A Scaly Visit-04/04/2024-Beets Sunwater
Apr 17, 2024 10:03:06 GMT
Andy D, Yinmaris, and 1 more like this
Post by Beets The Beetle (Feenix) on Apr 17, 2024 10:03:06 GMT
On a-finally-sunny morning Frigus finds a sealed envelop inside his letter box, sealed with a blob of green wax with the indent of what appears to be..a beetle?
Upon the envelop’s front in a big green scrawl reads:
‘ℱ𝓇𝒾ℊ𝓊𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒲𝒶𝒻𝒻𝓁ℯ𝓈,
𝒯𝒽ℯ 𝒩ℯ𝓌𝒾𝓈𝒽’ℋℴ𝓊𝓈ℯ ℴ𝓃 𝓉𝒽ℯ ℬ𝒾ℊ 𝒽𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒾𝓃 𝒩ℯ𝓌 ℋ𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒷ℴ𝓇𝓇ℴ𝓌,
𝒟𝒶𝓌𝓃𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈.’
Inside he finds a letter written in the same vibrant script.
Hello Frigus, and Waffles. Mhmm that name always always makes me hungry!
What I mean is-it makes me think of breakfast-not that I want to eat them, I mean I love dragons, who said anything about eating dragons?…
Guess what? I went to the Court of Dragons today with Ronk!
I’ll say I was invited as from the way the big guy was yelling, “Who wants to fight dragons?” I think he was inviting most of Daring Heights out on his adventure-I heard him from three streets over in Paradise Frost. Not that many seemed keen to join him. I mean if Ronk wanted to fight dragons he should’ve been here the other year when the Githyanki attacked with their flock of…
So I found Ronk at the The Three Headed Dragon along with heavy-Mendal, Yinmaris-met him at a date night the other month, nice guy, bunks with Ronk apparently-and a quite hung over Felix-who was starting the morning with a drink, right.
So turns out Ronk didn’t want to fight dragons at all, he wanted to see Reg-I mean Reginald, Sir Reginald Scalyton Esquire the Third-or something along the lines of that, turns out Ronk’s surprising specific. Any’flit, he wanted to see him and I think we both have it on good authority that the little dragonling felt the same way about his big-hearted bud.
So we were off to the Court of Dragons, and good flit too as I’d just bought up Paradise Frost’s entire stock of breakfast biscuits, a new creation by Jorious, bacon and cheese flavour-that were starting to be rather-pungent-in the rare sunny morning we were having.
Ronk was rather…Direct, in his approach to getting us to the Court of Dragons. Apparently saying, ‘I want to see Reginald’ to the Portal Plaza workers will only get you so far. Luckily I’d been before too of course and was able to assist with the details-bug’I surprised myself by doing that.
When we got there it was lovely as always, the blooms on the castle top, the little snoozing mounds of dragons here and there. So serene and peaceful, with the new addition of Ronk’s bellows for Reginald. Simply put, Queen Ophelia and Thalistrasza knew we were coming-and it was nap-time.
Ophelia was great though, she could tell Ronk was excited as was apparently Reginald to see his buddy-and buggin’heck is Reggie big now, he’s bigger than both of us!-What are they feeding them?
Talking of feeding-turns out fresh-homemade cookies and bacon and cheese biscuits are at hit with the dragonlings, just don’t expect to get your basket back. Or all your fingers.
Reginald was really buzzed to see Ronk though, he told me so, or me told him..I spoke to Reginald and translated back to Ronk-glad those Draconic lessons are coming in useful. Reggie had so many different ideas about all the flittin’cool things we do now that Ronk was here. Head to the mountains, go for a swim, get toasty in the lava. Ronk opted for a new one though, a flit’up the big tree to meet Wyrmewood.
We kinda turned it into a game, though turns out flying didn’t make it any easier-despite Mendal’s bellows that I was clearly cheating-if I can recall I’m the one who gave him those sticky climbing slip-ons. Thought Ronk had died at one point-and not for the only time today-just wait. But we all made it to the top-and headed in to ‘find’ and definitely not ‘kill’-I loudly made it clear-Wyrmewood,
Turns out Wyrmwood-big guy-and not used to guests-though it seems Reginald had been cowardly-keen to check out this guy’s pad-once he had a shield of adventures in front of him.
So it seems Wyrmwood, is a hoarder. Well I mean, dragons/hoards, we should have expected it, but bug’this guy had a lotta stuff stuffed inside this tree-all pretty shiny too.
Wyrm wasn’t too grumpy about it though, in fact it turns he wanted our help. It seemed a faberjay..faber-he..a big fancy gold egg stuck over with gems and stuff had gone missing, and he suspected one of dragonlings has taken it. Apparently Queen Ophelia wouldn’t take kindly to a cranky-creaky 60ft wooden-dragon stomping around accusing the littlies of pinching-I wouldn’t want to get on Thalistrasza’s bad side, especially even more during nap-time! How many times to baby dragons nap by the way? So he left it us to bring it back to him, and Reginald knew just where to look. We were off to see Godfrey.
So, Ronk jumped out the tree. Yes the big tree in the middle of the Court with the palace in it, on it/within it. Luckily Yin was quick thinking-and casting-else this reunion wouldn’t have lasted very long.
We found Godfrey glamming it up in his pretend nest in the meadow outside. He’s a beautiful gold dragon, his wings all shimmery and sparkly and…Bug’he’d eaten the egg hadn’t he? I mean I can’t fully agree with his choice of digestion but it really had done wonders for his complexion. Too bad Wyrmewood was gonna pound him into gold coin when he found out.
Luckily we decided to go seek help from Anacostia, she’d be the one help us out of this. So with all smiles and pleasantries at the Queen as we shuffled by we found Anacostia nest making and hypothetically-and then really-told her what had happened. Turns out Wyrmewood wouldn’t take the news well.
But! Anacostia had a really good flittin’idea, she said she could help us forge something new, and with self-appointment master-smither in the form of Mendal on the crew we decided this was the right thing to do!
A few of us offered up some stuff, Yin some gold and an old Shield, me 400 gold, Felix a bunch of gems. Ronk and Reggie made the mould and Mendal did his thing. I mean we weren’t about to let Godfrey get turned into a dragon-pancake, despite the fact it probably would’ve taught him a lesson about pinching. But soon the new Mendal-Egg was done-and it looked pretty-buggin’good, it was plenty shiny at any rate.
So it seemed we’d saved Godfrey’s bacon and cheese biscuit, Wyrmewood liked it, it was probably worth even more than the one he’d had before. I could almost hear Yin’s pained smile teeth grinding-couple hundred gold is a lot to loose for poor starving bards I suppose-glad I didn’t mention I how much I’ve been ‘accumulating’ these last couple years. Maybe I should setup my own little dragon-hoard.
Speaking of hoards, Wyrmewood was so chuffed he decided to let us take a pick of a gift each from his own. I ended up picking a pretty little cube with starry patterns all over that the pieces move on. Not managed to solve it yet-infact I somehow got my finger stuck in it earlier, buggin’heck did that hurt!
I didn’t really notice what the others picked but Ronk got a very special gift today too-besides another life-saving casting from Yinmaris as we exited Wyrmewood’s hollow-the big guy reminds me of me in my early adventuring days, except without wings and..bigger. Wyrme did some dragon-magic and gifted him a little dragonling carving of Reginald. One that will allow him to call Reginald to his side for a visit every few days. I think Ronk was happy about it, I couldn’t really see as I had something in my eye. Yes I cried alright it was a flittin’sweet moment!
Queen Ophelia of course knew what we’d really be up to of course-leader figures seem to know everything thats going on around’em. She kindly offered to send us home, but I made sure to give our apologies to Thalistrasza who was as kind and understanding as ever-you won’t buggin’believe how many tries it took met to write her name right!
So yeah, you’re all caught up now on our little excursion to the Court of Dragons. I don’t know how many times you’ve been recently with all that ‘heralding-business’ you and Orianna and the others have been up to, so maybe you already knew all about this and this letter was a big waste of time. But to be buggin’honest, even if you do, it doesn’t feel that way. The Court and all it’s dragons is such a wonderful place I don’t think spending time flittin’on it would ever be a bad thing in my mind.
Hope you and Frigus are both well? I’ll try and flit’by for a visit now the weather is holding!
Well, till then!
Hugs and kisses to both of you,
(in Dragonic)
ꌦꄲ꒤ꋪ ꊰ꒐ꏂꋊ꒯
ცɛɛɬʂ