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This is pretty simple really, we're just going to design a dragon by committee. I'll post a choice roughly once a day, and y'all vote on it CYOA-style. First up, what sort of tone is our setting? A) Derivative Fantasy - Elves and dwarves and wizards and paladins. You know what you're asking for. B) Pulp Fantasy - The stories may be derivative but the setting has a lot of room for imagination. C) Fairy Tale - Stuff just sort of happens without much continuity. A lot of details sound impressive while being completely meaningless. D) Magical Realism - A world just like our own... E) Cartoon (Toyetic) - It's an excuse to mash action figures together. Think He-Man, Transformers, or Dinoriders. F) Cartoon (Slapstick) - It's an excuse for ultraviolence without anyone getting hurt. Think Looney Tunes. G) Other (write-in) - Every update is gonna have an Other (write-in) option. If Other wins a plurality, one of the write-in options will be chosen at random.
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E, because I haven't mentally aged past 11 and I still think dragons are cool.
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Apr 25, 2020 23:33
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D.) LEt's get shadowrun with it.
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Apr 25, 2020 23:40
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E - Our Dragon has Kung Fu Action Grip!
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Apr 25, 2020 23:55
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D. Internet Dragons!
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Apr 26, 2020 00:04
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Gimme Pulp
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Apr 26, 2020 00:21
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Apr 26, 2020 00:52
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Damn it Squid! I'm a dragon, not a doctor!
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Looks like we're going with Magical Realism, so the setting is straight-up Earth. But when and where will we awaken? When: A) Early Industrial - Sometime in the 18th or 19th centuries. The Age of Sail is yielding to the Industrial Age, civil society is getting its act together in Europe, and transnational institutions (mostly businesses) are coming into being. Human institutions are organized enough to become really efficient, but a dragon could still take on an entire nation without breaking a sweat. B) High Industrial - From the second half of the 19th century up to The Great War. Mechanization is everywhere, powered by steam and maybe electricity. Railroads connect most cities and the world is getting used to the "nation-state" concept. C) The World Wars (and the Interwar Period) - The wars are dangerous times even for a dragon, especially the second. The Roaring 20s, on the other hand, are a good time to hoard wealth and show it off. D) The Cold War - The world is haunted by two spectres: the memory of WWII, and the rivalry between the USA and USSR. Nuclear threats loom especially large in the public imagination. On the bright side, telecommunications explode and mature, and it's the dawn of the space age. Godzilla and James Bond are both extremely Cold War franchises. E) The End of History - It's the 1990s, the Cold War ended peacefully, and everything is gonna be great for humanity forever! F) The Internet Age - Well, that didn't last long. 2001-present, and the near future. G) Other (write-in) - Pre-industrial and far future aren't really in Magical Realism's wheelhouse, but feel free to get more specific. Where, narratively: 1) Urban - We live in the city and deal with people every day. Good for a business mogul or a politician. 2) Suburban - We interact with the city, but stay hidden most of the time. Good for a gangster or warlord. 3) Rural - We steer clear of the city, preferring to interact with small communities. Good for a friendly neighborhood dragon or a less ambitious warlord. 4) Wilderness - We avoid people as much as possible, though they keep making that hard. Good for a hermit. 5) Other (write-in) We need a geographic location, too! Nominate a city, state, or country to be our home. Anywhere in the world is fine.
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D1 - Eighties business dragon with serious shoulder pads
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Apr 26, 2020 20:43
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B4, rural England.
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C2
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Apr 26, 2020 21:09
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C1 loving depressiom era dragon hell yes
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A2
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Apr 26, 2020 23:39
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Benagain posted:C1 loving depressiom era dragon hell yes Yeah C1 seems cool
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D5 Brought forth like a tulpa from the planet's fear of nuclear holocaust, we were birthed in an Anarctic Research Base
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C1 The Great Depression awakens something unseen since the middle ages.
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F1 We're a turbo nerd dragon that breathes hot pixels.
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AJ_Impy posted:C1 The Great Depression awakens something unseen since the middle ages. Clearly we're a dragon whose horde consisted of stocks on the stock market, and the crash wiped out our whole horde.
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Urban and World Wars have it, and the interwar period specifically. Next up is what sort of treasure we hoard, but that's going to have to wait for the morning because there's a lot of weird stuff going on during the Great Depression. 
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It’s the Great Depression and we’re holding onto what we can, or maybe a bit before and … honestly, a lot of these are pretty stable assets so we’re not going to lose everything. Probably. Anyway, what treasure do we value and hoard? A) Lucre - The classic pile of gold and gems, or maybe cash. B) Financial instruments - Stocks and bonds and the like. This one’s going to take the hardest hit. C) Booze - A Prohibition kingpin? D) Real estate - The market’s busted, but we can still lord it over people. Worst case, we can pose dramatically on top of our properties. E) Hirelings - We’ve liquidated our hoard of valuables to hire an army of desperate laborers. We should put them to work on some project. F) Loyal minions - We have a personal connection with our minions, and they’ll stick with us through thick and thin. Also they know what a dragon will do to rats. G) Terror - Ha ha ha! Look at them scatter like ants! H) Admiration - Nothing better than opening a paper and reading headlines about how great we are. I) Gratitude - Making the world a better place, yielding a combination of H and J (but mostly virtue is its own reward). J) Other (write-in) - A combination of two of these? An Iguanamouth Unusual Hoard?
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Apr 28, 2020 15:09
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F, good help is everything.
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Abyssal Squid posted:C) Booze - A Prohibition kingpin? Yes!
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J - WEAPONS.
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J- a zoo of paranormal animals like unicorns. Partly to keep the old animals going, partly to sell off unicorn blood, wyvern acid etc to industrialists for Mad Cash
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Apr 28, 2020 17:07
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C cuz booze dragon
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Slaan posted:J- a zoo of paranormal animals like unicorns. Partly to keep the old animals going, partly to sell off unicorn blood, wyvern acid etc to industrialists for Mad Cash Cryptid hoard! Cryptid horde!
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For what it's worth, C, F, andDog Kisser posted:J - WEAPONS. all go together like bread and butter, so we might not even have to choose one or the other.
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C. Let's be a Dragon Don.
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At this point it's pretty clear we run a bootlegging empire that also traffics in magical creatures and pieces of them, but keep voting and we'll figure out which aspect we value above all. Votes for minions mean that that more than anything, we want underlings to rule over. Dealing contraband is just the means by which we recruit and retain them, for now. Votes for booze or rare beasts mean that more than anything, we just want a collection to admire/savor. We're only filling out that collection with violent crime because some laws recently made the collections themselves illegal. Nerts to that! Votes for weapons mean that more than anything, we just love killing people. Our private army of gangsters is our means to that end, and dealing contraband is how we support that. Votes for [b]other options[b] are probably over-complicating things now, but if you make a good case we might be able to fit it into our business. We're also learning more about our setting: going with the Prohibition/bootlegging angle means we're definitely in the United States, and with the magical creature smuggling we're probably based in a port city. Preferably away from the Feds and the East Coast, maybe New Orleans or Oakland.
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Booze or Rare Beasts in Oakland
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Rare Beasts getting trafficked over the lakes in Chicago like a true gangster
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