Wanderers

Rinuye

STATS
Name: Rinuye
Age: 75
Gender: Male
Race: Dragonoid
Class: Dragon Mage (Water and Plants)

Description: A white-scaled dragonoid with a diamond-shaped head, twin ridges of curved horns and a bunch of tentacle-like extensions in between. Rinuye cannot move these extensions at will, but they are sensitive to pressure- and temperature changes in the vicinity. His long tail is strong and trained to act as a rudder when swimming.
Personality: Steady and down-to-Earth, Rinuye sometimes feels like he's minding the teacher instead of the other way around. He has very practical skills, using his water and plant magic to make things grow, to dive longer and deeper and to look for useful things in the deep. He has goals and plans instead of dreams and doesn't look for castles in the sky.
Skills:
     *Magic: Skilled in Water (Proficient) and Plant (Good) Magic.
     *Strong Swimmer
     *Eyeshine: Eyes glow yellow when using magic, increasing their night vision (note! decreases day vision).
Enjoys: Being submerged in water (temperature), Being out in nature
Dislikes: Dry or sandy scales

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STORY
Rinuye arrived at the designated location for the study retreat. If not for the other dragonoid waiting, he would have thought he'd been mistaken. The slightly younger female dragonoid, Rye, felt relieved to see someone else approach. As she was a bubbly sort of person, she immediately sought to make contact:
"Hi there, My name is Rye. Are you here for the retreat as well?"
"I am." Rinuye acknowledged, "My name is Rinuye, I specialise in Plant and Water magic."
"Light and Illusion."
As if to demonstrate, Rye conjured up a small square that blinked and then started showing pictures of water. After half a minute, she let the screen disappear. Though others often found her talents of little worth, Rye herself loved showing pictures. She wanted to know whether or not this trip would be enjoyable. If there were only going to be a handful of students and they all acted negatively she'd prefer to bail out sooner rather than later.
But Rinuye was impressed and gave a small applause after he'd watched the show.
"I can see you're talented. I think you'll find my skills boring in comparison."
Raising a hand, the white dragonoid conjured moisture from the air, condensed it and then had it rain down on a small flower which instantly perked up and grew a bit.
"Well, your skills are certainly more practical than mine." Rye said.
Before she could elaborate and ask why his eyes started to glow yellow, they were interrupted by a raspy cough and when they turned, they faced an older greyish purple dragonoid with an impressive set of teeth and an even more impressive suit.
"Leave the experimenting for the designated times." Xaeger admonished his students.
Xaeger looked around and then checked his schedule and class information. It appeared no other students would be joining them. Although it was dissapointing to only have two, it was better than none and he'd still be able to do what he loved most.
"My name is Xaeger and I'll be your teacher for the weekend." he introduced himself and then went on: "During this trip, you will focus on furthering your own magic, learning what you need to train efficiently under my own skillful eye. Don't hesitate to ask me for explanations on the course material. Practical questions should be asked to the staff at the facility. Other groups are training there. You are free to mingle but ensure that you follow your schedule at any time. Questions?"
Rye and Rinuye shook their heads. After some more instructions and their introductions, the three of them headed inside. They were given a tour of the facility, shown their quarters for the weekend and explained where to find the food hall and study rooms.
The three of them met up again after an hour in which they put away their things in their rooms and a short exploration of the facility to find their study room. The facility was indeed huge and at times voices and sounds could be heard echoing softly through the stone hallways. Though there was no visible light source, the hallways weren't dark.
When Rinuye remarked on that, Rye grinned and gave another show of her power:
"It's light magic. I'm better at illusion magic but I can manage."
She dimmed and then brightened the ambient light and had it pulse a few times before letting go of the magic. They continued on and found the right room. As Xaeger was already inside, they immediately started the lecture. Classes to enhance one abilities were expensive. Rinuye had been helped by his workplace while Rye's parents had paid for her tuition in hopes of improving her light magic enough for her to find a suitable job with it.
Xaeger lectured and lectured on. Rye felt herself lose concentration after half an hour of droning. Rinuye gave her a little poke but staying awake was proving difficult. If only Xaeger could use some more interesting examples. Maybe use some fictional characters to prove his point. Or some celebrities to keep things a bit more interesting.
Rinuye decided to help not only Rye but also himself.
"Could we maybe practice some of what you've said, Master Xaeger? I think I need to revise some things before I can move on."
Xaeger blinked. He did not like being interrupted, but he did enjoy when a student was courteous and invested.
"I guess that works." he replied and gestured for Rinuye and Rye to come closer.
"As I was saying, magic works best when combined...."
Xaeger created a metal sphere, stretched it into a thin but larger frame and asked for Rinuye to add his water magic to the mirror. The image it reflected became sharper immediately.
"Now if you could just add your light magic..." Xaeger directed Rye.
But Rye had little motivation to improve her light magic. She'd much prefer to make a career in illusion magic, preferably working in streaming fiction. She figured there'd be no harm in using her preferred kind of magic.... but it proved to have some unforeseen consequences.
As soon as Rye's illusion magic hit the mirror, images swirled. No longer did the mirror of metal and water reflect reality. It was difficult to discern whether the images were real or imagined, but they started to flash faster and faster as Xaeger lost his hold on the magic. Rinuye, oblivious that anything was going wrong, was still feeding his magic into the mirror.... although it was more than a mirror now. As a wind picked up, Xaeger realised they were now holding a portal.
"Get back!" he tried to call.
But it was too late. In an instant, they were sucked into the void of water and illusion. The metal frame buckled, shrank and finally disappeared leaving not a trace of where they'd gone.
"Where are we?" Rye asked.
Rinuye tried to get up, but that was difficult with Xaeger splayed on top of him. A groan escaped from their teacher but the older dragon would not wake up. After some shoving, Rinuye finally managed to get untangled and stand up. They were outside, in a secluded spot with. It was pleasantly warm and the sound of buzzing and rustling seemed to indicate nothing had been disturbed by their coming.
"Maybe Xaeger will know after he wakes up." Rinuye said, "It's no place I know."
Rye conjured a light and Rinuye did what he could with his water magic to help make Xaeger comfortable. After a while, their teacher finally opened his eyes. He still looked somewhat green around the nostrils but he didn't look too incapacitated.
"You added illusion magic!" he chided Rye, "I told you to add light magic."
"So? I wanted to further my illusion magic."
"That's not what was in the schedule." Xaeger moped, "You could have killed us."
"But I didn't." Rye retorted.
At that moment, their raised voices had attracted the interest of some quite peculiar beings. Because of the arguement, Rinuye was the first one to notice and the others seemed intent on ignoring his prompts to look up.
"Look up now!" he finally called.
Three sets of dark eyes looked down upon the dragonoids. With tough skin and bright colours, the Legons looked out of place in the natural environment. One was bright yellow with blue wings. A second was shades of grey and silver with purple wings and face, the last one was shades of pink with white wings and a black face.
"I found the voices!" the yellow dragon happily called out, causing the local fauna to go silent.
"It appears they are kin, Comet." the pink one added
"Where did they come from, Waterlily?" the silver one prodded.
"Maybe we should ask them, Moonlight?" Comet suggested, "Waterlily won't know more than we do."
The three sets of plastic eyes turned back to the dragonoids below them.
"It appears they are friendly." Rye offered to Rinuye.
"I guess we were lucky." the white dragonoid replied.
"What are they made off?" Xaeger mused.
"There's no time for study." Rinuye urged, "We need to get back home."
"Where is home?" Moonlight asked, "I'd like to visit."
"Maybe we can help." Comet added.
"I guess we're offering our assistence." Waterlily explained.

Comet was created by Starfyre

STATS
Name: Comet
Gender: Agender, presents as male
Race: Legon (Lego Dragon)
Personality: A bright and cheery dragon who loves to perform.
Skills:
*Undying: Must be ground to dust or melted down in order to truly die, magic starvation will send them into hybernation
*Plastic Consumption: Ability to consume and process plastic of any kind, anything non-plastic that's consumed will be spat back
out in compacted form like an owl pellet, free of any plastic contamination (including microplastics). Any plastic consumed can be
  used to heal themselves, grow their bodies, or stored as pellets for later use in creating new Legon.
*Plastic Regeneration: ability to heal from near-total destruction (only head remaining) via consumption of plastic
*Plastic Creation: Ability to consume crude oil or plant matter, mix with magic, and produce virgin plastic
*Unwavering Flight: Ability to fly so long as their wings are attached, no matter how much they're carrying
*Flight Safety: A rider cannot be easily knocked off so long as the rider is standing atop the 'mount points' over their hips.
(Rider must be standing with both feet planted on a mount point for Flight Safety to activate, if both feet can fit on a single
  mount point, Flight Safety will still activate. Each Legon comes with four mount points in a square shape, though the size of the
  mount points are proportional to the size of the Legon, so larger Legon will have larger mount points. Plastic Creation can be
  used by individual Legon to create "mount point expansions" that can snap onto their natural mount points and expand the
  available area to stand.)
*Fire Spit: ability to spit a dagger-like tongue of flame

Description:
   *Colours: Yellow with Blue wings
   *Size: Variable, dependant upon how much plastic was used to create the Legon (can grow up to 1/3rd larger by eating plastic)
   *Food: Magic to survive, plastic (of any form) to grow/heal/create new Legon
General Info: Legon are dragons of living plastic, capable of a surprising amount of movement considering their nature. They are also hollow and have no internal organs, though they can feel touch and are aware of any injuries inflicted upon them. Long exposure to the weather, especially to strong sunlight, can damage them and fade their colors over time, though this can be reversed with the use of Plastic Regeneration. Legon can trade the lower half of their tail, their wings, their front arms, and the top of their heads with other Legon of similar size, and often do so to show their mutual love (platonic or romantic, doesn't matter - this is just as common amongst chosen family groups as among lovers). Coloration: dependent upon what dye or plastic was used to create the Legon initially - usually a single solid color with no patterning or variance. Particularly skilled Legon can create offspring with intricate patterns with a significant amount of focus and magic expenditure, though this is rare. Some Legon have translucent wings.
Reproduction: Can be done alone, requires only a significant amount of plastic to create a new Legon body, and then an infusion of magic to create the spark of life. The more Legon that pool their resources, the more offspring can be created at a time. Offspring tend to take after their makers in personality/hopes/desires/etc at first, so the more Legon are involved in the creation process the more varied the offspring will be. Legon can theoretically reproduce with any other species that uses magic to spark life instead of relying on biological processes.
Bonding: Possible but unnecessary. Bonding a Legon will extend the partner's lifespan a signifcant amount
Mates: Legon don't require mates to create offspring, but some Legon prefer to form a romantic partnership with another (or with several others)

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