[testdrive!!!]

[fuilscales]

1. You're wandering some woodsy mountain areas alone and maybe you get lost or hurt or some such. Next thing you know, you're set up in a little camp with a fire going, it's dark, it's pretty damn cold, and there's a guy definitely not dressed for the weather in just a long, loose tunic and trousers, with long black hair tied back in a low ponytail. I mean, that's probably because you're wearing his winter cloak as a blanket, but.



2. MAN WOULDN'T IT BE COOL TO SEE A DRAGON. They're pretty rare nowadays, but hey, look, there's one sleepily sunning itself on a pile of rocks like a big dumb lizard. It's pretty, if a bit small at maybe the side of a draft horse, all sleek black scales with some iridescence when the light hits it just so, its nearly opaque webbed wings spread out to soak up the warmth. Those're some sharp teeth and claws though, huh.


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3. ???? hit me baby

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[bosssfight]

[shrinks back, coiling up in a tidy pile to observe]

[fuilscales]

[ it just shifts a little, adjusting its legs, and seemingly goes back to sleep without noticing you. huh. ]

[bosssfight]

[who am i to judge a reptile sleeping in the sun]

[...like ten minutes later, stretches out and pokes it with his nose]

[fuilscales]

[ it jolts a little, lifting its wings-- all four of them, the second pair mostly hidden under the larger top ones-- and raising its head sleepily, looking around with bleary eyes.

and then it sees a ??? BIG OL SNAKE???

it makes something of a pathetic squawk, jolting backwards and onto all fours, dark eyes wide, a third eye opening on its forehead with its surprise ]

[bosssfight]

[flicks his tongue in HIGH INTEREST, stretching out his neck further]

Sssss?

[fuilscales]

[ skitters nervously backwards, half-tripping over its own tail ]

Uhh-- sh-shoo, shoo, go on, I-I'm too big to be eaten!

[bosssfight]

[looks over the dragon, looks at himself, hm hmmmm]

No. Ssssssmall.

[fuilscales]

[ SHIT IT CAN TALK

standing on tippy toes, wings up, kinda hunched into itself despite this ]

N-no no, I'm big, and I've got spikes, s-see!!

[bosssfight]

[starts uncoiling, scooting over to look at the dragon from another angle. HM!!!]

Ssspikes... can't eat ssspikes.

[fuilscales]

Y- yes, see, I shouldn't be eaten...

[bosssfight]

Whill absssstain.

[fuilscales]

[ it. relaxes a little, uncertainly ]

... thanks?

[bosssfight]

[yawns widely, stretching, and— shifts]

Yes. I do not like the idea, of eating dragons, anyways.

[fuilscales]

[ it squawks again, hopping backwards ]

-- what are you!!

[bosssfight]

I am a snake, obviously.

[fuilscales]

You're all human looking!

[bosssfight]

Only on the one end.

[fuilscales]

That-- is not the point!! Snakes do not usually have people parts!

[bosssfight]

I'm a better kind of snake?

[fuilscales]

... I don't... understand what that means...

[ goodness how complicated. it settles down a little bit, sitting on its haunches ]

[bosssfight]

I am not a small snake, but, a snake spirit?

[fuilscales]

-- oh! A spirit. ... I've never seen one...

[bosssfight]

[spreads his hands, tada]

Now you have.

I don't see dragons, much, either.

[fuilscales]

Oh-- well... we seem to be very rare...

[bosssfight]

Yes, which, is a pity, sometimes. Dragons are cool.