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Dragon Harem Quest - Or: Saying You Were Gay Wasn't The Conversation-Ender You Hoped For

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ZerbanDaGreat said:
"Of course!" You tap your temple knowingly with one massive talon. "Natural compass. Never lost my bearings in my life."

"Mhm! Just like a pigeon!" Jun-ho agrees enthusiastically.

"... n-no not- not like a pigeon!" you splutter. "I have not and will never again be compared to a mere pigeon! We are dragons!"

"So how's it different?" he asks.

The wind whistles across the great leathery sails of your outstretched wings as you furiously ponder the question.

"I-it's magic!" you say at last. "That's it. Magic. Dragons are magic so the head compass is magic too!"

"Oooooooh." Jun-ho's gaze drifts forward, peering through the low-hanging cloud cover and towards your quarry. "So pigeons are magic too."

"NO-"
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I'm coming to the conclusion that Jun-ho is not nearly as innocent as he seems, and that he enjoys gently winding us up.

[X] Go to the shrine and inspect what it has to offer. You're not afraid of some old ruin just because it's dark. [x2]

OBVIOUSLY we are snared in some kind of curse! Those guild warning signs should just say "don't listen to the voice in your head calling you deeper into the island, that's a curse talking"
 
[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]
 
[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

hahahahaha NOPE!
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Deathbybunnies on Jun 11, 2018 at 7:13 PM, finished with 2480 posts and 11 votes.
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After the weighting, it's 6:4 in favour of doing what we want...

I'm gonna switch my vote. It was intended as a joke, not something with a serious shot at winning, and I hate it when people win with those kinds of votes in quests I care a lot about.

[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]
 
[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

I see MJ12 has finally gotten to Zerban.
 
[X] Go to the shrine and inspect what it has to offer. You're not afraid of some old ruin just because it's dark. [x2]

DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
 
The vote weighting and narrative implies some sort of mind control is going down. Following mind controllers' whims is for schmucks.

[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]
 
ZerbanDaGreat said:
Chapter Thirty-Two: One Last Shot At Redeeming The Day - A Quest For Booty And Boyfriends!
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ZerbanDaGreat said:
Jun-ho gives off the air of a dog that thinks it just heard the word 'walk' but it's not entirely sure yet, wagging at a medium pace.
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... Gods that's cute.
ZerbanDaGreat said:
"Have the heading set?" you ask once the two of you are airborne and comfortably gliding. Well, you're gliding. He's doing that wiggle-corkscrew thing like a snake swimming in air. You should ask him how that works sometime, it really is quite fascinating. Your own flight only barely pays attention to the laws of physics of course, but his is that extra step too far to be anything but pure magic.
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Finally. It's barely admiration, but really I was beginning to give up hope those poor wiggles would ever get the attention they deserve!
ZerbanDaGreat said:
"Mhm! You?" He glances at you.

"Of course!" You tap your temple knowingly with one massive talon. "Natural compass. Never lost my bearings in my life."

"Mhm! Just like a pigeon!" Jun-ho agrees enthusiastically.

"... n-no not- not like a pigeon!" you splutter. "I have not and will never again be compared to a mere pigeon! We are dragons!"

"So how's it different?" he asks.

The wind whistles across the great leathery sails of your outstretched wings as you furiously ponder the question.

"I-it's magic!" you say at last. "That's it. Magic. Dragons are magic so the head compass is magic too!"

"Oooooooh." Jun-ho's gaze drifts forward, peering through the low-hanging cloud cover and towards your quarry. "So pigeons are magic too."

"NO-"
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Ahh, adorable, it's like a balm to the soul.
ZerbanDaGreat said:
"Uh, Eldingar?"

"Mm?" You stop, half-turn. Jun-ho's barely taken a step from where he landed. Looks like he hit the ground not far from where out-of-luck mortals would have to dock and climb the cliffs via time- and water-worn steps cut into the rock. There's a sign hammered deep into the rock, facing away from you. He seems to remember this little detail a second later and grabs hold of it, flipping it around with a soft grunt of effort.

'DANGER - THIS ISLAND IS QUARANTINED. ONLY QUALIFIED GUILD PERSONNEL BEYOND THIS POINT. IF YOU HAVE LANDED HERE IN ERROR, PLEASE TURN AROUND AND RETURN TO THE MAINLAND. THE ADVENTURER'S GUILD CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR SAFETY IF YOU VENTURE ANY FURTHER'

You blink twice at it, then look up at Jun-ho. "... and?"

"And shouldn't we be a little worried?" he asks.

"Jun-ho, we're dragons," you say, trying not to overtly sound like you're mentally adding 'you dumbass'.
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ZerbanDaGreat said:
"Jun-ho, relax." You waggle your claw dismissively. "The map was pointing to a potential boyfriend here, how bad could it possibly be?"

"I... guess." He shakes his head and flips the sign around. "Right, right sorry, didn't mean to hold things up."

"It's fine." You glance at the sun, barely more than a muted golden sliver on the very horizon as the magic twilight hour slowly descends upon the briny crags of the risen island. "If anything I'm glad we killed some time, might be easier to find the way in once our nightvision kicks in."
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... Eldingar did you. You did. You did just tempt fate and then suggest deliberately waiting until dark.
ZerbanDaGreat said:
"Didn't you hear that?" you ask.

"Hear what?"
prince eldingar​
"There it is again!" You snap your head around, looking him in the eye. "Do you really not hear that?"

"I don't... know what you're talking about," Jun-ho replies, brow furrowing as he stares into your eyes. "Um. That bad feeling I was getting up there? It's getting a lot worse right now."

"What did I tell you about our being dragons Jun-ho?" you snap, rather more forcefully than you meant to.
sire... king...​
"I just don't think barrelling into things just because we think we're invincible is really the best idea," he says, his tone growing more worried by the word. He breaks eye contact, his gaze flitting nervously around the room. Honestly it's really starting to grate on you how skittish and... and un-dragony he can be. Is that part of why Mother threw him at you?

"Let's at least go check out that way?" he suggests, indicating over his shoulder with his thumb. "Plenty of rooms over there, we can go shout for whoever the map was pointing to here. Maybe there's gold, too! You like gold, right?"
son of aži​
"There's a shrine right there," you say irritably, jabbing your talon the other way along the causeway. "I just want to make sure I cover all the- what's the matter with you anyway?" you ask, dropping your arm all of a sudden. "Are all dragons this skittish where you come from? Even the vast majority of magic has difficulty affecting us! The two of us together? We could burn down a city if we wanted to, and no one would be able to stop us!"

"... yeah but... we wouldn't want to," he says haltingly. You grimace, rubbing your forehead.

"That's not the point, Jun-ho. The point is that there is nothing, absolutely nothing in this world or Beyond, that could be any realistic threat to us. So I ask you again, why all the hesitance?"

"I don't know!" he exclaims. "I don't- I don't know okay! I'm sorry, I know I'm annoying and I know this isn't what you had in mind when you brought me but I just- I don't feel right here!"
let us praise you​
"And... I'm worried about you," he adds haltingly.
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[X] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

We came out to show Sharkpupper McLongboi a good time and now we've got some sunken city a-hole driving us to be a jerk to them. None a' that shit!
 
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[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

Is the new boyfriend Cthulhu or something?
 
[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]
 
[X] Go to the shrine and inspect what it has to offer. You're not afraid of some old ruin just because it's dark [X2]

It's been that kind of day
 
[X] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]
 
[X] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

Definitely mind control going on.
 
[X] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

My guess is they're some sort of siren type thing that draws victims in or deep one analogue. Draw me like one of your french dragons, glub glub.
 
Yes, the vote to see the city may win, but I am not going to be on the voting side that gets Eldingar indoctrinated Reaper style.

[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

Also, Eldingar forgets that dragons probably (if I am not wrong) reproduce slower than humans and take longer to grow up. It may take more to kill a dragon, but the fact you can kill one means mortals still end up ahead in any war. Eldingar is already over a hundred when people are already expecting him to of settled down and have a family by now at possibly half his current age, when three to six generation of mortals probably went by in that time period.

Basically, dragon overconfidence is sort of funny. But I might be underestimating dragon magic and many other factors.

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Vaalintine said:
My guess is they're some sort of siren type thing that draws victims in or deep one analogue. Draw me like one of your french dragons, glub glub.
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if we get drawn in, lets hope we are lucky and they are not trying to eat a dragon in the way we are thinking.

Edit Edit: though the real answer is to wait for tenfoldshields to make his vote-changing argument like usual.
 
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[X] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

We should probably try and get Eldingar more in the habit of respecting Jun-ho's wishes & concerns, like I know he's been having a rough day but he's acting really dismissive right now and that's not good for long-term relationship health (platonic or romantic).
 
[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

Nope on the Mind control.
 
Archeo Lumiere said:
[x] Listen to Jun-ho, you guess. Let him drag you down the causeway to go poke around in some dusty old rooms. [x0.5]

Nope on the Mind control.
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You realize having an octopus runs away is sort of a good thing, as if the Cthulhu-esque thing trying to control us is the one who can't handle it? It is funny to think about.
 
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