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Abandon Ship - all hope is lost...

Our Necromagicks have failed us!

Next year...

Next quarter...

This quarter?!

Never - The GM is just playing with you!

[GreatWyrmGold]

Ah. Skip to the sob story, then.

Good. Less obvious deception.

[escaped lurker]

Uh.. yeah. This moves a bit fast, so I'll just post what i have for now - It would be great to get somewhat of a consens on what to actually do, but as we you seem to go only deeper into the circle of that discussion, I think that we go the middle-way and at least try to reason with them. With a sure-fire-way of making an exit. 

@GrizzlyAdams - About wind and whatnot - I have no desire to make this more complicated than absolutely needed. If you guys say to prepare for something, you will get a bonus, but else such things are best left to the dice. If there is no ample chance, you can always wait it out, instead of taking the risk of it.

@Scionix -  We will still lack maturity, even if we do get the muscles needed - and since we were pretty much a shut-in before, we need a fair bit of them. True flight will be quite tricky, especially because it is so extremely usefull.

We can very safely presume that the plundering scoundrels heroes know of us, and it is also reasonable that they know of our demonic side.

Also boys and girls, please watch the tone please.

Spoiler: Indezi (click to show/hide)

Stats
8/8 Health Points
15/16 Mana Points
10/10 Stamina
0/8 Encumbrance
Inventory System: Maw, Front Claw x2
Sustenance 22/30

Skills
Magical
Illusionist - 10

Martial
Sneaking - 2

Racial
Draconic - 4
Demonic - 2

Attributes
Strength:     2
Agility:         2
Endurance:   3
Willpower:     5
Magic:         7

Spoiler: Abilities (click to show/hide)

Active Skills:

Sneeze of Flame - Draconic - 5 MP - Unskilled

You spew a little flame of Dragon-Fire, up to a few breaths away.

Small Illusions - Illusionist - 3 MP - Moderate

Allows you to decieve either the eyes of a single person with an object, or create sounds in the target area as you please.


Passive:

Gliding - Draconic

Your wings enable you to glide down safely from elevation - if the later is at least 3 meters high.

Emotional Charging - Demonic

The Emotions of intelligent beings recharge your mana. The higher the emotion and the more you are involved in it, the better.

Extraplanar Soul - Demonic

Without your trusty pendant, you are just not truly complete. Your flow of mana is messed up, resulting in possible miss-casts or out-of control spells.

High Profile

Your race and history makes you quite known in the upper magical circles. Dragons are also quite rare, so your sight is bound to be remembered even by common folk.

When you wake up this morning, you are truly undecided on what to do. All things considered, you decide to scout along the moat first, seeing as it really is difficult to go wrong there. As luck would have it, there is a part of the wall that was built on an incline - while it would still be impossible for you to fly over it, you just might scale the wall there if you are able to latch onto it out of flight. Quite a stretch, but a possibility.

You also keep on the lookout for just smoking those mortals out of the keep, and with the sprawled building of the wooden peasantry houses, it just might be possible to do so - provided that you get a couple of real fires going.

While scouting a new area, a couple of guards suddenly show up behind you. They seem startled by your draconic muddy appearance, and you just make a run for it. Momentarily confused, the guardsmen do give chase, but you are somehow able to shake them off, by using your size to your advantage. A while later you see the same team strolling around leasurely, so it seems they did not take your encounter too serious.

Being near the keep, you feel the sorceress moving and soon enough follow her to the market. You know the area well and have little problems of getting around there by now. You do get a good look on her at some point, and it seems that the whole party is present - wirth the extra of a guard officer as a guide of some sorts. They seem to sell all the bulky stuff from masters tower, minor trinkets included. You are quite sure that your amulet is not amongst them - selling something with unaware properties appearrently not their thing. Too bad, as getting it from a trader ought to be much less of a hassle. After their short trip - wich included a visit to the local enchanter - they go back into the keep.

You are sure that some shinies should come in handy in your further plans, and lie in wait near the market. After waiting for quite some time, you see a man haggling for some kind of sword, and since wildly illustrating with his arms would be hindered by his already drawn pouch, he rests it at the corner of the stand. Seeing that noone is really paying attention, you grab it with your fangs and just run off. Noone seems the wiser, thou you do hear some screaming and cursing a few moments later, you already in the safety of an alley. Checking your new possession, you have just earned yourself 40 silvers - quite the serviceable sum, as meal and lodging in a good inn would be around 50 coppers. The man sure was angry thou. +1 MP +2 Encumbrance

You ponder the whole matter of the heroes - maybe all this secrecy is not even needed? Normaly the mortals shy away from the dragon race, and for good reasons. Even whelps have to fear their natural surroundings far more than humans, but with most lairs being quite a way from civilization, that may be a moot point. With the right presentation, it just might be possible to get the pendant via a diplomatic approach. Making sure that you can escape should anything go awry would be prudent thou. Anyways, you recall what little you know of your kin - all those experiments on your juvenile mind did quite a number on your pre-master memory, leaving you with pretty much the knowledge mortals have.

Spoiler: About Dragons (click to show/hide)

Since they distance themselves from the affairs of the mortal races in general, not much is known about dragons. They are feared for their magical abilities, with a full grown dragon more than able to wipe one a two kingdoms from the map by himself. Luckily for the mortal races, the dragon race sports some sense of honour, thou it seems to vary by the specific individual or is simply too hard to grasp for non-dragons. If insulted or attacked, they seem to be on the vengeful side, but since not many dare to do so the cases are very rare. While in history there is no record of them saying so, they are thought to be immortal - in the sense that they won't die of old age. The truth of the matter just might be that their lives are so extremely long, that none of them has died yet. A very popular theory in the higher magic circles believes the dragons to be too unfit for this world, seeing as they have no peers and are the most outstandingly different race from all. Thus some believe them to be exiles from another plane, or maybe even survivors from the previous cycle.

Supporting this is one rare insightful remark of Zh'vhkur, "No Gods hold sway over us". In its several millennia of lordship over the beastmen of the far north, this and another dozen sentences are the only records of its teachings in history. The first sentence - "Bring me food or burn" bound the beastmen to its rule - wich enjoy almost five-thousand years of peace by now, after the first war under the rule of their guardian was settled in half a day by it truly. It does wake up from its slumber from time to time, but rarely more than a full year, with the slumber ranging from an aftermeal-nap to dozens of decades.

Nebst to nothing is known of their culture, and while a legend from the The Age of the Gods speaks of infighting between them, the individuals in question still seem to be alive and well. No reports of "Draconic Brawls" have reached the mortal realm, but with their longlivety it just might be a momentary truce. Neither the way their offspring is recieved, nor the amount of care they give towards it is known - but in old legends the notion of adolescent dragons is far more common than in these times, with some reasoning that they loose interest in mortals after what very well might be their puberty. Some even go as far as to prophecy their second coming, seeing as these young dragons of legends ought to have hit maturity by now.

It is also of note that - while surely not the talkactive sort - the draconic language is actually quite easily attainable, having not changed since it was first deciphered and written down in The Age of the Gods. While the Beastman of the far north take pride in speaking it, there is not much practical use for it outside of their lands, except the odd crazy that believes to have dragon blood in his veins. There are also quite a lot of magical books written in this language, but as most rather read it in common than "the elite way" there are generally more translated than draconic versions available.

You have lost 5 Sustenance
You have gained; Pouch with 40 coins of silver
You have reached Level 3 in Sneaking

So, you know how some birds like to glide on thermals?

Sure do - but while it may be attributed to artistic freedom, our body to wing ratio is already a big stretch for gliding. If you really want to go physics, look at the picture and you will have to agree - With our current wing-span it is impossible to do much better than gliding downwards. Sure, if we find the highest place in the city, it is the hotest day in summer and we roll somewhere near the max, we can use thermals for a bit. But else just think of us more in terms of a flying squirrel, than a bird.

[Harbingerjm]

@GrizzlyAdams - About wind and whatnot - I have no desire to make this more complicated than absolutely needed. If you guys say to prepare for something, you will get a bonus, but else such things are best left to the dice. If there is no ample chance, you can always wait it out, instead of taking the risk of it.

@Scionix -  We will still lack maturity, even if we do get the muscles needed - and since we were pretty much a shut-in before, we need a fair bit of them. True flight will be quite tricky, especially because it is so extremely usefull.

When you wake up this morning, you are truly undecided on what to do. All things considered, you decide to scout along the moat first, seeing as it really is difficult to go wrong there. As luck would have it, there is a part of the wall that was built on an incline - while it would still be impossible for you to fly over it, you just might scale the wall there if you are able to latch onto it out of flight. Quite a stretch, but a possibility.[/i]

You also keep on the lookout for just smoking those mortals out of the keep, and with the sprawled building of the wooden peasantry houses, it just might be possible to do so - provided that you get a couple of real fires going.

So, you know how some birds like to glide on thermals?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Indeed. Do we really want to try that right now, though?

Anyways, I suggest we get a decent long-term plan hammered out. Dilly-dallying about with a foot in each yard won't get us anywhere. I vote we do the following:

1. Introduce ourselves to the adventurers, explaining the whole experimented-on-hatchling story.
2. Say that we'll die if we are separated from the amulet for too long.
3. Improvise from there, as we've reached the point in any plan where enemy action makes circumstances past this point entirely impossible to guess.

[10ebbor10]

I'd rather not do that.

1. We're valuable
2. We were supposed to be loyal to our master, but somehow we weren't.
    2a) He did order us to take revenge
3. Semi demonic signs.

I propose we go look to the towns enchanters. Maybe he got some interesting stuff lying around.

[GreatWyrmGold]

To counter your points:

1. We're more valuable alive than dead.
2. He's dead. Lots of magic ends at death.
2a. Why would we listen? Why are we listening?
3. Fits in with "Demonic Experiments", no?

[GrizzlyAdamz]

1. Depends on who you ask. A researcher might put more stock on what our viscera looks like, or how we react to certain magical (painful) stimuli, than our potential combat abilities/companionship (enslavement).
2. We're implying that they'd know this, and so wouldn't trust us. (even in spite of our sob story, which isn't helped by our demonic properties- we shouldn't have even had the choice to disobey after all)
  2a. Shits and giggles. I suspect it was a half-serious note.
   2a-i. They are dirty humans after all, and they are giving us a hassle by keeping our amulet. Damnable thieves.
3. And also fits with 'demons can't be trusted and/or should be purged'

[RAM]

Do we actually know anything about demons? Presumably they endorse freedom, on account of their essence imparting some measure of independence from our master, but beyond that, is there any reason to think of them as Evil?

Lets combine all the plans!
 We send a note to the party to meet us, next to a cliff...
 Dig a pit and fill it with something dangerous.
 Make an illusion of ourselves in front of the pit, and hide behind it.
 With our most humble and gracious fawning, we beg for the amulet that holds our stolen life-energy.
 When they attack we jump off the cliff.
 Then we send a note to the lord stating that we are very sad for the consequences of them betraying us, and burn down the village...
 
 

[Harbingerjm]

  2a. Shits and giggles. I suspect it was a half-serious note.
   2a-i. They are dirty humans after all, and they are giving us a hassle by keeping our amulet. Damnable thieves.

I don't think he was implying that we should hurt them because he said so so much as that they may expect us to hurt them because he said so.

[killerhellhound]

Do we actually know anything about demons? Presumably they endorse freedom, on account of their essence imparting some measure of independence from our master, but beyond that, is there any reason to think of them as Evil?

Lets combine all the plans!
 We send a note to the party to meet us, next to a cliff...
 Dig a pit and fill it with something dangerous.
 Make an illusion of ourselves in front of the pit, and hide behind it.
 With our most humble and gracious fawning, we beg for the amulet that holds our stolen life-energy.
 When they attack we jump off the cliff.
 Then we send a note to the lord stating that we are very sad for the consequences of them betraying us, and burn down the village...

dig the pit before sending a note and you have my vote

[10ebbor10]

  2a. Shits and giggles. I suspect it was a half-serious note.
   2a-i. They are dirty humans after all, and they are giving us a hassle by keeping our amulet. Damnable thieves.

I don't think he was implying that we should hurt them because he said so so much as that they may expect us to hurt them because he said so.

After all, what would you think if the demon dragon pet of the mage you murdered suddenly turned up and asked you for a precious artifact. Highly doubt they would give it to us.

[Harbingerjm]

  2a. Shits and giggles. I suspect it was a half-serious note.
   2a-i. They are dirty humans after all, and they are giving us a hassle by keeping our amulet. Damnable thieves.

I don't think he was implying that we should hurt them because he said so so much as that they may expect us to hurt them because he said so.

After all, what would you think if the demon dragon pet of the mage you murdered suddenly turned up and asked you for a precious artifact. Highly doubt they would give it to us.

Worse, a precious artifact that you took from the guy you murdered and that is demonic itself.

[RAM]

If they're like book adventurers, there's always the heart.

Unless the book is darker and edgier.

If they're like RPG adventurers, there's always the roleplayer/female player's adventurer.

Unless they are a Monty Hauling party of Power-Gaming Munchkins...

If they're like VRPG adventurers, it's good to find that out now.

We could be tricked by a Roleplayer, or executed without warning by a Griefer...

[Bronimin]

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[10ebbor10]

I'm afraid we might be worth more than those 40 silvers.

Illusions might work though.