If you have doubts I can dig up the passage after I get myself lunch.
I just want to get a claw out of it so we can grow a trophy.
...or just, I dunno, maybe take it down ourselves?
Hopefully with Ser Richard cutting off a body part before then.
Please do.
Here you go.Please do.
I've re-read it recently, and only now seeing the way to read it like you propose
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Sure, it will lessen the salt if we can't sacrifice the Orb either way without paying Dragon to Yss...
Since, well, there is a chance for it to break out, and if it does we all will go "aww" (for we wanted Yss to mulch it all) and then "awww" when we don't get anything (for we already promised it to Yss) outta dragon...
But it's kinda convoluted and plain bit unfair - Yss can just run away to leave dealing with dragon to us if we don't promise him it, and the dragon does break out...
Which he won't 5/9 times.
"Its blood shall be the price of my aid" is pretty telling. Yss wants to eat that dragon if he's going to risk himself at all.
I was reading that as an answer to "would you be willing to help return he Dragon to whence it had escaped", to be honest, not for eating him at all (I.e. If we get him ourselves, or if he doesn't break out at all)
@DragonParadox, is that right?
He's not going to eat the orb, he's going to help us ensnare the dragon itself provided he gets to eat the dragon afterwards.@DragonParadox, is that right?
Yss is only going to help us by eating Dragon Orb if we promise him the Wyrm inside it beforehand?
Which only has 4/9 chances to break out?
That depends on when we do it, if we only do it after we feel confident fighting the Wyrm, then we can get a boon out of sacrificing it.
If it don't have artifacts or other items on it, that it can use in an Anti-magic field, we could free it into an antimagic field, and let Balerion brawl with it while we provide support, Balerion is a magicless Wyrm after all, with intelligent direction from us, he should be able to brawl a Wyrm in an antimagic field.
I read that as his price for aiding in the battle if the Wyrm breaks out, is that he will get to eat the Wyrm, if we have a plan in place for dealing with the Wyrm, then he shouldn't require that payment.
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Considering that you need quite a bit more than just a Wyrm to make an orb, while the orb should be non-functional without the Wyrm, there should be quite a bit of power in it still, it has no use without the dragon, but considering all the crafting materials that has been put into it, there should be quite a bit of raw power separate from the Wyrm.
He might not have regular buffs, but he sure can have items.
Dude, why would you think otherwise? It derives its power from the Dragon trapped within it. It cannot be freed without destroying the orb.
We only really need it to use against Tiamat herself. Afterwards it's just a liability to us, so trophy wyrm it is.
Well, it just so happens, that by putting this whole deal's resolution on dice, you killed any motivation for me to engage with it at all.
I made a mistake by making assumptions, and thinking that only a powerful artifact would be able to hold an Ancient Dragon, yes.
What if we feed the orb to Yss, and in case the Wyrm breaks out he teleport away, would he require risk payment in such a case?