Voice Test

[lifeban]

[look i am absolute dogshit at coming up with prompts for these and when i do we end up doing something totally different, SO

take your pick

and/or just ask for ridiculous texting

or propose something]

Comments

[eggstinction]

You are a more modest kind of dragon than my own...

[takes the coat and hesitates, considering his lower arms. after a brief internal debate he hops off the desk and moves away so that none of the salt from dismissing his arms will fall in the sleeping area. the jacket can't FULLY contain the tid, but he fastens it up most of the way]

[lifeban]

Vidyadhara. Not a dragon. And it's my personal preference.

[kind of winces at the salt, did not really process he was disarming him.]

[eggstinction]

[tips one of his remaining hands palm up in an acknowledging gesture]

I apologize, I am not familiar with Vidyadhara.

[lifeban]

Most aren't. My kind don't usually leave the Xianxhou, and as you can see, I was disguised.

[eggstinction]

[nods, lots of dragons and demons keep exclusively to their territories. humans too. and he certainly wears disguises.]

I see. I mistook you for a common dragon, such as my form is now— excepting my eyes.

[lifeban]

I see... I'm unfamiliar. We are colloquially referred to as dragons, of course, but it felt wrong coming from a real one. We were granted immortality by the Aeon of Permanence, and these kinds of features are related.

[eggstinction]

[swings a suddenly much more sharply evaluating look at him]

...

That is a trait that my descendants have not inherited.

[lifeban]

[teeeeense tailflick.]

That's probably safer for them.

[eggstinction]

Certainly, I agree. We did not pick which traits they inherited, but I would not choose that for them.

Might I ask how old you are?

[lifeban]

...To clarify, Vidyadhara reincarnate. But I am not my previous incarnation.

[we do not need to talk about the statue.]

Coming up on six hundred.

[eggstinction]

[...looks down to examine one of his claws, sparing dan heng from having this dragon god stare at him]

They did not inherit that from us either.

[lifeban]

...

This may be an awkward question, but...

[eggstinction]

You may ask.

[lifeban]

Are your descendants fertile?

[eggstinction]

...

Yes. Quite.

[lifeban]

Vidyadhara aren't.

[eggstinction]

But then who laid the eggs?

[lifeban]

On death, we reenter our shells.

Provided we weren't killed in a way that doesn't allow for it.

[eggstinction]

That is... not like my descendants, but it does resemble their progenitors. They could not produce more of our kind in those lives, but they did sire and lay hybrids. Those gave rise to the common dragons known today.

[ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE NOT DRAGONS]

[lifeban]

[he's VERY SURE,,]

Hybrids are also impossible for us.

[eggstinction]

[sighs a little and swishes his tail]

It is only a comparison of curiosities, ultimately. They are not here, and I am an exception to their natures, not a representative. In my current state, I neither reproduce nor reincarnate.

[lifeban]

...Because you're dreaming?

[eggstinction]

Ah, yes and no… Their reincarnations are, in truth, a cycle of dreams. But I am as a lucid dreamer.

I am not fully immersed in this reality, so thus I suspect my sterility, but nor am I wounded by death. If I am killed, I can begin same dream again.

[lifeban]

...

Then I won't try to warn you away more than I already have.

[eggstinction]

You were concerned for my sake?