Of a Dragon's Palace and River [Open]

[dragonlordbight]

After events had settled down some after the recent pod release and the arrival of at least one other from Krynn, Crucible had needed to stretch his wings a little as it were, take a little time in his true form, time to take a good swim in the river and a flight around the city to collect his thoughts. One that had a number of secondary benefits, one being to make his presence as Crucible known aboard, after all one might wonder where as large a dragon as himself might go if gone unseen for too long. The second came when he was flying, a distance out from the final bend of the river. Ones that he had been looking for for some time now, his palace from Sanction.

High walls surrounded the grounds of the vast white stone Palace, its' main building stood four stories high and was roofed with silvery gray slate. Five huge towers stood, one at each corner and one in the center, where a tall, broad staircase climbed up to the main doorway on the second floor
Landing. Landing within the high walls the large dragon circled the building with which he was so familiar. From what he saw at the least it was intact, both within and below, indeed a number of the outbuildings that were housed within the walls still stood.

It wasn't long before once more in the air, satisfied that his home for many years was intact. Turning his course up river intent on taking a long relaxing swim through its currents. Landing near the Angkor-Wat that made itself a bridge across the river before slipping easily into the water to swim lazily downstream, letting the current pull him along its course, his long neck held high above the water as he kept an idle eye out for anyone of interest.

(OOC: Feel free to see him flying about he's kinda hard to miss at 140ft long, feel free to have your character come across him in any of the three locations, just note in the title of the reply as to which)

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By the river. With apologies for my HTML fail!

[combustible_me]

Despite the fact that water was anathema to a pyromancer, there were times that Ellyn still enjoyed looking at it. From a safe distance, that was, where she wasn't really in danger of falling in it.

Because that would hurt.

Luckily, bridges seemed pretty convenient around the river that flowed through the City. Which meant Ellyn was pretty content, until she saw the long, serpentine neck breaking the water.

Yellow eyes went wide, and her jaw dropped open in disbelief. Sure, she could count a handful of times she'd actually seen the Dragon on her world, but once you did, you just didn't forget how one looked.

"Awwwh, you gotta be kiddin' me!" the pyromancer blurted out, scrambling to look for a convenient place to hide. Lacking that, she tried to make herself as small as possible near one of the posts by the bridge.

"Nobody told me they had dragons here!"

...I couldn't resist,

[ternaui.livejournal.com]

"Apologies for the delay. We have dragons here," the Chancellor says simply, stepping over from where he was tending his flocks, finding the sight of the actual dragon interesting.

Re: ...I couldn't resist,

[dragonlordbight]

The sight of the individual on the bridge did not pass him unnoticed as he drifted downstream toward the bridge, especially when she started to scramble for somewhere to hide. At least she wasn't running away though. From the sounds of it she was at the very least, familiar with some manner of dragon.

Closing in on the bridge Crucible slowed his approach and lifted his long neck and rather large head above the height of the bridge itself, though still a reasonable distance from the bridge, so as not to completely scare her away. One of the new arrivals he gathered. Something of a snort of amusement was given though at the Chancellor's comment, "Evidently, need they have?"

[combustible_me]

The green guy was given a slight glare, while Ellyn pressed herself back against the pillar more.

No, it wasn't giving at all. Probably a good thing, as being dumped into the drink would be bad for her.

"Maybe? How many ARE you here? I mean--" Well, her agitation was evident. She hadn't set herself on fire yet, thankfully, as she hadn't done that since her first or second year at the Elemental College, but the air around her was definitely notably warmer than the rest of the air over the river.

"Th' only dragon back home was a Monarch. Old an' powerful." And trouble, though Ellyn wasn't about to say that out loud with a dragon in breath weapon distance.

[ternaui.livejournal.com]

"Only a few. And there hasn't seemed to be any problems yet, Miss."

Riverside

[appletastic]

Applejack was just on her way to the pasture for another look at this six-legged cattle, happily whistling an old farm tune. Everything around here looked fairly peaceful, perfect for a good afternoon's work. She was even lingering at the riverside, poking a hoof in the river that came right back out when she noticed the long, looming neck coming closer.

"Oh! Uh...beg pardon, didn't mean to touch your water." She'll be quite happy to get away unharmed, really. It was impossible to tell if the creature was tame or not, really. Same as the rest of the wild.

Re: Riverside

[dragonlordbight]

The small pony poking her hoof in the river downstream did not go unnoticed, far from it as he drifted closer, he recognized her as one among the newly released crew members, after all it was difficult not to notice one as different to the norm as the ponies.

Slowing his drift he peered down on the pony as she spoke, "You needn't worry on that account, the water is for all to utilize," he replied with a hint of amusement as he peered down on her, she didn't look like any normal horse or pony he had seen before in his long years. Then again, this ship was known for such strange things.

[appletastic]

"How kind of you to share," Applejack answered, still not quite understanding that it wasn't his. She'd thought all large creatures in water owned their water bodies.

"Er...if I might ask, how deep does it run?" To fit someone of his size (and she couldn't even see it all), it had to be enormous.

[dragonlordbight]

"It is for all to make use of, as long as they do not pollute it," Crucible replied easily as he made his way closer to the bank, lifting some of his large form from the river as he moved to shallows closer to the bank, the size of his form becoming rather more obvious as more of it left the water.

"It varies along its course, though on average it is deep enough at the center for one such as I to swim along beneath, there are shallow points as well however," He commented as he cast his gaze along the length of the river ahead before peering back down to Applejack, "You are a new arrival I assume, I am Crucible,"

[appletastic]

"I wouldn't go polluting our water. We need it to grow stuff," Applejack insisted, stepping back just a few steps when the speaker's size became obvious. What was with this plantboat and its dragons?

"Oh, then I don't think I'll be crossing any time soon. Anyway, I'm Applejack, and I've just started working the crops 'round here. There's a farm on the river I'm doing business with."

The buildings looming up ahead sure were interesting. She'd have to investigate them all someday.

[zenithianhero.livejournal.com]

This was a sight Sofia could appreciate.

While by all accounts she should be bitter about dragons in general, (after all, it was by Zenithian law that she was not allowed to return with her mother as a child) the events on her adventure had changed all of that.

She gave the dragon a polite bow of the head as he passed by.

[dragonlordbight]

Crucible peered across to the green haired woman with interest at the polite bow of her head as he drifted on by, here was one that seemed to be used to the presence of dragons, or at the very least undisturbed by the presence of one as large as he.

"Greetings," he called across the water to her, slowing his drift to turn to the bank of the river.

[zenithianhero.livejournal.com]

"Greetings," she said back with a small smile, placing the Zenithian sword (http://dragon-quest.org/images/b/b8/ZenithianEquipment.jpg) in front of her. "I don't believe we've met before."

Sofia would definitely be the type to remember giant dragons roaming around the city.

[dragonlordbight]

"Indeed not," Not in his draconic form at the very least, coming to a stop at the bank of the river he peered down on the comparatively small woman and her sword. An interesting sword it was indeed.

"You may call me Crucible, who might you be?"

[zenithianhero.livejournal.com]

"Sofia," she answered, leaning on her weapon while she talked. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Crucible." She gave him another nod in greeting. "Do you come here often?"

[hic-sum-dracone.livejournal.com]

Caro always notices dragons, and so looks up in delight when she sees such a lovely, majestic one flying above. She's not through with her exploring, but this is a diversion worth looking into.

With the ten year old is her dragon Freid, who is currently a much smaller size, and who starts braying cutely when he sees the other dragon high above.

"You want to fly like that, Freid? Oh, I'm not sure if I should use my magic here..."

Nonetheless, Freid tries to get a bit higher, maybe twenty feet above Caro's head, swooping in widening circles.

[dragonlordbight]

As with many dragons the one flying above them had a particularly acute sense of sight and with many years of experience in picking even the smallest details out in a situation it took little time to notice the young human and what looked to be a small dragon or other winged creature with her.

Somewhat amused at the tiny dragon's reaction to the sight of him Crucible decides it could be worth giving them a better look as he tilts his flight to arch around to fly closer, gradually drawing lower as he scanned the area around them for a suitable landing spot should they prove to be of enough interest.

[hic-sum-dracone.livejournal.com]

On the ground, Caro is watching Freid, torn about whether to release his seal. She wants to let him fly freely if that's allowed, and he seems so excited.

Freid is patient for the most part, but he does make a few swooping gestures in midair before flying back to his master. He doesn't land, watching the sky and the passing dragon with intense curiosity.

[dragonlordbight]

The large dragon watches the two as he glides toward them, pondering whether or not to land, it would not hurt to rest his wings he supposed. Even after so long the damage done to his wings meant he had to rest them more often than he had. They were not far from his path in any event.

The decision made he made his way in toward a large clearing amongst the buildings not far from their position, his wide wings kicking up dust and left over debris from some event in the cities past and within a few moments he had landed, folding his large wings to his sides even as he padded from the clearing toward the young woman and her small dragon-like companion.

[hic-sum-dracone.livejournal.com]

Caro hesitates a moment, but Fried is off and flying, flapping his little wings as he moves toward the larger dragon. He pauses, looking back, and then Caro smiles and heads over herself.

"Hello! I hope we didn't interrupt your flight too much."

((OOC: Forgive my late! Between vacations and LJ downtime I've been away a while. If you don't want to continue the thread I understand!))

take me to the river

[lessafool.livejournal.com]

< Greetings, fellow sentient. Is much of the river large enough to afford you a decent swim? > Aldrea stood at a remove from one bank of the river, watching yet another new species move through the waters of this strange river. She might have been drinking from it earlier, if evidence of some damp hoofprints back to her current location were evidence.

Esplin admired the implied strength in such a creature. Hmm.

Re: take me to the river

[dragonlordbight]

"For the most part, indeed, despite the lack of larger bodies of water, Greetings," Crucible turned his head a fraction in Aldrea's direction, taking the sudden contact through telepathy in his stride. His gaze soon turned fully to her as he took in her form, not unlike that of a centaur in its most basic of senses yet quite different again indeed.

[lessafool.livejournal.com]

They might have been amused to know of species similar in build, on other worlds. < This river was created, from what I've read. It may be possible to do the same again for a larger body, if one didn't wish to visit the sensorium rooms. > She shifted, tail held at a notch below ready. Large predators made her uneasy, really, if she'd been right assuming this one would be as sentient as anything else she saw moving around outside of Hydroponics.

< I'm Aldrea, of the Andalites. May I ask after your name and species? > TO the point, for her (his) own reasons.

[dragonlordbight]

"Indeed it was, however for such a larger body to be constructed, space for it would have to be found or made, that would likely cause problems, as it would involve the demolition of a vast number of buildings," He paid little mind to the bladed tail held near at ready, there was little after all that such a small blade in comparison could do.

With little effort he shifted his drift toward the shallower bank, the true size of his form becoming more obvious as he did so, "I am Crucible, of the Bronze Dragon's of Krynn,"

[lessafool.livejournal.com]

Esplin didn't really care about the destruction of someone else's architecture or remnants from home, if it was hardly politic to state as much. He said nothing, eyes stalks bobbing in a kind of fluid acknowledgement of that reality. Unacceptable to some.

< Good meeting you, Crucible of the Bronze Dragons of Krynn. > He was incredible for size, put together in a much more sensible way than some of the creatures they were familiar with from the Hork-Bajir world. < Have you been awake for many of the pod openings? >