Living with dragons
- Thread starter Hiver
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asdx
Superior Sword Fairy
- Location
- Texas.
Though, they didn't have a pitcher plant. And generally came coupled with their FALCON PUNCH parents.
Dakkan Sall
Random Encounter
- Location
- On the world map
- Location
- United States
Can't really think of any cute mushroomy things other people haven't already brought up.
However, corrections.
However, corrections.
tense
Mismatch plural, I think, and you want possessive its.
I think it would be best to hyphenate people-eating. My first thought was humans biting bark, not bark biting humans.
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Folding my wings after landing, I sat down and looked up.
Ren sat down behind me with a couple of powerful beats of her wings, looking up. Sheila slid out of the saddle of Rengosa's armour and looked up as well.
"That's a big tree," she finally commented, "Not like the Teldrassil, but still."
The tree towered over the rest of the forest, reaching almost five hundred meters straight up, the trunk being easily eighty across with the canopy covering square kilometres.
"Seen bigger."
She turned to look at me for that comment, "…Those elves?"
I nodded, "I'll take you sometime. Zrazta has already met them and I did promise them I'll bring them a teacher. Still need to do that."
Sheila nodded, "Would be interesting," and then she blinked and looked around, "Did you hear that?"
"I did," Rengosa agreed and looked around as the roar echoed through the air.
We didn't need to wait long before a massive green shape barreled through the trees at the edge of the clearing.
It looked like a mix of a dragon, iguana and lizard with short spikes along its back, its mouth filled with row after row of razor sharp teeth.
It was also almost the size of a wyrm, meaning way bigger than any of us. Not to mention fast!
It roared at us and the ground shook.
Rengosa reacted first, her wings beating as she took to the air, her eyes taking on a green tint as she channeled a large amount of mana, pulling on the forest all around.
There was a massive flash and a massive elephant creature roared as it stumbled. Shaking its massive head, it then charged towards the giant lizard, the ground shaking at its footsteps.
I glanced at Sheila.
"Go! Flank it!" she yelled, and her hands erupted in green fire.
I threw myself into the air, heading opposite from Rengosa, channeling my mana into a pair of summons.
Paladin was the first one to appear in a flash of light as I dove close to the ground. As I banked and sunk lower, circling the fight, Witcher flashed into existence.
Meanwhile, Rengosa's summon smashed into the giant lizard. Or rather tried to, the lizard scrambled to the side and avoided the charge before leaping inwards onto the massive elephant creature. Its claws dug massive bloody wounds in its thick hide and the lizard twisted around and ripped its throat out.
The massive elephant went down with a scream, hitting the ground hard, the lizard monster jumping off it before it went down.
Holy shit.
Green fire rained down at the lizard monster and then Rengosa strafed it with her frost breath. It screamed and scrambled to get out of the way.
Paladin and Witcher were running for it, but they weren't close enough.
Banking around, I dove down, letting loose at it with my own breath, frost crawling across the monster's scales as it tried to get away.
A pair of spears of ice hit its side, piercing deep into its thick hide and it screamed.
That's when something a bit odd happened. Something started to pull a great amount of mana from the environment, centered on the massive tree and then it was raining those little plant creatures we discovered at the camp.
Hundreds of them fell from the tree above the lizard creature. As soon as they landed, they charged towards it. Scratching, hitting.
It was like watching a lizard disturb an ant colony. They ripped and covered it in a churning swarm and it disappeared from sight beneath them.
I quickly looked towards Sheila, but I didn't seem to need to worry. Even the ones that fell close to her, completely ignored her to charge the lizard.
One of the little things bounced off my back and then down onto the ground before charging into the fray.
Ren and I slowly circled above it all as things started to calm down. The little plant things moved off the now clearly dead lizard monster before starting to drag it back towards the tree.
I KNEW trees around here ate people! I knew it!
I quickly unsummoned Paladin and Witcher as I flew over them before settling down next to Sheila, "…We should go."
"We shouldn't annoy the tree," she agreed, warily looking at the plant things moving back towards the trunk.
I paused and then looked at Ren as she sat down next to us, "Sheila, you ride with Ren again? I want to try something."
"What?"
"Wonder if you can claim a tree as a summon. Because if it can pull mana and summon what seems to be a infinite amount of those things, that could have been really useful during the war against the Legion."
Sheila frowned and then glanced up towards the tree, "I don't think any of us have the mana bonds to summon something like that, yet alone in green. Maybe Zrazta, but…"
"…Probably right, might as well give it a test," I said and shifted back into mortal form, "But just in case it has an… unfriendly reaction, I want you and Ren in the air already."
Sheila didn't look overly impressed, but she nodded, "If it does, turn back and fly as fast as you can."
"Of course."
As she climbed into Ren's saddle, I turned to walk towards the trunk of the massive tree.
AN// Many thanks to FPSCanarussia for betaing this section.
Ren sat down behind me with a couple of powerful beats of her wings, looking up. Sheila slid out of the saddle of Rengosa's armour and looked up as well.
"That's a big tree," she finally commented, "Not like the Teldrassil, but still."
The tree towered over the rest of the forest, reaching almost five hundred meters straight up, the trunk being easily eighty across with the canopy covering square kilometres.
"Seen bigger."
She turned to look at me for that comment, "…Those elves?"
I nodded, "I'll take you sometime. Zrazta has already met them and I did promise them I'll bring them a teacher. Still need to do that."
Sheila nodded, "Would be interesting," and then she blinked and looked around, "Did you hear that?"
"I did," Rengosa agreed and looked around as the roar echoed through the air.
We didn't need to wait long before a massive green shape barreled through the trees at the edge of the clearing.
It looked like a mix of a dragon, iguana and lizard with short spikes along its back, its mouth filled with row after row of razor sharp teeth.
It was also almost the size of a wyrm, meaning way bigger than any of us. Not to mention fast!
It roared at us and the ground shook.
Rengosa reacted first, her wings beating as she took to the air, her eyes taking on a green tint as she channeled a large amount of mana, pulling on the forest all around.
There was a massive flash and a massive elephant creature roared as it stumbled. Shaking its massive head, it then charged towards the giant lizard, the ground shaking at its footsteps.
I glanced at Sheila.
"Go! Flank it!" she yelled, and her hands erupted in green fire.
I threw myself into the air, heading opposite from Rengosa, channeling my mana into a pair of summons.
Paladin was the first one to appear in a flash of light as I dove close to the ground. As I banked and sunk lower, circling the fight, Witcher flashed into existence.
Meanwhile, Rengosa's summon smashed into the giant lizard. Or rather tried to, the lizard scrambled to the side and avoided the charge before leaping inwards onto the massive elephant creature. Its claws dug massive bloody wounds in its thick hide and the lizard twisted around and ripped its throat out.
The massive elephant went down with a scream, hitting the ground hard, the lizard monster jumping off it before it went down.
Holy shit.
Green fire rained down at the lizard monster and then Rengosa strafed it with her frost breath. It screamed and scrambled to get out of the way.
Paladin and Witcher were running for it, but they weren't close enough.
Banking around, I dove down, letting loose at it with my own breath, frost crawling across the monster's scales as it tried to get away.
A pair of spears of ice hit its side, piercing deep into its thick hide and it screamed.
That's when something a bit odd happened. Something started to pull a great amount of mana from the environment, centered on the massive tree and then it was raining those little plant creatures we discovered at the camp.
Hundreds of them fell from the tree above the lizard creature. As soon as they landed, they charged towards it. Scratching, hitting.
It was like watching a lizard disturb an ant colony. They ripped and covered it in a churning swarm and it disappeared from sight beneath them.
I quickly looked towards Sheila, but I didn't seem to need to worry. Even the ones that fell close to her, completely ignored her to charge the lizard.
One of the little things bounced off my back and then down onto the ground before charging into the fray.
Ren and I slowly circled above it all as things started to calm down. The little plant things moved off the now clearly dead lizard monster before starting to drag it back towards the tree.
I KNEW trees around here ate people! I knew it!
I quickly unsummoned Paladin and Witcher as I flew over them before settling down next to Sheila, "…We should go."
"We shouldn't annoy the tree," she agreed, warily looking at the plant things moving back towards the trunk.
I paused and then looked at Ren as she sat down next to us, "Sheila, you ride with Ren again? I want to try something."
"What?"
"Wonder if you can claim a tree as a summon. Because if it can pull mana and summon what seems to be a infinite amount of those things, that could have been really useful during the war against the Legion."
Sheila frowned and then glanced up towards the tree, "I don't think any of us have the mana bonds to summon something like that, yet alone in green. Maybe Zrazta, but…"
"…Probably right, might as well give it a test," I said and shifted back into mortal form, "But just in case it has an… unfriendly reaction, I want you and Ren in the air already."
Sheila didn't look overly impressed, but she nodded, "If it does, turn back and fly as fast as you can."
"Of course."
As she climbed into Ren's saddle, I turned to walk towards the trunk of the massive tree.
AN// Many thanks to FPSCanarussia for betaing this section.
esotericist
A Weary Hand
- Location
- Lacey, WA
Huhn.
Only two settings immediately coming to mind with 'mana using tree'. First is Seiken Densetsu/Secret of Mana, and unless I missed a game, I don't recall any incarnation of her ever summoning plant critters. Second is Shannara, but that also doesn't fit.
Only two settings immediately coming to mind with 'mana using tree'. First is Seiken Densetsu/Secret of Mana, and unless I missed a game, I don't recall any incarnation of her ever summoning plant critters. Second is Shannara, but that also doesn't fit.
Dakkan Sall
Random Encounter
- Location
- On the world map
No idea what the tree itself is, but the little plant/fungus critters have been confirmed as saprolings in the SB thread.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/48087562/ said:
- Location
- Christchurch, NZ
... deku tree and koroks, maybe? Look for a rusty sword before you go.
It's not any sort of plant that drops a specific Saproling-ish creature that doesn't look like what is described - we know what the Saprolings look like already. They don't look like Koroks, therefore they aren't. Koroks might count as Saprolings mechanically speaking if we run in to any, but they won't appear differently. It's not like Atregos gets art-shifted to look like the local dragons when he visits a world; he looks like what he looks like.
It could be a tree from some Magic: The Gathering plane; goodness knows there are enough massive forests and enough green cards that create Saprolings...
It could be a tree from some Magic: The Gathering plane; goodness knows there are enough massive forests and enough green cards that create Saprolings...
asdx
Superior Sword Fairy
- Location
- Texas.
Look above you, and not a bloody quest.
esotericist
A Weary Hand
- Location
- Lacey, WA
Bower Defense, you might say.
First thought was Avenger of Zendikar. But that doesn't work if they're Saprolings.
- Location
- Home
In Hiver's defense on the description, Saprolings have gone from leech like monsters to more humanoid little fungus/plants.
- Location
- Christchurch, NZ
The actual in story description so far that I found is pretty bare, actually? But yeah, they don't match up with the posted pages images much, and there is a mention of some sort of pitcher on its back.
Have we actually seen a pure-MtG world, without deliberately aiming for it, at least?
Dude, relax. I didn't say "we" or start with [x], it's just a dumb line about the thing you might want from Zelda.
Grey Dragon
(Verified Squid God)
- Location
- Australia
Closest I could find to a giant 'tree' capable of swarm tactics using saprolings was: Verdeloth the Ancient
A legendary tree-man. Be quick about copying him, before he notices...
he's a tough one.
A legendary tree-man. Be quick about copying him, before he notices...
he's a tough one.
- Location
- United States
Well that was exciting and I hope he can get the summon, but that does bring up a complaint I have had for a while. How much mana does he actually have...
Even the most expensive mana cost card in mtg is only 16. So unless he is trying to copy plansewalker tier creatures he really should have enough after all this time as a planeswalker...
Even the most expensive mana cost card in mtg is only 16. So unless he is trying to copy plansewalker tier creatures he really should have enough after all this time as a planeswalker...
Lordamnesia
What are we doing again?
It's not that he doesn't have enough mana, it's enough GREEN mana. He's primarily blue / red, but has land of every color.
If it isn't some kind of pure MtG world, I would say Zerg.
JoshuaSweetvale
Insectovore
- Location
- NL, 65 Million Years Ago
If it isn't some pure MTG world I'd go left field and say Golden Sun. It's basically an early FF blended with a bit of ATLA before ATLA was a thing.
Also has a tree-king and queen in an early-game forest, who've been known to fling high-powered spells, like say: Turning a village of people into trees!
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Yes.
These Saprolings. The ones in the story? They got a description. We know what these Saprolings look like. There is probably some plane out there where the Saprolings look like Koroks, it just happens to not be this one.
You're missing my point. Those last three I linked to? as I said , they are from the same Magic set (Dominaria), which means that all 3 types of Saprolings are running around at the same time.
That means that you could have a herd of 30 Saprolings and have 3 (or more) distinct body forms represented in that herd. I'm just pointing out that a small plant 'creature' that doesn't look like the one they met earlier, can still be a Saproling.