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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.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Here for one, here for all.

Pitch an idea for your character's contribution to one or more of the relevant duties, or toss around plans in your own entry comment!

Make this dragon happy, distracted and smol.

Take the dragon to the ports.

Incidentally — not east!

Steal a boat and make the dragon walk its plank.

List your character here (one character per comment, if you have multiples) for a RNG draw to 'win' ~~ownership~~ captivity if one of six undead in the wake of the tower event.

This dubious 'perk' will make your character responsible for securing, guarding and 'storing' your undead, but also give you a substantial say in the next plot step.

Careful what you wish for!

Link your thread here, if you want the dragon to make a mod-NPCed appearance. NPC it yourselves otherwise.

So, Xie Lian cannot resize a dragon himself (normally, things resize themselves when low on power where he's from, but he does have experience carrying his diminished ghost daughter in a pickle jar and protecting that, if someone needs a delivery person.

Dunno about happy while it's stuck, but sedate is what El will be going for. It's not a complicated plan: essentially, spamming Snooze spells at the dragon in hopes of helping to slowly calm it if not actually put it to sleep. His Luminary power hasn't fully recovered yet, but he could also try his hand at turning small parts of the dragon (quite!) temporarily to metal in an effort to help immobilize it for resizing/transfiguring if needed.

~~as your questionable resident dragon expert~~ El will basically be making assumptions based on his working knowledge of Boreal Serpents from his world so. Effectiveness with things may or may not add up. ~~they only have a 25% resistance to sleep so~~ Ahem.

Given this is a prolonged tactic though, gonna need some distractions and protections while the Attempt Is Made if characters are on board with the idea. I expect after expending his mana pool, successful or not, Eleven won't remain conscious to see much of the results /popcorns

Edited (IM DONE EDITING I SWEAR.........) 2021-09-26 21:09 (UTC)

Lily and Hermione can double-team the resizing effort after it's happy and/or distracted!

Since he's gonna be a nervous horse girl about the dragon's well-being throughout Zuko is down to lend a hand with stealing a boat and setting this sweet angel free.

Who takes the front and who takes the back?

Xunxian is on distract-the-dragon-while-tranquil-comes-in duty? He might not be able to actually soothe it while on rampage but he can definitely catch its attention and not as a running target.