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Finally... => Forum Games and Roleplaying => Topic started by: Detoxicated on February 03, 2014, 08:20:09 pm
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It was the night before winter would begin, when you were born in a cave far away from civilization. As you peck your way through the thicki shell of your egg you begin to see light.
The cave surrounding you is tall but small in size. Beneath you is the cold grey rock.
You are very hungry.
You can see mushrooms growing beneath a stalagmite. You smell fresh air coming from the cave exit.
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wall towards the exit
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wall towards the exit
Is there a dragon thing you're supposed to eat, like a part of the shell or whatever? If so, do whatever you're supposed to do when you get hatched.
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You eat part of the eggshell and seem to like it very much so. As you chunk down the lovely eggshell you begin to feel a change in your body. Your skin hardens with every bite you gulp down. Afterwards, feeling strengthened you walk towards the exit.
You can see that you are atop a small mountain. Beneath you there is an endless forest going to the end of the horizon.
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Can you fly yet? If so, find a village to pillage
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Otherwise, look for water sources.
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You check out your back, but you only find strange lumps at your back. You begin wandering down the mountain and breathe in the fresh air. You can sense that there are many animals around, and lots of yummy plants as well. Your hunger reappears.
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Start hunting for animals! Being a herbivore is to Elvish.
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Start hunting for elves! Being a herbivore is to happy.
FTFY
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Burn'em up!
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Hunt meaty animals but avoid big prey focus on things smaller than us.
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Burn'em up!
+1
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You decide upon hunting humanoids with pointy ears, if you run across one, for now you will just eat anything to ease your rambling hunger. You will need to eat much more if you decide to be stronger. For now you just reached the bottom of the mountain, the rocky road downhill was a pain for your feet, but you imagine that this will change sooner or later. You scent the air of water, and follow it. Through the woods you walk, where you find some strange markings on some trees. You also hear plenty of animals, which is taking much of your preoccupation.
As you reach a small pond you take a big gulp from the fresh water. As your nostrils hit the water you can smell many fish in the water. Your hunger is amayingly strong already.
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Use your quick dragonic reflexes to catch fish!
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+1
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Use your quick dragonic reflexes to catch fish!
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Let's just look for something else Dragon babies can't swim right?
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Depends on the legend
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Use your quick dragonic reflexes to catch fish!
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Let's just look for something else Dragon babies can't swim right?
Not swim really, just waiting by the river bank to get fish! YUM! FISH STICKS!
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Fishsticks? Not potatoes and fish?
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PTW
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You decide to catch fish with your mouth. You reach it in and stick your tongue out as a bait and stop moving, apparantly you know all the hunting stuff by heart. As you wait you ponder your meaning of life. Snap you catch a fish and start eating it up. You grow a bit and your body begins changing again, growing a little longer.
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Moar fish please.
Also, eat any plants that we seem to want to eat.
Even cats and dogs need plant-food.
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Fish with all your Draconic might! We are the fisherdragon here and we fear no carp!
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You got a taste for the salmon, the carp and all the other beloved fish of the lake. So you dive into the lake, and for the first time in your live you feel the overwhelming wetness of water over your entire body and you love it. You decide to swim, and intuitively you learn how to move in water rather quickly, I guess you're born that badass, because you are a dragon. Under the water you act fiercly and swiftly and you get to eat many fish. As you walk out of the water you notice that you've grown in size.
You gaze upon your reflection and watch yourself in amazement. You are about 3 feet tall and 8 feet long and you have athletic looking legs. Your feet are webbed and clawed, you have a slighty long snout, and your scales are many and of greyish blueish coloration.
You enjoyed your hunt in the lake, but you do wonder what is the meaning of life. I mean it can't be that chillin all the time.
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>Breath fire on the forest and fly away whilst contemplating the meaning of life.
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You jump into the air with the thought: Hey I might be able to fly.
In the middle of the thought you come to the conclusion that you should be able to breathe fire too, afterall you are a godly creature.
You ready yourself for the jump, and think of every detail of the action to come. You begin your run and you set for your first jump. As you jump up you begin breathing warm air with a misguiding cackle. You ram your head into a tree. You see stars.
As you recover you contemplate the situation. Are you ungodly afterall?
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You jump into the air with the thought: Hey I might be able to fly.
In the middle of the thought you come to the conclusion that you should be able to breathe fire too, afterall you are a godly creature.
You ready yourself for the jump, and think of every detail of the action to come. You begin your run and you set for your first jump. As you jump up you begin breathing warm air with a misguiding cackle. You ram your head into a tree. You see stars.
As you recover you contemplate the situation. Are you ungodly afterall?
Statement is false. We are dragon. Hunt for birds. Birds hold the secret to flight. Become Penguin Dragon.
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Nah, just be the aquatic dragon.
Lets see how long we can be underwater for.
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You jump into the air with the thought: Hey I might be able to fly.
In the middle of the thought you come to the conclusion that you should be able to breathe fire too, afterall you are a godly creature.
You ready yourself for the jump, and think of every detail of the action to come. You begin your run and you set for your first jump. As you jump up you begin breathing warm air with a misguiding cackle. You ram your head into a tree. You see stars.
As you recover you contemplate the situation. Are you ungodly afterall?
Statement is false. We are dragon. Hunt for birds. Birds hold the secret to flight. Become Penguin Dragon.
+1
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Eating soft plants is for wusses. Eat tough oak trees to gain their strength. Maybe eat some more fish first, to gain their courage.
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You decide to taste more of the food around these parts. Afterall it isn't easy being a youngborn dragon. You will most likely be spending the next fifty years or so being in a constant state of hunger. You will grow to be huge, already after fifty years you should be 20-25 ft high and 80-120ft long. For now you will hunt for different foods.
You begin to sense birds surrounding you, and you see that they have the advantage of being fliers, while you are crawling the ground. So you decide to climb some sturdy tree to wait for a target to fly by. You jump and bite into the head of a young Flying Peacock. You crash down, but being a dragon brings the advantage of being rather Sturdy. The consumption of the Peacock has made your backbones extend a little bit, and your snout has become beakyer.
Then you go to the next menu, the oak tree you climbed earlier. You begin chewing on it and it tastes awful, but you can feel and intense new energy flowing into you. Your toes extend a bit and your scales become a tad bit darker.
Now that you learned that you indeed can take any form, you contemplate about possible goals of yours. You don't know much about this world, and you haven't seen anything. Most animals should not be a great threat to you, so you could wander. On the other hand you could stay in the area to explore it more thorougly.
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It's daytime. Find some bats and consume them in their sleep.
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Then eat more fish.
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[ooc:i want to pace this up so this game won't be a game where I keep on writing on the habits of the dragon. right now we are in a forest there is different biomes around if you look which in turn gives you new possible prey but it is entirely okay for you to stay there. All i am saying is maybe think of a long term plan so we can speed it up a few years.]
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Follow the river, then, and see where it takes us. Eat as many fish, rocks, and dragonflies as we can on the way.
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The following days you follow the river downstream towards the south. On your way you get to eat many different treats. You churn on delicious salmon while taking a swim. As their flesh enters your body you feel more and more atune to the waters. Eating rocks has proven to be a very painful experience. You felt your skin harden alot but you feel that you really have to concentrate on rocks to get a fulfilling experience out of it.
During the nights, as you won't be sleeping for another year, you caught some bats, and found out where they live and they have become a steady food for you, as you love biting their heads off. You can feel wings growing, so far they are only fangs, but your breast has grown increasingly and you feel that in a matter of weeks you might be flying. Strangely your hearing has become much more accurate but bright light becomes increasingly uncomfortable for you.
Dragonflies and frogs are next on the menu. It all started when you watched meditatively upon the river. A frog, sitting on a leaf, waiting cautiously. Then a dragonfly flies by, and he snaps his tongue out. Dragonflies are very difficult to catch and hardly worth the effort, but frogs taste rather unique.
The forest becomes thicker and thicker by every day passing, the weather has changed to, as it changed from a mild climate to a very humid and hot place. The river has also grown in size and strength. You feel that this place is more challenging.
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Overview
Dragon Stats
Improved Hearing
Can hold lungs for 1 hour.
Unattuned to Rock Diet
Webbed clawed feet
Steady Diet 2/5: Fish, Bats
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Drink a lot of water, too.
Keep eating rocks. We've got to practice if we ever want to eat metal and glass.
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Yep. And swim in the river.
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Eat the ducks and the waterfowl! Why not have the best of both worlds!?
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You begin munching on some pebbles, but they taste crappy. Lucky for you that you weren't that hungry in that particular moment. The moon is shining above you as youre standing on a small clearing, surrounded by mammothian trees.
This beautiful sight makes you remember that you still haven't found purpose, it is as if you are wandering aimless through the world, constantly growing but unknowing of why and without knowledge if he should bother. The food, and the steady change of ability keeps you amused long enough, but in moments like these you begin to wonder.
What is the purpose of existance?
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To build a city under the ocean!
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We have seen what happens when we eat things. Our destiny is to eat this world, and thus become a world dragon. We will begin with its water, then its sky, and finally the land.
I think we've been eating too many philosophers. Must have been the dragonflies.
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We have seen what happens when we eat things. Our destiny is to eat this world, and thus become a world dragon. We will begin with its water, then its sky, and finally the land.
I think we've been eating too many philosophers. Must have been the dragon flies.
Indeed. When we devour the world, the philosophers will be the first to go.
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Ooh, I like this goal. Lets do it! Become the first world dragon! Everyone knows of the world turtles, but we are the world dragon!
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world dragon seems like a suitably lofty goal to me.
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In that case we'd best eat more fish, bats, and rocks so that we get gills, wings, and the ability to eat rock respectively.
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Rocks are like greens for humans; we may not like like the taste but we must eat them to grow big and strong!
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You decide upon a goal and chuckle maliciously. The next years go smoothly as you decide to feast on fish, bats and rocks. You quickly learn that there is different qualities of rocks, and if you are unsure you can beat them open to see if there are minerals inside. The digestion of the rock matter becomes easier every month and so does the staying underwater. You manage to breathe underwater, and you can hear for miles. You also seemed to have developed echolocation.
This has helped you in a dangerous encounter with a gigantic anaconda. You were swimming through the swampy by marshes to the river, as suddenly a strike from below blew into your stomach. Quickly a beast coiled around you. Holding its clawing tooth away from your head you rip its jaw open, as it tries to choke you with the weight of his body. You manage to bite into its neck. After minutes of wrestling the beast succumbs to blood loss. You feast for the following 48 hours on its beautiful corpse.
You now stand 7 feet tall, you have bat like wings. Your body is slender, bent to a live underwater. You have a long tail which can be used like a rope or whip. You have extendable jaws, and huge fangs. Your scales are ranging from grey to blue to green.
You arrive at a waterfall, beneath you you see a creature like you, similar yet completely different. It is about your size and black colouration.
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The way I see it we have two options. We can have children with the creature, or we can feast upon it and continue our quest for the world dragon. Personally, my opinion is that-
There can only be one.
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Send a supersonic burst towards it as a greeting.
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We're to young too have children. Size it up. Can we eat it? Ambush it if so. If not, greet it.
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Seconding hugo, -1 to the rest of you lot.
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Are you male or female? Sorry if I'm not following that much.
If one of these genders, attempt to court-ship with this fellow scale kin!
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We're like 5. We've got a few decades yet before sexual maturity.
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Oh my fault.
Try to communicate with this fellow kin. If presumed hostile, attack with no mercy.
Also I think we need to set waste products on our territory, to drive away opposing dragons.
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We're to young too have children. Size it up. Can we eat it? Ambush it if so. If not, greet it.
plus one
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We're to young too have children. Size it up. Can we eat it? Ambush it if so. If not, greet it.
plus one
Plus two!
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We're to young too have children. Size it up. Can we eat it? Ambush it if so. If not, greet it.
plus one
Plus two!
+1, also, approach with intent to greet it first (you look awesome, what have YOU been eating?!). If it attacks or doesn't want to communicate then we can leave and ambush it later.
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If freindly lick it :)
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Even though you feel that the beast shall be in your belly, you also see the opportunities if you let the creature live, so you decide to jump down the waterfall. As you exit the water, you see an eager specimen standing in front of you. It is standing in an easy stance, still ready to strike if you attack him. You nod your head at the creature and begin looking at it thoroughly.
In front of you stands a black wingless dragon, with a big head. On the snout of the beast you see a star shaped compilation of nostrils looking in every direction. The scales of the black dragon are covered with thin silvery hairs, that sometimes end in small bumps. Its eyes are violet and its teeth are long. It has big feet, looking as if they are prone to digging and beating.
You begin circling the dragon, as if you were trained for it, and the other dragon imitates your movement. You begin hearing the other dragon's thoughts.
"Greetings blue one, you are at my turf. What do you intend to do here?" You reply:"Hey, I didn't know this was yours. You look interesting, what have you been eating?" "Mostly mushrooms, moles, and panthers... How about you" You tell the dragon about your diet.
"What is your name?" A question to which you have no answer.
"I'd rather see that you leave my territory"
What will you do? What is your name? You are a male, and black wingless seems to be one as well...
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One day we shall have no need of names, for all shall know us by sight. But for now, we may be refered to as "George."
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One day we shall have no need of names, for all shall know us by sight. But for now, we may be refered to as "George."
Slade is my name. I'm more liquid but that's all right. As to Territory well let's be honest theirs not exactly your name or any of our kin around. So how do i claim my turf?
I'm sorry but i feel like staying near the area i was born in and hope we can peacefully coexist. Besides i don't eat what you do and you don't eat what i do. {tell him what we eat}. If your feeling uneasy then let's cut deal...what do you want me to fetch you for peaceful coexistence.
When we learn more we'll leave till then hell to the no were leaving.
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We've been following this river for years, haven't we? Must be a pretty damn long river. Tell him we've been following this river all our life, and will continue to follow it until we find its end.
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As far as I am concerned, he is in our river. We have the advantage here, seeing as water as our element and this pompous fool has been eating mushrooms his entire life. I say we drown him.
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He's on the shore, and has been eating panthers. We'd need an ambush to take him down.
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We've been following this river for years, haven't we? Must be a pretty damn long river. Tell him we've been following this river all our life, and will continue to follow it until we find its end.
He's on the shore, and has been eating panthers. We'd need an ambush to take him down.
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One day we shall have no need of names, for all shall know us by sight. But for now, we may be refered to as "George."
+1
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We've been following this river for years, haven't we? Must be a pretty damn long river. Tell him we've been following this river all our life, and will continue to follow it until we find its end.
He's on the shore, and has been eating panthers. We'd need an ambush to take him down.
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One day we shall have no need of names, for all shall know us by sight. But for now, we may be refered to as "George."
+1
+1 to both.
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"Mostly mushrooms, moles, and panthers... How about you"
He have considebrable fighting skill then,usually he fight some animal,but he doesn't have experience on water.I say we could spring to attack and drag him to water depth.
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Hell no. Just talk for now.
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"Mostly mushrooms, moles, and panthers... How about you"
He have considebrable fighting skill then,usually he fight some animal,but he doesn't have experience on water.I say we could spring to attack and drag him to water depth.
He could be lying i mean what's stopping him from eating fish? Also maybe we can ask him for directions to the oceans of the world?
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If we just keep following this river, it should eventually lead to the sea.
Again, we can't attack him right at this moment, we'd need to get the drop on him.
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My vote goes to following the river and eating any fish/rock/fisherman along the way.
Not too many humans to start a mass scale hunt but just enough to nice and full. Once we get to the ocean will swim down and practice getting to the magma parts of the ocean and eating bits of hot rock...not meant as a pun.
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The way I see it, the main thing to gain from eating humans would be opposable thumbs.
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The way I see it, the main thing to gain from eating humans would be opposable thumbs.
bigger brains maybe?
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"Mostly mushrooms, moles, and panthers... How about you"
He have considebrable fighting skill then,usually he fight some animal,but he doesn't have experience on water.I say we could spring to attack and drag him to water depth.
He could be lying i mean what's stopping him from eating fish?
maybe but his body resemble some feature of panther and mole.dark scale and "big feet looking as if they are prone to digging and beating."
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He doesn't look like he's been eating fish.
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"Mostly mushrooms, moles, and panthers... How about you"
He have considebrable fighting skill then,usually he fight some animal,but he doesn't have experience on water.I say we could spring to attack and drag him to water depth.
+1 to this also.
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Perhaps, but not right now. He's suspicious of us right now, as he well should be. We'd need to surprise him.
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My vote goes to following the river and eating any fish/rock/fisherman along the way.
Not too many humans to start a mass scale hunt but just enough to nice and full. Once we get to the ocean will swim down and practice getting to the magma parts of the ocean and eating bits of hot rock...not meant as a pun.
Plus one to this suggestion, as well as seeing if we can't make ourselves pressure-proof.
I think Abyseth might be an OK name, but I'm open to different ideas.
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The way I see it, the main thing to gain from eating humans would be opposable thumbs.
bigger brains maybe?
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Drag him into the water and rip him apart. We can always escape by swimming if things get bad.
Let's eat an alligator if we find one. Maybe find a goblin tribe to dominate later.
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Who needs goblins? They can't survive in undersea volcanoes! Which is where we should live for a while. No one to bother us, and only the most hardcore things to eat.
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Yes, but we can take control of the goblins so they bow to us as a god!
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What use are bowing goblins? They cannot bring us magma to eat! At best, maybe they'll bring us puny, soft minerals, like gold.
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Goblins are easier to militarize than rabbits and about as common?
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What do we need military for? We've got to get somewhere before our body starts settling into a final form.
Step 1: Go to ocean, find oceanic trench
Step 2: Eat lava until we can burrow into the mantle
Step 3: Eat the core
Step 4: Eat the world from the inside out
Step 5: ???
Srep 6: Profit!
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What do we need military for? We've got to get somewhere before our body starts settling into a final form.
Step 1: Go to ocean, find oceanic trench
Step 2: Eat lava until we can burrow into the mantle
Step 3: Eat the core
Step 4: Eat the world from the inside out
Step 5: ???
Srep 6: Profit!
...You know, this doesn't sound half bad. +1 to Abbysian magma dragon.
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"I hardly believe that you could actually hold your claim, if I tried to take your turf away from you, mushroom boy." you reply chuckling.
The other dragon fits his body to an aggressive stance and begins fletching his teeth. There is a moment of silence between you, the only sound you hear is the waterfall and some crickets.
Then both of you begin charging towards one another. Both of you jump and in midair you ram together. Immediately you begin biting into his body, as he does to you. A fierce fight of biting and scratching begins as you slam to the floor. You cannot estimate who is the stronger of both of you so you begin pulling him towards the river. As you pull him with your teeth, you begin tasting a very disgusting bitter taste. It seems to be a substance which is ooying out of the bulbs at the end of the silvery hairs. Your vision seems to weaken and you become blind rather quickly. This is the point where you decide to flee. You get another prank in your back, but you manage to scuttle away, jump into the river, and swim off downstream.
You have made an enemy. A rather peculiar dragon, who has concentrated on poisonous mushrooms as it seems. After a while your vision returns, but the spots where the wingless dragons had bitten you are swollen and itching for the following weeks. Lucky for you, you are a dragon of fast metabolism, or else the poison could have killed you.
You keep on swimming downstream up to the point where you meet the beach, and the water becomes salty. You sit down in the sand and begin to contemplate.
Where will you go from here?
What is your name? You feel it could be George but maybe there is a better name eluding you so far.
What shall be your new stable diet, as this place here holds no bats.
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We shall eat sharks and seabirds
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We shall eat sharks and seabirds
Yes.
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{ooc: you have 5 dietary slots, of which 1 is on rocks and 1 on general fish...}
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No birds. Sharks yes. Also something capable of digging if we actually plan on trying to devour the world. Maybe venomous fish and poisonous plants so we gain immunity. And hot stuff too.
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ooc: Maybe i should point out that your decision will determine a couple of years, leading towards the final form. While you wont get the complete end result you will be close to it, and a new part of the game begins, with slower time intervals and such. Also, your diet will determine where you will live, if you say you want poisonous plants it is fine, but it will most likely result in being at least partly accustumed to live on land. This will forbid to add deep sea creatures as stable diet, while being a sea creature would forbid you a diet based on land creatures. Much of the focus of the game will be based off of your dietary choice now. So please choose five dietary choices, in a beautiful to see manner so it can be easier voted on and such. Thank you. ;)
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We must leave one slot open for eating (drinking?) magma from an undersea volcano.
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There aren't poisonous plants underwater?
Hot rocks and lava
Fish
Aquatic mammals and the occasional land animal
Plants both underwater and on land
Decaying corpses
Being a deep sea dragon isn't that important to me anyway.
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Hate to double post but if becoming a world dragon isn't a realistic goal my vote is changed to:
Hot rocks and lava
Fish
Something capable of digging
Bats
Decaying corpses and plants
Edit: Thinking underground lake lair where we eat fish, bats, moles and occasionally drag down something larger from the surface, let it decay a bit in the water and snack on it.
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Hate to double post but if becoming a world dragon isn't a realistic goal my vote is changed to:
Hot rocks and lava
Fish
Something capable of digging
Bats
Decaying corpses and plants
Edit: Thinking underground lake lair where we eat fish, bats, moles and occasionally drag down something larger from the surface, let it decay a bit in the water and snack on it.
Doesn't sound half bad, but I think we should occasionally go for some very deep fish.
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Let us be a coastal dragon, staying in the deep by day and venturing to the surface by night. We will feast upon rocks and minerals, including the molten ones. We will eat the mightiest sea creatures we can. We will eat flying creatures when we can, likely seabirds. For the other 2 slots, I don't have a preference. With this arrangement, out lair would be incredibly difficult to reach for any prospective enemies, but we'd still have access to land.
If we make minerals/lava a large part of our diet, won't that already make us a digging creature? Presumably we could just eat/chew our way through rock if we ate enough of it while developing.
Ideally we should become a magma dragon, since that is awesome, but I'd settle for Terror of the Sea. Say, "Lord of the Sea" sounds like a good title, which could also serve as a name.
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I'll put my votes this way;
Fish - We like fish and swimming. Let us keep this way. Fish include sharks. That is good.
Sea Birds - Eventually, we will want to take to the sky. Thankfully, some of the most best flying birds are sea birds. Take the albatross for example. Massive wingspan.
Igneous Rocks - To dig, we shall eat rocks. In addition, this will likely make our skin tougher. This should also make us resistant to lava in some ways.
Metamorphic Rocks - Because molten rocks aren't the only rocks that exist. By being able to bore through metamorphic rocks, we will eventually hit and devour the core of the earth.
Snakes - Let's be honest, we don't have anything related to claws and at this rate we never will. However, we may as well give ourselves a nasty bite if someone tries to fight us. Being able to wrap and choke them to death is a nice bonus.
If rocks simply count as one thing, then I vote for Fishermen. They will not steal from our ocean.
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Sharks? As much as I love those adorable little predators, you're not thinking right. Killer whales are apex predators. Sharks are not.
Sea birds, agreed. Gulls, albatrosses. Spiffy things like that.
Fish? Look for poison ones, like stonefish, jellyfish, blue-ringed octopi, pufferfish, etc. If Mushroom Dragon is toxic, we need some hard-core poison to counter it. Sea snakes count, too.
Rocks should also include coral if we can. The more rock types, the better.
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You decide upon an aquatic lifestyle, as you see that a rock diet will not be sufficient on the long run. So you begin your first years by hunting bigger schools of sharks, as well as the occassional albatross and gull. You grew vehemently, and your body adapts more and more to the biome you inhabit. Quickly you find your way around, always travelling between the coral reefs, the deep black sea, and the shorelines. Hardly ever you walk back on land.
In the corral reef you have found quite the supplements to your diet, as you begin to feed on anemones, sea snakes, and corals. The rocks surrounding the corrals have a uniquely pleasant taste to them, and a great colouration.
Your favorite food so far, however are the orca whales that happen to show up every now and then. Their flesh has made you bigger and more intelligent than ever, so it seems.
You began mapping the area, and have found several aquatic volcanos. The hot lava is a dangerous treat, but whenever you do reach out to these places you feel that its worth the effort.
You are 15 ft tall and 40ft long. Your body is slender, adapted to a life underwater. Your feet are finlike and your legs are long. Your tail is extremely long and very muscular. You have three rows of teeth, and the second row is especially powerful, long, and sharp. Eating rocks and corals has made your scales very tough, while the poisonous animals have made your skin slightly poisonous. Eating magma has given you the ability to produce extremely hot air from your lungs, giving you an effective steam breath.
You are 20 years old and a bit bored with your life. You could go on eating and eating, but you feel that there should be more to your life. Your dream of becoming a world dragon is still existant, but the swimming around part, gets on your nerves. It is time to find a suitable lair, for you to inhabit and decorate. Finding intellectual beings would brighten your day too, as you begin to feel lonely.
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Drag ships to a grotto deep below, build a palace at the bottom of the sea out of their wrecks. See if any great sea monsters exist and devour them. We cannot have competition.
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Drag ships to a grotto deep below, build a palace at the bottom of the sea out of their wrecks. See if any great sea monsters exist and devour them. We cannot have competition.
+1
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Maybe find an underwater cave to drag them to. Also conquer a coastal town and demand they serve us.
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Find merpeople or dolphins to be our companions. Landlubbers will be unable to be dinner guests in the household of we, their feudal lord.
In fact let's just refer to ourselves as "We," in the royal sense. Others may refer to us as "Lord" or "Your Highness." We shall not require a proper name until the unlikely event we find a circle of equals.
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You quickly develop beautiful ideas how to amuse yourself. As first action you decide to refer to yourself as "We" and demand to be called by anyone else, "Your highness". Next you want to have minions to treat you as such. So you begin travelling again, as you noticed there is no intelligent live nearby, but you believe there must be other sapients.
For some weeks you travel towards the south. The waters begin to grow shallower and are pleasantly warm. There is some islands of small size closeby. This is where you encounter a group of manatee men, armed with spears, hunting for some dolphins nearby.You watch them closely, as your echolocation organ takes note of the painful shrieks of the dolphins.
You produce yourself in front of the manatee men. They are waiting in fear.
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Kill the manatees, but don't bother eating them. Consumption is too good for these creatures. Associate with the dolphins however. They seem to have a pretty good idea of what is going on in the world, so it may be nice to keep them alive. They shall be our chosen race.
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The dolpins shall be our associates, but the Manatees shall be our minions. We shall command them not to kill the dolphins, for they are holy to us. They will eat squid, or feel our wrath.
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The dolphins make annoying noises though. Swap it around, the squid are not to be harmed and the dolphins are to be hunted to feed us.
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The dolpins shall be our associates, but the Manatees shall be our minions. We shall command them not to kill the dolphins, for they are holy to us. They will eat squid, or feel our wrath.
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The dolpins shall be our associates, but the Manatees shall be our minions. We shall command them not to kill the dolphins, for they are holy to us. They will eat squid, or feel our wrath.
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The dolphins make annoying noises though. Swap it around, the squid are not to be harmed and the dolphins are to be hunted to feed us.
Feeding via minions is for lazy, worthless dragons. We can hunt for ourselves.
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Agreed with Hugo.
We shall extinguish them should they
Decide to resist.
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One of the manatees comes before you and holds a glowing ruby in his hands, in an offering gesture.
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Daintily eat it. There are fewer higher quality or more delicious stones that rubies. Also, glowing. Yum.
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ruby is secretly a ManateeMan egg
Eat it
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Gemstones are good for digestion.
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Gemstones are good for digestion.
ruby is secretly a ManateeMan egg
Eat it
Eat the gem as we will become their god "WE". We shall create a new inter-oceanic language that must be known by all sentient aquatic creatures. Then we'll attack human coastal villages and drag women to our depths to become part of our world. Followed by destroying their coastal trade and building a City using the scraps of their ships.
Soon even the humans will bow and offer us gems.
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You bite into the gem, and quickly it appears at your forehead. You do not know what this means, but now the manateemen are starting to swim frantically up and down. It seems as if they are praising you in this manner.
You stare into the eyes of the manateeman who gave you the gem, when you feel a thin conection between the two of you. You try to push a thought into the fledgling. You see him moving as you push a thought. You speak to his mind "We are the Highness, and you may only refer to me as such. Bow down to your ruler and bring me to your home." He nods and swims towards the east. After twenty minutes you can see an island coming out of the water. In the shallow waters you see some huts,in which you see more manatee people. Some of them are working on tools, some are cooking, but all stop in motion when they gaze upon you. The entire village, you count seventyfive manateemen of which twentythree are children, gather around you.
Your guide turns around and gazes at you.
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Unleash a roar and give the same speech. also
"We shall create a new inter-oceanic language that must be known by all sentient aquatic creatures. Then we'll attack human coastal villages and drag women to our depths to become part of our world. Followed by destroying their coastal trade and building a City using the scraps of their ships.
Soon even the humans will bow and offer us gems."
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Unleash a roar and give the same speech. also
"We shall create a new inter-oceanic language that must be known by all sentient aquatic creatures. Then we'll attack human coastal villages and drag women to our depths to become part of our world. Followed by destroying their coastal trade and building a City using the scraps of their ships.
Soon even the humans will bow and offer us gems."
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Human women would only drown. We'd need to make a floating prison, or make bubbles of air under water.
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Human women would only drown. We'd need to make a floating prison, or make bubbles of air under water.
Why not do both?
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You roar out loudly and boisterous, and the manateemen tremble in fear, while the manateewomen redden.
You communicate to the mind of your underling.
"We shall create a new inter-oceanic language that must be known by all sentient aquatic creatures. Then we'll attack human coastal villages and drag women to our depths to become part of our world. Followed by destroying their coastal trade and building a City using the scraps of their ships.
Soon even the humans will bow and offer us gems."
The speaker speaks loudly and proudly to the tribe.
The manatees begin dancing and waving. You are irritated and amused by this, but decide to leave after a while. You take a flight over the island. It is a perfect round island with a volcano in the middle. It is about 70 square miles big, and in the distance you see many small islands surrounding this one. The island is covered in thick jungle. The manateepeople have build a small village in the shallow waters, as they aren't very agile on land. You sense that this place holds more to it if you try to discover it more thoroughly. On your way back you see an abandoned mining shaft. This land had been settled before, as it appears.
Upon your return the manateepeople present you a new site they have build for you. In front of you you see a big circle made of wood, with an entrance. It reaches 4ft out of the water. You will be able to sleep underwater, and won't be seen. You chuckle at the simple construction, and wonder how this could be more comfortable than your former contemplation sites.
You ponder over what to do next.
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Let us to manateewomen as "manamaids."
Hmm, we are far too big to fit in that mineshaft, and the manateepeople are too clumsy on land. How shall we explore it?
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Search the jungle for animals. If the animal is bigger than us, or something ferocious, eat it. If smaller, communicate with it and command it to go into the mineshaft.
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Not a lot of animals are likely to be bigger than us. I say this plan has a relatively high chance of success. Intimidate it with steam breath if necessary.
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Search the jungle for animals. If the animal is bigger than us, or something ferocious, eat it. If smaller, communicate with it and command it to go into the mineshaft.
Not a lot of animals are likely to be bigger than us. I say this plan has a relatively high chance of success. Intimidate it with steam breath if necessary.
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You nod at the manateepeople and begin to fly towards the island. You land on the land and begin wandering the jungle. It is good to be back in the jungle, as it reminds you of your early years. A roar of happiness is heard throughout the entire jungle, as you scream in delight. You begin surveying the animals on the island. While there is many small sized beings, you also encountered some pretty big orangutangs as well as sun bears, and tigers.
You decide that orangutangs are probably best suited to walk the mining shaft. You produce yourself in front of a school of them, and they quickly scuttle away. But by flying up, and circling them, you manage to lock them on a clearing. Where you land and roar in superiourity. You begin to communicate your thoughts to the meanest looking orangutan.
"You and your friends shall go to the old mine, and search it. Afterwards you come back to the beach to express to me what you have found there."
The group leaves and you return to the manateebase. Your spokesperson looks at you as if he was waiting for instruction.
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I feel that we must reward the manatees in some way. Let us collect a stone from the bottom of the ocean, and give it as a reward for the fidelity of the manatees. Then we shall ask that he not harm the dolphins, for they wonderful creatures.
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What's with you guys and the dolphins? :P
Annoying screeching creatures made all the worse by us having really good hearing.
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But their screeching cries shall alert us if an enemy should approach. Nothing can get through and ocean plugged with dolphins without alerting them; and therefore us of their presence.
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You look thoroughly at your direct representative and tell him, as usually by telepathic means, that no dolphins shall be harmed. You exclaim that they are wonderful creatures and of great joy to you. The manateeman nods and faces the village. He jips and japs what you just told him and the manateepeople are listening. They begin dancing and singing afterwards. This seems to be their way of showing you that they'll comply to your demands. Maybe if you send them to practice they will actually sound good. Hmm.
Afterwards you decide to amuse the manateemen, by giving them some sort of gift from the ocean. So you go back into the sea, trying to look for the deep blue. After a while of swimming, you ate some delicious hammerhead on the way, you find a deep shaft going deep into the ocean. As you swim downwards you notice it is actually getting warmer, which is only pleasant to your being, as your diet has made you thermophile.
And there you see it. Beneath you a humoungous lavastream. You feed on the hot liquid rock and feel delighted. After exploring the aquatic cave you find a round rock of obsidian, which has a diameter of aproxiamately 7ft. You decide that this is a peculiar object, and also it would be nice to introduce the concepts of rocks to these backward manateepeople.
You carry the rock to the village and present it to them.They sing and dance.
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Celebrate with them. May as well enjoy ourselves a little bit.
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Celebrate with them. May as well enjoy ourselves a little bit.
Celebrate with an awesome roar and cliche dragon pose. Also what kind of culture do our {what ever you call our revering civilazation} have?
Any art or writings? Do they have connections with anyone at all? If so we may consider absorbing some into our little aquatic Kingdom.
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You claim your spot inbetween the dancing manateepeople. Several of them attempt to climb you, you receive plenty of kisses. This lot really adores you. You begin communicating with the spokesman.
"Do you have writings to read" He looks at you confused. "Are there any others like your people?"
"Oh there is many, scattered around the islands. Except for one, which is a dangerous place." "Tell me more about your culture"
Your spokesman begins talking to you, about how the earth cracked open and gave them these islands. As they used to live in the shallow waters and the occasional sandbank before. They are band of loose families. Their culture is reduced to the simple toolmaking, and primitive woodworking. "I am amazed by the rock that you brought to us. I am sure we will find good use for it"
This is when an orangutan appears at the beach closeby, you notice it by echolocation. You seperate from the tribe with a last triumphant pose, a quick strike of steam into the air, and a swift flight to the beach.
You land in front of the orangutang and he kneels down. A blue gem falls down to your feet. You look at the gem, it seems to be saphire. You feed on the gem and you feel how the gem pushes itself on your forehead, next to the ruby.
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If the Manatee is the sea, then the Orangutan is land. Thank him for his efforts.
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Experiment new sapphire powers(if any)
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Tell the Orangutang his species is now sacred to us.
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Tell the Orangutang his species is now sacred to us.
+1, although I guess we're abandoning the whole World Eater plan, seeing as how we're going to make protectorates of pretty much every friendly species we encounter.
Also, Eat a tiger.
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Tell the Orangutang his species is now sacred to us.
The orangutan's bravery and foraging skills have earned it's species a protector. They'll be our scouts on the island i think. Also maybe we should visit the other tribes *hint hint*.
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Tell the Orangutang his species is now sacred to us.
+1, although I guess we're abandoning the whole World Eater plan, seeing as how we're going to make protectorates of pretty much every friendly species we encounter.
Also, Eat a tiger.
Oh, we're still going to eat them. It's for their own good, after all. In our theology, we shall present the future dragon-world as an afterlife for the worthy, and orangutangs shall have a privileged place in the new world (once we become it).
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Yes. Eventually, all things will be devoured. But the new world will be filled with their kind, and the dolphin/orangutans will be chief among them. If we can find a bird that we can claim as a protectorate then we are set.
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You look at the orange orangutan, who looks curious in your direction. With a stern look on your face you tell him "Your race shall be sacred in the world-dragon" You blow some hot steam into the air, and kindly hold a wing over the orangutan as a gesture of good will. He seems to be empowered by this and begins to jump up and down in a frantic manner. You take a small sprint and jump into the air to fly in the glistening sunlight.
Over your island you fly, and still you find new things. A small pond next to a beautiful palmtree. Then a strange rock formation. All atop of the barely grassed black stone. You land at a clearing, and almost imediately you find yourself facing a tiger. How could you have missed this fella?
You begin circling the beast in a playful manner, afterall he is so much smaller than you. He tries to run away, but like a cat with its mouse, you paw him towards you whenever he is to far off. At last you swipe him and bite into his head. Yummy.
You begin to charge into the air again, as you remembered your spokesman's words. There are many tribes of manateemen on the surrounding islands. So you begin to fly to each of them. There is nine of them. Each village consists of roughly the same population as yours. You also realized that there is ten islands surrounding your island, but one of them seems to be unpopulated.
Several weeks later you return to your tribe. You realize that they have created a statue of you, standing next to a orangutan and a dolphin. They all chant to greet you. Your spokesman produces himself in front of you and says "We have made a great effort, your highness, we have created this marvelous statue, and this pillar to put the statue on. You see an obsidian pillar and are astonished. They have managed to create a perfect cubic pillar of obsidian, and there is more, you see them using rock tools.
Your spokesman speaks up: "The orangutans have swum here, isn't that strange. They had one who was able to talk. They are working with us now. They were the ones to gather all the rock, we just became inventive with it. I don't know it seems as if you are giving us insights we never had before, yourt highness." You see some manateechildren swimming with dolphins. You raise an eyebrow. "Oh we saved a few from a humongous kraken, by using spears on the thing. We fed them, and showed them some tricks. They are fun to play with and they seem to like it here. They help us hunt too, your highness. You were wise to spare them."
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If the kraken still lives, we must devour it.
Shall we consider giving our followers the secrets of steam power? Or are their simple ways advancing quite quickly enough for our tastes?
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Yes, we must finish what the manatees have started.
As for steam power, not yet. But they are rapidly proving their worthiness of such power, so I do not want to eliminate the possiblity steam punk manatees.
Regardless, they must know that they have done well. One day, they too will be creatures sacred to us.
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Very well. We will reward them with the meat of the Kraken.
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Very well. We will reward them with the leftover meat of the Kraken.
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There will be no leftovers.
Aspiring world dragons always finish their meals.
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You swim towards the deep sea, where you sense a humongous presence. Deep beneath you, you feel the kraken moving anxiously. He knows that you sense him, and is ready to attack you.
"Don't tempt me drakeling, you're messing with Qurriblicon. I shall devour you and use your skull to sharpen my tongue."
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How big is this thing? If it's bigger than us, we require strategy.
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You sense that it is slightly bigger than us.
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Trow manatees at it!
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Tell him that he will immediately vacate these waters. This, this is our territory. If he refuses, we shall use our full force to defeat him. Especially if it involves the manatees.
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Agreed. We must rebuke it, intimidate it if we can. "You dared to prey upon our dolphins, and to make threats against us. You must be punished."
Slightly bigger? Well, that's tenable. "Vast" would have been a problem, but I think we can take this fool. See how it bluffs at our approach.
If we fight it, we must either try to drag it closer to the surface, or lure it near lava. It has the advantage over us in wrestling, but we might have the brute force to drag it. If not, priority should be biting its limbs off. Our scales must be very hard, so that should afford us some protection from the tongue, but we do not know how hard this rasping tongue is.
It likely has big, squishy, vulnerable eyes, though blinding it likely won't hinder it's abilities too much. Might cause some damage, though. As a creature of the deap, it likely isn't too fond of heat, so giving it a good blast before getting in biting range would be a good idea. If it shrugs off the heat, retreat. If all goes sour, take to the skies.
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We must not forget that the manatees were the first to drive this creature off though.
If the manatees could frighten it away, what can a true opponent do?
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"WHY DON'T YOU COME DOWN TO GET ME?"
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"Your pathetic attempts at bravado ill suit you, mollusc."
Deep fry this calamari.
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You close in on the giant kraken, and fire a hot stream straight at him. He replies with a shriek, and quickly he reshifts his body and propells towards you. The water is blackened by the ink he shoots into the ocean. Your echolocation keeps you on trek, so you manage to dodge a few of his tentacles. Yet he has you in his maim and starts wrestling. You begin shooting frantically from your mouth, the water temperature rises to extremes.
Some of the arms untie from you,wringing in pain. You are still connected to the beast, but its tongue manages to rasp off huge bits of your leg meat.
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"You are meaningless, mollusc. There will be no place for you in our new world."
Bite off the tongue. Shoot steam in its mouth. Cook all the way through.
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Strategic bowel evacuation.
But seriously, jet to the mouth.
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"You are meaningless, mollusc. There will be no place for you in our new world."
Bite off the tongue. Shoot steam in its mouth. Cook all the way through.
+1 Also GM how much "leg meat" did he take off? does it hurt?
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As the tongue closes in on you, you beam a strong burst of hot water into the calamari. The beast twitches, but you twist your body around and hold it firmly in your claws, still frying the beast. For the following half an hour you wrestle with the beast, and use all of your energy to fry the beast. At last, the squidling has died.
Hissing words of disgust at the dead body, you begin eating the cavity. For the following hours you remain eating. As you finish the last bite of the squid you feel a big rumble in your stomach. You swim towards the island.
As you reach the village of manateepeople, you are welcomed by the horde. They yap in joy and begin waving at you. You feel serious pain in your entire body and are very tired. You swim towards the center of the village. Your spokesman presents himself to you by taking a deep kneel from the little hutplatform, where he is standing.
You cross eyes with him and connect to him directly. You tell the awesome epic of the dragon who slayed the kraken.
You decide you want to rest, but where? Also, any last words to the village?
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We'll grow more legs after we devour this tentacled monstrosity.
BOIL HIM ALIVE AND DEVOUR HIS FINELY COOKED FLESH.
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I think we may increase in size.
Tell our spokesman that we must rest now, but when we wake, a new age of prosperity will begin. Sleep in the island's volcano.
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I think we may increase in size.
Tell our spokesman that we must rest now, but when we wake, a new age of prosperity will begin. Sleep in the island's volcano.
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(and grow tentacles :P)
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I think there was a problem with consuming all of the kraken at once... If you consider that it was slightly bigger than us, and that our stomach has to be at least our size or smaller (at least our size if we're like a sponge or something, and we're not), then we just fit basically something bigger than us into something smaller than us, and we might explode
But hey let's go sleep in the volcano
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Ah, but consider that flesh is uncompressed. After having been boiled alive, then chewed and swallowed, it would have lost a lot of size. Still an enormous meal, though.
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Sleep in Da Volcano.
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Didn't they build us a shelter? I say live in it.
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Didn't they build us a shelter? I say live in it.
I kind of have to agree with this idea. In a realistic sense, we would be tracking blood all the way down. It may be better if we took shelter someplace close where the manatees can serve keep an eye on us.
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We'd be easier to reach (and thus more vulnerable) if this place got attacked by something, though. I have a feeling we're going to be out for a while.
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I think we may increase in size.
Tell our spokesman that we must rest now, but when we wake, a new age of prosperity will begin. Sleep in the island's volcano.
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You ponder over where to sleep, while thinking about it you begin communicating with your spokesman. "We will sleep now, but once we awake a new age of prosperity will begin. I shall sleep in the volcano.
You wave goodbye and let out a final roar. Everybody cheers at you. You fly towards the volcano, set with the goal to build a perfect nest as close to the lava as possible. As you fly over the island you see the orangutans standing on a clearing, erecting something big. You cannot tell what it is, but some of them point at you and begin screaming and jumping. A joyous sight to see, it appears that you have infused them with an insight.
You land at the top of the volcano, beneath you the lake. You see some possible nests.
A: At the upper edge of the volcano, on a small platform over the cliff to the lava.
B: A cave in the lower end of the volcanoshaft, barely above the lava
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Cave sounds more sheltered.
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Cave, naturally. The heat from the lava will help us sleep comfortably.
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You fly down to the cave and take your first deserved slumber. Quickly you slip into unconsciousness.
You begin dreaming of epic tales. A young manateeman is born, he seems to be the son of your spokesman. He has shown high intelligence and social understanding from the minute he was born. You see him grow up and experience his view of the world. As a young man he saw the first ships, riding by the island. Their painted sails were filled with the everlasting winds, so they passed quickly. This inspired him to use the wind for energy as well, and he constructed the first canoe. To accomplish this he had to walk into the forest, a most tedious task for the youngster, and receive woods. He walked aimlessly for a while, not sure what to look for, when he was circled by three orangutans. They spoke to him in his language, but had a strange unhowling accent to it. They showed him the way to a perfect tree. Big and wide in diameter, this tree would serve well.
He worked several days, after the orangutans cut the tree. His obsidian carving knife would quickly form the tree. With the apes, he carried the canoe down to the village, where he would present it to the tribe. A great feast was held and the orangutans were invited.
Soon trade emitted and the different tribes of manateepeople exchanged goods and stories. Many orangutans left to other islands too, and were accepted with great eager, as they were able landworkers. Soon the town would get a solid base with small channels in between. A bit more fortified and connected to the land, your statue can be seen in the middle.
During this time, Khayan the Manateeman, had risen to become a local hero, as he wrestled a serpentinian underwater triumphantly. After this he would often sit quietly in his private house waiting for a new time to begin.
You awaken. You realize your dream had happened.
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Let us not be too hasty to appear before the manatees. They have done well in our absence. Perhaps for a time it would do us well to watch how they progress from afar, guiding them silently, lest they become too reliant upon us.
The Golden Age of the manatees will be quiet, but when it has begun they will say they have done it themselves.
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If only their was a way to get them to become Fascist who walk around killing human/elven coastal cities and communes. For now though lets actaully get these guys to advance to a less primitive time.
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I think our first thing to do would be to check on ourselves, and see if we've grown or changed any in our sleep.
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Let us not be too hasty to appear before the manatees. They have done well in our absence. Perhaps for a time it would do us well to watch how they progress from afar, guiding them silently, lest they become too reliant upon us.
The Golden Age of the manatees will be quiet, but when it has begun they will say they have done it themselves.
To the contrary, completely secluding ourselves will make them completely independent of us, which we do not want. We want advancements among the manateemen, but not independence. I suggest examining each of the islands that are inhabited, and when night comes (or whenever they sleep) go to our spokesman and speak with him.
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You fly out of the volcano ontop of the island in a quiet manner. You then swiftly turn towards the sea midair, and enter the ocean in an extremely rapid movement. You swim for many miles until you feel safe enough to be unseen. You just want to be the first to see yourself.
You fly out of the water and gaze upon your reflection. Turning and twisting around in the air {which is great fun} you look at every angle of your being.
You have almost doubled your size, and your wings have a huge spanlength. Your tail has split into five strains, and they end in claws now. Your skin colour still ranges from green to blue to black, with occasional spots of magma coloration. Beneath your three rows of razor sharp teeth you have developed a 5ft long tongue, similar to the rasping tongue of the squid. You are able to spit magma now, but only when you eat amounts of rock.
At night you land closeby the village, and send a message to your spokesman. After a while, an old man sitting on a small canoe comes closer to you. Your spokesman has grown old. It must have been thirty years.
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Embrace the manatee.
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It may be time for the Age of Manatee Steam. The spread of Industrialization shall help us make the world into more easily digested chunks.
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I think that steampower is still pretty far away from these guys.
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I think the manatees must industrialize, then we should use them to conquer the humans. After the humans, THE WORLD!
But srsly, no competition on the planet will make the world eating run a little more smoothly.
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I think that steampower is still pretty far away from these guys.
Excuse my double post;
I agree, so let's start by talking to our spokesman about how our civilization has advanced over our slumber.
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I think the manatees must industrialize, then we should use them to conquer the humans. After the humans, THE WORLD!
But srsly, no competition on the planet will make the world eating run a little more smoothly.
Our only substantial competition (that we know of) is other great beasts. Conquering the world seems like an unnecessary step, though it could be used to distract some of our more powerful obstacles. Perhaps if we eat the unoccupied parts of the world first, we might grow large enough to ignore whatever armies the tiny civilizations might throw at us.
I think that steampower is still pretty far away from these guys.
I agree, so let's start by talking to our spokesman about how our civilization has advanced over our slumber.
Well, we did promise a new age of prosperity, but perhaps this one is conveniently close enough to our awakening that we can take it as example.
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I think the manatees must industrialize, then we should use them to conquer the humans. After the humans, THE WORLD!
But srsly, no competition on the planet will make the world eating run a little more smoothly.
Our only substantial competition (that we know of) is other great beasts. Conquering the world seems like an unnecessary step, though it could be used to distract some of our more powerful obstacles. Perhaps if we eat the unoccupied parts of the world first, we might grow large enough to ignore whatever armies the tiny civilizations might throw at us.
I think that steampower is still pretty far away from these guys.
I agree, so let's start by talking to our spokesman about how our civilization has advanced over our slumber.
Well, we did promise a new age of prosperity, but perhaps this one is conveniently close enough to our awakening that we can take it as example.
The humans could well become advanced enough to defeat us; especially if they ally with another great beast. Further, humans have ingenuity, so if we industrialize the manateemen, then go to war with the humans, the humans could take the technology and perhaps figure it out, presenting a bigger danger.
Also, do we still grow? I was under the impression that we stopped growing, or is our diet just fixed now?
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You warmly embrace the old manateeman. He is very happy.
"Spokesman, tell me of all the advancements you have made over the past years, since I was gone."
"Oh your highness, many things have changed since you left. I must say life used to be simpler, but we have made such beautiful devices. See we learned how to build canoes and rafts, and are able to move fire through the waves with it. Also we can stay dry too, but a swim is always nice isn't it. We learned how to craft with stone, fairly well, but our problem is obtaining the stuff. Luckily the orangutans have changed. They are our firm brothers now, dwelling on the land, bringing us wood and rock. We can build simple tools now and construct simple buildings. My son has seen gigantic ships on the horizon but we haven't seen any for years. We set up some crab farms, and knit nets. We even trained dolphins to drive fish into them.
We have mapped 9 different tribes, they all heard of you but did not see you. Some believe us, some think we are madmen.
The nine tribes are as follows:
- The Tribe of the Coral Flute led by Aljahna
- The Tribe of the Furious Roar led by Krane
- The Tribe of the Curious Hammerhead led by Daikan
- The Tribe of Careless Whispering led by Ken
- The Tribe of Paradox led by Ummagi
- The Tribe of Waves led by Yak
- The Tribe of Lances led by Dante
- The Tribe of Tridents led by Carmensito
- The Tribe of Serpents led by Sizzlack
The Serpents hate our guts, and cannibalize too. They are a minor threat, but haven't attacked in a while. Supposedly they do evil witchcraft and prey to serpentine gods.
Over the years I observed the striving of the tribe and have come to some conclusions. Having made contact with you, Oh Highness, has changed us. We have become more inventive and less afraid. Also our mating cycles have increased. A similar change has been seen by the orangutans. I think it could be related to the gems you possess, but it is just a guess. I am proud to tell you that I am the most respected man in the village. It is not only due to being your spokesman. You see, I became more intelligent and well spoken, I was able to gain insights from events that unstirred me in the past."
ooc: Oh you grow, you just don't change abilities as massively as before, but you grow
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"doubled in size" in fact. Hmm, those serpentine gods sound tasty...
Let us show ourselves that we might astonish the doubters. Show ourselves first to our main tribe, that they may rejoice.
Hmm, it seems one of my suspicions is confirmed. We should look into acquiring more gems.
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We must accost the Serpent tribe, but before we do so, quick question, are they all manatee men under various names? Or literally serpentmen? In any case we should try to reason with them first, and convert them to our religion (centered around us I think, since the manatees effectively worship us). Failing that, consult the manatees and state that the infidels must be destroyed, but that we would not do so (though we could) without the support of the manatees. Doing so attaches the manatees closer to us and makes them more loyal, in case they disapprove of our actions, which could lead them to become less loyal.
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Well they are all tribes of the manatees.
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If we cannot make that tribe submit to us, we should indeed ask before we destroy them. But we should use alternate wording. "I hear that our people are troubled by a wayward tribe. Would they wish the infidels destroyed?"
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Time for a bit of a miracle.
Find the name of the tribe that thinks were just a ghost the most. We'll go underwater and find an orca.
Kill said orca {anything big really} and fly out with it in your mouth and drop it in said village. We'll use telepethy and ask why they don't beleive in us as we snack on the delicious orca in front of them.
No, better way to quell rumors then too show up in person.
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Time for a bit of a miracle.
Find the name of the tribe that thinks were just a ghost the most. We'll go underwater and find an orca.
Kill said orca {anything big really} and fly out with it in your mouth and drop it in said village. We'll use telepethy and ask why they don't beleive in us as we snack on the delicious orca in front of them.
No, better way to quell rumors then too show up in person.
There is no better way to earn hatred from a group of people than to drop a whale on their village.
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Why not, you know, just show up? That's proof enough, I should think.
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What's this about "asking" and "if they don't submit?"
Time to go Black and White on those folk: start punishing them until they all believe and/or die.
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We want to see if they summon these serpent-gods of theirs, don't we? They'll hardly get a chance if we just eat them. Then we won't get to eat these serprents...
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Eat them slowly and dramatically.
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Ooh, a dragon game!
What's this about "asking" and "if they don't submit?"
Time to go Black and White on those folk: start punishing them until they all believe and/or die.
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Puny mortals.
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Fly to the Serpent tribe, scout around. Maybe do some draconic interrogation. We need more intel.
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Fly to the Serpent tribe, scout around. Maybe do some draconic interrogation. We need more intel.
+1
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Fly to the Serpent tribe, scout around. Maybe do some draconic interrogation. We need more intel.
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And also, let's not try to be exaggeratedly aggressive. Instead let's set a good example for the manatee people, even for the non-believers. As for the serpent men...........
Gather all the able warriors of the surrounding villages and attack the serpents. They could be useful practice testing our new fighting abilities. Consider capturing some as slaves, integrading them in to our society after a consideral amount of years.
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I'm trying to conceive of how slavery is setting a good example.
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Fly to the Serpent tribe, scout around. Maybe do some draconic interrogation. We need more intel.
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And also, let's not try to be exaggeratedly aggressive. Instead let's set a good example for the manatee people, even for the non-believers. As for the serpent men...........
Gather all the able warriors of the surrounding villages and attack the serpents. They could be useful practice testing our new fighting abilities. Consider capturing some as slaves, integrading them in to our society after a consideral amount of years.
The serpent civilization is manateemen
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I'm trying to conceive of how slavery is setting a good example.
They would be indentured, not permanently.
Fly to the Serpent tribe, scout around. Maybe do some draconic interrogation. We need more intel.
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And also, let's not try to be exaggeratedly aggressive. Instead let's set a good example for the manatee people, even for the non-believers. As for the serpent men...........
Gather all the able warriors of the surrounding villages and attack the serpents. They could be useful practice testing our new fighting abilities. Consider capturing some as slaves, integrading them in to our society after a consideral amount of years.
The serpent civilization is manateemen
Well they wouldn't be used to the slight advancement we have in technology and culture. Their cannibals and worship savage serpent gods. Sorry if I thought the serpent tribe was actual serpents.
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Sorry for the delay, I am not sure how to approach this.Do you guys want a god game kinda thing going now, for a while at least?
Nonetheless I'll produce some interesting numbers to inspire some more refined plans than you had posted before.
Village Home
Population
Manateemen 112
Orangutangs 46
Technology: Basic Stoneworking, Basic Masonry, Basic Woodworking, Basic Carpentry, Basic Boatmaking, Crude Domestication,
Inventions: Stone Axe, Stonehead Spear, Stonepickaxe, Nets
Resources: Fish 150, Stone 70, Boards 100, Treetrunks 30,
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I'd rather let the manatees manage their own resources, with advice from us, so we can focus on finding and eating the great monsters of the world.
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I'd rather let the manatees manage their own resources, with advice from us, so we can focus on finding and eating the great monsters of the world.
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I'd rather let the manatees manage their own resources, with advice from us, so we can focus on finding and eating the great monsters of the world.
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+1
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I'd rather let the manatees manage their own resources, with advice from us, so we can focus on finding and eating the great monsters of the world.
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+1, please, no god game. All those numbers really aren't very fun.
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I'd rather let the manatees manage their own resources, with advice from us, so we can focus on finding and eating the great monsters of the world.
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+1, please, no god game. All those numbers really aren't very fun.
If anything i think it's best to eat crystals and other big creatures. The Manatee man will start their small raids with our help and then build a far superior nation to trump their tribesman. Of course though they will know and love our name but let THEM deal with stuff.
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+1, seems like an agreeable plan!
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A part of you ponders if you should follow the destiny of the tribe, but you quickly decide no. You want to get back to your original plan. Eating the world. Also your bones bristle for action, and you want to adventure. After all you haven't seen much of the land world. If youfly a while you're likely to find bigger areas of land.
For now you think it's best to leave the manatees alone, but to give them one last gift. You decide to go for the Serpent tribe, to fight their serpentine gods. This will make the atoll safe to travel and develop, and clearly your tribe will lead the manatees to glory.
You embrace your nameless spokesman for the last time to fly off. He cries, knowing he won't be seeing you in this life. You tell him to embalm his corpse, so you can consume him when you return.
You fly off to the island of the Serpentine Tribe. On your way you ponder about what you will expect so you decide to land in the ocean a short cross away from their island. Luckily a whaleshark is around, so you have delicious snack in between.
You are close to the village and can observe that it is slightly bigger than your tribe's village. Some fires are burning to light the place.
ooc: remember kids, if you want to spit magma instead of steam, you have to eat massive amounts of rock.
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Deploy the whale corpse and demand as to why they commit themselves to such heretic behavior.
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Use a steam attack first to weaken them! After obliterating some with steam, eat some rocks off the shore of their island and FINISH THEM!
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eat lots of rocks, order them to submit, eat serpent gods, if tribe doesn't submit use magma breath to go BOATMURDERED on them
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eat lots of rocks, order them to submit, eat serpent gods, if tribe doesn't submit use magma breath to go BOATMURDERED on them
Use a steam attack first to weaken them! After obliterating some with steam, eat some rocks off the shore of their island and FINISH THEM!
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eat lots of rocks, order them to submit, eat serpent gods, if tribe doesn't submit use magma breath to go BOATMURDERED on them
Use a steam attack first to weaken them! After obliterating some with steam, eat some rocks off the shore of their island and FINISH THEM!
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+1
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You decide to fly over them and deploy lots of steam, and truly in your furious strike, you kill 10 to 15 manateepeople. The rest screams in anger and waves spears at you. Some spears hit you, and stick into your scales, but they are only minor wounds.
You decide to gather rocks, so you go underwater. You feast for the next ten hours on rocks at the bottom of the sea, up to the point where your teeth begin to hurt.
You return to the village and burn down a building with you magma and produce yourself in front of them.
"Submit to me, and bring me your serpent gods, so I can feast on them."
The tribe of manateemen is clearly afraid of your presence. One steps up and says: "I am Sizzlack, I shall bring you to the serpent gods, and we shall see if you are able to withstand them."
You follow the manateeman, who is riding a raftboat, to another island, the one you thought to be uninhabitted.
"Walk this forest and meet your doom. If you return we shall submit to you, if you do not return your name shall be cackled in disapproval"
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Alright there are serpent gods, plural. Gather more rocks and start a forest fire to drive'em out. If so, go in the ocean and wait for ambush. When they emerge from the scourging fire to the ocean, attack with steam and claws! Not a bite attack like what happened with the other dragon. Also we're more better at Under-Water combat, we're not attuned to Over-Growth combat.
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Indeed. Fighting them on their terms is a death sentence. We have to draw them out. How dare they should ask us to pay homage to them by playing on their terms. Let's toast this forest.
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Alright there are serpent gods, plural. Gather more rocks and start a forest fire to drive'em out. If so, go in the ocean and wait for ambush. When they emerge from the scourging fire to the ocean, attack with steam and claws! Not a bite attack like what happened with the other dragon. Also we're more better at Under-Water combat, we're not attuned to Over-Growth combat.
Also tell me why I should follow them? to the manatees tribesmen before doing the above.
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Alright there are serpent gods, plural. Gather more rocks and start a forest fire to drive'em out. If so, go in the ocean and wait for ambush. When they emerge from the scourging fire to the ocean, attack with steam and claws! Not a bite attack like what happened with the other dragon. Also we're more better at Under-Water combat, we're not attuned to Over-Growth combat.
Also tell me why I should follow them? to the manatees tribesmen before doing the above.
+1
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Alright there are serpent gods, plural. Gather more rocks and start a forest fire to drive'em out. If so, go in the ocean and wait for ambush. When they emerge from the scourging fire to the ocean, attack with steam and claws! Not a bite attack like what happened with the other dragon. Also we're more better at Under-Water combat, we're not attuned to Over-Growth combat.
Also tell me why I should follow them? to the manatees tribesmen before doing the above.
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+1
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eat more rocks if needed, make some !!Serpent Gods!! Boatmurdered style
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Smoke them out, fight them in the air and sea.
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Alright there are serpent gods, plural. Gather more rocks and start a forest fire to drive'em out. If so, go in the ocean and wait for ambush. When they emerge from the scourging fire to the ocean, attack with steam and claws! Not a bite attack like what happened with the other dragon. Also we're more better at Under-Water combat, we're not attuned to Over-Growth combat.
Also tell me why I should follow them? to the manatees tribesmen before doing the above.
+1
+1
+1, seems to be the best course of action.
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After you asked the manateeman why they follow the gods, he replies: "Because they feed on us, the only way we could survive as a tribe was to become their cooks. So we started supplying them with the others. If you manage to free us from the oath of binding we shall serve you."
You nod. As if you didn't know that. Of course depening on your stance on the matter, you might as well eat their entire tribe for stupidity. You raise your nostrils, and tell him to leave. You step into the water to meditate on the situation. You come to the senses that there probably is no danger to just walk into the forest. So you step out of the water, without refilling your stomach that is, so you only have one burst left.
As you walk into the forest you DON'T notice the rustling, and you don't notice the slight hissing sounds in the wind. You walk for about half an hour without noticing anything unusual. As you step on a clearing you sit down to contemplate.
SWOOSH! A huge stone spear, probably 12 long scratches the skin of your left shoulder, and leaves a bleeding mark, just to ram into a tree 5 ft behind you. Another similar spear hits you in your left foot, and pierces into the floor. Five 1ft blades fly into your backside, and get stuck there. Another spear flys by your scaly tentacles, to open a bleeding wound on one of them. One spear misses completely and gets stuck next to your right foot.
You roar around to look from where you are attacked. You are surrounded in five different directions, by five 10ft tall snake-humanoids with scaly skin. One of the five is armed with a stone blade, while the rest carry pouches with more of them black spears.
Status:
Health: 74/100
Abilities: Bite, Scratch, Lavabreath x1, Steambreath 1 every three turns, Grapple, Choke (After Grapple was succesful), suggestions of great quality might unlock new combat moves
Serpent God Fighter 1: 17/17
Serpent God Fighter 2: 17/17
Serpent God Fighter 3: 17/17
Serpent God Fighter 4: 17/17
Serpent God Ninja 5: 13/13
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Steam and claw combo!
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Steam and claw combo!
Please a little bit more accurate, like: Attack 1 with ability so and so
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Dammit Detoxicated! Should had went with the plan! Steam attack since we're pinned with spears!
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Actually it was because you rolled a 1. Everything else wouldn't have brought anything close to this.
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Wow, talk about bad luck at the gambling table!
Dammit Detoxicated! Should had went with the plan! Steam attack since we're pinned with spears!
Use an immediate lava breath, as we are fighting multiple assailants. If we roll good, it should burn down the combatants all at once!
Any voters on this plan or does anyone have a better plan?
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First remove spear from foot, that sounds painful.
DO NOT lavabreath the one with the stoneknife. Steam him instead. If I am correct, I assume he is the "ninja", which implies at least decent agility. Steam is harder to avoid (imo). Regardless, immediately pounce on him after firing steam and tear at him with teeth and claws. We don't know how resilient these creatures are. If we are in range, try to smack one of the others with our tail(s).
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First remove spear from foot, that sounds painful.
DO NOT lavabreath the one with the stoneknife. Steam him instead. If I am correct, I assume he is the "ninja", which implies at least decent agility. Steam is harder to avoid (imo). Regardless, immediately pounce on him after firing steam and tear at him with teeth and claws. We don't know how resilient these creatures are. If we are in range, try to smack one of the others with our tail(s).
+1, Hope that works!
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You jump forward, ripping the spear out of the floor. In midair you begin throwing some serious steam at the one you consider their ninja. He manages to jump away in time, only slightl getting burned on his left arm. Your front legs barely miss the fiend, who is smiling maliciously at you. While two of your tentacletails miss two of the fighters, as they manage to jump easily over them, you get to strike one at his chest who is hammered backwards for 6-8ft. The other two tentacles strike the remaining Serpent God. One tail grapples the beast by the waist, while the other strikes him at the head.
The ninja reassures his position by jumping backwards. He now monitors you raising his knife (it is a knife for him, still an 4ft sharpened piece of stone). You get struck by a spear, and it hits you in your left hindleg, getting stuck there. The other spear flies by your head and hits a tree. Another spear is kicked in midair by your hindleg and shatters into undangerous pieces. The brute serpent god in the grasp of your tentacle tries to wrestle himself out, but fails to break the muscle of your powerful tail.
Status:
Health: 70/100
Abilities: Bite, Scratch, Lavabreath x1, Steambreath 1 every three turns, Grapple, Choke (After Grapple was succesful), suggestions of great quality might unlock new combat moves
Serpent God Fighter 1: 17/17
Serpent God Fighter 2: 17/17
Serpent God Fighter 3: 13/17
Serpent God Fighter 4: 9/17 Grappled
Serpent God Ninja 5: 12/13
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What's stopping us from just flying overhead and burning the forest down?
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What's stopping us from just flying overhead and burning the forest down?
nothing...
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GM may have made a mistake but lets see if we can break this grapple and take to the water.
Once in the water we'll eat some rocks {enough to blow some magma} and burn down their shit forest. That'll level the playing field.
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GM may have made a mistake but lets see if we can break this grapple and take to the water.
Once in the water we'll eat some rocks {enough to blow some magma} and burn down their shit forest. That'll level the playing field.
No need. We have one blast.
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Damnit, dyslexia has struck down our element of surprise!
Well, let's see. We were ~40 feet long when we fought the kraken, and since then have doubled in size, making us about ~80 feet long. We are a mighty beast. These chumps may be big for humanoids, and proportionally strong, (and perhaps magical, explaining why stone tools could pierce our stony scales), but our sheer size should make the following very difficult to dodge:
Spin around, swinging our tail(s) in a complete circle. The only way to dodge in time would be to jump over it, which would be hard if we splayed our the tails. Before attempting this maneuver, we should probably bash the one we're already holding against the ground, or perhaps hurl it into the sky.
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You hear a crying voice in your head proclaiming from another dimension:
"Numbers, I forgot to check up on numbers. The smart players have beat me this battle."
You begin jumping in the air, circling around, and if you didn't hit them the first time around, you sure as hell manage the next five time. You turn into a dangerous tornado, of tails claws, and steam. Sickened by the circling, you burst out a flow of lave in a circular way, scorching the land. You hear squeeks, and smell roasted stone-reptile.
You hear a loud roar from deep within the island.
The voice in your head cackles loudly, and you feel that hands are rubbed together.
"HEHEHEEEEH"
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Ah, this must be the god of the serpent gods.
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"Numbers, I forgot to check up on numbers. The smart players have beat me this battle."
what?
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He probably had a lapse in memory that we were an 80 feet monstrosity fighting tiny humanoids; so we got an instant win.
But now we fight the real boss I guess(without any magma to boot either)
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Let's go meet the Boss then.
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Let's go meet the Boss then.
AAAAAHHHH no
Let's go rest in the water for a short time, eat some rocks and recover our magma reserves. Going into this fight with one less ability (especially our magma one) greatly reduces our chances of winning.
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Fly up to get a look at it, at least. This can then lead to either fighting or finding cover.
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Indeed. We should tactically withdraw, if at least for a short time.
Once we go into this fight, I don't think we are getting out of it.
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Let's go meet the Boss then.
AAAAAHHHH no
Let's go rest in the water for a short time, eat some rocks and recover our magma reserves. Going into this fight with one less ability (especially our magma one) greatly reduces our chances of winning.
+2 to icefire plz
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Indeed. We should tactically withdraw, if at least for a short time.
Once we go into this fight, I don't think we are getting out of it.
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Not to mention we are also starting injured. This guy is at full strength and probably very pissed that we just flayed his snake children.
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Indeed. We should tactically withdraw, if at least for a short time.
Once we go into this fight, I don't think we are getting out of it.
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eat stone, go Boatmurdered
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Indeed. We should tactically withdraw, if at least for a short time.
Once we go into this fight, I don't think we are getting out of it.
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Let's go meet the Boss then.
AAAAAHHHH no
Let's go rest in the water for a short time, eat some rocks and recover our magma reserves. Going into this fight with one less ability (especially our magma one) greatly reduces our chances of winning.
+2 to icefire plz
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+1 to above. Dragons rule.
Also, after victory, search for and eat some Pearls. They are technically composed of mineral/s, and the Japanese Dragonic 'Pearl of Wisdom' would make a good symbol of power.
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Bump the magic dragon?