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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7357316" data-attributes="member: 6683613">Two fights, with the same dragon, a young adult green. Maybe only the second one counts as a "fight"; the first was very much more a."flight", and a rude wake-up call to a party who were starting to feel like they were hot stuff at the lofty level of 4. But it did mean that when they rolled around for a rematch after a couple of quests to find appropriate gear and assistance, the dragon wildly underestimated them. Which is not to say it didn't give them a run for their money -- for starters, it never crossed their minds that it might be stealthy, so even after their setting up an elaborate ambush for it, it still took them totally by surprise. They did manage to lure it into the grotto with the hidden ballistas, as planned, but it was much more of a desperate scramble than they'd anticipated. And the ballistas didn't actually do anything; dragon armor is tough. In the end, though, the half-orc unlikely-knight-wannabe managed to flip the dragon on its back, and the human street-thug-and-unlikely-claimant-to-the-imperial-throne plunged a sword into its heart, slaying the beast and imbuing the blade with its venomous essence.Credit for the kill has been a point of contention between the two ever since, especially since, by ancient law, anyone who slays a dragon is from that moment forward a knight. (There is even an old tale about a clever teenage peasant girl earning a title by catching an amorous dragon in a grain explosion.) The half-orc dreams of being a knight and would make a damn good one, whereas nobody, not even his closest friends and companions, actually wants to see the street thug on the throne or gain any more legitimacy whatsoever. So it's kind of unfortunate that the latter is the one with the magic dragon sword. During a later foray into Fairyland, they bumped into the last surviving member of the old knightly order (Fairyland having only the most fleeting acquaintance with linear time), who was able to explain to them that true knighthood is about teamwork and therefore they are both knights. Which resolves one problem but not the other.</blockquote>

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