** BUY CANDY ** ** Bring plenty of blank cards ** Game Plan 1. Explain basic idea of game - tell everyone to start thinking about their dragons home 2. Chivvy everyone up 3. Explain rules - attributes - stuff cards - plot cards - basics of auction - Pastels 4. Q&A 5. Attribute auction 6. Stuff auction 7. Recap, 'who are you' - start process of generating elemental planes 8. Bring each dragons plot to completion - don't oppose them much, just gently to get them to generate dragon/home/plane descriptions. Be quick. 9. Start the main game - everyone says hi to each other 10. Death of void. Chamber scene. "Choose my regent well" 11. First council - motion for house majorness 12. Challenge - fighting 13. Second council - announcement of modification to charter 14. Challenge - poetry 15. Final council - vote for exile 16. Vote 17. Victory party ---------- ---------- << Write each dragons data sheet in the voice of their aide - Give a box with an OOC description of their advisor. >> The Kingdom of Earth - Aescolis What would you have me tell you of it, sire? Your predecessor, Narrog? He ruled with an iron will using dark magice of death and corruption. We never truly wished to serve him, you understand. He burrowed deep beneath the cities of the living. Filling their dreams with his whispers - despair was his tool and the dead responded to it most well. Corruption and death long stalked the world. His powers? They were mighty - mental control and the undead. Darkness swept creation - everywhere except within his own realm. In Aescolis, the underground halls of the dragons were kept alive with the light of molten gold. Gems sparkled in the great arches and silver and other precious metals flowed across the floors. I can tell you tales of their constructio... No? And the lives of those who live there? Ah, you are wise to ponder such things. Even now, in these later ages, his followers, ageless and patient, lurk beneath the earth. Wingless, these wyrms will surely serve you well with my advice. Their bodies are of twisted metal - shining as midnights dark gold. Though they control the dead, they do not kill - instead they wait. All things come to the earth in time. His den? Oh you are wise beyond our hopes sire. His den is a mighty stronghold. A deep cavern underneath the mountain of mists. Once the stronghold of dwarves, now turned to a more noble purpose. Deep within lies a hoard of precious artifacts... but this is not yet the true centre of power. Within the hoard lies hidden a crystal - it is within this crystal that the true palace of the earth dragons lies. The Kingdom of Water - Alatia Ah good, you are right on time. It's good to have a professional at the helm at last. "Know your enemies, make them friends, serve their needs, take your tithe..." Here are the details you requested about the current state of Alatia. To summarise, there are innumerable factions of pirates, traders, merfolk and such all jostling and arguing - as well as all kinds of monsters in the depths around the archipeligo. Though fiercly independant, they all know the wisdom of currying the favour of the dragons of water. How can you tell who is actually a water dragon? Well, the water-form shapeshifting trick can be copied - the surest way is to look for the eyes. The ocean is unmistakeable. Of course, a truly harmonious water dragon would say that as long as a being displays understanding, peace, hidden depths and an unstoppable strength then they are a water dragon. If it swims like a fish, talks like a monk and attacks like a tsunami... Our domain? Hummph. Well, I'm afraid I don't have an exact census - most of the servant spirits and such take the form of animals suited to the ice-caverns environment. Polar bears and penguins and so forth. Of course, it's all much easier to see from the castle. The castle. Over the frozen lake? The reflection of the ancestral lair? Well, what's the point of talking when you're obviously not prepared at all. Why don't you come back when you have something useful for me to do. The Kingdom of Fire - Orukthame Well, not everyone appreciates our lands - but we'll soon sort them out, eh? The lands where the sun fell - no better kingdom in all the worlds. Who could look upon its wasted plains without admiring the strength it breeds? And who could look out at all, without the power of fire which burns so brightly there as it is the only light. Its people call us demons - and rightly create fire to appease us. Seemingly so different from our home in the heavens, no? Wide streets, marble arches and olive groves. But a civilised facade is needed to contrast with the volcanic destruction we regularly visit. The venice of lava, they call it then. And to top it all, the volcano - you could descend its depths, there is but one safe route to the centre of th earth. But that would be a daft thing to do - the party's on the sun! Wine, dance, song... Deposing Apollo was the best thing we ever did. Of fire dragons as a family, what can be said? You get what you see, and if you don't like it we'll hit you until you know to keep your daft mouth shut. I guess we're a bit unpredictable sometimes - but we're sensible - we head to wherever there isn't trouble. The Kingdom of Air - Laputa Ahh, can you not feel the wind in your feathered-wings, delight in the mountains far below? See the earth-bound people struggling below, looking up in terror - my sweet? See how they struggle to build cities and civilsation? They are not our subjects. Pitiful things, they are the prey for the cliff-dwelling subjects of our world. The winged-leopard people who make such pleasant visitors to our court. Our court, such a lovely village of crystal set along the cliffs. Inspired by the oriental - but it's just the setting for the palace and its spire. Extending behind the four winds high enough that the stars tangle in your hair as you survey your realm... Everyones Tells Earth - The dragon of the earth has gems studded into his body. No matter his form, a ruby is visibly pulsing as a third eye on his forehead. Water - Eyes like deep oceans. None can see a dragon of water without being drawn to stare at those eyes. Fire - A mane of red hair, a red beard - and wings of fire. Subtlety isn't a fire dragons strong point