your tail is smoke.

??? 2012/07/01(Sun)22:22 No. 428090 ID: befc95
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my brother is not here, no one is here, only I am here. My mind, my body, wings tail spikes and all. I am a dragon onto my own, with my own head. There is me but I think I spoke to myself shortly ago. There has not been food, my stomach is here, but it is empty....

I can't keep my thoughts straight. ||||||| is not in my head, she keeps everything in order, when she's gone I get in knots circles tied up lines in the dirt.

When was the last time you saw her?

Do you mean Mother when you say ||||||

This is all your brother's fault.

I guess... I guess you just sit and think now. One's mind is good for that.

??? 2012/07/01(Sun)22:41 No. 428094 ID: befc95
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MOTHER? I... Where is MOTHER? Where am I? This isn't home cave safe and warm and smells like MOTHER. I'm stuck. Everything is stuck and I can't move and I'm scared and where is everyone where is brother where is MOTHER?!

??? 2012/07/01(Sun)22:42 No. 428096 ID: befc95
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MOOOOOTHEEEEER!!/

D: Look around, can you see MOTHER anywhere?! Chew on those bindings, kid!

That leather looks yummy...lets chew on it!

Ok, quick check...what parts of our body are unbound/can be moved.

so

look around

wings bound
legs hobbled
no muzzle

well you've got the stupidest captors ever. Be sure to bite them the next time you see them.

chew through leather.

>>428096
Is that blood on the ground? Sniff around.

they took mother. be angry. very very angry.

It looks like you'll have to find mother yourself. No problem for a tough little dragon like you.

You should probably start by destroying everything nearby, particularly those things around your wings and legs.

(Sorry for the delay folks, computer got fried in the heatwave, I'll be updating tonight.)

??? 2012/07/05(Thu)21:18 No. 429407 ID: befc95
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Right... right. I can do this. I can HANDLE this. I'm awake, intact, and strong enough to take on the world!

I hope.

I worry at the bands along my wrists and wings first, the leather is thick and chewy. Gross. I manage to remove them with little incident. My hind legs are a bit more troublesome, there is a small thread of metal in the band, I can feel it biting under my thin scales there. I must remember to grow my scales thicker.

My head is still a bit fuzzy, but yes, the area around me smells like blood. It's not normal though, it's thick and heavy and acrid and oh-so-much like copper. I can hear scratchy steps echoing around the cave. Should... should I play dead? Will they leave me alone then? I.. I'm sure it's just brother getting back at me. there is no them or they, Just me and brother and MOTHER.

(Sorry for the quality drop, our power is out, laptop is fried, and I'm using a friends. His tablet is awesome and foreign to me.)

Look for a rock or crevice to hide, whatever tied you up was definately not your brother. Your must be quiet and sneaky. Like your stalking the most skittish of prey.

Gather up the bits of the binds in your jaws and carry them with you, so they don't know you've broken them. They'll think you're still bound. Then find a hiding spot from where you can look out over where you were, and where they probably will come from.

>>429407
You're not seriously supposing that your brother somehow managed to bind you? How on earth would he have managed that?

(You are a trooper, drgons! Sorry to hear about your laptop-- hope your area gets power back soon so you don't melt in the heat :< )

I doubt it was your brother-- getting out of sight is a good idea, if for no other reason than ambushing your newest prey.

>>429415
This will work.

Assist your struggle by using your tail.

use the scythe attached to your ass, silly.

Too late to play dead. Whoever it is surely heard that monstrous wail you emitted earlier and is coming to investigate. Play 'bound' instead!

Blood should smell of iron not copper unless you've been captured by horseshoe crabs</biologyGeek>

??? 2012/07/07(Sat)21:06 No. 430123 ID: befc95
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Perhaps I've gone mad. It certainly smells of MOTHER here, but it's not the same not the same not the same.

I feel like I should be more panicked, but I find myself feeling cool and in control (even thought I'm bound.) A Dragon knows no fear, only the wisdom of when to retreat. I shall use that now.

I pick up the torn binds in my jaws and carry them with me, no reason for them to know I'm loose, they might even forget I'm here in time! My hind legs are still hobbled, but my forelegs and wings are free to smash and claw and buff anyone who dares corner a Dragon!

I find a stalagmite and squeeze in behind there. Much better. I can hear them coming, chattering on to themselves. they are not Dragons.

My tail is ailing me, and I am sorely missing that big scale on the end....

It will grow back in time, now you must hug the shadows and be as still and quiet as the stone you hug, less you be found and captured.

Can you use the narrowness to pull yourself up. People without wing rarely look up.

>>430123
They... cut off your tail.

Above all, be quiet. Do not reveal your location.

Keep quiet and watch!

...Oh, no... That's why the end of your tail was all smoke in your dream. Hopefully it was only clipped down, and the whole tip of your tail wasn't chopped off.

Tuck your tail in under your body, turn so you're looking away from the crevice, and crouch down, ready to spring out at a moment's notice. Then go as silent and still as the stone you hug, watch, and listen.

be furious. ambush them from a high spot. tear off their faces. bite off their nutsacks. set their underpants on fire.

>>430209
Check first to see if they are huge or if there are too many.

??? 2012/07/12(Thu)21:06 No. 431752 ID: befc95
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I can squeeze a bit further up this crevice here if I hook my claws in. I was unaware we had such sneaky channels in our cave.

Those...things are almost under me, I bet I could take one of them out if I jumped. I'm not thinking this through... MOTHER would hunt them strategically, not just jump and cut and bite and claw.

they are not rats, they are tall I think, but it's pretty dark in this corner... oh, I think the taller one is talking....

"Sheh gun, screhm und rahn, sheh beh gun frohm cahv. Weh got enof frohm beeg wun."

I really can't understand them. I speak Drakine, not... uh... whatever-those-are.

when they start leaving follow them. slowly and silently. you want to see where they put mother and brother and rescue them if you can. brother will especially need help since he is so wimpy.

You can take'm on. JUMP! KILL!

>>431752
They think you got loose and ran away. They won't be looking for you. Follow then very carefully and find MOTHER. Hopefully she's okay. Your coward brother probably escaped already. He's most likely on his own, but you really shouldn't worry about that now.

You are right to do as MOTHER would. Hide, stalk, observe, and plan. Strike when it is most advantageous, don't when it isn't. Make that your way.

Once they're far enough away to not hear you climb down, get to the floor. Go to where they stood and take a big sniff of their scent. Follow that scent after them, while staying out of sight. Listen in your ears for others of their kind, and in your mind for MOTHER and brother.

>>431752
Be careful.

THEY KILLED MOTHER

KILL MAIN DESROoh wait, if they took her on, you're practically nothing against them. wait for them to leave, I don't think they're interested in you.

??? 2012/07/15(Sun)23:53 No. 433406 ID: befc95
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I stay hooked into the upper wall for what seems like hours. I have time to think, time to process.... my mind is my own.

It's eerie and empty. I lack words MOTHER would fill in for me at the pass of a thought. I feel dumb and muted without her pressing into my head and brightening my every whim and momentary lapse of insight.

Eventually the cave falls silent. My legs are still and sore and angry to move, but I manage to scoot my way back down to the ground in time. I feel I'm in no rush at this point. Neither brother nor MOTHER are here by the lack of commotion and smell and force of presence. I don't wish to dwell on the thought of my abandonment.

brother cried, I had scared him... pushed him too far. He was younger than me and fragile, that is why MOTHER took him and left me. His cry was ear-piecing and terrible and she must know I hurt him. They left me here alone and those THINGS came and hurt my tail and my mind is empty and... and this cave is so very large with no one here....

Is it too soon for you to try going outside?

>>433406
Look around for a scent trail. Track MOTHER or your brother. Lacking that, track the things that were here.

search for your mother.

find her corpse.

become... Batdragon.

fuck yes I'm awesome how do I even come up with this shit

You can find MOTHER, and with her brother. You know her scent better than any other scent you know. Find her scent and follow it before it fades, and you'll find her. But, you can not follow fast enough with bound legs. Even MOTHER's scent will be drowned out by the rest of the world quicker than you can follow it as you are now. You must free yourself.

Examine the binds around your legs. Those THINGS put them on, so there must be a way to take them off. A knot, or buckle of some sort. Try to undo it with your front paws. If that doesn't work, look around for a rock with a sharp edge you could use to saw through the binds. Preferably one embedded in the ground so you can use your stronger leg muscles to work the binds against it.

??? 2012/07/16(Mon)00:24 No. 433419 ID: befc95
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I deposit the broken leather bindings behind the pillar. They were growing soggy and bitter in my mouth, I can't think of a reason to bring them along. brother and I didn't come to this half of the cave very often, MOTHER warned against it as there are thin but deep waterways cutting across in a few places.

My claws click faintly on the ground as I trudge from here to where I know. I don't know here and that... it doesn't scare me, I need to stop trying to scare myself. I'm alright if I keep moving, no one is... here, just me.

The Big Shelf is up ahead, and The Mouth to The Outside is not even ten lengths past that. I'll go outside, I'll listen to MOTHER and avoid the sun, I'll be a good dragon. A good dragon like she wanted.

Stay brave, little hatchet.

Be brave, little one. You can do this. Go to where you and MOTHER and brother stayed. Smell there for MOTHER's scent and follow it.

the sun is a nice thing, you know.

>>433440
Not if you're a proper vampire or Conan O'Brian.

>>433419
Yeah, if you were told to avoid the sun for your own good, that's probably best.

>>433445

mama's boy >:U

>>433454

You're just trying to get her to hurt her eyes!

??? 2012/07/19(Thu)19:44 No. 434786 ID: befc95
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I want to get out. Out into the world as a REAL dragon, not some little hatchling who couldn't even keep her MOTHER pleased. I suppose I will have to go alone, why would any others bother to help me along after they find out what a vicious and cruel hearted beast I am?

Oh well, I suppose Dragons are MEANT to be alone once they grow. The way MOTHER thought about them.... there must be hundreds, if not thousands roaming in the upper world. All vying for a cave like this. If they've gone I must as well to free if up for a more deserving dragon.

The trip goes faster if I think about things besides my feet. The bands are chafing the scales off my hindlegs, and I do not care for it. I can see the shelf from here, and the air is all wrong in this chamber. Thick and smokey and angry and red and iron.... My stomach twists and tightens at the scent.

I can almost make out a large mass on the shelf. The color is wrong though, it's not MOTHER.

>>434786
Do you know what it is? Can you get its attention?

Climb up that rope.

>>434792
Do not get its attention! For all you know it could be a creature those THINGS brought. Or perhaps another dragon that decided to take advantage of the situation and moved in. Whatever it is, be cautious.

Climb that thing dangling from the edge up high enough that you can peek over the top.

Climb up that obvious lure rope.

climb up and see mother. sans skin. I think.

??? 2012/07/26(Thu)20:04 No. 436714 ID: befc95
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I suppose the only way to go is up!

This task, of course, would be much easier if my wings were developed. I can hop and glide, but upright flight isn't one of my many skills just yet.

Bile rises into my tightened throat. The acrid smell hits me like a shelf, pouring and falling and guarding the top half of the shelf. I gag, but manage to keep my stomach under modest control. MOTHER would always lift brother and I back up here by her tail, I never realized how much effort she put into it. Such a sheer cliff she managed for her darling hatchlings.

This banded piece of stuff is almost the same as the bits on my legs, as well as the ones that bound my wings and forelimbs not long ago. It smells slimy with a hint of fleshyness. I could probably chew through it if I had to.

I'm almost at the top now, eyes watering at the overpowering aroma. I clamp my nostrils shut the best I can and press on.

Just a bit further, Hatchet!

Oh god that is not a rope.

Keep going, little one. Whatever is at the top is something you have to see, for better or worse.

Is there another way down from the shelf, or is climbing this back down the only way. Also, bite and taste the rope you're climbing, and try and identify the taste.

??? 2012/07/26(Thu)21:34 No. 436756 ID: befc95
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The higher I go, the more strenuous and tasking the climb is on me. I can hardly keep my back legs going, the band biting into the softer flesh under my scales.

I manage though, heaving myself up over the lip of the shelf, ready to face whatever creature is up here, taking my cave, stinking up the place, I'm ready to fight!

??? 2012/07/26(Thu)21:34 No. 436757 ID: befc95
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What...I'm not sure what this is.

Looks like meat!

Eat it.

wait.. those bones.. is that....

>>436757
Wow, that's worse than I expected. They took all but her skinless, vivisected torso. And... and they used her guts as a rope...

Wait. You said your mother lifted you up there by her tail... but the last thing I remember is you play-biting your brother and getting screeched at to unconsciousness. I don't remember her ever lifting you anywhere. What do you remember, hatchling?

There is enough meat here to sate your appetite for some time. Do not let it go to waste, regardless of its source. She would want it this way. You can't hunt easily, bound and weakened as you are.

It might just be a cow they brought in as bait.

The fact that it has 3 sets of visible limbs makes me think it is Mother I'm afraid.

Eat Hatchling. You need the strength and she will not begrudge it.

...I'm sorry to have to ask, but how big is that slaughtered body, compared to MOTHER, and how strong is her smell here? It's just... You have to consider the worst, now. Perhaps you should lay down, before the gravity of the situation sets in.

>>436757
PROTEIN IS FROM MOTHER

Try not to think about the fact that your mom was just slaughtered, dismembered, skinned, etc.

If you don't feel too sick of the concept, eat some. Otherwise, GTFO and see if you can spot your assailants from a distance. You need to burn their look and smell into your mind for revenge and stuff. And maybe rescuing your brother.

>bat: fly into cave.

I'm still hellbent on making him the goddamn dragonbatman.

Its a she. The high-pitched squeek would remind her of brother and she might be frightened of that noise a bit. BatDragon would be fun.

Wow, what they did to your tail, they did to mother's... everything.

??? 2012/08/11(Sat)22:14 No. 442035 ID: befc95
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This isn't MOTHER. MOTHER is yellow and green and big and smells of wood and love and everything right.

This is food, I think.... The smell is horrid.

My jaw fights me as I try to take a small bite. If I'm going to be my own Dragon, I have to be able to eat, no exceptions. The air around my meal is thick and heavy and sluggish and burnt copper. My stomach rolls and twists, throat tightening.

I can't, it's meat, but it isn't something a Dragon is suppose to eat, things for eating are always welcome in the stomach, this is bad meat. Very bad meat. I stumble to the edge of the shelf, chest heaving, and empty the meager contents of my already shaking insides.

go, you need to get out of the cave, away from the smell.

>>442035
Damn, now we have an empty stomach. Let's go, we need to get out.

Leave the cave, get away from the bad meat D:

Oh, dear. That meat has been there long enough to go rotten. Get away from it, and down from the shelf.

Even though there is no food here, is there a source of water? It would be good to drink your fill before heading out into the world, and it'll knock down the hunger somewhat.

>>442087
If it was rotten it would be more obvious. I think it's an instinctual "do not eat dragon meat" thing.

eat it anyway. then puke. preferable fire or some other destructive force of nature.

??? 2012/08/13(Mon)20:28 No. 442674 ID: befc95
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Okay, yes okay. I need to go. This cave is vast and perfect and I could live here for 3 ages, easily, before needing to expand it.

I can't stay. Bad Dragons don't deserve this cave. A bad dragon in a bad cave with bad meat. I have displeased something greater than myself, scared off MOTHER and brother in my aggression towards him....

I don't think I did anything wrong though... he was hungry and I couldn't coddle him, he would never learn! Such as slow thing as him would die off his first day in the light if I handed everything to him. I was being responsible. I was being good. Yet here I am alone, abandoned, hungry....

I can see the Cavemouth from here, the barest of fresh breezes blowing into it, washing away the smell of hate and death and everything-wrong. It looks dark enough, The Sun must be away.

Off I go then.

??? 2012/08/13(Mon)20:49 No. 442697 ID: befc95
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Alright I'll just step this way here, it slopes a bit, then I juuuust....

You don't have to leave forever, but we do need to go out and look around, to find water and food.

??? 2012/08/13(Mon)21:06 No. 442717 ID: befc95
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KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOP

>>442717
Flap those wings! Flap them like there's no tomorrow!

Attempting a controlled glide might be easier than trying to fly, actually.

wings out!

>>442722
HIT THE BRAKES

??? 2012/08/13(Mon)23:46 No. 442786 ID: befc95
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Height Thrust Drag Tilt

"No no no nonononoo...."

I catch the air, I glide.

I GLIDE. I AM IN THE SKY. FREE AND OPEN AND UNDER THE WINGS AND

CRASH

Ouch. You ok?

I think I can see the outside wooooooooooorld, go check it out!

gliding is just falling slowly. still not strong enough to fly and be really free. make sure you aren't hurt.

Alright, you're not going to be flying anytime soon. You can work on your gliding where it isn't a long fall later.

Check that nothing is broken. Hold still, and extend your limbs, one at a time, starting with your arms, then legs, followed by your wings, then tail.

??? 2012/08/14(Tue)00:05 No. 442795 ID: befc95
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I'm alright aside from my pride. I... I landed in my vomit. I suppose that is not so horrible, a bit of flesh as still viable in the mess. It was hastily snapped up.

The bands on my leg tangled a bit, and I'm having no luck with the chain versus my stubby claws. I find myself a bit hobbled in step. No matter.

I breath deeply, lungs aching with the full expanse but my heart is pounding pounding pounding at the openness of it all. I cautiously poke my head out, peering first to the sides to make sure my way is clear. Who knows if those things have up and left yet?

Comfortable that I'm safe I take my first look up. It's clear. I am... so very small. Even MOTHER in all her vastness couldn't fill it, I could fit her up there more times than I can imagine. The color... everything... everything is not cave colored. It's just so much....

>>442795
You must gather your courage before venturing forth!

??? 2012/08/14(Tue)00:23 No. 442802 ID: befc95
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I stumble back a bit, seating myself and taking a moment to clear my head, gather my thoughts...

This stuff is soft.

Well, you should have thought of how scary the world would be before you went and were a disappointment of a dragon. >:O

Go little dragon, go and live your adventure!

I'll be helpful and point out the End Ch.2 at the top-left of the image.