The hoard: always (Surraruthru, 84 days left)

[Iron Dragoon]

Yep. My AC comes from natural armor and magic.

"Thank you. Hopefully this will work well and I'll have impressive scales soon."

[Anastasia]

Next move?

[Iron Dragoon]

Research and set up for the scale transformation.

[Anastasia]

K:A check real quick.

[Iron Dragoon]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+73 : 13 + 73, total 86[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

The project has potential, but unlike Baleruk, you are not a minion of pure chaos or divine. Working this out is going to require a custom ritual and some effort.

You could probably enlist Tepen and the rest of the library group to help speed it up.

You could perhaps get Baleruk to help and speed it up.

You could try some other source of relevant knowledge to help. The choice is yours.

[Iron Dragoon]

Could I use the ritual I used with the dragon heart as framework or is it totally different?

[Anastasia]

A few points would be relevant, but overall no. Think a small but appreciable bonus rather than a framework.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alrighty... This will be unpleasant, but we'll try Baleruk first. As loathe as Surraruthru is to admit it, this is an idea he's had for a while and Baleruk beat him to it, but in doing so he solidified the idea for him. So credit where its due.

I'm trying to let the celestial nature lead this.

[Anastasia]

You find Baleruk and 27 in Baleruk's hoard. The two are simply staring at each other, unblinking and not a word exchanged between them.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Do you find him as much of an irritant as I do?"

[Anastasia]

"Leave," Baleruk booms, 27 skittering away and fleeing at top speed.

Once 27 is gone, Baleruk focuses on you, head coming forward to loom over you, shadowing you into prismatic darkness. "I smell a chaos diamond."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Indeed. 27 was kind enough to vomit one up in exchange for a promise not to leave Aurora tomorrow. Something about a Red Dragon being my death."

[Anastasia]

"He dares? HE DARES?!" Baleruk bellows, wings flaring out, "UNACCEPTABLE!" Rearing up to his full prismatic glory, "I demand an explanation for this immediately, and how you plan to use this chaos diamond!"

[Iron Dragoon]

"Calm down, Baleruk. Not only did I come here, but I was forthcoming about it. Why is it such a big deal that he gave me one?"