Livewire accepts the drink...tentatively. She's had experiences with cauldron-brewed food in the past, and none of them were very good. After a very suspicious sniff, she decides that it smells edible and takes a sip.
"Brewstuff, hm?" She turns back to the Spirals. "Hey, Marquise, what happened to that stack of grey slime we had lying around?"
Marquise looks up from the Ice egg she's holding, oblivious to the frost creeping up her fingers. "Traded it. For other brewstuff. You know the Nocturne hatch will be soon."
"Drat."
"We still have 71 though. And after the festival, we'll be melting more apparel." Marquise glances down to find her hands and arms completely frozen to the egg. "Oops. Guess we have to take this one." She starts to shiver. "Not again. I've been frozen before, and it wasn't fun."
The Lightning and Nature dragons look at each other. "Why didn't we bring Ides along?" Clawrice huffs. She turns to her construct companion. "Did I install a blowtorch in you? I forget."
The Redbolt construct whirrs and clicks, locking a gun-like apparatus into place.
"Heat gun. Close enough for our purposes." She aims carefully, and then pauses. "Won't this melt the egg?"
Marquise shakes her head. "This one? Nope. We'll have to get it a separate compartment to keep it from freezing all the other ones. And make sure a dragon strong with Ice magic incubates it."
The stream of warm air melts the ice along Marquise's limbs. The egg falls, but Clawrice catches it with a detached mechanical arm. "This one's ours, I guess. We'll take partial responsibility for any issues with the hatchling."
"Anyway," Livewire turns back to the trade. "We've got some extra festival stuff, but our lair hasn't been around that long, so it's pretty recent. Clawrice, did you remember to pack the paintings?"
"Huh?" Clawrice was distracted by a Lightning egg that kept rolling after her wherever she went. "Go away, egg, we don't want you."
"It's probably attracted to your implants."
"Great." Clawrice heads back to the mega case and flips open a side panel, from which several large, flat, square objects emerge. "Is this what you wanted?" She yelps as the Lightning egg collides with her tail, causing a jolt of electricity to surge through her body. As a Nature dragon, she isn't equipped to handle it.
Livewire hurried over and picks up the egg. Her fur crackles with energy, but she manages to set it gingerly back in the pile with no incident and discharge the static electricity safely into the ground.
Clawrice jerks back and forth. "I'll...go...look...for...a...Wind...egg."
"Better not touch a Water egg," Marquise warns from atop a pile of Light eggs.
"Th...Th...Thanks," Clawrice stutters with as much sarcasm as she could muster.
Livewire claps a paw over her eyes. "Where were we? So far I think this is what we have on the table."
"Brewstuff, hm?" She turns back to the Spirals. "Hey, Marquise, what happened to that stack of grey slime we had lying around?"
Marquise looks up from the Ice egg she's holding, oblivious to the frost creeping up her fingers. "Traded it. For other brewstuff. You know the Nocturne hatch will be soon."
"Drat."
"We still have 71 though. And after the festival, we'll be melting more apparel." Marquise glances down to find her hands and arms completely frozen to the egg. "Oops. Guess we have to take this one." She starts to shiver. "Not again. I've been frozen before, and it wasn't fun."
The Lightning and Nature dragons look at each other. "Why didn't we bring Ides along?" Clawrice huffs. She turns to her construct companion. "Did I install a blowtorch in you? I forget."
The Redbolt construct whirrs and clicks, locking a gun-like apparatus into place.
"Heat gun. Close enough for our purposes." She aims carefully, and then pauses. "Won't this melt the egg?"
Marquise shakes her head. "This one? Nope. We'll have to get it a separate compartment to keep it from freezing all the other ones. And make sure a dragon strong with Ice magic incubates it."
The stream of warm air melts the ice along Marquise's limbs. The egg falls, but Clawrice catches it with a detached mechanical arm. "This one's ours, I guess. We'll take partial responsibility for any issues with the hatchling."
"Anyway," Livewire turns back to the trade. "We've got some extra festival stuff, but our lair hasn't been around that long, so it's pretty recent. Clawrice, did you remember to pack the paintings?"
"Huh?" Clawrice was distracted by a Lightning egg that kept rolling after her wherever she went. "Go away, egg, we don't want you."
"It's probably attracted to your implants."
"Great." Clawrice heads back to the mega case and flips open a side panel, from which several large, flat, square objects emerge. "Is this what you wanted?" She yelps as the Lightning egg collides with her tail, causing a jolt of electricity to surge through her body. As a Nature dragon, she isn't equipped to handle it.
Livewire hurried over and picks up the egg. Her fur crackles with energy, but she manages to set it gingerly back in the pile with no incident and discharge the static electricity safely into the ground.
Clawrice jerks back and forth. "I'll...go...look...for...a...Wind...egg."
"Better not touch a Water egg," Marquise warns from atop a pile of Light eggs.
"Th...Th...Thanks," Clawrice stutters with as much sarcasm as she could muster.
Livewire claps a paw over her eyes. "Where were we? So far I think this is what we have on the table."
Offering: (100g) (91g) x71 (@8g apiece=598g) (12g) (85g) (210g) (65g) 1161g total |
For: [egg?] [egg?] (looks like I have about 3 eggs worth) |
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