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Mayland Long ([personal profile] imperial_long) wrote in [community profile] taxonomites2013-02-15 07:31 pm

[Location: Adventure Zone] [open to any!]

Good afternoon, Taxon: there is an enormous black dragon flying in lazy circles above the city.

Specifically, above the Northern District, that nebulous area currently masquerading as Fantasyland. After all, what's a good castle adventure without a dragon? Even if the dragon is distinctly Eastern in flavor rather than Western.

On the map, the dragon displays as Oolong. In the air, Oolong loops like a black ribbon, drifting down from the sky in long, rippling undulations as he scans the woods below for interesting things.

'Interesting things' qualify as sheep. Or deer. Or, perhaps, even a goblin here or there.

Either way, he's visible from anywhere in Adventure Zone... and for that matter, probably visible from parts of the regular city too.



[OOC: Oolong in da house! Long is currently a 90-foot-long Chinese imperial dragon. He still has his tablet on him. Feel free to approach him in any way from terror to glee.]
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[personal profile] skinandbone 2013-02-18 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
He flinches at the laugh - so loud! And then he creeps forward a bit, until he is even with the last tree of the forested patch.

"Is - does this happen a lot to you? There's - there's an awful lot of you now. Sir."
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[personal profile] skinandbone 2013-02-18 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh." He pauses, looking a little worried.

"...does this happen to everyone?"

Because if it does, and the size increase is proportional, then there's no way Metody is going to be able to stay in the sewers. There just isn't enough room down there.
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[personal profile] skinandbone 2013-02-18 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, good!"

" - I mean - I'm sorry. It's just - the size increase is - is startling."

Metody has wandered out into the clearing now. He sits down on a stump, trying to get at roughly eye level with Long.

"Do you always turn into a dragon? You're beautiful!"

All the uncomfortable aspects are gone. Now, it's just open, honest joy. What a wonderful place, where the people turn into such incredible creatures!
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[personal profile] skinandbone 2013-02-19 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
The volume has become painful, so he deals with it in the most direct way he can: he fuses the delicate bones in his ears, and juat listens withthe rest of his bones.

"'Long' means 'dragon?' That seems...fitting." Eastern dragons, after all, are much snakier than their Western cousins. He glances over Long's length, then down to the nearest set of claws; he has heard that the more there are, the more noble a dragon is.

"Is it difficult to be so big? You don't seem clumsy at all."
Edited 2013-02-19 05:23 (UTC)
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[personal profile] skinandbone 2013-02-19 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly, Metody's baseline is five fingers, and so Long's imperial nature goes unrealized.

"No, it's fairly easy - a rabbit is enough food for a day, and an apple is half a meal. A deer would feed me for weeks, maybe even longer, if I was careful. And all the buildings here are built to my scale. But you...are you going to get enough to eat?"