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Listen: two dragons fight over the lost prey; which is victorious?

Especially when the prey is a woman and a wizard…

Update 311/2024: a slight story change due to new dragon feats being added to the setting. It changes minor details in the story but nothing about the plot.

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1ring42

Posted by 1ring42 7 years ago Report

Once again excellent work! Loved the name drop.

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

Hey, what happens in Spellkeep…can warp the fabric of space and time.

I mean…
What happens in Spellkeep…stays in Spellkeep only because of the interdimensional interdiction spells.

I mean…

1ring42

Posted by 1ring42 7 years ago Report

Lol. What happens at a Bacchanalia stays in the Bacchanalia.

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

Hmmm. Already had to fix a few glitches, then I thought of another minor plot point that better explained the presence of the torque. Reuploaded it.

1ring42

Posted by 1ring42 7 years ago Report

Oddly enough i cant really tell any difference. Though geese seem to be the eternal nuisance

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

I've found that reuploads of a story aren't visible until I log out or close the browser instance and log back in, just refreshing the browser page doesn't work.

As for the geese, little does anyone know, but they have a secret society, and plans for that world…and this one. >.> :D

CadetMeow

Posted by CadetMeow 7 years ago Report

What a great story! Very well written, please write more stories with these two!

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

Perhaps I will, but I don't want to write too many more adjunct stories before I've finished Zōēā's story arc in Tales of a Visceral Voyager, and there are at least six more of hers planned. The reason for that is that her adventures are what got the "prey collars" mentioned in the story released to the Āen at large; she wore the original one. So her actions have a profound effect on every other vore story set on Āen, and if I decide on some major thing in one of her stories, there could be ripple effects on every other story set in Āen. Zōēā is my MIC (Most Important Character).

The idea for this one hit me out of the blue so I whomped it up in something less than a week. I had to make like four re-uploads of it just tonight as I discovered more glitches or changes I thought of to improve the story; I usually wait a few weeks after finishing a story before posting it to catch these in later read-throughs, so this story is still rough around the edges.

CadetMeow

Posted by CadetMeow 7 years ago Report

Awesome looking forward to it, also yeah I've used prey collars as a plot device in my vore stories before, they are very convenient uwu

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

Wait, what? These "collars"—torques, actually—are distinct magical jewelry with a minimum of three spells; one of these spells, kwurdāin, is a unique design. The one in the story had three additional spells.

"Prey collar" is a sort of collective colloquialism for these torques, so I'm guessing you are simply talking about collars used to mark prey and that yours don't have the magical properties of the ones used in my stories, which I only started posting since last November.

CadetMeow

Posted by CadetMeow 7 years ago Report

Oh lol, well kinda, and i usually write them with the magical power to make digestion painless with reformation afterwards XD
Im sorry, if i'm being rude in any way

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

No, no. You’re fine. You’re not being offensive, I’m just trying to understand how your collars and the kwurdāin-enchanted torques of Āen compare and contrast.

They do have a distinct difference. Yours trigger a reformation after digestion and disposal; the kwurdāin spell transforms before digestion can take place, and only simulates digestion. The prey never actually dies, and the grotesque parts are over much faster in a blast of utter ecstasy as the spell triggers the transformation. So even though my stories have the reformation tag, it isn’t really reformation: it’s just dismissing the transmutation spell, which is a lot less hassle and expense in a D&D-based setting.

Still, I use the reformation tag on these stories because (a) if I didn’t, some random reader would, and with justification, because (b) it would be a distinction without a difference to most people anyway. This distinction is important from a plot standpoint, though: with a transformation, the prey is alive and gets to experience more than the first 20% of the trip through the gastrointestinal tract (otherwise, they die in the stomach) and, most importantly, they get to have thoughts and feelings the whole way, so they are not just inert dung, but characters. And with the share mind spell, they can continue to interact with their prey even after the kwurdāin spell triggers, and that means dialog! Woo! It also means predator and prey can share perspectives, which is an element of empathy and character development.

OK, the attendants are sneaking up on me with nets and 2-by-4s now, so I must run. Hope you enjoyed your drink from the firehose! :D

CadetMeow

Posted by CadetMeow 7 years ago Report

Huh, okay then, wow your world is more detailed than mine that's for sure >3>

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

No worries. I've likely had a head start on you, there. :P

Neverthriving

Posted by Neverthriving 7 years ago Report

Glorious! I'll be re-reading this for sure.

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

Don't miss the other stories; they are all in the same setting.

illirium

Posted by illirium 7 years ago Report

This is very cute! :D I really liked this scenario, and it's well written as always. :)

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

Thanks. I wrote it in rather a hurry, so it may still have bugs. But I am fairly pleased with it despite that.

Nalzindar

Posted by Nalzindar 7 years ago Report

I love your story, it is both cute and awsome. Nice to see the two of them getting so close to each other at the end (and not to mention intimate). I like the idea of a gentleman dragon who also has a naughty side, especially when both parties enjoy it^^ I hope you will write more about this couple one day.

IvesBentonEaton

Posted by IvesBentonEaton 7 years ago Report

Gee, why don't I get more comments like these on my other stories? :P

(Just in case someone missed the :P, I'm kidding.)

You're not the first to ask for a sequel. I have quite a few stories ahead of it and I have to think of some new plot involving them.

But who knows?