There is a sex scene or three in here, also unedited

Seeing as how somebody made my escape from my restraints easier, I go to talk to the Khajiit as they are the closest to me besides the guards, I say, "Hello my name is Ash-Gray-Scales,
but I go by Gray, where do we mine at, and how do I get mining equipment?" The nearest one responds, "Welcome little one, this one is named Za'Ran Ashtari, and we mine kwama eggs, but the
equipment is currently sitting outside after we got a new arrival," with a suggestive flick of the ear my way. I asked, "Why would they remove the tools from the mine because a child arrived?"
"This one suspects that you are to be shown your place before allowing the use of potential weapons." He responds. I say, "Well damn, did they find the body, what's with the water, and who
should I talk to about that rock I was laying on?" Za'ran answers, "This one doesn't hear the guards conversations, we are near the ocean so a little bit of water should be expected in an
underground cave, and Sneaks-In-Water was the one to leave you there, she isn't in here right now, but you may talk to her tonight if you can find her," with a smile, and an ear flick
towards the depression I noticed earlier. I respond, "is she young like me? Where are the kwama at? May I find a place to rest, I've had quite an eventful day?" He responds, "She has been
a slave since she was your size, the kwama are in the cave outside the entrance the guards are at in another cave nearby, they get agitated at night, but don't bother the slaves at night
unless they're new or, have had bad interactions such as eating scribs and kwama, and you may rest in the room you woke up in little one." I reply, " thanks for your time Za'ran, I hope
you have a good time." Then I retreat back into the room with the rock, torches, and beds. I lay on the bed i put the ropes in and get comfortable using the pieces as a pillow covered by the
fur, and decide to check my status when I wake up.

Due to gaining knowledge on your situation and establishing a friendly relationship you receive:
Wis +1
Due to prolonged exposure you gain (Basic Slave Magic Resistance) and Pwr +2
[Adaptation] grants Con +1 due to sleeping environment being inhospitable
Warning! environment too cold, seek heat

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Minor Injury (small cut on tail, small wound on back), Cold (no negative effects, minus 1 Agi and Str if not remedied in 30:00, 29:59, 29:58...) progresses to hypothermia in 1 hour.
Str:4
Con:9
Pwr:6
Wis:12
Agi:3
Skills:
New!(Basic Slave Magic Resistance)
Grants a very noticeable resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
(Minor Armored Scales)
Adds a certain amount of durability to skin and scales
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
Traits:
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
[weakness to frost 35%]
Not used to the cold even psychologically and Reptillian? heritage combined to increase this from 25% to 35%
[Young'un]
you are very young... so you are a slow, and weak kid.

I wake up shivering, look for the torch, and see it sputtering. Next to the torch I see a small silver shelled creature twitching its antenna, and next to the Scrib I see a Kwama
forager, the ham sized worm facing me, behind them is a shadow only distinguishable by the shine of metal. The Forager hops towards me and squeaks, then the scrib comes over and stops next
to me! I see the shadow begin moving towards me quickly and look towards it, just missing the green glow coming off the scribs antenna, but not missing the effects when I try to speak to
the shadow which has resolved itself into a female Argonian with many horns around the crown of her head with a chain running between them, light scales with a pinkish tinge, and no weapons
but her claws and toes, a bad attitude, and the will to kill. She arrived near the Forager first and grabbed it by the tail, whipping it above her and slamming the large head end onto the
scrib, smashing all three segments behind its head and crushing the face of the Kwama Forager, causing blood to shoot out of all three eyes and its mouth below them, then drops it. Sneaks-
In-Water then turned to me and said, "The paralysis should wear off quickly, come with me." she then walked towards the entrance of the cave, and entered it, I grabbed my rope pieces and
followed when the paralysis wore off, only to see her enter the depression full of water after noticing me. I figure what the hell and followed her into it to see that the "depression"
was actually an underwater cave as wide as the one I just left with lukewarm water, but with more branches leading off. I see three tunnel entrances , one directly across from me, one to
the right, and one to the left of that. I see Sneaks-In-Water at the right-most entrance waving at me, and I follow her, maintaining the illusion that I can breathe underwater the best I
can, keeping my rope, and wishing I'd gotten something to eat from that scrib, down the hall? Yeah I'm gonna think of it as a hall. Down the underwater hall that seemed to gradually lead
upwards, by the time we reached the end of it I started having trouble holding my breath, but I made it with no issues, except that I took a big breath as soon as I arrived in this 1 room
at the end of the tunnel having only the one exit. Sneaks-In-Water looked at me with her mouth open and said, "What the hell is wrong with you little one?! You can't breath under water?!
What kind of tribe raises such children?" I sigh, look at her, decide to talk with her a bit before answering those questions, and ask, " was that your key I found under the rock?" She
replies, "WHAT KEY?" I answer, "you know the rock you set me on so that I could get free? Well it moved as I cut the final rope and I saw a key under it, I figured y'all would have been
the ones to put it there, so I left it and put the rock back." She smiles, and for the first time I can sympathize with the Archmagister when he saw my smile, except this is the Happy smile
of an omnivore instead of the death threat of a carnivore. Then she says, "why didn't you tell the cat earlier? For that matter when will you answer my other questions?" I look at her and
squint to see how she'll take it and she shifts uncomfortably. Then I decide that I trusted her enough to follow her into an underwater cavern, and she has been nothing but helpful besides
the questions so I'll answer them. I start, "I'm not an Argonian, but a Dragonian, I have no tribe yet, though I consider Ninada Druvi a friend, I assumed Za'ran already knew about it, it
was very well hidden and in the quarters so it seemed a logical conclusion, and if given some time I believe I could gain the ability to breath underwater as you do so my disguise would be
complete." She says excitedly, "I've never heard of a Dragonian and you are smart for a child, but who is this Ninada Druvi, and what the hell do you mean you could learn to breath under
water? No race has the ability to gain that except at birth or vampirification, are you a new vampire that's just really edgy!? Are you gonna bite me? I can get you slaughterfish, I bet
the Khajiit taste better, or if you are secretly super strong there are dreugh down one of the other tunnels in the sea, PLEASE DON'T EAT ME I'M A VIRGIN, I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!!!" I look
at her, kinda tilt my head to the side, smile and say, "YOU FOOL YOU HAVE FALLEN INTO MY TRAP MUAhahahaha.. ouch" only for her to turn from acting like a scared teenager into someone ready
to kick my ass up and down the street, starting with a dropkick to the face and ending with me on the ground her claws at my throat, and a serious expression while she says, "so not
secretly super strong then, Any last words wimpy vampire abomination?" I respond with, "Vampires don't need to breath underwater..."

Sneaks-In-Water stops, looks at me for a minute, then pulls away and starts laughing, "HAHAHAHA OH MY GODS, THAT, was a good one!" I chuckle, "hehehe got you soo good, but why did
you call me an abomination?" She replies, "child vampires are abominations because they are cute, harder to hit, and never get to grow up. The real issue is the
vampires who make them, those are generally staked to the ground with their extremities exposed to the sunlight with their upper torso and head covered by a tarp staked around them, other
vampires actively hunt them down to perform such punishments, and take the poor children in for their first 10-100 years, and if the child request it lay them to rest, while notifying the
parents of the circumstances if they don't have a cure on hand, by which I mean there is no cure except death known." I stop and stare at her... Then say, "I know its rude... but how old
are you, and are you secretly a super strong... Argonian woman?" She smiles at me and asks with a couple of sharpened incisors that I can see now that I'm looking, "A lady never reveals her
age, but I am not so secretly super strong." "So, come here often she of the hemovorous incisors? Also what do they feed y'all since I'm guessing you are not the only vampire here?" She
replies, "Well they don't, we hunt dreughs and occasionally they send us a new prisoner, luckily I unlike Za'ran, am a vampire with the Skyrim variant of the curse, while conversely,
he has the cyrodil version, given by none other than the Archmagister himself. So how did you guess?" I reply with, "That amount of knowledge of vampires doesn't seem common, also you
immediately jumped to the conclusion I was one, which is what people do when trying to cover their own ass, it's called projecting, and is a very common trick," I finish with a wink. "By
the way, my name is Ash-Gray-Scales, nice to meet you," I say to break the tension I felt. She replies, "I am Sneaks-In-Water, and I earned that name after I was caught, by luring
5 guards into this very tunnel and drowning them by blocking this room with my body and fighting them underwater, now they leave me alone unless I come out where they can see me during the
day," with a wink. I inquire, "what happened to the weapons?" Sneaks-In-Water answers, "The price for the other prisoners was a suit of armor per person so I gave them up, I fight better
unarmed anyways, and they wouldn't do any good for the other prisoners since they were hostages," with a shrug. "Well where can I get a slaughterfish, and when do the other prisoners eat,
also, do the Kwama acknowledge you as predators or do they hunt you?" I ask. She answers, "I'll get you a slaughterfish, maybe a mudcrab too, the other prisoners are allowed to eat an
amount of kwama eggs depending on how much the queen has produced, how much are needed to feed the dark elves, and how much is left over that won't upset the queen. The kwama hunt us for
three days every time we protect a new prisoner, and any new prisoners that do so are separated from the group and ambushed by scribs to be eaten when they mine." I say, "That is pretty
Fucking scary, get me something with gills please?" She says, "Sure mister carnivorus teeth, are you sure you're not an abomination?" I reply, "yes, I am." There's a splash and I spin
around while backing up only to see Za'ran emerging with a scrib head that looks chewed up, 3 barracuda like slaughter fish, and a brown rock with legs and pincers framed by eyeholes above
them. I tilt my head to the side while looking at him, but before I can ask he says, "You called for this one mistress?" with just the slightest purr sound coming from his chest. I looked
at the potential food and decided not to question if that was because he scared me or something else... No judgement here, unless you like slaving dark elves, Fuck Those Asshats. She
replies, "Yes I did you smelly wet cat, bring it here, and check the rock that the boy used, there should be a key there, bring it here." He merely nods, drops my coveted food, and goes
back into the tunnel, I reach for the food only to have my hand smacked away, and be told by Sneaks-In-Water, "That's how you get diseases, if that key unlocks my collar I can cook it so
stop at least till then." I look at her with the best puppy eyes expression I can, which probably isn't very good because I'm a nearly 3 and a half foot tall lizard, to which she replies
with a smack on the nose and a glare, proving my suspicion. She maintains the glare the whole time Za'ran is gone, when he comes out of the water he sees us and starts laughing at us, hands
the key over and says, "Did you adopt him? You really should consult with me before making such a decision," while chuckling, devolving back into laughter after talking. Sneaks-In-Water
glares before attempting to open her collar and succeeding, at which point she smiles as her hand glows red and slaps his arm, causing it to stop adruptly and be replaced with yowl and a
splash. She chuckles and turns to me with her hand glowing red, saying, "Now to cook the food," while wearing a sinister grin.

I look at her and say, "Even with the scary grin I'm pretty sure you wouldn't need magic to hold me down again, that being said do you have a weak flame I can borrow, I'm still a
little cold and I'm not sure how long it will take to cook the food." She looks at me, grins wider and stalks towards me with a predatory hunch, I still think she's joking mostly till I
take a step back and hit something that wasn't there before. I reach behind me, feel something like fur coated steel, and turn towards it with horror slowly overtaking my features as I see
Za'ran behind me with his teeth bared and his eyes glowing ever so slightly! I follow my first instinct and jump to knee him in the nuts, it connects, so I use my other leg to push off and
fly towards Sneaks-In-Water while spinning with my tail leading, she grabs it and I follow though on the momentum to elbow her in the throat, that only hits her shoulder, she begins to pull
on my tail, so I try to bite her, but I'm too late and she slams me to the ground and says, "whoa there, it was a joke, calm down right now you little monster!" I look over to see Za'ran
holding himself on the ground instead of moving with adrenaline fueled fury towards me and decide not to anger the scary vampire lady who has handed me my ass on a platter, one handed this
time, and say, "Ask him about my expression, must have been a good one to let me get that hit in." She looks at me with a raised eyebrow and says, "I was just going to get you back for
earlier, I did not expect you to come out like that, excellent response time, how often have you had to fight, and who's body did you ask Za'ran about?" After she finishes talking she walks
to him and her hand glows gold yellow, and she moves her hands oddly before touching him, healing even the singed fur from earlier. Za'ran looks relieved, then looks at me, and ironically
howls with laughter, "YOU WERE SOO SCARED, OH MY GODS, I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH TERROR FROM A KID OVER A JOKE," I retort, "It must've been pretty good, if I had focused on you you'd have more
than that to worry about, you were fortunate that Sneaks-In-Water was here to save you mister pistachio, she threw me on the ground the same way a child does a doll despite me using
everything I had, using only one hand," and stick my tongue out at him. Then I go ahead and answer the questions asked, and unasked, "I am not sure how you'll take this, the first time I
was a child, I always had to be prepared to fight, I fought a lot then, only recently as a child again have I had to fight, the body was of a man wearing redoran and telvaani colors,
apparently the Archmagister's nephew, he's the one who put this collar on me and bound me with rope, I led him to pull me to where my teeth could reach his neck and bit down as hard as I
could, he let go of me, as I swung I used the momentum and bit down harder, apparently I hit bone, he died, I stopped when Ninada called to me, but there were guards there already, they
said Telvaani had a claim, so here I am after convincing the guards to say they found me alone and unconscious, not covered in blood teeth deep in a body." Za'ran's eyes widen and he says,
"You killed Athras Telvaani? GOOD FUCKING JOB KID, I'm going to make sure you are fed for that alone." Sneaks-In-Water pitches in, "That bastard was the one who brought me here a hundred
and twelve years ago, and the one who made the choice for Za'ran to be a cyrodiil vampire and thus burnt by sunlight if he tried to escape, good riddance to that piece of shit." She then
cooks the food in the pleasant atmosphere using her fire magic. I notice she didn't cut off the slaughterfish heads beforehand, but I'm hungry and they crunch nicely, even with the stringy
toughness and odd taste of the rest of the fish, I can't open the mudcrabs shell so Za'ran rips the shell at the seam that the legs stick out of, scoops the guts, and hands me the rest. The
Mudcrab is DELICIOUS even without spices, I compliment Sneaks-In-Water and request a BANQUET of them, which she refuses, Za'ran does say he'll bring more when he can, but slaughterfish are
much more numerous and easier to find, he also comments that boiled dreugh is way better than mudcrab. I reserve my opinion till such time as I can try it. After that they tell me that I
can remove my collar and stay in this cave, I refuse, and tell them I need it to help me train more easily, they look at me and shrug, then give me a weird look when I say I'm going to try
to learn how to breath underwater and jump in the pool of water containing the exit, I spend the rest of the night doing that, after I pop back in the first time they tell me to use the
other entrance so they can whisper sweet nothings in peace, or so I assume. The next morning comes, and as I hear the guards coming back I decide to check my status.

Due to your constant exposure to {Slave Collar} you receive:
Pwr +1
(Slave Magic Resistance)
Due to constant injury Trait [Adaptation] has generated Trait [Very Slight Regeneration]
New Trait has increased efficacy of fast and slow twitch muscles:
Str +3
Agi +3
Playing practical jokes on beings that can kill you with one hand has allowed you to receive:
Agi +1
Con +1
Prolonged exposure to the cold combined with Trait [Adaptation] have lessened effects of Trait [Weakness to Frost] by 1%
Due to Constitution reaching 10 skin is harder for pressure on scales to damage, scales shatter to disperse blunt force attacks, causes 0.1% less damage from blunt attacks.

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Healthy
Str:7
Con:10
Pwr:7
Wis:12
Agi:7
Skills:
New!(Slave Magic Resistance)
Grants a significant resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
(Minor Armored Scales)
Adds a certain amount of durability to skin and scales
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
Traits:
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
[Very Slight Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries in a day, broken bones in 5 weeks, and amputations in months or 2-3 years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
[weakness to frost 34%]
Reptillian heritage causes 34% weakness to cold
[Young'un]
you are very young, you are an impressive specimen for your age, despite your oddities.

I feel the stat boosts come, my entire body expands until my neck meets the collar, at which point I begin to feel pain in every muscle in my body, causing me to stop treading and
drop further into the pool, I barely get a breath before I sink in, I feel my scales become Drier, my muscles still screaming at me, even the ones in my diaphram, making me happy I'm not
trying to breath, the pain makes me black out, I wake up in Sneaks-In-Water's cave with blood on my scales, a very sore body, a notification, and a worried 100 year old vampire. She says,
"What The Fuck Happened To You kid?" I respond with, "I got stronger, but the collar was in the way of me growing so... something happened, I'll let you know in a minute." I check the
notification.

Due to restriction and strength of item {Slave Collar} body has increased in density causing the following changes:
Con +3
Str +1
Agi -1

Error, Trait [Adaptive] not allowing action, attempting once more
Agi -1
Error
Error
....
...
..
.
Trait [Adaptive] adapts physiology so that operation is unnecesary, get ready for a bit of pain.

I wince and close my eyes... nothing happens... I've seen this shit before, you can't surprise -! SMACK, Sneaks-In-Water slaps me and says, "So what happened?" I reply, "I think I'm
heavier than I should be for my size, give me a little more time." I check my status with a thought.

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Healthy
Str:8
Con:13
Pwr:7
Wis:12
Agi:7
Skills:
New!(Slave Magic Resistance)
Grants a significant resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
(Minor Armored Scales)
Adds a certain amount of durability to skin and scales
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
Traits:
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
[Very Slight Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries in a day, broken bones in 5 weeks, and amputations in months or 2-3 years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
[weakness to frost 34%]
Reptillian heritage causes 34% weakness to cold
[Young'un]
you are very young, you are an impressive specimen for your age, despite your oddities.

I say, "Hey sta- OUCH, no hesitation huh? What if I was gonna say something else?" Sneaks-In-Water says, " I've literaly known you for a day, and you might be an abomination still,
also can you think of anything else that starts with Sta? No, you can't, neither can I you frustrating little mudcrab." She hold up the mudcrab pincer she stabbed me with and gestures at
the tunnel leading out while glaring, I rub my side and find a little bit of blood on my finger afterwards, I feel the cut, it's not more than 2 or 3 mm so I'm good to go, I jump in the
tunnel and begin swimming out, when I'm almost out I see a shadow right above the pool so I remind myself not to breath like I need air and come up to see a man wearing brown mage robes and
and holding a torch. I try to get out and he screams, "not today you little fucking abomination," then kicks at me. I respond to this unfair, and blatantly rude greeting by grabbing his
boot sinking my claws in and pulling him into the water, walking his heavy ass to Sneaks-In-Water and telling her that he called me an abomination, noticing after word that he had probably
drowned like a quarter of the way through, and that I hadn't taken a breath yet. I noticed he would escape his proper punishment given that he was already dead... I can't have that so I
lean him on his side and kick him hard enough to make him slide back a couple of inches in the solar plexus, after which he coughs up the water and looks around wildly, spotting Sneaks-
In-Water's lack of collar, turning to me and screaming, "Attack her!" his hands and the color both glow, and I finally feel the active effects of the collar as it runs mana into my body,
and through my body forcing it to take one step forward, and stop there. I look at him and decide to prove the point that I am Nobodies bitch. Both Sneaks-In-Water and Asshole of the hour
look at me surprised, then I shove my tail into his mouth so he can't command me to do anything, he bites down immediately and I grit my teeth and grab his head and slam it down pushing
with both hands and tail, maybe knocking him out, before grabbing his right arm, twisting it behind him, removing my tail from his mouth after pulling him to the wall, running up it jumping
off over his head and ripping that shoulder out of socket, whether he was knocked out before or not is moot now, he's screaming and holding his right arm with his left, so I grab that one
too and pulling him to the floor before setting my knee to his elbow and forcing it the wrong way, the crying is annoying so I stomp on his face, and try to go again even though he's not
crying because his face pisses me off, it isn't red enough, someone's pulling my arm, I look to the side and see Za'ran with one arm holding me up, I glare into his eyes, and slowly calm
down, then look at the extremely damaged but alive Enemy on the ground, and decide I'll hurt him more if I get the chance, Za'ran is still holding me. I'm still angry enough that I can't speak
without a very good reason, then Sneaks-In-Water comes over and turns me so that I cannot see the form of the Enemy, and mouths something at me which is odd, she shouldn't need to mouth
things, she speaks just fi... oh yeah... Been a while since something like that happened. I come back all the way and very carefully faced away from The enemy, not in full control yet,
just back, last time it happened I was only 5'7" and 130 soaking wet, but those 2 security gaurds stopped me and the cop pulled me back with his eyes. After I finished reminiscing I saw
Sneaks-In-Water looking at me concerned, she then says, "shshshs hush now little one," very gently. I realize that someones growling, so I look at Za'ran to see that he's looking at me the
same way she is and definitely not growling, my chest is rumbling, my tail is a little sore so I grab it and look at it, see the bite marks the growling intesifies, and I feel the urge to
make The Enemy's face more red rising before I begin softly stroking the nonbloody undamaged part slowly, and looking at Sneaks-In-Water's eyes, which are a very clear blue, I wonder what color
mine are, I hope it's storm cloud gray, the growling reduces more and I notice my chest is still rumbling, I don't like that so I stop it, then look back at her, and she says, "It's okay
one, there is no danger, you are not controlled and I'm fine, It's okay, shshsh, come here now, give me a hug." I proceed to do so, and smell her, she smells like dirt and water, with just
a hint of woodsmoke, I feel another pair of arms, these covered in fur and here Za'ran say something in a low voice, to which Sneaks-In-Water responds, "He resisted the compulsion and shoved
his tail into the fools mouth before breaking an arm, and then you showed up and saw the rest." I say, "I didn't break it, I ripped it out of its socket and tore the tendons so he couldn't
move his fingers." We part and they look to the Dumb-Fucking-Thing on the ground to see him still out of it, then they grab the rope I left last night and tie over his mouth, then his ankles
together. They turn to me and say, "It almost sounds like you knew exactly what you were doing? Has this happened to you before?" I reply, "not this exact thing no, but I met a pedophile
who had touched somebody close to me, before it went to far I was stopped by guards, all he had was a broken nose and a bloody lip, thank you for not stopping me too quickly," with a small
smile. They looked at me in shock and asked, "THE GUARDS STOPPED YOU?" I answered, "Yes they did, but somebody witnessed the leadup, so I got out of any issues." I noticed a notification,
and decided to leave it for later, then asked Sneaks-In-Water, "Can you numb the pain while I ask what a person from house Hlaalu is doing here?" She replies in the affirmative, and casts
a spell I miss, I'm already focusing on the Slaver, I see his breathing change, and he jerks when he notices his mouth covered, I see no light on his hands, he then opens his eyes and looks
at us, as he sees me he jerks again with wide eyes, and more fear than hate, as I suspected would happen after the injuries. I see him concentrate, and his left hand has the barest little
glimmer of magic, but the right does nothing and he flinches after trying, despite the numbing spell. I look at him and say, "I'll get one of my friends here to break the other one if you
try that shit again, I am much weaker than them, so it's not as bad as what they will do, their collars were taken off long ago so they can beat me down until I resist, and break you at the
same time. Either of them, I mean. Now that I've pointed that out, let's have a chat." I move forward and remove the rope from his mouth, and ask, "So what are you doing here House Hlaalu
Slaver?" He responds, "I am here under the orders of a Lady Ninada Hlaalu Indoril Druvi, I seek a child argonian with gray scales, storm cloud gray eyes, and an apparent inability to keep
out of trouble, but instead I find he has been turned into an ABOMINATION so I will slay you and return to my fiance so that I may comfort her." I kinda look at him, turn to Ka'ran, and
then to Sneaks-In-Water, look back at him, and say, "I can see how you would think that Slaver, but I'm not a vampire, I'm just very strong and have experience in fighting belying my age,
what I'm interested in is the fact that you would claim my friend Ninada would ever deign to lower herself to the presence of a man willing to sic children on known vampires in the hopes
that he could swim down a tunnel he drowned in before, all of this after the child saved his life?" He sneered and said, "She was beside herself with worry for you, saying how she heard you
were sent off to be vampire food and needed to be saved, but since you were a slave, and she is known as an anti-slave advocate here, she needed a go between, I was the only one to respond,
and so I set my price however I wished." I nod, look over at my companions, and say, "Can either of y'all do a compulsion, or did he say all that of his own free will?" Ka'ran answers, "No
compulsion abilities for us, not old enough yet, I'd guess he thinks he's gonna leave alive and continue his merry little power grab." I return my attention to Slaver, "You'll notice I
am not a trusting indvidual, do you have a letter for me to provide proof of your claims?" He nods and says "here on the left side there is an inner pocket." I nod and walk over before
grabbing the surprisingly dry letter, opening it, and realizing a very important fact... I don't know how to read this, I move back to Za'ran and Sneaks-In-Water, and whisper, "I can't
read," they look at me in surprise and then grab the letter. Ka'ran begins, "Hey gray, glad this got to you, if this ass... guy is still alive and able to walk, which based on your actions
to the last slaver I saw is seeming more unlikely with every minute he talks before you receive this letter, do me a favor and let him live, otherwise meet me in Fort Wolverine and we'll
take the ship to ebonheart, after which we can cruise to the coast of cyrodil and maybe go to the heart of the empire, P.S. If he is still alive when you are reading this, go with him or
I'll lose a bet with some deadra named Plank, and have to spend the next year or ten in cyrodil, he was kinda unclear." I take a moment to collect my thoughts, then say, "Hey Plank what's
going on with this bet?" I wait for like ten minutes, decided that he'll answer or he won't, turn back towards the slaver and say, "Do you think you can walk without being numb?" He responds
with, "Silence slave," and the merest flicker of light from his hand.

I just look at him, ponder his insolence for a minute, and decide to take a piece of him with me to Fort Wolverine so that I've technically got him with me when I get there, nodding
to myself, and definitely not considering the potential ramifications of such an action, I proceed to search him while being quiet, in respect to his final words. As I finally find his
dagger Sneaks-In-Water taps my shoulder and says, "What are you doing?" with a raised eyebrow. I pantomime cutting his head off and putting it in my pocket, I'm pretty committed to this
course of action, and I'd hate to disrespect the dead man's last words after all. She says in stern tone, "No, you are not keeping a piece of him so that you technically fulfilled the
deal, "that doesn't even make sense, she said that him being alive is important, notice the repition?" I use puppy eyes, unfortunately I seem to be doing this wrong, maybe I'm just not cute?
No, she must just be resistant to it, to think otherwise is heresy. I finally relent, stomp my foot and say, "Well since I can't kill you and carry your head with me to the fort I suppose
there's no reason to respect your final words..." the slaver has been quietly staring at me wondering why this command worked with so little mana to invest, goes a little pale hearing that,
but he maintains his composure quite well. I smile and say, "Well, anything else you want to say?" He responds with, "So long as you know your place worm," I respond by asking, "Sneaks-In-
Water, can you remove the numbing spell real quick, I need him to say, 'Let's go to Fort Wolverine,' then we follow the deadras terms by you and Ka'ran guiding us there, sound good?" She
doesn't say anything, but Slaver screams, after a couple of minutes, I ask her to replace it and she does, then I turn back to him and say, "Now you are going to hire Ka'ran and Sneaks-
In-water here to guide us to fort wolverine or I am going to cut off one of your fingers every time I have to ask, understand?" He nods, and says, "would you two mind taking us to fort
wolverine?" Ka'ran says, "Couldn't do it for less than 100 gold, and only that because a friend recommended us," the man nods his agreement. I reach forward as if to help him up, slam the
dagger hilt into his mouth, and when he exclaims in shock, grab his tongue, and ask Sneaks-In-Water, "Can you heal him, and then heat up this dagger?" She says, "I'm pretty sure this
violates the spirit of the deal, that being said, I believe he has been a slaver for longer than I've been a slave, so sure." She begins gesturing, green light glowing on her left hand,
golden yellow on her right, after about ten seconds her hands come togetherand the lights meld and turn golden, she then touches his right arm, there's a snap, a bunch of little cracking
noises and he's good as new, he only screamed a little before the snap too, Oh he passed out again. Next she heats the steel dagger till it has a yellow tinge on the end, so I rapidly place
it under his tongue and his thankfully sharp knife cuts cleanly throught while sealing the wound shut. After that he is healed again so he doesn't keep on screaming, and we wait for him to
wake up. When he does, he tries to say something while gesturing with his white glowy hands thing... I feel the mana enter the collar, and do nothing without a command. I turn to him and
say, "your new name is Mumbles, got that Mumbles?" Ka'ran shakes his head at me, and Sneaks-In-Water joins him. Mumbles glares at me too, but he started it, and I'll be damned if I let a
threat like that remain a threat, especially if I have to keep it alive and near me, the disappointment does legitimately hurt my feelings. However, now I won't be commanded to slit their
throats in my sleep or theirs. I turn to them and tell them, "After we get to fort wolverine you can leave if you like, I plan on going to cyrodil, you are welcome to join me if you like."
they sigh and come closer, then give me a hug and say, "we're on the same island as fort wolverine, and well known here, we can't accompany you Ash-Gray-Scales, we must part here." I look
at them, really look after we separate, and they are entirely serious. It hurts to know that I can't bring them, so I try to give them the dagger, they reject it, I demand they take the rope
so that they have something useful to remember me by, and tell them to keep the key as I'm fairly sure I won't need it unless an Archmage is the one trying to command me, and even then they
would probably need to devote time and effort that would ultimately prove futile, my resistance would rise as they tried harder and harder. Sure they could control me for a day, maybe a week,
any more than that would be the equivalent of holding a live firecracker that had no fuse and self-destructed with the intention of harming you as much as it could. Except you may not know
it was a firecracker. As I leave the tunnel I give them one last hug, and grab Mumbles leg with my tail as I crawl along the roof of the tunnel quickly towards the entrance of the mine,
along the way I see 2 slaughterfish darting into one of the tunnels I never checked out, only for the faintest cloud of red to show, followed by what appeared to be an extra large crab claw.
Seeing that claw reminded me of a creature I saw once that convinced me to stay out of the sea even as an argonian, no matter how good Ka'ran said they taste boiled, time to go, I bring
Mumbles to shore with me only to be greeted once again with a boot to the face, this time covered in armor. I am not fixing to fight a magical humanoid crab monster while carrying mumbles
and dodging arrows or swords, so when I recover I return to the place I was booted from, stick Mumbles over my sholuder and dodge to the side before grabbing the boot and using it to assist
me speedy exit, overbalancing the guard into the water with the dreugh, and pulling me and mumbles out at the same time.

I observe the cavern cautiously and notice Mumbles didn't drown this time, and there are no other guards here, that being the case I tell Mumbles, "alright, you get a minute to
recover, then we'll move out." I look into the pool and notice the guard has a silver sword and has cut through two of the dreugh's arms, I decide that, that is not the outcome I had hoped
for and jump back in with the dagger, while I do that the guard has taken another arm and is advancing on the dreugh for a killing blow. I get behind the guard, and once he thrusts into the
dreugh's torso shove the dagger into the weakpoint of his armor between the arm and shoulder as hard as I can, once I've shoved as hard as I can I let go of it and grab his helmet with one
clawed hand, the other going around his neck and digging into the cloth covering his neck while I pull his helmet back with my other hand. All I do is cut the straps and cause superficial
injuries to his neck, causing the helmet to pull free, but allowing better access, by this point he has reach for his back up weapon, a dagger, probably also silver, I recover from pulling
off the helmet and push against the wall behind me to get momentum and speed while gauging his stance, there is an urgency that wasn't there before, he casts furtive looks around, looking
for something. He looks at the spot I just vacated and spots something there before deciding that he needs it more than he needs to kill me, I briefly recall a waterbreathing enchantment
and know the battle is almost won with the red cloud spreading from his side and neck. Instead of rushing him as I planned on, I swing my arm into the ceiling, turning the momentum into a
flip and pushing towards the helmet which I grab before heading towards the cave entrance only to instead see the guard in the way with the cloud of blood expanding faster, but him having
2 daggers instead of one. I stop where I am, look at the helmet, look at him, and decide to act as though I am putting it on, he panics and comes towards me only to be intercepted by no
less than 5 slaughterfish going for his neck and the ribs where I stabbed him, the ones on his face and neck draw more blood rapidly, and he fights back, killing 4 of them before trying to
reach the entrance he stopped me from getting to for that sweet fresh air, unfortunately for him, its in my best interest that he doesn't make it. I grab his leg with my tail while holding
onto the tunnel roof with all four of my other limbs, he makes me strain, but is losing strength and still has to fend off the last slaughterfish so he can't just stab my tail without
cosequence, he's missing an eye and like half his face, an ear, a couple of marks on his neck, but none deep enough to hit an artery, even so he's losing blood fast and almost out of oxygen
or he wouldn't have tried to run. He finally gets the last slaughter fish by dropping the dagger I gave him and grabbing it, then finishing it with his other blade, after which he reaches
down to my tail and stabs it 2 times before I loosen it in pain, after which he immediately turns to go to the surface and I chase him leaving the helmet there in the tunnel, as he breaks
the surface to get a breath I'm right below him, and while he's breathing in I tackle him at a downward angle making him get some water in his windpipe, and forcing him to cough underwater.
He coughs and as a reflex inhales more water, well on his way to drowning, my work is done except the looting. I grab the daggers, grab the body and drag it out of the water. After I breach
the surface Mumbles kicks me in the face again, but it isn't near as hard as the guard did and I can't mangle him so I glare at him and maintain my grip, causing him to fall backwards since
I had the gaurds weight to anchor me. I finish getting out and strip the guard of the scabbard for his dagger, and
throw the longsword into the water, then throw the body in after taking his moneypouch, even finding a tiny shiny purplish stone, which I believe is an amethyst. Now that's done, I turn
to mumbles and tell him, "Bad Mummbles," and smack him in the hand with the end of my tail. He winces, and I continue, "now give me your normal dagger sheathe, you obviously can't be
trusted to do the simplest of tasks." He glares at me so I tell him, "Did you want to carry it inside of you? I'm pretty damn sure I know a couple of places it won't kill you if I stick'em."
He re-evaluates his unwise decision and hands it over in seconds. That taken care of we walk outside, me with two daggers and him with... clothes... clothes... How long have I been naked?
Oh well obviously don't need them yet, if I do I'm sure some bandit or guard will have some to spare.

After five minutes of walking, which is still within sight range of the mine cave, a human of whatever flavor wearing messed up half hide half chainmail armor steps out in front of
Mummbles and says, "You only paid for one crossing, gotta pay again now, or I'll take it off of your corpse," I inquire, "Do you know where I can find some clothes? I just realized I've
been naked for like three days and nobody even mentioned it." The bandit looks at me completely mystified for a moment before laughing while saying, "Who asks a bandit about clothes, I
mean REALLY... hahahaha." I walk up while he's having his ha's, and just to make sure he's not a donkey, I punch him in the dick while jumping, there is surprisingly little resistance, and
something squishes at the end of the check, he screams, " AAAAHAHHHAHHAHHAHHHH WHAT THE FUUUUUUCKK NOOOO MY ... " I tune him out and turn to Mummbles, "you ready to go?" He nods with a
vicious smile on his face, hitting the bandit in the face with his shin hard enough to knock him out, which makes him stumble and grit his teeth as he continues. I tell him, "good hit." He
raises an eyebrow at me, so I respond, "A compliment does not a friendship make, I'm more than willing to leave you like you woke up in the cave, near a kwama nest if you piss me off again."
He tilts his head arrogantly toward the sky, so I tell him, "See that shit right there is the reason you almost ended up as just a head in a sack with your corpse used as bait for my
friends in the cave." He looks at me wide eyed and a little paler, likely remembering what I do to the threats I'm 'allowed to' deal with. "Fucking Slaver, you be good on the rest of this
trip and I won't brand you or whip you more than five times. How many of my people over your single millenium of life would have died? How many already have? What if you never made it back
to your family and were stuck working for an asshole like me?" He ignores me and raises his head in the air again, so I ignore him and continue down the road. After another hour has passed
I see a little scrib in the road which strikes me as odd, so I look around and see two more off to the side in the bushes, and a forager on the left. Seeing as how I'm not alone I turn to
warn mumbles, only to see him about twenty feet back with an extra large kwama egg in his hand, which he proceeds to throw with glee on his face in front of me. It hits the ground and
cracks, which doesn't seem too bad to me, but REALLY pisses off the kwama variants, who all turn towards me and move faster than I've ever seen before towards the egg while aggressively
hissing! I take this as a learning opportunity and turn around only to see a kwama worker headed our way! Deciding that there is no fucking way I am not already screwed, I decide to chase
down and stab Mumbles before I die, that decision made, I see the bastard running into the grass. So I follow him at top speed, he runs into a cavern, so I follow his dumb ass in, I smell
rotten meat and IMMEDIATELY decide to wait outside. As I'm waiting I look around and see that only one scrib followed me, but I ignore it mostly, just getting two feet up a tree and digging
my claws and toes in, I catch a green flash below me and suddenly can't move! I HATE THESE DAMN THINGS SO MUCH, WHAT HAPPENED TO LIVE AND LET MURDER?!!?!?!? As the scrib is trying to climb
up and take a bite outta me I hear ragged screaming from the cave, followed by Mumbles running his ass off with an ogrim following him pretty closely, the scrib for some reason follows
them back to the road... I think I will too, so as I do that at a jog I hear another ragged scream that cuts off and think to myself, 'well buh-bye Mumbles, you were an asshole and caused
this situation, though not gonna lie, I probably would have murdered you in the city anyways, so thanks for this.' After around a minute of jogging I come upon the interesting site of the
Kwama warrior smashed and 3 little scribs paralyzing the Ogrim over and over next to a bloody pile of meat. I decide turnabout is fair play, so I draw my daggers and jump onto the ogrim,
assisting the scribs
my steel knife passing through and doing nothing, but my silver one cutting extremely well. I resheathe the steel one and start clawing it with my left, while trying to cut a hole I can
reach into with my right. Seeing that clawing the chest isn't really doing anything, I decide to poke one eye out and then double fist ram my dagger into the other eye as hard as I can, I
really hope this works or I might be screwed. I finish ramming it in with my hands, and since my platform is so stable I decide to stomp on the handle, which makes the dagger handle barely
visible after the third stomp, but I keep doing it because an 8 ft tall, scaley, tough, fat, and strong monster is not my idea of a good time, until as I'm stomping down my body freezes...

I fly forward off the body to the ground from the leftover momentum and hit the ground hard enough with my head that everything flashes white, followed by an awkward roll for a
foot, Luckily I can now see the three little bastards crawling off the Ogrim, Unluckily they are crawling towards me, now they're gonna eat me... no? two crawl over me and the last stays
next to me, occasionally paralyzing me, near the end I'm able to move one second before the scrib paralyzes me, which would be great, but now I'm curious, so I stay still and see three
kwama warriors walk past standing on their hind legs, carrying a familiar egg with a crack in it. The scrib goes to paralyze me again after that so I jump up, and when I land next to it, it
runs away slowly enough that I feel the urge to smash it, especially considering the fact I was just paralyzed for like an hour and a half. Considering the time spent I feel totally
justified in eating as much of the Ogrim as I could and trying to get my dagger back, (which I failed to do), and looting Mumbles corpse, which produced a much bigger money pouch with a
few gems I couldn't identify since they were uncut. I now had around five hundred gold,and a deadra heart, Yay clothes! I continue my walk to the fort, and recall that there are cerain
spells that I cannot aquire in cyrodil, but the only one I really want is Summon Winged Twilight, get me a spell casting harpy with resist fire, frost, and shock, in addition to The
Legendary Passive of 60% spell reflection. I won't be able to summon it, however the telvaani are the only ones who sell it, so maybe I could get Ninada to do that... Shit I can still
technically follow Mumbles, I turn around and head back to his body quickly, I see a cliff racer, and sigh in relief that its the only thing alive there, I sneak up behind the cliff racer
which is feeding on the Ogrim, thankfully, then jump onto its wings, holding its head with one hand and reach around with my claws to cut its neck, accidentally taking the rest of the head
with it. I think to myself 'Well that was excessive,' then continue on with my quest to technically follow mumbles back to Fort Wolverine, by cutting his head off, which is very hard to do,
if you didn't know. The flesh and meat part easily with my steel dagger, but the vertebrae are really close together so I spend 20 minutes jabbing at them in the same spot over and
over. That would eventually work, but Fuck this is taking forever, so I look for a rock laying nearby, find one about a foot across, bring it to Mumbles, and slam it on the exposed bones
until one breaks and grab him by the hair, place my dagger on the line of tissue, elation filling my body, and draw it through the final bit holding me here succesfully! I laugh and
exclaim, "Finally, Mummbles you bastard, I can continu--" and stop, completely unable to move my body before I feel a grand total of six stick like legs crawling up my own leg, up my back,
onto my arm before catching sight of a scrib heading towards Mumble's head and biting my arm just after the elbow forcing me to let go of it! The scrib looks at me, tilts its little
eyeless head to the side and jumps after the head, clearly done with me and busy. I regain mobility as it jumps down and grab for it, missing and stumbling toward where the head has rolled.
I decide I am done screwing around, grab the head and... run after seeing two more scribs heading my way, I am NOT fucking with a pack of paralyzing monsters, plus I need to make time up from
all that dicking around, fighting monsters, and being paralyzed a lot, I may also be developing 2 or three new traumas. As I run, I lament the fact that I didn't 'convince' that bandit to
part with a bag or something. I remember to hold the head in front of me as I run and run and run for the next twenty minutes, finally seeing walls of stone up ahead mounted by tiny figures.
I stop to rest for a while, setting the head in front of me, and watching as it rolled downroad toward Fort Wolverine, coming to a stop 20-25ft from the gate. I sit there for another few
minutes, and then continue down the hilly path taking in the mushroom trees and various flora as I go. Once I get to the head I grab it, hold it in front of me and walk directly to the gate
and getting stopped by an Imperial Legion Armor wearing soldie, his open face helmet showing an orc's visage, green skin, blunt/short nose, and tusks sprouting from the bottom lip. He stops
and says, "While I respect showing off your kill, you are a slave, holding a Dark elf head, in a dark elf nation, and I'm going to need to bring you in for this." I respond, "My newest master
ordered me to always treat him with respect, and to follow him, then went into an Ogrim's cave, and leading it heroically into a kwama ambush. He tragically fell, and the only way I could
treat him with respect was to bring what remained to a nearby temple while following him, would you mind holding this head for me?" The orc snorts out a little chuckle, then says, "sure
kid, give it here," and holds out his hand. I hand Mumble's head over, and the orc just makes a gesture with his other hand, no glow, and the head flashes and turns to ash. He turns to me
and says, "You should hide evidence, not hold it out while running towards law enforcement kid," I smile and say, "thanks for getting rid of that damned compulsion, I told that asshole that
caves that smell like rotten meat are Bad. Oh and I killed an ogrim down the road, do I get a bounty for it?" He looks at me and gives a full smile asking, "I like your style kid, you come
here to join up or was that crock of shit true?" I reply, "Well I did have to follow him, the ogrim's bones are probably still in the road if those goddamn scribs didn't get them, got his
heart in my money pouch if you need proof, but I'm keeping that, never ate a deadra before, and I am looking for a Ninada Druvi, she's the nerevarine and all around good company, even if
she does make stupid bets." He starts laughing, "HAHAHA YEAH SURE YOU DID!" I withdraw my pouch, pull out the oddly bloodless heart, and say, "The Damn Thing Still has MY FAVORITE DAGGER
in its EYESOCKET you big fucker." He slowly stops laughing, holds out his hand, I pat my dagger with my other hand and hand the heart over, he pulls it towards his mouth, and I draw my
dagger! He sniffs it, looks at me with his tongue out and sees me walking towards him aggressively, glares, and says, "Well Damn, you must be very lucky kid, Ninada is inside, talking with
a telvanni by the name of Therana, watch her, she's blessed by Sheo... don't speak his name around those he blesses, lest you get his attention." I reply, "I may already have either that or
his blessing since we're being honest here, Nice to meet you, now, I'm sharing that heart with my friend, so if you don't return it we may have a problem." He sighs in reluctance, handing
it back, and pointing towards the barracks.

I decide to check my status after removing my slave collar, and head to the barracks which is a rectangular building made of 18' stone blocks with steel reinforced wooden doors half
a foot thick, grab the door handle, and pull as hard as I can, barely opening it, I hear a grunt behind me and the orc said, "Shame you aren't interested in joining, if you change your mind
tell a recruiter that Duro Gro'Malag, Lieutenant of Fort Wolverine offers a recommendation." I lean on the door and reply, "Maybe in a few months when I get bigger, thanks for the help, see
you when I see you Duro, and have a good time when you can." I walk into the room, and see four tables with empty chairs around them, and a fifth table with two Dark Elves, a familiar
Khajiit and Argonian couple, and a third Elf of some sort wearing a gold yellow robe, with very dark golden skin, and gold eyes. I see one more empty chair there, and walk to it, "How long
ago did you get here Sneaks-In-Water and Ka'ran?" Sneaks-In-Water responds, "We've been waiting for an hour now, and you should've arrived then, little one, what happened?" I reply,
"Introductions first, hello my name is Ash-Gray-Scales, nice to see everyone, and who are these two?" First the other Dark Elf, "I am Therana, do you have any cheese? Can't have a blessing
without cheese, Scales." Then the odd one, "I am Almelexia, and you are the reason my little nerevarine has been so antsy, aren't you?" I nod and hurriedly get out of my chair, bowing and
saying, "The stories do not do your beauty justice goddess." She smiles and says, "So polite even after your little misadventure? That is just too cute," and cuts a look at Ninada before
continuing, "And I'm apparently not the only who thinks so, is there anything I can get for you?" I accept, "Is there a way to teach me to read, and I would like to learn the Summon
Winged Twilight spell even if I cannot cast it yet." She smiles, and says, "And that's all? I'll admit the spell has value, especially if you intend to leave Morrowind, but anyone at this
table could teach you to read." I smile and ask, "but can they do it instantly, or cover common as well?" She says, "Maybe not Ka'Ran, and Therana might add things you wouldn't enjoy to
the knowledge, but yes." I turn to Ka'Ran and before I forget ask, "May I use a key or something? This collar is annoying," and turn to the rest, "and does any one have like a spare shirt
or something, I've been naked for like three days, and nobody ever said anything." They all look shocked and a notification blocks my vision.

Secret Trait [Beginner Nudist] canceled.
[Beginner Nudist] No longer normalizes you not having clothes on, hope a store is nearby HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-Plank ;P

I feel a certain amount of regret that passes quickly after realizing it should have upgraded if it could, I walked through mournhold naked after all, and I didn't even notice until
after my (Slave Magic Resistance) had gone up a LOT that I was still naked, so maybe even I was affected... Now that I think about it, I definitely was, PLANK YOU ASSHOLE, WHAT THE FUCK!!
Everyone else is looking at me with either restrained mirth, shame, or laughing at my annoyed expression. Ka'Ran says, "HAAAA, Oh my gods how did we miss it, how did YOU miss it gray, you
fought off a compulsion from a slave collar easily, but missed This? hehehehe, glad they didn't wish harm on us, whoever they were." "It was Plank, the Deadra that the genius Ninada made a
bet with." Ninada frowns, annoyance wiping away the shame, and says, "Well you didn't warn me so how would I know?" I retort, "First I tell you about me, then a strange deadra just so
HAPPENS to make a bet about me? Now I know he's a cool guy, so I'm honestly curious about what the terms of the bet were, but come on, what if Sheogorath had proposed the bet?" She looks
away after I say Sheogorath, and Therana says, "My lord was there, on his way to bless Almalexia here, happened across a new plane in oblivion, wherein resided a man with eyes of fire,
and skin of scone, upon a throne, made of bone, all alone, but in the company of one fair, with a dramatic flair," I interrupt her nonsense with, "The bet, the bet for some cheese woman."
She frowns at me, and mumbles, "I had a flow going, anyways, the bet was that Sheogorath would bless you if Mumbles earned his name and led you here with no attempted murder, Plank would
guarantee you encountered no more hardship if you brought Mumbles here alive, and Plank would bless her with the ability to win any card game if you murdered him and acted like he was
that way before coming, and finally, if you genuinely tried, you would recieve a blessing from a god of Solitude." I immediately reject, "NOPE no blessings from them, nuh uh don't need it,
oh, wait.... sorry just didn't want a blessing from either of those guys, never know what might happen with either, seriously, I need some clothes before... you know what, nobody's got the
balls to interrupt this group, blessing please." I feel something in my chest.., no my heart, uncoil, and my notification box flashes again. As the feeling fades, a gray-tinged-purple
mist-like light is fading from me. A wave of tiredness overtakes me after, grief and anger, suppressed till now, bottled up, breaks loose, only held at bay by the fact that I know this
isn't the time or place. I take a deep breath, count to ten, and smile, it feels hollow and fake, but I'm smiling anyways, so I Will enjoy this time with my friends, I open my eyes and
ignore the warm fluid that is on my face and say, "Where is that damn key, I need it real quick," Sneaks-In-Water pulls it out, hands it over, and I unfasten the collar, I feel a surge
from the long forgotten pool in my head as I pull it away, it revitalises me and turns my smile real! I look to Ninada, Ka'ran, and Sneaks-In-Water, and tell them, "It's time I got some
clothes on, gonna need a range of sizes, tomorrow I will be much bigger, Almalexia, you beautiful goddess, would you like to join us? Therana, you are welcome to join us as well."
Almalexia smiles and claps her hands, "Sure, I want to see the looks on the peoples faces when we walk through town!" Therana says, "No, get me my cheese stupid slave, then you WILL
accept my lord's blessing!" Everyone turns to her with varying degrees of shock, Ninada grabs the collar from the table, Ka'ran grabs Therana by the head and slams it onto the table,
knocking her out, and Ninada seals the collar on her neck. Almalexia screams, "Come on, LET'S GO GET SOME CUTE CLOTHES," while dragging me and Sneaks-In-Water towards the door, causing
Ka'ran and Ninada to abandon their outrage and hurry after us, leaving the Sheogorath-touched Dark Elf with a cut on her face somewhere, and a collar on her neck in an Imperial Barracks.
That definitely won't end well, she's crazy as Fuck, but not my problem. Almelexia drags us into a tailor shop and the shopkeeper rushes to do her bidding, taking my, Ka'ran,
Sneaks-In-Water, and Ninada's measurements, then coming out with a red robe with a pair of hands reaching through a stylized circle, a symbol of conjuration on one shoulder, and a sun in
near eclipse on the other with a bird looking up at it, something that I'm going to grow into she says, some normal shirts and pants all with red, black, or purple as prominent colors.
Ka'ran gets some new armor, Ebony, no extra length on th pauldrons, full body, red undershirt and clothes for reasons not available to the general public. He also recieves clothes to
highlight his blonde with orange and black spots fur. I miss most of Sneaks-In-Water's clothes, watching with amusement as Almalexia points in random directions, sending the taylor's
assistant to retrieve things and then rejecting them over and over again, she sends me a wink when she catches me grinning while watching. I hear Ka'ran's whistle of appreciation, and
turn to see Sneaks-in-water wearing a skin-tight black and blue patterned leather outfit with ebony backing and gold trim highlighting her rather mammalian assets. I say, "Now that is
a set of clothes for any occasion." I get scowls from the other women, even the shopkeeper, and have no idea why. As Ninada is lead in, Almalexia draws me to the side and says, "Ready to
learn some magic?" I nod, and she taps my head, giving me the knowledge of the gestures and mana flow for not one, but five spells, Summon Winged Twilight, Bound Cuirass, Bound Greaves,
Absorb Health, and Dispel. I am overwhelmed by the information and black out. I awaken, being carried by Ka'Ran, he says, "That was quick, but Ninada was disappointed she couldn't show
her new clothes to you, so Almalexia, and Sneaks-In-Water convinced her that she could show it off when you and her have time to go to a dinner or something with Almalexia." I look at him,
raise my eyebrow, and ask, "when and where are we going to sleep? I need to do something." I hear from ahead, "Oh, is the baby tired? And just when we were going to go drinking." I look at
Almalexia and scowl, "you totally did that on purpose earlier!" She retorts, "I'm beautiful, powerful, and literally a goddess, I am allowed to have some fun when I want to and blow off
steam." I squint at her, to which she smiles and scrunches her nose, making me laugh, I decide I've been carried long enough and jump out of Ka'Ran's arms, and notice an inn on the next
intersection, walk up to it, tell the human man that I'd like a room with a bed, leave 50 gold on the counter, and head up the stairs, being intercepted by a pretty redheaded server.
She directs me to the last room on the left at the behest of the Innkeeper, I open the door, go inside, and lay down, curl up and let the emotions I had felt released earlier today flow,
Wishing I had talked to my family one last time, anger that I could not have prepared more before I arrived, sorrowful glee that at least they have the clone, confusion about that, and
HORROR at how quickly I fell back into violence when given even the slightest chance and provocation, I felt bad for not killing that bandit, few people deserve what I did to him, pretty
bad about the complete dehumanization of Mumbles, but that guy was someone who had or would live for Hundreds of years, so felt that there was a net gain in my opinion, which made it
easier to move on from, but most of all, the gratefulness for friends I didn't deserve. After that I was tired and decided I could FINALLY check my status.

Due to your actions you recieve:
Con +1
Str +2
Agi +3
Pwr +5
You recieved (Blessing of ???) gaining a temporary end to your disasociation from certain aspects of your life, a growth spurt, and the ability to endure physical torture at a higher level.
Your [Adaptation] Trait in addition to prolonged contact/consumption of more than 3 lifeforms having a desired trait you need for your environment has given you the [Waterbreathing] Trait, Trait fixed
Your [Adaptation] Trait has caused you to develop and improve [Basic Paralysis Resistance]
(Slave Magic Resistance) has improved to ( Greater Slave Magic Resistance) due to not only resisting, but going against the spirit of an order and actively harming the Slaver who issued it.
A sudden outflow of mana has caused your mana pool to be unlocked
(Minor Armored Scales) has improved to (Slight Mana Resistant Armored Scales) after your mana pool unlocked

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Healthy
Mana: 60/60 Regen at .6/sec so 1,000 seconds or 16 minutes and 41 seconds to full
Str:10
Con:14
Pwr:12
Wis:12
Agi:10
Skills:
New!(Greater Slave Magic Resistance)
Grants a vast(85%) resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
New!(Slight Mana Resistant Armored Scales)
Adds a certain amount of durability(1 armor) to skin and scales, and a minute amount of resistance to magic(5%)
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
New!Spells:
Summon Winged Twilight(self) cost: 230 duration: 10 minutes
Dispel(self)Base cost: 50 mana
Absorb Health(touch) Base cost: 10 mana
Bound Cuirass(self)Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Bound Greaves(self) Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Traits:
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
New![Basic Paralysis Resistance]
Allows character to resist a portion of time spent paralyzed (40%)
[Very Slight Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries in a day, broken bones in 5 weeks, and amputations in months or 2-3 years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
New![Waterbreathing]
Allows user to breath under water, Trait fixed
[weakness to frost 34%]
Reptillian heritage causes 34% weakness to cold
[Young'un]
Oh look, you are almost average height... for women

I look around, and see the end of the bed is much closer to my feet than before, meaning I am much taller, based on the immature comment,(that doesn't upset me at all>:[) I should
be around 5'6" tall, my tail has no scales missing, and I am Much more likely to live another day. I realize I never asked about our schedule, or where they were staying, and panic just a
little, remembering how hard I used to be to find, luckily as I rush out of the hall and into the common room I spot Almalexia and Ninada talking at the bar with the innkeeper. I overhear
the innkeeper say, "I don't recall any strange customers last night, the closest thing to one would be this argonian child who handed me 50 septims and just started walking towards a room,
I had to get one of my servers to lead him, but since he overpaid so much I didn't mind the rudeness." I hear Ninada say, "what color was the child?" Almalexia sees me sneaking up and covers
a smile, I switch targets to Ninada and creep up slowly, while Almalexia subtly blocks the innkeeper's view of me till I poke Ninada and say, "MURGLRGlRGlRG," she has a dagger out before I
finish poking her, has finished turning towards me by the time I pull my finger back, and almost keeps from hitting me full force in the face till I say MURGL, unfortunatly almost only
counts in horseshoes, and hand gren... Area spells? Anyways, she hits me so hard the room flashes white, then black, and I wake up on the floor, with her looking down at me in shock, which
quickly shifted to a victorious smirk that showed teeth, and saying, "teach you to sneak up on me you not so little bastard!" I retort, "My parents Were married before they had me," and rub
my snout before sitting up and taking her hand to get up the rest of the way, I then ask," How hard did you hit me? I feel something that wasn't there before," and rub my hand from the tip
of my snout to to my forehead, finding three scaleless bumps, which makes me concerned, so I scratch them, and some blood gets on my fingers after, that may be from the nearly broken nose I
have though. I confirm that both my nose and head are bleeding, but only my nose hurts so I turn to Almalexia and ask, "can you see what's wrong with my head?" She responds with a wave of
her glowing hand, and a strange look at me afterwards, stating, "I think you may be growing horns? Usually they come in earlier, but the only thing I have observed similar are parasites,"
At which point I begin looking for fire and a knife because with my regeneration a burn scar won't last long, and I'm the only one allowed in my body, she continues, " and baby horned
animals." At which point I calm slightly because Sneaks-In-Water has both fire and experience with growing horns, so I'm covered either way. I turn to Ninada and say, "When are we expexting
to head out, and what's the itinerary for arrival?" She replies, "We leave tonight, The Inner Sea isn't as susceptible as others to the tides, and water mages are paid well to work at the
docks and promote ships' entrance and exit, we'll stop at Ebonhold, that's the quickest ship we can get to from here, the next one to the mainland from here would add a year to our trip."
I reply, "Ebonhold seems like it trades ebony, will we take a ship from there? If that's not already the plan, I'd like you to consider it, and why did you say that if you lost the bet
you would have to go to cyrodil?" She looks away, and says, "The price for the information on how to get a hold of you was that I'd have to travel with you to cyrodil anyways, the bet was
for fun, and I tried to influence your decision towards the best one for you." I nod and accede, "I appreciate the help, even if it was underhanded," while sticking out my tongue at her,
before continuing,"You didn't wait long to spring me from slavery, were you anxious?" She replies, "I'm a Dark Elf, deception is in our blood." She winks afterwards, and continuing says,
"you were so tiny and precocious, I knew I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything happened to you, so right after you told me, I prayed for the being that had sent you here to
tell me how to help you, Morrowind is a VERY hostile place, and you showed up in either the worst spot, or the best one since I was nearby to save you, and I killed the god Vivec in a
one on one fight, so you could concievably hve died there easily, I expected a very high price, but Plank only wished for me to buy you into the hlaalu house. I expected a blood sacrifice
every week for a year or something, not just that!" I look at her, turn to the side and shout, "PLANK YOU DIRTY BASTARD, show her what that fucker put me through," after which a deadric
helmet showed up, I thought to myself 'That is fishy as fuck,' and told her,"don't touch that, this might be one of his distractions," only to turn and see that she was gone! I turn to the
helmet, and see it morph into a mudcrab before marching towards me while clacking it's teeth, so I take a step forward, cock my leg back, and punt it as hard as I can into the counter, then
use one of my new spells, Absorb Health on it to fix my probably broken toe, which feels weird, just moves back into place, and I see one of the mudcrabs tiny legs get crack marks on it,
and connect the dots layed out for me, and assume that absorb health only works when I am hurt, following that assumption, I pick the mudcrab up, facing its pincers away from me and
headbutt it as hard as I can! Once, Twice white flash, Three times, I feel kinda dizzy, and something flows into my eye, so I throw the mudcrab down, cock my leg back and punt it into the
counter as hard as I can again, I hold one hand up to my head, and attempt to perform the gestures one-handed, only to fail despite the drain to my mana, I do it again, thankfully feeling
my foot move into the correct place after, but the blood hasn't stopped so I use the spell again, and once more, then the innkeeper comes out with a wooden club, holds it 2 handed above
his head, and smashes it down on the mudcrab, breaking its shell, he then turns to me and angrily shouts, "WHAT IN THE UNHOLY MOTHERFUCK DID YOU DO, YOU WERE A CHILD YESTERDAY, I WAS, gonna
let that go, then I hear you yell, your friend disappears, and you let a fucking mudcrab into my INN?!?!?!" I wince and say reluctantly, "Actually I'm pretty sure a Deadra did that, but
he was a god at one point, maybe still is, I'm honestly not sure, here's 20 gold bud." He stops, asks, "when did you grow horns?!? You know what.... just leave, if your friend shows up I'll
tell her you had to go for disturbing the peace," I reply commiseratively, "You might have better luck telling her I left to look for her at the barracks, have a good time bud, I totally
didn't expect this, bye." I hear him as I go, "at least I got some crab meat, that was the toughest fucking crab I've ever seen, used to be an adventurer, kwama shells aren't that hard,
let alone a fucking mudcrab." I recall him saying something about my horns, and reach up to feel my forehead, only to feel three spiked tips, curving backward, only like two inches long right
now, they seem short, but Much larger than being bumps moments ago... I guess Absorb Health helps to correct things like that for my age, YAY NO PUBERTY BULLSHIT, gotta find random,
questionably innocent animals to test it on... Or somehow tie up a troll? Nope, fuck those bastards, they'd fuck me up. While I'm pondering questionable pastimes, I finish my walk to the barracks,
and see the legion doing drills outside, led by Durzo Gro'malag, I decide I should... Definitely surprise him, unfortunately I can't see a way to sneak by 60 people without any noticing to
get behind him, so I guess I'll have to put a pin in that. As I walk onto the yard nobody says anything, until I get to the door to the barracks, where I hear footsteps rapidly approaching,
and turn to see Sneaks-In-Water walking quickly towards me. As she arrives, she asks, "is that you gray? Ninada is back at the inn, and she said you look different, but wow, you're almost
grown up, it looks like you will have a few more horns too, how did they grow so fast?" I respond, "is she alright?" She nods and continues, "The innkeeper is pissed though, said something
about a deadric crab showing up, which I don't get, and that you came to look for Ninada here." I laugh and say, "that deadra that Ninada had a bet with distracted me with a deadric helmet
that somehow turned into the most durable morrowind mudcrab I have ever seen, read, or heard about, I smacked it a few times, got it to hurting, the innkeeper smashed it, and started
yelling, understandably, because there was someone yelling, someone disappeared, and then a mudcrab that was too hard to kill to be a mudcrab. Ninada is really okay right?" She answers,
"yes she's fine, and she understands why you were upset, but says the other outcomes would have been worse, that cave is a dreugh and sea serpent nest when in the seaward parts, you may
have been trapped in there for years if she hadn't helped you, even with your abilities, you had no magic." "Well that makes it easier, I was worried that I'd hurt her feelings, and definitely
didn't expect to be unable to interject my viewpoint into the retelling, let's go see her." I acknowledge, then we begin walking towards the inn. As we pass by the soldiers, Durzo finishes
instructing the in drills, and calls out, "Hey, is that you gray?" I turn towards him, nod, and say, "Yeah, pretty sure I haven't finished growing yet though, gotta go, my friend was kinda
kidnapped by a deadra, and I wanna see if she's okay." He nods and says, "If you get too much bigger, you'll have to be Heavy Infantry if you join up." I reply while walking away and
waving, "I was always gonna be Heavy Infantry if I joined," then cast Bound Armor, and feel my robe replaced with Deadric armor, and a breeze between my knees... Durzo starts laughing,
and I cast Bound Greaves as casually as I can, thankful that I can't blush, and completely ignore the quiet giggle coming from Sneaks-In-Water on my right. Definitely didn't feel
embarrassed about making such a dumb mistake with no underwear on, she keeps giggling, and a few people catch onto what happened as we pass by them, conjured armor is quite common, so they
begin reminiscing on similar things they've seen or had happen to them in the past while smiling at us as we pass. I freely admit that I am in fact embarrassed at this point, and Love the
fact that scales don't blush. I believe I have about 20 minutes left on the armor when we reach the inn, the Innkeeper and Ninada outside, the innkeeper states, "you were right, as thanks for
the advice, I brought you some food, and I can get you the rest if you give me 80 gold." I accept and hand him the money while looking at Ninada, she looks fine, I'm glad, he goes to grab
the supplies for me, and I finally can ask, "Are you alright? I expected if anyone would be teleported it would be me, I'm sorry for causing so much trouble, he didn't do anything weird,
right?" She responds, "I was actually done before you finished fighting the crab, however, Plank said the price for the information was a card game, Sanguine was there too, thankfully I
didn't make anymore bets, but what I'm really curious about is how you came up with the idea that carrying that head would help at all?" I shrug, and say, "What can I say, I was inspired,
and it made sense at the time, I really wanted him dead, but I wasn't willing to endanger you, and you never explicitly stated that something bad would happen if he died, just that
something would happen if I was the one to kill him, so I figured an ambush I definitely could have died in was enough of an excuse for Plank, if I had known Sheogorath was there, I would
have tried Much harder, maybe tied him up and dragged him to the gate, at the very least, put my collar on him and tied a rope through it to keep him with me, still not sure how he got
that big ass egg." We wait in semi awkward silence for a while, then I say, "So I figured out why you should always use Bound Greaves first..." Sneaks-In-Water starts giggling again, and
says, "You should have seen it, he was trying to keep his cool, and used Bound Armor while wearing a robe, he DIDN'T EVEN HAVE UNDERWEAR HAHAHA.. hehehe," Ninada smirks, then says, "I
remember doing that in front of a dwemer ghost, it stopped attacking me for like three seconds, so I finished laying it to rest, then noticed I was significantly colder then I should have
been and looked down to see that I had no clothes below my waist, I quickly grabbed some clothes out of my bag and wore them, do you know where your robes went?" I reply, "No... I just
figured that they'd pop back onto me after the spell expired, not sure what would happen if I used dispel." Ninada laughs, looks at Sneaks-In-Water and says, "do you have the robes or are
they just missing?" She pulls my robe out from behind her and says with a pout (which looks weird, because scaled lips are thin), "why did you tell him? we could have made him practice
using conjuration, and imagine the shit he'd get into on the ship, IT WOULD"VE BEEN GREAT!!" I hold out my hand and ask, "Am I really that pretty," while batting my eyes coquettishly
till she hads me my clothes with a laugh. "Which reminds me, where's Ka'ran, y'alls cave is full of dreugh and sea serpents, I apparrently even with my awesome power would have been trapped
for years down there, please move out of there." I state while looking at Ninada for support. Sneaks-In-Water smiles at me and says, "He went to the cave to grab that silver sword and
bonemold armor you left us, I only stayed to say goodbye and wish you well from us, bye Ash-Gray-Scales, Talos watch over you, and sun warm your back!." I reply, "May the water part easily,
and any endeavor you choose succeed, have fun when you can!." With a smile and a wave I bid her farewell. As she walks away, I turn to Ninada, and ask, "So what really happened? I was
watching the helmet when he took you." She replies, "At first I thought I was watching it like a shadow puppet show, but after witnessing the orc burn Mumble's head, I saw him pulling
his hand from my head, and he said I would need to play a card game as payment, I'm impressed that you killed an Ogrim of all things with a dagger, why didn't you kill the scribs after
being paralyzed for so long?" I answer, "Well just one was enough to paralyze me for that long, three would definitely have killed me with no chance to fight back, and I gained a resistance
to paralisis from it, so I may have been frustrated, but I wasn't as angry at them as I was determined to get here and find a way to flirt with you some more," with a wink. She smiles and
shakes her head, and the innkeeper, probably having some tact and not interrupting before, finally arrives with my pack of food, and I say, "thanks, can we get more of those robes Ninada?"
She nods in approval, so we proceed to the same taylor as before, I get measured again for a robe, and request another 5 with a little extra length, which is obliged for 120 gold, then we
look for the ship we are going to take, named the Waverunner, find it, and decide to hang out there. After we arrive, I ask, "So where is Almalexia? I haven't seen her for a while, and
nobody has mentioned her for a while?" Ninada responds, "I actually haven't seen her since the inn, she's probably fine, she is a goddess after all." I accede the point, "She is the leader
of this nation, and something must have come up, actually did she go with you to Plank's area? I could see some crazy shit going down from that, now I'm genuinely concerned... Speaking of
crazy, where's Ther-" She interrupts quickly, "So why didn't you get mad at that orc for burning Mumble's head again, how do you like your robes, nice weather today isn't it, have you heard
about the sea serpent's in the inner sea? The Dreugh ride them and attack the ships cruising through them." I look at her and say, "So how did she get outta the collar?" She looks away and
responds, "I had to let her out using the key that you gave Za'Ran, She is a house head after all, so the Captain of the Fort commanded someone to fix the situation after she woke up and
'politely requested' that someone get that 'fucking piece of shit fucking collar the fuck off of her' then attempted to command that cheese and you were delivered to her together." I sigh
because of the cliche, and brace myself before asking, "Is she captain of the ship we're waiting for?" Ninada at first happily, then frustratedly replies, "No thankfully she isn't on the ship,
but her house controls the most likely pass for us to use to get to cyrodil." I ask, "do you know levitation? I'll just climb the damned thing, got claws, and an inability to be stopped
by anything for too long, I'll just meet you on the other side." She answers, "yes I do, I can even teach you if you like, and have you not heard of Trolls, Ogres, Imps, Goblins, Mountain
Lions, Cliff Racers, Winged Twilights, Dwemer spirits, or just Dark Elf patrols?" I look away in shame, and respond, "I've heard of all of those, unfortunately, I just didn't think I'd run
into a Troll or an Ogre, let alone a Winged Twilight. I'm pretty sure I'll get wings at some point, I would love the levitate spell, then continent spanning flight will be achievable if
boring for the next 600 years or so." She looks at me with a raise eyebrow, and asks, "So why are we going to cyrodil anyways, I don't like Plank's explanation, I think you know more." I
acknowledge the question with a nod, and think about how to tell her, not only will Oblivion Gates open everywhere, but that Black Marsh will absolutely fucking wreck the dark elves either
during or after that in addition to wrecking their own Oblivion Gates to the point that they refused to open more there, Hist Trees give mean ass buffs presumeably, she might die if I don't
tell her, but I'm not sure if she'll keep it from Almalexia... Well she has saved my ass repeatedly and been nothing but friendly, so I guess the real question is who I want to be.

That is an easy question to answer in this case, I'm not a manipulative bastard, and there's no one to protect here but those who have welcomed me into their lives. I turn to her and
say, "Well... First off, part of the reason that I want you with me in Cyrodil is because I don't want you to die for the slavers, Black Marsh's Argonians have had enough of that shit,
they're coming to fucking destroy this nation, not sure when, the reason Cyrodil specifically, Cyrodil holds the key to either stopping Oblivion Gates from opening altogether, or shutting
them after, not sure which I'd prefer, Sigil Stones are great for enchanting, but at least one city there will be destroyed there, I really would rather Almalexia doesn't get involved either,
she's cool, but these slavers need to die, and if necessary I'll kill them myself after the gates are either shut or under control." She stops and says, "I'll get back to you after I've
had some time to think about this." I nod, and we stand waiting for night time before boarding the Waverunner, I notice the crew is all Argonian, except the captain, who's wearing a mask,
I approach the captain first and introduce myself, "My name is Ash-Gray-Scales, it's a pleasure to meet you, and I'm glad I don't have to potentially murder you for being a slaver." Ninada
looks at me with wide eyes, and says, "I am the Nerevarine, Ninada Druvi, and am glad you were gracious enough to give us passage to Ebonhold," possibly to offset my potentially bad
introduction. The captain returns the niceties, "I am Walks-On-Water, born in black marsh and raised by a tribe on the edges of it, most humans call me Russel, and a slave crew would get
you killed quickly, gotta have people you can trust on a ship or they do their job wrong, that said, if you ever threaten me again, I'll kill you myself." I smile, and reply in the
friendliest way I can, "I don't like threats, I prefer action, it gives enemies less time to react, that said, slave magic is quite powerful... but some can resist, violently." He laughs,
"You might do okay in my crew, think you can do more than threaten a sea serpent?" I respond, "not right now, maybe by the end of this trip I'll be able to, you got anything I can do to get
stronger on board?" He laughs at me and walks away, an Argonian with three fins on his head, and tan scales comes up and says, "My name is Sheirava, I am first mate, and I can arrange
something if you are willing to give up some gold, and blood." I look at him with my eyebrow raised, "you aren't a vampire right?" He looks confused, and then insulted, "No I'm not a vampire,
I meant we could set up an unarmed tournament, no claws, no killing, no magic, other than that, remember you'll be on the ship with these people, so whatever else you do you'll have to deal
with." I have one more question, "so do you have any sore losers on board?" He nods and tilts his nose to three big Argonians, two with spines sticking out almost like hair, also tan scales,
hanging out with one who has a horn on his nose, and horns that point forward a little bit, protecting his face from badly aimed blows, and nearly teal scales, the bluish-green scales far
more shiny than any others on the ship, almost like a peacock's feathers. "IF, you beat any of them, don't stupidly follow one below deck, they'll beat the shit outta you, probably tie you
up and throw you off the boat." I turn to Ninada and say, "No torturing or murdering them, they've known these people longer than you, and if that happens I Will eventually catch up
anyways, last time I was tied up, I got out, if... when it happens again you may demand an explanation, tell them what I've done the last four days, and tell them I'm coming, or whatever
the Nerevarine can come up with, I'd really like to be the one to hurt them though." Sheirava raises an eyebrow and says, "I would recommend that you wait till port for either, you are a
Dark Elf, we are Argonians, I personally don't like those guys, they are assholes, that said, they may all try to kill you if something happens, and based on your reputation, I'll remind
you that summons are not a good replacement for crewmembers." She pouts and says, "So many restrictions, you're lucky I like you Gray, I suggest you learn how to fight better quickly."
I nod, turn to Sheirava and ask, "So when will we be able to start, I have something like 60 gold to spend, gonna give the rest to Ninada so she can bet." He responds, "It'll be a day or so,
with favorable conditions, we'll make it to ebonhold in three days." I nod, and ask, "so where are we staying?" He steps away, points at a light blue scaled argonian with what looks like
floppy ear fins and points at us, she acknowledges the common command and walks up to us, "Follow me to your rooms and if you can, stay there for tonight, we'll be running around on deck a
lot till we get out to the coast, and all these islands are mostly coast." I turn to Ninada with a questioning expression, she shrugs, I shrug back, and say, "That shouldn't be a problem,
lead on please." The argonian raises an eyebrow at me and turns around before leading us below deck to a room near the rudder, opening the door and sweeping her hand as if to usher us in.

We enter and begin setting everything up in preparation for trying to sleep despite all the new sounds we can hear. Their are two hammocks and two beds, I instantly decide on a
hammock, they've always been comfortable to sleep in, and there is an almost unnoticeable sway to the ship already, when we really get going I believe it will be more pronounced than when we
are moored at a dock. There are chests at the foot of each bed, bolted down or something, can't find bolts when I look, but something resists me picking it up when I try, so I put my stuff
in there. I hear a sigh as I get into the hammock, and Ninada asks, "So how old are you really? You said earlier that you had lived before this life." I respond, "I was 23, that life
continues with another, poor bastard, I was considered a young adult at the time I came here, I'm really glad I almost reached my size of back then already." She took a moment, then, "you
were almost an adult as we elves read things as well, 25 is when we are no longer considered children, and when I started working with the blades here a year and a half ago. What did you
mean flying would be boring for 600 years earlier?" I am fixing to reply, when another Deadric Helmet shows up, I ignore it and jump onto Ninada just in case Plank is here to take her
again. The deadric helmet then slowly morphs into a paper on the floor, I continue to hold Ninada close with one hand and trap the letter between my leg and tail, working it up till I can
grab it with my hand and read it, 'The dragons come back in 207 years, you got a crush on her or something? :P' I relax slightly and say, "thank you Plank, but if you pull that kidnapping
bullshit again for either torture or no reason I will find a way to cut off your pinkie toe, and use it in a ritual to make your dick that size or to cause impotence." I get no response,
and turn towards Ninada in my one armed hug to see her reading the letter. I wait till she's finished, and say, "looks like I was off by about 400 years, but yeah, Dragons." She turns to me
with just a hint of a smile, and says, "you are so cute, you know I can protect myself, so why are you Still~ holding onto me?" I pull her closer and say, "because when I met you, you
already fit everything I've found to be the most attractive, your personality is fun, and you haven't tried to push me away yet." She smiles and squints at me before saying, "Well~-" SMACK,
"I'm not a pedophile, and your body is still not mature, you don't even have all your horns in yet, go lay down boy." I get up from the floor, spread my arms and start walking towards her,
she glares at me and my shoulders slump as I give in to defeat, and tell her, "I'm pretty sure that I can get better at anything" after I lay down with a suggestive wink. She says, "Oh,
like what?" I respond, "Well first off, my recovery time should already be faster than anyone not using magic, my tongue can get longer and easier to control, I'm pretty sure my dick will
adjust to what we both like, and at some point I need to experiment with a few poisons to test a theory I have about being able to replicate their effects, like paralysis for my claws, and
an aphrodisiac for my spit, or maybe other things," I finish shyly. She looks at me with a straight face, but a shocked stance. I nod and say, "Not right away, but I can be the best fuck of
your life, every time, the more we have sex, the better my body will adjust, the more we try, the better we can try it, you wouldn't happen to have paralysis poison on you? maybe a dagger
too?" I look at her, and she looks torn. I make the decision for her to my regret, "If they were to say anything negative, after we had some fun, I would burn this boat down mid-voyage, so
let's wait a little while, and get a ship without a whole crew that would like to try and hurt you simply because you are a Dark Elf." She looks at me with a complicated expression,
something I can't decipher there, and pats the bed next to her, pulling out a green bottle, and an ebony dagger. I sit next to her, and request, "May I hold you tonight anyways?" She frowns
and hands me the knife, I take it and begin carving on my claws, getting deep rather quick, it actually hurts a bit, but I finish with my left hand, turn towards her, she's just watching me
so I grab her arm and say, "could you do the other hand for me?" while guiding her to sit in my lap when she replies, "yeah." She takes the knife from me, inspects the channels I cut in my
claws and then begins on my right hand, slowly at first, then as she relaxes against me, which turns me on a little bit, she goes faster, adding a few little stylish swirls, when she
finishes with that side she points to my other hand and says, "They have to match!" I relinquish my hand to her, and when she is almost done request, "can you do my toes too? Then we'll
pour the poison in, if this works, we may have to do the same for my teeth later, but something different." She nods with the slight blush, and gets me to lay on the bed, sitting just under
my knees, giving me an excellent view as she leans forward, her pants stretching over her plump and perky ass, it looks so good I can't help but feel a rise, I get a chub at first, then
she reaches deeper into my claws with the knife, and that kills the urge... the first few minutes, but then I get used to it, and just stare at her ass, almost pouncing when she gets up.
She returns with the poison, and says, "get in the hammock," so I do, and she pours it into the claws on my toes first, crawls up and puts her ass to my lower stomach and grabs my hands,
pouring the last of the poison in the claws on them before turning to face me, wrapping her arm around my side, and using the top of my rob and shoulder as a pillow, saying, "good night,
Gray." I respond, "Good night Nina," she smiles at the nickname, and we go to sleep quickly afterwards.

I wake up the next morning when she moves, and her breathing changes at the same time, I try to pull her closer... and I can't move... I move my eyes quickly around to check for the
most fearsome monster I have personally encountered so far, but see no silver shell, feel no legs, and hear nothing to imply its existence. Then I remember that last night I literally cut
holes into myself for the express purpose of pouring poison that paralysizes people into them... I definitely have a trauma related to Scribs now... Ninada thinks I'm still asleep, and
thankfully snuggles in a little closer, I feel something poking her stomach, good morning to you too little guy haha. Since I literraly can't take this opportunity to get handsy or cuddle
thoroughly I check my Status.

Due to your actions being thought out you recieve:
Wis +6
was 9, then you performed surgery with a dagger... to pour poison into yourself
Due to extreme exposure to a poison that could have killed you through paralisis while in state ideal for it to work you gain:
[Greater Paralysis Resistance]
[Basic Poison Resistance]
[Slight Regeneration]
Due to the harebrained surgery you performed you Gain:
[Very Slight Poison Claws] may be improved through alchemy reagents/potion cosumption/implantation, and extreme use
Subtype (Paralysis) available
The previous reduction is negated, so you recieve a total of:
Wis +10
Pwr +1
Con +1

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Healthy, (paralyzed for 1 more hour)
Mana: 65/65 Regen at 1.1/sec so 1,000 seconds or 16 minutes and 41 seconds to full
Str:10
Con:15
Pwr:13
Wis:22
Agi:10
Skills:
(Greater Slave Magic Resistance)
Grants a vast(85%) resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
(Slight Mana Resistant Armored Scales)
Adds a certain amount of durability(1 armor) to skin and scales, and a minute amount of resistance to magic(5%)
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
New!Spells:
Summon Winged Twilight(self) cost: 230 duration: 10 minutes
Dispel(self)Base cost: 50 mana
Absorb Health(touch) Base cost: 10 mana
Bound Cuirass(self)Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Bound Greaves(self) Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Traits:
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
New![Very Slight Poison Claws]
allows implementation of poison through claws, types (Paralysis) One hit in five while unarmed may poison a target for 1 second while using the same claws with current stats
New![Very Basic Poison Resistance]
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (26%)
New![Greater Paralysis Resistance]
Allows character to resist a portion of time spent paralyzed (85%)
New![Slight Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries in an hour, broken bones in 4 weeks, and amputations in months or 2-3 years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
[Waterbreathing]
Allows user to breath under water, Trait fixed
[weakness to frost 34%]
Reptillian heritage causes 34% weakness to cold
[Young'un]
you are now a threat to almost anything your size or smaller. 5'9"

I finish the update and nearly squeal in joy... but I'm paralyzed so no. At this point Ninada is starting to get concerned and pulls back enough to see my eyes, so I wink at her, and
feel the barest grin on my face. She huffs, then finds a club and comes back in, in like 5 minute, hits me in the face, then the stomach, as she's aiming for my crotch my tail twitches,
and she stops for a minute, then looks back at my slightly deflated dick, which honestly kinda turns me on, and it starts coming back to wave hello, which makes her laugh, she then gets up
next to my wasist, and grabs me, her hand doesn't fit more than three quarters of the way around the base, it looks like it's the same size, 9" just a bit wider much to my 'private' joy
hehehe. She looks at my still form, and runs her fingers under the head, gently moving her other hand up and down, bringing her mouth closer, breathing on it, it's been a while, so I'm
already ready to let loose, the only thing stopping me is seeing if I can keep her here till the paralysis wears off, and turn the tables, and her over for some fun. She looks at me with a
smirk, still playing with me, bringing her lips closer while staring into my eyes, so I slowly try to wiggle my big toe in a small part of my brain while using everything else to hold back
for just a little while longer. I don't last passed five more minutes of this, bringing me to 40 minutes until I'm free from paralysis, she teased me up until the end, never actually
putting my dick into her mouth, but she did get a mouthful, and the rest too after some hit the bed across the room. She swallowed it and winked at me, still idly playing with my dick,
saying, "thats's easier than cleaning it up, but you don't taste bad." After maybe two minutes of this I get hard again, and she smiles at me, before bringing her lips to my head, giving
it a kiss, then the underside of my head, all the way down to my balls, then back up, and down, and up once more, the teasing has gotten to me at this point, and I want nothing more than
to be inside her, I'm not nearing a release, I'm just getting hyped up more and more, I feel that big toe wiggle, then my tail, then I slowly and shakily move my tail to her shoulder, she
feels it, and looks at me, just kissing the head now, all around the tip, I move my tail from her shoulder to her neck, wrap it gently around her neck, and pull her toward me, she resists a
little bit at first, but goes with it after that, and I finally get the warmth and wetness she's been teasing me with! She let's me control the pace, and in less than 2 minutes I can move
my tail freely despite being paralyzed everywhere else, I've tightened my grip on her neck because she resists with just her neck unless it's as tight as she likes, and I'm almost there,
so I pull her face up as close as I can get it as I feel the cum boiling out of me, and straight down her throat. She pulls back after that, but I pull her forward with my tail, wanting
more, she reaches up with her hands, so I reluctantly release her, gently trailing along her neck, and the side of her face. I notice I only have ten minutes of being paralyzed to go, and
wrap my tail gently around her neck again, fairly happy with the situation and wanting more, but content for the moment. She smirks at me and says, "If you can't move in the next ten
minutes I'll have to return the club." I tighten my tail, run the end along her jaw and push her head so she's looking into my eyes and wink at her, returning my tail around her neck and
tightening to how she wanted it earlier while slowly trying to get my arms working, after about five minutes I can move them, but not my abdomen yet, she hasn't moved to go farther, so
maybe she's good right now on playing with me, it would only be right of me to return the favor. Thinking that, I remove my tail from her throat, and wrap it around her hip while pulling
her closer so I can reach her with my arms, as she gets closer, I realize how much of my body I'll need for this, and frustratedly flex everything paralyzed including my tongue which
does move, meaning I'm almost there, after I get her close enough I reach the point where frustration meets anger, and suddenly my body can move again! I get out of the hammock, pick her up
and set her in it, pull off her pants, and am finally greeted with the sight of her snatch, it has hair, but it's trimmed short, thankfully as a reptillian being I don't have to worry about
that anymore, I bring my snout to her, breath on her, and she looks down with a smile and almost glazed eyes as my tongue darts out, licking first from front to back, then running my lips
over the edges of her front, lipping, sucking, and occasionally slightly pinching her folds between my lips while running my tongue along it, she sighs happily and when I reach her hole,
tightens her legs around my head, I stick my nearly 5" long tongue inside, feeling her different textures, and watching her relaxing, using my experience to build her up and up and up,
before vigorously swirling my tongue around over and over as much as I can, with force and quickness, causing her to go from restraining a moan to locked up and a nearly silent scream of
pleasure as her eyes close and she arches her back. I decide I can risk it, and drop my robes all the way off, and rubbing myself up and down the entrance into her to make sure I'm
properly lubricated, she shudders as I do it, and then I enter her, getting three-quarters of the way in before she's too tight for me to go further without more force, I'm sure she won't
mind right now, and I know I don't so I force myself in just a bit more, hitting a wall and stopping with some still not inside her, I pull back, and she is still in her own little world
so I place one hand holding just above her back, wrap my tail around the opposite leg out of the way and reach my other hand up to her throat while pumping in and out of her tightness, and
gradually increase the pressure until I feel comfortable, unsure of my current strength, after thirty seconds of her only moving because of the force on her hips, I push myself in fully,
tighten my grip on her legs and remove my hand from her throat, she wakes up enough to say, "yess more, just like that, and reaching towards me, I'm not sure how coherent she is so I place
my hand back on her throat, and she starts moving to my rythm, grabbing the hand on her throat and reaching to play with her nipples as she pulls me towards her, I just tighten my grip on
her and feel some liquid running down my legs as she arches her back again, moving her hips wildly, I reached the end of self-control a while back and I unload in her, she moans loudly and
continues shaking her hips until I am done, then I release her throat and leg from my hand and tail, and pull her closer, picking her off the hammock while hugging her and sit back down,
her still around me, and my arms around her, enjoying the closeness, and feeling of her against and around me as she recovers. After a minute she starts to get up, so I flex my dick, and
pull her closer, deciding she needs a mark to let them know she's mine, I wrap one arm around her, pick her up slightly, and start sucking on her neck, she offers resistance, but it really
isn't much, mostly for fun, because she could stop me with a wave of her hand. She quickly matches my pace and says, "We need to stop, there are things to do." I say, "I REALLY wish you
were wrong, but I want them to know you are mine now, so you WILL wait for me to finish, and we might go again after so I can make sure it's in a good spot from, every, angle," with a
rumble to emphasize my point. She nods while biting her lip sexily, her nails dig into my back, and I feel that I can allow it, so I do, and suddenly she scratches down my back, just
barely drawing blood, that turns me on, and I almost bite her neck, before remembering that I'm a carnivore now, so I just suck her neck harder while using both arm to slam her into me.
After she's scratched up my back pretty well, and I've made sure that the mark would stay, I lay on my back and tell her, "lift up your legs, and set them up on my chest," she does so and
I grab her foot, and slowly at first, rotate her from right to left to left to right, and she starts moaning and shaking her hips, she almost falls off so she stops for a second, I take
the moment, wrap my tail arond her foot, and turn her till her ass is facing me, let go with my tail, and command, "now put your legs on my sides!" She does, and I sit up behind her,
hugging her and rubbing her nipples, then one hand drifts down to her wet pussy and starts rubbing her folds carefully, I have claws now, and say, "The mark looks good from here too," she
tightens up after I say that, and I finally feel justified in cumming, I switch one hand from her nipple to her hip and use both forearms to push her down till I feel the deepest part of
her again, and force her hips to rub my head back and forth across it, I finish just as I find a part deeper than the rest and shoot it all right next to it while holding her still, she
moans loudly and leans into me as much as I let her, then I feel a flood drench me, and she shakes a little while holding my arms. After we recover, I say, "So, better every time?" with
shit-eating grin, she moves her hips, feels me already starting to harden and says, "well I wouldn't say that, we need to go a few more times first, but I'm already going to be sore, time
to get ready," I hug her closer and pout, which she sees as she kisses the side of my snout, causing her to giggle. "How long has it been for you? You are very enthusiastic." She asks. I
respond, "It had been about 2 years at that point, before I came over, if you don't get off of me right now, we're gonna miss the fights tonight, I won't stop until you stop me or I can't
go anymore, I'm pretty sure you can use magic to get rid of the soreness," with a predatory grin. I feel her tighten up, and she responds, "I want to feel the way you left me, and your mark
will get healed too," I frankly almost break down from this gentleness, but I refuse to cry after sex. I respond with a rough voice, "If you talk like that I won't let you run away, and I
will hurt anybody who flirts with you." She just turns around, puts me back inside her, and hugs me for a while.

After one more slow session, we finally leave the bedroom, me using a pair of tan pants we picked up, and her with a shirt exposing her neck in addition to pants matching mine. I
lead the way out, ready to show off, only to nearly run into the blue scaled female from earlier. She stops and says, "Have you seen my club? I lent it to your roommate, and she hasn't
brought it back." I turn to Ninada and ask if she has it, she closes her eyes for a minute, then says, "I'm pretty sure we left it in the room, I'll be right back!" I nod to her back, she's
already turned around, so I turn back to the blues scaled female, she says, "so who used the club?" I look at her, wondering what she is talking about, and reply, "Ninada did." She smirks
and looks me up and down before saying, "I didn't think a guy like you would be into that kind of thing," while smirking. I nearly facepalm and respond, "That was just foreplay, it really
hurt the first time!" She smiles wider and giggles, "That is just the best answer," I respond with a look of mock ignorance, "What do you mean? She applied more force than necessary, so
it hurt." She laughs, and says, "So that's how you got her, you're funny," I reply while smiling, "No the reason I got her was trust, I'm pretty sure." She responds, "yes, that is important,"
while smiling sadly. I ask, "so what is your name?" She replies, "Mez-mur, and you go by Gray right?" I nod, and say, "Thanks for letting her borrow your club, I appreciate it a lot, I'm
sure she does too, did you have something you needed?" She says, "No, just the club, though I was surprised about the reason it took so long, that's cute, it's like you are fleeing
persecution in a story!" I look at her and tilt my head to the side a bit, "You know, it does seem that way, I may use that, but to be perfectly honest, I wouldn't run from them with this
woman, I may even get to fight next to her in a few years, as it stands, she'd kill the whole army without moving too much." Mez-mur pales and steps back. I take that to mean she's scared
of Ninada, who's returned I think, so I turn, and see the horned argonian that was labelled as a sore loser earlier, holding the club Mez-mur loaned Ninada and another with iron banding
around the tip. I'm a little bit hyper sensitive right now, so when he says, "Race-Traitor, your woman is tied up in the room-" He continues, but I'm already moving, claws out, I run 3 of
the 5 feet separating us, jump off the nearest wall, and kick his leg, digging a claw into it, and paralyzing him. I wrap my tail around his neck, and drag his limp form toward the room
I came out of, only for the door to open and Ninada to walk out before I get more than one step while dragging him by the neck, he can finally react, and drops the clubs, then reaches for
his neck. I tighten the hold, and turn to him, and grab his arms, just barely holding him back from reaching my tail. Then I state, "Maybe don't piss off the new guy without seeing him
actually fight first? Or even better, don't start shit for no reason? Either would have been smart, now you are probably going to do something stupid again with your friends, but I'm
going to warn you, if you do that, I'm gonna come back from wherever you dump me and cut your horns off, then stab you in the elbows as hard as I can with them," the threat only pisses him
off, which is what I wanted, if he focuses on me, Ninada won't have any issue getting him alone later. I would rather not talk about what Dark Elves do to idiots, let alone someone who
fucks with their things, or people. They openly practice slavery in an empire that doesn't, and it's ALLOWED. Argonians only come because the Hist Trees are their societal gods and raised
them from lizards to humanoids, even then, a freaking meteor hits before they decide it's worth it, I may eventually be able to hurt them, the [Adaptive] Trait is the strongest thing I've
ever heard about, but this isn't a game, and I would have to at least escape every battle, they only have to know what they're dealing with and win once. They are a scary amount of powerful,
and are the only ones besides maybe the Bretons with multiple conjures at once, not to mention the fact that they Generally live for at least 300 years. I feel a hand on my shoulder, and
Ninada says, "Alright, let's go upstairs dear." I release him, and he goes to stand up when I hear a familiar voice say, "So you couldn't even wait for the fight tonight? You already
started bothering passengers I specifically told you not to fuck with, and you lost to a passenger smaller than you in less time than you spent monologing when the chips were down, you are
a disgrace, maybe you can win in a fair fight, instead of an ambush with weapons and threats." I say, "For the record, I will win if I can use my claws unless he has a birth defect, or
deliberately weakened his resistance to poison." Sheirava stops looking surprised, and then stomps towards the horned asshole, who is surprisingly pale, and shouts into his face, "HAVE YOU
BEEN USING DARIL ON MY SHIP?" The other responds, "I only tried it at the port sir, I didn't know what it was." Sheirava states, "So you were bothering this male passenger because you are
alright with putting strange things in your mouth? Then if you beat him tonight, I'm sure he'd oblige, despite Mez-mur wanting to check his scales." I frown, I look for Mez-mur, she's gone,
probably left after bringing Sheirava, and then look to Ninada, and she nods at me, brandishing the club and saying, "She was the only one I knew would help me, even recommended using this
to get you out of bed with." Sheirava waves us forward, and we finally get abovedeck, leaving the horned asshole downstairs with him following us up after Sheirava, and heading elsewhere,
probably to his buddies. Sheirava says, "He will try something after tonight, if he doesn't, he's off the ship, and not something I care about anymore." I acknowledge his point with a nod,
and ask, "So will you fight tonight, what about his buddies?" He responds with, "I'm not allowed to fight, as first mate I referee, and his buddies will definitely fight tonight." I have
one more question, "Will the women be forced to participate?" He responds with a negative shake of his head, and walks off shouting, he has work to micromanage. Ninada comes up to me, rubs
my arm and says, "I don't see Mez-mur, I'm going to find her and talk with her, I'll see you later." I pout and look at her with the most fake sadness I can muster, "well dang, I was going
to parade you around, but you go have fun with your friend." She laughs at me *hurtful* and goes towards the rudder on the ship. I decide to see what the people playing with nets are doing,
and wonder off to go interrupt their work, which they take with good humor, showing me how the weighted end helps the net close as they pull it onto the deck, which is pretty neat, So I
spend a part of the day throwing and retrieving nets until my arms are sore, I ask about the lack of fish like monsters, and dreugh. They tell me that monsterfish and stuff stay further
from the shoreline, or like the dreugh are smart enough to avoid nets. I thank them for the knowledge, and wonder over to the rope ladder leading to the crow's nest then look around for
someone to ask permission from, find nobody, shrug and start climbing up, I get a third of the way up, and my arms are burning, but I haven't even reached the lowest crossbar, so I keep
going, I feel my grip weakening, and my legs are burning when I reach the halfway point, nearly 70 feet up, and I stop at the crossbar there, putting my tail around the mast, and grabbing
my tail with my arm to stabilize myself. I look out and see the shoreline on the edge of what I can see there, then look out to sea, and see a flock of something, maybe cliff racers,
diving into the water nearly at the end of my vision to the East, only for a massive splash to come up and make them disappear when the water subsides. I shiver, and decide that I'll not
be thrown into the water bound, even if I have to go full on little bitch and scream for Nina like a little girl. I continue sitting there until I my arms and legs aren't burning, then get
back on the ladder, climbing 3/4 of the way to the top, then resting against the ladder itself, then getting about ten feet from the top, I see an Argonian head peak down at me, followed
by a voice, "Damn, I had money on you giving up if you did try getting up here, think you can turn around or jump off?" I laugh raggedly and return, "Will you cut me in if I do?" He replies,
"only if you jump." I smile and just keep climbing, I notice it's about noon right now, so I have some time to kill. I lay down after I get into the crow's nest with some help, just panting
for a while. After I catch my breath, I tell him, "I'm Gray, who're you?" He responds, "I'm Glides-Into-Water, and the only one technically allowed up here during the day." I respond, "Well
there was nobody to tell me no, so here I am haha, how'd you get that name?" He looks out to sea, and says seriously, "One day, there was a storm coming, I spotted it and let the captain
know, so we began to head towards a cove, as we did so, I saw 2 ships next to each other heading the same way, followed by a green flash, so I attempted to cast the communication with the
captain agan, and a large wave hit while I was distracted, sending me flying from my nest, and towards the water, as I fell, I yelled what I thought were my last words while pointing and
falling, 'PIRATES,' then I hit the water, everything went black, and I woke up later, only to see the shore line far in the distance, so I swam for it, only being bothered by some
slaughterfish, and made it to see two ships burning together, and our ship moored in the cove, I arrived at the ship, was greeted by Walks-On-Water as Glides-Into-Water, he said my fall was
so graceful it was almost like I had wings, HAHAHA!" I laugh with him, and we comment on the wildlife we can observe from here for an hour, then he says, "You oughtta head down, It's going
to take longer to get down than it did to get up, and you may not due well tonight after your little workout." I wink at him and say, "While you are almost definitely right about the climb
down, I may surprise you tonight." Then we bump fists, and I start the climb down, stopping every so often, and taking my time, I reach the ground, arms and legs really tired, and 2 hours
till sunset. I turn to limp to my room and see Mez-mur followed by Ninada walking up to me, Nina looks concerned and comes over, hugging me and asking, "So what were you doing? I've been
looking for you for 20 minutes!?" I respond, "I wanted to climb the crow's nest, met a guy named Glides-Into-Water, and we talked a while, I rested up there and we talked about everything
we could see." Mez-mur says, "you cost a lot of people money, and now you're tired, you are going to lose so hard tonight." Nina looks at me with a raised eyebrow, and I smile and wink at
her. She responds for me, "I think you might be surprised." We then head to the room, and Mez-mur leaves us to get back to work, and we lay down for my favorite pastime, cuddling, I stick
my nose into her hair, and let the scent lull me into sleep.

She wakes me up 2 hours later, "The fights start in 30 minutes." I say, "thanks babe, just need a minute." I check my status.
Due to your actions you recieve:
Str +5
Con +2
Agi +2

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Healthy
Mana: 65/65 Regen at 1.1/sec so 1,000 seconds or 16 minutes and 41 seconds to full
Str:15
Con:17
Pwr:13
Wis:22
Agi:12
Skills:
(Greater Slave Magic Resistance)
Grants a vast(85%) resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
(Slight Mana Resistant Armored Scales)
Adds a certain amount of durability(1 armor) to skin and scales, and a minute amount of resistance to magic(5%)
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
Spells:
Summon Winged Twilight(self) cost: 230 duration: 10 minutes
Dispel(self)Base cost: 50 mana
Absorb Health(touch) Base cost: 10 mana
Bound Cuirass(self)Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Bound Greaves(self) Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Traits:
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
[Very Slight Poison Claws]
allows implementation of poison through claws, types (Paralysis) One hit in five while unarmed may poison a target for 1 second while using the same claws with current stats
[Very Basic Poison Resistance]
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (26%)
[Greater Paralysis Resistance]
Allows character to resist a portion of time spent paralyzed (85%)
[Slight Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries in an hour, broken bones in 4 weeks, and amputations in months or 2-3 years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
[Waterbreathing]
Allows user to breath under water, Trait fixed
[weakness to frost 34%]
Reptillian heritage causes 34% weakness to cold
[Young'un]
you are now a threat to almost anything your size or smaller. 5'10"

After the changes take effect, I feel a rush of energy, flex my tail, finding it much more responsive, feel my chest, arms, and legs bulge out, then slim down to my more natural
runner's build once again, I turn to Nina, and see her looking at me wide eyed, so I roll out of the hammock onto my feet and grab her hips, lifting her into a hug, and kissing the mark I
left on her neck near her collarbone. She wraps her legs around me, touches my back, and starts digging her nails in again, I let her leave scratches again, and pull her closer, turning
away from the door and putting her back against the hull, rubbing my dick against her, and rubbing the other down her ass, rubbing her little rosebud through her pants. As I decide to go
farther, I hear the door open and someone says, "She was totally right, you are a beast, calm down, save it for after the fight!" I feel Nina push me back slightly, indicating if I push
she'll allow it, but this is something that we should do first. I groan, and turn to Mez-mur, she's staring at me, looking at my body, and when I get next to her, she says, "Did you get
taller, Ninada, did he get taller?" Nina just smiles and winks at her, I say, "I can't believe you were so distracted by my body that you missed how tall I was," while striking a pose.
Ninada laughs at me and gives Mes-mur a look that I miss. Mes-mur continues, "Anyways, time to go, move your fine asses!" I look at her with a raised eyebrow, and she winks at me, I look
at Nina, and she smiles, coming to give us a hug, pushing me in between Mes-mer and herself, driving the realization home, followed by, "I only share winners." Giving me the motivation I
may not need, but definitely have now. I turn to Mes-mur, "Apologize to anyone I hurt badly please." She says, "I wouldn't count on it, we do this weekly at least." I nod, and remind myself
not to hold back, they must have a healer on board, otherwise it would be impractical, I can't imagine climbing to the crow's nest after getting beat up. I grab her tail when she turns
around, causing her to spin, and pull her covered slit to my still hard self, and she gasps, Ninada smacks my shoulder, so I use my tail to encircle her waist, barely picking her up with
it and turning my face to her, and pulling her closer until I can give her the first kiss we share, at first just lips touching because I'm unused to the way my mouth has been formed for
this particular excercise, but rapidly building up to a french kiss, my tongue overtaking hers while I grind on Mes-mur, I look for spots to get a reaction from Nina, getting one under her
tongue, and another just under her lips, hitting both at once causes her to release a muffled moan, joined by Mes-mur, I then remember that we were supposed to do something, and slowly set
first Mes-mur then Nina down, and say, "I got a little carried away there, lets go, I'll go first this time." Nina says, "So are you always like that when you wake up?" I answer, "yes,
unless something comes up besides my dick." Mez-mur says, "you better win!" I nod and begin to walk toward the stairs.

After I open the door, the only person missing is the captain, even Glides-Into-Water is here, Sheirava has everyone form a circle, and announces, "First up is the passenger Gray,
and the boatswain Teesithik the one with the iron fists, get in your corners... Begin!" I see the argonian across from me has nearly iridiscint green scales, spines on his head that are
shor, maybe 3" long, and some black pants on, he gets in a boxers stance, and I mirror him, we approach, and he takes the first swing, but he doesn't commit to it, pulling back right when
he would have been in range for me to grab his hand, then he moves closer keeping his hands up, I step into his space as he steps forward and hit him in the chest, causing him to lose his
balance, surprising me as I didn't hit him near as hard as I would if we were enemies, so I miss the opening for just a second, then chase him to the ground, get next to his leg, and hit
his leg in the nerve bundle that's there on humans, and pretty much any bipedal creature you care to name, on his thigh. This causes him to experience what is colloquially known as a dead
leg, meaning he's stuck on the ground unless he want's to show weakness, he retaliates by spinning, and missing my face with his knee as I move, just barely taking it on my forearm instead,
I retaliate by grabbing the leg he hit me with and twisting it while stepping over him, forcing him to spin with it, or break his knee, then I sit on his back, taking a flailing tail to the
thigh, dangerously close to a cheapshot, which I habitually avoid usually, it's just fucked up to do that for no reason, I let go of his leg and spin towards his head, grabbing it with both
hands, and telling him while he's grabbing the hands on his head, "Give up bud, you can't get out of this," he continues struggling, so I tap his head on the deck, he quickly comes to his
senses, and taps out, I release him, help him up, and ask, "were you just off-balance when I hit you?" He nods, and let's go of my hand, probablly sulking that he didn't get to show off.
Sheirava announces, "The winner is Gray, was that a fluke, or is he really that good? To check, we brought in Tajel-lei, who is swift and dangerous," I see a female Argonian with tiny horns
on her head, and pinkish tan scales come up, Sheirava says, "Ready?... BEGIN!!" I immediately rush towards her, and immediately take a kick that flashes the world white, followed by an
elbow to the shoulder, numbing one arm, and waking me right the fuck on up, I protect my face as I bull forward, taking a knee to the diaphram that I catch, she then follows through on
the momentum, hitting me in the cheeck and drawing blood from both my cheek and her fist, causing the world to flash again, my other arm moves, and I shift to the left, still holding her
leg, and taking her left on the side of the neck, instead of dead center, then my other arm comes up, grabs her left as she pulls back, and I follow through on her momentum, headbutting her
and cracking one of my horns, but knocking her out, 'FUCK THAT HURT!!!' She obviously lost, Ninada comes onto the ring and immediately heals Tajel-lei, and Sheirava announces, "I guess he
is that good, Gray wins again, Gray you ready to fight again, or did you want to get that looked at?" I reply loudly, "I'm good for now, it looks worse than it is, she kicked my ass."
Sheirava shrugs, "Next up we have one of the big three, The Spiny Speedster, Tuleek!!" And into the ring walks one of the spiny tan scaled Argonians, "get to your sides, Ready?... BEGIN!"
I take a stance, and he tries to rush me, I'm in pain already, so I don't take him head on, instead as he passes at speed, I dodge to the side while slamming my shin into his, causing him
to miss his next step, and spinning me while most likely bruising both of our shins, I was expecting it, so I use the momentum to spin myself behind him as he slams into the ground full
force, after his crash landing, I jump onto his back, aiming an elbow for his kidney, I succeed and he groans, but continues to try and push himself up, so I crawl onto his back, wrap
my legs around his waist, my arms around his throat, pulling with both, and almost crushing his throat, he taps out quickly, and I let go, get off of him and say, "you might oughtta
remember this is for fun big guy, I know a bit of magic because of that beautiful Dark Elf over there, but you should watch the fight between me and spikeface later." Then help his heav-...
he's almost light, damn, that is awesome. Sheirava crows, "What an upset folks, Tajel-lei seems to have done the most damage, you ready Gray? You'll need your best for the next part, you
already met the next contestent earlier today." I reply, "bring his bid dumb ass on!" Sheirava winces, and announces, "Well you heard him Okaan-ei, get in here, and get in your positions,"
the now named Okaan-ei struts into the ring, and as he walks to his side, he says, "you filthy fucking Dark Elf assassin, you know poison coated claws eventually poison you too, even with
your resistance, eventually you'll be stuck paralyzed as punishment for your crimes." I am completely dumbfounded for a minute, then say, "wait up" while waving both arms, "I gotta set
something straight here, I am not, and have never been an assassin, I don't coat my claws, and if you don't believe me, find an Argonian named Sneaks-In-Water, or a khajiit named Za'ran,
and ask them about a child named, Ash-Gray-Scales. They'll either kill you or tell you a story, not sure which," then Okaan-ei opens his mouth, "Shut up race traitor, you're lucky that
whore Dark Elf appreciated you enough to free you after she figured out she likes scaley dick," I turn to Sheirava, and nod at him. He looks confused, figures out what I mean, and says,
"BEGIN!!!" I immediately start walking toward the now dehumanized spikeface/Okaan-ei, and catalogue my injuries, cracked skull horn, bruised left shin, everything else isn't registering,
no weakness anywhere but the horn, he was walking towards me as well, his guard is low though, he's over confident, as we meet he telegraphs a haymaker that I barely move to the side, then
grab and swing my body towards the outside of, planting my legs just behind the knee on his body, and my hip on his elbow, pushing forward with my hips and pulling with my arm, he
instinctively goes down to a knee to avoid the pain of ripping tendons, I anticipated this, and as he strains to free his arm, another smashes into my bruised shin with considerable force
maybe bruising it further, but the pain doesn't matter, it just drives me to yank harder with my whole upper body, causing a few small snapping sounds, and an almost inaudible crack, I
release the arm as he howls in pain, and back up to the edge of the ring, keeping my eyes on him, he turns to me while holding his arm, thankfully still having some fight in him, and
leading with the claw on his other arm, so I rush towards him, dodge the wild swing to the outside once again, and do my damndest to break my hand on his tricep, I hit it, and feel oddly
disappointed that I only broke the knuckle from hitting him, his arm drops, he turns to me and fucking tries to bite me?!?! THAT'S MY SURPRISE ATTACK BITCH, he snaps onto my right arm, the
one with the broken knuckle, and I decide that he's obviously broken the rules, plus, he FUCKING BIT ME!!! So I knee him in the balls, he bites harder, I pull him closer, and headbutt him
Once, ow my spike, he's not stopping, so I rear back, and use every bit of leverage I can, and headbutt him again. This time, he knocks out, but he's Still biting me, I'm fixing to break
his jaw, feel a hand on my arm, it has claws, it digs in just a bit, I swing anyways, and free my arm, that hand won't let go, I grab the arm attached to it, and spin with my outside hand
leading to where it came from, and smash Sheirava in the face, then while he steps back I hit him again with the other hand, he falls backward, and I rush around to the side, hitting his
head with my shin, and knocking him for a loop if not out, I turn to the crowd, and something seems wrong, so I wave for the next contestant, and a Dremora appears in a flash of purple
I glare at him, and he charges me, pulling a claymore. I set myself, and as he starts to swing jump into his legs, we both hit the ground, he releases the claymore to reach for me, and
I slither out from under him, he rolls and I get a mount before can do more, so I start hitting him in the face and throat, he blocks, I keep going until blood is dripping from my knuckles,
he can't block effectively, it hurts too much, and his instincts make him twitch in anticipation of the impact, I finally get a good hit in, slamming his head into the floor, his arms drop
slightly, so I grab his head with both hands, and smash it into the deck until he disappears. I look up to see Nina looking at me with concern and a golden yellow glowing hand just
touching my arm. Clarity returns as the glow fades, and I looked around again. I notice a few are avoiding my gaze, I look to Ninada, and asked, "I remember the fights, but what happened?"
She just points near Okaan-ei, and my gaze follows her finger, and I see not one but two horns on the ground near him, a third with the curve in a dent on his head... Healing magic will fix
that... probably... if he's still alive. I tell her, "that other healer can see to him," deliberately misunderstanding to gesture, and getting her focus on right now, then say, "So why did
Sheirava interfere?" She replies, "He said that Okaan-ei cheated, but went to pull you off of him for some reason, then he grabbed your arm, yelled 'that's enough, stop or I'll knock you
out too,' and well... you did it so you know." I inquire further, "Who summoned the dremora?" I hear the voice of Russel, "I did, you looked wild after what you did to Sheirava, like an
animal claiming an area and accepting any challengers, while strangely following the rules of the tournament, mostly, till you calmed down." I say, "after that headbutt, something just felt
wrong, first time I've ever lost one horn, let alone three, then Sheirava dug his claws into my arm, and I wasn't in the best of moods, or even state of mind, why wouldn't he get between us
instead of attacking me?" Russel says, "He was upset that you hurt one of his crew so badly, and probably believed that you were in fact an assassin, seeing what just happened, I think
you might be a berserker, you certainly fight well as one, that's the first time I've seen a barehanded fighter destroy a dremora without much, if any damage!" Ninada glares at him and says,
"Don't encourage bad habits, he could have killed it easily much quicker with claws, but he didn't because of this tournament, which he shall not be joining again, on this or another ship."
I sigh, "you are probably right, I'll be too dangerous to do this soon, that asshole had it coming though, I can't control their thoughts, but I can affect what they choose to act on easily
enough." Ninada says, "I didn't heal your bones, except the spikes until the nerves were covered, you are just numb, you may want to get to bed." I nod and feel a wave of tiredness affect
me, then say, "So I get cuddles tonight right," while wearing the best goofy grin I can, then noticing that I taste iron, and hope there isn't any blood on my teeth. She maintains a stern
expression, saying, "cuddles are for people who don't charge claymore wielding armor covered foes." I feel the despair in my soul overtake my grin, and she falters, goes back to stern for a
moment, and finally cracks again, "even if you didn't get hurt from it." I continue showing my despair, and she says to me, "You look like I just stabbed you, except you only winced when
you broke your knuckle so... worse!?" I reply, "I would take many swords... stabs? injuries to cuddle," while nodding as if I was sharing a great secret to distract from faltering midway
through. She looks at me blankly, but I see it coming, and she says, "So you wouldn't take a 'sword,' or 'stab' to cuddle with me?" Suggesting what I was trying to avoid, so I go with the
old standby, "OW MY HAND REALLY HURTS, we should definitely go lay down so I can recover!" She laughs in my face, "HAHAHA oh my gods you are funny, I thought Mez-mur was kidding, you seem
more serious then you used to!" I reply, "Oh yeah, double cuddles tonight, YESSS," she giggles again, and says, "only if you answer the question." While she raises an eyebrow. I answer,
"I refuse to be 'stabbed' or have 'swords' besides mine around or inside me, that being said, If through some convulated twist of events, it became necessary, I would kill all involved
excepting you and me, and get my cuddles, especially from you Nina." She raises an eyebrow and drops it, turning to look over my shoulder, I follow her gaze to see Mez-mur heading our way,
holding a bag, tossing it and catching it with a smile on her face, she's only paying enough attention to stop by us while nearly giggling in glee, I take this opportunity to put on a
shocked face and say, "Is that all I am to you Mezzy baby? A paycheck?" She squeaks cutely, looks at me and replies, "That and a dick, which, since you are in trouble, I can't use." That
unexpectedly hurt my feelings a bit, I decide then and there, I'm going to wear her out tomorrow, make sure she feels uncomfortable without my dick inside her, and sore either way, I see
Nina looking at my face, she grins wickedly afterwards, and Mez-mur continues playing with the money. We head to the room, and I get into the hammock with a woman on each side, and think
to myself while pulling them closer, 'it doesn't get much better than this,' and slowly drift off to sleep, enjoying the softness on my right side, and rubbing around the tail on my left
slowly.

Ailment Focused Rage negated due to healing and presence of someone you trust
Due to repeatedly performing the questionable actions of breaking bones in addition to your [Adaptive] trait, you gain:
trait [Hard Bones]
Con +3
Due to your actions you receive:
Agi +2
Your Skill (Slight Mana Resistant Armored Scales) improves to (lesser Mana Resistant Armored Scales) due to repeated impacts with things much harder than you are.
Trait [????] added due to Trait [Young'un] removal.

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Minor injuries (bruised shin bone <1 day, broken knuckle 3 weeks, 3xbroken juvenile horn 5 weeks)
Mana: 65/65 Regen at 1.1/sec
Str:15
Con:20
Pwr:13
Wis:22
Agi:12
Skills:
(Greater Slave Magic Resistance)
Grants a vast(85%) resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
(lesser Mana Resistant Armored Scales)
Adds a certain amount of durability(4 armor = to bad leather armor) to skin and scales, and a resistance to magic(10%)
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
(Very Basic Poison Resistance)
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (30%)
(Greater Paralysis Resistance)
Allows character to resist a portion of time spent paralyzed (85%)
Spells:
Summon Winged Twilight(self) cost: 230 duration: 10 minutes
Dispel(self)Base cost: 50 mana
Absorb Health(touch) Base cost: 10 mana
Bound Cuirass(self)Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Bound Greaves(self) Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Traits:
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
[Hard Bones]
Strengthen bones, negated after reaching 50 Con as effects are the same
[Very Slight Poison Claws]
allows implementation of poison through claws, types (Paralysis) One hit in five while unarmed may poison a target for 1 second while using the same claws with current stats
[Slight Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries in an hour, broken bones in 4 weeks, and amputations in months or 2-3 years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
[Waterbreathing]
Allows user to breath under water, Trait fixed
[weakness to frost 34%]
Reptillian heritage causes 34% weakness to cold
[Young'un]
5'10" trait will be removed, you are now a threat. Proven by destruction of a superior opponent who had better weapons, armor, and more experience.
[????]
Trait's effects will be known in time... if you don't die...

I get kind of spooked about that last message, which intensifies as I hear shouting, and footsteps down the hall, rapidly approaching my room, I tighten my hold on the women, and
Mez-mur growls before biting my collarbone, which is weird, but I have other concerns at the moment, I say quietly, "Wake up, something is happening, I'm not sure what, but it sounds
important." My statement is followed by Tajel-lei banging the door open and shouting, "We have a shallow water sea serpent, help would be appreciated!" I groan and mourn the loss of my
Awesome morning's potential. I get out of bed, after helping Mez-mur down, and then help Nina down, and ask, "So do you have a spear, I'm good with bows, other than that, I've only ever
used an axe a few times." Tajel-lei responds, "Follow me!" Leading us to a door under the staircase, opening it, and showing us what has to be an armory for the crew, I immediately go for
a longbow with serpent motifs on the side, grabbing it and some silver arrows, and heading up the stairs. I see Ninada already on deck, summoning one after another, A Golden Saint, a
Clannfear, presumably for defense, Storm, Frost, and Fire Atronachs, a bonelord, a ghost, and a dremora with a bow, bringing the total of ranged summons on the deck to 9 and almost doubling
the amount of fighters defending the ship, I see that there's already both a fire atronach, and a Dremora, presumably from Russel. I look where everyone else is looking, and see an angry
snake, its head above the deck, with whiskers, and algae colored hair on its head, in between its probably 6 foot long deer like horns, it looks to have 40 ft of its body sticking out
of the water, I realize it brings to mind an eastern dragon, but shake it off, put arrow to string and aim for its body, never used this bow before, have to find the range. I release the
string, and find that the arrow hits 6' above where I was aiming, glad I didn't waste the arrow even if it wasn't a kill shot, I adjust my aim, and hit closer to where I expect, but I've
never shot at an upward angle like this before! Well I continue my learning experience, slowly inching my target up its body until I can finally hit within 2 feet of where I'm aiming,
and begin aiming for the sea serpents nose, the first shot hits a nostril, and it roars in pain, I have another arrow knocked and let fly when it stops, but I'm excited, and twitch, causing
the arrow to veer off course, as I reach for another arrow, assuming that I had missed already, I hear a ROAR, and see the serpent retreating beneath the waves, I aim for its nose, and miss
because it moves quickly, and I don't anticipate where I should aim properly. I look around after it retreats, and see that some of the railings are gone, all of the net crew is missing,
and Russel, Mez-mur, and Ninada are moving towards me rapidly. Russel says, "Good shot man, I thought we would lose more people, it got around 6 people before your group came up, Okaan-ei
lost an arm protecting Tajel-lei, so he will definitely be left at the next port." I frown for more than one reason, and respond, "I missed the last two, Nina, can you heal Okaan-ei? he
might be a drug abusing asshole, but nobody should be maimed for protecting a comrade." Nina frowns and responds, "I would be able to if we get the arm back, and you only missed the last
shot, why did you think you missed the one before that?" I reply, "I got excited, and twitched as I shot towards its nose, I assumed I missed, I'm not used to such big targets though."
Mez-mur interrupts my self-pity with, "Well you 'missed' its nose, and hit it in the eye, Good shot mr. Winner!" Then comes in for a hug, so I reciprocate and sigh, "Well, do you think the
serpent went back out to sea?" Russel responds, "It may have a cave nearby, but neither I, nor anyone else is willing to look, it may be waiting beneath the waves for someone to get down
there." I nod and request, "Can someone take me to Okaan-ei?" Nina steps forward, giving me a hug and then grabbing me by the hand and leading me towards spikeface asshole, he is near where
the nets were, crying, and having his arm bandaged to slow the bleeding in preparation for him being healed, along with the slight hope that his arm will be found before it's too late. I
stop Ninada and request of her to stay back. I continue on toward him, Tajel-lei is there next to him, looking like she wants to give him a hug, and I speak, "If you will apologize to Ninada
I will try to find your arm." He looks at me, and says, "So you are here to gloat then Assassin, I would sooner die than apologize to your master." I respond seriously, "The way things are
now, you will instead live your life with only one arm, just swallow your pride, and I will do my best, I killed an Ogrim when I was a child, this shouldn't be much harder." Okaan-ei sneers,
"So you are a liar as well, go fuck yourself race traitor, and leave me to recover in peace, or I will end you here and now!" I reply, "I am sorry for your loss, and I hope you have a swift
recovery, may your comrades always be protected at least as well as you would have protected them." He roars, and lunges towards me, I hear Ninada rapidly approaching, and hold out my hand
to stop her, taking a hit to my face that makes the world flash white, and leaves spots in my vision, I get up from the ground, and feel my cheek, it's been cut along with my eyebrow, I
then turn back to Okaan-ei who is crying again, and attempt to ask, "What happened?" He staggers to me, and hits me again, not nearly as hard as before, and I take it because he's just
lost his arm, and his pride is in the way of the only chance he has to get it back. He is sobbing too much for me to hear what he's saying, but he's now talking every time before trying to
hit me, he misses more often than not, and I am now actively blocking the hits while looking at him with understanding, his friends still haven't shown up to help him. I haven't seen them,
and he reacted badly to my saying may his comrades be protected. I state, "I'm sorry, I didn't know." He roars at me, and swings some more, I let him, if I stop him before he gets it out,
he might kill himself, and that is no way for a warrior to die. After nearly 20 minutes of him crying, and progressively weaker hits, he finally gets tired enough to stand there staring at
me with hate. I close the distance between us and say, "I wish I could have stopped it just as you do, I am not an Assassin, I hope you find something to protect again," and set my hand on
his shoulder, then turn around as he breaks down, this time I hope it's more of a cleansing ordeal, and ask Nina to heal him please. She nods with teary eyes, and quickly walks passed me,
returning momentarily and giving me a hug, then looking up at me and running a gold-yellow glowing hand along my face. We then retreat from the area, and find Russel watching us from the
door to belowdeck, he says, "That was probably the best way you could have helped him, and now the hate he has for you will probably fade by tomorrow, but-" I interrupt, "He's still an
asshole, and without his arm he is not a threat to me alone, I only offered because bravery like that should be rewarded and encouraged, you may look into Naming him after he starts his
new life, I recommend not bringing pride into it though." He nods, and walks back to whatever it is captains do when the destination is hours away, probably inventory, I don't feel like
laying down, so I return the bow and silver arrows, and venture onto deck again with Ninada, and as we get by the crow's nest, she reprimands me, "Why did you think that climbing that
without having a safety net was a good idea? I'm going to teach you levitate before you get any stupid ideas about climbing things again," and reaches towards my head, her hand glowing
very light gray, imparting the knowledge and then slapping me, "WHY DID YOU LET HIM TREAT YOU THAT WAY, you didn't deserve it!!" I shrug and say, "You don't either, and I kinda want to go
swimming, so I figured I'd get an apology and go swimming, and if I'd done anything else, we would have had issues later, even an asshole like him is permitted grief." She says, "Why
did you try to sympathize with an enemy, no one on Morrowind would have batted an eye at you killing him, and instead you tried to convince him to find something to live for after he
beat you until he couldn't anymore." I reply, "I'm pretty sure that the crew would, and if I had stopped him now, he would have hired assassins which are a pain in the ass to deal with, I
don't want to kill a prideful fool who's death would cause more harm then good, and even he deserves forgiveness in grief, plus, I will just get stronger, and anything that doesn't outright
kill me will help with that, so I decided to help myself, and it's definitely not because I felt bad about how he will have to live his life without friends now." Nina gives me another hug,
and says, "Well, since as long as it isn't permanent it'll help you, do you mind standing here for a minute," and walks about fifteen feet away before turning to me, and saying, "Time for
your punish-training, I mean training." Her hands light up red, and a tiny ball of flame hits me in the chest, causing a burning sensation that shocks me into motion, I dodge the next one,
it flies out to sea, and I continue rushing towards her, only to meet a dremora arrow in the leg, which makes me hit the ground. Ninada calls, "Fail, go back to your side," while dismissing
another small flame. I crawl back and on the way cast both Bound Cuirass and Bound Greaves, making a request, "May I fight a purely physical fight next?" She ponders a moment, and then says,
"Begin!" I notice she didn't answer, but she summoned a Clannfear so maybe... I set my stance, and cast absorb health while pushing its head to the side after it jumps at me, and feel the
burn on my chest dissipate, the Clannfear squeals and turns towards me, using its foreclaws to assist, I feel warm liquid on my feet, and notice the arrow is gone from my leg, increasing
my urgency, I cast absorb health again, then grab the horn and the top of its head when it jumps at me again, its fore and back legs come shooting toward me with its momentum, I acknowledge
the effect heavy armor can have when the claws stop after hitting it, maybe got a bruise fom it, I notice one of its lower legs is bleeding from the thigh while I switch my hand from the
top of its head to a foreleg, and maintaining my grip on its horn twist the head to the right and the arm to the left, causing the Clannfear to madly struggle, and keeping my focus until a
small fireball hits my tail, shocking me and reminding me that I have claws, scales, and a tail. I continue to hold it up and move its body into the next spell, continuing to hold the
foreleg, rapidly releasing the horn and reaching over its back to the other foreleg, and biting the top of its bone plate to prevent it from succesfully biting my hand, I move my grip to
just above the elbow near the torso as it attempts to reach me with its clawed feet, first swinging to unsuccesfully try and scratch a leg, then bending them to almost reach the hands
holding it up. I move its body into the way of another tiny fireball, I growl in frustration, then jab a claw into its side, drawing blood, but more importantly, paralyzing it for a moment.
I reach for its throat, grab it, and hold its arms down with the other arm, and move it into the path of another tiny fireball before its legs reach and dig into the arm holding its
forelegs down, and then I slit its throat with my claws, and it disappears. I think the fight is over, and take another tiny fireball to the chest, I think quickly and decide if I wimp out
right now, later will suck more, and move to the side of the next tiny fireball, she has been aiming above my waist for the shots she thinks might miss, so every spell either hits flesh,
armor, or flies out to sea, taking that into consideration, I begin quickly walking toward her while dodging them and keeping my back to sea, as I get within 15 feet of her, I hear a
wooshing sound, and am surprised from above, a Winged Twilight has landed on me, forcing me to the ground, its clawed feet holding my shoulders, I kick my clawed feet into its back,
hitting with both, and grabbing its feet to free myself, and set me on top of the pile we make, my feet still in her shoulder, and my hands holding her feet, this time I remember my altered
state, and move my grip from her ankles to behind the knees, claws digging in there and my tail just barely wrapping her neck, I bend my knees a little more, digging the claws in her back
deeper, and getting a good grip on her neck before wrapping my hands around her calves, and pulling with my tail, and pushing with both arms and legs rapidly, there's a crack, and she
disappears, I take another tiny fireball, this time to the face, blinding me, and making me scream! "OW WHAT THE FUCK MY NOSE FUCKINGFUCKFUCK GODSDAMNIT WHAT THE FUCK, NINA WHY THE FUCK DID
YOU DO THAT, EVERYTHING SMELLS LIKE BACON!!!" As I roll on the ground crying and screaming like a child deprived of its favorite toy, Ninada feels bad, and walks to me, and heals my face.
I immediately collapse in relief, and say, "Excellent traing... please don't do that again until I am much more resistant to fire, IT HURTS A LOT," I say with emphasis, and maybe a little
loudly, she slaps the shit out of me, rubs her hand, and says, "Don't talk to me that way or I'll set a Fire atronach on you." I respond with a nod which makes the world spin a little bit.
I stumble a bit, and she leaves me to my fate of losing my balance and falling, then says, "Can't have you bleeding everywhere, come here." I succesfully regain one knee, but the spinning
intensifies, and she's looking at me with a smile reserved for the bedroom while her eyes sparkle, so I crawl towards her, and she smiles wider before healing my flesh wounds closed. I feel
less dizzy, and say, "Is there anything you need my Goddess?" She giggles, and says, "Yes servant, I require fish, fresh caught from the ocean, and I mean now," she grabs the back of the
cuirass I'm wearing, and drags me to the edge, the railing hasn't been repaired here yet, and drags me right off the edge, I barely keep from yelling manfully in surprise!

I hit the water quickly, it is very cold, but I check my environment, and see four dreugh following the ship, one breaks off to swim towards me, 'I can take him,' I think, and swim
to meet him, and feel and hear another splash right near where I came in, no way that's an enemy, I continue towards the dreugh, but one more breaks off, and swims toward me, so I back up
and feel the movement behind me, I keep my eyes on the dreugh, and turn to see Mez-mur with a spear, but no armor on, she points to the surface, I nod, and she begins swimming upwards
immediately, I follow, finally taking my eyes all the way off the dreugh, and staying behind her while following. We almost reach the surface when I see a claw reaching for Mez-murs leg, I
intercept it, she breaks the surface, and I pull the dreugh towards me, only to feel another claw gripping my knee from the back, assisting my effort, but dragging me back as well. I know
me claws will probably be ineffective here, but maybe I can crack this claw I'm holding, I grab it with my other hand, attempting to crush it, it cracks immediately, but the claw on my
leg tightens while being joined by another, I crush the shell apart while thinking I need to get the claw off of my leg, but the one I grabbed is moving too, reaching for my arms with its
remaining three claws. I react by slamming my tail into one of the claws on my leg, and grabbing the claw under the one I've already broken one handed, and succesfully crack it as well,
causing it to pull away, and giving me room to deal with the one grabbing my legs, I look back to see that one of the claws is already broken, and slam my tail into the other, and then wrap
my tail around its neck then rush towards the other who has decided to rejoin his friend, and is rushing towards me. I meet the charge head on, and hug the monster, thankful for its
strangely human mouth, and open my own, turn my head to the side, and snap shut on its face while trying, and failing to crush its chest, which doesn't even crack. I tighten my tail on the
other one, and feel its claws latch on, tightening quickly, I jerk my tail while biting down harder on the dreugh's face, failing to shake the claws off of my tail, but making the dreugh
I'm biting panic, that spurs me on, and I use the jolt of energy from it to finally crush its faceshell, the lower Dreugh tightens his claws on my tail to the point I am bleeding, I pull
him towards my legs, and kick it in the face over and over, turning towards it in the water, grabbing the claws on my tail, and cracking them quickly while tightening the hold I have on
his neck, which doesn't seem to do anything, so I mentally shrug, and pull him towards my chest, then my head, headbutting him until his shell cracks. I then look around to see not just
the 2 dreugh I expect, but also slaughterfish nearly the size of my body taking chunks out of 10 or more dreugh, if I had to guess, I would say that they were planning to ambush us, but the
smell of lood in the water attracted them. I decide that situation is taken care of, grab one dreugh with my tail, the other with my hand on its tentacle and begin to swim toward the ship,
I see Mez-mur climbing up the side while shouting, "Ambush, Dreugh scouts, Gray has engaged." I shout, "I don't know for sure, but they seem to be getting torn apart by slaughterfish, get a
scout down here, and I need a rope." Mez-mur turns to me looking shocked at first, then confused, a rope flies out to me, and I grab it with my teeth, using my legs to assist till I reach
the ship, then switching to my arm, and walking up the side as they pull the rope up. At the end of my ascension, I drop the dreugh I dragged by the tentacle on deck, and finish climbing
over it before finding Nina nearby glaring at me like it was my fault I got caught up in this. I walk to her while dragging the dreugh with my tail, and as cheesily as I can, get on my knees
and drag the dreugh in front of her while saying, "You requested fish, unfortunately they wanted to eat crabs smaller than them, so I brought you something that may instead sate your appetite.
I present to you, the dreugh, I've been told that they taste wonderful when boiled by a person with around a century of experience." She goes from glaring, to horrified, to embarrassed
quickly. I get up and laugh loudly, dispelling the awkward, and slightly hostile air. Mez-mur starts laughing too and pointing at Nina, "you should have seen the look on your face, like
'OH MY GOD, NO THAT WAS A JOKE, AND YOU TOOK IT TOO FAR,' HAHAHaha!" Nina looks at me angrily, walks up to me, raises a hand as though to slap me, and I step forward giving her a hug. She
just wraps her arms around me after a second, and says, "You are so mean!" I respond, "Well somebody threw me into the ocean while I couldn't use magic, so I had to get you back," and
tighten my arms before whispering, "and embarassment has always been more effective than spankings to help people remember." She scoffs, and steps on my foot, "Ow, see what I get for
bringing food to the table!?!?" 'Oh my god she's blushing, such a cute purple color' *internal squeal*!! I pick her up and whisper, "You are soo cute when you blush, Oh my goodness, give
me a kiss little elven goddess," and pull my head back and lean in for it, and she blushes even more!! but she does give me a little kiss, then demands that I set her down, I do, but only
because she was kicking my ass earlier with tiny flame spells. I don't let her go for another 3 minutes, and she threatens, "If you don't let me go, I will wake you up with a Flame Atronach
giving you a blowjob!" I let her go, but only because as a Dark Elf she might actually do it... that would be unpleasant. I make sure to look as disappointed as I feel when we separate, and
Mez-mur laughs at us again, since she's still watching, I walk toward her, and give her a hug, and whisper, "so what are you doing for the next three hours or so? I think Nina will need some
help before I'm done." Nina comes up to me, turns my head towards her, and gives me a real kiss, I infiltrate her mouth quickly while grabbing Mez-mur's ass, and running my other hand up
and down her thigh from the back. Before I get much further, I hear a voice say, "get outta the way, assassin!" I am at first slightly annoyed, then immediately angry when I feel an arm on
my shoulder, and someone must have pulled Ninada away from me, that was too sudden to be natural, and she bit my tongue. I look down at the hand on my shoulder, it's a human hand, only
human on the ship is the captain... I release Mez-mur, and separate from her, turning to Russel, and punching for his face, by the time my swing is finished, he is on the ground, but I
didn't hit him!? Nina is standing to the side glaring at him, and Tajel-lei?!? is pulling her leg back from sweeping his feet, and offering a hand up to him, she says, "You may have died
just now, he hits hard, and aims for effect. He beat everyone he fought last night, had his morning interrupted, killed two dreugh for a crewmember, and finally was calming down, but you
wanted to piss him off because he was on deck? Were you jealous?! Or did you forget that the Dark Elf woman was the Nerevarine, and can kill this whole boat including him? What is wrong
with you?" Russel responds, "I'm honestly not sure, I felt like he was challenging me and wanted to hurt him? Something is off here." I instantly go on high alert at that, looking around,
I don't see anything, so I turn to Ninada, and she summons a Winged Twilight, but shrugs at my look. I turn to Mez-mur, and her back is facing me as she looks around as well, I turn to
Russel, "Where is the scout, when do they report in?" He straightens quickly, glares at me, and shakes his head, then notices that the other males are glaring at me as well and says, "Do me
a favor and go to your room," I quickly comply because I followed his gaze, the only one that seems unaffected is oddly enough Okaan-ei, I mean he still glares, but he's an asshole so that
means nothing, there's no hostility in his stance as I pass him on my way belowdeck, I get to my room, and check my status in concern.

Due to training and combat, you receive:
Con +1
Str +1
Agi +1
(lesser Mana Resistant Armored Scales) improves
[Slight Regeneration] improves
[Weakness to Frost] improves
Due to wisely dealing with a situation, and showing compassion you recieve
Wis +2
Pwr +1

Resisted (???) due to [Greater Slave Magic Resistance]
Resisted (???) due to [Greater Slave Magic Resistance]
Improving... skills and traits reorganized

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Minor injuries (cut on tongue, cut on tail, broken knuckle >3 weeks, 3xbroken juvenile horn 1 week)
Mana: 50/70 Regen at 1.2/sec
Str:16
Con:21
Pwr:14
Wis:24
Agi:13
Skills:
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
(Adept Archery)
In the right conditions, and with some luck, you can hit where you aim
(Novice Heavy Armor)
You...CAN.. wear heavy armor... probably
(Novice Unarmed)
You misuse your body, almost like you learned to fight without even the most basic of your natural advantages, and it shows.
Spells:
Summon Winged Twilight(self) cost: 230 duration: 10 minutes
Dispel(self)Base cost: 50 mana
Absorb Health(touch) Base cost: 10 mana
Bound Cuirass(self)Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Bound Greaves(self) Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Traits:
[Very Basic Poison Resistance]
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (30%)
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
[Hard Bones]
Strengthen bones, negated after reaching 50 Con as effects are the same
[lesser Mana Resistant Armored Scales]
Adds a certain amount of durability(10 armor = good leather armor) to skin and scales, and a resistance to magic(11%)
[Greater Paralysis Resistance]
Allows character to resist a portion of time spent paralyzed (85%)
[Very Slight Poison Claws]
allows implementation of poison through claws, types (Paralysis) One hit in five while unarmed may poison a target for 1 second while using the same claws with current stats
[Very Basic Poison Resistance]
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (30%)
[Slight Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries in an hour, broken bones in 4 weeks, and amputations in months or 2-3 years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
[Greater Slave Magic Resistance]
Grants a vast(85%) resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
[Waterbreathing]
Allows user to breath under water, Trait fixed
[weakness to frost 32%]
Reptillian heritage causes 32% weakness to cold
[????]
Trait's effects will be known in time... if you don't die from the monsters trying to eat you..

I approve of the changes, and notice the EXREMELY ominous addition to [????]. I also notice that I resisted a mind magic of some type, then the door opens, and Tajel-lei leading
two other Argonian women come in, then quickly shut the door behind them followed by a THUMP as something runs into it. I am actually getting pissed off at the interruptions at this point,
but inquire calmly, "Okay... Just what in the fuck was that?" Tajel-lei looks at me wide eyed, then relaxes for some reason and explains, "After you went belowdeck, everyone but Okaan-ei
started talking about how pretty we are, and asking if we'd like to go belowdeck, we were furling the sails, and anchoring because Walks-On-Water said something was off, after we anchored,
he kept on rubbing his head, and called the females to him, then said something about it being good you were belowdeck, because it wanted to kill you for resisting, and then he suggested
we fuck him until tomorrow, and Glides-Into-Water yelled that as a named he was prepared to fight for the right, while he was yelling, the other men began coming behind us, grabbing our
tails, and tugging on our clothes, then Okaan-ei suggested they take turns, with him going first, and bringing us belowdeck, banging his head on the wall, and telling us to come here,
someone followed us down, and we ran here while Okaan-ei just laid down in the way." I decide I'm going to barricade this door and let them fuck whatever it is that wants the D, and if I
can Imma get Nina and Mez-mur despite the company. I turn to the new arrivals, "I have been trying for this since this morning, so if you want to put up a sheet, block your ears or
whatever, do that, Nina, Mez-mur, where were we?" Nina grabs Mez-mur, turns her around so her tail is in-between Nina's legs, and pulls Mez-mur's shirt off, then her own, I step in to
embrace Mez-mur and lift her slightly so her tail rubs Nina's crotch, and she wraps her legs around me, grinding on my rapidly hardening shaft, I feel a tap on my shoulder as I had dismissed
my armor after coming downstairs, I ignore it, and reach for Mez-mur's pants, intending to rip them off, and the tap on my shoulder becomes more insistent, I sigh, stop with my fun, and
turn to Tajel-lei with annoyance on my face, "What???" She winces, and points to the door, one of the Argonian females has her arm caught by hand reaching between the frame and door,
the other is naked, and looking at me confidently with a smirk, I see Tajel-lei's pants are gone, and decide that corrupting mental influences don't count as consent unfortunately, so I
sigh again, and cast Bound Cuirass, grab the arm, pull it until the forearm is inside and hit the nerve to numb the hand attached to it, the hand releases the woman, and now I'm half-naked
in a room full of women who could easily be convinced to have an Orgy, but my morals are fucking me instead of them... FUCK. The woman who was grabbed retreats from me, and looks at me
scared. I instantly deflate, walk to the door, unblock it, and hit the first male through in the chest as hard as I can, causing a crack, and he flies off his feet, hits the floor and skids
for a foot, I check around, and see Okaan-ei still laying on the floor. I walk up to him and ask, "You alright bud?" He responds in a growling tone, "told him you'd protect, not good." I
reach down, pat his shoulder, and continue upstairs while calling, "Block the door, and stay away from it, if you start without me while I murder this mother fucking interrupting piece of
shit... I'll be upset when you can't keep up later." I hear the door shut, shortly afterwards I hear muffled thumps on the door, so I head upstairs, cast Bound Greaves, and open the door,
on the deck, I see sailors fucking the not-so-mythical mermaid(Horker) and near the mast I see a woman with a fish tail who looks to be humming, being approached by Russel, with
Glides-Into-Water laying on the deck behind him. I just walk most of the way there, almost casually, and check Glides-Into-Water, he's alive, then I walk up behind Russel, at which point
the woman sees me, and I put him in a chokehold, slowly laying him down as he passes out, I stand up and approach the Siren, that's what it has to be what with all the humming and affecting
men. I say, "Listen, could you just stop and leave, I don't really think I'll be able to have sex if I have to explain your body, or the manatees." She tilts her head and raises an eyebrow
humming louder, so I rub my face and walk toward her, pissed off about the interruptions today, after I get closer, she reaches for my greaves, and tugs them while licking her lips with a
normal tongue. I grab her face, and purely for science, kiss her, as I do so I feel light-headed, but she doesn't have a rotating monster teeth mouth, and she stops humming when I do it. She
looks at me in shock after, and I decide killing her when she just wants to fuck would be fucked up. I try to think of a better way to do this, shrug, and start choking her, she grows claws
so I let go with one arm and defend, but push her towards the mast, and she cuts me a few times, but it's no real challenge to choke her out, after she passes out, I pick her up, and begin
to carry her to the room, I see Russel waking up, and hear a half-hearted shout, so I sprint to the door, walk over Okaan-ei, the other guy hasn't moved, he might be dead... I'd care if he
was a woman, or if I didn't want to kill him when I did, as it is... hope he doesn't shit himself. I knock and say, "Hey Ninada, Mez-mur, you didn't start without me right?" The door is
unblocked, and Ninada opens it, completely naked, smiling... at first. I say, "She just wants some dick, but she can't talk, I leave her life in your hands." She says, "if that's all this
is, what are you in such a rush for?" I reply, "Her singing got the men to fuck Horkers..." She nods, takes the fishwoman into the room and closes the door, obviously excluding me, so I
check the guy on the ground, yup, he's dead, and call out to Okaan-ei, "hey bud, I kinda killed this guy, you doing alright now?" He doesn't respond, so I get closer, and hear the faintest
snore, I shrug, grab the body and drag it upstairs, and leave it outside the door, then head back down and wait by the door to my room. After ten minutes, I feel slightly frustrated, open
the door and see the women rubbing eachother while the Siren looks on smugly. "Ok, fuck this." I say and walk towards her, grab her by the throat, and use the claw on my thumb to puncture
her neck, flooding her airway with blood, and stopping the humming while choking her with the rest of my hand against the wall, she retaliates by showing her claws once again while her skin
ripples! As it ripples I see tiny scales where it has passed, I defend my face from her swiping claws, earning me some more cuts on both arms, she weakens quickly, so I don't pay as much
attention as I should, and she cuts my eye with her second to last strike, I respond by letting the next one through while hitting her in the chest causing a dent and stopping her movement
momentarily, all she does after that is twitch, I'm very glad my eye doesn't hurt. I think shock is setting in, and gently feel around my eye, there is a line that starts on one side and
ends on the other side of it, that's bad, I cover my eye with that hand, I feel a goo on it and nearly throw up. I turn and see the women have mostly stopped, and Tajel-lei stops Nina and
Mez-mur as I watch, saying, "You were right, he did come in, but it looks like he paid for it," while pointing at my face. Ninada frowns at me and says, "let me see it," I respond with,
"I can feel goo on my hand... please just heal what you can first, I nearly got rid of my food earlier when I felt it." She glares, though I'm not sure if its the injury, the refusal, or
the fact that such a weak monster got me so bad, and taps my wrist. I sigh, lay down on the floor, and say, "anybody not willing to sleep with me should leave right now," and hear the door
open before footsteps head out, and it shuts again so I take my hand off of my eye and Nina gasps, and immediately casts a spell, actually performing the gestures this time, and the glow
is a dark gold as opposed to yellow-gold, she touches me and says, "Sorry, this'll hurt." I grab a bed post and close my mouth tightly in preparation of the pain. It HITS and I growl and
concentrate on just holding still instead of curling up in a ball or holding my eye with both hands and rolling on the floor screaming, I try to identify what the pain means, it always has
a pattern, and the numbness means the area is gone, this pain is slowly going from inside my head toward where I assume my eye was, but it's too intense, so I concentrate on staying still
again and think to myself, 'It's healing,it's healing,it'shealing,healing,healing,healing,' over and over while staying still until I suddenly woke up. I was not in the same spot, but I
preferred the warmth surrounding me anyway, I pulled it closer on both sides, and sighed gratefully just laying there enjoying the feeling, I feel movement on my left and check my status
before the day can start.

[Siren Song] resisted
[Siren Song] resisted
[Siren Song] partially resisted, effects of Trait intensified by arousal
[Siren Song] resisted
[Siren Song] partially resisted, effects of Trait intensified by fighting for a woman
[Siren Song] resisted
[Siren Song] partially resisted
[Siren Song] succumbed to due to biological catalyst ingestion.
Catalyst parially neutralized, [Siren Song] resisted
Due to numerous lacerations, and one Major Injury being healed, you receive:
Con +3
[Slight Regeneration] improves to [Basic Regeneration]

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Minor injuries (broken knuckle 12 days, 3xbroken juvenile horn 5 days)
Mana: 70/70 Regen at 1.2/sec
Str:16
Con:24
Pwr:14
Wis:24
Agi:13
Skills:
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
(Adept Archery)
In the right conditions, and with some luck, you can hit where you aim
(Novice Heavy Armor)
You...CAN.. wear heavy armor... probably
(Novice Unarmed)
You misuse your body, almost like you learned to fight without even the most basic of your natural advantages, and it shows.
Spells:
Summon Winged Twilight(self) cost: 230 duration: 10 minutes
Dispel(self)Base cost: 50 mana
Absorb Health(touch) Base cost: 10 mana
Bound Cuirass(self)Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Bound Greaves(self) Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Traits:
[Very Basic Poison Resistance]
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (30%)
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
[Hard Bones]
Strengthen bones, negated after reaching 50 Con as effects are the same
[lesser Mana Resistant Armored Scales]
Adds a certain amount of durability(11 armor = good leather armor) to skin and scales, and a resistance to magic(12%)
[Greater Paralysis Resistance]
Allows character to resist a portion of time spent paralyzed (85%)
[Very Slight Poison Claws]
allows implementation of poison through claws, types (Paralysis) One hit in five while unarmed may poison a target for 1 second while using the same claws with current stats
[Very Basic Poison Resistance]
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (30%)
[Basic Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries visibly, broken bones in 2 weeks, and amputations in weeks or years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
[Greater Slave Magic Resistance]
Grants a vast(85%) resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
[Waterbreathing]
Allows user to breath under water, Trait fixed
[weakness to frost 32%]
Reptillian heritage causes 32% weakness to cold
[????]
Trait's effects will be known in time... if you don't die from the monsters trying to eat you, or 'whatever else' they may want with you..

I notice my armored scales improved in both resistance and armor despite no notification, but what really catches my attention is how long it will now take for my horns to grow back,
It must be because of the spell Nina used. That thought spurs me awake, so I check to see which side she is on, only to see I am instead between Mez-mur, and Tajel-lei for some reason,
don't care, gonna find Nina, I carefully extract my arm from under Tajel-lei, when I try to do the same to Mez-mur, she grabs my arm and snuggles before settling, I narrow my eyes, and with
the utmost focus, slowly pull my arm out, very carefully filling the void with the pillow i've been using. I nod to myself, and dig my hands into the roof, lifting my body out of the bed
and then moving my body stealthily out of the hammock, slowly lowering first my lower body, then allowing my grip to relax from the ceiling and releasing it. I look around the room, no
blood so this isn't my cabin. I exit the room, find the stairs, and head to my room, opening the door to find Ninada mid-work, she has removed various organs, and stored them somewhere I
can't see. She turns to me in the doorway and frowns, "I told them to distract you?" I reply, "there's an aphrodisiac in her saliva, let me eat the glands, maybe I'll get them." Her eyes
widen, then she remembers what I said a couple of days ago. She immediately goes to the head, and starts skinning it causing me to look away, as she works she says, "Oooh, can you get her
singing ability too?" I respond, "I don't know yet, but that seems like it would be a hard thing to get from just one, I may not even get the aphrodisiac from the glands because they would
contain something I can't replicate easily," still looking away. She replies, "I could feed you some ingredients first, we'll arrive at Ebonhold shortly, I can get them there, we'll keep
it until we get those and some other things to see what we can do... are you looking away?" I freeze and slowly look at her, "I was, I'm not used to faces being skinned, it is not
appetizing yet, and I'd rather focus on what you are saying." She looks at me with a squint, "I've seen a creature you killed with its head bitten off, you were the one to kill it, this is
only slightly different, do you think because it's a woman you shouldn't have to see it?" I respond, "That's a part of it, but I think the song had an effect on me beyond the obvious, I was
romantically interested in her after it affected me, and I feel distaste for her being dead even with my extreme resistance to it, it only really worked after I kissed her, and even then
all I did that I wouldn't have was rescue her." Nina states, "No what you did was take a strange monster with domination powers straight to those you were trying to protect," seriously. I
realize she is right, and panic slightly, thankful that the siren died, and that I killed her, that must be why Nina is carving it up, she wants to make sure, and probably gets a small
amount of satisfaction from doing so. I still don't like how quickly she turned me from enemy into asset with just a kiss and pretty noise, even if it was magically enforced, I think I
should find another slave collar and have Nina or someone constantly cast orders into it until I gain an immmunity, maybe find a nest of sirens and kill them all. I turn to Nina and ask,
"Can we get another collar for me? I can increase my resistance to such things by experiencing them, and if somebody is going to make me a slave to their fantasies, I'd rather it be you."
She frowns at me, and says, "why did you even take the other off?" I respond, "I didn't want to stay a child any longer, and it hurts a lot when you try to grow and you can't, also I had a
fear that I would be stuck that size if I stayed to long." She looks at me strangely, and says, "I can't even imagine being stuck as a child after becoming an adult, I would have done the
same in your shoes probably, that sounds, not scary, but not fun either, however, if I had known, I may have kept it on you just to tease you forever, hehe!" I have a horrified look on my
face as I say, "Damn, I thought I could trust you woman, glad I didn't tell anyone what I was scared of at the time, I could see Almalexia doing that too!" She giggles, saying, "I think she
would have made sure you kept it on and made it a divine decree that noone could order you around or remove your collar, and sent you to kill her enemies for the threat that a child
destroying them would have sent to any detractors." I shiver and thank my social barriers for the hard work, I feel a shudder through the boat and Nina's hand slips, cutting her finger, and
she winces, and holds it out to me, "Kiss it better, now!" I have no idea where that came from, but I do kiss it, and she smiles, and rubs her finger on my lips, and then leans in for a
real kiss, licking her own lips after and then pulling her knife out and putting it up to my throat with a slight pressure, but it doesn't cut, surprising her, I raise an eyebrow and gently
grab her wrist, moving the knife blade to my arm while she holds it, and then releasing her wrist. I move my finger up and down the blade increasing the pressure till it cuts, and return
the earlier gesture of wiping blood on the lips and giving a kiss, licking my lips after, an odd taste coming from the combination, I decide to finally follow through on my winner rights.
I grab Nina and carry her to the room I woke up in. On the way, she is playing with the scales on my arm as I go, strangely able to raise them slightly, she says, "What if I sharpened them?"
I reply, "I think that they'd all get sharpened if you did enough of them, or I may be able to make them sharp selectively." Nina nods, and I open the door to Tajel-lei putting a shirt on,
only to see us coming in and take it back off while saying, "You talked a big game last night, you think you can handle all three of us?" I smile, set Nina on the bed with Mez-mur after I
see a nod, and turn to Tajel-lei with my smile widening predatorily. I take the two steps separating us and pick her up by the back of her thighs, she wraps her legs around me and I set her
against the walls, I feel my bulge press up against something cloth and growl while looking down, I see for the first time I'm wearing pants, and hear Nina giggle behind me, "Did you think
you were naked this whole time? I remember when you used to run around naked... All... The... Time... Heheheh, it was so cute, I also remember even Almalexia didn't notice till you pointed
it out, now I try to make sure you have clothes on, because you obviously don't notice." I rip my pants while growling and all three of them laugh at me, I decide to punish Tajel-lei first,
and after removing the pants, I reach for her ass, massaging the base of the tail, and rubbing near her slit , causing her to moan and try to move lower after just a little while, I keep
her firmly against the wall, keeping her from doing so. As she struggles against me I finally allow her to move lower, but what she gets isn't a finger, it's my cockhead, and I meet her
downward movement with just enough pressure to begin entering her tightness, and she moans a little bit. I begin to ease into her, she's even warmer than Ninada, thought not as tight, and
she begins wiggling her hips to get more into her faster, I take my hand off her thigh, letting her weight push me deeper into her while making sure if she doesn't have enough room for me
yet it won't hurt her, and move it to her breast, rubbing and flicking my hand across her nipple, my mental process stumbles, wondering why a lizard could have nipples, but I figure the
trees that created argonians just copied everything so they're humanoids would fit in, the scales are so smooth they're nearly nonexistant, and I bring my mouth to one breast while rubbing
the other, when I latch onto the nipple, I push in gently, I have an inch left to go when I hit the wall, I feel her jerk and she starts moaning louder as I rub across it with her motions,
I feel an indentation like I experienced with Nina, but there is nothing stopping me from entering this one, so I do. She jerks when that happens, and my dick sinks the last inch into while
she tightens up, she says breathlessly, "More, do it there, yesyesyesyesss!!" I start vigorously fucking into her womb, and she opens her mouth and tilts her head back, "Mark me, so deep,
YES, yours now, use me, MORE, Inside,inside allofitinsidemeyess!!" I reach down and nip her neck, taking a scale off, and making her shudder while I rub her rosebud with the hand that was
massaging her tail, I feel myself widen in preparation for me to cum, I ask confidently, "All of it inside you? Everything?" She nods vigorously and pulls my body closer to her, kissing my
neck, and trying to wrap my leg with her tail, I finally finish inside her, and she pulls me into her with all of her strength screaming, "YES, ALL YOURS, SOO WARM, KEEP ITINSIIDE," after
what feels like a liter of cum leaves me, I finally stop and she is just moaning softly, and shivering. I take her off the wall and over to the bed underneath the hammock Mez-mur and Nina
occupy, Nina has Mez-mur between her legs, and barely notices my approach between moans, I say, "I brought her here for your viewing pleasure," then as they look, Tajel-lei releases me, and
I slowly pull out, a stream of cum leaks out of her when I exit, and it flows onto her tail erotically." She moans slightly, and I move her fingers to block her hole, "Keep it inside, or
no more for you," she does stop the leak, keeping three fingers inside her, and I see Mez-mur's ass hanging off the edge of the bed as she looks through the hammock at Tajel-lei's well
fucked hole. I run a finger down her slit, she's more than ready, I line up and put just the tip in, and she tenses up, I begin massaging the base of her tail with one hand, and grab the
back of her neck, thumb at the base of her skull, massaging as I pull out and then rub myself up and down her pussy using just my hips. She tenses up every time my head nears her entrance,
so I ask, "Are you afraid?" While pulling her head to face me with my grip on her neck. She tenses up since she can't hide, saying, "I am... I'm a virgin!" I nod and say, "I've never been
with a virgin, tell me when to move, and I'll be mostly gentle." She nods, "I'm ready, start quickly please!" Ninada has a smile, and pulls Mez-mur's head to hers, kissing her and I move
my hips forward roughly, breaking her barrier and getting more than halfway in, Nina then pulls somethin from underneath her, and hands it to me while still making out with Mez-mur I see a
vial with a clear liquid, touch my long tongue to the top and feel the tingle from the siren's kiss, now understanding the purpose, I tilt Mez-mur's hips up, and pour about half on my dick
after I pull it out, and pull Mez-mur away from Nina, sit on the opposite bed, and rotate her a full turn before the pleasure overcomes my control, and I come inside her, she is feeling
amazing from the siren spit, and it intensifies when I cum, instead of screaming, or passing out, she bites my trapezious muscle, at first gently, and then with more force when that doesn't
feel right, eventually I tell her, "Bite harder, it feels good." She takes my word and sinks her teeth in, drawing blood, and that little bit of pain morphs into pleasure and motivation, I
begin to work myself in and out of her, she just holds on, moving her hips slowly at first, then with more confidence as I respond, I let her do as she likes for the next ten minutes, she
finds her sensitive spots with my dick,and I take advantage of the knowledge, suddenly moving, and rolling her underneath me, and plowing into her quickly, I still feel the effects of siren
spit, but it's weakening, I decide that I want this blue-scaled beauty to remember me, and crave my dick because she is tighter than Nina, and her hotness is amazing as well, plus she is so
responsive to me, I turn to see Nina looking at me with a neutral expression, all alone in the hammock, she quickly schools her face into a smile, and I show her the half-full vial, holding
the hand out to her, and she tears up. I look away, and focus on turning Mes-mur into a drooling mess, I'm not really feeling the urge anymore, but my dick is hard, and she is responsive,
finally accepting me fully, I feel the entrance to her womb, and she finally stops biting my trap, moaning and pulling me closer, I continue to hammer her sensitive spots, occasionally
brushing her deep inside, she moans more, and her tail begins twitching as if seeking, brushing against my legs, and I touch her tail with mine, she instantly tightens up and pushes my
control, so I entertwine mine with hers, and push fully into her womb. It quivers, milking my cockhead and I finally finish, cumming inside her with our bodies and tails entertwined. She
shudders with the aftereffects, and releases my body while her tail tightens on mine, I wave Nina over, and she walks over, unsure, I grab her neck and pull her in for a kiss, shoving my
tongue into her mouth and hitting the places she likes after a short 10 seconds of just lip action. She responds rapidly, leaning into me and running her hands all over my body, then I pull
her away, and push her face to where my cock rests inside of Mes-mur, slowly pulling out and bumping her nose with the tip, she immediately begins to shove it into her mouth, and grabs the
hand on her neck, I shove her further, and she moans while taking me into her throat, I shove her to the base of my dick, keeping her there until she stopped moving her tongue, she didn't
even struggle, I pull her off to see she passed out, I take the vial and pour half of what remains on her lips, cut one of my fingers and rub that on her lip as well, I feel a tingle run
up the finger, and then I carefully coat around the head of my dick, and pick her up onto my lap, she wakes shortly, seeming confused, so I turn her to face me and give her a kiss while
coating my tongue with the blood and siren spit before reintroducing it to her mouth, she tastes it, and her kiss and eyes heat up, and she looks for my dick, immediately breaking off the
kiss, and lining me up with her! She immediately impales herself and begins working her hips to pull more and more of me into her, she feels the spit, I can tell because she slows her
determined pace, and moans while staring into my eyes with her red ones, I lean in to kiss her, she attempts to resist, but I take it anyway, then I grab her hips and work her how I like,
hitting the spots that feel the best on my end, rapidly going deeper into her, I hit the entrance to her womb, and rub my head around it with her hips, she starts trying to claw my back
again, and rides more determinedly when I don't allow it, groaning in frustration, I tell her, "Bite me and I may allow it!" She replies with a growl, "You first," I carefully match her
pace, cover my teeth with my lips, and bite down on the connection between her collarbone and neck, she tightens on me, bringing my control to almost nothing, and absolutely sinks her teeth
into me, at the same time, my cum boils out of me, and paints her quivering insides, she finally is allowed to claw me, and her teeth draw blood, she just bites harder, intent on leaving a
mark like the one almost healed on the other side, I want to keep it, and feel something change there, it causes me to bite down, and I taste her blood! It BURNS down my throat, first a
little drip, then as I lean back farther, a handful, I feel her stiffen, and then vigorously move her hips while rubbing her body up and down mine, her hands roaming, she's whispering,
"Mine,yesMinenowallmine,noothers,minenow," with and expression of happiness I would call crazy, but honestly, she's worth it. After the heat hits my stomache, the burning spreads rapidly,
as it reaches my head, the world fades out.

Due to recently bonding with Ninada Druvi and taking her mark, you receive [Fire Resistance] ability from Dark Elf heritage

Name: Ash-Gray-Scales
Race: Adaptive Dragonian
Health: Minor injuries (broken knuckle 11 days, 3xbroken juvenile horn 4 days)
Mana: 70/70 Regen at 1.2/sec
Str:16
Con:24
Pwr:14
Wis:24
Agi:13
Skills:
(Adaptation)
spreads improvements gained through racial trait [Adaptation]
(Adept Archery)
In the right conditions, and with some luck, you can hit where you aim
(Novice Heavy Armor)
You...CAN.. wear heavy armor... probably
(Novice Unarmed)
You misuse your body, almost like you learned to fight without even the most basic of your natural advantages, and it shows.
Spells:
Summon Winged Twilight(self) cost: 230 duration: 10 minutes
Dispel(self)Base cost: 50 mana
Absorb Health(touch) Base cost: 10 mana
Bound Cuirass(self)Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Bound Greaves(self) Base cost: 20 mana 30 minute duration
Traits:
[Fire Resistance]
Allows user to resist fire damage effects from all sources (50%)
[Very Basic Poison Resistance]
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (30%)
[Adaptation]
Allows character to increase attributes and resistances by experiencing either damage or significant effort such as training or getting hit with a fireball, may improve
[Hard Bones]
Strengthen bones, negated after reaching 50 Con as effects are the same
[lesser Mana Resistant Armored Scales]
Adds a certain amount of durability(11 armor = good leather armor) to skin and scales, and a resistance to magic(12%)
[Greater Paralysis Resistance]
Allows character to resist a portion of time spent paralyzed (85%)
[Very Slight Poison Claws]
allows implementation of poison through claws, types (Paralysis) One hit in five while unarmed may poison a target for 1 second while using the same claws with current stats
[Very Basic Poison Resistance]
Allows user to resist nonmagic poison effects (30%)
[Basic Regeneration]
allows user to heal most superficial injuries visibly, broken bones in 2 weeks, and amputations in weeks or years depending on locations of amputations, and number, Decapitation is lethal
[Greater Slave Magic Resistance]
Grants a vast(85%) resistance to charm, domination, and mind magic
[Waterbreathing]
Allows user to breath under water, Trait fixed
[weakness to frost 32%]
Reptillian heritage causes 32% weakness to cold
[????]
Trait's effects will be known in time, and potentially through blood,.. if you don't die from the monsters trying to eat you, or 'whatever else' they may want with you..

I open my eyes and see that Nina is gone again, but my dick is sore, and both Tajel-lei and Mez-mur are laying nearby with blissed out expressions and fresh cum dripping out of them
I assume that Nina's excitement drove her to use me as I slept, but I kept popping back up and she requested help... beleievable right? I go back to my room, Nina is laying in a hammock
with a pillow made of my clothes facedown, I check her, and she has the drip too! I decide to ask what exactly happened when she wakes up, and as I attempt to lay next to her she mumbles,
"No more gray, I'm too sore and tired, go use the other girls again." I say, "I think I did." She sleepily turns to me and asks, "What happened to you? You were insatiable, and even tried
to fuck the Flame Atronach when I told it to bend over." I think out loud, "So that's why my dick is sore, I think we bonded or something, I honestly don't remember what happened." She
replies, "Did I say tried? I mean you bent the bitch over and growled when it vanished, I resummoned it and it waggled a finger at you, so you grabbed Mez-mur and went to town, then saw I
was awake, and finished her off, and headed straight for me, I resummoned it, it shook its head at me and cast a fireball at you that just seemed to leave a mark, then vanished!" I pick her
up out of the bed, "We need to get off the boat and moving, are you..." I state, she responds, "I am sure I saw it... but you choked me out while fucking me alot, it was amazing, but I've
never actually heard of it before, I was half-tempted to try it again, but Tajel-lei was looking at you with such an intense expression while playing with herself that I faked passing out
and left, that was before my nap though." I say, "alright, clothes now," and we get dressed, her with a shirt and tight pants black with red trim, me with one of my red over the top robes
that has the symbols for conjuration on one side, and mysticism mixed with restoration on another, then we venture onto the deck after moving Tajel-lei and Mez-mur into bed together, I see
Russel and he approaches us. "So what the hell happened the other day? I saw... some things when I woke up on deck, one of them was you carrying something belowdeck," He leaves the
statement, likely not wanting to confirm the existance of what he hopes were illusions. I reply, "That was a Siren if my hunch is right, they can control men easily with a song, and have a
fish tail, saliva that is an aphrodisiac that assists in controlling them apparently, she got me to kiss her, and then I thought it was a good idea to bring her to the people that came to
me for protection, who she then made extremely horny and seemed to be learning to control when I decided to kill her for touching the women I was going to take... My mind cleared up after
that mostly, but I still wanted to protect her, there may be lingering effects, speaking of, do you have a slave collar that'll fit me, that isn't something any slavemaster can send a
command to?" He nods in thought, "Yes I actually do, it can only be keyed to one master, but we never had to use it, we have enough for the whole crew, plus those we lost, so I won't charge
you, though I may send the women after you at some point if I need help, you have connections, so a friend like you would be good to have." I nod, "I think Mez-mur or Tajel-lei would be
best for messengers, tell Almalexia you know Ash-Gray-Scales, and she should at least listen." He looks surprised for just a second, then nods, and goes to retrieve the collar, just
reaching into a nearby barrel and grabbing one before handing it over. I hand it to Ninada, her hands glow, and she says, "I'm not putting this on you till we get out to sea again." We
immediately head off the ship to the dock management office and see an East Empire Trading Company ship on the route, it stops at a place called darenport that is nearer to cyrodil than
our previous destination, and leaves tonight thankfully, Ninada hands me my winnings from the fight... less than a week ago, and we go out to buy ingredients, poisons, and potions for
various things to experiment with. I request potions of spell reflection for experimentational purposes and Nina's eyes light up, and she requests 60 pieces of green lichen, 70 Kwama cuttle,
40 Ash yams, and 80 ampoule pods for a total of 400 gold, She buys one potion of weak spell reflection as well, bringing us down from 700 to 238 gold and making me pout at her, but the
seller was a dunmer and ignored my requests because we are together and she obviously has the power here. After we buy it, we go to the docks and find the Nirvana moored there, we arrive,
and pay the captain his 200 coins for our passage, his name is Hrodulf and he isn't a mage but a nord wearing some leather armor with fur underneath if the bits poking out of his armor are
anything to go by, I see a robed figure on deck thankfully, not having a mage capable of producing wind would be an issue, as I walk up the gangplank to the ship, I see holes for oars,
that would be good strength training, maybe learn some songs or share some from home for tempo. We are brought to our rooms by an imperial man wearing a set of casual sailing clothes, I
don't remember his name, once we enter, I notice it is more spacious than our last one, and there's more storage space as well, we load everything into the chests, except the Kwama cuttle.
I start by licking one and honestly it's just bland, so I shrug and begin by popping it into my mouth and chewing it, thank god for the meaty texture, the other ones are going to suck.
Nina asks, "So when will you know if it works??" I respond, "I should know after I've eaten enough, feel a change or something, or I'll know when I wake up tomorrow." She allows me to eat
6 more, then guides me back onto the deck, and summons a Clannfear, "Time to train dear," she says, and the area around us clears up, and the captain comes striding forward, and asks,
"What's going on here? We haven't departed yet, we need this space open." I reply, "This'll be quick then, as long as she let's me fight without interference." While looking at Nina with a
raised eyebrow, she huffs, and tells the Clannfear, "get him." It is only like five feet away already facing me, so it jumps at me, knocking me over and cutting my torso some, luckily it
attacked from the front, I ram my claws into its side, it stops, paralyzed, and I jab my other hand into its eyes, while reaching for its throat with the hand that was in its side a moment
ago, cutting its throat and making it vanish, taking the blood and fluid with it. I look at Nina, "not cool." She says, "No it was pretty hot," and winks at me while grabbing my arm,
Hrodulf just shakes his head and says, "if you intend to make this a regular thing, we'd like if you did it around noon, after lunch." I nod and pull Nina in front of me, "I want to watch
you walk to the bed!" She sways her hips slightly, and leads the way back to the room, occasionally looking back at me with a smile, I close the door, and we get in the hammock after
undressing.