Dragon Selection Process
by Paetram
Creator
One Empyrean Way
Infinity
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Congratulations! You have been selected from a pool of 237,385,864,386 eager souls to be the exalted representative of myself in Creation for all eternity. This is indeed a high honor, and one that only the most pure and noble candidates were considered for. The final decison was a very difficult one, but we are certain that you will serve well for our noble cause, the preservation of our humble Creation.
By signing and submitting the enclosed legal forms, you agree:
* to allow yourself to be called Dragon, and to be equally worshipped and reviled by the general populace
* to be opposed by a certain powerful malevolent being; beware, he is very sneaky
* to allow certain of your body parts (to be disclosed later) to be bruised, burned, mutilated, or amputated in a most unseemly manner
* to exercise limited control over your own destiny, unfortunately an unpleasant state of affairs, but a quite necessary one as you will see
* to be the target of countless assassination attempts, many nearly successful; we trust you will be cautious, protecting the valuable property entrusted to you
* to be the object of affection of a triad of unfathomable women; we sincerely apologize for this, but happily we have forseen that you will survive the ordeal
* to have uncertain parentage for much of your life; no one ever said the life of a hero was going to be easy
* to be rendered quite dead for a short time; this was only thrown in to make the mythologists happy, a minor detail
So, go out there and do us proud, Dragon!