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DRONE

(#85572435)

Level 1 Banescale

Energy: 47/50

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Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

8.22 m

Wingspan

5.11 m

Weight

778.74 kg

Genetics

Hatchday

Apr 16, 2023
(1 year)

Breed

Adult
Banescale

Eye Type

Shadow
Unusual

Level 1 Banescale

EXP: 0 / 245

STR

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

DRONE
DRONE

Offspring

none

Biography

THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE
THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE

SERIAL NUMBER: D8R55O5N24E5
MONIKER: DRONE
PRONOUNS: IT/ITS OR THEY/THEM
STATUS: FUNCTIONAL
DESIGNATION: SENTINEL
CONDITION: NOMINAL

EXPENDABLE

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Subject Name: ??? (Mir)
Affiliation: The Hivemind
Age: Unknown
Gender: Unclear, but matches a Female Banescale.
Lethality: ???
Written By: Lunokhod Ventoforte (transcription)

Height: 3.62m
Weight:_283.32kg

Origin: ???
Last Seen: Astravallen Institute, Murkbarrow Close, Tangled Wood, 01:30AM

"Begin recording." A low feminine voice utters, her voice being played back out of the tape player. The sound of movement is heard in the background, quietly.
"If this thing is working... This is Lunokhod." She pauses. "I am beginning observations on... what was your name?"
"THE ONE IS ALL AND THE ALL ARE ONE."
"Okay... I'm gonna call you Mir until I get a concrete answer on that one."

The story of how this Hive drone had got here in the first place was a complicated one. And it involved a evocation Scornubel, Scorpius, Octember and Pitch were doing. The four were trying to summon a 'creature of the Shade' a book of incantations suggested could be summoned, though it was unclear what it meant by such a creature. Their chant for this particular summoning was "Unum nihil est, sed omnia multa," or as interpreted by Pitch and actually used, "The one is nothing, let the many be everything."
The summoning of something was successful - "successful" being the operative word here, because in the mind of Pitch it was basically a disaster. What they'd actually ended up summoning was what they saw as a Banescale that was pitch black - much like Scornubel, in the sense that it looked metallic.

>SCANNING LIFEFORM(S)...
>SCANS COMPLETE. DOWNLOADING...
...
LIFEFORM SPECIES: SKYDANCER DRAGON, FAE (MALE) DRAGON, FAE (FEMALE) DRAGON, GUARDIAN DRAGON
LIFEFORM ENERGY: MEDIUM, HIGH, MEDIUM, MEDIUM
THREAT LEVEL: HIGH
UPLOADING DATA TO CONSCIOUSNESS...

UPLOADING
...
UPLOADING
....

The Banescale seemed harmless at first - looking at each of the four it was now in the presences of, silently, almost as if it was analyzing something.
In this moment, Octember and Scorpius gave eachother a high five. "Yes! Another success! I can't wait to look into this one!" Scorpius exclaimed, though quietly, as they were within the courtyard of the Institute - which was surrounded on all sides by the institute, and had the top of it covered by the bottom of various buildings in Murkbarrow Close, closing it off to the sky.
Scornubel leafed through the book again and zeroed in on the lack of a description. Technically this fit into it in both the sense that it could've come from the Shade, but that would leave the question of why such a creature would be more like a Banescale and less abstract in nature - considering many history books seemed to suggest the shade being a more abstract mass of darkness. However, their eyes were notably a lilac purple - which seemed to suggest this dragon-thing was a creature with ties to the Shadow Flight. Perhaps it was just a dark, metallic dragon like himself, Scornubel considered. He had to know further. So he rushed back into the Institute headed for its library, leaving Pitch and the others unattended.
Pitch was the first to try to make contact with the Drone, getting close to touch it.
What happened next was that the Banescale got closer to her, as she was smaller than it, and attempted to use both its wings to keep her in front of it, surrounding her with them.
"Hey, what or who are you?" Pitch inquired. She got no answer back, naturally.
Backing up and trying to leave the sheath of abyssal black that seemed to be all around her, she realized the dragon had surrounded her - the top opening that would've been her escape closed off by the Banescale's neck and head.
"Hello?" She asked one more time, to the Banescale. Still no response.
It was by this point that Octember had noticed what was happening after his excitement and lackluster conversation with Scorpius in the background had died down. He started to go towards the dragon as Scorpius onlooked.
"That creature is a bit leery. Now..." he said, approaching, "Mere mortal dragon of ebony steel. Who are you and what is your purpose?" Octember chided, his intentions clear for once.
Immediately the Banescale Drone shifted its focus off of Pitch, who was revealed to be quite close to the Banescale to the two who weren't paying attention to her. It started sprinting towards Octember with its wings opened back up, Pitch held close to it with its legs , and Octember backed up into a corner between the normal outer Institute walls and one of the columns that was more of a structural element of the building to make it look more Victorian.
The Banescale had cornered him, and in its eerie, and quite robotic voice, it uttered the words,
"ASSIMILATE. THE ALL ARE ONE AND THE ONE IS ALL."
and then immediately after, released a miasma of deep shadowy breath - its breath weapon as a shadow dragon. The Banescale tried to escape with Pitch captured in its claw firmly but the others weren’t that dense and tried to get it with great weapons, sparking a greater flying conflict as the Banescale Drone tried to break a hole in the ceiling or escape through a gap or window. It created a lot of mess around the Institute.

After what felt like an eternity of magical fighting later between Fire and Shadow, a fight that Octember almost felt like he was going to lose due to the elemental disadvantage and of which Scorpius and Pitch were struggling with as well, Scornubel came back out of the Institute, with Zilraeos and the great Veilspun warrior Mariana in tow and pointed at the Banescale amidst the violence that was happening, saying a simple two word sentence: "Neutralize it."
Sure enough, the two dealt many blows to the drone and the others helping was enough to incapacitate it for a while.
In the aftermath of the entire encounter, the drone ended up being relocated to the basement of the institute, it itself being the first "anomaly" recorded at the Institute. Zilraeos didn't want to risk anything that'd come of future incidents escaping, and in the case of the drone, assimilating anyone else in the Astravallen Institute. So they hired Lunokhod, a young pearlcatcher looking for a job in Murkbarrow Close, to study these things and take notes.

...
.....
>STATUS: COMPROMISED.
>BEGIN IMMEDIATE AREA SCAN
>SCANNING LIFEFORM(S)...
>SCANS COMPLETE. DOWNLOADING...
> LIFEFORM SPECIES: PEARLCATCHER DRAGON
LIFEFORM ENERGY: MEDIUM
THREAT LEVEL: LOW
ASSIMILATE

"Alright, let's get down to business..." Lunokhod says, some movement present as she moves to make sure that the noises coming from isn't as loud.
"Log date 4-22-2023. A summoning incident between a group of mages has caused a previously unknown... I guess sub-species of dragon to appear within our institute. Studies of its behavior seem to line up with the recorded phenomena of the 'Hivemind' - a soul sucking phenomenon that seems to take the minds and bodies of dragons and reduces them to nothing more than drones. It's kinda depressing really."
There is the sound of something slamming against a steel door, as well as the drone saying something faintly.
"For the purposes of this log, I am calling this drone Mir. They're trying to get out again because I'm standing in the hall next to their door. That's normal. They seem to not do that when I'm not obviously in their vicinity."
Another loud slam can be heard.
"You know what? I think I'll contact some of the mages that were responsible for this thing being here to try some things out. What're your thoughts on that?"
Some movement can be heard as the mic moves closer to Mir the Banescale drone, as it is quietly chittering. The mic is very close to the drone as it says one thing.
"OBEY THE HIVE. ASSIMILATE."
"Exactly what I thought, buddy. End log."

>TO BE CONTINUED...
>COMPLETE. DOWNLOADING...

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