Jump 197: Dragonlance

Jump 197: Dragonlance

Location: [50] Plains of Dust, Krynn, 421 AC
Age: 24
Identity: Drop-In, Human
Drawbacks: [+600] Damned

[100/1550]  Alignment Choice
[300/1550]  Noble
[600/1550]  Tower Trained
[900/1550]  Hedgemage
[1200/1550] Archmage of High Sorcery
[1050/1550] Renegade Magecraft

Running around trying to figure out the insanity that this world wants to throw at me is one thing. Dealing with the thrice-damned kender is quite another. I could wax poetic about the contrived circumstances that life seemed to throw my way as I wandered the world, and I tried to give the benefit of the doubts to the locals, but... random adventurers being pitted against me? The local magic itself seeming to conspire to fail or backfire in improbable ways? There's a certain point where it's just ridiculous, and it really did not take long to reach it.

The local gods may have expected several possible things, but having a massive dragon abruptly ascending to their realm and expressing his unhappiness was not one of them. At first, of course, it was verbal; the dragon tried to express his disappointment with certain behaviors, even if he was himself not a local. But of course, things escalated, as they do.

The escalation may have happened after he expressed particular questions about the kender, such as "why do they act like turbo autists and look like they live in the uncanny valley". And when the response of one of the gods was violent, the response from the dragon was to firstly point out that the attack was completely ineffective, and secondly to twist the local magic to abruptly and forcibly reincarnate the entire kender race into something else.

This, of course, set off the local gods. An outsider making blatant displays and meddling in what they saw as their affairs - even if provoked - was something that they simply could not tolerate.

The battle was as brief as it was one-sided. But they would have plenty of time to think whether they should have incurred an outsider's wrath for the crime of being in what was once their, and now his, world.

They would in fact have an entire mortal lifetime.

A pity that most of them would use it to stew in their regrets and anger.