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This is it, ladies and gents, time to arm your dragon with some firestone and fly out into your death fall. Now, this is our first played fall, so please bear with us and we’d love to hear your feedback afterwards.

How to play:
There’s no sign up for this game, just feel to join as you like, though you have much more chance of winning a prize if you join at the start.
Each day a new round will be posted, with the first being after this post. Each round, roll a ten-sided dice for each of your riders, how high they score is how well they and their dragon did.
This game is rp based, there is rolling, but it’s really the rp we’re interested in.
We’re sad to say that only approved riders can join this game, no NPC’s this time around. This is to encourage players to use and write adult dragons and riders more.
Just a reminder that if a rider is here, they can no longer be played in the gather. This is because the gather and this game run on the same timeline.

The Scores:
1 – 2 = You’re hit!
3 – 4 = You missed it, still, at least you weren’t hurt
5 – 6 = You just managed to catch the tail end of that patch, but a good amount escaped
7 – 8 = Over half the patch was destroyed, only a few strands escape
9 – 10 = The entire patch was destroyed, well done you

Damages:
We won’t be forcing serious injury on anyone’s characters. Should you roll a 1 or 2 how much damage you want to take and whether it's to rider, dragon or both is up to you. If you want it to be a light scoring, that’s fine and if you want to have your character to end up in the infirmary for weeks, that’s fine too. We do ask that you are realistic about it though, if in round 2 you choose to have your rider seriously injuried then they are going to have to drop out.

The Prizes:
Yes, there are prizes. 3 to be exact. If enough people join we may add some extra ones.
To get a chance at winning a prize all you have to do is play. Each rped post will get points based on how well they did and at the end they’ll all be tallied up and the winners announced. The three highest scoring players will get a choice between these three firelizards:

Shield Brown
Sword Bronze
Magic Gold

((If you don’t want to be entered, feel free to just put a note in your post saying so.))

* I am not entering for flits! <3

Will post R'yn's stuff in a bit. <3

Rolling!

From his vantage point over the Weyr, Azimuth took his place behind Gareth in the wings. The danger here was twofold; they were flying towards thread that was moving quickly towards them, doubling its perceived velocity. T'nus noted this, and reminded Azimuth to take care.

They approached the first clump and T'nus handed Azimuth some firestone. Everything was looking good until... with a terrible hiss, Azimuth drew in his wing in a knee-jerk reaction. His pain echoed in T'nus's mind too as though he had phantom limb.

The two disappeared between, going to the first place T'nus could think of that wasn't the Weyr Bowl. T'nus noted another danger here. Normally, when they fought thread over Holds, they could jump back to the Weyr for safety. Now, obviously, that option was gone. It wasn't difficult to adjust, but in the split-second you have to react after being hit, it was one more thing they didn't need to be thinking about. Fortunately, a quick jump between was all Azimuth needed to clear the thread. But it did raise the question of what they would do if there was a more serious injury. They needed somewhere safe to land

Do you know where emergency healers are organizing? he asked Azimuth. Tell Gareth we should set up an alternate location for injured dragons to jump to. And arrange for some healers to meet them there.

As they jumped back over the Weyr, T'nus turned to examine Azimuth's wing. The pain still radiated in his mind, but it was only a dull ache now. He gave the bronze an inquisitive look.

You alright, buddy?
Of course. It was just a wing tip. I didn't notice the thread there.
Do we need to see a healer?
Don't be ridiculous. Azimuth snorted at him and with a powerful beat of his huge wings, he caught up with the rest of the formation.

T'nus might have been more worried, but Azimuth was a tough hunk of muscle, who had a knack for getting himself injured. It wasn't unusal for large bronze to take one or even two hits with almost every Fall. It didn't help that, with wing's extended, Azimuth could easily cover twice the area of a smaller dragon. Fortunately, they always managed to heal.

Since she hadn't heard back about whether she should stay behind with the healers, Aila decided to play it safe and join her wing until told otherwise. A good offence was the best defence, after all!

Their wing was low, catching the excess thread from those above them. A clump of missed thread from the wing above her came down towards them, fast, and Tanzith reacted too slowly to catch any of it. Pressed in on either side by other dragons, they were only able to veer away partially, and a large chunk of it hit them.

"Ah! Shells!" Aila exclaimed as thread hit her shoulder, burning through her jacket and into her skin.
We're hit! Tanzith informed her wing as they disappeared between. It wasn't bad, but bad enough that she wanted to land to check the extent of the injury.

Tell them we're going to join the healers. I need to get some numbweed on my shoulder anyway, and I may as well help them out while I'm down there.


((Muffin, Thali, what do you think about setting up a healer station in this thread. That is, letting players post without rolling for injured riders until they can get treated and get back into the game. It would promote RP and give continuity while keeping people from having to bounce back and forth between this thread and the other.))

Round two!!

The fall has reached the shoreline, no longer can riders get away with letting thread slip past them. Hopefully they've all gotten into the swing of things and will be able to keep on top of the fall, that doesn't seem to be showing any sign of letting up.

((Sorry this one was a few hours late folks, travelling and will put up scores when I have more time.))

Round two, R'yn~

Burmeth's eyes swirled an angry red. He was not happy. Not. Happy. At. All! Thread could not come here. This is where R'nan lived. It could not come after His R'nan! His was small and adorable and was not allowed to be hurt by thread! Ooh, and if it tried! Well! Burmeth would just- He'd just-

As they swooped towards a patch of thread, Burmeth let a massive burst of fire loose on the patch. Incinerating every last stand.

Yes that is what he would do to thread that came after his R'nan!

R'nan almost rolled his eyes This was the inner dialogue he'd had to listen to the entire time they were putting on their riding gear, when they were flying to meet their wing, and basically non-stop since thread was first sighted coming towards the Weyr.

On the other hand, at least it seemed like Burmeth was finally invested in fighting thread, for once in his life.

Round 1 Total = 10