Sudden Dragon Girl Waifu Syndrome

(4:33:02 PM) Darkened: So, what is Johnny looking for specifically?
(4:33:07 PM) Darkened: Still trying to find greater danger?
(4:35:05 PM) Mishie|Johnny: After watching Ai wonder off in search of something something unimportant love bullshit whatever, Johnny thought to himself 'Well, I COULD follow her on her totally interesting adventure to solve a teenage love triangle via hand holding, I could instead actually find out what the fuck is going on here'
(4:36:17 PM) Mishie|Johnny: Plus he was fairly sure that he had figured out why being near her was dangerous and why being alone was also dangerous, the shop seemed to play into the hidden desires of it's victims in various ways, either by making them turn against each other or by temping them to the point where it's impossible for them to refuse
(4:37:17 PM) Mishie|Johnny: And since well, finding out what the shop thought would be his greatest temptation sounded a shitton more interesting than high school romcom hijinks, time to pick a random direction and hope for the best!
(4:43:19 PM) Darkened: The most danger is in the obvious bottomless pit right next to him.
(4:43:32 PM) Darkened: The nex tmost danger is a ways away down another indistinguishable corrider of shelves.
(4:44:12 PM) Darkened: Presuming Johnny goes, the shelves start to get farther and farther apart, before opening into a wide circular area devoid of products. He can hear incredibly loud breathing coming from the darkness toward the far end.
(4:52:40 PM) Mishie|Johnny: 'I'm fairly sure I know what this is going to be and that I don't want to see it, but goddamnit it's not like that's stopped me in the past'
(4:53:05 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny heads on over to investigate the loud breathing
(4:53:36 PM) Darkened: There seems to be a sleeping dragon.
(4:54:00 PM) Mishie|Johnny: ...
(4:54:45 PM) Mishie|Johnny: 'Technically this isn't what I feared it was, but at the same time, proooobably not great'
(4:54:54 PM) Mishie|Johnny: 'If only Ai was here to be a decoy...'
(4:56:31 PM) Mishie|Johnny: 'Fuckit, time for Plan B"
(4:56:36 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny coughs loudly
(4:58:57 PM) Darkened: It snores loudly.
(4:59:23 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny coughs even louder
(4:59:45 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Look, this is just going to be awkward for both of us"
(5:04:05 PM) Darkened: SNORE
(5:04:28 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny looks around the rest of the room
(5:07:44 PM) Darkened: It's a wide place, cleared for a dragon.
(5:08:09 PM) Darkened: The 'walls' are more shelves of knicknacks and there's no way forward save, perhaps through the dragon.
(5:08:48 PM) Darkened: It is a large beast out of the western Cliche, with scales of tarnished gold and jaws that could devour a cow in one bite. Small trails of fire gather at its maw, the snoring of a terrifying creature. It's also, plainly, far far too large to fit inside the shop you saw outside.
(5:11:53 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny sighs
(5:13:00 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny walks up over to the dragon and starts shaking it's head until it wakes up
(5:13:14 PM) Darkened: An eye, slightly smaller than Johnny, opens as it looks at him.
(5:13:28 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Look, kinda sorry to do this, I know I hate being woken up from my naps, but I'm kind of in a rush and I've got shit I need to get done"
(5:13:52 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Also, I tried the awkward yet also polite cough"
(5:14:03 PM) Darkened: The dragons voice is heavy like the veins of the earth, worn and tired as the mountains, it's every word hums with the raw power brimming from the planet's core. "Go away, tired, napping."
(5:14:16 PM) Darkened: "No fights unless you pay."
(5:14:35 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Nah, not here to fight, just wanted to have a bit of a chat, totally worth being awake for buddy"
(5:14:48 PM) Darkened: "Have you paid?"
(5:15:19 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "I haven't paid for a fight"
(5:15:47 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Nothing wrong with a chat to sort things out first though right?"
(5:17:33 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "If you're interested, there's a cute girl running around here that I'm fairly sure qualifies as a princess"
(5:18:06 PM) Darkened: "Rescuing a princess costs extra."
(5:18:38 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "True, true..."
(5:18:46 PM) Darkened: "And you're interrupting my nap. If you don't want to be a hero, then why bother coming?"
(5:26:00 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well, funny story right, I was just minding my own business trying to get my own shit sorted out, kiiiinda similar to this so you can understand why I was so annoyed by it"
(5:26:27 PM) Darkened: "Boring."
(5:26:46 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "When all of a sudden I've got to deal with all these shenanigans about people making deals and shit, with all kinds of hilarious consequences going on"
(5:27:29 PM) Darkened: "Their fault. If adventure isn't what you're looking for then wander away little Power."
(5:28:57 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well how about this then, why don't you tell me what you're offering"
(5:28:57 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Everything has been incredibly vague about what's involved in this, why not just simplify things for me so I can leave you to your nap"
(5:29:32 PM) Darkened: "YOu want a challenge, to overcome something mighty and obtain what you want."
(5:29:39 PM) Darkened: "So you pay me and fight me and then triumph."
(5:29:59 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "And the cost?"
(5:30:09 PM) Darkened: He shrugs, "What are you willing to pay?"
(5:32:20 PM) Darkened: "And what is it you want?"
(5:32:50 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Like I said before, I'm just here to find out what's going on"
(5:34:07 PM) Darkened: "Oh, but what do you want?"
(5:34:26 PM) Darkened: "This is a place that exists to grant your pleasures."
(5:39:40 PM) Darkened: "What secret moves your heart?"
(5:41:19 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "hmmmmm"
(5:41:27 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "All sorts of fun things really"
(5:41:33 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "But that's the problem with this place"
(5:41:40 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "You're just too boring"
(5:42:35 PM) Darkened: "Boring? Well, what isn't I guess."
(5:43:02 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "But that's the thing right, here you are offering what's apparently all this top quality shit"
(5:43:08 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "But there's no fun to it"
(5:43:52 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "You're apparently part of some bargain adventurer package, where the hero goes off to fight the dragon but there's no heart to it"
(5:44:24 PM) Darkened: "Perhaps you could take that as a comment on the nature of desire?"
(5:44:34 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny shrugs
(5:44:46 PM) Darkened: "If you'd rather I kill you, I can do that instead if you pay."
(5:49:16 PM) Darkened: "But dreams are made to be sold, you know. If a drema was something you could do yourself, what would be the point in having it?"
(5:49:40 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "For the thrill of the chase of course"
(5:50:11 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Honestly, haven't you ever heard that shitty old phrase about how the journey and the destination and all that shit?"
(5:51:50 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Look, my main problem with this is the simple fact that the outcome is decided at the start"
(5:53:15 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Like I said, you're just boring"
(5:53:34 PM) Darkened: "If you'd rather do it for real, that's an option too."
(5:53:53 PM) Darkened: The dragon manages to shrug, "But when most people think of fighting a dragon, they'd like to assume they'll win."
(5:54:33 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Yeah, and you know what they say about assuming shit"
(5:54:39 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Ends hilariously"
(5:54:48 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "But that's what gives weight to it all"
(5:55:01 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "You're all style with no substance backing you up"
(5:55:22 PM) Darkened: The dragon yawns, a sound that shakes the shelves, "Are you going to pay, or just try to provoke me into working for free?"
(5:55:36 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "A fact is a fact"
(5:55:39 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "You're boring"
(5:56:04 PM) Darkened: "Shoo."
(5:56:08 PM) Darkened: It closes its eyes and lays down.
(5:56:14 PM) Lian|Fox left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.).
(6:09:17 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well then, I think I've figured out what not only what I want to buy, but what I'm willing to trade for it"
(6:09:41 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "A simple and fair trade"
(6:11:21 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Are you interested?"
(6:12:55 PM) Darkened: "What do you want?"
(6:14:41 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Like I said before, I'm interested in information about what's going on here and I'm willing to pay you in something that you've made quiet clear that you're interested in"
(6:15:28 PM) Darkened: "Which is?"
(6:16:07 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Peace and quiet"
(6:16:32 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "It must get annoying having to deal with people constantly coming in to harass you"
(6:16:55 PM) Darkened: "Why do you think I'm in the shop in the first place?"
(6:17:06 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny nods
(6:17:08 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Exaclty"
(6:17:15 PM) Mishie|Johnny: (exactly*)
(6:17:50 PM) Darkened: "I already bought my peace and quiet"
(6:18:29 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "And yet you still get harassed to be a generic villain for some wannabee hero's power fantasy"
(6:18:39 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "That definitely sounds relaxing"
(6:19:02 PM) Darkened: "It's a living."
(6:19:07 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny nods
(6:19:53 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Exactly, but at the same time you know that this is going to keep on going and going and going"
(6:20:06 PM) Darkened: "it's generally good when work keeps coming."
(6:20:42 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "So what I'm offering is to just simplify things a bit"
(6:21:22 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Like you said before, sometimes you don't want to go through all the hassle of adventuring and getting what you deserve, sometimes you just want to take the easy option"
(6:21:27 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "And that's what I'm offering"
(6:21:33 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "The permanent easy way out"
(6:21:46 PM) Darkened: "Suicide is generally not something you sell."
(6:22:50 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "True, but neither is the option to have all worries removed from your life"
(6:23:06 PM) Darkened: "What are you offering?"
(6:23:16 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "To put it simply, a risk free life"
(6:23:37 PM) Darkened: "What risk do I have?'
(6:26:05 PM) TWM|Ai is now known as theweepingman
(6:34:40 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Isn't it obvious?"
(6:34:57 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well, lets just ignore the fact that there's multiple Powers wandering around down here"
(6:35:18 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "And the fact that you're working with an Excrucian, because that always ends well"
(6:36:33 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "There's the simple fact that well, no matter what, this business isn't going to be around much longer so your current deal wont be good for much longer"
(6:37:04 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "What I'm offering is not only a way to walk out of this without any of it effecting you, but something that will effect you no matter where you go"
(6:37:19 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Simple peace and quiet without having to do anything for it"
(6:40:01 PM) Darkened: "And why would I want to give up my income?"
(6:40:28 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "You did hear the part about Excrucians and Powers right?"
(6:41:31 PM) Darkened: "Of little concern to me."
(6:41:36 PM) Darkened: "Unless that's a threat."
(6:42:18 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Nah, just pointing out that well, your job might not really be a thing for very long"
(6:44:57 PM) Darkened: "That's a threat, goodnight."
(6:45:00 PM) Darkened: It puts his head down.
(6:45:48 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny shrugs
(6:48:10 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Guess we're going with plan B then"
(6:48:58 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Here's the new, slightly less polite version of the deal"
(6:53:49 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Here's the funny thing right, as you may have guessed, my lil schtick is that I can fuck around with risk.  Offer A involved me being nice and giving you an easy way out of all of this so that when all this is done you get to walk out safe."
(6:53:54 PM) Darkened: The dragon yawns again, exposing very many sharp sharp teeth.
(6:54:22 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Sadly, we're going with Offer B, which is similar to the first, but is oddly enough pretty much the exact opposite"
(6:55:34 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "It's a win/win for everybody, I get to fuck around with you and you get to learn a valuable lesson about adventure and about how working hard for your dream makes it all the more worthwhile"
(6:56:04 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Sadly though, you'll be falling into the category of those that try their hardest, and well, kinda end up failing"
(6:56:34 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "To put it simply, every single moment of your life will be a fight for survival"
(6:56:51 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny starts to pace around the dragon as he monologues
(6:57:54 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "It'll be great!  You'll be able to connect back with your roots, be able to experience things like they used to be, not only having to deal with people constantly coming to kill you, but the very world itself going out of it's way to fuck you over"
(6:58:57 PM) Darkened: "Go away."
(7:06:53 PM) Darkened: There's a rumbling in the distance.
(7:07:00 PM) Darkened: The dragon snaps at Johnny.
(7:07:12 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny casually steps back out of reach
(7:07:19 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Temper temper"
(7:08:18 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Wait wait wait, you didn't think it would just effect you would it now?"
(7:25:24 PM) Darkened: "That," The dragon roars, "was a mistake."
(7:26:18 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Mistakes have definitely been made recently"
(7:26:45 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Like, this one time I tried to get Ai to actually do shit?"
(7:26:50 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Didn't work out at all"
(7:26:52 PM) Darkened: The dragon stands, and its footfalls threaten to crack the world.
(7:26:56 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Just turrible"
(7:27:21 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Ohhhhhh, you're talking about the bottemless pit where your treasure used to be"
(7:27:33 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Yeah, guess thems the risk of living in a place like this"
(7:27:34 PM) Darkened: "You speak of risk and yet think yourself protected from consequence. You take without paying or bargaining. You wake sleeping dragons because you think you cannot be harmed."
(7:28:10 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny shrugs
(7:28:32 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well, it's less that and more 'What would get this fat fuck to wake up and do something'"
(7:29:25 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Seriously, I flat out said that shit would end badly"
(7:29:34 PM) Darkened: "I am that which is ruin. My footfalls shatter the bones of the world. My breath is the death of winds, and my gaze shatters mystery."
(7:30:36 PM) Darkened: And the dragon is larger with every footfall, big enough to swallow the sun in a single bite, and yet still contained in this room.
(7:31:24 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "kay"
(7:33:03 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well, sadly I'm not one for dramatic monologueing like that, so just pretend that I said something classy about luck, danger being the spice of life and being the terror that flaps in the night"
(7:33:46 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny casually starts to jog backwards away from the dragon, always making sure to stay just out of reach
(7:35:05 PM) Darkened: "You who knows not struggle, to speak of danger and hypocracy, you who dares rouse me from my rest. Ruin will follow in your footsteps. Everything you love will crumble to ash. Fire will scour the joy and meaning from your life. Consequence even you cannot avoid will strike you. I am ruin, and I declare it so."
(7:35:33 PM) Darkened: Then the dragon turns on itself, devouring its own tail, its body and consuming even its head to vanish.
(7:35:44 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well then"
(7:36:55 PM) theweepingman is now known as TWM|Ai
(7:54:45 PM) ***TWM|Ai can see the dragon is annoyed by Johnny. Unfortunately, she doesn't want Johnny to die, so she thinks how to prevent the dragon from killing Johnny. Well, she hears the dragon's proclamation, so the best way to prevent it is...
(7:55:34 PM) ***TWM|Ai then channels the power of her secondary estate, trying to purify the dragon. So it can feel the love of Maiden, and preventing it from fulfilling it's destructive urge.
(7:58:04 PM) ***TWM|Ai she tries to guide the power to achieve the closest purity she knows - the highschool girls, holding hands together, on the field of lily. Maybe under the tree, too. Then she focused on the sensation, of that heart-beating, gentle excitement at being closer with someone they love...
(8:03:16 PM) Darkened: This leaves a rather confused looking schoolgirl-dragongirl standing in the room. "What?"
(8:04:33 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny looks between Ai and the dragongirl
(8:04:46 PM) ***TWM|Ai quickly makes the dragongirl loves and trust her.
(8:04:54 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Yeah see, this is exactly what I was talking about Ai, you done good"
(8:05:36 PM) ***TWM|Ai sits on the floor, huffs. "That takes a lot of me. You," she points to the dragon. "Comes here, I want to snuggle."
(8:05:49 PM) Darkened: "You!"
(8:05:52 PM) Darkened: She glares at Johnny
(8:05:56 PM) Darkened: "This is your fault!"
(8:06:11 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "I'm pretty sure that I warned you of this"
(8:06:17 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Like, exactly this thing"
(8:06:21 PM) Darkened: BITE
(8:06:47 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny laughs as he shakes off the angry dragongirl hanging from his arm by her teeth
(8:07:16 PM) Darkened: STRANGLE
(8:07:33 PM) Darkened: She doesn't seem to be acknowledging Ai's existence.
(8:08:36 PM) ***TWM|Ai sighs, and walk to the dragongirl, then poke her. "Hey, hey. Don't bit him, okay? I still need him. Preferably not wounded."
(8:09:02 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny keeps on laughing despite the fact that he's got a dragongirl straddling him trying to choke him
(8:10:33 PM) Darkened: "Going to make you pay for this..."
(8:10:43 PM) ***TWM|Ai raise her hands. "Alright, I'll tell him to lift... uh, whatever he does, and you stop biting him. Okay?"
(8:10:49 PM) Darkened: "I'll have to... that and.. hmm...."
(8:10:53 PM) Darkened: She walks off on her own.
(8:11:07 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny stands up and brushes himself off
(8:11:09 PM) Darkened: Into the shelves.
(8:11:18 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Is that why you decided to jump all over me like that?"
(8:11:41 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Also, you do know that now that this has happened, this is proooobably going to make your current contract null"
(8:12:02 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Plus there's the fact that there's that whole risk thing going on with you"
(8:12:13 PM) Darkened: Much charging back, holding something in her hands!
(8:12:15 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "So if you want that dealt with it might be a good idea to have a lil chat with us"
(8:12:35 PM) Darkened: It looks to be a small circlet made of gold chain with a longer gold chain attached to it.
(8:12:42 PM) ***TWM|Ai sighs, and summon lilies to hold the dragon in place.
(8:13:11 PM) Darkened: She tears through them without stopping.
(8:13:11 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny looks at the circlet
(8:13:17 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "And this is?"
(8:13:30 PM) Darkened: Much trying to collar Johnny
(8:13:30 PM) ***TWM|Ai shrug, and summon more lilies to hold the dragon.
(8:13:41 PM) Darkened: This proves equally ineffective!
(8:14:00 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny slips around and in the scuffle the collar ends up around the dragongirls neck
(8:14:10 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well then, this is pretty forward of you"
(8:20:29 PM) Darkened: The collar simply melts through her neck, cooling and reforming in a slightly harder variety as she keeps trying.
(8:23:57 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny stops fighting her, grabs the circlet and puts it around his neck "Well, if it means that much to you, how could I possibly refuse such a lovely gift"
(8:24:37 PM) Darkened: "Hmph!"
(8:24:53 PM) Darkened: She grabs the attached chain and starts yanking Johnny toward the exit.
(8:25:28 PM) ***TWM|Ai sighs, and make the dragongirl trust Johnny instead.
(8:27:25 PM) ***TWM|Ai shrug, and decided to leave them be.
(8:27:40 PM) ***TWM|Ai shouts, "Don't stray too far, Johnny!"
(8:28:19 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Y'know, this would be a lot easier for you if you just explained what you wanted to do"
(8:30:51 PM) Darkened: "You broke my hoard and messed with my mind, so you're replacing it and we're leaving! Now stop talking."
(8:31:02 PM) ***Mishie|Johnny nods along
(8:32:29 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well sadly I can't really leave until we sort all this out"
(8:32:54 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "hmmm"
(8:33:29 PM) Darkened: 0 fucks are given! Also Johnny finds out that even schoolgirl dragons are stronger than he is!
(8:35:39 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Also, there's the fact that once we get this sorted out, that leaves me with a lot more time to get you back your hoard"
(8:38:38 PM) Darkened: "Get... it back?"
(8:38:42 PM) Darkened: She slows!
(8:38:51 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Well yeah"
(8:39:32 PM) Darkened: "Do it."
(8:39:33 PM) Darkened: "now."
(8:39:48 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "Remember the being able to manipulate risk thing?  Trust me when I say that makes making money pretty darn easy"
(8:42:29 PM) Darkened: "I don't care about paper."
(8:42:47 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "of course"
(8:42:58 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "But paper can be exchanged for gold and precious jewels"
(8:43:05 PM) Mishie|Johnny: "And all sorts of other lovely thing"
(9:00:44 PM) Darkened: "Those aren't really worthwhile."
(9:00:54 PM) Darkened: "Cheap trash isn't worth my time!"