Story by Custos (Original posting 21 July 2021 on https://inkbunny.net/Custos) Please don’t repost this story, let it remain in my gallery on inkbunny! This story contains material for adults only, do not read if you’re a minor. The material presented is fictional and for adult fantasy only. The author does not condone any of the depicted illegal activity in real life. —— D&D Sessions Journal - In Nox Eternum: Entry 4 The rutting between Ignis, Makkora, and the gnoll chieftain was hard and brutal as befits enjoying the spoils of war involving the leader of a primitive tribe. Makkora rode the gnoll's impressive and painfully thick length like a champ, passing out at the height of his shared climax with the chieftain. Ignis had been trying to sweet-talk the gnoll by offering gentleness and politeness in exchange for more favourable sexual acts, but he was shot down as the cackling mastodon of a gnoll did not care for these things, taunting the dragonborn by calling him a stone-house coward. Ignis' fucking of the gnoll's rear came to an abrupt end when the dragonborn's member was expelled by the chieftain's tail hole, citing that he had lost the chance to partake. Ignis was furious and tried to take the unconscious Makkora away, the gnoll refusing as he and the avian boy were now considered married through the laws of the wilderness as he had claimed him during their climax, and that they would share the night together. Ignis tried to lawyer his way out of rules and laws he had no understanding of, inciting the gnoll chieftain's rage as the massive male challenged Ignis to a duel to the death one-on-one in the morning. Ignis went to bed worried. In the morning the group learned of Ignis' transgressions against the primal culture and the dragonborn found no aid except sympathetic looks during the bath everyone took in the canyon waterfall stream. He tried to apologise but the gnoll chieftain cackled and dismissed his apology as cowardly. Instead the gnoll drew Makkora closer, having slept the entire night with his newfound husband's cock deeply embedded inside of him, telling the boy that since he had conquered the chieftain that the gnoll would listen to his judgement. Makkora immediately absolved Ignis of any wrongs, as was expected, and the gnoll forced the dragonborn to orally pleasure his new boy-wife as a way of penance instead. After the bath, the gnoll chieftain offered Makkora to join him and his harem at the tribe, but Makkora simply stated he had a lot of traveling to do and find solutions to his tribe's problems. The chieftain simply shrugged and leaped away, Makkora knowing since he was considered married to the male he'd be welcome at his tribe any time. The group traveled another week through the canyons, during which they encountered a stampede of warokapis rushing down into their direction. Makkora's flying skills helped find a tight crevice, only wide enough to fit most of them but certainly not Boro, the carriage, or the gorull beasts. Choko cast a spell to reduce the cart in size, helping it become a smaller target before fleeing into the crevice. Cinder, Fenris, Ma'Rhea, and the newfound gnoll friend fled into the tight space as well. The rest remained in front of the carriage as a living shield, Boro summoning a fire storm to block off the path towards them, Ignis invoking his divine powers to make spectral vines entangle the wild beasts, Makkora raging and using his greatsword to swat away any of the warokapi that got through. Gilgamesh blasted radiant damage to kill the stampeding animals before they could hit them. The flock was too great, though, and the burning entangled beasts swarmed them as they took a severe beating. Some of them nearly lost unconsciousness before the stampede seemed to pass. Some healing was given to those most in need of it and the damage to the carriage seemed minimal thanks to their efforts. Boro grieved for the animals whom lost their lives that day, they had no malicious intent after all. The flesh of the least charred ones was harvested to provide seven days of food. During the rest of the week, Ignis learned to steer the carriage and control the gorull beasts a bit better, plus he taught a few words of Primordial to the gnoll. Primordial being the language most commonly used among the primitive tribes on this continent. Choko experimented some more with the spells he received, like the ability to increase or reduce the size of a person or object, even trying to isolate the effect to someone's penis. Gilgamesh learns some lessons in handling the gorull beasts from Boro, and Makkora teaches Ignis about the local cultures so that grave mistakes like with the gnoll chieftain have smaller chances to arise. Choko was especially interested in his illusion magic and tried to conjure up an illusion to a willing Ignis, trying to convince him Makkora was really there to his senses and trying to pleasure him. The dragonborn saw right through the illusion, however, and gave some pointers to Choko. The floof shark reasoned he'd need to study anatomy to a deeper depth to make the illusions more convincing, and Makkora eagerly volunteered to be studied. The whole group unrobed together to show the many differences between their bodies as they also studied each other into deeper detail, Choko especially taken with Gilgamesh's gilded cockhead. The golden tip of the dhampyr's penis even evoked some existential questions in the young wizard boy of eight summers old. When the group left the canyons behind and started to enter an area rife with swamps, they could see huge white bones sticking out of the marshes nearby. Ignis was adamant this was an omen for his quest, as the huge bones were easily recognisable as a dragon's, plus the words that the gnoll chieftain had spoken about the Valley of Blood kept mulling in his head. The rest of the group was hesitant and Boro and Hijak mentioned they'd be guarding the carriage if the party wanted to undertake this quest, to which they all agreed. Choko, Gilgamesh, Ignis, and Makkora entered the swamp and were startled to find that for no natural reason at all the sun was suddenly blotted out, the silent watery marshes enveloped in darkness. Ignis lit a torch which Choko moved around with his telekinetic powers, giving much needed line of sight. They found that wherever they stepped into the water, a red blood-like liquid rose to the surface and remained like a tainted spot. Each of them was uneasy but they pressed forwards to the giant skeleton until they were suddenly beset upon by ethereal dragonborn-like shades, with more noises of bodies rising from the swampy waters surrounding them. They prepared for combat, but were immediately screeched at by these shades after Ignis' tried to reason with them in Draconic. Makkora felt fear grip his heart, and Gilgamesh felt the same but also experienced a more shocking discovery; his body advanced about thirty years in age before his very eyes, he becoming about forty-seven years old with silvered hair, a hairy dad body, and his penis and sac grown thicker and larger in size. This maddened the dhampyr monk greatly and he started blasting radiant energy left and right. Choko enlarged Ignis' form to twice his size, the paladin looking fierce as he mowed at the hordes of undead zombies and skeletons crawling from the marshes. One of the shades approached him, however, and when it touched the dragonborn it vanished. Ignis went rigid and his eyes glazed over, the dragonborn turning on his own party like a marionette. Makkora enraged and summoned the spirits of his ancestors in an attempt to keep the others safe, swinging his greatsword around and becoming even more frustrated to see the zombie he keeps cutting down keeps getting up again. Choko got separated from the group, undead starting to block the path towards each other as he saw himself forced to retreat further and further. He dispelled the enlargement spell he had cast on Ignis and instead tried to summon illusions to trick the undead, which wasn't very effective. His telekinetic powers had a short range and the torch he was holding was forced back, bathing Gilgamesh, Ignis, and Makkora in darkness. Makkora tried his best to keep the hordes of undead off, finally starting to actually kill some as he tried not to kill Ignis who was swinging his own sword at him. Gilgamesh blasted the dragonborn with radiant energy and finally expelled the spirit possessing him, giving the unfortunate scaly teenager agency over his body back. Ignis nearly succumbed until Makkora poured a Potion of Healing down his throat, the roles reversed this time around as the avian boy smiled down at the dragonborn he saved. Wherever the shades managed to touch them, their flesh withered away, causing great amounts of pain. On top of that, Choko got possessed by a shade as well, the floof shark floating over the water as if drawn by strings and helpless to act as he witnessed his own hands wielding his own magic to hurt his friends. Gilgamesh's divine energy was running out as he kept using his ki to blast the enemies with radiance, Makkora and Ignis trying to help each other find the targets in the dark as their swings became much less effective. Eventually Makkora succumbed to a critical blow of a shade, his flesh rotting away as he fell into the swampy waters. The last of the undead were defeated, the shades sighing in relief as they vanished and whispering their gratitude for being released. Choko had also been struck down and was saved by Gilgamesh administering first aid, though the floof shark remained unconscious. Makkora seemed stable as well as they fished him out of the water, the dhampyr and the dragonborn carrying the two as they approach the gargantuan draconic skeleton with the eerie red glow at the centre of its ribcage. The found a jagged obsidian greatsword stuck in the bone and petrified remains of scaly dragon skin, and pull as they might they could not draw it out. Ignis felt uneasy around the blade, even more so than Gilgamesh, and they decided to just sit down and rest as they waited for their friends to wake up. Several hours passed and Choko and Makkora came to, the avian boy being informed of the sword and it being stuck. Makkora decided to try his hand at it and without any effort at all drew the blade from the scaly skin and bones. Immediately both the group was bombarded by a vision of a civilised handsome elf man clearly in love with a tribal orc woman. They all instinctively knew the elf was a red dragon posing as a mortal race. The elf man and orc woman were found out by her tribe, as was the dragon's nature, and the two fled to avoid being separated. The orc chieftain called upon dark forces beyond this realm to grant him the means to kill the dragon that had stolen his daughter and the jagged obsidian greatsword was forged in the blood of his tribe. A battle of epic proportions ensued and the red dragon was struck down, falling at the spot where the Valley of Blood was now, and dying there along with the orc chieftain, the blade stuck in the dragon's chest and the area around the event becoming cursed. The orc woman died of grief in front of the two. Ignis' eyes were tearing up and a solemn hush fell over the group. They looted a scroll, a potion, and a booklet from a nearby corpse. The booklet informed them that the remains were of an adventurer whom's party was slain in the swamp by the undead, and how he couldn't go without something to make the loss of their lives worth it, how he'd try getting the sword out by his dying breath. The darkness lifted over the surrounding area and the radiance of the sun bathed the landscape once more in its warming embrace. The ground started rumbling and the group had to go as the gargantuan dragon skeleton started sinking into the bog, along with the remains of all who had fallen there in their foolish search for riches and glory. Ignis was disappointed and didn't know if he'd actually found clues to further his divine quest, Makkora now wielding the blade that had slain a dragon out of spite. The dragonborn found a leather belt in the waters and brought it along to the carriage. Boro, Hijak, and the others were interested in the tale and congratulated the group on surviving. Seeing Gilgamesh aged up so much was shocking and the gentle loxodon made sure to embrace the man weeping for his stolen years and assure him he'd try his best to undo the damage done. Hijak and Cinder attempted to comfort the dhampyr man too. Choko identified the scroll as containing the Unseen Servant spell but did not get a chance to look at the leather belt before Ignis slipped it on. The leather girdle contained imagery of nude males, females, and even of sexless persons. Ignis shrieked in shock as his body changed as soon as he put on the belt, transforming from a teenage boy into a teenage girl. He tried putting on the belt again, removing it, having someone else put it on, but nothing seemed to reverse the effect. On top of that, Choko confirmed the belt seemed to have lost its magical powers, making Ignis now too weep for his foolish actions. Boro inspected the now-female dragon's body as well, not sure whether he could assist, but he promised Ignis he'd help find a cure. For now, they parked the carriage and set up a large tent outside of it, for they would be holding a ritual to try and reverse the aging of Gilgamesh's body. Cinder tried to cheer up Gilgamesh with some kinky father-daughter roleplay whilst the others were doing the preparations, Ma'Rhea even getting involved as Cinder's 'sibling sister'. This hot little scene seemed to cheer Gilgamesh up if just a little bit.