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I believe at some point FFS posted a map. It would be a simple matter of finding that and using it to guide our feet.Thing is, we haven't found the boss room. So it's not on the map. And everywhere we haven't explored, there's a bottomless chasm, deadly stonedragon, or solid wall in the way.
Meme tries to get the grey dragon's attention so she can talk to it.Without a description of something good and attention-getting, this isn't gonna work.
But... We do know where he is. He's inside of his boss room, as he had already stated. We have a key to the door that leads to him available. All we have to do is convert the floor key into a door key and open the door to his chambers.And find all those rooms...
"I can't tell you what to do Kyle. However unless Stella actually objects to being put in front of the council and tried to treason against her own kind, it would be a bit pointless, wouldn't it? Also I promised that silver bitch that she'd be the first one to be killed by me once shit goes down, so it'd be annoying if I have to kill this one now.""Truly, you are a master diplomat. Threatening to kill me and others of my kind. I suspect I would be doing a favor for your creator if I severed your animating force and sent you back to whatever artificer made such a failure."
"I have lasers. They'll go straight through his hide."((Genius. "I have a weapon that can go through his scales. I'll draw a weapon that won't!"))
Kyle says pulling out his broadsword.
Passive party, nimrods. >.<Worth a shot.
Go find Cain already, dammit! Nothing left to do here except die horribly!Or leave. We have a way down, and a temporary way up.
Tell him that we are too afraid to go on, and that he, our mighty leader, must push on and clear the way.This, but phrase it so that we're saying we're too pathetically unable to get across.
"Humans can get past your hide now. Just an fyi.""A dragon's hide was never its greatest protection."
Kyle says as he continues playing.
"I hate technology...""...And?"
Meme slowly walks over to the silver dragon, looking to be in awe.Gray. Also, it's flying.
"And this dragon has lived among humans longer than she has lived among dragons. In fact she spends more time in a human body, together with her human boyfriend than she spends as a dragon. The council has no more authority over her than the chinese government has over you. She has the right of choice. So you should explain what the council wants or step aside.""And the moon is made of blood."
Jim, Team GOr you both overshoot.
"...Leave the battlesuit to me. Wait until I've made my move before you make yours."
Jim focuses on the enemy battlesuit and attempts to heat the inside of it to about 3000 degrees Fahrenheit.
(Apparently that's how hot crematoriums are, so... screw that sod.)
And thus the stuff of stories is created.
Oooh... That's not good. I hope one of us fails our Exotic roll. I'm already targeting that battlesuit, and I'm trying to freeze it. :/
Kayla looks at Kyle distrustfully."Huh?"
"Lily, you know how I feel about..."
She motions to Kyle and Icarus.
-snip-"And the men of the last cycle were as certain that their steel would let their civilization escape the fate that the Romans had followed. The world is still the same. All constructions will one day fall. All creatures will die. All races will go extinct. Dragons saw many rulers of the world pass from it. Why will this be different?"
"I got carried away, I am not here to discuss the ups and downs of biological and mechanical life. My point is, it's not our bodies who make us what we are, it's our memories. That makes Stella closer to us than to your kind. The council holds no authority over her, so you should describe what the council wants, rather than demand that she is to come with you.""Dragons are dragons. Humans are humans."
The term junk DNA isn't actually used anymore. In the past decade its been found that about half of the non coding dna actually has a use for creating special types of rna and as docking sites for proteins to attach in order to start processes or to control what other genes are to be activated or not. I saw a presentation on it by a professor from Indiana just last week.And how much do differences in the specific nucleotides of this DNA matter? I highly doubt that any protein would bind with those. RNA, obviously, but protein?
