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smk_networkThe ghosts don't know as much history as the Castle Roogna ghosts, but they're more coherent. Are we going to get zombies too? I've never gone so long without seeing any zombies! Lacuna and Hiatus let me play with their zombie moat monster with them, but I never play with the zombie dragons so Stanley won't get jealous.
He's already a very pretty green!! He's the best dragon! He has six legs, vestigial wings that can even almost fly, and he's a steamer! Oh, and he's the Gap Dragon, that's very important in Xanth.
Xanth has lots of dragons. Fire dragons, water dragons, land dragons, air dragons, I'd have to ask the Good Magician how many, but they like to eat virgins. [ 8| ] In the past, a bunch were sacrificed to dragons who rescued them and decided they should be saved from their abusive villages instead, and there's a famous story of a human and dragon that ran away to the Isle of View to be unicorns instead! Isn't that sweet? [ 8| ]
So tell me all about your favorite ghosts, zombies, and dragons! And if your realm doesn't have any of those -- that's really sad, and I feel bad for you, but you can tell me your favorite story about a couple that proved true love is stronger than even a dragon's jaws! And dragon jaws are really strong. Stanley chomps rocks and swords!
'Kay!!!
Oh!!! And I'm Ivy! Hello!!
He's already a very pretty green!! He's the best dragon! He has six legs, vestigial wings that can even almost fly, and he's a steamer! Oh, and he's the Gap Dragon, that's very important in Xanth.
Xanth has lots of dragons. Fire dragons, water dragons, land dragons, air dragons, I'd have to ask the Good Magician how many, but they like to eat virgins. [ 8| ] In the past, a bunch were sacrificed to dragons who rescued them and decided they should be saved from their abusive villages instead, and there's a famous story of a human and dragon that ran away to the Isle of View to be unicorns instead! Isn't that sweet? [ 8| ]
So tell me all about your favorite ghosts, zombies, and dragons! And if your realm doesn't have any of those -- that's really sad, and I feel bad for you, but you can tell me your favorite story about a couple that proved true love is stronger than even a dragon's jaws! And dragon jaws are really strong. Stanley chomps rocks and swords!
'Kay!!!
Oh!!! And I'm Ivy! Hello!!
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Date: 2019-10-12 02:08 am (UTC)I don't think Alderaan has any dragons. But some planets in my galaxy do! I know because I saw a kryat dragon skull in a museum one time. It was huge!
[She spread her arms wide to emphasize it's hugeness.]
Some of its teeth were bigger than me!
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Date: 2019-10-12 02:27 am (UTC)She's a majestic creature of pure power. Her White Lightning can strike down any foe, and unmatched in grace and strength. She was my most trusted ally. I haven't seen anything here that really compares...though I will say that I'm not aware of any virgins ever being sacrificed to her.
[ He doesn't mention that 'she' is a pile of three trading cards. She's real in his heart, okay. And maybe was real once upon a time in Egypt. ]
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Date: 2019-10-12 02:41 am (UTC)Hi, Ivy. I'm Richie, and I've never seen a real dragon. But my friends and I ... we used to pretend they were real. And all kinds of other monsters, too. We made a game out of it.
[maybe talking about them will help him miss them less]
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Date: 2019-10-12 03:24 am (UTC)Yeah! Dragons get really big! Stanley would have been that big, but he was shrunk by my Knight in Shiny Armor when we first met, and turned back to my age! And I was only 3. His mate Stella was pretty annoyed, but she took over the Gap Chasm until he could get big again!
What's Alderaan like?
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Date: 2019-10-12 03:30 am (UTC)Gee, that's great! I know the Cyclops Brontes was pretty scared of being struck by lightning from his Dad, but I don't know of any lightning dragons! They say King Fracto Cumulo Nimbus used to just be a regular demon but then he spent too long discorporeal and now he can't turn solid anymore. I bet a dragon could beat his gaseous head!!
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Date: 2019-10-12 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-10-12 03:54 am (UTC)[a pause]
... Besides, sometimes we needed to pretend we were other people, for a while. Sometimes it was just more fun to think we were heroes. That we were important. Not just four dumb kids kicking around a tiny town in Maine that most of the world hadn't even heard of.
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Date: 2019-10-12 04:27 am (UTC)Yeah, I bet I'd be annoyed too if somebody did that. But what'd he shrink him for?
And Alderaan is really nice! It's peaceful and beautiful and lots of people like to come there for vacations. Plus we have thrantas! They're flying animals with big, wide wings that people can ride on. I've had thranta-riding lessons since I could barely walk, and my teacher says I'm almost ready to do it without him in the air with me! I can already handle the thranta by myself, but he has to fly nearby for now, just in case something happens.
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Date: 2019-10-12 04:47 am (UTC)What's a vacation?
Gee, that sounds neat!! Mother goes flying sometimes on Birds of Paradise plants she grows, but only in an emergency. Usually we ride centaurs instead, except for me, because Stanley's so big so he lets me ride on him!
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Date: 2019-10-12 04:50 am (UTC)And Maine? Is that the name of your world?
But Dragons ARE real? So why did you have to pretend? Or do you just mean you pretended to fight fake ones?
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Date: 2019-10-12 05:04 am (UTC)Blue Eyes could definitely take out any demon. She's perfect.
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Date: 2019-10-12 05:07 am (UTC)And a vacation is when you take a trip somewhere just for fun, usually for at least a couple of days. Or sometimes when you just take a break from work for about as long to relax; I think it can mean both things.
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Date: 2019-10-12 05:51 am (UTC)But trips are never fun. We use can-trips as safety traps in case of invasions. [ 8| ]
I guess we could never go on a break like that though, because we're always being... ourselves! But we're careful to enjoy voyages even when it's official business!
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Date: 2019-10-12 03:16 pm (UTC)Oh man, it's so hard to choose my favorite out of all those! I've met so many!
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Date: 2019-10-12 04:40 pm (UTC)Maine's the name of a piece of my world. We just called the whole thing "Earth", which is really boring, but most people from it are boring, so. There you go. And dragons aren't real on Earth, so we pretended to fight fake ones.
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Date: 2019-10-12 07:17 pm (UTC)Mundania. Do you believe in magic now?
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Date: 2019-10-13 04:42 pm (UTC)My favorite ghost is Duckworth! He's Scrooge's butler!
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Date: 2019-10-13 05:00 pm (UTC)Those are rather interesting tales. It's not often one hears tales of dragons that doesn't just involve fire and death.
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