity and wealth to my queendom, my smiths and mines will produce the steel necessary and my people will be ready to fight for me, because when the first sparks of conflict start to rise, either here or in Cestion I'll be able to assist you in defeating her or your enemies, for a price of course,it is said I'm very reasonable with my tributes..."

"You should never mistake my unwilliness to bend the knee as lack of ambition, you are just not realizing the storm of opportunity that approaches, and having a dragon in good term with you can be a valluable asset."


I think this way we can explain to him what is coming if he already doesn't know, and we affer a reasonable way out for him, we start to focus on training and armaments, we shall be a force to be reckoned with
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>>3732162
"is it now thief? to gaze upon me is already stealing, already a crime, maybe I should pluck your eyes and add it to my treasure since they were mine the moment you looked at me"

pick him up as gentle as we can, upside down and shake him to see what falls from his pockets
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>>3732166
Bullshit

No fucking way is that post under 2000 characters.

How the shit can you make posts that long and I have to break mine up as the OP?
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>>3732181
2974 characters. You should have a limit of 3000. Where are you getting 2k from?
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>>3732196
Something's fucky here...
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>>3732181
>OP doesn't have a gold account to write as much as he wants
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>>3732162
Tell him that you know he’s lying, you can smell it on him.

Then pick him up so he’s upside down and shake him so that everything he stole falls out and is returned to the treasure pile. If everything he owns also falls out, then that’ll also be added to the treasure pile, since he’s not going to live long enough to need any of his things anymore.

After we’ve gotten everything off of him, thank him for donating to our treasure pile, then toss him in our mouth. Make sure we chew, so that he doesn’t somehow live long enough to somehow kill us from the inside!
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>>3732166
This is nice, Illirie will wreck the shit out of his nobles and having us as a strong ally is the second best he can hope short of having us under him like he hopes

Or he could do the simple thing and give us his crown and live his life as a Duke.

It's funny how we came in here with nothing and the moment he told us his first fucking born is from our sister we hold all the cards.
The "kid" should be pretty old by now if he was from the time the king was a prince, maybe he even has a family already. If the king accepts our proposal we can even let his dragon son live at our forest edge settlement so he is away from court intrigue, we can say he is there as an embassador representing Ypren's interests, so that way he will have a tangible benefit from our deal.
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>>3732170
Ask him how he became invisible too
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>>3732170
support this, I don't want to kill him yet. we still need to know why he was stealing from us

>>3732166
I like it I'll support it
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If we play our cards right we can take over both kingdoms without ever having to raise a claw to take them!
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>>3732259
>>3732170
What a little liar, you didn't get to your age to be fooled by some miniscule morsel. You consider playing with him, or taunting him with words... but those are things your children, your daughters would do. Even speaking nowadays, takes so much effort...

You aren't a witty tormentor, or so cruel to play wit your food. You're a force of nature, you are the storm.

"Liar. Die now."

A little scream as you bring your fist down and crush the intruder. As soon as you drag your hand back, kobolds scurry in from every which way to strip the body of valuables and stolen treasure.

The fast ones do at least, your patience is thin as you soon after scoop up the body and a number of screaming kobolds too slow at their work, and shove all of them in your mouth. The screaming and squirming ceasing once you start chewing.

Never in a thousand years could it be enough though, as you return to resting, and having your small army of captive princesses from all over to massage your colossal body. You ponder, and think of greater sources of tribute....

"My children..."

"Your Greatness? They left some time ago, you remember? To... make something of themselves I suppose, though why they would ever want to be free of your glorious presence is beyond m-"

"How long until they provide tribute?"

You brought them into this world, raised them up. They had better be showing their gratitude before long... otherwise you can take them out of this world.
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End of interlude! Return to play as Riona!

We'll continue as usual today, though in a couple hours from as I need to duck out for awhile. At least that's the plan, there may be a slight problem that my main computer seems to be having technical issues, but hopefully it won't hinder things.
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>>3732415
Mom's awesome!
And she has kobolds! Envy trait activated!
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>>3732420
Well shit looks like mom isn't done with us. Also we will have to send some tribute. We may bow to no lesser race but we sure as shit will bow to mom
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>>3732415
>colossal body
Could we get an approximation of how big mother is? I’d like to know how big she is.

>"How long until they provide tribute?"
Uhhh, oops. Looks like Riona either forgot about that or she foolishly assumed she didn’t have to give anything back to mother.

>>3732432
>kobolds
If only Scales’ coin flip here: >>3718095 , had landed on kobolds. Then we’d already have a bunch of them!

I’m not blaming Scales, I’m blaming the coin for landing on goblins.
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>>3732500
Don't be hating on our little gobos
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Scale I have a hypothetical I want to run by you, If I take an apple and use magic to make it bigger let's say the size of a basketball how will that affect its nutritional value. will it still only be worth one normal apple or would it now be worth more apples since it is bigger? the reason I ask is what mother said here

>"Never in a thousand years could it be enough though"

If making food Item bigger does in fact scale the nutritional value with size then I think we just figured out what we can give mother as a tribute. Since honestly, I can't stand the thought of being eternally hungry. just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine.
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>>3732922
It would be like a super apple, however the amount of magic required to do that would be insane.

>>3732500
Of a scale of this size or so. Whereas a normal full grown wild dragon could eat a human in one bite/swallow them whole, mother can eat a full grown wild dragon in one bite/swallow them whole.

>>3732420
Going to continue now.
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>>3733051
Ok good! Then what we need to do is fund the construction of a mage University. attract students and make it part of the cost of coming to the school learning the Supersize spell "Volunteering" time to use said spell on foodstuffs this will be our tribute to mother.


also, GOD DAMN mama is fucking scary
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In the short term tho we can start by forming a mage guild based in the town at the edge of the forest. or maybe even have some Mages live at our Castle and appoint one our High Archmage. Either way, I think supply mother with the means to alleviate her hunger is a seriously good thing to do.
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>>3733065
>>3733051
As said though, mother is an extreme example and the likes of a "once-a-millennia" individual, or so. The vast majority of dragons are wild dragons (meaning they roam and don't have lairs), and they never grow bigger than elephants, since that's about the size-limit of still being able to fly. Most in fact are around your current size, horses or so. The energy/nutrition requirement of being active is simply too demanding for wild dragons to ever grow big, it takes dwelling dragons like mother who have lairs and do nothing but slumber and eat, to grow to such huge sizes. And there are very few dragons who can dwell, are able to slumber in lairs and live off tribute, let alone grow so big.

Hence why races and civilizations from across this continent paid respects to mother (and those close enough paid tribute), because she's definitely the dragon of the continent, if not the world at this current time.
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>>3733095
Even if she is one of a kind she is an ideal for all dragonkind to strive toward even if we can't reach it. also just a side observation she could literally eat us in two bites.
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>Far and away across the land, in a city of Petrar between a king and a dragon...

>>3732331
>>3732320
>>3732166
>>3731613
>>3731505
>>3731359
You speak your piece then to Mathis. You say how you aren't interested being subservient to anyone or anything, aren't interested in bargaining yourself away. And even if you were to go along with this, it's too risky a situation for yourself, too potentially unstable. It's flattering that a king of a great human nation would want to join houses with you, but you are not as compatible with these humans as he thinks.

"I pray then, that your sister does not come to take control of this land... and if she does, then I would further pray she does not do the same elsewhere. Ypren, Cestion, you speak of one or the other, but you may find yourself surrounded on all sides in time..."

He's not upset with the refusal, it was only ever a pipe dream to begin with. He's just disappointed, since you were, on short notice at least, the best answer to their problem and an appealing answer at that. He only hopes, you will not come to regret this refusal of alliance between your countries. Though with political union off the table you return to the original matter at hand, of the breakdown between your country and Petrar, the embargo. You dictate your terms to him which are reasonable enough you think, but he's not such a pushover.

"Marriage may be off the table then, but there is no other way for our lands to unite? I did say anything, well offering you Queenship wasn't enough I suppose, but even if you are not interested in uniting our families, is there nothing to interest you in Ostrela becoming part of Ypren as it always had been?"

Mathis brings up his original proposition again. He only mentioned marriage as some fantastic offer, but the core matter of Ostrela is still of interest to him and his people. He wants the trouble between you and the Duke resolved of course, but his preference of that resolution would of course be to regain what is rightful Ypren land, originally another Duchy in fact just like Petrar. In his hopes, perhaps there is some other exchange or agreement that could be made to this end?

>What do you do?
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>>3733110
Less than that. That smaller dragon is showing the largest most dragons ever get normally. But you're not even nearly that size, remember.
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>>3733157
is this guy senile? we opose the mariage not because of some repulse of humans or something but because we don't want to be under him, we made that very clear, and his answer is
"ok, don't marry my son but still come and serve me"
what the fuck?
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>>3733168
There's other ways of combining lands without you being under him. Like hells, you just sell them your country, and get their whole treasury or something for it. Just one possibility. He knows you're not interested in tying yourself at the hip to Ypren, but wants to know if there's a way for your land to do so even if you personally have no interest of having that relationship yourself.
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>>3733157
"My sister is coming, and you will just roll over ans accept that, refusing my offer to help you, or even to take your son to my lands and make him an embassador? I may be surroubded but you think she will be able to act on both countries at once? To manipulate and coordinate two monarchy coups at the same time? If she manages to do that, and you humans just accept that, then I will congratulate her, but I very much doubt that"

"Tell me then, is there a way for us to unite forces against her with both of us remaining independent?"
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>>3733157
>He only hopes, you will not come to regret this refusal of an alliance between your countries
alliance? he was never offering alliance! we offered alliance, all he wanted was servitude, this fucking king is the shitiest of them, I seriously don't get him

>>3733179
oh yeah, leave everything behing, so long and tanks for all the fish
damn, what an unreasonable fuck this guy is, he wants a dragon ally, when we affer him one he says, "nu hum"
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King Matthias, I ask you would you trade your title as a king for that of a duke? Because that is what you are asking of me. I have chosen to make Ostrela my Den so to speak and its natural bounty and its people are my horde. What kind of Dragon would I be if I let my horde and Den fall without a fight? I would be no kind of dragon at all, I am genuinely sorry Matthias but there is nothing that could convince me to give up my home. However, that doesn't mean that our two lands have to be enemies. I propose a counteroffer. Should Ypren come under siege by dear sister I and the full might of Ostrela would come to your aid. I plan to make this same offer to Cestion in time my dear Matthias. what do you say, King Matthias would you be willing to join my Defense coalition?


>>3733166
Holy ass blasting diarrhea batman! not only can mother eat us in a single bite she could hold us in the palm of her hand!
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>>3733217
I spent longer on this than I should have. but really I think froming a coalition is the best option. because he is right if big sis comes knocking I want to have backup.
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>>3733222
if big sis comes knocking his ass is on the frying pan, not ours, she won't just say, hey, my kid is here so everyone follow me now, no, there will be war, there will be those against, there will be blood, and he is willing to have his country bleed instead of allying to us against her, the first one to be afraid should be him, and not us, and whatever fight that happens will happen in his soil not ours
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>>3733234
Its like Benjamin Franklin said, "We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately," Our sister isn't the type to just let us be in what she perceives as her Domain. if we let Ypren or Cestion fall to her influence than it is only a matter of time before she comes for us. We have before us a golden opportunity to take steps to prevent her from having the chance to even gain a foothold and I think we would be a fool to wast it.
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>>3733247
and that is exactly what we offered him and he would not accept!

we offer him to be a buffer, to come to his aid, to fight alongside his loyal troops against our sister and his answer was simply no, because apparently he only accepts our servitude or our lands, not our alliance
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>>3733258
I don't think we out and out said we would form a defensive pact with him. we just promised to be neutral with them. let's give him this offer and if he doesn't accept well then I guess we are going to have to burn some Towns to the ground.
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>>3733247
>>3733268

I mean, read the post, we warned him of our sister influence on other countries, we offered to militarize our country, we offered to send help when he needed and we offered to fight against her as dragons too, fuck, some anon even suggested taking his son away from his lands to live with us and all we asked in exchange was trade deals, and the lift of the embargo and he still refused, I don't know how simply changing the words alliance to defensive pact change what we already offered
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>>3733273
Ok, then what is your Idea?
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>>3733282
my idea is to try to at least make him lift the embargo, ask what he wants for it, because he clearly thinks that becoming our ally is not in his interest, I mean, you can word it differently but anons made all kinds of offers and he said no
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>>3733290
I am still going to go with my post
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>>3733157
How about we become an independent territory? We can visit his court from time to time but we pay no tribute and no allegiance,we remain queen and become a friendly queendom of Ypren, and that can serve as a dragon presence and a guarantee of mutual help between our countries
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>>3733304
>>3733217
then support this
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>>3733296
I'm not saying yours is a bad idea dude, I completely agree with it, and forming that alliance is exacly what I want, but he just refused the very same thing offered in different words
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>>3733309
Then when fancy words fail maybe we can use bluntness to prevail.
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looks like Scale internet died again
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>>3733309
No he didn't refuse, he's just asking if there's any other way. There's a problem with simply asking now, is there?

>>3733217
>>3733199
>>3733209
No, you're not interested in any of that, you'll remain independent and nothing besides. You don't understand what the problem is with a simple alliance instead though.

"Then it will be between you and Petrar to figure out. Our two borders do not touch, you are not my neighbor but the Duke's. It will be up to you to settle that dispute, the best I can do is mediate."

He's plenty fine, happy to make whatever agreements with you, even if he is disappointed about your refusals to his offers. But all this talk of alliances, coalitions, mutual agreements, he's the wrong person to be talking to. He's the king but he can't force his Dukes to do anything, not of a diplomatic nature at least. He can impose laws of the land and demand things of the Dukes but he can't make them become friendly or hostile to other countries for example.

"Then what must be done?"

"I'm sure he will want recompense. For the conflict? If you will not give lands then it will have to be resources, for what was expended to try and influence Ostrela in favor of Petrar. And for those combatants killed in the war, to their families. Ongoing reparations."

If you will not cede an inch of land, then you'll have to make up for it in other ways. Money, it seems to be the most simple solution. Mathis expects the Duke will settle for what sounds like a tax, to mend the upset that was caused. After all, it's not just that you fought with his people, but for many years he had been pouring money into Ostrela in order to make its people amenable to Petrar.

Much of what your country has today is because of his funding, so he'll expect it back and likely with interest. You begrudge to give away anything of course, but money is cheaper than blood, and a lift of the embargo would help restore things...

>What do you do?
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>>3733342
Ask the King how much he likes the Duke and hypothetically should the duke die, who would be next in line and how much influence he has over that decision.
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>>3733342
we will happily provide support for the embassador's family that sadly died, the only Petrar casualty on the whole conflict as we made sure of it.

he is welcome to come and enjoy his investments, but the town was never his, or else it would be part of ipren and as far as everyone is concerned it was not, his merchants can visit the town and make their trades but what does he expect to get from this?

we should tell the duke we just refused to be his queen, and that if our sister was to come the land here could count us as an ally, but only if he ends this bloody dispute, as he can see, we are more reasonable than her, the question is, is he?
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>>3733342
Well, the king proved to be a waste of time, and the Duke is probably too.
I would say we just leave but let's at least hear what he wants.
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>>3733364
Wait.
Scratch that

Can we ask to meet the Duke in private like we met the king?
The king said that he trusts the Duke with his life so maybe the Duke is more worried about this whole situation than the king since he decided to not take any action, if we speak with the Duke alone, away from the ears of those who may object we might get him to see reason and unite against our sister
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>>3733367
Hmm, ok, I'll go with it, he might accept meeting us since he will be curious about what we talked about with the King
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>>3733367
support but lets part on good terms with the king maybe we give him a goodbye kiss on the cheek or something.
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>>3733400
Nope for me, he's married man and all
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>>3733367
>>3733358
>>3733352
Just because you said not to kill Petrarans doesn't mean none were killed, it was a battle after all.

In any case you remain indignant, if the Duke wants these things then he's going to be disappointed. But Mathis reminds you of the sort of man the Duke is, and how he doesn't expect acceptance of that. Naturally you ask Mathis then, how favorable he is to the Duke and what would happen if he died, but you get an expression that tells you you shouldn't have asked that.

"Can I meet with him in private? Or, more private, like this?"

"He is an adult, I don't command him. You can certainly ask, I don't see why he would not accept that."

Unfortunately in the end it seems the king's attempt to negotiate with you fell through, so he's washing his hands of this then. He has his beliefs and you have your standards that you won't compromise on. If the greater matter of the kingdom can't be resolved then you can at least resolve this embargo.

But whether you want to actually meet with the duke remains to be seen. From your short time interacting with the man, you already don't get along and he doesn't seem the type to compromise either.

>What do you do?
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>>3733452
Invite him to a private meeting, let's see how much does he know about the situation on the kingdom.
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>>3733452
Tell the king that despite our current disagreements that he seems like a respectable man. then Go and see if your advisers have had better luck than us.
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>>3733452
ugh, this guy is insufferable, I wish sister fucks them up a new one, maybe we should even help her eventually, just to see their faces burning

>>3733462
this
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>>3733471
She would only end up turning on us
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>>3733476
She would, but honestly, I have half a mind of just fucking off if that happens, they deserve everything that happens to them and more, firstly for fucking the whore dragon and getting a kid on the succession line and secondly for tuening away help when offered.
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>>3733490
That would mean abandoning our valley, fuck that we earned our valley no one is going to take it from us.
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>>3733471
Well, he did offer you his entire kingdom out of the blue, he really can't do more than that. No consideration neither about your offense to him for disregarding such an offer, and offering a crap deal in exchange.

But you're a dragon so what's new.

>>3733463
>>3733462
Very well then, you obliged the king. No word about decorum but you never promised that. If any dealings are impossible then you can at least enjoy some time here, a regal time between monarchs? But you've no interest in that at all and refuse, you've got important matters to attend to so if this king came here to spectate... best he just stick to that, and keep out of other people's business.

You briskly depart then, leaving the king alone in the garden to have to ponder his options now when faced with a dire future.

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"I do not care for the paper pushers, I am sure you feel the same way. But this is quite a breach in tradition even for me, we are not just tyrants... or, I am not. I do not make backroom deals regarding my people."

Returning to the meeting underway, you find negotiations proceeding well enough. As the king had predicted, your side won't give up land so reparations are demanded. It's a bit steep but then you did royally cause trouble for Petrar, and it's not like you couldn't pay especially with any embargo lifted.

But you're not keen on parting with even a single coin, so if the king can meet you alone, why not the duke? More gasps though when you request his presence in private, but considering you already cut out of the meeting earlier and things seem able to continue without you... by the duke's will alone, he'll agree to your request.

You find a separate room, just a small siting room where the duke stands at the windows and expresses his honest opinion of this. Maybe he isn't as beloved towards his people as you are, but he doesn't have much interest in negotiating like his word is all that matters in his land.

"So? What is it then, I take it you weren't able to persuade his highness of... something, so you seek to try with me?"

>What do you do?
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>>3733495
they probably will actually, we are locked between two kingdoms, one is not willing to ally, and I doubt the other will be much different, but we can try to set a meeting with Cestion
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>>3733505
>The king wanted me to marry into the royal family so that my sister couldn't come in and claim the nation. She had a habit of bedding influential tributaries when they would visit, and sending them off with the eggs. Apparently, both Ypren's and Cestion's royal lines claim her as an ancestor.

>But that's besides the point. My marrying into the royal family would be unfeasible in the long term for a number of reasons. So now I seek an alliance between your domain and mine.

>So, Duke Gaspard, what is it you want to remove this petty embargo you've established?
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>>3733505
I wanted to meet you alone not to make a deal but to discuss family matters

What do you know about the king's first born? As I understand he is actually my nephew, and that means my sister will be soon coming to your lands, are you aware of this?

Your king made me an offer, to marry his son and be the queen of this land, to save them from my sister, do you share his wariness of her?
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>>3733519
I doubt it works, but support may be that revelation will throw him off balance.
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>>3733505
>he did offer you his entire kingdom out of the blue

he never did that, he offered to serve under him

>>3733523
+1
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>>3733524
That's the hope. With luck, he'll ask for far more than the reparations are actually worth, and we can bargain him down from there to something we can actually afford in a reasonable timeframe.
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>>3733505
"Moreso the opposite. The implications and subject matter of our meeting would have been very bad for you if I wasn't such an idealist, if I may be so vague. Now I want to arrange something personal between the two of us if possible. I value my frankly-and though hard to admit-petty queendom very highly. I've put alot of work and effort into creating a space all for myself with subjects to rule and responsibilities to cater to. If I can give you something you want that can be twisted as valuable enough to forsake the egos and expectations of those in your court about your presumed weakness in this time of obvious crisis, I will do so. Provided that it doesn't interfere with my musings and hobbies."
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>>3733523
>>3733519
both of these
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>>3733529
Till he died, you're up here talking about living for thousand years and some such, but a decade or so till he kicks the bucket is too much to wait lol
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>>3733538
it obviously is, even a day would be too much, and everyone agreed, how could we ever call ourselves a dragon if we bowed to a human?
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>>3733538
I just don't like the idea of casually being handed a Kingdom.

I wanna conquer that shit. It's gonna be the Kingdom of Fuck You Imma Dergan
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>>3733534
this is also good, maybe start with this and if he is difficult we lay it all out, about our sister and her plans.
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>>3733543
>>3733544
I'm not saying it was a fair deal or that bowing for any amount of time is worth it. Just that he wasn't offering you some bum deal, it was pretty much the best he had to give. If he could step down for you he would even.
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>>3733554
>If he could step down for you he would even.
if he had done that then I would have accepted that deal. since that would be diplomatic annexation.
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Scales do you want us to make a speech check or something?
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>>3733579
No, I'm trying to write ovah hea
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>>3733505
>"So? What is it then, I take it you weren't able to persuade his highness of...something, so you seek to try with me?"
“Actually, he’s the one that failed to persuade me of something.”
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Maybe you don't expect as much from this Gaspard fellow but in a way you prefer talking with him because he seems more practical than the jovial elderly king.

"“Actually, he is the one that failed to persuade me of something. The implications and subject matter of our meeting would have been very bad for you if I wasn't such an idealist, if I may be so vague."

You find a comfy couch to lay across while the duke remains standing. You wish you had comfy furniture like this.

"Now I want to arrange something personal between the two of us if possible. I value my frankly-and though hard to admit-petty queendom very highly. I have put alot of work and effort into creating a space all for myself with subjects to rule and responsibilities to cater to."

"In two months." he interjects flatly. "Try a thousand years at least, then see how much you value your land."

"...if I can give you something you want that can be twisted as valuable enough to forsake the egos and expectations of those in your court about your presumed weakness in this time of obvious crisis, I will do so. Provided that it does not interfere with my musings and hobbies."

You were speaking somewhat idly, forming your thoughts on the matter and considering what you would be willing to part with. You weren't really focusing on the man himself though, but when he spits on the floor you look to him in confusion, seeing only a disgusted expression.

"You think this is about them, out there?" he gestures to the other room you came from, where both your nobles and his reside, "We are done here. You waste my time with your ignorance."

Turning in place he briskly walks towards the door from the room, to leave you behind bewildered. He's not nearly so easy to talk to as the king, but you can't let him go just yet!

"Your King made me an offer to marry his son and become the Queen of this land!"

You blurt it out as it's all you can think of really, but the duke stops fast with his hand gripping the door handle as he'd pulled it open. After hesitation, he slowly shuts it, though he doesn't yet address you.

"...so that my sister could not come and claim this land herself. As I understand, the King's firstborn is actually my nephew, and that means my sister will come for him."

He was tense before but with a sigh lowers his shoulders as he turns to you once again. It seems he wasn't interested in all at playing negotiating games and deals with you, when apparently you don't understand him. But this talk you let out... you're not sure if you should have, but it wholly commands his attention now.

"Why are you telling me this? What do you want?"

You could try to get back to the embargo now, he seems more amenable to that topic after this. Or you could continue down this pit of intrigue.

>What do you do?
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>>3733626
You see, the king had me in quite a dilema, I don't want my sister to rule your land because that would mean your people would suffer and then she would turn her eyes to my land and make mynpeople suffer.
But at the same time, I cannot bow to your king, you would never betray your liege would you? It so happens that my liege is myself and I cannot betray her too by bowing to some other, not even for a day, not even if it meant that I would rule Ypren for a thousend years.
That, is the point where I think we see eye to eye, our loyalty has no price, just conviction.

What I'm offering you is simple, realease the stranglehold you have on my land, let me make the people there prosper and let me make my cpuntry strong, so that when my sister arrives I'm able to assist you.

How many of your fellow dukes do you think would fall for my sister? How many do you think would still be following your king?
I ask you honestly to judge how likely are ypu to resist her influence and avoid an internal war.
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>>3733626
It's simple really my sister is like a cat she likes to play with her "food" so to speak. She is as cruel as she is cunning. she has royal children throughout most if not all lands. most recently she was spotted near Cestion most likely to reap the benefits of what she has sown. meaning its only a matter of time before she comes to Ypren. give time she will take control of both. which I shouldn't have to say is very bad for everyone.[at this point move close to him circling like a cat about to pounce then sit at a respectable distance in front of him] I want to prevent this, I propose that Petrar end the embargo and that our two realms from a coalition I plan to invite Cestion also. If she is allowed to take control millions will die and only mother would be able to stop her. tell me duke is that a future you want?

>>3733669
let's combine posts
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>>3733669
+1

I think we did good in making it private, this information would be quite bad if talked about in the middle of everyone
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>>3733626
also throw in "I am sorry I miss judged the kind of man you are I as for your forgiveness in that. most of the leaders I have dealt with have had hidden motives. Some times I could see them and sometimes...[think of Lila] sometimes I missed them"
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>>3733626
My sister is in Cestion now, cementing herself and digging herself in. I want to ensure she does not come to rule my western border as well. While I did not wish to discuss this with the King directly, as I do not doubt my sister has her eye on him, there are...steps I wish to take to ensure she does not become a problem for very long.
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>>3733759
>steps I wish to take to ensure she does not become a problem for very long.
we can't kill the kings son. even suggesting it to him will likely make him leave. our best bet is to form an alliance and when our sister comes put up a united front to stop her
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>>3733767
No, but we can kill her.

Violently.

It's just making sure we do so quietly.
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>>3733759
E do not know if she is in Cestion, we just know that there is a kid from her there too
Unless you are planning to lie to him, which I would not advise
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>>3733771
Nope, I won't support murdering our nephew. also, why are you against an alliance?
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>>3733782
Not our nephew.

Our sister.
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>>3733788
Oh yeah as fucked up as it is we will probably have to kill her I don't like it but yeah. I hope it won't come to that but yeah
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>>3733669
>>3733686
>>3733759
>>3733696
With his attention again, you can go into more length about what you know, for your sister as well as the king. This situation is more dangerous than the duke knows, as you pace about him, and entice him to sit which he does at a desk with you before it. Funny, due to this news, he's the one sitting now and you're standing.

Though, you hadn't expected his response.

"Your sister? Mother of the bastard princeling? We can handle a black dragon. Would you like me to notify you when we bury the body?"

You'd normally dismiss this as foolish hubris of a lesser race, and indeed you regard his response with incredulity. However, at your watch he doesn't falter, doesn't hide any secret emotion. He speaks plain and confident without hesitation, that you wonder if he could make good on his word.

"How many of your fellow dukes do you think would fall for my sister? How many do you think would still be following your king?"

"That depends entirely on the King. None of us would support her, but if the King did we would have to."

Well the king did speak of the duke's loyalty, you wonder it from the others like him... but a scary thought if in a country like Ypren of chivalry and such, Illyrie could be accepted and gain control because of the customs here.

"I ask you honestly to judge how likely are you to resist her influence and avoid an internal war."

"Well that... does change things."

Finally without that eerie confidence, he seems to take your words to heart. The mention of a dragon coming here, he'd start sharpening his sword, but the mention of a civil war and he's comes to the same page as you.

"What I am offering you is simple. Release the stranglehold you have on my land, let me make the people there prosper and let me make my country strong, so that when my sister arrives I am able to assist you."

"I would rather crush your country and pick up the pieces, believe me I can. But... you offer alliance, not capitulation as I would prefer. Just tell me, why I should not give your sister a chance if indeed she is to come? Supposing she has it out for you, then we would have your land anyway."

Eeep! You dreaded this line of thought. You know Illyrie is cruel, evil, but how can you prove it? You're a dragon yourself warning him against another dragon, your sister. Hells, he may even believe you're in cahoots together! Or... by the gods, what if the duke has already met with her? His hostility for you...

>What do you do?
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>>3733810
"Because For all I have done in all my actions I have spoken true. when I captured Eisling I made a deal with your ambassador, as a result, the lives of your soldiers were spared. I could have slaughtered them, but I didn't. I am a dragon of my word. but my sister, in her time away from mother she has been consolidating power across kingdoms lying scheming doing whatever it takes for her to get what she wants. Her lust for power won't end with Ypren and Cestion. can you even imagine the lifetimes upon lifetimes of war and suffering she would bring? she wouldn't stop until the world was at her beck and call.[look him dead in the eye] hundreds of millions will die [proper name here] the only chance to stop her is here and now."
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>>3733810
>My sister is a hedonist and a schemer. She would indulge solely in her own lustful pleasures and indulge in the intrigues of your human politics for her amusement. Your aristocracy would stagnate and be twisted into her personal playground, both literally and metaphorically. She would often bed dignitaries and tributaries to our mother, then send the half-breed eggs off before mother could notice and punish her for sullying her lineage by dallying with lesser races.

>I, on the other hand, value my people's prosperity and fortune as my own. My hoard, my desires, are to see my people live well, and craft a nation of my own fit to be the envy of its peers.
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>>3733810
>"Because your king fears her enough to essentially offer me the kingdom. How well do YOU know her? She has sired and scattered her many progeny to the four winds simply to advance to ambitions without a care to their well-being, how much do you think she would care for her subjects? What role would you, or the kingdom of Ypren, play in her plans when it is just one of many under her thrall?"
>"You ask how much I would value my land in a thousand years, I ask, how much would you, practically speaking? I am not a thousand years old, and neither are you. I have made, and even lost, genuine friends in that land. Of the things you think I desire; food, gold, respect, I could simply take by breath and claw from whatever land I care to travel to. Yet I am here, in your land, clothed and playing by your rules, to discuss an embargo. AN EMBARGO. Tell me, why would a dragon do such a thing? Why would YOU do such a thing?"

I think we should still meet Mathis' son. Just because we are opposed to an arranged political marriage doesn't mean we couldn't become friends, or more, in time. Regardless of how things turn out, being on a first name basis with a crown prince would not do us any harm.
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>>3733884
>>3733833
>>3733829
a combo of these I think would work well
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>>3733884
There's no denying you speak truly, your treatment of Petrarans during the little revolt did not go unnoticed. Even the ambassador, is not an issue, he attacked you intending to die rather than face the shame of failure on returning to Petrar. For this, whether you know it or not, is the reason the duke accepted to having you here and meeting. He cannot deny you this.

And as such, your condemnation of your sister is quite alarming to him, or at least he considers it seriously.

"Very well, reparations for those dead and the expenses incurred, and we can put an end to this mess."

Well that's a relief, and a little surprising. By now you know the duke to be a man of action and integrity, at least he seems that way, so invoking such traits of his compared to your own virtues... he's willing to level with you being to being and negotiate in a way all the officials in the world gathered could not manage. In good faith he also extends his hand across the desk, whether or not you accept this gesture and deal before returning to the busy room together. As he reaches the door to open it for you though, he pauses in thought for a moment and looks to you.

Surely his stare is not as imposing as yours, his feeble human eyes. But he hadn't hesitated when you stared him down and he doesn't hesitate now.

"Before, you had said it was because of the King himself, that you refused that offer... if the King can be made to abdicate his title, you would have accepted?"

You were just about to head back into the room with the officials, nobles and knights, and preparing yourself for that. But what's Gaspard playing at now, right before that?

>What do you do?
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>>3733907
I think that is the best deal we can hope to get accept it and shake the man's hand. as for the answer to his question. he gets a truthful answer [look him in the eye say silent for a moment] then say " If the king had been willing to step down. then Yes, Yes I would have accepted it."
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>>3733907
Sure, reparations and expenses. However we must agree to the amount and have a sunset clause. I don't want to be paying "reparations" in perpetuity; we'd essentially be a vassal offering tribute.

>"I would be sorely tempted, but acquiring such a large kingdom in such a matter does not seem right to me. There is no glory or satisfaction to be gained from such a victory... If it could even be called such. I would need time to ponder this. This IS all hypothetical, right?" Mathis is a good man, and I would rather not see him humiliated in such a manner. And a kingdom gained in such a manner would not have the stability needed to deal with a potential coup by a bastard-pretender and his mother."
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>>3733907
“If the King were made to abdicate? You make it sound as if someone was holding a knife to his family’s throats and forcing him to hand his kingdom over to me.”

>>3733940
Support
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>>3733960
>>3733940
This but with the stipulation that initially we were very on board with him just surrendering the kingdom to us.
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>>3734113
>>3733960
>>3733940
>>3733920
Well this is all hypothetical of course, and the duke has only ever been honest with you. You could afford to be honest in return for this short exchange before he opens the door and you both rejoin the negotiations.

“If the King were made to abdicate? You make it sound as if someone was holding a knife to the throats of his family and forcing him to hand his kingdom over to me.”

"With the right advising, suggestion, I feel he may step back from the role. This is not Eugeira, we are not required to have monarchs for life. He is still our king but time weighs on him, the most significant reason he has not passed the crown is because his wife is not of a station to rule, and his only child fit to inherit is too young."

Again with the complexities these lesser races have when it comes to things like governance and royalty. As you understand it, the king has three children excluding Illyrie's bastard. But apparently two of them (and older at that) are not able to follow as rulers? You're also not a good judge of ages for the lesser races but you can tell at least that the king is elderly, though you wouldn't imagine one to give up power when they are still competent regardless of age. It would seem Gaspard is of a mind that in Ypren however, there can be reasons for a ruler to abdicate if need be. A sensible fallback option to have you suppose, but not an option you would ever entertain in your own country back home

"I would be sorely tempted, but acquiring such a large kingdom in such a matter does not seem right to me. There is no glory or satisfaction to be gained from such a victory... if it could even be called such. I would need time to ponder this. This is limited to thought, right? Mathis is a good man, and I would rather not see him humiliated in such a manner. And a kingdom gained in such a manner would not have the stability needed to deal with a potential coup by a bastard-pretender and his mother."

"All I would say is, the Dukes will always choose the path which earns them more power from the King. There are some in Ypren who have always thought the country is better as a union of states, rather than a singular monolith of a nation."

He speaks plainly and honestly to you, but he keeps the door shut. So this is intentionally a conversation which would not leave this room. Though how much you respect that, when you just went and snitched on the king to Gaspard moments after meeting with him in confidence in the garden...
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"If he did not want to be humiliated, he would not have laid with a dragon... no offense meant of course... and out of wedlock if that was not bad enough. That half-breed bastard, is humiliation enough."

To an extent this feels, or at least sounds like a veiled insult to you. However, honestly you can't say you don't agree with the duke, the same sentiment towards any of Illyrie's lovers. That collection of fools she lured within... at a cost, a veritable orchard of royal seed, sown in her draconic field. An orchard that reaches across the land, and now bears fruit for her.

In any case the duke opens the door for you, to follow after as you're greeted back to the negotiations, obviously having continued all this while even without you. Your ministers and their ministers, your nobles and their nobles, even your knights and their knights, verbally at each other's throats. Fortunately Gaspard seems intent on resolving the whole thing based on your little private deal together, a quick and efficient end to the proceedings to be formally agreed upon and signed into existence. If you have anything you wish to add though to the proceedings in conclusion, or say, you have the chance.

>What do you do?
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>>3734156
I don't think there is anything to add to the crowd, we got the embargo lifted, which was the main goal, and now we warned them properly about sister so they can prepare, which is a nice bonus.

Let's retire back to our guest estate and make preparations to go back to our land, we stayed long enough away from it.
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>>3734156
>we must agree to the amount and have a sunset clause. I don't want to be paying "reparations" in perpetuity; we'd essentially be a vassal offering tribute.


we don't want to end up like the Germans, they are still paying the Israelis
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>>3734156
Kinda dig Gaspard, he's blunt and honest and not the kind to back down but is willing to change his position if there he sees proof he is in the wrong. I Feel like we should keep in close contact with him as it might be beneficial to us in the future.

I'd re read the contract to ensure we aren't getting swindled again with the mayor. And then return to the guest house and decide things from there, might be some things of interest in the city to pick up before we leave.
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>>3734156
>Work out amount and put in a sunset clause. Make sure there are copies held by us, Gascard, and the King of Ypren.
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>>3734161
>>3734619
Both of these are fine
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>>3734619
>>3734558
>>3734471
>>3734161
They'd be some pretty shitty ministers of yours if they didn't check to make sure you weren't getting scammed. But by all indications the duke isn't tricking you, which is nice for a change. With all said and done then, everyone can gather and shake hands, all that nonsense and you can sign the document as these lesser races do. Aware of the importance of such proceedings, you've practiced and managed a simple fix to difficulties of grasping a pen; just using the tip of your claw in the same way. What more, you also get the chance to test out your recently learned reading skills, as you give a quick cursory glance of the papers. It's still a little difficult but you're getting there.

In any case, with things resolved, there's an expected little celebratory banquet of sorts afterward. Mostly for the nobles and in a smaller dining hall, just some delights and the equivalent of a nice midday little meal. During which time though if you care to, you can ask or talk to anyone about anything while you're up here in the palace. The duke makes it clear you're a welcome guest for the remainder of your stay so it's not like you have to clear off immediately now that things are resolved.

But if you'd prefer, you certainly can just return to the guest estate, and either prepare for your return home or even dwell some time longer to further investigate this city.

>What do you do?
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>>3735244
We’ve done what we came here to do. Let’s return to the guest estate and prepare for our trip home.

And Riona, don’t stuff yourself silly with food again! You don’t want to make yourself look like a fool in front of these important people!
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>>3735244
We go to the Banquet and DOMINATE the Sweets table. we will walk with anyone that approaches us in a kind and friendly matter. if they are surprised by our demeanor we explain that we take the well being of our new kingdom very seriously. as for staying in the city lets spend four days making preparation to leave and look into Hiring a few sweets and confections chiefs to take home with us.
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>>3735266
Well you do own a sweets bakery in the city now, but if you want to you can just shutter it and make them relocate.
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>>3735244
Let's stay for the food I think, but eat moderatly.
Maybe get to know the Duke's family, his wife and children, if they are not availible discuss suveniers and decorations we would like our niece to procure for us in town so we can take it back to our castle.

If someone approaches we can respond
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>>3735266
Away from the sweets seriously, our pride is bigger than our gluttony, lets wait to get stuffed on the way, we don't want to play a fool
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>>3735268
Oh, right. That was not cheap. How much money did we lose?

>>3735269
>eat moderately.
Please do this.
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>>3735268
Well then looks like "Dragon sweets" is moving to Eising
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>>3735269
This, after the banquet, if nothing happens we prepare to leave the next morning
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>>3735272
>>3735271
Oh dear, once you get into the sweets you can't just withhold! Make a roll to resist!
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>>3735279
I'm not rolling because I want this to happen
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>>3735281
SWEETS! SWEETS! SWEETS!
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>>3735279
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>>3735279
Scales can my roll be for giving in to the temptation of the sweets?
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>>3735288
Sure but it wasn't high enough.

>>3735286
>>3735284
>>3735281
>87

It's not really like some fancy feast where there's all sorts of scrumptious treats. There are sweet things which you keep to, but you don't make a fool of yourself at least, and gorge on what's available. You also make a good show of it, since before this everyone was in the negotiations mindset treating you as a rival. Afterward though everyone can answer their curiosity towards you as you get approached by various nobles present, wanting to know about your and remarking over the awe at your decorum and civilized nature. Like if a talking bear put on a suit and showed up to dinner, you can imagine.

Interestingly there's also a desire to commemorate the event, as an alchemist asks everyone to hold still for just a moment, followed by a bright flash which startles you. Apparently though it creates some sort of painting or such with a crystal, from just a glimpse so that the situation can be preserved. Some lesser race nonsense like that. In any case the rest of the time you can spend meeting and talking with the duke's son, a friendly young man... though a bit bright-eyed compared to his father.

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Come late afternoon and the resolution of the little banquet and farewells between the involved parties, you've returned to the guest estate feeling quite content. Fed, and having accomplished negotiations more or less successfully. Your niece reads out the expenses, fifteen hundred gold for the bakery and chides you about such impulses. You suppose she's right, but you're busy sitting on the balcony overlooking the city.

In another world, you might have been Queen of all Ypren right now, your own city to gaze over. Ah, but home is enough for you, you're not greedy or prideful or anything like that. Humble little Ostrela is all you need, a cozy valley of a few settlements and peaceful.

>What do you do? A few days to spend in the city before you depart then, any particular interests?
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>>3735334
We need to take a few days to allow our barkery to pack up shop so that we can reestablish them in Ostrela.
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>>3735334
If we are in the city, let's search for quality arms and armor makers to offer a position in our kingdom, to turn all that iron in equipment for our troops

Let's not delay too much here, let's leave as soon as possible
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>>3735341
If you have specific interests you can make a roll to search through the city for them for a few days. Or, probably your servants to search unless you want to personally go around.
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>>3735341
We spent 1500g on a shop we need to take that with us.
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>>3735343
Preferably, an engineer or something capable of doing war machines like Balistas and such
A new sorcerer or sorceress would be good too, maybe a necromancer or a holy magician......no reason in particular.....

We can ask our servants to look for them and then we interview them ourselves since it's not advisable for us to go into the crowds

>>3735346
It will come with us but our servants can take care of that.
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>>3735353
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>>3735343
Seek out high-level mages that we can charm into coming back with us we need to start work on that mage university.
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Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>3735353
Is there a mage whonlet's us speak with the dead?
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>>3735353
also good
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>>3735343
Any artisans or specialized experts willing to move/destitute and looking for patronage
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>>3735367
>>3735361
>>3735358
>>3735353
>70

"Ballista? That's stupid, trebuchets are where it's at!"

You'd like to check out the city yourself, but after coming all this way you think it's best to play it safe. So you relax all comfy and manage the logistics of your new bakery to be relocated, while your servants explore the city for you to find persons of interest.

The first one is pretty simple, a young siege engineer who wouldn't mind working for you because "those damn old men" won't give her a chance for being a girl. Or so she claims.

"They kicked me out because they were jealous of my skill! I mean, they said I was stealing but that's a lie!"

A young sorcerer interested in your situation presents himself. Interestingly enough, the source of his magic power comes from a distant dragon ancestry. Distant being the keyword, you can't sense it on him, but he does have skill in magic... a rather low form of magic though, you would not be surprised if he was expelled from the magic school here in Kelna because of his magic use in criminal acts.

"I foresaw your coming in the stars! All that is was, and all that was shall be!"

A mystic from the southern continent, having traveled to Kelna which itself is a worldly port, and of course the biggest city in Ypren. Dressed in colorful robes and a desert elf of strange appearance, really your biggest interest is his flying carpet!

"The first thing you need to understand about demons is that they're not all evil... well, not terribly evil."

A witch with apparent skills in devilry offers her service as the temples here are on the lookout to "get rid" of her, she seems a stable woman and competent at her craft, but you've never dealt with divine or infernal forces before.

>Any interest?
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>>3735465
Let's take the engineer and the dragon boy wannabe also the dessert elf
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>97

As you know, there's great individuals in the world that aren't just dragons, rarely even from the lesser races. Visionaries, innovators, entrepreneurs, great people who find themselves in the pages of history alongside conquerors and prophets.

In this case, by chance for your presence here in Kelna, and for your reputation, you have the potential to attract one of these great people. To win them over because they believe in your cause, through personal attraction, or simply by patronage. So if you care to, you can specify which area of expertise you're interested in, to see who might turn up. You can agree on a category like;

>The Arts

or

>Commerce

or

>Science

basically an area of society, that you can find a relevant great person, and see how they innovate it. At least for a time, as long as you can maintain their association with you, before they move to their next goal.
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>>3735465
Lived them all, let's take them

The siege girl should provide us with the weapons we need

As for the mages

The dragon born can be used by the cult for criminal and less savory activities

The desert elf is a novelty on his own, invite him to our castle to serve as a seer if he is really clarivoiant

As the witch, ask her if she can cintact the dead, or at least tell us how they are in the afterlife.
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>>3735493

>Science

Our queendom is not the biggest nor the most prestigious but it can be the most advanced
With machine contraptions, stronger metal alloys and marvelous inventions
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>>3735493
>>Science


>>3735494
>As the witch, ask her if she can cintact the dead, or at least tell us how they are in the afterlife.
Nah man daemons will only fuck us over
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>>3735493
>Science
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>>3735500
Demons will fuck her over, and she deals in the divine too, let's bring her too

And I must know if we can do something for Lila, and if she is content wherever she is.
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>>3735494
This
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>>3735494
support
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>>3735494
>As the witch, ask her if she can contact the dead, or at least tell us how they are in the afterlife.

"Are they in one of the hells?"
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>>3735494
>>3735499
Supporting
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>>3735499
Just out of curiosity, but of those innovations you listed, do you have a preference?
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>>3735520

"Are they in one of the hells?"
Can you check and make sure she isn't? That would put me to rest easier, or else I would have to take her from there

>>3735527
I would say autometed machines and steam stuff or something, since the alloys we can grab from the dwarves probably
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>>3735539
support
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>>3735539
She can check but she needs to know the person's name.
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>>3735565
Give her our dear lost friends name.
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>>3735565
Bring her to the castle then, we can take her to Lila's grave
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>>3735575
Well, what's her name?
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>>3735579
Lila
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>>3735579
Lila, if she need more info or her body to check or something we can take her to the castle

If that is not enough we can ask the desert elf seer to see what he can discover of her
Hire them all bring them with us
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>>3735579
Fuck I forgot her name. That's embarrassing. It wasn't lya or something was it?
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>>3735586
Lila you terrible friend name forgetter
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>>3735581
Right, that's her first name. Do you know how many people are called Lila, let alone those that died?
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>>3735595
Yes that is what I imagined
We need to take both her and the desert elf to her grave and try to glimpse what they can from there
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>>3735595
YOU NEVER GAVE US HER LAST NAME!
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>>3735603
Did you ever even care at all about her to even ask?

Some friend you are.
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>>3735615
Can this be done>>3735599
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>>3735615
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8R2_BkneSc

WE ASK FOR HER NAME IN THREAD ONE!
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>>3735625
She even explained the concept of first name and family name! Are you seriously trying to tell me that don't have her last name?
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>>3735625
Relax dude, its magic we are talkimg about, with access to her they can probably get more info
And her body was preserved before we put her in her crypt too
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>>3735634
Get dabbed on faggot
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>>3735634
Just because she explained these things doesn't mean she actually gave you her full name because you didn't even care about asking.

>>3735527
>97

Although you have some reservations about the witch, you still accept all their services, imagining a good use for all of them. On the last day before you depart though, rather than you seeking those others out, a person seeks you out instead. A... dreadfully unassuming woman, her style of dress is so simple compared to the others you met that you mistake her for a servant of the estate at first. Apparently though she is something called an "artificer" or so she fancies herself, and she has a desire to continue research she's been working on. The officials and nobles of Kelna here, and indeed Ypren itself, have little interest in her ideas and it seems she needs a decent bit of money to work. But her idea to you, of creating a power source besides magic which can provide energy to things, is an appealing one. Magic does not work for you, so alternatives are always nice to hear, and supposing you can meet her funding needs she at least promises to be able to develop great changes for society... although none of your entourage view her with any promise, writing her off as a con artist or simply insane.

In any case you can depart, same as you traveled to reach here but if you have any preferences for the journey home you can specify. Like how you want to travel and such.

>What do you do?
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>>3735736
Het to know the artificer better, what are her ideas to use these power sources.

Ask the witch and desert elf if they can help us divine something about our friend or if we would need the services of another mystic, because if that is the case we should keep searching somewhere else
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>>3735752
support the first part, for the second ask if they had an object or the remains of the dead could they help us contact her?
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>>3735736
We've been away a long time (1 or 2 weeks?). Would it be impolite to simply fly home while our entourage heads back normally? We could always fly back and rejoin them.

Also, I still want to arrange to meet Mathis' sons (yes, both the crown prince and the bastard) in the future. Though we /may/ not decide to court them, doesn't mean it would hurt to be on a first name basis with them. I'm also sure the bastard wouldn't mind meeting some of his siblings as well (thus far they are all loyal to us, and not on speaking terms with their shared mother).
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>>3735824
No we should go back with the entourage that way we can stop back through those towns that we visited on the way in. as a farewell tour so to speak
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>>3735752
We could do with some airships, travel with our entourage in style. Plus, it would help bring our people north into and through the mountains.
Ever since hearing about the green dragon and the princess I've been wanting to do a heist, steal her without him knowing who did it. We'd get a princess without the notoriety and political fallout of kidnapping one
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>>3735833
The pricess heist is quite nice, but I'm willing to bet she is fucking that dragon by now and not be very willing to come with us
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Hey just grabbed some fast food, continuing now.
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>>3735845
>and not be very willing to come with us
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JYlPhFj_3T0
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>>3735752
You could just fly home now ahead of the group, or even let them go ahead of you and fly to catch up after time spent in the city. But you came here together, you'll leave together. It's also a chance to get to know the new persons you picked up from Kelna. The artificer being chief among your interests

"So your name is Victor? My niece tells me that is a male name, are you sure you are female? And what is the difference between them anyhow? I am still not sure."

"My father wanted a boy."

You try to talk and act friendly enough, but you find that the artificer is... not very social. Something off about her you suppose, she keeps her answers short, never is the first to talk nor is she at all curious about you and oftentimes needs to be reminded of the conversation taking place. It's actually quite aggravating for you, however at the same time you find it curious and a good chance to try to understand these humans better.

"So what is this idea for energy that is not magical?"

"Lightning... capture it, store it, use it."

"That is very interesting, I have never heard of such things let alone thought of it... wait, lightning is not magic?"

For the return journey you act in much the same way, treat it as some royal tour out of Petrar as you stop everywhere along the way and spend time among the people, foster their love. Not even your own people but still, you take the chance you get. However you notice some tension among your new recruits which boils to hostility when you reach the border of your own land finally.

"I say, he's a charlatan and can't perform magic to save his life!"

"Nonsense, I won't hear a word of it. I refuse to work with the man!"

The young sorcerer and the foreign mystic all the way, have been at each other's throats and finally after enough confrontations and disagreements, they refuse to associate. Unfortunately it seems you will have to choose between the two which one you want to retain the employment of, as they find each other too repulsive to work towards the same cause.

>What do you do?
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>>3736050
Let's hear their grievances before we make any major choices
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>>3736050
>>3736080
Yeah, let's hear their complaints and see if we can resolve it (perhaps by some demonstrations to prove competence).
If it's just puerile drama though, we're going to be rather upset.
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>>3736050
Send the young sorcerer to work at Einsling with Brigid and take the foreigner with us to the castle, they may never see each other again

Its better that the barely dragon sorcerer works from eisling since I wanted him in contavt with the cult amd they usually operate from there
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>>3736156
>>3736080
But alas! Splitting them up is not enough, at least for the mystic, since he wouldn't want to work for you if you're the sort to employ the likes of the sorcerer.

In any case though you agree to hear their issue out, see what the problem is. Individually you sort them out and listen to what they have to say. The sorcerer first since he gets points for being dragon descended.

"Believe me ma'am, that elf doesn't know his arse from his ears. He smokes some root, falls asleep looking at the night sky, and pretends he can tell the future! It's a disgrace, and the last thing we need is more... foreigners, like him!"

Then the elven mystic.

"My queen, that man is a trickster. He simply ran out of fools to prey on in the city and seeks new victims. Worse still, he has no training. I know you do things differently in this land, but he is dangerous with that kind of power."

Just for the hell of it you want a demonstration as well, let them try to prove who is better. The sorcerer though can easily enough produce an impressive magic display of different spells and effects, while the mystic... his magic does not work in the same way, again he's a diviner so he can't just be commanded to cast spells. He does have his magical items though like the rug as one example, so it's not like he's just some crackpot... it comes down to, who you think will be more useful to your country, and the goal you have in mind for them. Like which of the two you prefer to head up your magic initiative.

>What do you do?
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>>3736256
My Vote is for the Sorcerer, this elf thinks he is too good to work for us even when we offer to have the sorcerer in a separate city. He seems like he will be nothing but a diva that will be constantly complaining.
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>>3736256
Honestly? Just figuring out if the Mystic can handle things like determining foreign tensions or upcoming disasters at home and abroad would be nice.

It's a tall order, something you'd probably want a team of mystics for, but I think if he can pull it off he has my vote.

otherwise, sorceror. Magic on command is my bae
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>>3736286
Don't forget we will soon have to start providing a tribute to mother and if we want to use the supersize spell on food to send to her we need a powerful mage.
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>>3736256
I say we stay with the diviner to see if he can see things and warn us
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>>3736339
Besides, that "foreigner" comment pissed me off a little, we will have whoever we want from wherever thay are, fuck that.

But warn the desert elf that if we find him a charlatan he will burn
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>>3736339
>Mystic
Honestly, the elf seems like a pretentious prick I seriously don't want to have him work for us. I am still going to back the immediately useful and powerful Sorcerer. also fuck the elf
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>>3736256
maybe the witch can help us determine if the elf magic will be useful? ask her to help
I'm leaning to staying with the mystic
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>>3736372
Why bet on a long shot? the Sorcerer is clearly better.
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>>3736383
I think divining magic is more useful for us and for our country
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>>3736393
Magic is something that can be learn right? so then have the Sorcerer learn divining magic. he can add it to his already expansive knowledge.
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>>3736408
I don't think that's how it works, if we have to choose between the two I say we stay with the diviner so we can learn in advance about bad stuff happening, another sorcerer won't be that difficult to find I think, we met several in adventuring parties
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>>3736393
taking the elf is like buying the lemon over the mustang because it is cheaper. Sorcerer has more utility and can only improve. the elf is a one-trick pony

>>3736413
We are talking about an experienced mage from a magic college. the best we are going to get from wandering adventures is low-level punks.
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>>3736422
I guess we are going to have to disagree on that, I still want the diviner, I think his form of magic is more useful right now
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>>3736431
I strongly disagree with you.
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>>3736433
>>3736431
>>3736355
>>3736286
I think the majority is towards the mystic? But we can give other players the chance to catch up and chime in by tomorrow.

So assume for the time being, one of them is cut loose then, before you finally all return to your country again. Eisling specifically, but you know how easy it is to reach your castle, especially with the new good roads in place!

Home as you are again, you can give everyone a chance to get settled into things once again and seek a return to normalcy. Give it a few days or so. But is there anything you want to do now primarily, that you're home again? It's been a couple weeks now, but by the look of things the country at least hasn't descended into anarchy.
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>>3736451
Firstly I want us to catch up on events and news we missed while on this diplomatic trip. then we can make plans.
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>>3736451
Head to the castle, let's see if we can use the diviner and the witch to discover more things about Lila and see if she ended up in one of the hells for helping a dragon

>>3736455
This too if possible, to get an update on how things are
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>>3736256
"You are both idiots. I chose you both because you are both competent and specialists in certain fields. I will have no choice but to trust in your judgment and sack the both of you immediately, or you can get your heads clear from the dirt and do what you both came here to do."

>>3736455
>>3736471
Supporting
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>>3736487
changing to support this we are a dragon when the carrot doesn't work break out the stick!
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>>3736451
>What do?
Let’s get caught up on anything that may have happened while we were gone.

Also, let’s figure out where we’re going to set up the people from that bakery we bought and brought with us.

>>3736471
Can we please just let Lila rest in peace and not contact her? I’d rather not bother her.
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>>3736717
We need to make sure she went to heaven and not hell
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>>3736723
If she went to hell, what do you expect us to do about it? We can’t fix that for her.

And if she went to heaven, then contacting her might get her thrown into hell.

I say we should just let her rest. She doesn’t need us bothering her.
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>>3736726
If she is in her we use Unholy magic and dark rituals to get her soul back and go from there
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>>3736256
sorcerer
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>>3736728
Everyone had already agreed that she wouldn’t want us to try and bring her back to life. Also, we were told that if we tried anything like that, it had to be within a few days after she died. It’s already been a few months, so that’s not going to work.

Face it, she’s not coming back.
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>>3736766
We should try to figure out her full name regardless. Ask around taverns and such. Weren't they employed by the town? Surely they won't employ adventurers around towns without knowing their names or place of origin.
I wonder if we can track down any family she has, especially now we have some presence in Ypren.
Speaking of which, whatever did we do with those magical items we acquired?
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>>3736766
I'm all for leting her rest, but if her soul is in hell she woul want to get out of there don't you think? Not necessarily resurrection but at least save her from eternal torture
Again, just want to make sure

>>3736855
This is good too
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>>3736880
If you're worried about her suffering in one of the hells, you can check that with the witch so you don't have to worry and can know at least she made it in the afterlife.

However, really, these little lesser race worms and their delusions of faith; if Lila's spirit isn't with Tiamat or Bahamut, as all souls should be, is that really any different from her spirit being in hell? You may want to check if she's in hell, in case you need to drag her out, but then at that point you may end up wanting to check if she's in heaven either, in case you need to drag her out. And end up where she sould be; the dragon gods.
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>>3736894
That is good reasoning but just making sure she is not in one of the hells is enough, I don't know how well she would adjust to an afterlife full of dragons.
I don't know how understanding her lesser human gods are to someone who saved a dragon
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>>3736855
>Speaking of which, whatever did we do with those magical items we acquired?
That’s a good question. I know back in the first thread, when we first met Lila (and those other guys that died to the giant spider), we were given a magic necklace that vibrated whenever there was danger directed towards whoever was wearing it. It was too small to wear as a necklace, so we wore it as a bracelet.

However, I’m not sure what happened to it. Scales never mentioned if we lost it or if something else happened to it. I think we might still have it, but I’m not sure.
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>>3737139
I believe they are still somewhere in the castle, we just never bothered to use them other than replicate snake oil
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Just a reminder always archive your quest.
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>>3737162
>>3737139
You still have the magic items, and wear them when you can. They've just not come in notable use, an example of this being the warning amulet, only reacts when an enemy has hostile intent towards you so it didn't warn you of the roof collapse as that's not an enemy directly trying to harm you but instead just trying to collapse the roof. Specifically, a guy up in the rafters triggering it to fall, rather than coming at you with a knife, say.

>tl;dr you still have them but none of them were that amazing so you haven't had noteworthy use of them. You totally can utilize them though how you wish, you do have them of course.
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>>3736500
>>3736744
You make an ultimatum to the two bickering fools then, they can get over their squabble or both of them are gone. It seems that does the job for you though, as the elf will have none of it; if you don't value his services then he has no reason to stay! In a huff he gathers his things and hops on his carpet to fly away, muttering elven profanities all the while.

"Hah, good riddance! I tell you ma'am, you can't trust these elves, these foreigners. Unreliable scum, all of them!"

Ironically the witch comes to agree with him, at least in the unreliable regard, she was growing tired of their bickering just as you were. After that, it's thankfully smooth sailing all the way back to Eisling. You've got your witch, your sorcerer, and your great person all ready to adapt to their new life.

Most importantly to your interests though, your new bakery...

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You're eager to get home of course after being away for so long, but you can't just abandon your country to fate! Although your rulers seem competent enough to handle things on their own even while you're gone, that doesn't mean you're not interested in current affairs.

And seeing dear Brigid of course, having met with the Petraran nobility and coming to understand a little better her importance; as were Ypren's interest to regain Ostrela as a state within the country, Brigid is essentially a duchess herself. Whether she realizes this though, is unclear.

"They kidnapped Nissa?!"

"You promised you would not get angry!"

Brigid raises her arms to try and shield herself from your fiery rage within the castle of Eisling. According to the knightess though, some sky pirates descended to your castle to trade or some such, and when Nissa met with them they kidnapped her. Or so say the servants at the castle at least, as the word reached Eisling.

There's also other news like an envoy from Cestion expressing upset from that nation in regards to your perceived dealings with Ypren, as the two countries are not great fans of one another. Also some trouble with that mining expedition you sent off with the drow prospector, word has stopped coming from them so either they found something amazing and are too busy to send word yet, or there's been trouble.

Obviously though Nissa is your primary concern at the moment.

"When did this happen?! I want her back!"

"Four days prior, I only heard about this yesterday. I already have put some adventurers on the case though, at least to find out more since we can guess Nissa was taken the way of the sky dock in the valley mountains."

Well at least you're right in having faith in your governors, you didn't need to be here spitting fire and raging for Brigid to take the effort to get to the bottom of things. Whether you want to just rely on some adventurers though is a tough call.

"Your highness I want to take a geomantic survey of the valley."

"Not now Victor!"

>What do you do?
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>>3737703
>>3736286
>>3736339
>>3736393
wait, isn't it 3 votes for the diviner 2 for ultimatum and 1 for sorcerer? well, anyway, fuck it I guess
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>>3737703
fly immediately after her, another friend in possible danger, we are the worse dragon friend ever
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>>3737703
Ugh, shit.

Ask Brigid for directions to the sky dock, and fly there.
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>>3737723
>>3737737
Supporting this. I don't care if the dude does his survey though, he can go right ahead.
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>>3737703
>sky pirates
Do we know what the pirates captain’s name is? Did their airship have some kind of symbol or emblem or any other identifying marks on it? It’d be easier to find them if we knew those things.

>geomantic survey
Unless Victor needs us to be with her, we can let her conduct her survey while we’re thinking of how to rescue Nissa. Multitasking is beneficial here.

>>3737723
>>3737737
I understand the need to fly after Nissa, but shouldn’t we let the adventurers get some more information first? Flying in blindly might not be the best idea.

Also, flying into the sky dock would probably result in everyone there attacking us because all they’ll see is a dragon attacking them and they’ll want to protect themselves.

If we can figure out the specific group that took Nissa, we can tell everyone at the sky dock that we’re looking for that specific group of sky pirates. And that’s when we threaten to destroy things until those people are brought to us. That’ll get everyone to turn on that group and bring them to us.
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>>3737774
No, we wait nothing, we fly in our armor, that should be enough to show them we are civilized and by now the region already knows the valley has a dragon queen.

I'm willing to bet she is safe and sound and having a fun time partying with the pirates but I want to go right now in case she isn't.

The others can do whatever the hell they want, I don't care right now.
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>>3737785
But!
I agree with questioning Brigid about the markings and identifications of the pirate before we fly there
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>>3737774
Support
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>>3737785
The armor we had the humans make for us? I’m guessing that should be finished by now, so yeah, we can wear that.

Although, flying might be a problem, since we never practiced flying while wearing the armor. In fact, depending on how heavy the armor is, we might not be able to fly at all!
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Also, the first assigment for the xenophobic asshole sorcerer we got is to create a magic item or something so people can communicate this kind of emergency immediately. Make us a magic smartphone
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>>3737809
We can use the decorative one if we can't fly in the human one, the important part is to go there dressed and identified as a queen
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>>3737809
I still think we should gather info before we leave.

Also, establish where the bakery is going to be set up and where everyone is is going to do thier things. That way they’re all doing stuff while we’re planning how to rescue Nissa.
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>>3737723
>>3737737
>>3737773
>>3737785
+1
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>>3737815
We don't know what's happening out tgere, she could be enjoying a nice sunbath at tge deck or be tortured or worse.
It's not the ideal but if we don't act and it turns out to be the worse we will have no excuse.

The bakery and the others are groenups, I'm sure Brigid can handle instalations for them around here
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Which ever armor we end up whereing have the sorcerer put some protection enchantments on it.
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>>3737810
That is not a half bad idea, if the sorcerer can't do it maybe the inventor or we find someone who can.
Now that our sister will be coming in the future it will be very good to have a way for our towns, castle and elven village to warn us immediatly if anything serious is happening.
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>>3737816
This will simply not do! You must leave immediately to regain your servant, every moment not spent in pursuit of her is a moment wasted!

Fortunately, from the servants at home who saw, Brigid has a rough description of the pirates themselves and the vessel, essentially a ship with a big balloon emblazoned with a blue bird and a harpy figurehead. And not to mention, you already know where the sky dock is, you've flown past it before. So first order of business is to get suited up and then you'll take off. Incidentally, your human-made sturdy steel armor is ready by now but it is quite... solid to say the least, so without having worn it before it could take some getting used to let alone flying in. You do have your elven armor however, and while it's primarily for show, it's not like it's shoddily made and couldn't function as perfectly good armor. Best of all you can fly with it no problem because of it's light weight and unrestrictive design.

So you let some helpers armor you up, while you give final orders for what's to be done while you're away and then you leap from the roof of the castle and take flight. Your mighty wings beating to carry you into the sky.

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It takes the whole rest of the day to reach the sky dock up in the mountains between your country and the free territories, flying as fast as you could as to tire yourself out. You manage to land among the snowy peaks quite exhausted, but a benefit to it being night now that you feel confident no one noticed you nor would till you get close enough. Observing carefully from a distance, you can see that the sky dock is basically just an outpost up here in the mountains for airships coming and going, little more than a "roadside" hamlet of a few buildings. Though, well-made to be sure, it's not like the place is some thatched peasant cottage collection.

Cloudy as the night is, you can see the lights from the buildings there, some few folks wandering the streets and the sounds of chatter and faint music from what you would guess to be an inn. Off to the side as well you can see the literal docks that jut out from the mountainside, where a few aerial vessels are moored.

In particular, an airship with a blue bird on the balloon, visible by the few torch lights along the dock.

>What do you do?
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>>3737843
Rest a bit and do some recon on the ship, see how things are around it, if we feel it's safe we land on it and grab someone to interrogate and ask about Nissa
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>>3737843
can we approach the ship from the shadows?

we should do so and try to grab a sailor as he comes and goes from the ship or a lone sentry
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>>3737845
To late
>>3737843
Take sometime to observe the settlement and to catch our breath. We came to save our frie-servant not to need saving ourself. Once we have our stamina back stealth over to the ship and look for nissa
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>>3737853
My money says she is in the tavern entertaining everyone lol.

But yeah, let's check the ship first
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>>3737843
>In particular, an airship with a blue bird on the balloon, visible by the few torch lights along the dock.
Ok, but does it have a harpy figurehead? We’ve gotta make sure it’s the correct ship and having a blue bird on the balloon doesn’t mean this is the correct ship!
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>>3737879
good point, make sure while we look into it
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>>3737885
>>3737879
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>>3737850
Your steamy breath melts the snow as you continue to observe the outpost. A little while and you'll have recovered, though how stealthy you can be at your size and wearing armor remains to be seen. One of the biggest issues is that you can't see the figurehead of the airship from where you are, it's facing the other way at dock. But you can approach to try and see better... it will require moving through the settlement though, either stealthily or not.

>Make a roll for your effort, if it's to try and sneak closer and grab someone, or something else. Though, sneaky actions will have a penalty.
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>>3737904
Can we fly and look at the figurehead from the sky?
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>>3737908
Support this action
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Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>3737904
Well, assuming we confirm the ship I say we change tactics a bit, we are dressed for impressing, let's approach what they have as a gate and tell them who we are and that we are here on business, then we go for the ship walking.
If they catch us sneaking around they will have reason to consider us a monster and not an individual

Making the roll for whatever we decide to do
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>>3737908
If you want to risk getting seen now, as close as you are. You'll have to fly close if you want to spy something as specific as the figurehead.

As a side note, I have to duck out for a little while but we'll continue here when I return, seeing what the rolls are.
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>>3737925
Then let's jhst walk up to the gate, we will have to go there and see
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Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>3737923
This is extremely risky as they could just be aggressive by default. But sure why not
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>>3737939
Its just because I think the docks are not a single entity, just a settlement where different crews gather, we have a problem with one of them, not the others...yet.
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Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>3737923
Sure
Tell one of the guards to come with us to avoid panic
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>>3737904
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Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>3737904
still think we should sneak and grab
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Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>3737861
She could have fallen for the captain.
>>3737904
Roll
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Back now, resuming in a bit.
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>>3737997
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>>3737939
>>3737923
>85

You don't want to risk flying and being noticed, so a direct approach may be for the best. As you near the outpost though and start to plan how you're going to act all sneaky, more and more you notice... it doesn't really seem that tight on defenses or the like. There's no gate or guards, in fact you can walk right up to the first buildings on the little street through, and there's just one guy bundled up in a coat and smoking a pipe. Not even a guard, just a local out at night and when he sees you approach from outside of the settlement he cautiously just steps inside and looks out the window at you. A similar response from others as you continue down the street, just some errant people you cross paths with, a drunkard here or a worker there and most panic when they see you and take shelter. Probably less because of the usual fearful reaction of seeing a dragon, and rather you're just such an unexpected sight to encounter in the middle of the few buildings at night that it catches people off guard and they resort to instinct of fearful retreat for safety.

Thus, you're able to go pretty easily then the rest of the way through the small collection of buildings to reach the docks, passing the noisy inn along the way. Perhaps the... only guard type of person here, a young lad bundled up sitting on a barrel next to a stove, panics when he first sees you. Falls backwards off the barrel to the sight of you but when you aren't breathing fire and killing people, and indeed must have come down the street without having caused trouble, he just nervously regards you.

"I-Is you... smart? Can talk?"

"Yes, I am intelligent and know how to talk."

"Oh! B-Beg pardon... lookin for somethin?"

From here you can see that the airship in question does have a harpy figurehead, so you make some excuse and head down the dock... carefully though, as you look down and notice that past a certain point the dock extends out beyond the mountainside. Like normal sea docks where it's the water over the side, should you fall in. But here, besides an old rope railing, if you fall over it won't be water to break your fall nor a short drop.

As you make it down to the end of that specific dock then, you approach the airship carefully and cautiously, till you hear some talking and catch sight of someone aboard the ship.

"So's what if'n I slept on watch? Blasted skipper... too cold fer this!"

A woman struggling to heft a small barrel, dressed for the cold but grumbling to herself as she strains to the chore. Your intent is to catch her but at your size you can only get so close before she notices you. In a panic she runs and jumps for the rigging to try and climb up but you whip the ropes with your tail and cause her to hang on rather than climb higher, allowing you to grab and pull her down. Naturally she tries to scream, but you grip her face and look around for an obscure spot.
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You could try dragging her inside the ship, though you're not sure if anyone else is aboard. On the other hand, getting her off the ship would be nice to some other place, but on the dock you're bound to be seen.

>What do you do?
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>>3738216
Go into the ship we are a wall of meat. we can handle anyone in the ship.
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>>3738216
Interrogate her right here

"Shhh, shhh, shh, easy now, we don't want your neck to be opened do we? So don't scream and I'll make sure your blood stays inside, agreed?"

Keep a talon to her neck

"Eveni>>3738216
ng lass, I'm Riona, from the valley as you must suspect. Now, where is the girl you took from my castle? You better tell me quick or you'll have to hope you can learn how to fly while dropping from here."
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>>3738237
Support
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Eesh, you'd better be careful, this wretched vessel is hardly stable to throw yourself around on. Fighting to you keep your balance, you figure this is as good as pot as you're going to get to learn what you want.

"Shhh, shhh, shh, easy now, we do not want your neck to be opened do we? So do not scream and I will make sure your blood stays inside, agreed?"

She can't really give a response, but when you hold a claw to her neck, she stops resisting. Enough for you to let go of her face and give her the chance to speak.

"Evening lass, I am Riona, from the valley as you must suspect. Now, where is the girl you took from my castle? You better tell me quick or you will have to hope you can learn how to fly while dropping from here."

"Wh-What're you t-talking dragon? We did'ny take any girl from ya. We brought ya the girl. What, she wrong one? Take it up with the skipper!"

Her panic shifts to some confusion, and she's not alone in that as you're unsure of what she's going on about. You'd punish her for trying to waste your time like this, but she seems to be honest... or rather, is too afraid at the moment to think of lying to you.

"What are you talking of? I have never met you in my life."

"Me? No, did'ny ya meet with the skipper? Paid us to cross the Hallarns and grab who's in charge a'the castle there, and bring em back to ya. If'n ya flew alla' way from Retley tho, couldn't ya gone grabbed her yaself?"

Retley? That land to the north, under control of that green dragon? Something's going on here, but whatever it is, it doesn't seem like these pirates just randomly stopped by your castle to kidnap someone by chance or personal profit.

>What do you do?
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>>3738296
Ask her where the Skipper is? tell her to be quick your feeling hunger after that long flight.
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>>3738296
Where is the skipper and where is the girl?

The green dragon was trying to kidnapp another princess it seems
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>>3738313
>>3738328
According to her at least, the rest of the crew are at the inn currently, she got stuck with lookout duty here alone. Given this, you'll likely want to go after them then, but just barging into the inn as a dragon might not get you the best results you're after...
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>>3738498
ask her were Nissa is if she is in the Inn then we are going in after her, if she is on the ship then we have our "friend" here free her and then we ruin their and leave with nissa
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>>3738506
>we
This, ask her where nissa is before anything else
I have half a mind of just burning this thing if she is not around
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>>3738524
its docked the fire would spread to the rest of the place. poping the balloon is better or even better for their crimes against the kingdom we confiscate the airship for ourself
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>>3738506
>>3738524
>>3738539
Well you asked, and her talking, she said how they took and delivered Nissa to the dragon that hired them for the job of it. This woman though thinks you are that dragon, or though you were. She never met the one giving them the job, she just knows that a dragon hired them to kidnap and deliver Nissa, which they already did. She's over the mountains now in Retley.
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>>3738597
Oh boy well looks like we are killing some fools tonight. Carry her to the inn throw her through the door and then Demand that her Skipper(Ask for the guy's name before we go in so we can shout it) show himself.
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>>3738611
Yup, they are dead, very very dead, and then we are flying to Ratley it seems. When we arrive there it's possible Nissa doesn't want to be rescued anymore since she digs dragons but let's make sure she is fine and bring her back if she isn't
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>>3738611
This
Let's eat the captain
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>>3738636
They kidnapped and basically sold Nissa to another dragon? No, you can't just let this slide. Kicking and screaming then, you drag the pirate by her hair back down the docks and to the inn. You obviously attract attention along the way but who's going to stop you?

Hurling her through the door then to crash into a table, you try to squeeze your way in through the door.

"Oi what the hells?!"

"I weren't shittin, look a dragon!"

"Careful lads, look here, this one's wearing stuff... not just a monster."

Given that the inn is like one of five buildings total in this outpost, it's pretty packed in part due to its small size. Not everyone in here are travelers let alone pirates, but you easily command the attention of everyone. And having thrown the pirate woman herself, her crew recognizes her right away and the situation.

"Which one is the captain of that ship? The one with the big... white, round thing above it?"

"Yeah? And who's the fuck are you?"

Two of the crew help the tossed girl up while the rest have their hands on their weapons, with an obvious captain doing the talking.

"I don't want trouble in here, take it outside!"

A very worried innkeeper tries to speak his piece, in particular worry about you and being able to breathe fire.

>What do you do?
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>>3738679
Approach the captain
"How much? How much were you paid tontake my servant from me you maggot?"

He'll probably say some quip or something witty and then we

"I hope it was worth it"

We claw or burn him aluve without a second chance then we leave
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>>3738691
support
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>>3738691
us claw as we don't want to burn the place down also advice the rest of the patron not affiliated with to leave
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>>3738691
>>3738707
Make a roll for the attempt!
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Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>3738728
"I am Riona Queen of Ostrela, you have abducted my friend prepare to die."
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>2
holy shit...this is fine
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>>3738728
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Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>3738728
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>>3738736
this is a princess bride reference by the way
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>>3738736
>>3738755
yeah, thats nice
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>>3738760
It's an old movie some people might not have gotten the reference.
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>>3738764
Now we just need a scene with a poisoned cup and an undecided short villain
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>>3738771
I can't tell if you are mocking me.
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>>3738773
I'm not, it's an actual scene from the movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eZmEiyTo0
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>>3738782
Oh yeah, man I need to rewatch this movie I completely forgot this happened.
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>94

A fight? In here? Oh no no, you're much too clever for that!

"How much? How much were you paid to take my servant from me you maggot?"

"You could say a... Queen's ransom!"

"Ahahah, good one skipper."

"I hope it was worth it. I am Riona, Queen of Ostrela. You have abducted my friend, prepare to die."

They're expecting some sort of battle and indeed are armed quite well, but in a flash you just pounce straight for the captain and aim your jaws for his head. The suddenness of the force and your size causes you to more or less collide with the entire crew and crash through another table. But by the time the dust has cleared and everyone can recollect themselves, you've already crushed the captain's head with your teeth.

"She killed the cap'n! Avenge him!"

"...I'd prefer not."

"Meeee.... me neither."

With such a fierce display, it seems you've killed the crew's will to fight... though they'll certainly defend themselves if you try, but they're no longer keen on attacking you. Unfortunately you couldn't really call it justice for Nissa, but it's a start.

>What do you do?
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>>3738794
Unless they wish to share the fate of their captain they are now in our employ any objections to this should be taken up with the former captain. also, tell the innkeeper we will pay for the damages. Then have them fly us back to Eising we are going to have to form an expedition party to save Nissa. we should bring our knights with us so we have back up.
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>>3738794
side note I can't help but read all of the pirate dialogue in a cockney accent.
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>>3738794
"Remember this before ever trying to steal from me again"

Let's fly to Nissa and make a daring rescue
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>>3738805
>>3738801
Well the question, of whether you prepare first or try to save Nissa immediately. You might not want to fly in blind, but then you don't want to be too late!
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>>3738794
Let's fly to Retley, but make sure to pop their skyship baloon while we pass
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>>3738805
We don't know how big the green dragon is, we don't know what kind of minions he employs, we don't have any back upcoming if we get captured. We have to be smart about this if we want to save Nissa our best move is to regroup gather a small strike force then use the airship to go and attack.

>>3738805
>>3738813
RUNNING IT BLIND IS GOING TO END BADLY!
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>>3738819
Let's go dude, if it's bad we come back, but we can't wait.
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>>3738819
maybe, but we are going in anyway, we can scout it out ourselves.
it will take weeks for a team to cross the mountains and get there, it's too long, if we can deal with this peacefully since she is not a princess, better, if not we will roast that green iguana
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>>3738824
go and then having to run back will only end up wasting more time. how about this before we run off half-cocked let's ask the first mate why they were hired to kidnap Nissa. It is for ransom we have time.
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>>3738829
We can use the pirate's skyship! we can press-gang them into our service force them to man the ship back to eisling we tell our knights to gear up then go
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>>3738837
I accept hiring them to go there and bring people back but we are going in before them no matter what
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>>3738846
Fine, that at least alleviates my fear of going in with no backup. I still think we should wait for said back up but whatever.
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>>3738846
>>3738850
So is that your plan? To press them into service to travel to Retley?
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>>3738856
Seems that way, this way we can rest on the ship so that when we arrive we won't be bone tired when we arrive.
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>>3738856
Sure, ask the rate for the next captain
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>>3738862
Oh no no no we are not hiring them we are giving them the best deal they get to live under our rule in our service. They have been conscripted in our retinue.
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>>3738867
You got it buddy
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>>3738829
Very well then, after killing their captain and similar threats to them if they don't, you force the crew into your service. They can finish their drinks, do what they need to with their old captain's body, but then they'd better be ready to go; you want to ship out within the hour. Maybe you could wait till morning but time is of the essence here, so you can sleep on board while they all work.

And while you're not making any friends here, including in the outpost itself, before long you're underway. Wobbling for stability upon the deck as you watch the airship push out from the sky dock and the crew navigate their way about the vessel on their various jobs like busy little ants. You won't begin to even try to understand this vehicle they have, but in your infinite wisdom you can see it has something to do with the balloon being filled with a magical gas which lifts the whole vessel in the air. After that it's just a matter of propulsion from several fanning mechanisms, probably also magical in nature.

Whatever the case, an interesting solution the lesser races have found to one of their biggest weaknesses you've noticed; their lack of wings and inability to fly!

Either way, grumble as they might the crew do your bidding. Apparently it will take two days to cross the mountains, so if you have anything in mind during this time you can act upon it. As it will be though, you are limited in what you can get up to while cooped up on this flying boat with a crew of lesser race beings.

>What do you do?
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>>3738899
Find out all we can about this other dragon from the crew while we have this downtime.
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>>3738899
Supporting >>3738904

Just how the hell did that dragon find about our castle, and just who did the pirate think the woman was? Obviously the captain was the one who talked to the dragon, so he would know more, but maybe the crew was also told what the mark was (or who she was supposed to be).
Did they think their mark, the queen, is a human?
Also, learn their names, I want to be able to tell them apart.
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During the travel then as you get to appreciate the transport relaxing while the crew works, you try to learn more of the scenario at hand. In particular this whole foul deal that took place with the pirates. Unfortunately the captain was the most versed, but the first mate and now new captain was present through it as well.

"Wait, I had heard he was the size of a mountain or something like that."

"Less your talking bout some other dragon, the one I seen with me eyes wassa size of anyone. Me or the skipper, even the floozies he had with him."

The had not met long but by the sounds of things this dragon had gotten word of an enemy trespassing in his land and causing problems. For that he hired the pirates to go and kidnap whoever was in charge of the castle to the south, in Ostrela. How the dragon knew about all this the pirates aren't aware of, nor were they given specifics on a specific person to kidnap. Simply "whoever was in charge" and unfortunately for Nissa she took her job as head servant seriously enough to be the one to go out and meet these pirates when they landed and hailed the castle for a meeting. Certainly none of them were aware the castle belonged to a whole other dragon and that they were stealing from one, otherwise they would not have taken the job.

It is curious, you'd want to know how the green dragon learned what he needed to know, but otherwise it seems the pirates were merely middle men and on a need-to-know basis which didn't include all the details. In fact if you hadn't caught them, they were actually going to be shipping out the next morning and headed across the continent to other lands on business as usual after. Well their fate is something different now entirely, as you can try to start learning about them and their names and such, probably getting it down by the time you're finished with this whole mess.

By afternoon of the second day however, there's news about the land of Retley being sighted, as you can look off from the airship and see a similar sight as when you first crossed over the mountains and saw the land for yourself. Damp, rocky grasslands drenched by frequent rain, not all that pleasant a place but you assume the green dragon had his reasons for taking control. You just wonder how much of it was his own power and threat, and how much was it's lesser value as a territory for the governing country to not regret giving it up terribly. Or, simply it all has to do with that captive princess.

In any case, the green dragon's land lies before and beneath you as the airship descends from mountain altitudes and the crew asks where you want to go now?

>What do you do?
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>>3739128
Right up to the castle, they land there and we get out of the ship as a surprise to our little green cousin
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>>3739128
tell them to approach the castle like they did last time
tell them that we will probably have cargo to come back with us, since I'm interested in reparations and maybe even kidnapping the guy's princess and that they won't we expected to work without pay, they will be paid at the castle after this is done, the captains punishment was necessary since no one steals from us, and that made it clear for all the other sky pirates
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>>3739128
>Green dragon isn’t the size of a mountain.
Well, if that’s the case, then maybe we could fight and kill him? I’m sure the people living here would appreciate that. Although, I’m not exactly sure how big “wassa size of anyone” is.

Does Riona know what kind of breath a green dragon has? Is it fire, like her breath, or something else?

>Where to?
Take us directly to where they took Nissa. We’ll be taking her back from the green dragon.

And as a bonus, we’ll also rescue, er, I mean, “kidnap” that other princess he’s supposedly got with him. Only thing is, we’ll let her be a guest in our castle until someone from her country comes to pick her up and take her home.
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>>3739187
Support but we aren't paying them they work for us now.
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>>3739175
You didn't just fly all this way to beat around the bush! Especially when it's only a green dragon and not so big, you're not too worried about the acidic breath. You order the crew to take you right to the place, but again you're kind of disappointed because you were expecting some grand fortification to go with the rumors of the dragon himself you'd heard... but it's just a country manor. A nice place for sure, kind of cute, but compared to your decently sized castle?

"Oi-a! What're you back for? His Greatness isn't expecting you, state your business!"

The airship nears the place over the grassy fields and descends to a distance where ropes can be lowered... though not like you need them. A guard sits outside the manor and is decently armed as you spy down from above, so you're not yet noticed. But he looks to be the only one, and certainly this place is not fortified or even defensible really, it's not at all fortified and if you wished you could just start a fire and burn it down rather than a stone structure.

Of course who's to say what might lie within and how dangerous this place may be, but from the outlook you expect little resistance.

>What do you do?
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>>3740151
Tell some of the purates to drop down, then we pounce the guy and leave him with the pirates and walk inside, tine to rescue our frienda from a vacation home apparently
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>>3740151
Tell the first mate to say "We need to talk to his greatness as we have important news from Ostrela" once we have lured green bean outside we blindside him from above and pin him by the throat to the ground. "Hello cousin, you have someone that belongs to me."
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>>3740180
This

And if it doesn't work this>>3740166
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>>3740166
If possible you'd want to lure out the dragon, but try as you might, the pirates can't get the guard to follow through.

"We needa talk to his greatness, we's got big news from Ostrela."

"You know how it is pirate, his Greatness only receives visitors. You want to tell him, you'll have to come down."

Well that's simple enough then! You jump over the side of the lowered airship and slow your fall with your wings, but land quite soundly upon the guard. Pinning him to the ground with a muffled yell, you call up for the pirates to come down and hold him prisoner while you continue on. Carefully you enter into the entry courtyard of the manor, and notice one other guard... fast asleep, even while a couple horses panic at the sight of you.

After that though it's easy enough to get inside of the manor when you find a back door open to the kitchen, a few servants in and out but panic when they see you and flee. You're able to catch one girl by knocking a table over with your head and trapping her in the room with you, while you ask. Apparently though it's easy enough, the dragon is upstairs and you can force her to lead you the way. As may have been indicated from the outside as you find going through the manor, again, it's a nice place and fit for any lord. But it's nothing compared to a castle, your castle.

Up the stairs you go till you reach the end of the landing before a fancy door, as the serving girl knocks.

"Mhmm? Who is that?! Is my lunch ready?!"

A decidedly non-human voice from within, as the serving girl nervously waits in case you want her to do anything else, or if you want to take things from here yourself. At the very least she can open the door a little for you so you can bash through for a quick entry if you need to. Carefully though you sneak a peek as best as the shape of your head can manage to find...

Ugh... disgraceful!

A fancy master bedroom with some treasure gathered about on the carpeted floors, and a sweet smoke in the air from candles. But your focus is to the bed where you see the green dragon himself... only the size of a man! If that! Much smaller than you for sure, and if that wasn't enough he's in bed with several women basking in their company. Not that you don't know the feeling, but there's quite the difference between some barmaids rubbing your tail and giving compliments and... this indecent display of intimacy, being kissed and other things by these... concubines you suppose, and not a bit of clothing between them! All together playful and giggling.

"Mwah! Yesss, like that... if-if you've got the food just-just set it by the bed there!"

The wretch is too absorbed with his "treasures" and their affection to notice you yet, from their perspective and assumption just a servant outside the door with food. If this is all the wretch spends his days about however, what a sorry excuse for a dragon he is...

>What do you do?
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>>3740308
make sure Nissa is not among them and then barge in, tell the women to leave and walk up to the sorry excuse of a dragon
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>>3740308
>Hello. My name is Riona. Pirates in your service took something that belongs to me. I'll give you two minutes to explain yourself.
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>>3740308
Hm, didn't know you could use barmaids for that, well time for action.

Open the door but still hold it with our tail in case he uses his breath so we can shut the door and protect ourselves with it

"Girls, leave, now."

"I believe you stole something from me you pitiful excuse for a dragon, where is my servant?"

>>3740327
Yeah, making sure Nissa is not in the bunch sounds good, this may get dangerous
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>>3740354
Support but before we say this pin him on the bed
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>pic related
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>>3740391
Very much so

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If Nissa was among then you would have noticed. In any case you force open the door, ready for an attack if need be. One of the girls notices you and panics, which draws attention to you from the rest.

"Hello. My na-"

"AAAHHH!!!"

Before you can even speak your name, the green dragon shrieks and without hesitation frees himself from that offensive pile of skin and scales, clamors over his girls and immediately bolts for the window. Jumping and smashing straight through the glass and screaming all the way, you hear him hit the ground outside with a thud, but then runs and leaps to take flight to try and escape.

Naturally, you and the women are left speechless for a little bit, before you get it in your head again to act.

"Girls... wait here!"

Probably the last thing they expected was for another dragon to just barge into the room so fearfully they nod, hiding among the covers as you figure what to do.

>Assumedly, to chase after the greenie? Make a roll for the effort to catch him!
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Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>3740413
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Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>3740413
get him
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Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>3740413
Have we thought of the fact that his smaller size might mean he is younger than us?
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Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>3740413
A most shameful display. Then again he might just be a child, then in which case his impropriety is more a reflection of his mother.
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>>3740434
Or maybe he simply "exerts" himself way too much. Folk lore says one drop of "essence" is worth 50 drops of blood.
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Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>3740434
>>3740439
Or father, dragon parenting often depends on the bigger parent. At least the bigger ones, smaller ones co-parent.

And it's possible he could be younger, though size is not always an indicator of age.
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>>3740452
I mean you're right that could easily be the case I'm just wanting us to keep in mind that it is a possibility and should have turn out that he is just a kid I have serious qualms about just offing him
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Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>3740413
I see he knows the secret Joestar technique quite well!
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>>3740483
I get the reference!>>3740483
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>>3740467
he's not a kid, that's for sure, and he's gonna pay for what he did, maybe not death but it will definitely hurt
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>>3740413
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>>3740487
Are we going to step on him and call him names? How do we want him to address us? Mistress or mommy?
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>>3740492
I'm planning things way more violent of course
we killed the sky captain for this and this guy is the one who ordered it, nobody steals from us
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>>3740492
You dirty, dirty boy, how dare you take mommy's favorite servant. Hhm now how should I punish you.
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>>3740496
And we can take his hostage princess and take his lands, maybe send some of our nobles here to manage our new holdings
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>>3740496
That depends on how old he actually is. Like I said if he is just a dumb kid then I will in no way support killing him.
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>97, 31

Well it's not an easy chase, as he has a head start on you. He jumped out the window while you can't fit and have to go downstairs and exit the normal way. As well, he's smaller and lighter. But eventually he simply tires out before you, probably out of shape from lounging about his manor all day, and you can catch him despite his best efforts and a period of the two of you dancing about together in the sky as he keeps trying to dodge you.

"Leave me! Begone red wench!"

Catching his tail eventually though, the two of you tangle in an aerial struggle of red and green flurry and in a beating flutter of wings you unsteadily careen down to the earth again, crashing to the ground in a grassy muddy skid. Both stunned for a bit, he again just tries to flee but you catch him by the hind legs and pin him down to the ground, partly holding him with your limbs partly your weight upon him. By his small size it's not really much different from holding a human down as he's comparable. One last feeble attempt to bite or breathe an acidic cloud at you, but you just grip his throat to the ground.

Though you've got him pinned beneath you, it's not a pleasant experience... he reeks of sweat from those humans and fouler things from their lovemaking. Touching him makes you feel dirty. You're not in a particularly introspective mood at the moment, but you suffer a moment of flashback to your experiences with your sister, catching her with human lovers and this is like a crude reminder. It's the light drizzle of rain to your body, and his fading struggle beneath you till he gives up and it's just your bodies heaving for breath together from that intense chase and struggle.

>You've got him now, what do you do?
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>>3740542
Where is the person you stole from me you pathetic worm?
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>>3740562
This

Keep pressure on his head away from us so he can't use his acid breath

Make sure to mention the sky pirates and the valley if he doesn't answer or remembers
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>>3740542
Press down harder on him, make him struggle for breath.
>"You took something from me, whelp. Where is she?"

>>3740496
He's a dragon though, and probably a kid. Plus, he probably didn't know we were a dragon, while the captain was being a smart ass to our face, us in public. I do want to utterly humiliate him though, just not in front of lesser beings.
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>>3740562
Support

Place a claw on the leather of his wing, if he tries to delay, or say stupid things we gradually rip some of the leather
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>>3740593
Why do you even think he is a kid? He is old enough to have a realm and an orgy? Where is this pity towards someone who stole from us?
I want to take everything he has at the very least and probably leave something permanet as a lesson to him, lessons are important and we should NOT go easy on someone who stole from us.
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>>3740593
Support
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>>3740609
We are 50 years old and QM has said we are bairly a young adult by dragon standards
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>>3740609
Because I choose to believe there is greatness within all dragons (even if it may be through distasteful means). This one just needs someone to show him the way.

Besides, I'm the one who proposed a princess heist on him, so this seems fair.
Plus, there is no easy we could effectively claim and rule a (admittedly pretty terrible) land that is more than a few days travel away even at our maximum flight speed, better to have someone under our wing do it for the time being. Not necessarily as vassal, just "under our sphere of influence".
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>>3740632
Yes, and? How does that make this one a kid since size is not an indicator? He is in his perfect mind, runs a small realm, has orgies at his house and hires pirates and such to do his work, whatever his age is he is responsible gor his actions, if you are against killing someone who stole from us, ok, I can give you that mercy if you are so inclined but we must not let this go unpunished, it is not ok to steal from us, we must take something very important from him, if not everything he has.
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>>3740634
Support
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>>3740642
Our sister has a ton of kids and we are of similar age
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Going for the wings is pretty disrespectful among dragons, but given that you're laying on top of him you can't really get at them anyway. But, you can very well clench his neck and push down harder as he starts squirming again.

"You took something from me, wyrmling. Where is she?"

"-eeuurrk! B-Back at home! You can h-have her! No harm, n-no hard feelings! Take your p-princess back!"

Speaking to each other in the draconic language, he freely gives up the information you want, true to his cowardly nature. He could be lying but by the sound of things, Nissa is simply back in the manor in some other room. And, supposedly unharmed...

"...why? Why did you do it?"

"-huuurk! Y-You invaded my land! Caused t-trouble! Made me l-look weak! I had to do s-something!"

So... really just a petty power play. Your domains are roughly neighbors, you came around and poked about in his land uninvited nor did you present yourself, and harassed a peasant. Just his own way of getting back at you, like you and your black siblings would towards each other. Dragon "games" if you could call them that, though of course at your age you would consider them... not childish, but beneath you. Like a crude competition almost, and from what you've seen he is pretty petty, and craven. However when you are a ruler and have a country, insults like that carry a bigger, and different meaning...

...whether you forgive him or not (supposing he's telling the truth), is up to you. Incidentally, for what it's worth, you can ask his age and he's older than you by seventeen years. By your guess he was just a wild dragon who has always been small, a hard life compared to yours of growing up with a great dragon parent who afforded you easy resources.

>What do you do?
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>>3740634
You guys are seriously considering something like this? Fuck

I say we take the princess to have control over the land, take all his gold, and make a mark on his scales with a hot iron as a lesson and punishment for what he did, he will have to pay us tribute like everyone else after this too.

He will betray us in a heartbeat whatever we do after our sister shows up and seduces him, they are very similar in that nature
I would rather eliminate him too but you guys are being bleeding hearts agains so I'll take what I can get....gone where the good days of killing Grey.
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>>3740649
And what does that have to do with anything? He is not a kid is what I'm saying
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>>3740659
It has now been confirmed he is not a kid, let's mess him up.
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>>3740653

So he is older than us?

Can we clip his wings off now?
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>>3740632
At the age of 50 in draconic years, you are roughly comparable to "20" for human years. So just barely a young adult.
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>>3740665
Sure, but let's do it in such away that it will heal in time. I want to punish him not cripple him
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>>3740679
how about we do something out of our friendly troll book? the one that marked us?

can we breath fire into our clay until it's temperature is very high and then we use it to write "Thief" at his behind
the scales will change and heal with time but the skin underneath will be marked forever, even if not visible
a lesson and a reminder only he will know
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>>3740692
meant to say claw
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>>3740692
Support, this will serve a life long lesson. Hope he takes it to heart.
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>>3740692
Acid burning isn't the same as fire burning since you got lucky. You can do what you describe but it probably won't work only mark his skin not scales.
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>>3740699
and on his underbelly scales? could we cut through them with an incandescent claw and reach the skin to leave a mark on both?
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>>3740699
Yeah that is what we want. Others may not see it but he will always know it's there.
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>>3740653
"Oh, you steal from me and says there are no hard feelings?
Even if there aren't why should I show mercy to a pitiful being like you, I won, now you pay tribute to the winner, I'll take whatever I want from your house and you will consider yourself fortunate that you still have your life."

Let's get his gold and the princess too

But first let's have a reunion with Nissa
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>>3740723
Actually I support this.
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>>3740715
Won't only, meaning you'll probably scar his scales in the process. That is, if you burn-scar his skin, and it even grows scales anymore after that.
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>>3740739
leave a small mark on his underbelly then, firebrand on his skin, if it heals it heals, if it doesn't he can try to cover it somehow
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>>3740749
You want to do this before/after you're intending to take victor spoils from him?
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>>3740739
Hey qm, seeing as this guy went through all that trouble to avenge an insult to a farmer and now we made him look pathetic in front of everyone in his house, what would he do to them to make this humiliation go away? Because if he is going to kill all his servants my treatment of him will change drastically
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>>3740752
I say take his stuff and leave. Forget the branding.
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>>3740752
maybe later, I'm really not sure yet

let's see Nissa first, it's why we came here anyway
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WHO KNOWS?!

>>3740759
>>3740760
You're of a mind to brand him, let him know what it feels like. Enslaving him, another funny though, possibly even starving him so he gets even smaller. Like a little wyrmling pet. For now though, as your rage from the chase and fight subsides a little you can focus on the most important matter; Nissa.

So, grabbing ahold of the smaller dragon with your draconic hands, you grip him fast so he can't struggle much and spread your wings to take flight back to his home. Landing roughly on top of him, the first thing you notice is the airship is gone... no clue where, just a tied up guard left outside. You can get to that later, but gripping the dragon with your forelimbs now you kind of walk semi-upright into his house again, to the alarm of servants when their suspicions were confirmed that indeed another dragon showed up and subdued their own dragon master. You'd like use of all your limbs, but you don't trust the wretch to not flee if you let go of him.

Fortunately there is a cellar with no windows, so once you find Nissa you can have her lock him down there while you figure out what to do. And at the dragon's direction, you make your way upstairs to a far bedroom where you try to force the door open.

"Oh no, not again~! Please no, milord~! I prithee not be ravaged by a dragon~!"

With your hands busy holding the dragon, you try to just bash the door open with your head but you hear talking from the room within. You finally manage to bust the lock off the door and knock it open, to see Nissa waiting on the bed in a rather... inviting way. The moment she sees you though she instinctively panics and behaves more... modestly.

"M-My Queen?! W-W-What are you doing here?! Have you... you've come to save me? Oh thanks be, I'm so glad to see you! I've been praying night and day since being taken, the gods have answered me!"

She rushes for you while... notably, nervously avoiding the dragon in your hands, so that she can hug you. By the look of things, the dragon was right and she is unharmed, she certainly seems fine.

>What do you do?
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>>3740804
I see you were enjoying yourself Nissa, I imagined you would not protest but he still stole you from me and that could not do.
He is quite pathetic tho, you could do much better
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>>3740823
Kek support, also ask Nissa how she has been treated this will shape how harshly he will be punished.
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>>3740804
"Nissa dear, is your weakness to dragons so strong that you would fall for this?"

Shake him a little like a ragdoll

" I imagine what would you do to get my attentions were I a male"
>WHO KNOWS?!

Yeah, I vote to kill him before we leave then

>>3740804
Not only you stole from me but you debased yourself on her? There will be much to paybfor that little wyrm

Let's find the princess first before killing him, ask him who she is.
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>>3740841
supporting this too
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>>3740804
>Wring the wyrm in our hands in simmering rage
>"My dear Nissa, I am glad to see you in good health. Has this /wyrm/ *wring* treated you well *wring*? What is all this talk about being "ravaging"? *wring*
Hah! As expected of a bar wench with a scale fetish.

>>3740823
>He is quite pathetic tho, you could do much better
She's just a bar wench at the end of the day, one that can't read, so no, not really in my opinion, not without our grace.
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>>3740841
Before going straght to kill him let's find out how his treatment of his prisoners has been.
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>>3740859
I'm not worried about how he treats his prisioners, I'm more worried about what he will do to everyone here after we leave since he will want to hide this episode and probably kill everyone, since he was bold enough to steal from us just because a farmer saw him
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>>3740866
To be fair the pirates didn't kill any of our people and Nissa has been unharmed. I think this guy is just horn dog with no common sense. Not some brutal monster.
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>>3740841
Nissa is a simple girl, she likely would not react well to us killing the wyrm; a full male dragon that she has been fantasizing about ever since her run-in with that dragon-born.
As pathetic as this wyrm is in our eyes, he's the first genuine article, and hence her current "ideal" that she's met and "known".
I think she could help him grow, and I mean that in a figurative sense.
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>>3740869
He said he had to do it because we made him look weak, what dobyou think he will make here since he can't exacly make everyone forget and taking more hoatile action against us will end badly for him, his only outlet will be his servants

Think, this is not some bibbling fool, its a dragon, like us, with pride and everything
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>>3740870
>>3740869
The solution of course, is to make him your court jester
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>>3740887
it's a trap guys
like when he says for us to reroll a good result to try for a 100

>>3740869
>>3740870
>>3740878
let's see how he reacts after we release him and start going away with Nissa, if he starts acting murdery against the others we kill him
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>>3740891
Sounds good to me, Also lets scolded him about being a bad leader he has control of this county he should be doing things to improve his land.
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>>3740823
Your servant Nissa... this girl, what's her angle? You're no expert of humans but even you seem to notice something is up.

"My dear Nissa, I am glad to see you in good health. Has this wyrm-"

"-ack!" with one hand at the base of his tail and another hand on his neck, you pull and stretch the dragon out.

"-treated you well?"

"-urk!"

Partly your own amusement, partly to see how she would react. She hides it well, but you can detect upset in her each time you stretch the dragon out.

"Don't do that to him! I mean, you don't have to do that to him. He's been quite the... gentleman, and treated me well."

"What is all this talk about you being "ravaged"?

"-ick!"

You look her closely in the eyes at this, though by now she's used to your behavior and personality so it doesn't have the same effect as on a stranger.

"...nothing! Nothing at all, it's just a silly game, he wants people to act like he's the King... kind of like you, as Queen."

Was that an insult? No, she would never dream of it. Well at least she's doing fine, surprisingly was treated well. Still, you seek to test her.

"Nissa dear, is your weakness to dragons so strong that you would fall for this?"

"What do you mean, fall for? Nothing happened!"

You shake him some this time to get the point across, but she stops you but resting her hands on your arm to show her allegiance.

"I can only imagine what you would do to get my attentions were I male."

"So can I."

"What?"

"Nothing!"

---

Having chucked the dragon in the cellar for the time being and letting Nissa to keep it barricaded closed, you check about the house for where the princess is supposed to be. In going through each room though you do end up having to check the master bedroom again, encountering once more the dragon's lady friends. In the time since they've gotten some clothes on at least, but you told them to wait here so they did, and are relieved to see you again.

"What happened to Saren? Is he alright?"

"Another dragon? Is there... anything we can do for you?"

"Look how big you are! So powerful!"

These women, no sooner did you evict the green dragon from the bed, and now they're inviting a red one in to replace? You suppose they're just acting in self-preservation, whether or not their dragon patron will be dead or not, they recognize who is the superior. Probably hoping to guarantee their cushy lifestyle regardless. Same with the servants though, you may end up responsible for them depending on your choice for what to do with the dragon.

>What do you do?
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>>3740960
Ask the Princess how they have been treated and if they wish to stay with Saren or go home. Also, ask each of them how long they have been here. finally, ask them what kind of Dragon Saren is, is he cruel and brutal or kind and forgiving.
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>>3740960
Well, let's see to his treasure then, let them try to pleasure us and be compleately disappounted when they discover the equipment they are dealing with lol

Then ask witch one is the princess from this land.

And see if there is anything of value besides the courtesans

Ask how he treats his peasants too after it
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>>3740975
Oh you actually want to indulge them?

...if so, make a roll I guess?
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>>3741038
You made me do this! You ask for this!
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>>3741043
I was expecting you to have them torment their captor now that he's subdued lol

But it's your choice to make, you are the dragon after all.
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Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>3741038
Shit! A roll! Noooooooo!

I mean, look at that picture! How could I not?
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Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>3741038
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Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>3741038
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>>3741054
OH GOD THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING
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>>3741063
surely anon, surely something will happen and interupt it all....surelly.....any minute now
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>>3741066
MFW we accidentally seduce half the princess of all the lands
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>>3741066
If players just majority decided against it...

In any case, there's four of them so...
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>>3741091
>If players just majority decided against it...
I am against this course of action and wish to get off of this ride
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>>3741091
it seems one of them is a real go getter
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>>3741091
>96
WHO THE FUCK ROLL A 96!
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>>3741091
A 96 is tough

>>3741038
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>>3741100
There's one at least!
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We can still back out of this it's not too late!
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Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>3741038
Fucked up the roll
Let's see how we go
>>3741113
That must be the princess....or she is the one who rolled the lowest I don't know
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You all realize that we are for this, right?

>Well, let's see to his treasure then, let them try to pleasure us and be compleately disappounted when they discover the equipment they are dealing with lol
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>>3741091
>one of them actually roll 69

oh dear
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Oh my god we are about to have a princess "Party"
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>>3741127
See
No problem, they will be disappoint ed and we can have a good dragon laugh
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>>3741132
...one of them rolled a 96. this plan is about to back fire.
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>>3741115
>>3741118
Only one dissenter I guess? That's not a majority...
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>>3741149
AH SHIT AH FUCK AH GOD!

well I did my part in trying to prevent this.
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>>3741156
I guess so... writing now? Oh dear.
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>>3741213
I-I didn't ask for this
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>>3741221
Neither did I, I'm just surprised if folks are willing to get into this, they're not willing to try to reroll on a 68.
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>>3741244
I'm new to this quest so I didn't really want to speak out against anything. But yeah, this seems a bit out of character from what was originally going on.
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>>3741327
It is it really is
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Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>3741244
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You crazy motherfuckers are actually going through with this
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>>3741121
>>3741059
>>3741054
>>3741053
>>3741043
>>3741362
>86, 96

Just by asking you can tell that none of these women are the princess, she's kept in her own wing of the manor, kind of like Nissa had her own room. There's other things you want to know however, as you stand by the bed and it kind of feels like an interrogation.

"And how long have you been here? And how does he treat you? And how does he treat his subjects?"

"Too many questions!"

"If you want to know more, come lay down!"

"We'll tell you everything you want once you get comfortable."

The audacity of these humans. You snort and shake your head, the sheer absurdity of it all... but you defeated the dragon Saren, all his treasures are yours now by right, including his companions it seems. You suppose there's some amount of pride about defeating your opponent and taking his females, but the obvious gender issue throws a spanner in those works. The only reason you even consider it, is because you're certain this is just going to be a waste of time and they'll just give up and cooperate.

So you move to the bed and try to climb on, but are stopped.

"Ah-ah! You're not going to relax in armor!"

"Here, we can help each other."

While they make an effort to try and get your armor off, one of them prompts you to remove her clothes (more sleepwear, really) in return, clumsily as you try delicately with your teeth or claws and just end up ripping them but causing the women to laugh and have some fun of it each time. Also a chance to learn their names, and them yours.

"Riona? That sounds much better than Saren!"

"But don't tell him we told you!"

Of course you spent most of your entire life without clothes and it never bothered you before but something about it now, as the last bits of armor are removed and you get the last woman's clothes off, something inside you feels... perhaps a little embarrassed. Not like you've never had attention from humans before, even barmaids fawning over you and hugging you or sitting on your lap. But not like this before, full body bare draconic skin and scales to bare human skin, and not with humans like this. Something about these women, something about the way they act. Playful, teasing, lively... there's a style to their intimacy, something which is alien to you anyway; intimacy. You're used to humans interested in you but not in an intimate way. Not to mention seeing what they actually look like under their clothes, the females anyway... how oddly curious they are.

"Oh it's so hot! Feel it, the heat is so much more than a green one!"

"See? Now isn't that better?"

"Right... well, I did as you asked, now I want to know-"
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To your surprise you find yourself cut off with a kiss. You nervously tried to change subject after they got your armor off and you their clothes, especially when they started pressing up against and making full body contact with you at one's observation of your greater heat to the green dragon. But your attention is most caught of course by the sudden ambush of the mouth! As the woman leans up to reach you, and you're caught up in a mingling of tongues. The feel of her hands to your face and her tongue in your mouth, the smell of her hair and her body, the look of her eagerness in it all... it's all so sudden and all so real. Your heart starts to hammer as something within you stirs, and your legs go a little weak enough for you to stagger to the side, breaking the kiss and prompting two of the women on that side to try and catch you and keep you up standing.

"Careful now!"

"You liked that, did you?"

"...I-I have to... I have to f-find the princess!"

Finding your footing again, you stumble away from the women, knocking over furniture and making a mess as you try to leave the room. Despite their attempts to keep you to stay, too.

"Oh don't go!"

"We can take it easier, if you like?"

"Let him be, maybe he needs a bit to himself..."

And so you stumble through the doorway, smashing against the frame in the process but carefully shutting the door behind you, before you fwump down on the carpeted floor of the hallway outside the bedroom. You try to cope with your increased pulse and heightened senses, doing your best to calm down and get ahold of yourself once again. It was strange, confusing as hell when it started back in the room... but in a bad way, per se. You didn't know what it was though, but given the chance to clear your head you're aware of it now; your draconic lust, playing up in response to the actions of those women... and in preparation for them. Just like your draconic pride, greed, rage, and what have you, though by contrast you never really embrace your lustful side so when it naturally comes calling... well, it was a little overwhelming to say the least.

"Ugh... the... the princess."

Taking a deep breath, you wobbly rise to standing once more, feeling that fiery sensation in your heart and... elsewhere in your body, finally subsiding. Unfortunately you'll have to meet the princess not dressed to impress as usual, but you're not going back in the bedroom to get your armor, not for awhile at least. Not to mention you'd need the women's help to get dressed again, no way.

Not after that lapse in judgement... narrowly avoided.

>What do you do? Just find and ask the princess the same things you wanted to know?
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>>3741422
>Disregard princess, acquire treasure and Nissa and fle-er, bravely charge in a direction away from this den of lustful vipers
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>>3741422
>Just find and ask the princess the same things you wanted to know?
that bullet only grazed us
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We nearly got seduced by a room of concubines.
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>>3741431
That poor green dragon, you can only imagine!
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>>3741429
This and then >>3741428 tell Nissa to get the armor for us
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>>3741436
more like trying to not Imagine as their soft flesh bodies slide against our scales as we try not to gasp in-AAAHHHH
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>>3741450
Anon has the right/wrong idea.
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>>3741428
>>3741429
>>3741439
Unsteadily you search about the rest of the manor then, till indeed you find a few rooms that are connected, and inhabited by a young woman. She was reading a book at the time you found her, but to suddenly see another dragon naturally startles her and she screams and tries to flee from you. Since she can't escape though, eventually you can convince her you're not a monster. The lack of clothes doesn't help but speaking does. She's still wary of you then, but will at least answer your questions.

"How has he treated you, Saren?"

"As far as I know he has always been good to his servants. He has always been good to me as well, but I am a prisoner of course. Some kindness that is. Just so long as no one upsets his women, anyone on their bad side suffers his wrath."

"What about those who aren't his servants?"

"My countrymen? I do not think he is a good leader, but he is not cruel. He fosters a reputation of fear in the people and they obey, I have not heard of harsh punishments otherwise... I think he does not ask for much so people merely accept things the way they are. That goes to show how well they manipulate him, those women."

Well there's certainly worse, much worse rulers in the land not to mention dragons. According to the princess at least, the green dragon just likes sitting up here in the manor acting like he's the big bad dragon lord of the land, but as long as people bring some food and taxes now and then... he's content to leave them be.

Or so it seems, is the image projected. You're not entirely sure of what she's alluding to since she speaks of it plainly like it's something she understands and is used to, but by the sound of things... she seems to believe those women control the dragon? Or, at least he does what they want. In a sense, sounding like they rule the land through the dragon as he carries out their will.

But that's preposterous of course, this princess must have gone soft in the head from spending so much time locked up inside!

"...and the dragon himself? What is he like?"

"I think you know already. He is petty and craven, and likes to project an image of power and fear. But really he is a creature of simple delights, as long as he has his bed, those women to share it with, a roof over his head and something to eat and drink... he does not care about anything else. I am not even sure he has met with any of his subjects in years now. Sadly the land withers for it, but at least he has not killed anyone, to my knowledge."

She sounds happy to answer your questions even if she is wary of you, must be all this time cooped up here, someone to talk to is a nice change. Though, she's eager that you're here now, hoping you'll free her or something. But your interests are your own. What you do with her, and what you do with the dragon remains to be seen, but primarily you're just here for Nissa... and some treasure besides.

>What do you do?
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>>3741503
Alright here's what I suggest, we free the Princess. Take all the gold and loot we can carry tell Saren that his reign over this land is at an end, but if he helps us carry our loot back to our land we will let him keep him, women, and let him stay in our country provided he doesn't cause trouble. Because honestly he seems like a complete pushover that is going to get himself killed if someone doesn't put him on a leash
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Guys

Unless we intend to resort to incest, Saren might be the only viable mate we will see for a long, LONG time.
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>>3741556
which is why we are taking him home on a leash
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>>3741556
Actually nevermind I am holding out for a nice blue dragon.
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>>3741562
He's even more pathetic than a human; all that potential and instead he lets a few women drain him down to a toy. A bad dragon toy. Personally I'm holding out for either another red or a metallic dragon, if they exist.

>>3741503
Ask about her family, these lands, and how she came to be alone and locked up in a tower. Has Saren tried anything untoward on her. Ask her what she thinks would be best for this land.
I want to take her to our land; our very first princess!
Wait! Those skypirates! How long has it been since they were gone?!
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>>3741589
they are long gone bro
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>>3741589
Nah man a nice strong Blue dragon that can sweep us off our feet, using his ice breath to cool down a room in the sweltering summer heat. it would be perfect.

also, our kids would have the chance to breathe fire or ice
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>>3741503
>But that's preposterous of course, this princess must have gone soft in the head from spending so much time locked up inside!
You experienced first hand how easily those women almost got you into bed with them! If they did the same thing with the green dragon, then it makes sense that they control the dragon!

>What do?
First of all, we’re getting our fucking armor back, damnit!

Then, we’ll take a curtain off a window or something, scoop some treasure into it, then tie it up and carry it as a makeshift bag.

Finally, we’ll take the princess with us and Nissa to our castle. She can be our guest while waiting for someone from her kingdom to come pick her up and (possibly) drop off a reward for rescuing her.

As for what to do with the dragon? Leave him here with his women. And give him a warning that if he tries to pull something like this again, you’ll come back here and kill him.

>>3741556
Ha ha ha ha, no.

We can do better than him.
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>>3741592
They're gone, with OUR airship! This is THEFT! These lesser creatures who can't even string a proper sentence together STOLE OUR SHIP!
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>>3741601
I can get behind this but we also need to give him the "with great power comes great responsibility" talk if he wants to be a king then he has to be a king give him advice on how not to run his country into the ground
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>>3741607
Who cares? As long as they know to not steal from us again, we won’t have to pop their balloon and send them crashing to the ground.

Besides, we’ve got an artificer back home that can most likely make a better one that we can actually fit on. We just need to provide the funds and encouragement.
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>>3741503
Boy this is all kinds of fucked up

>>3741601
>>3741614
Supporting this
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>>3741625
Well, they are on my shit-list now!
Our artificer is going to build airships that can find them, catch them, then ZAP then out of the sky!
Justice must be served!
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>>3741601
You want to try to carry treasure, two humans, and your armor, on your own multiple days over the mountains?

Also, taking the princess to a country which is inaccessible by anyone from her own country?
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>>3741636
You know what I bet the guard that we captured saw which way the ship flew off I bet we could still catch it if we tried.
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Also, before I forget, I want to see Riona’s reaction to what I’m going to say.

>>3740960
>"I can only imagine what you would do to get my attentions were I male."
>"So can I."
>"What?"
>"Nothing!"
Riona, Nissa just imagined how, if you were male, she’d be more than willing to let you ravage her, so that she could give birth to your children. How does that make you feel?
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>>3741636
Ugh, if you’re gonna be like that, then I guess we can just take Nissa, the princess, and our armor. And we’ll be wearing our armor, so we don’t have to worry about dropping it.

And you act as if the princess’ county doesn’t have access to messengers or airships. I’m sure once they hear about it, they’ll find a way over here.
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>>3741660
Well that's a big assumption to make, but if players agree to take the princess away you can try. With two people though you'll have to roll for the travel of flying.
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>>3741668
nope, I am not about to risk dropping Nissa just so we can take the Princess with us.
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>>3741668
I am calling a night Scale have a good one, its like 12:30 am for me
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>>3741668
Lets just equip our armor and take treasure and Nissa.
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>>3741665
Correction: That should say, “Begone thoughts!” since Riona is thinking about it.

>>3741668
>Well that's a big assumption to make
Well, it’s more of a guess, than an assumption. We don’t know anything about the country, so I’m just throwing out guesses.

>>3741698
So we’re just gonna hope the princess finds a way back to her home on her own?
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>>3741700
I mean we could escort her to the nearest guard station.
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>>3741700
>So we’re just gonna hope the princess finds a way back to her home on her own?

What's the point of rescuing her? She's irrelevant. Saren can keep her.
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>>3741715
I guess that could work.

>>3741725
Rescuing a princess usually means getting a reward.
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>>3741729
Yeah, but we are a dragon, which makes saving the princess a very un-dragon thing to do.
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All of this could be solved if we had that airship.
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>>3741732
It's a matter of what you want her for, whether it's for reward, or it's for simply the status of owning a princess.

>>3741733
If only!
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>>3741736
In any case this will probably be the last main post of the night, we'll give other players a chance to catch up for tomorrow, and to majority decide on what you'll be taking from here and what state you'll be leaving it and the occupants in.

In the meantime, thanks all for playing. And as well, a chance for another relative interlude if you like;

>Mother
>Andrier
>Illyrie
>Ymirro
>Nieces/Nephews
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>>3741747
>>Mother
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>>3741747
>Ymirro
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>>3741747
>Ymirro
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>>3741747
>what to take?
Obviously we’re taking Nissa and our armor!

>what state we’ll be leaving the mansion and the occupants in?
Not burning to the ground with everyone locked inside. With a warning to not steal from us again or we will return and kill them!

Still unsure about the princess.

>choose a relative
I kinda want to do mother again, but I think it’s too soon to go back to her.

Let’s go see what Ymirro is up to!
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>>3741668
Could we take both is we *shudder* let one ride us?

Anyway, I say we take Nissa, tell her to put our armor on us and grab the gold, while we fly off we see if we can find those pirates and we can make them turn around to grab the princess too.

I'm curious to see Nissa's reaction when we tell her what happened with Saren's harem at somepoint during the travel back, she's gonna be pissed she missed it, lol.
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It will be Ymirro then next time, for now though since we're at a normal time, might as well continue with the usual.

>>3741755
>>3741757
>>3741771
>>3742631
You could try to have someone ride on your back though you have never tried that, even if you wanted to, let alone flying. For now though you can at least get things in order to leave. You thank the princess for her cooperation, and figure at least for the time being she's free to go if she wants. You'll probably want to decide for sure though if you actually take her anywhere because if you just unchain her and let her loose, chances are the moment you leave Saren will just try to retake her again before she is able to find help or return home.

In the meantime then, you find Nissa and switch places guarding the door, asking her to go fetch your armor... as you'd rather not go back to the bedroom yourself. Your armor she can get easily enough, piece by piece the elven make is light enough for her to heft. She can also help you suit up here in the kitchen, but when you ask her to go get some of the treasure up in the bedroom, she comes back in a mess.

"They won't let me take any!"

"Who?"

"Those girls he's got up there! I mean they ganged up on me, and wouldn't let me take any. I can't fight four people at once!"

Clearly she tried and got into a scuffle, but as she says she wasn't able to prevail against four other women through force. You could find a weapon for her but then you might expect escalation or worse. If you want to take Saren's treasure, you may have to personally withdraw it from the clutches of those women. Otherwise, well, forget you yourself even, if you were just a peasant would you give up on literal piles of gold laying around?

And all the while Saren bangs on the cellar door asking to be let out and promising to be a good dragon.

>What do you do?
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>>3742964
>talk to the princess. Find out who the lords of the land are. If there arent any make her the lord/governer for our new province. Go around and make sure all the people know it. Kill saren. Fly back to our home get some humans together to transport sarens treasure. Distribute 50% back to the people he took it from other 50% ou castle. Have their tribute be the same as our land the 5% i think the send a couple nobles there to govern and form a maitia to join our standing army.
Ask the serving girls if they want to keeo serving ir To go home. If they want ti go home they go home if they dont have them join servent staff.
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>>3742964
Forget the treasure there is no way you are going back in that room. let Seran out of the Basement sit him down across from us at the dining table and give him the "with great power comes great responsibility" talk. if he tries to worm his way out of it remind him of how easily we could brake him like a tooth pick. If he wants to be treated like a king then he needs to act like one, a good one. Give him advice on how not to run his country into the ground and warn him that we will come to check up on him from time to time.

>all the while Saren bangs on the cellar door asking to be let out and promising to be a good dragon.
I am dying of laughter on the inside from that one.

>>3742983
Hard nope from me on killing him.
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>>3742985
Why not? I dont see anything helpful we can get out of him. Why would we want him to run the country hes already proven incompetent and will probably betray us. It would be better if we absorb it into our lands
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>>3742964
If we let the treasure here, could we take both the princess and Nissa?
Just asking aboit wight management since the princess would probably be more valuable as a treasure


Well, let's just get in there and pick the treasure up and resist their seduction the best we can while taking the treasure

"I'm going in Nissa, wish me luck...I'll explain it later"
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>>3743001
You can take two of anything but you'll need to roll if it's more than one.
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>>3742985
I have a hard nope on helping Saren grow on in any form whatsoever, he is pathetic and a future competitor, if we don't kill just leave him how he is.

>>3742983
I don't know if we can effectively manage this country so far from us but I would like to annex

>>3743001
I like this as an alternative
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>>3743003
Well I say we take Nissa and the princess then, a princess for a princess
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>>3743005
If we get a loyal elf and a couple humans to keep watch we will probably be good. Start and initiative to make a road through the mountains
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>>3743021
No man it takes days to fly to this provance. It would take years to try and build a road. It's better to leave Seran alone.
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>>3743021
Well, we can try to take this place after we take the dwarves, they probably have a way to traverse these mountains and its about time we start focusing on making them kneel
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>>3743005
Kidnap him instead of the princess, then the land will return to normalcy!
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>>3743032
Actually that would be pretty funny, I'll support it
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>>3743032
I don't want the land back to normancy, and I'd rather have his head on a wall decoration than him kidnapped.

It would make a nice addition to the dining hall actually
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>>3743016
Supporting this, let's get out of here
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>>3743035
I still don't get why some of you want to kill him.
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>>3743037
How do you not get it? He is a dragon, he stole from us, its pretty annoying, and could be a potential competitor.
I would love to have him killed but as I understand some of you don't so I won't do the harsh thing and will settle to just leave him here as a nice compromise
I know this will bute us in the ass later but hey! Drama and all that
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>>3743042
He dude spends all his time getting laid I am not seeing how he is any kind of competition
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>>3743050
We'll have to wait and see then I guess, right?
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>>3743055
The guy in class terms is a bard with high charisma and wisdom as a dump stat
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>>3743059
I fail to see how that is relevant

Like I said, I want him dead, I really do, but I settle to leave him here, if he ever becomes a problem or not in the future we will have to wait and see, whatever his skills or dump stats are.

Let's just move shall we? We still have assigments to give to the new hires and probably a visit to Cestion after they learned about our visit to Ypren
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>>3743066
I'm fine with leaving him as is I am just pointing out I think your being paranoid.
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>>3743050
Hes going to work directly against us go given the chance. He very reasonably hates us at this point. Hes a dragon who can stand on even footing with us given a chance. The other anon isnt being paranoid your just not realizing the threat
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>>3743068
>being paranoid.

You are compleately right, you can always count on me to be the paranoid part of Riona's brain. Sometimes right sometimes wrong but always suspicious.
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>>3743074
Fair enough man I respect your opinion but disagree with.

>>3743073
The guy ran like the devil himself at the first sign of confrontation. You'll forgive me for not ranking him high on the threats list.
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>>3743082
>>3743074
>>3743073
>>3743021
Very well then, you decide. You'll forgo the treasure in exchange for the princess. She protests and doesn't want to go with you of course, essentially changing from one cage to another. But what do you care? You'll just kidnap her!

So, leaving the green dragon with a threat, you and Nissa tie up the princess so she can't get away, and then after dragging her outside try to figure out how you're going to fly with them like this. Probably carry the princess in your arms and Nissa can... ride on your back.

>Return home then? Make a roll for the travel, hopefully you don't drop anyone or lose control and crash!
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Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>3743120
AaaAaaaaaaahhhhh shit, here we go.
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Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>3743120
Return home yes
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Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>3743120
Return home but don't strain ourselves too much, we don't want to drop anyone so camp when we get tired, light a fire and use our natural heat as shelter from the elements.

While camped let's discuss something with Nissa.

"Well, those women, they get to doing this and..."

Tell her how we almost...lost control there and that it was why we asked her to go in, those women were quite dangerous.

Dragons are pretty easy to manipulate once you get their emotions down I guess.
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>>3743142
No, I feel like riona is the kind of person that would bury that memory away and never tell a soul.
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>>3743151

She's our confident as of late, I want to discuss it, it's a simple thing
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>>3743165
Fair enough, but I believe it will have unintended consequences
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>>3743142
>>3743134
>>3743131
>99

Well it's your first time trying to fly with someone on your back, but surprisingly you get the hang of it quite quickly and without issue! Maybe the underside weight of your armor balances it out, but either way it almost feels natural probably because of the good position for it that Nissa managed to find. For whatever reason though, she seems to enjoy it... almost too much, as she makes funny noises against the motion of you beating your wings to carry the lot of you through the air and she clenches to you rather tightly. Quite the contrast with the princess who screams her head off all the way.

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Back over the mountains you travel, southward from Retley in return to Ostrela. As you know however it's not just an overnight flight, even if you weren't flying slower than usual because of your extra care from a passenger. Thus, you end up having to camp out in one of the smaller valleys through the mountain range. You can catch food for them and get a fire going no problem, but needless to say the princess isn't at all happy.

So you spend the evening talking to Nissa, to the side.

"Well, those women, they got to doing this and..."

You relate the experience with the women as tastefully as you can, to a very amused Nissa.

"Sounds like they had your name! They sure had Saren's, they might have been his... I dunno, wives or something, whatever you want to call them. But he did what they asked, what they said, and gave them what they wanted. Maybe they knew you were stronger, and were fine with replacing him, with something bigger and better?"

The thought had crossed your mind, Saren wasn't just some young wyrmling but in size he was quite pathetic. A wild dragon of course, he probably spent most of his life in harsh conditions, trying to survive at his size and being hunted by knights and adventurers. Such is the fate of most dragons really, few ever make it to adulthood considering how long it takes to mature. At some point or other he must have gotten lucky enough to catch a princess and demand tribute, but when some enterprising local women (probably peasants before) got the chance to be close to him, he didn't stand a chance. A harsh life before just living day to day and hated by all? Then imagine suddenly several lovers, human sure but compared to nothing, showering him with such affection... they probably had him twisted around their collective finger in no time.
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Nissa draws your attention back with a playful kick though.

"Maybe you need a mate? If it got to you that much. Or... a plaything, at least. Hells, Saren was nothing compared to you and he had four!"

You grumble and bury your head in your draconic hands, embarrassed. You don't agree with her, but she isn't far off from the truth. You know how driven by their vices dragons are... and even controlled by them. After all, dragons in their first twenty to thirty years are hardly different from animals, just living on instinct and needs. Only beyond their thirties do they start to mature mentally and develop more of a typical sapience. You know the common language now for example, try to teach it to you thirty years ago and you'd have just tried to kill and eat the teacher, like a bear or some other animal.

You've never really cared much for romance though, or the dragon equivalent of it, which could hardly be called an equivalent. Probably from seeing how your sister was and becoming disgusted with the whole notion, you've certainly never needed it even while your relatives had their... "outlets". Mother obviously, Illyrie with her many lovers, Andrier with that poor wyvern mother obtained for him, even Ymirro you think probably at least had a kobold or something to give him some affection as the gods know he wasn't getting any love from anywhere else. But you never needed it before, and as a Queen you certainly don't feel like you need it now.

Nissa though, despite her limited experience and wisdom in things, speaks a little bit towards what you fear. That, a dragon neglecting its needs or at least its drives, will end up controlled by them. You'd laugh in her face and ridicule such nonsense... but she's right when she said, those women had your name.

>Anything else before you return home?
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>>3743253

let's return home

we better find that blue dragon fast

is there any way to prevent children from happening?
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>>3743253
Nope, just head home. Also once we get there we need to catch up on current events. Finally we need to keep an eye out for a strong blue dragon, mama Riona needs some loven
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>>3743253
Fly over the goblins o. The way home to both serve as a divine sign amd to have a look at them but go to the castle.

>>3743267
>>3743272
Riona will need a dragon sized dildo to keep focused while the right dragon doesn't show up lol
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>>3743276
you said it as a joke but we could ask Nissa if there is a way to take care of this urges by ourselves, it would be very helpful to keep is in control
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>>3743279
No just no, not going there. I would rather do dragon romance than suffer through posts of that
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>>3743285
I agree with you and regretted even considering that the moment I pressed post
I was just afraid of going in a sex-crazed frenzy the next time someone shook their ass in front of us
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>>3743276
Nani the meme? You're not seriously considering her remark? Obviously it's all just a trifling matter, those wretched human women tricked you with sorcery or some such, nothing to do with you of course! You certainly are not at risk of any... urges, what nonsense.

In any case, come the next morning you can gather up your "passengers" then and once more take flight, to return to Ostrela and your castle by evening. The sight of the valley as you pass over the last mountains and begin your descent to the forested realm, a great feeling of relief. Nissa too, is glad to be home and you all find yourselves greeted by the other servants once you make it to the castle. They were having dinner in the castle but would be more than happy to serve up more for you all, including the guest of honor being the princess!

And after that you can shove her up in what you've come to affectionately term the Princess Tower, whatever its original purpose might have been, keep her there till she rots! Surely her country would ransom her but having a princess is of course a high sign of status for dragons; any dragon without a princess, is a failure of course and hardly a dragon at all.

Aside of this, you're back home again and free to act once more. Well, it's night now so you'll probably want to get to sleep anyway before long, but by tomorrow you expect business as usual. That is, if you care to get back to it. You've been so busy as of late, that you wouldn't hate another long break...

>What do you do?
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>posts
>suffer

quest finished
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>>3743253
I still want to all the princess the questions from earlier >>3741589

>Ask about her family, these lands, and how she came to be alone and locked up in a tower. Has Saren tried anything untoward on her. Ask her what she thinks would be best for this land.
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>>3743309
>Nani the meme? You're not seriously considering her remark? Obviously it's all just a trifling matter, those wretched human women tricked you with sorcery or some such, nothing to do with you of course! You certainly are not at risk of any... urges, what nonsense.

See!? Qm is warning us! My paranoia is not baseless this time, I don't want to lose control of the character because the lady dragon doesn't know how to shlick.
But anyway...

Let's get easy for today, we've been flying for a while now so eat a lot and get a good massage going, we brought the girl back for a reason after all.

Tomorro we fly to Eisling and start giving assigments for the new hires
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>>3743324
Also, consult Nissa on how to deal with that damn sex magic by our lonesome
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>>3743324
Support, ask if they have any sweets stocked.
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>>3743324
>>3743326
Supporting


Lol, Nissa has been doing it by herself( and using Riona unkowingly) for some time now, remember the strange noises during the dragon ride?

>>3743312
Repent QM! There's still time!
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>>3743326
NO, I refuse to go don't this road. Allowing the heram to work there charms was bad enough now you want to start indulging our dragon lust. No that will only end badly.
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>>3743276
We could always ask the dwarves
All kidding aside though, we should meet some local princelings and such, if only for networking.
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>>3743332
he is warning us that if we don't give release to it we might lose control and sex attack someone while loosing control of ourselves
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>>3743336
Then let's take a prince consort
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_consort

Literally anything other that the can of worms you anon are about to open.
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>>3743338
you are telling me that Riona solving things by herself, without any help is worse???

I don't want any prince consort or concubine or whatever, I want dragon romance with a good mate, and to reach there without attacking some rando in the street and possibly having children, which is another can of worms we are not prepared to apen I'm just saying that we can solve by ourselves.

but anyway, let's do nothing then and wait for the dragon and hope we don't kill anyone poor chap
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>>3743343
>>3743338
You both are freaking out for nothing, I have the perfect "keep Riona's dragon lust under control" plan.

We use the 6 original cult members!

They are extremely loyal and they will even consider it a blessing or something.
We tell them to keep it a secret so we won't be known as a whore like our sister

We make it once a month as a "ritual" or something, there, problem solved.
We make a 6 six people cult orgy and get it over with.
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>>3743372
I mean i guess this works and it seems like a fair compromise.
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>>3743336
No, that's not what I'm saying at all lol

>>3743323
>>3743324
>>3743327
As it were, they have some sweets, just basic ones like honey bread. Your bakery hasn't yet set up it seems, though of course it's only been a few days.

In any case you can sit to dinner in the dining hall with the servants and the princess, who isn't happy at all with any of this and begrudges answering your questions.

"Mine is the royal family of Eugeira, the rightful rulers... even if the other kings do not recognize it."

Tersely she speaks of her homeland to the north, and her family. From what you understand it's a traditional kingdom like Ypren, however it is much more segmented. Although the land itself is Eugeira, there isn't one kingdom which rules over it all. Rather it's more like several smaller kingdoms who all claim to be the true rulers and often war over it. Sometimes one kingdom will be the most powerful and claim to be the true rule, sometimes another kingdom. And even when one kingdom might conquer another and incorporate it, it's usually only a couple centuries or so before old tensions rise up again and the conquered land will revolt for independence once more. In general it seems, the people are fiercely independent and have as much contention with the next town over, as actual countries may have with other countries.

Currently though, the princess is of the family which rules the strongest kingdom. And interestingly, no apparent presence of any children of Illyrie your sister, maybe she thought Eugeira was too unstable a land to bother seeding with her offspring.

"And that dragon? Did he..."

"I do not want to talk about this at the table. Suffice to say he did not act as a villain towards me besides kidnapping. He merely attacked my royal carriage when I was traveling to the wedding of my cousin and kept me prisoner ever since. All that matters is, my land would be better without that beast, and Retley returned to rightful rule."

Bitterly she speaks of Saren, but also to you now since invariable you're as guilty as he was with your treatment towards her. He kidnapped and kept her prisoner, and now you did the same. Though you'll at least see her treated better for sure.

Besides that though, you can enjoy the rest of the evening and get a good night's sleep. To laze in the morning, and woken up by an overly friendly Nissa happy to be home and happy to be back with you again, closer for it so she thinks enough to be physically more engaging whether or not that is proper behavior towards her queen.

"Look look, gift from the elves!"

It seems that morning the elves with their usual tribute, dropped off a big fruit and nut cake, probably that elven envoy who accompanied your travel to Petrar noticed your love of sweets and let the other elves know. For this, you can't get mad at Nissa, and instead think of your day ahead.

>What do you do?
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>>3743389
Oviously we start by eating the cake, not part of the cake, all of the cake. Then we fly to Eisling to set our new hires up with tasks.
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>>3743389
Let's start flying our way down, pass by the elven settlement and see how they fared in our absense, a simple visit to Tanyth
And then we make our way to Eisling to see the inventor, the sorcerer and the witch
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>>3743389
Deal with the missing expedition. Start gathering a force, a proper military one at the entrance to the mine. Head to the elven to thank them for the food then consult them on the situation. Bring some elven military advisors, and let's put the human steel armor to the test.
If we drop by Eisling, appraise the captive knight of the situation then free him. The situation with Petrar is resolved, so now he has no reason to hold out, and we no reason to keep him confined. His brother-knights have gone missing, maybe he'd like to join us in to look for them?
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>>3743405
>>3743412
Support


>inb4 the cake is poisoned or something


>>3743372
Not a bad idea, we can see if the elf alchemist can make an anti-children elixir too
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>>3743413
I'm against releasing the knight until he swears fealty to the crown, we can't have someone who is not loyal, and he wasn't from Petrar, he is from here.


But I agree with the rest of your post, I agree, I thing we should put our steel armor and go there looking for them
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>>3743413
>>3743425
I change mine to this actually, Eisling is quite far and we can look for the expedition right now that we are closer to the mountains

Let's visit the elves and then go to the mines and then start searching from there.
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>>3743433
before we even think about going down in those mines I want us to have a team that will back us up it smart to go to elsing First
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>>3743514
we are not going into the mines, we are going to fly over the mountains to search for the expedition, for just that is better to go alone since we will fly and scout it out, if we find out where they are or if they ended up going into some cave we can form a team

their expedition was not inside the mines, it was over the mountains
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>>3743530
Ah, I see ok then yeah aerial Recon sounds fine.
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>>3743425
The locals love us, especially now that the embargo is resolved. Petrar officially recognizes us and we actually met the king. Unless that knight wants to put himself in power or outright leave, he has no reason not to go back to his knightly duties and serving his people.
Besides, now we have a search and rescue mission for us to potentially bond over.
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>>3743580
like I said, if he bends the knee he can walk from prison, it's not that hard, but he seemed pretty against us, if he swears fielty he can go back to his duties like all the other knights did.

as for the rescue, we should fly there right now since we are faster, a team to reach the place would take weeks I think, but if they went into some dungeon and it's unavoidable we can form a team with knights and the mages we hired
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>>3743405
>>3743412
>>3743413
>>3743416
>>3743425
>>3743433
You eat the cake and make sure all is well in your castle then, before taking off for the day, leaving Nissa in charge as usual. First stop, the elves!

"A princess? Is that wise?"

A short flight from your castle to the elven village, where you can meet and have a walk with Tanyth. Along the way you notice... marginally better reception of you from the elves, as their numbers have increased thanks to you and it's not just a minor community of a few families but in fact a bustling village now.

As you talk with the elven lady however and talk of what's going on, she seems doubtful that it is a good idea to have kidnapped a princess. Especially from some land you are not familiar with. She also has thoughts about the situation with Ypren.

"If you had accepted though, you would have more power than even your mother?"

"...I suppose..."

"Then why should you care what anyone would think of you or your position? You dragons are such strange creatures!"

She may think it's stubbornness or something like, but you know it to be pride and nothing can come before that! You can talk with her about anything else specific if you like, otherwise you can enjoy a pleasant rest of the morning together before you get back to business. Always nice to spend time with your governors as much as your people, let them know that you put them in charge of parts of your country but you also value them as... friends?

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You can set out to find out what's gone on with this missing expedition. It sounds like though you just want to go scouting first before you commit to anything serious? If so you can make two rolls for the effort. Otherwise if you'd rather prepare first, you may want to go to Eisling anyway since that's where your human-made armor is.

>...?
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>>3743389
>>3743594
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>>3743594
Go to Eisling for our human armor while we are there have our magic man put a weight reduction enchantment on it.
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Rolled 40, 66 = 106 (2d100)

>>3743594
Let's do some scouting to see if we can find them right now, since they may be in need of help and if we delay too much that help may be for nothing, if we can't find them, or if they went underground, we go to Eisling to form a team that can search for them

also
>Tanyth
>lecturing someone about being stubborn
yeah miss I left my country because they wanted to trade with drows and I rule over a tiny village now, we are the only stubborn ones around.
out of all our subjects I imagine she would be the one who would understand that situation the most
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>>3743603
Changing to support
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Rolled 18, 53 = 71 (2d100)

>>3743594
Lets look for the expedion

I hope those rolls were people doing things against us simce they were pretty low
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>>3743603
She's stubborn but from her perspective you're a power hungry tyrant, like many dragons, so to suddenly shun that desire for power strikes her as strange.
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Rolled 72, 26 = 98 (2d100)

>>3743610
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>>3743610
roll then, my friend
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>>3743617
>>3743616
I have
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>I hope those rolls were people doing things against us simce they were pretty low
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Rolled 65, 89 = 154 (2d100)

>>3743594
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Rolled 90, 49 = 139 (2d100)

>>3743594
Going against the grain here we should probably return the princess at some point, netting allies in the long run is better than prestige. Plus we really have no need for one there will be a time for all that later.
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>>3743632
They're pregnant with spider babies, aren't they?

>>3743684
I guess you're right. But not before we win her over a little and parade her around first. We kidnapped our first princess! It's like, a rite of passage for a dragon.
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>>3743740
Well you stole her really, it's not like you really accomplished the feat of kidnapping a princess from her natural environment. Saren did that, and then you stole her from him.

>>3743684
>>3743637
>>3743616
>>3743612
>>3743603
>>3743854
>65, 89

Having spent the morning with Tanyth then and attending a midday meal with her and being shown off to the other elves, you take your leave and once more fly the skies. This time though, westward to the other mountainous side of the valley, looking for the lost expedition.

Fortunately you know the general direction they were headed, and with enough time and a keen eye you can seek them out. You leave the grassy lowlands behind for the higher altitudes, the rocky ranges and snowy peaks. The chill wind doesn't bother you though of course, when you can breathe fire! It does take some time though but by dawn the next day (after a short night's rest beneath a rocky overhang) you are able to locate the expedition. Or at least you think it's the expedition; remains of a camp outside a cave and obvious signs that there was activity and travel back and forth within.

No sign of any people however, or even signs of struggle or attack in the camp. All you can assume is that they all must have descended into the cave and perhaps made a further camp underground. Either that or something bad happened, as even if they had continued downward, you imagine they would have sent word or left a couple folks topside.

As much as you'd like to continue inward though and discover what's gone on, this was just intended as a scouting mission. You found them you think, so need to decide what to do now. It's worth noting however that to try and organize some sizeable relief effort may be difficult, both because of the distance in the mountains here but also the harsh conditions. Any large group of the lesser races would take time and lots of supplies to get this far. So a bit of a conundrum...

>What do you do?
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>>3743889
And just a heads up but this will probably be the last full post of the night. We'll continue tomorrow though I may be busy at times so we'll have to see how things go. And of course I notice we're on page 9 now, but with school starting again this week it will probably be several days after this thread ends at least, before there's a next one, as I'll want to get my schedule down for classes before I can commit to running threads. But as always, if you're interested there's the discord to keep abreast of things and know when the threads are going to be up and active.

Otherwise, thanks all for playing! Till next time.
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>>3743894
Can't wait for the next thread Scales thanks for running
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>>3743889
what do you say guys? let's have a look inside? it will take too long to organize an expedition here
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>>3743889
>Saren did that, and then you stole her from him.
And we're even more of a badass, having kidnapped her from the kidnapper!
This occasion DEMANDS a parade! The lesser races shall celebrate their queen's coming-of-age with us!

>>3743907
Take a look inside, but avoid contact. I just want to find out what we're up against.
How many people were in the expedition again?

>>3743894
Thanks for running.
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I know this is extremely off topic, but I don't care! I've been struggling with bad internet for the past few days to ask something and I'm going to ask before I lose connection again!

I saw the size chart of Riona's mom up above (fuck you mobile site for not letting me link the post I'm talking about) and it only shows her height. So now I'm wondering, exactly how fat is Riona's mom?

Like, if for some reason she ever felt like getting up off her lazy ass to come and personally demand a tribute from Riona, would she even be able to fit through the entrance of her cave or is she stuck in her cave because she's too fat to leave?
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>>3743944
...I wish you hadn't ask that because now I need an answer. Scales! The world needs to know how fat is Riona's mom
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>>3743944
>>3743999
Big and fat, a sure sign of success for any dragon! Too bulky to fly but she can still move around and walk, it's just hard for her. Indeed she would not be able to physically leave her caves if she wanted to, because of her size.

However, at her size and age, you know that if she needed to leave her cave, she could either smash her way out through the mountains, or failing that melt her way out with her awesome firey breath.
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>>3744242
Is me, btw

>>3743922
15 people in the expedition not including the drow.
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>>3743889
>Well you stole her
Next time we speak to the princess, I’d like to explain to her that her home was too far away from our kingdom for us to fly her over there. It was much easier to bring her to our kingdom, that for us to fly her all the way home and then for us to fly all the way back to our home.

Then we explain that as long as she’s at our castle, she’ll be our guest, not our prisoner. We’ll make sure she’s treated well during her stay here and we won’t locked in a tower or anything like that. Eventually, once everything in our kingdom is stabilized (which won’t happen anytime soon), we’ll take her home.

>What do you do?
I’m actually afraid of going into the cave because I really don’t want us to try to go through a tunnel and get stuck somewhere. We wouldn’t be able to get ourselves unstuck!

I’d rather head back to town and get all of our new guys set up doing things. Especially our artificer, Victor. I’d really like to help her to see what she can build for us!

Maybe if we can help her build an airship or something, we can tell the princess we’ll take her home (and be able to easily carry any sort of reward back home with us).

>>3744242
>Too bulky to fly but she can still move around and walk, it's just hard for her.
So basically mother’s big fat belly is almost touching the ground, even while standing up?
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>>3744551
Support
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>>3744551
Support
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>>3743907
I say we go there now to at least have a look, the time that will take to get an expedition here will be weeks

The only fast term solution I can think is if we ask the goblins that live near here to have a look inside.

If we make a proper expedition when they arrive whoever is stuck in there will be long dead.
Please think about the time people
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>>3743889
Look inside, make sure they're alright.
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>>3745140
I am and i think going in to a dark tight space with zero back up is a great way to get stuck in the dark. If nothing else we need to go to Eisling let them know we found the camp, then carry one of our knights back with us to investigate.
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>>3745145
The goblins are nearby, we can get them in the cave in no time, and IF we go back to Eisling to pick someone up it would be better to get that rogue to see traps or the mage to provide magical support since we can perform the role of a martial quite well.

i'm not sayikg to go forward until we get stuck I'm saying to investigate until its confortable since we are right here and then get the goblings or proper backup, or even a clean up crew if they are all dead
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>>3744551
You can at least check inside the cave to see if there's further signs within of the expedition, but you travel for even just an hour along obvious paths they took and left signs of passage, but still no sign. Just a weaving, rocky descent deeper and deeper. You never fear getting stuck at least, the caves and tunnels are sufficiently big, and you have your fire breath to keep the light. But it feels eerie to go for that long and downward with no sign of anyone or anything, no sights, sounds or even significant smells. Eventually you get a little on edge over it, and in frustration turn back. Whatever has transpired will take a serious effort, not just a cursory check for the expedition.

Hopefully they dug deep enough and discovered some amazing treasure and are still excavating it. For now though, for you, it's back to Eisling.

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"You kidnapped a princess?! Have you gone completely mad?!"

Brigid is... less than happy, when you let her know about your travel and return with the princess.

"You realize the effect this will have on any attempts of diplomacy? Have you even met anyone, anyone official or noble, from Eugeira?"

"No, I think not."

"Yet you've stolen their princess, that was your very first act towards them."

Bah, what does she know? You're the one with a princess to flaunt, not her! In any case you've made it back to Eisling by now and can do as you need to. Brigid at your wish will try to organize a second, relief expedition, though it will take several days to a week for such a significant effort.

Notably you're curious about Sir Praden, that defiant knight. As you find out though, he's out of jail now... not because he submitted to your will however. Rather than bow to you, in the end he just completely renounced his titles and name. Dedication to his honor or ideals or whatever stupid lesser race concept he holds to. Since then though he's just acted as a town watch, still serving the people but as a lowly police-equivalent rather than a gallant knight.

In any case now that you're back to Eisling, you can carry on with your focuses for what business you had to see to next.

>What do you do?
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>>3745318
well, we have done all we can for the expedition. moving on to other business I want to meet with our Scientist find out what she needs for her research, then meet with our Magic man let him know we want him to found our mage college in the city, then finally look into how our new bakery is doing, I want to turn "Dragon treats and sweets" into a household name.
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>>3745318
Should probably go and ask the princess where exactly on the map she if from as well as get to know her better. We should also apologize for the inconvenience of having rekidnapped her, maybe mask it by saying we needed to return home first and carrying two people was already risky as it was. Now however we can work towards returning her to her lands. Allies are more important than prestige or pride.
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>>3745318
Let Brigid organize the expediction then, maybe send the mage along as a support

Get the siege weapon maker to do some damn balistas for town protection and for the other town and the castle, then she can do her trebuchets

Let's see the inventor and what her plans are

Send the witch to the castle, we have a mission for her there.

>>3745333
Support estabilishing our bakery too

Many things to do here, then we havebto go to Cestion
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>>3745357
>>3745333
Support

>>3745348
Well, we can think about that when we are back to the castle
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>>3745365
Well you'd actually wanted your bakery in Arnhem if I'm not mistaken, your town bordering the forest.

As for business here in Eisling, the witch you can relocate to your castle, your sorcerer you can tell him to open a magic school or some such, though he's not really sure how to go about doing that and what you had in mind. If you allot him some funds and give him something like a mission statement, what your goals are for him to work towards, then he can get right on it. It will take time of course though, and probably some manner of attracting other folks with magic skill.

Brigid meanwhile, you can task her with the expedition, but she also informs you that your military force is done with the road system. So you could give them a break for awhile but they're happy to work for the pay so you could also put them on another project; one consideration being the keep for your knightly order, to help construct that.

And lastly of course, but not least, is Victor. She's completed her geomantic survey of the land, and because of her prodigious skill, you can make some rolls for what she found. Firstly for how special her find may be, and secondly for how safe/accessible it is.
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Rolled 16, 65 = 81 (2d100)

>>3745436
Rolling

Instruct the corps to make that keep for our dragon ordsr

Also, get some members of the dragon order to go along in the rescue mission

Send an envoy to Cestion to set up a meeting like we did to Ypren, they were our first allies and we haven't visited them yet.
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Rolled 48, 49 = 97 (2d100)

>>3745436
For the sorcerer project, the first thing he should do is an emergency communication system, I don't want to know that someone was kidnapped only 4 days after it happended
Some crystal ball or something, one to leave at Eisling, one at the forest border town, one at the castle, one at the elven village and one with us.

This way we won't be caught by susprise in case sister comes knocking
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Rolled 47, 37 = 84 (2d100)

>>3745436
Let's have the Witch come to our castle use Lela's gave as a contact point to figure out were in the afterlife she ended up.

As for magic man, the goals of the school are simple, the public goal is to educate promising young mages in the wats of magic in service to the crown(us) the secret goal is to find a way to make magic work of dragons with our having to drain them of there innate magic. also, have the Magic man work of the Supersize spell for foods. taxes will help fund the school.

give the work corp two weeks off then have them start construction on the keep.

finally, meet with victor
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>>3745468
support that
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Rolled 81, 9 = 90 (2d100)

>>3745436
Let's see what she found.
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>>3745468
yes support

>>3745481
well we know its something good, to bad we will never get to use it.
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Rolled 61, 100 = 161 (2d100)

>>3745436
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>>3745498
My idea for the 100 is to invert both results, what do ypu think?
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>>3745502
if scales is cool with it I am down.
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>>3745502
Don't you want to reroll for the first die to possibly be 100 as well? If you would prefer that your usual crit chance option is instead swapped with the first roll though, that's ok.

>>3745498
>>3745481
>>3745473
>>3745468
>>3745459
For some clarification as well, she's searching for a natural wonder basically, in your land. Some natural (or even supernatural) terrain feature which demonstrates the awesome potential of nature, this world, and perhaps even the gods themselves. A real life example would be the Giant's Causeway, or the crystal caves of Mexico.

Normally these things, anyone could discover if they're lucky or the natural wonder itself is conspicuous. Because Victor is a great person however, you get a little say in what she finds. Specifically, whether the wonder is natural or supernatural, whether it is a static terrain feature or something that could be exploited/extracted, and what area of society it could benefit (like Victor herself), with the same possible choices as before;

>The Arts

or

>Commerce

or

>Science

or whatever field you could think of. As with the first example, it could be a terrain feature so beautiful that it inspires artists, or for the second example it could be a terrain feature which encourages tourists or even is something valuable that could be exploited for trade.

I'll let you guys figure that out, as well as any other players to possible roll, as in the meantime I may have to duck out for awhile as I mentioned last night. But we'll see what you can come up with, for when I return and Victor can show you what she found.

Note that this is completely separate of her artificer talent, it's just an initial bonus she's bringing to your nation, so it's not like what she finds has to be something which would benefit her personally.
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>>3745572
>>Science
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>>3745583
I really don't see a reason not to keep going down the road of science
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>>3745572
>>Science
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>>3745572
How an extremelly rare magical stone deposit that can store energy and can be used to power up many of Victor's inventions
Or the same stone could have anti-gravity properties and be a very rare alternative to airships and many other everyday uses like cranes for gigantic buildings, floating constructions, wandering bazaars and the like, our queendom can expand upwards
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>>3745572
>>3745623
Aw yis, castle in the sky here we come
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>>3745318
Oh please, Brigid. We "liberated" the princess, and as we could not be sure of her safety seeing how unstable the political situation is there, we brought her with us to keep her safe until such time as she can be returned safely.
Incidentally, a dragon's first princess is a rite of passage, which calls for a celebration! A small feast or parade, or something!
Also, we never got her name, and should probably get on her good side and let her know we'll be returning her soon after we're get some things sorted out.

Also, we should bully the Praden when we get the chance some time.
I know! Have him chaperone the princess around town!
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>>3745623
This would be rad

>>3745803
The princess in not in the town tho, we should visit Cestion before they think we are not their buddies anymore>>3745623
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>>3745803
This is exactly how we should explain the situation to Brigid. We’re temporarily keeping her with us until we can safely return her to her home.
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>>3746838
We should explain this to the princess as well. Say this is an opportunity to stretch her legs a little after a long period of confinement.
PLUS, our land is so much nicer than hers! We have elves, too! We should totally show them off to one another.
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someone archive this thread so that when it falls of the board we don't lose it.
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>>3745498
>>3745481
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>>3745459
>100, 61

As it turns out, from her geomantic survey Victor discovered a major deposit of firmanite, or sky stone as it is commonly called. Specifically a normal enough stone of any type like granite or basalt, but when perforated by phenocrysts of this specific type it gains the wondrous properties. Those being, that when conducting electricity, the body of stone seems to ignore gravity. Most would assume that it just voids that force altogether, but some academics argue that instead it simply maintains a fixed position in relation to the nearest gravity source; in this case the planet.

The expression of this being, the stones if electrocuted, come to float and remain at a fixed position in the air though they can be moved around by external force. Traditionally these strange rocks become known to people when lightning hits them, and folks will come to notice rocks floating above the ground after a storm, though naturally it's quite a rare phenomenon. Worth noting that it is not the only type of floating solid object, but it's the sort that Victor found. Apparently as well, according to her a huge source, at least as big as a small island buried a ways up the valley.

What use you may have for this, well that's up to you, but at the most basic level of use she is certain you could mine and sell it off at incredible prices. Whether you want to turn it into a source of wealth though, or use it for something else, is your call. That's her work done with the survey though, now she wants to dedicate her focus to her main craft; harnessing lightning. At her request, she'd like an escort to be able to travel with up the mountains of the valley's rim here, and check for good locations on where she could set up a lightning rod for study. Of course she needs funds, and an escort, maybe guards as who knows what dangers may be encountered.

>>3745473
>>3745468
>>3745459
You can make your commands then. The worker corps will have some time off, then to help construct the dragon order keep. The dragon order itself, is expected to put forward some members for the expedition relief effort. Meanwhile your other individuals, the witch will relocate to your castle for the purpose of learning what became of Lila, meanwhile the sorcerer will remain here in Eisling with funds to set up a school at least, at first. While seeing if there's any other magic-capable folks around, he'll also try to figure out some sort of magic communication method, which he seems confident shouldn't be terribly difficult.

Lastly of course is Brigid (again), who you can try to put her fears to rest but she's not too pleased with your reasons and regardless sees it all as a big liability. Either way, once she's sorted this expedition mess out and sent off a relief team, you want her to organize an envoy to Cestion as those folks deserve your attention if they are uneasy with your Ypren relations.
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>Are those all the major points of business you had?
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>>3749077
yup, now we fly to see how the barkery is doing.
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>>3749077
I think we should only sell 5% of our Firmanite and use the rest to improve our country.
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>>3749077
Tell victor she will have her team and funding, we will need to talk to Brigid about that
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>>3749073
Imagine the potential. One day, Riona becomes too big and fat to fly. Then she straps on armor with tons of these stones fitted onto it and suddenly, she’s able to fly again!

.....actually, that doesn’t seem like it would work. Never mind, forget what I said!

>>3749101
It’s too soon for them to be doing anything! They’re probably still building the building for the bakery!

>>3749123
>>3749132
Support
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>>3749235
if we keep going down the road of tech and magic magitech will one day be ours and who knows we might be able to make this work.
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>>3749077
Bother Praden
>"... but Sir Praden~ You'll always be a knight to me...~ Tell me what troubles you... or the town..."

Throw a small parade/party for the princess, or a tea party with her, us, Brigid, and Tanyth. Just us girls spending an afternoon together, you know?
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>>3749235
So, it's like a mobility scooter, for a dragon... Sounds humiliating.
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>>3749375
dragons never stop growing sooner or later we are going to end up like dear old mom
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>>3749375
>sounds humiliating
That’s where you’re wrong! Imagine Riona’s mom being able to fly again, then it becomes downright terrifying! Especially with how powerful her fire breath is!
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>>3749384
I'm now imagining an obese woman in a mobility scooter with a mounted minigun.
As scary as that can be, I still find it highly undignified.
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>>3749411
Who needs dignity when you are a Mountian size dragon with a massive gut and the ability to fly.
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>>3749235
It's more for floating than flying. Like you wouldn't really want to use it to suspend a vehicle in the air, but if you're using it as the foundation for a floating surface (like to build something upon) then it's great for that.

>>3749378
Only if they consume enough to grow that much. You could live your entire life the same size or small, if you didn't eat enough.

---

I intend for us to do a normal runtime today around the more usual time, one last one before the thread drops off the board. If we don't get to though, like it drops before then, as I said before with class scheduling you might not be able to expect the next thread for several days. Though I will let people know when the next thread is up, if you monitor the /qtg/ thread or are in the discord for notifications.

On a related note though, between this thread and the next there will probably be another timeskip as usual between threads. So as before, if you like you can indicate any priorities you have to oversee during the timeskip or impart to your governors to take care of, and otherwise if there's anything particular you want to do during the time between.

Also of course, if you want to say how long of a timeskip, minimum of a month as usual I think but if you want it can be more. And, if you intend to try and grow larger or not.
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>>3749922
I think a month is good to see what happened to the expedition and when we are back from the skip we will be able to visit Cestion.

Stop the growth for now, we won't be able to fly soon

Start mining those floating stones during these months, let's try to create some form of floating castle/bazaar that we can later install propellers or energy engines with Victor's tacnology and we can use it as a warfort or a mobile trading hub
This would be a big project

Also, use the stones to help in civil construction, to make it easier to move heavy loads up and down, it will probably make the construction of the keep faster.

Bring our original 6 cult members to live in the castle with us when they are not out on missions
Maybe we can talkbto the spy, or whoever is in Eisling right now to see to that

Gather the most info we can get from the mountains and the dwarves with our goblins like we ordered them to do, see how much progress they do in that month

Send an envoy to the princess country and tell them we would like to talk, but don't tell them we have the princess yet, we don't know how they would react.

Instruct Tanyth to select and tell themnto train an elven unit to serve as our scouts and spec ops like the ones that opened the gates of Eisling for us, now that her village is growing she has to start thinking about defences.

Turn our bakery into a branded name so we can expand to other places after it grows

Send Victor with some of the order and some professional soldiers to find what she needs in the mountains

Tell the siege engineer girl to start building war machines focused on defence and anti-air attacks on both our towns and our castle


After the month is gone we cam check on the sorceress about the school and the communication and the witch on how the Lila investigation is going.
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>>3749959
support for everything except the inviting the cultist to the castle. they are not the kind of people to want others to know you associate with. also, we can grow to the size of an elephant before having to worry about not being able to fly. but yeah lets stay at our current height.

my thing for the month is to enjoy sweets
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>>3749959
Supporting
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>>3749959
This
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>>3749922
What is the minimum amount of time needed for growing to take effect? Is it 3-7 days or something like that?

Because I was thinking that during the 1 month time skip, we could do the minimum amount necessary to grow just a tiny bit, like a few inches or a foot bigger, then we can maintain that size.

>>3749959
>Stop the growth for now, we won't be able to fly soon
We’re nowhere near elephant size yet. Right now we’re only slightly bigger than a horse, which means we’ve got plenty of time before we have to worry about not being able to fly.

>cultists
Let’s not bring them to the castle

>everything else
I’ll support that.
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>>3750376
a man of culture right here, support
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>>3749959
I support and support bringing them to the castle, scales stated that being near us is their goal and they served us very well, they would be very happy about it and they are very good at blending in, they would only be there when not on mission
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>>3750398
everyone that has come in contact with them near us has been almost murdered. the stable boy, most of our goblins. I can only imagine the damage they could do if we let them stay at the castle. I am fine with visiting them but definitely not having them live with us. also, they will expect us to act "god" like. it's a hard no from me and if you do support it you are costing us or only personal sanctuary.
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>>3750403
*our
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>>3750403
you are being unfair to them, the goblins were heretics and they took good care of our nephew

how about we settle for scheduled visits where they can come to us and pay their respects?
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>>3750407
yeah ok, I think that is a fair compromise.
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>>3750407
>scheduled visits for the cultists
All right, I’ll support this.
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>>3750403
Have you ever acted any differently from how you always are? That's kind of the point of being a dragon, you can do whatever you want and never have to care about what anyone thinks or about being judged, the only one who can judge you is yourself.

>>3749959
>>3750004
>>3750300
>>3750312
>>3750376
You can expect these things to be seen to then over a coming month.

In the meantime though, before that happens, what do you do for your assumed last day or so? Anything you might want to clear up before the thread ends, or just simply anything you feel like doing in the meantime.

>...?
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>>3750407
The idea I had when inviting them to the castle was for us to do that "ritual" we talked about earlier with the cultists to keep Riona's urges in check, since they are the most loyal and would not tell anyone.
But a scheduled visit works too, we set up a date, bring them over, tell Nissa to prepare a cozy and secluded room, preferably on the dungeons and we get the 6 originals to do the deed.

That way we won't have risk of just sexually assaulting someone and losing control because of pent up lust.

We can set up the date now that we are here in Eisling too.
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>>3750574
this works too

>>3750564
get a report from the current cultist in town and set up the date for them to visit us at the castle, probably next month
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>>3750574
Wouldn’t that run the risk of getting Riona pregnant? I thought we agreed that she wasn’t ready for children yet!
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>>3750574
I never said that was going to happen lol

It's just an instinct, an urge like any other of yours. You roll for it to keep it in check, assuming you want to. Like with sweets as you saw, to resist them you had to roll. You weren't really resisting the sweets themselves though, really you were rolling to keep your gluttony in check.

Your unanswered instincts, what the lesser races consider vices, you just have to roll to keep in check. But only when they're tested. It seems pretty obvious by now you don't find lesser races attractive or appealing, so it's not like your instinctive lust is tested when you're just walking down the road in your town and catch sight of some handsome dashing human. Encountering a dragon is another story, but the only other one you've met was Saren the green one and your prevailing instinct towards him was rage of course.

Now, if you want to still try relations with people you can, for whatever purpose you may wish from desire to curiosity. But it's not like you need to always answer your instincts, simply that the unchecked ones, only when tested, you have to roll to keep control of.
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>>3750574
How about not doing that?
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>>3750588
We can ask the elf alchemist for some anti-baby potion, whores must use something right?

>>3750594
It was more to have a healthy and stable sex life while we don't find/look for a mate.
The real problem was that those women almost seduced us, so someone else can try and make us a fool or doing something we would rather not because our lust was unanswered
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>>3750574
No
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>>3750574
Riona's gonna have some fun

>>3750564
After we speak with the cult I liked the anon's idea of a tea party with Tanyth and the princess, get to know the princess better
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>>3750603
Nope, if you are really that desperate for dragon snu snu then let's start looking for a mate. I am not interested in whoring out riona.
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>>3749363
While in Eisling, you have one last order of business to attend to. You seek out the makeshift shrine to yourself that the cult set up, hidden away in an unimpressive building. It hurts your pride a little, but you know from their warnings that the faith to you treads a thin line in regards to the other religions present in your land. If you were to make the faith official, or officially recognized, they could do things like set up temples and churches. However that would upset the different religious groups present in your land.

Your disappointment is only temporary though, as you visit the hidden shrine, squeezing to fit down the stairs and find yourself warmly welcomed. There's actually a fair few people down here now, all ecstatic at their faith being rewarded by your presence and all of them showing their religious devotion, seeking to please you and hoping for your blessing. It seems the cult has been doing their work of fostering your faith and increasing their numbers. Or at least, increasing numbers of faithful, obviously the increased number of folks down here are just local people rather than skilled assassins and spies.

"A visit?! To your personal domain?! Wait till the others hear of this! I pray you will not begrudge our suspension of efforts for this chance... not like the plans will go awry without us for a few days."

Currently the resident cult member is Saldo, the sorcerer of the cult. He expresses gratitude for your recognition of them, and will send the word that you're allowing them to visit you. The assumption being in regards to the apparent new structure of the cult; the original members have become like an "inner circle" while new members are just your typical cult members.

Incidentally, you can refer Saldo to your other sorcerer, newly recruited so that they can work on the magic effort together possibly. The cult will like him for sure since he's distantly dragon descended after all.

>Any interest in spending time here with your own little growing faith? Or follow your business elsewhere? Maybe... that disgraced knight Sir Praden...
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>>3750600
See>>3750603

Four women almost made us lose control, what if some high cha bard walks up and seduces us because we are pent up even if we don't want to and takes stuff from us? Or makes us do questionable things? Or humiliates us?
We neef to keep these things in check, and then when we chose a mate we will be safe from thot syndrome like sister has
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>>3750623
Leave the knight alone, he made his choice and is helping the people

Talk to the cult members, see if there is anyone important or of note that joined
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>>3750634
I will not support your orgy idea.
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>>3750648
You guys are being stupid, qm warned us thatbthis will bring shit down the line and you still ignore it.

Can we search the alchemist for a potion to suppress thoae urges, I do not want to become a whore like sister and fall for some dude's sweet talk
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>>3750594
To note though, this is all the case because of your young age and size. The older and larger you get, your instincts will grow as well as you know. Compare with mother, who is a beast of instinct, but is a force of nature because of it.

>>3750588
Could just smash the eggs if you're worried, or give them away to be raised.

>>3750603
Sure there's nothing wrong with that reasoning. And following up on such instincts would have its own benefits. Being well-rounded and keeping balance is never a bad idea, and there's certainly a difference between acting as a whore, and normal healthy intimacy.

Just simply that the original point was, you don't need to if you don't want to. Again, like with the sweets, it's not like you run the risk of losing control and turning feral and acting lustfully towards some random farmer. Just when your instinct is tested, if it's one that is unanswered, you have to roll to resist. Rolling here, being your self-control. As you saw with those seductive women, it only was an issue for you because you actually engaged them that way, and played along enough to get swept up by their wiles and made to roll for it. You could just as easily have not engaged them, ignored their seductive attempts, and wouldn't have had to roll or risk losing control in the first place.

>>3750634
As you describe there, for example some person could try to seduce you. Normally you don't have an interest in lesser races, it takes two to tango and like with the women it took your cooperation to fall into the trap. Supposing there was some charming enough person however that was so good at what they do that they could tempt you anyway though, as rare as that might be? Even then, sure you would have to roll for your self-control, but only if you let it get that far. You have to imagine how far along someone would have to get at seducing you for you to succumb to instinct, well if you can obviously tell what they're doing you can act before it gets to that point.

>tl;dr if some bard tries to charm you it should be pretty obvious and you could just put a stop to it before it gets out of control, there's only a risk if you were prevented from responding
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>>3750642
agreed

order sweets for the cult, sweets are a blessing
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>>3750642
You can make a roll if you like, to see who might have joined from the local area and town.
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>>3750657
It's a non fucking issue, scales has explained this.
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Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>3750642
>>3750659
Support
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Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>3750662
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Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>3750671
We'll see I guess, I'm certain I'll be able to say "I told you" when scales use this to make us bone someone by failing a dice roll, like I said, all I wanted was a healthy outlet for the urges, it could even be during the tineskip. I'll hate it when we fail that test, I just know.

>>3750662
Rolling
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>>3750671
It's not a non issue, it's just not an issue in the same way as some might think. But simply ignoring it entirely is as the same as you would expect of simply ignoring any of your other instincts. Like if you ignore your gluttony and never have any sweets anymore. If someone then goes and waves sweets in front of you, well you'd have to roll to resist biting their hand off to get at the plate.
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>>3750688
>>3750671
See anon friend?
I just want to keep a healthy sex life with the cult since they are VERY loyal and will be VERY quiet so no one will know about it and we don't have the risk to succumbing to lust at inappropriate times

Think of it as an exercise, or eating sweets
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>>3750696
If you won't let this go then I will compromise with this, we find one human guy make him our go for all things sex related. Anything else and we are no better than our sister.
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>>3750713
That isnpersonalizing too much, the whole deal with the cultists was to keep it a distance and to make sure they were the most loyal.

If that is your proposal I would rather have no one at all or at least chose one or 2 of the cultists
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>>3750713
the cult is better bro, use only the top 6 members and make it seem like a ritual.

>>3750723
choosing 1 or 2 from the cult will result in jealousy, it's all of them or none at all
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>>3750733
In my eyes that puts us on our sisters level.
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>>3750754
it doesn't, our sister sleeps around with everyone, we will have a closed group that serves us to sate a thirst and we make sure no one else hears about it.
We just have to make sure not to have children like the other anon said, if there is no way to prevent children from happening I don't want to do it at all because I don't want kids for now
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Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>3750662
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>>3750756
How many of our inner circle are even guys? For that mathere have you consider that my havbig sex with humans we will most likely start to find them attractive?
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>>3750766
Oh wow phone posting sucks, I hope this I'd still mostly readable.
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>>3750733
Well there is a definite high priest. But if you make a ritual thing out of this or try to involve the cult from a faith perspective, you encounter the possibility of religious results. Kind of like your goblin priestess and her draconic traits; she has no dragon blood but her faith in you has led to strange results as you've seen.

Further involving yourself with your faith may lead to similar results, since thus far you've kept them at arm's length and only used them as loyal errand boys. Actually answering their faith (in any way, not just this weird intimacy worry) could have unexpected outcomes, as you know the gods are fickle beings and your own dragon gods no less so. They saw fit to bless a random goblin for her unanswered faith, what might you expect their response to be towards a cult whose faith you stand the potential to answer?

>>3750713
>>3750696
Well you'll have a month anyway to ponder it. If you're so adverse to your sister, you could just seek a dragon instead. Hell, there's even one nearby if you were so worried, the green one.

All in all though, it's worth indicating, has it really been that much of a problem for you so far? In time, with age you might expect that it could become a problem, but that's in time. As you are now, and so far, has it been a problem?

>>3750678
>>3750675
>>3750760
>>3750673
>77

As it so turns out, one of the town nobility in fact has joined the cult. A young man from one of the noble families, he's taken to faith in you because your arrival spelled success for his family. Before you, they had been in decline for many years no thanks to one of the town council members, but since you killed all the council this fellow's family has been able to regain their success and their standing, their pride. For the rest of the family they're thankful or perhaps even take it as a sign of the gods. But for this nobleman, he sees things more literally, that you yourself are divine and delivered a miracle to them.

It's certainly interesting to see, as you are here among them. On the one hand their blind devotion to you is something of a morbid curiosity as you imagine what sorts of trouble or fun you could get up to with a band of fanatics willing to die for you or do whatever you command of them. On the other hand though, you're not unfamiliar with people's thanks or admiration of you... but it's something else to see such love and even hope, faith in you. You'd never really imagined yourself a deity or responsible for people's souls...

Well, it's a little eye-opening to say the least, but to what you're not sure. In any case they're just exuberant for your simple presence let alone interacting with them. Many of them offer themselves up to you of course, or their worldly possessions, but it seems wise to have them make that devotion to the cult to further grow and strengthen it.

>Anything else in Eisling, or princess time now?
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>>3750766

>havbig sex with humans we will most likely start to find them attractive?

that may be an issue

maybe we get an elf then? since there are fewer numbers of them it would be rarer to run into one, but then we would run into the personalization problem

I still think the cult is the better choice, there is at least 4 guys there and we put the other two girls around to have fun along with everyone and to not create jealousy along the members
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>>3750775
PRINCESS!!!

our trophy!
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>>3750775
You know what? I'm tired of arguing, let's just wait for a suitable blue dragon and hope he is not too pathetic or an too much of an asshole.

Let's make a tea party
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>>3750775
How about we fuck the town noble, I still support havin one and only one stress relief guy and he seems good he is in the cult and we can swear him to secrecy
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>>3750794
Nah, too low loyalty and new to the cult and a heavy possibility of having unintended political stuff

Let's hold a little on it, I still think the cult is better but I'm willing to wait for a dragon mate for some more time before we get really pent up
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>>3750807
...alright then we wait.
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>>3750780
Support its princess time
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>>3750793
Well blue dragons are aquatic. How your situation might fare as a life on land, could be complicated.

>>3750793
>>3750780
>>3750859
So who are going to be attending this tea party of yours?
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>>3750865
Tanyth and princess

make Nissa wear a nice dress and serve
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>>3750871
Don't forget Brigid we're going to borrow her for the day as well
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>>3750871
>>3750875
And where will this be taking place, forgot to ask?

Heads up, I have to duck out for a bit but we'll resume when I return.
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>>3750875
>>3750871
Support but offer tea and sweets to Nissa too, we crossed mountains to get our friend back
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>>3750879
Castle
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>>3750879
At our Castle, also check in with the witch to see if she's made any progress in determining where Lila ended up we can do this before or after T I have no preference as to which
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>>3750879
I think the castle would be better, or the elven village because its pretty, but I prefer the castle

>>3750880
Ok, agreed
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>>3750886
Well you can meet the witch at your castle, you find her in the old stables with some creepy, rotten little red wretches.

"Imps, they're like demonic servants."

The nasty little things spit foul words, scurry about and jump up and down, pull faces at you and cause trouble... but not for the witch herself you notice. Of course you want to know about Lila, but again the witch needs her full name; how many people in the hells are named "Lila"?

For this you might need to do some digging... you have a planned trip to Cestion or at least some effort towards it? Well Lila was from Cestion, maybe you can find something out while you're there?

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It was Nissa's idea, you'd never heard of a garden party before. Apparently it's something the human nobles do, when they have access to gardens? There's also some mention of something called "tea" but that comes from a faraway land and you don't have access to it. There's other drinks to suffice though, and although the bakery is not set up fully yet, they were able to whip up a nice spread for your little party.

"Eugh, what is this?" Tanyth asks, frowning at your imposition for her to try a pastry. She's definitely the odd-female-out, as the only nonhuman and also in her... provocative clothing, by human standards.

"It is creme, I believe." Brigid is dressed formal as usual, you're still not used to seeing her out of armor since your original experience with her was as an armored knight. She acts all proper and sits reserved at the table, speaking formally.

"Alright, but... what is it?" the elven lady asks again.

"It comes from milk, you know? Dairy, cows." princess Isolda, of Eugeira remarks. Of the lot she's the most displeased to be there, she put on some nice clothes but doesn't care to act properly and isn't even comfortable to be here, isn't even sitting up properly in her seat at the table. In particular she seems to have some dislike of Tanyth and speaks to her in an insulting tone.

"Eugh, disgusting!" regardless of the princess's attitude towards her though, the elven lady finds the idea of eating something from a cow to be more distasteful.

"Wait a minute, why would Tanyth be the odd-female-out and not me, the dragon?"

"Ah, it's so nice to have company!" Nissa interrupts you speaking your thoughts allowed, acting as waitress but not particularly busy since your guests aren't needy. And she's more than happy to prompt Tanyth to scooch over a little in her chair in order to sit on the edge and eat what the elven lady won't. Of course Tanyth is partly shocked by the behavior of this servant girl... but finds it too amusing to do anything about, almost like she's not sure if she's dreaming at this moment, that a human commoner would behave that way towards her.

All in all, a lovely time you're having!

>What do you do?
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>>3751176
Lol
Tanyth is awesome

Ask her to tell us what is served among lafies at her village, we would love to taste it, that fruit cake they sent us was lovely

Then ask Isolda about her lands, what are the common things she was used to there.

Maybe get Nissa to suggest some games to us since she is more wordly, whatever she can think off
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>>3751216
support but also ask Brigid is Ostrela has any traditional sweets that we don't know about.
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>>3751216
Suport.

>>3751176
After some time, lets break out the wine, get the girls to loosen up!

Ask Isolda is there are elves around her lands too, our leves around here are lovely as she can attest!

Get Tanyth to try something else on a dare but don't tell her what it is, get something less creamy, let's see if she likes it.
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>>3751176
>What do you do?
I prepare to go to a new thread. Because this one is dangerously close to the bottom of page 10.
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Yeah, there is a good chance this thread will die tonight or tomorrow. if it goes then I will eagerly await the next thread Scales.
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>>3751176
>"Do elves not have milk then? *stare pointedly, but innocently, at her bits* How do you rear your young? Like dragons do, perhaps?"

>>3751216
>>3751232
Seconding. Talk about food, and see if we can prompt Isolda to brag about her kingdom's food. That should cheer her up.

If it's not too late, I'd still like to pay our dear old friend Sir Praden a visit. He's notable to me for several reasons; he's gave us one of the toughest fights we had (the other being the troll), leaving him the most notable martial we have, he's a man of principal, stubborn but in an admirable way, and he's one of the few named male characters. I'd at least like to keep tabs on him even if we can't turn him.

>>3750407
I support rotating cultists to be in our presence. However, they must be disguised; they'll lose much of their utility if their identities are made known. I'd rather visit them now and then as opposed to them staying at the castle.

>>3749073
>"An airship would be the PERFECT place to set up some lightning rods to study lighting!"
Totally no ulterior motive in wanting an armada of tesla coil-armed airships
That said, we should probably escort her the first few times this is attempted to ensure her safety should things go awry.
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>>3751232
>>3751216
>>3751223
You've no familiarity with how time spent among females of the lesser races is supposed to be like, but you're sure this is it. To some extent something lacking from your own life, as dragons are not social creatures and certainly don't ally with others simply on the basis of gender, in fact usually same genders are seen as competition.

"Do elves not have milk then? How do you rear your young? Like dragons do, perhaps?"

"No, they do it like bees do." the princess interjects.

"Certainly not!" Tanyth doesn't take offense but finds this but finds the topic of conversation preposterous... though not at all embarrassing, compared to Brigid you notice who squirms in place and goes quiet. "We nurse our young like any humanoid race, we just would never... eugh, drink... milk from an animal."

As you've seen yourself, the elves are picky eaters normally, so milking a cow to them sounds like some revolting practice let alone working with the milk to make other edibles. Fortunately for her, according to Brigid there are plenty of desserts from this land of yours which don't utilize cream.

"Ostrelan rolls, are a tradition. Soft bread, like cake, rolled around some sort of jam, jelly."

"Oh I have had that, that is something the humans make which is agreeable!" hearing Brigid's description, eventually it clicks for Tanyth that she's familiar what's being spoken about. Her people have dwelled in Ostrela for many, many years and on occasion have traded with the humans. Well it seems inevitable that food would have been traded, and tasted by both sides. The elf's delighted interjection though startles Brigid and causes her to topple her plate and make a jammy mess of her dress.
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"Oh well that's good, because elf food is shite." how very princess-like, Isolda. "They eat grass you know, the elves back home... savages."

"Wh-What?! W-We have... many delicacies, such as syruped nuts and-" Tanyth recoils, her frail constitution seemingly wounded by the words.

"And shite. No meat on their tables." the princess throws a handkerchief to Brigid, not to clean the sweet mess of her clothes, but to dry her eyes over their sullying.

"Hah, you'd think a Eugeiran would know about shite. Don't you eat... gods, what is that disgusting... haggis! That's it!" Nissa levels the playing field, between stuffing her face with whatever Tanyth would have eaten. The elf throws her arms around Nissa in appreciation for standing up for her, and rests her head on Nissa's shoulder with a smug smirk at the princess.

"You want me to show you how we make haggis?!" the princess responds in anger, dragging a knife from beside her plate and jamming it in the table, causing Tanyth to gasp at the aggression and actually hug Nissa for safety now, who herself just laughs and spits crumbs all over the table at the princess.

"My sister gave me this dress, it was an expensive gift from Trelnaya..." poor Brigid, as she sniffles into Isolda's kerchief.

"Ah, this is nice."

This is a disaster... but you wouldn't know the difference, and give a contented, fanged smile to yourself in satisfaction over your lovely party.

>...?
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>>3751813
Are...Are we suppose to do something about this?
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>>3751819
If you want to, it's your party.
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>>3751813
>To Tanyth: *lift wing* "Come come, it's safer under here!"
>To Isolda: "What is this haggis? Is it really made out of people? I would have some of it. Where can I find it? Can you make it?"
>To Brigid: "There there, I'm sure the elves have some technique that could wash fruit jam out."
This party is wonderful, I love my new friends!
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>>3751841
>To Tanyth: *lift wing* "Come come, it's safer under here!"
>To Isolda: "What is this haggis? Is it really made out of elves? I would have some of it. Where can I find it? Can you make it?"
>To Brigid: "There there, I'm sure the elves have some technique that could wash fruit jam out."
This party is wonderful, I love my new friends!

>>3751841
>>3751842
nice double post snrk
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>>3751843
>>3751813
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>>3751842
Oh the jam cleaning seems awesome, Tanyth must know something.
And wing protection too.


" isolda is just angry because she is kidnapped, if you dislike your elves so much we could bring them here right Tanyth?"
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>>3750775
>goblin priestess and her draconic traits; she has no dragon blood but her faith in you has led to strange results as you've seen.
I’ve been thinking about this all night and I’ve got a question: If having faith in Riona can give someone powers, then would Riona also become more powerful if more people believe in her?

>>3751813
>Isolda stabs knife into table
“Isolda, please be nice to my friend. By the way, which elves are you talking about? The normal ones, like Tanyth here, or are you talking about the Dark Elves?”

Maybe these two can find some common ground on hating Dark Elves?

Also, if Isolda starts throwing insults at us and she tries calling us fat, we can throw her off guard by taking it as a compliment! “Oh, why thank you! I’ve been trying my best!”

>>3751986
Don’t call her kidnapped, that’ll just upset her! Didn’t we tell her that we’re looking for a way to take her home? One that doesn’t involve us flying her there because a flying dragon would just invite her people to attempt to shoot us down. That would put her in danger, since a stray arrow could miss Riona and hit her by accident.

And we can’t exactly invite those elves over, since we don’t really have a way for people to easily travel across the mountains. It also depends on if those elves over there are Dark Elves or not.
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>>3752005
We can use the airship services, but first more info about those elves is needed

She is just angry because she is away from home then?

Isolda is kind of a bitch, being angry with us is understandable but poor Tanyth did nothing to her, we should ask her more about her elves, maybe they have problems there and if we can bring them here that would be good
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Has anyone seen that animated movie called The Flight of Dragons? The dragons in that movie can fly by taking a deep breath to fill their bellies with hot air and flapping their wings.

Any chance we could do that so that we could keep flying, even after we reach elephant size?
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>>3752388
I doubt it, however, I think we should stay around our current size for a while. as it is we are pushing the limits of normal rooms. if we are elephant-sized then we lose the ability to inter normal housing.
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>>3752388
I think there’s more to it than that.

And I’m not sure if Riona turning herself into a hot air balloon would actually assist with flying.

Maybe that would help her fire breath go longer distances?



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