Creator deity: "and this one shall be the Vile Wyrm, his purpose shall be to usher in an age of rot, only to be slain by mighty destined heros!" "Vile" wyrm: "ok, new plan fuckwit"
It's not for any "greater good", it's just a pain to do. Imagine being woken up by a couple bugs asking you to exterminate every single other bug in the world just because of some "destiny" they made up for you, even if you try to outsource and hire an exterminator and let's say just for this example's sake thet they have the authority to exterminate bugs everywhere with infinite resources at their disposal and don't hold reservations for them, they'll also decline saying it's too much of a bother because they don't live for their job. In the end you'll just be tempted to squash the bugs that are nagging you but because even they aren't causing any trouble like a mosquito would you either leave them alone or just show them the door.
Jeff:"no ...no......THE BEANS ARE MINE!! YOU NO TAKE THE BEANS!!!"*hisses and scurries up the walls* Cultist one:" Everytime....." Cultist two:" how does he even do that!?!?"
This is the whole comic summed up. Cultist: get up it's time to end the world. Evil dragon: five more minutes. Cultists: that's what you said last time and the time before that and that's all you've ever said every time we've tried to summon you. Evil dragon(with attitude): *FIVE. MORE. MINUTES.*
I mean Doomsday cultists don't really have the greatest survival instincts but even still they're lucky he didn't just eat them, or roast them, or rot them or whatever he does...
Unfortunately a smaller more active wyrm is going to only destroy a kingdom or two before Heroes finally defeat it, you got to wake him up make sure they stay up and kill those pesky Dragon born before they can cause any issues
Heroes: "We've come to slay the... what the hell is going on here". Cultists: "Not too loud, he'll hear u-". Dragon: *Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck*
@@Azrael_Equinox "I'm too busy sleeping on my mounds of trasure to care" is basically the attitude of people like Jeff Bezos towards the worlds problems
So this is what we now have for evil dieties? Back then, they were DEDICATED to their role! But, its nice to see a change if pase from time to time. Maybe thats me being thankful the rot-pocalypse isnt gonna happen... yet... maybe we can befriend it!
Do you know he may actually be trying to pull a trick on the evil because he’s actually good or at least neutral. I mean come on what’s better than saying no and dismantling a evil organization that’s just going to pop up again then delaying it and well essentially trolling the evil organization by saying I’ll wait up tomorrow and do it then not waking up or doing it ever.
Me as a cultist :"screw it I'm making golem to issue in the age of rot, its going to look exactly like the Great one but be bit more active and doesn't need to charge for Hades knows how long but I rather wait 10 years of work on it then wait for him"
Well the heros aren't needed to stop that evil dragon... heck all they'd need to do is knock out the cultists, put the dragon under a powerful sleep spell and a shield to prevent the spell from being lifted and not worry for multiple thousands of years.
I want to see this happen to a group of cultists that somehow succeeded in awakening some "ancient evil" in a D&D game! XD I just imagine the cult leader turning around, looking at the party that almost managed to reach them, and then just starts crying in despair. To be fair, i would vote to just let them live, out of pity~ Some cults do some very, VERY bad things to try to use such ritual, the components are usually expensive and hard to find, maybe sacrifices are made for it... all of this, just to hear "yeah, yeah, whatever.... I'm not in the mood to destroy the world today, so bye~" or the equivalent of "five more minutes~" (probably another few thousand years XD ) and the evil creature closes the hole in reality, like it never existed, just because it was lazy XD
“I need to be clear of mind” “Well my great and terrible dragon lord perhaps the reason you are not clear of mind is that you have a habit of vastly oversleeping which I’m not an expert on but Dave gets unfocused and incredibly irritable when he oversleeps” “Zzzzzzzzzzzz” “And he fell asleep again”
Okay, but what if there are countless cults around the globe constantly trying to awaken some Eldritch horrors to bring about their flavored apocalypses and the only reason none of them have come to pass is exactly this: That these Eldritchians just want to snooze for _"ten more minutes...."_ Or in mortal terms, _"ten more centuries..."_ **SNORE*
i wanna work this into our campaign, the PCs get captured and bound helplessly to witness the awakening of the Unstoppable Evil That Will Destroy Everything and it just....goes back to sleep...then the cultists are like "fuck this amma join so-an-so's cult, THEY KEEP TO A SCHEDULE" and untie the pcs and leave
This, THIS is the perfect plan for the villain in my story! Dude just wants to sleep but his followers keep pestering him until the main character comes along and the villain goes "please just kill me I'll come back later." (because reincarnation pog)
Honestly, this idea could make for quite the fun story. Some ancient entity is awakened from their eternal slumber, but instead of going on a rampage or bringing about calamity, they just want to go to sleep again. "Who awakens me from my eternal slumber?" "No, seriously. Who woke me up?"
At least the heroes don't need to worry about this cult. Imagine, they learn about this cult, and the king is like: "OH, yeah, them. Don't worry, they are harmless. The dragon they are trying to wake up prefers to just sleep, they can try once every thousand years, and they have failed at least two times already. Just let them do whatever they want, they don't really attack or destroy or steal anything, so they are not a problem"
They're not heroes if they kill him in his sleep. There is no proof that this creature actually _wants_ an age of rot - his reaction looks very much like someone trying to wriggle out of a duty they don't like. Without the cult, the dragon is most likely harmless.
That dragon ain't dumb he's intelligent he's like yeah I'm just going to wake up tomorrow doesn't wake up for another thousand years that doesn't make him dumb that makes him smart let the poor dragon sleep
Why can't I imagine him with like a child just sleeping both of them just sleeping the child has put a blanket on him and gave him a stuffed animal and the child's just sleeping there and he's sleeping and the child wakes up and continues to wait for him to wake up and the process continues till the Colt comes to wake him up and spots the child and I think the child would hide behind him they would just grab him and proceed to wake the dragon up and tell him they found a child with him and dragon would just be like leave the child here. Edit: he will take the blanket and put it over his head and go back to sleep most likely
Stupid Cultists never learn, dragon based cults aren’t usually that great. Dragons often sleep for such long periods of time, that basing your religion around them is about as effective as praying to a singular clay pot, and every thousand years, that pot becomes magic for ten minutes and demands more food, shiny objects, and entertainment. Worship me instead, I’ll actually do something with my offerings, instead of sitting on them, I’ll use them to better my followers lives! Also investing in proper arms and armour for the Skeleton Army.
Your lad dragon just wants to vibe. Poor dude gets his nap interrupted by raving cultists every couple hundred years. can't get a decent night of sleep.
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