the dragon's fate is now in...!

[groundrules]

DRAGON DERBY

The people have spoken: the dragon lives to traumatise hapless innocents another day. You can make your own logs or network posts, or play this out in the latest event log until 9 October.

CURRENT STATUS
The dragon is running rampant in the river moat surrounding the Bessis tower. The Bessis spire is located beside a twin Attaryl tower in the Artes Mundi, bordered by the necromantic district (north), the healing one (west), residential areas (east) and the banking halls (south) leading to the ports of Taravast’s city-side bay.

Outside: The highly agitated dragon's cold magic is slowly erecting an ice wall around the spire. It breathes cold and ice and can freeze characters. The creature sometimes bodily slams the tower. It is susceptible to fire.

Within the tower: the undead, panicked crowds, Bessis witches spewing fire indiscriminately, you.

✘ VOTED OBJECTIVE: furtively smuggle and release the dragon.

INSTRUCTIONS GUIDE

Below are the conditions that have to be met to get this show on the road. You can pitch your own ideas HERE, volunteer your character to an existing plan, or split into groups.

■ Tranquilize & Resize | Soothe, sedate or distract the dragon. Probably best to hash this out over the network. Scale the dragon down to a portable size. Options: personal magic, coaxing or forcing cooperation from the Bessis or Attaryl witches on premise, investigating the Bessis halls for helpful artifacts, etc.

■ Deliveroo | Get the dragon to the ports. The fire-wielding witches of Bessis and Macaluso Spina’s sentries will give chase. Stay masked and choose your itinerary wisely. Diverting through the adjacent districts rather than heading straight to the ports could help lose them.

■ Ollie the dragon out | Steal a raft, boat or ambitious dingy and get the dragon very far out into the bay. Release and resize it, then run.

OTHER BITS AND BOBS

✘ Drop a link here if you want the dragon concisely NPCed for your threads. You can NPC the dragon yourselves otherwise.

✘ Sign up your character HERE for a RNG draw to have captured one of up to six undead who remain alive after the tower event.

✘ Questions.

Comments

[downswing]

I'm just here with this betrayed face.

[paperbutterflies]

Extra bonus, he is fully aware that if things go south, he gets to kill his charge. Because unless they wake up like uncle Ning, that's what you do...

[downswing]

Why are you humouring your mother.

[paperbutterflies]

Because the undead a clearly a situation in this realm and senior Wei is good at researching and finding answers about things that most people just categorize and discard?

[downswing]

You are the worst son.

[paperbutterflies]

Oh ouch. Sorry, Hanguang-jun.

[downswing]

In better news, being the only son, you are also the best son.

[paperbutterflies]

... until more adoptions, but he'll take it.