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Fire Emblem: Last of the Manakete

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  • Pure narrative quest: no dice will be used, the author will have free reign to decide what happens.

    Votes: 25 59.5%

  • New dice system: the author will design a new, better dice system to add some randomness and risk.

    Votes: 17 40.5%
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[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
 
[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
 
Changing my vote

[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
 
Definitely have to show this option some love.

[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
 
[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.

It wouldn't be hard to imagine Ryza falling to her knees and clutching what's left of her Father's Dragonstone to her chest.
 
[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.

As much as anger or a quiet, solemn "thank you" seem really good, I like this write-in.
 
[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
 
[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
 
[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
 
[X] Swallowing your pain, you push all the feelings and hurt into the back of your mind. You have to be strong. "Thank you," you say, tucking Father's stone into your pocket next to yours. "We… should talk elsewhere. There's a lot to be said."
 
[X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.

I'm unsure of what the best attitude to take - here and in general - is. Certainly, they aren't to be blamed for whatever happened all that time ago but they are continuing to do something that our protagonist finds repulsive. We also don't know this mage, though she has made the best impression she could have so far.

Is 'fell dragon' more of a political distinction than a nature one in this setting? Dragons go to war with humans for desecrating their dead and so get called 'fell' dragons. Considering how strongly reacting to something carries over into the dragon form it could also be another way of saying feral.
 
Rumlo said:
Is 'fell dragon' more of a political distinction than a nature one in this setting? Dragons go to war with humans for desecrating their dead and so get called 'fell' dragons. Considering how strongly reacting to something carries over into the dragon form it could also be another way of saying feral.
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Not quite. There was one Fell Dragon (who isn't Grima) who humans considered the ruler of the other dragons in the war against the Emperor and humans.

It was considered the biggest, strongest, cruelest and most cunning dragon, but other than that was not considered special. There was no mention of heart forms or manaketeness, so Ryza supposes it's possible they were all feral, but she finds that very unlikely.

EDIT: Feral has a very specific meaning for manakete: its what happens when the heart and the dragon form come into irreconcilable conflict, driving both to madness. The most common and irreversible way it happens is if a living manakete's dragonstone is destroyed, though there have been cases of Draconic Feedback that got so severe that the two parts of the manakete drove each other literally insane.

What usually happens with a feral manakete is they permanently shift into dragon form and just go on a rampage. According to manakete law, that is the one permitted time for a manakete to kill another manakete: to stop a feral dragon-form, since there is no other way to stop them.

Not to say manakete didn't kill each other at other times, just that it was against the law.
 
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    • Adhoc vote count started by SoaringHawk218 on Nov 22, 2022 at 6:33 PM, finished with 101 posts and 60 votes.
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    Well, with one day left pushing the pain down to deal with later is holding a lead over processing it now, while grief-hugging and getting mad are trailing.
     
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    • [X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
     
    [X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.


    [X] A flare of anger weaves its way through the hurt; for all that she brought this to you, this human should not have been in your home! "What do you want?" you ask sharply. Your tolerance for niceties is exhausted.


    Changing my vote again, I prefer the write in to the leading option.
     
    [X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
     
    [X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
     
    [X] Write-in: A deep sadness wells up in you. To wake up knowing your parents must be dead is vastly different from holding proof. "Please excuse me, for just a few minutes," you say quietly. Your eyes are already filling with tears.
     
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    • Scheduled vote count started by SoaringHawk218 on Nov 19, 2022 at 12:57 PM, finished with 107 posts and 62 votes.
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    Alright! I'll admit, I love it when write-ins win, not only because it showed someone cared enough to come up with a great idea I didn't think of, but also because it helps me get out of my own story rut and do something new!

    On Ryza's end... well, she's learning that you can only repress grief so far before it worms its way out.
     
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    • Missed the vote because of work timings, but I'll comment that I really like that write-in and that type of emotional response.

    Feeling pure grief untainted by anger, and not suppressing it either. That's the grief of someone wise (beyond her years, in this case)
     
    Bernard, confused: "She's ninety-three. Isn't it more like 'wisdom of her years' at that point?"
    Artemis: (jabs her elbow into his ribs)
    Artemis, whispering: Also, wisdom comes from experience, not age, you buffoon. Nobody alive has experienced this!
    Ryza: (pretends not to hear them)​
     
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