Dragon's Keep is a semi-lit/literate roleplay held on Discord.
It takes inspiration from fantasy and is influenced by mythology from around the world as well as our own minds.
Our current story takes place in Azielan, an eastern-influenced continent.
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Post by Frigs|Bär|Brute on Aug 29, 2018 20:14:56 GMT -6
Mornings after hard partying were always awful. Sure in the moment everything is great and fun and you can totally handle a twelfth plate of sweets and one more drink won't hurt anything. Then you wake up and your everything hurts and you wanna just huddle against your space heater of a partner. Unfortunately for Bär, the sun is a traitor and her eagerness to help out new friends had her peeling herself away from Brute's warm scales and out into the mess left from the festival.
It was only right she join the cleaning crew, after all she and Brute left good sized scorch marks from their fire show. To bad the Keep was classy and just didn't have dirt everywhere. Much easier to clean. Adjusting her ponytail and grabbing a cleaning rag from the sizable pile of supplies, the elf hopped to it. Well, as much as one can hop after just waking up. She must have lost some of her party tolerance after being stationary for so long. Was this how everyone felt after a good time?
Note: (( Anyone is free to join the cleaning crew, hope I'm doing this right. This granny hasn't used forums in a while ;;; ))
Post by Noa | Nikoli on Aug 29, 2018 20:58:32 GMT -6
Winter could get could this far up north, but good gods a clean sky and a winter sun could be a real biatch to black clothing. Wearing all the layers to protect ones self from the cold air also left one susceptible to needless heat. One moment you were prying off your gloves, the next you could feel the frostbite catching up to them. There was no in between.
Nikoli had made the decision not to wear his cloak that morning, trying to achieve that middle ground of body heat and coolness. It didn't work though, he was still burning up. Sucks to be too much of a man. He sat at the lake side, Ruhig there too, taking a breather from the chaos that he had experienced last night. It was hard being the level headed friend who had to calm everyone down.
But now that was behind him and he just wanted a break. Standing back up, Nikoli walked out into the festival, which was now being packed up and cleaned. His Atlor dragon followed closely behind, quiet as ever.
As Nikoli began to whistle a tune, he noticed a girl hard at work cleaning. He recognized her from the night before, faintly though. The sight of her was ironic; pretty and working away at some dark stains, presumably burns, on the ground. This got his curiosity going.
Nikoli approached her and spoke, "What's a pretty girl doing cleaning up a mess like this?"
Post by Frigs|Bär|Brute on Aug 29, 2018 22:06:07 GMT -6
Bär swiped at the dark marks, a good portion of the dark marks lifting up with the rag, but of course the faint bits left behind would need a bit more force. Luckily burns weren't the worst thing to clean, at least not off of stone and such. Wood was another story- To focused, Bär actually jumped at the sound of someone talking to her. That was new.
"Oh, morning!" She chirped, or tried to. It came out as tired happy rather than peppy happy, but she tried. She bit confused at his question, what did pretty have to do with cleaning? Bär brushed back some loose hair, leaving a smudge on her face and turned to face the fluffy looking human, "Ah, this was my doing. My partner Brute and I made a bit of a mess, so I should clean it."
As if on cue, the large Bryne made his entrance with a large yawn, having gone in search of his rider when he woke to find her gone, 'Oi, careful on your wrist tiny. You need that thing.'
"Morning," Bär yawned back, ignoring his comment, "So did you have fun at the festival mister...?" Oh right, he was one lf the new ones. She still didnt know everyone, what a shame!
Post by Noa | Nikoli on Aug 29, 2018 22:34:50 GMT -6
Nikoli chuckled, seeing how little she cared about whether or not she was getting dirty or not doing her task. Who needed self cleanliness when there was needed work to be done?
"Now I'm curious to know what you and your brute friend did to do this," he said joking, putting his hands on his hips. Just as he finished his words, a large shadow cast over them. Nikoli felt his stomach sink a little as he looked up at the large Bryne, eyes wide in surprise. "That...is your partner," he said quietly. "Damn, that is one big dragon..."
Ruhig on the otherhand, didn't even look up but tensed, sniffing the air near Brute. Her glassy, blank white eyes twinkled in the sunlight at a hint of intrigue.
"Nikoli," Nikoli finished Bär's sentence. "And yeah, I enjoyed it...some of it." He scratched his chin sheepishly (an expression surprising coming from someone as gruff and rugged as he was....though still a little fluffy). "Do you need help? I feel bad just standing here watching you scrub."
Post by Frigs|Bär|Brute on Aug 30, 2018 0:54:47 GMT -6
Brute puffed himself up a bit. Never to early to have an ego boost after all. He looked down at this Nickle-eye and his partner. Atler's were so odd to him, he had a hard time comprehending how a dragon could be so small. To be fair, Haewen's height confused him as well, but they were weird for far more reasons. 'Specially the noodle ones. 'Morning,' he rumbled to the two, choosing to cut his posturing a bit short and sit out of the way of the clean up team. His size got in the way of cleaning, often resulting in more mess. Didn't mean he couldn't supervise though, or move things. Besides, he couldn't very well leave his partner here with strangers. They could be bullies.
"Ha, yeah, Brute's great! We put on a fire show last night," Bär said, clearly a bit more energetic with her best friend here. She was gearing up to launch into a list of questions about Nikoli and his own dragon, but cut it short when he asked if there was anything he could do, "Oh, well, if you want to help, here."
Bär got to her feet and grabbed another rag from the pile to give him, "It's nice to meet you by the way, I'm Bär." She gave Nikoli a smile before looking to the dark and scaley figure beside him, "Sorry, I forgot to ask for your name!"
And lo, the bard's desire to be friends with everyone made it's attempt to send them into a round about of introductions... But not on this day, dear reader. No no, instead at that moment another member of the clean up crew tripped over left over litter, sending the melted desserts spilling across the ground and all over the scorched stones. Fun.
Noa | Nikoli Note: (( Anyone is free to join the cleaning crew, hope I'm doing this right. This granny hasn't used forums in a while ;;; ))
Post by Noa | Nikoli on Aug 30, 2018 11:36:15 GMT -6
"Morning," Nikoli replied in turn, cupping a hand over his eyes just to look up at the dragon without staring into direct sunlight. He looked back down at the girl, raising his brow curiously. "Fire show, huh?" Nikoli said. "Damn...how could I miss something like that?" He was still a little new to the whole magic thing; someone (someone cute for that matter) wielding fire alongside a dragon was badass in concept and probably more so in person. Deep down, Niko was a little upset he missed it.
Once Bär handed him the cleaning supplies, he got right to it on one of the spots. Nikoli looked back at her again, cockadoodledooing an eyebrow. "Bear, huh?" he said. Well, now that he thought about it, that mass of hair of hers might have well been a bear in disguise. Elves in halflings had such strange names....Bear, Tequila...
Ruhig raised her head, ears turning in Bär's direction. "I am Ruhig," she replied softly. The atlor glanced back in Brute's direction, though it was as if she couldn't see where he was directly. From his big steps earlier, she could just feel the power and mass of his body, it reminded her of an old friend...
Creeping back over to her rider, Ruhig took one of the rags in her mouth. She turned her head to Nikoli, a clear, unspoken question there. Her rider knew of course, sighing a little and leaning forward, tapping a spot on the ground where there was another scorch mark. "There's a mess here--" Nikoli's words were cut off when someone tripped and dropped a whole bunch of desserts across the ground, very creamy desserts that made the mess even bigger.
"Oh for the gods sakes-- you better be cleaning that up!" Nikoli scolded. Man it was like you could flip the switch for upset dad mode on.
No matter what the weather was, Gardenia had always gone out for a run in the morning. It was nice to be alone, in shape, and well just watch the sunrise- it was.. relaxing. Just so happens that when the girl finished, her legs walked her to the festival area. Why? Well she has no idea as to why, but here she is. The festival was fun, but huge events like that arent for the grouch. Hearing a familiar voice belonging to that of an elf, gardenia leads to that direction. Bär- what are you doing honey.
”What are you doing?” After running a hand through her hair, and putting a hand to her hip, the human just glares at the cleaning. why is bar doing such a thing? Thats the festival peoples job- “i dont get why you’re helping, it shuldnt be your job” Oh.. another person was here- Cue her guard going up even more. You see, gardenia has this weird thing where she secretly looks out for some people. An example would be Lanie, bär is also apart of that now. So the fact a male is here, probably flirting, and the girl has never spoken to him before, leads Gardenia to be suspicious.
“oh its you” As her grey eyes stared at niko, an eyebrow was lifted. Never spoken to him, but hes been hanging around her son recently- //squints// jealous? PFFT N N NO! “and your here why?” A scoff was given to the old man. He was here to flirt with an innocent girl correct? “i thought you would be with..him- you two seem awfully close, even though ive never met you” He must be new.Giving a glare to niko, and without uttering a simple ‘goodmorning’ to either of them, her attention went back to the elf. “if your tired u should rest, but i guess an idiot as yourself wouldnt understand such a thing.” Here they are cleaning.. gross. Just because shes here, dont expect her to help clean, or be nice to either of them- even if nikoli looks after alister //coughs//.
Somehow the human always ends up running into unwanted pests. So annoying.
Post by Frigs|Bär|Brute on Aug 30, 2018 16:28:05 GMT -6
Ruhig was a very nice name, to bad Bär was unable to say as much with the dessert dropper apologizing loudly. "Don't worry, it's fine!" She said, miraculously keeping her hair out of the sticky spill, "I was cleaning here anyways, I can take care of it."
Something could be said about how instead of offering help the clumsy cleaner ran off without another word. It wouldn't be said by Bär though, she was to oblivious to such things. Brute, however, was not. He gave an unhappy puff of breath, noting the runaway's face, just in case. 'Here, I got it,' he said, seeing Ruhig with a rag and ready to clean had made him feel a bit outdone. So, leaning down he swiped part of sweet the mess up and... into his mouth. Dammit dude- Bär was clearly unhappy with that, having grown wary of what the Bryne ate ever since the zombie incident. Of course he couldn't be expected to learn from his mistakes now could he?
"You're going to get sick," she sighed, before a very familiar mom voice rang out. Ahhh mama Gardenia, "Morning Denia! I thought it'd be fine to help, a few other riders are, so y'know, might as well help. Besides," she went to adjust her hair, leaving more charred smudges on herself, "I can make up sleep later~!"
Noa | NikoliGardenia, Note: (( I forgot to change this last time hahaha, MOTHER GARDENIA ))
Post by Noa | Nikoli on Aug 30, 2018 17:17:23 GMT -6
Nikoli sat up a bit straighter now, seeing this coward run from the spill. "HEY! Get back here and clean this shi--...nevermind," he said, ending in defeat. He glanced to Bär, who really didn't seem to mind the fact that this guy was just leaving it all to them. It was better off he was the one who was upset, this elf seemed to be in high spirits (and he kinda needed the company of someone like that after all that happened).
Ruhig jumped back as Brute took a whole wallop of dessert and cream into his mouth. It...looked fun? The atlor sniffed the mess again before looking up to Brute. "Does it...taste good?" she asked. Ruhig didn't wait too long to try some of the remnants herself as she stuck out her small lizard tongue to try. Her head drew back, but she leaned down again to taste some more.
Nikoli looked up from his scrubbing, eyes widening as he stared at his dragon. "You never told me you liked sweets."
"I like it..." she replied faintly.
Nikoli shook his head, just about ready to return to cleaning and some quaint conversation when someone else walked up. He lifted his eyes to her, squinting at the way she addressed him. "Do I know you?" he asked. Nikoli quickly looked to Bär. "You're losing sleep over this?"
HAHAH-mama gardenia. Sorry that was so cute i laughed- Thats something she would step on you for if said aloud. Either way its something the tsundere would decline. “g-good morning” The human just crosses her arms over her chest with a harsh sigh. Bar you are sweet wtf //sobs//. Gardenia stayed silent for some time, until she glances back over to the elf busy at work. “i see... you really are a helpful idiot- i mean- look at you? Your face is smudged, how disgusting!” Bar wasnt here for long, yet shes working hard and already dirty? Tch. “if people take advantage of you, i told u so” With an eyeroll, her gaze landed on brute. “shes right, stop making yourself sick-“ not like she cares, get sick if you want.
Now as for Nikoli... Gardenias head snapped quickly to look at him. Whats with that look on your face? “If we met, you would have already known me you fool” Not like she would want to meet you-Gardenia hates meeting others. I mean, she has more enemies then friends- though, how she got these so ‘friends’ surprises me. “Even if we met before, which we havent, i would have hated every moment of it” With her normal icey glare, the human dosent hesitate to put her heel on nikoli. Well.. she wont say this, but u seem like a good guy. helping bar- looking after ali. “Perhaps u arent entirely useless if u can help”
A quick press of her heel was given then she moves away from him. “ Name is gardenia- newbie” tired? ofc she wuld be tired? how could bar not be. “its obvious- in my opinion, hmph” Looking at bar for a moment, gardenia decides to speak again. “rest then u optimistic moron. I hate useless people.” Acutally, being optimistic is something she wuld like to be... But saying such a thing wont happen. “are you two familiar with each other then...” Perhaps they met at the festival? maybe earlier? Hm who knows.. wondering about it is annoying and very much uneeded. “bar... clean your face- its pissing me off.” Squinting at the poor girl wont make the smudges go away gardenia OTL. Why is the tsundere so difficult.
Post by Frigs|Bär|Brute on Aug 30, 2018 19:35:00 GMT -6
Brute couldn't help but give Ruhig one of his overly toothy grins, though to be fair all his grins had to many teeth. The smaller dragon was surprisingly funny, whether she meant to be or not, it was cute. Of course, like most good things, it was stopped when Gardenia had to show up. Brute still wasn't a fan.
"What? No, I'm fine," Bär said, tilting her head in confusion. Hadn't everyone that stayed up with the festival stayed up late? She definitely remembered at least half of her friends being there, "Just stayed up late like the others did. Sun wakes me up anyways."
'What's it matter to you anyway, midget?' Brute rumbled, eyeing Gardenia and slowly getting suspicious of Nikoli. Bär's sleep schedule didn't involve using them as a bed... he was pretty sure it didn't anyways. Still, the dragon's unsure distaste for the human company didn't seem to rub off on his rider, as she was perfectly content to smile and listen to them, if her reaction to being told to clean up was anything to go by.
"I have something on my face?" The elf questioned, bringing a hand to her cheek and patting around. God she was stupid-
Post by Noa | Nikoli on Aug 30, 2018 20:43:22 GMT -6
Nikoli grunted in pain as Gardenia practically drilled her heel right into his shoulder blade. He glared up at her questioningly. What the hell was her deal? Why the attitude? And not so useless? "The hell is that supposed to mean?" he questioned.
As she thankfully pulled her foot away (Not without giving him on push tho...that was gonna leave a scar), Nikoli brushed off his shoulder. "Nikoli," he merely grunted in reply with spite. Gardenia talking of her hate of useless people really had Nikoli tempted to point out how ironic her words were, but decided not too. Don't fan the flames she started, Nikoli thought to himself.
The man sighed, straightening a little. "We only met a couple minutes ago," Nikoli shrugged. "I thought I might be of some use and help her clean." Hearing the large dragon speak again made him a little wary once again. Nikoli glanced to Brute, frowning a little. "It's not good for anyone to work on little to no sleep," he replied. Then again, did anyone sleep last night?
Gods, did someone stick a pole up this girl's arse? Gardenia really didn't seem to care about the well being of others, which actually meant she did care. She was being rude while also trying to give advice. What was this?! Bar didn't seem to catch on as she was dumbly patting her face like it were a drum for this mysterious "something" on her face.
"You got some soot on your face," Nikoli pointed out. "But hey...it's not bad. We kind of match." He grinned as he tapped the black line of paint on his face. For whatever reason he sensed this could just annoy Gardenia.
I guess a grunt from the old man will do, but a scream in pain would have been better. Who said you could speak- “use your brain, its not hard” As her gaze unwavered from stepping on the male, her heel dug deeper. Soon her foot was off of him and that was when nikoli stood up introducing himself. Smart man//sobs// not adding more fuel. Gardenia wouldnt hesitate to punch u in the throat so- good on ya. “Nikoli.. i see”
Midget? Just bc ur a big arse dragon dosent mean u can call her a midget- SHES AVERAGE HEIGHT WITHOUT HEELS THANK U VERY MUCH! “Watch your tone- drop dead for all i care then” A rather harsh tone was in her voice. How dare you say that to the ice queen! Lucky for you she dosent have anything sharp.. Dragon or not, that wont stop gardenia from attacking..
Acutally yes Nikoli, a pole was always stuck up this girls ass. Im sure the word being ‘nice’ was very unfamiliar with her, since- thats something she can never be. Also its called being a tsun smh. With a harsh sigh, gardenia shakes her head at the idiots. Exhausting already- “Its called using a damn mirror. go find one then- im not lying about it” Bar, sweetie, you’re to dense, it pains the human OTL
Thanks for being more annoying nikoli . Gardenia’s eye twitches for a few seconds before saying anything. “childish- im sure no one would want to match with u-“ Grabbing two new cloths, gardenia walks over to nikoli first. Her heel met his foot and once he bent over a cloth was shoved in his face with force. “i dont like being messed with u swine”
Scoffing, the human walked to bar now, bending over to look at her face. Next thing the elf knows, the cloth was being forcefully rubbed across her face. Not gentle im sorry//sobs// “clean it yourself, messy fool” A hard flick to the forehead was given the bar after showing her some stuff was acutally on her face. The cloth was thrown at her. “complete idiots” Her head turned to look the other way while crossing her arms across her chest.
Post by Frigs|Bär|Brute on Aug 31, 2018 11:33:25 GMT -6
"Oh!" Bär said, now understanding why she didn't feel anything. She had assumed some dessert had hit her face or something... She gave Nikoli a bright grin though when he pointed out his face paint. Being matchies with a new friend, at least he was a new friend in her mind anyway, was as great to her as it was to any other eight year old. She's an adult I promise-
A rag was roughly rubbed across her face before she could say anything more though, causing Brute to snap to attention. 'Oi, watch it!' he growled, puffing himself back to his full height over his rider in an effort to be intimidating, 'Say what you want, midget, but don't touch.'
"Brute be nice," Bär scolded, muffled by the rag she had over her face. Making an effort to clean her face, but took care not to wipe off one side. She liked matching, so one smudge could stay, "Denia was just helping!"
Post by Noa | Nikoli on Aug 31, 2018 13:17:04 GMT -6
Nikoli crossed his arms, staring at Gardenia blankly. "I dunno, miss, some people are into how good I am with the ki-- FAWCK!!" He cried out just as Gardenia jabbed her stiletto into his toes. Insert the PS2 opening sound as he fades into a nothingness of pain. Nikoli bent over in pain, not before a wet, soapy rag was slapped into his face. Got DAMN it. The rag stuck to his face for a couple seconds before it revealed the broken agony on his face.
Ruhig approached him, sniffing at some of the soap still there. Nikoli glanced to his dragon hopelessly. "You weren't much help," he remarked.
Standing up straight again, Nikoli tried to mind-off the throbbing pain in his foot. Gosh that girl could kick hard... It pissed him off but at the same time, he hadn't felt pain like that in a long while. Actually, he hadn't engaged in any violence since what, some bar fight before he met Ruhig? It was somehow a refreshing change of pace.
"Helping? I'd hardly call that helping," Nikoli said. "If you know how to do our job so well, why don't you come down here and show us how its done." You know, earlier he didn't want to fan the flames, but she was just being a lil binch to him and Bär. "Bear isn't the mess here, I think you know that." Was he referring to himself, the actual mess, or both? Who knows.
smh. With a harsh sigh, gardenia shakes her head at the idiots. Exhausting already- “Its called using a damn mirror. go find one then- im not lying about it” Bar, sweetie, you’re to dense, it pains the human OTL
. Gardenia’s eye twitches for a few seconds before saying anything. “childish- im sure no one would want to match with u-“ Grabbing two new cloths, gardenia walks over to nikoli first. Her heel met his foot and once he bent over a cloth was shoved in his face with force. “i dont like being messed with u swine”