You should go sniff some red ants

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I really don't feel like reading EVERYTHING right now. I'll read the RULES AND MORALS and then do something else. I don't like reading.

RULES AND MORALS OF THE JOINING

1. Above all, RESPECT the others that leave. Violence and verbal/emotional disrespect will not be tolerated. It will automatically be handled by displacing the abuser from The Joining and disbanded from reentering Color.

Oh, shit. Looks like I fucked that up already.


2. Informing large masses of the outside world that do not intend to JOIN nor RECRUIT into Color or THE JOINING will result in BANISHMENT. If you are not a FORMAL RECRUITER, you must request permission to share knowledge.

3. Do not let others attend to THE CHURCH if they have not been informed...

I skim over the rest of the rest of the rules, which is mostly about the steps of getting in The Joining, respecting fellow peers, magic usage, abusing the system, and other irreverent stuff.

At the end, though it gives a list of the Churches-there are 5 in every surrounding region, including this one. I scrawl the address down on a slip of paper and tuck it into my pockets.

Ella moans loudly, a noise made without her opening her mouth. I wonder how long she's been awake?

Get her some water, maybe say you have terets?

Aw, you don't want to read the bits about new tech, or how a forever 15 year old is supposed to make a living in a world that expects them to school and be taken care of by parents?

>groaning without opening her mouth
I'm assuming the problem is she's woken up, but your spell still largely prevents her from moving. Probably isn't good for her, long term. It would be better if we could restrain or contain her in some other way and release the spell.

first make sure she can't escape then just say "how ya doin?"

Give here a collar, chain her to the wall

Bubbles 2013/01/11(Fri)09:01 No. 484449 ID: 2de44c
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>>484443

...Not a bad idea. I conjure some sorts of magical restraint, which connects to the wall around her. I release the bonding spell, and she struggles to pull herself to her knees, tugging at the collar.

>>484441

"I hope your throat feels like hell."
That's the best I can do.

>>484440

That shit sounds boring. I can deal on my own, I've got plenty of money.

Get her a dog bowl or something to eat and drink out of. Very humiliating

Nah. Have her cook for you. That's what slaves are for, right?

>boring
Hey, you'll think differently if it turns out they invented laser swords or rocket cars or whatever while you were away!

Actually... you just escaped after a 20 year lockup. What do you really want to do? What is it you missed? The revenge quest can wait a day. You should go indulge yourself.

Well depending on what you wanna indulge in, you may not have to go far, if you change your mind about Elves. But that is a good idea, is there anything really you've missed, you know, burning, pillaging, maybe bubble baths?

Bubbles 2013/01/11(Fri)19:48 No. 484592 ID: 389f2b
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>>484457
>>484461
>>484463

Yes...I'll make her feel degraded, like a fucking pet! But I'm not letting her filthy paws touch my food. I'll order take out or something.

But, I suppose you're right...I know about cars and stuff from reading books, but I've never seen one until now, out on the roads.

I...Don't know what year it is, either.

>"Bubby! Get me out of this, please!" The elf is standing, straining against the magical rope. I assume she is lacking any power, or she'd be out by now.

"Naaah. How you wanna be my pet, huh? I'll get you a cute little collar and a bowl to eat outta', too, ha! I don't know why anyone else sees your kind as anything else other than dirty, fuck ugly beasts. You're lucky I'm not just putting you down."

>"..F-fuck you!!!"

>>484592
Slap her shit. She is to speak to you with respect.

Also start the interrogation. Ask her what year it is, what sort of tech level there is out here now, and how common dragons are nowadays. Also ask a bit about the Joining, and the Color. Who are their leaders? Will someone be around to check on her?

Warn her if we find out she lied to us we'll burn her alive. It is one of the most painful ways to die.

make sure not to break any of their bones. that takes way too long to heal.

>>484592
...okay, I know you get off on being evil, but this isn't helping.

If you want to turn her into a useful source of cooperation and intel, playing mean isn't the way to do it.

And lay off the stupid fantasy racism, that's just trite.

Woah, she actually has a mouth on her. I'm impressed.

Oh and hey, this is possibly the first person you've ever managed to make both mad and upset!

Bubbles 2013/01/12(Sat)09:43 No. 484795 ID: 389f2b
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I let my fist swing, and it's a solid connection to her nose-I hear a snap, and it sits awkwardly.

"Shut the fuck up, bitch. While you're under me, you ain't got nothing to say to me unless I tell you to. Got it?"

She's so in shock/pain she can only sniffle and nod.

"Good girl, Ella. Maybe I'll even fix your nose if you behave, hmm?"

I'm adapt in the areas of jinx's and healing-I learned healing mostly for my own behalf, since I'll never grow stronger, and jinxing someone(i.e., the restraining magic+modifications much alike a curse) to make up for my lack of strength for physical restraint.

If you want her loyal remember the carrot is more effective then the stick. Heal her up, pretend to dote on her now thats shes agreed to behave. If you want her to be a pet treat her like one as well, ruffle her hair and give her a treat. Some of your dinner maybe. Tell her good girl.

Abuse does not build reliable loyalty, in the long term. Playing the reasonable (but powerful and not to be crossed) mistress is better than a domineering and cruel one.

...I mean, turning her into a minion or tool is the goal here, right? It's not like we need to torture her for intel. It's all there in those books.

Bubbles 2013/01/12(Sat)12:50 No. 484846 ID: 389f2b
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Fine, fine! I heal her nose and she seems to calm down a little.

I even give a little ruffle of her hair, though she trembles under my hand.

I'd more or less like to consider her my prisoner. She's been with the Joining for such a long time that she'll probably be able to tell me more ~secret~ things. Every organization has a dirty secret, right?

Ya, but they stuck her where she wasn't going to be doing much. 50 years without a single person coming out sounds like a career ender to me so I doubt she knows much. You can ask her if theres anything not covered in those pamphlets that she can tell you. if you have any magic that can detect lies now would be the time to use it. As long as she tells the truth pamper her a bit. Clean off the blood on her face.

Then order some food. Might be a good idea to gag her while the delivery guy is there though so she doesn't call out to him.

ask if she has figured out why they were holding you. if she doesnt know then just say "because i'm a dragon and dragons are the most magic thing there is. they decided that their happiness is more important then mine. that is why i want revenge."

Offer her a cloth or something so she can clean herself up.

It might help if at some point you explained your position to her. All she's so far was a rather angry rant and some violence.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)05:49 No. 485164 ID: 389f2b
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I grab a cloth and let some sink water spill over it, then wipe the blood from her cheeks and chin. She silently lets me, eyes averting down.

"Good girl," I sigh, tossing the rag to the side.

"What kind of food places are around here?"

>"Uhm...Mcdonalds..."

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)08:05 No. 485172 ID: 389f2b
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"What the fuck is Mcdonalds?"

She gives me a blank stare, then laughs nervously.

>"I forgot that Color doesn't have any of the same franchises in this world. Uhm, it has hamburgers and nuggets and fries...It's really good. There's also, like, pizza and taco places."

It somewhat bothers me that she's calming down. I liked her quaking fear quite a bit.

"...I'll go with this 'Mcdonalds', then. What's their number?"

>"They don't deliver."

"I'll fuckin' make them deliver then. I've got all the goddamned cash to convince them."

She giggles a little, and I resist the urge to hit her again.

Huh. McDonald's dates back to the 40s or 50s, don't it? And it's a pretty big cultural phenomenon. Even if you didn't live in an area with one, it's kind of odd you wouldn't have heard of one before getting trapped in color. How old were you when the cult got you?

>I liked her quaking fear quite a bit.
Honestly, fear isn't terribly useful in this situation. Stockholming her is a more reliable control mechanism.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)09:16 No. 485177 ID: 389f2b
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>>485174

I honestly don't know. Everyone around me always talked of me being brought in, but I was so young that I had no memory of this world. My parents didn't show up with me, so I was placed with Mr. Hopkins.

Within a year, when I was just a little ol' tyke, I ripped his tail off! Heh. They had me living in my own place as soon as possible.

If you were so young how did you develop this hatred of elves? Usually that sorta hate is through what the parents say throughout their childhood.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)10:50 No. 485189 ID: 389f2b
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I've just always hated them on sight-and so many are just SO ego-centered and act like they're the fuckin' shit of things.

It's a part side-goal to put elves in their place. Starting with Ella, I suppose.

Maybe I'll make it a law in Color to have at least one elf as a pet, and raising the children without speech nor magic..Ha!

>Hate them for being SO ego-centric.
Really. You don't say.

Say, Pot, have you been introduced to Kettle yet?

And again, this stupid fantasy racist thing is stupid. I'm all for burning down color and declaring yourself the magical immortal dragon queen despot of the realm of darkness or whatever, but this elf thing is just lame.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)11:19 No. 485196 ID: 389f2b
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>>485194

If you weren't just a voice in my mind I'd fuckin' smite you. It's not like I can HELP hating the-

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)11:22 No. 485198 ID: 389f2b
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knock knock

...Some ones at the door.

Shitshitshit! They've found me haven't they?! Ella found some way to alert them and now they're gonna fuckin' take me back in--!!!

What should I do???!

Fight or flight? They might have brought a whole goddamned army with them jesus shit!

>It's not like I can HELP hating the-
One of the hardest and most important lessons you can learn in life is that anger, and hate, are choices you can control. Quiet a lot of people think it's bullshit when they're first told.

>knock knock
Look to Ella, first. What's her reaction? Joy, surprise, confusion, relief...? Ask if her if she was expecting someone. Maybe check the peephole?

Then we decide what to do. It is possible they're cultists or color people- after all, Ella is supposed to be watching that door. If anyone came looking for the escapee it makes sense they'd check the watch post next door.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)11:44 No. 485201 ID: 389f2b
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Surprised and confused.

I calm down a little, realizing I may have over reacted.

The door has no peephole-I tip toe over to one of the chairs in the kitchen area and snap a leg off a chair as a blunt object.

Crack open the door and growl out what do you want. Sound as belligerant as possible. If its not life or death you are busy here.

As far as the elf hating... get over it. It won't help you and in fact it will hurt you. Blind hate is just that blind. No species can be painted with a single brush.

You can't really help hating people; just like you can't really help a fear of spiders. Logic doesn't work on instinct/hatred/fear. I know spiders can't hurt me, (most of the time) but I still can't stand them. The only thing I have to say about this elf is that she didn't seem that full of herself; she was really happy to see that someone else escaped.

Right, open door. Instruct Ella to stay quiet, and make sure not to open the door far enough for anyone to see her.

>>485204
The key isn't so much trying to apply logic to emotions. It's coming to realize that, to some degree, you can control emotional response. You feel yourself starting to react with anger or hate... and then you choose not to. It's more letting go of your reaction than anything else. It's an odd thing, and it's certainly more difficult with certain emotions and responses.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)12:06 No. 485208 ID: 389f2b
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I swing the door open and toss myself to the side in sudden fear they'd lunge-

after a second of nothing happening, I throw myself into the door way to attack!

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)12:08 No. 485209 ID: 389f2b
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>"HI DO YOU WANNA BUY COOKIES FOR MY GIRL SCOUT--"

I smack her head and watch her pass out to the ground in....

Awh fuck it was a girl scout. A little fuckin' kobold that doesn't look over a day one year.

SHIT.

No one else is in the hallway so I drag her passed out body inside.

Girl scouts are little girls. They sell cookies.
The cookies are delicious. Please don't kill the girl scout, their retribution isn't something you'd be able to survive.

...okay, I'm fairly certain the cutebold isn't any kind of physical threat to you. Cancel the bludgeoning.

What's with the sash and the box? Is it a girl scout selling cookies? Because this apartment is dangerously short on cookies and we will definitely buy some yes please.

Goddamn, your trigger finger is too fast. This is the real world girl- you're supposed to assume non-hostile until proven otherwise. Not the other way around.

...I don't suppose you can just heal the pup, hope she doesn't remember exactly what happened, buy some cookies and send her on her way?

Idea: Steal all the cookies, plant a fat stack of cash on her person, and let her wake up in the hallway in a little bit.

>>485213
That should work.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)12:30 No. 485215 ID: 389f2b
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Ella rushes over her body, looking worriedly at her already bruising head.

>"What the fuck, Bubby?" She hisses at me, suddenly very angry.

"I didn't know it was a girlscout! At least we can just take all her cookies!"

>"Shut up! Can you heal her?!"

"I can heal the head wound, but I can't make her wake up!"

Theres noise outside our door-mamma kobold calling for her daughter. Shit, SHIT.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)12:39 No. 485216 ID: 389f2b
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While Ella is checking her over to make sure she's not dead or anything, I check to see what cookies she has.


All.

Fucking.

Thin mints.

Bubbles 2013/01/14(Mon)12:40 No. 485217 ID: 389f2b
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I fucking HATE THIN MINTS.


[end chapter one]

>>485217
Thin mints rule shut up. I'll kill you.

Alright. I think you have to come to terms with the fact you don't have a clue how to handle yourself in the real world. You're attacking children, for crying out loud. Enough with the power trip games.

Heal the kid, dispel the collar, and then we need a way to get the pup back to it's mother without getting in trouble. Get Ella's help, if you have to. Can you use hex magic for that? Mess with the mother's memory, or sense of what's going on?

>>485217
...there is something wrong with you. Seriously, medically, wrong. Thin mints are awesome. Samoas are better, but thin mints still rock.

This is now officially keep the angry dragon from hurting people quest. We're going to have to precede every set of instructions with orders not to attack people.