>>5739069That provokes another—albeit quieter—bout of cross-talk, until Ekaterine gestures for everyone to simmer down. You yourself join in, distrustful of this spell… And admittedly a little worried about what you might say under its influence.
“Such a spell can be overcome or obviated,” the older-paladin-who-isn’t-Taube complains, which admittedly gives you a bit of relief. “It is not foolproof.”
He looks to you, cold hate in his eyes, and a deep disdain which sets your dragonblood afire with the insult of it.
“…But for a lizard, it will suffice, I suppose.”
Ha! These fools do not know what measure of True Dragon they reckon with… But still, neither do YOU have any familiarity with the spell of which they speak. You could potentially overcome it, if indeed it IS just a truth-compelling spell… But then again, maybe you would fail to do so. And if it ISN’T what they say, submitting yourself to so-called ‘holy’ magic of the Gods of Light could very well spell your doom…
(For that matter, so could telling the truth, couldn’t it? What ‘truth’ do they plan to extract from you?)
“What say you, ‘Prince Long Wang’?” Sir Marzineo asks you, and you realize that all eyes—including Ekaterine’s hopeful ones-are on you.
What will you do?
>Refuse to be subject to the authority of the Paladins and their false gods>Accept, and prove you have nothing to hide (whether that’s because you tell the whole truth or because, selectively, you plan to try to weasel out of or overcome the enchantment)>Attack and conquer these fools, lest this whole scheme fall apart>Flee—you have made a grave error, and must escape>Counteroffer: you will make an oath to Ekaterine, who knows your vows as a Knight Ascendant, to tell her the truth>Write-inApologies for the huge update, but this was a pretty big deal, of course. 