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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 3038592" data-attributes="member: 16166">“They hang around docks mostly, usually it takes a lot for them to swarm like that.  My family breeds them for hunting and prestige mainly, they’re usually fairly tame once you remove their plasma glands.*”Sailors watched with fascination as one of the boats exploded into flames and dozens of tiny dragons flew screaming into the fog.  Soon enough they were left behind, forced out of the minds of the crewmen as they returned to work.Within an hour dark shapes loomed through the fog on the far shore, large buildings took substance through the fog, and soon the streets of the city we in view once more.  The far shore was deserted and all of the buildings were in complete ruins.The Whale leaned heavily on Alexi’s shoulder.  “Welcome to the Outskirts boy, you’ll love it here, if we survive.”As the barge docked the sailors prepared crossbows and watched the streets carefully as the knights led their horses onto the pier.  There was a muttered farewell by the Captain before the oxen were whipped to move the barge back onto the waters as fast as it could.The rain pelted against the knights on the lonely shore.“This is possibly the most dangerous place in the world gentlemen.”  Boar slowly removed his heavy gauntlets and helm, resting them on his lap as he turned to the others.  His neck was scarred badly and his hands looked scarred by fire.  “This is my third journey, I know how bad this can get.”His hands moved purposely through the air as he chanted. “Su regar, al marn, telle pharn.”  Light glowed softly from his hands, then each of the knight’s breastplates showed similar illumination before fading.“We must make plans of attack gentlemen.”[sblock]*The Wagondriver’s Guide to Metropolis has much to say on the subject of Dragons, little of it good.  The mighty creatures of myth that devoured armies and stole princesses are far from the dragons we know of today in the city, for our dragons can be seen in dozens and are regularly targeted for extermination to prevent large scale fires.The Dragon’s fiery breath usually burns out of existence seconds after striking its target, the heat and flame dissipating too swiftly to force dense combustibles to ignite.  This is not the case with thatch roofing and other tinder-like substances.It is lucky that the largest populations of dragons are located in areas that possess vast amounts of water.  The dragons have a taste for ‘sweet’ liquids, mainly alcohol and pitch.  The heat that their plasma glands generate transform the fumes from the liquids into a sweet sticky substance that is akin to an addictive foodstuff to humans.Dragons that have had their glands removed seem to be content to live on a stable diet of pigeons and rats.  Without the gland to transform the fumes, the liquids lose all appeal. [/sblock]</blockquote>

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