the present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell

[pirate_mod]

27; Egg Hunt
Mysterious eggs have appeared all around the City and they're waiting to be collected.

29; How To Train Your...
This one shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

As promised, here's a post on the end of March's event!


March 27, citizens will find eggs hiding in various places in the City. Some are plain, some are speckled, some are a little oblong shaped, some are gold, some are bejeweled, and some come in neon colors. Your characters can crack the eggs and cook what comes out (sorry it's just strange yolk reflecting the colorway of the shell, nothing gross to see here) and the result of their meal will be an upset stomach lasting at least three days. Too bad so sad. But if your character decides to keep the egg intact they'll be getting a surprise in a few days.

March 29, citizens with an egg in their possession will find it has cracked itself open. And what's that coming out? It's a dragon is what it is. Little dragons. Dragons the size of your forearm. It may as well be an iguana with wings. Isn't it cute? The kawaii doesn't last for long though because as the dragons breathe in the City air they get bigger bigger and bigger. From iguana size to bus size in a matter of 24 to 48 hours. This is a problem for the City, as the dragons grow so do their powers; moderately threatening fire, fairly eardrum shattering soundwaves, formidable lightning strikes you name it. Oh and they have appetites. For what is up to you, just know it's going to be voracious. Also they don't talk and they do not come with any training!

Round Up; the dragon "infestation" as the Deities call it will last a few days, up until 11:59pm April 3. They have a plan to get rid of the reptile vermin and the Deities will be giving the City a heads up on when and how.

How To Keep Your Dragon; we the mods are giving you the players a heads up that you can keep the dragons your characters get...providing that your character finds another character who can shrink the dragon back to its big old house cat, basset hound, basking iguana size. It can be through magic, through science, or through a Deity trade. For the purpose of this event the magic or science routes should be considered difficult but doable and unlikely to be frequent for the duration of the event. That means a spell might work only twice before the magician has to rewrite the incantation or the mad scientist's shrinking ray broke after two shrinks and needs a day of repairs before it can shrink again. We're leaving the hows and how manys to you guys and trust you won't go overboard with it!

With regards to dragon powers, shrinking their size shrinks their powers down as well so firebreathing turns into occasional firecoughing and lightning bolts turn into static shocks and maybe that soundwave is now a dog whistle. We'd like to stress the powers as very low level yet in the right circumstances their powers can be useful. In the future their powers and size might change for certain events or curses but their default after this event will be on the small low level side.

Additional Info! A Deity post has been made here concerning the removal of dragons. The portal will be open throughout April 1 to April 3 but the dragons wouldn't have to fly off immediately. In fact the more they resist the more unruly they become 8)

So there you have it, the opportunity to have a pet dragon of your own! Of course you're more than welcome to have your character leave their dragon at the mercy of the Deities too 8) One dragon per character please!

Ask questions if you have any and feel free to use this post as a way of offering your character's shrinking/dragon taming/who knows whats it prowess!

Comments

[defies_reason]

AAAAAH SO EXCITING /rubs face all over this event

Are any magical/mystical/mad scientists about who'd be willing to help any of my distinctly boring and normal guys wrangle large lizards back to fun-size? I wanna consider all my options 8)

EDIT: oops watch me forget to think things through. IF ANYONE NEEDS, Aziraphale is available to miracle dragons down to size. Wooooo angel.

[primrosella]

...ahahahahaha oh my GOD there is no way this can possibly end well for Rosella. Her dragon will probably try to eat her. Om nom delicious princess and so on and so forth.

WHICH MEANS OBVIOUSLY I SHOULD FIND A WAY FOR HER TO KEEP IT POST-CURSE, Y/Y/MFY.


Anyway, the point is, given her natural...uh, disinclination toward dragons, I could conceivably see her holing up in the Library and going on a marathon research binge looking for spellbooks and/or other magical methods that might help to combat the things, which presumably could yield some shrinking spells? So she might be able to help facilitate that for people looking to keep their dragon, assuming they could find a magic type to cast it. She could probably do it on her own, too (she's got a magic wand), but generally Rosella has to work pretty hard before she can get a spell off, so I don't know that she'd be much help for other people, outside of being a Kickass Librarian™ to help track workable spells down.

...She might end up managing to shrink her own dragon herself, though, if only because that'd be nice and poetic--she finally lives up to Alexander using magic to save her from a dragon by vanquishing one herself with magical aptitude of her own.

(and then of course she doesn't really slay it because nothing is ever traditional in Rosella's life.)

[unflagging]

Yes. Get yourself a mini-dragon, Rosella. Name it "Thelonius" or something. Then you can have Ellington the baby Cthulhu and Thelonius the mini-dragon and Blue would be so proud ;3;

/replies with the creepy account and does not care

[primrosella]

I LOVE HER WEIRD MENAGERIE OF VERY UN-PRINCESSY ASSOCIATES SO MUCH.

I also picture her being really hateful and nasty toward the thing up until it ends up tiny and then suddenly she starts to feel bad about being a hypocrite and a bully. Maybe that could be why she ends up shrinking it in the first place, is she chickens out on slaying it at the last minute because four years in the City = character development...

...brb searching for thematically appropriate names

[mumbled_truth]

SO UH

Rosella

If a couple of your friends were to wind up with a dragon...

...any chance you'd help them shrink it with those spells??

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[primrosella]

And to think, they were just talking about holing up in the Library and having a marathon research session, too.

--you know there's actually a Sesame Street nursery rhyme called "Silly Annabelle" about a girl who shrinks a dragon that's been wrecking their village. Literally, there's a "magic powder for turning big dragons into little dragons" made of, apparently, mushrooms and turnip seeds and a feather from a swan and dust from the northwest corner of the tallest house in the village. Maybe I can fake a spell based on that and the Terrible Trio can have ridiculous adventures trying to get all the supplies for it...

Hey, that'd surely constitute "difficult but doable", right?

[primrosella]

...also because I imagine them unearthing this spell somehow in the Library and having that moment of WELL, THAT SURE IS A WILDLY AND COINCIDENTALLY SPECIFIC SPELL, THEN, ISN'T IT.

[mumbled_truth]

OH MY GOD YES PLEASE LET'S DO THIS

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Time for adventures \o/

[primrosella]

WHO WILL BE ON DUST DUTY

QUICK SOMEONE FIGURE OUT WHAT THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE CITY IS

[had_not_lived]

ALL OF THIS IS YES PLEASE

[primrosella]

You know in order to make the spell work you have to put the powder on the tip of the dragon's nose.

And all I can see now is some kind of really obvious Dragon Trap with Rosella Bait and she's just like GUYS I AM NOT FOND OF THIS IDEA but it doesn't matter because she got outvoted two to one, thereby giving her yet another reason to think democracy is incredibly stupid.

"Are you guys sprinkling salt on me?"
"NO IT'S UH. Fairy dust. To protect you. Yup."
"...okay guys I'm allergic to fairy dust I am pretty sure this is salt you are sprinkling on me actually what the hell."
"WHOOPS NO TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT HERE COMES THE DRAGONS have fun bye."

[blizzardseason]

SO here's a query. Do they cause the same nausea if eaten after they've hatched?

[indecent_butterfly]

I love you Vee.

[dignity_misery]

...Carla eats everything. It's a fact.

[pirate_mod]

8(((((

Yes they do but in a different way...the wave of nausea may be shorter and soon replaced by issues related to what powers the dragon might have had. So if the dragon was a fire type the person who ate it might get heart burn, acid reflux for an acid spitter, random static shock for a lightning chaser, etc.!

This would apply to hatchling and small types. Eating pieces or even the entirety of a full grown City-oxygenated dragon won't cause these problems.

[deadmanbusiness]

Are the dragons killable? Especially at small sizes?

[pirate_mod]

Yes they are! They can be slayed at the small or large size and we're leaving the hows up to you guys. Obviously there should be some difficulty with the larger ones although you're free to make it difficult for the smaller sizes too 8)

[deadmanbusiness]

And I can raise it up as a wraith?

[pirate_mod]

Since Theo's an OC we're not too sure how this would work out in his world or how it would translate to poly! How would you NPC the dragon as a wraith, like would it have the same small size limitations but it's undead so killing it a second time is difficult? And do you want it to be a temporary or permanent thing?

[wouldnotkindly]

jack is going to get a baby dragon friend baby dragon friend aaaahhhhhh

uh ANYWAY. None of his plasmid powers include anything useful for shrinking dragons, unfortunately, and while he may be willing to combat (or even kill, if it comes to it) any other dragons that are causing harm, he is going to be a bit -- okay, very protective of the one that hatches from the egg he's going to find. Unless something else comes up, he will hopefully be having it shrunk down by Aziraphale, and if anyone else needs a guy who can sling around fire and lightning....... well, he will probably be available!

[charring]

Charlie's dragon. I googled baby dragon. this came up. She will grow to the size of a dalmation and make all the 'bitch please' faces that Toothless does.

QUESTIONS for the modly types, s'il vous plait!

[had_not_lived]

OKAY so a-ways upthread we were talking about dragon shrinking spells which has led to a couple of weird questions for which there may or may not be answers but I'd appreciate any guidance you might be able to offer:

-- is there any height difference between the main 12 buildings? If so, is it perceptible, and which is tallest?
-- to your knowledge are there any residential buildings taller than the 12
-- If Neil asked for dust from the top floor of the Deities' office (since it's unquestionably the tallest building, though it's not (?) residential), would they be willing to let him in? (Or, as a trade, could he offer to clean the top floor thoroughly?)

Thank you much! <3

ANSWERS pour vous

[robot_mod]

We shall do our best to provide you with suitable and/or useful answers:

--The 12 main apartment buildings are identical externally in terms of height and so on (the insides are more complicated, but we're not getting into that). They're equal in height, though.
--To our knowledge, there are no residential buildings taller than the main 12 apartment buildings. They're like skyscraper, high-rise, big-city apartment buildings, you know?
--(The Deities might live in their office building--one never knows!) If it were in the context of a trade, they would consider letting him in--but under close supervision, please do understand. He wouldn't see anything besides the dust he was cleaning and maybe some generic office items (a conference table, for example, that looks like...every conference table ever). But if it were as part of a trade, to clean that floor in exchange for the dust collected there, that might be possible.

How's all that sound? Hope that helps!

[had_not_lived]

That all is fabulous!

Iiiin that case... probably tomorrow or maybe later (depending how other threads go) one of our raggedy lot will probably post about wanting to get some dust from their top floor, and will offer to clean it up? <3 They have no interest in seeing anything so even bare rooms are fine, they just need that dussst.

(Neil suspects they do live in there which will probably be part of his rationale for suggesting they go for it. \o/)

Thanks kindly for your speedy assistance, modbot!

[robot_mod]

Okey-dokey! We'll be on the lookout for aforementioned Deity call. As long as he cleans it well, he can keep whatever dust he sweeps up (although there may be a Deity or two who drop some little scraps of paper now and then or track in some dirt, just to make his life a little harder).

Beep beep, you are welcome, beep.