Ask Long!

[troydenite]

A golden-haired, pretty-featured man steps into the room, looking around before pulling his ornate hood over his head and smiling in a strangely cryptic way. His bright, scaled cloak, made of various overlapping fabrics, seems to be styled after a Chinese Dragon, all red and blue and gold in its elaborate construction.

"Welcome," he says, in a lilting, almost amused tone. "Welcome, all of you. I would be delighted to take any questions you might have about me... any at all."


He bows, before licking his lips in a rather unnerving way. "Please, make yourselves at home."

[Rain]

"Do you have sufficient power to ensure my death, or should I look elsewhere for a worthy opponent?"

[troydenite]

Behind the hood, a pair of eyes lit up. The concealing smile widened, and an unseen eyebrow raised in silent amusement.

"Oh, dear, Ms. Baijiu, I'm not too sure about that... but who knows? Maybe we can work something out, no? There's bound to be something."

The next pause was slightly more deliberate.

"After all, we do have all the time in the world..."

[Rain]

"Worthless. Nothing definite to give. Goodbye."

[troydenite]

A smirk. "Definite? Oh, we'll see..."

The being paused, before turning his attention to the next questioner and spreading his hands out in a gesture of faux goodwill.

"But I digress. What else do you have for me?"

[Rain]

"Are you gay?"

[Addy]

"Are there any dead Ki masters that could set you free? I could pull them up if you'd make it worthwhile."

[troydenite]

"Humans. Why are you all so concerned about gender? A person is just a person, after all. Fleeting. Inconsequential. I'm sure you understand. If he, or she, amuses me.... then that's all I desire in them. It doesn't matter where, or what, or when, or how..."

Dismissing further discussion with a wave of his hand, Long swept on to Gig's query with an eager smile - then his expression changed abruptly at the mention of his imprisonment, twitching into a mask of barely-concealed anger.

"Hah," he spat. "HAH! If it had been so easy to set me free from this accursed bondage, I would have already done it myself!" His eyes, normally cold and calculative, now shone with an eldritch emotion akin to madness, so foreign was the concept of subjugation to his immortal mind.

"Just what do you take me for?" he breathed. "An idiot?"

[Addy]

"Depends. What do you take me for, Long?"

[dblade26]

"Umm....Has anyone ever told you you're like...really super creepy? Because you're really super creepy. But your cloak thingy is awesome!"

[Rain]

"Fleeting and inconsequential? You describe none other than yourself."

[Rain]

April: "Would god-binding chains work on you? They also work on demigods and anyone else with the slightest trace of divinity."

[troydenite]

Breathing heavily at the slew of questions, Long glared at Gig, teeth working and hands clenching in a very bestial way -

Then he was behind him, and his lips were right next to his ear, eyes boring into the side of his head in an incredibly venomous manner. “Someone.... who is not worthy of... my time,” he hissed, spitting the words out like corrosive poison.

“Get out of my sight.”

With that, he took a step back, somehow managing to walk straight out of another corner of the room without anyone noticing.

“Now,” he said, turning to August as if nothing had happened with an unnerving smile on his face, “creepy? It’s a very strong word, don’t you think, boy? Even...” His tongue ran across his lips again, darting in and out like the forked taper of a serpent - and then he was right in his face, looking straight into his eyes with an incredibly piercing, bemused stare.

“...A bit too strong for the likes of me,” he whispered. And smiled. “You might want to consider that next time, no? Before we run around shooting our little mouths off?”

It appeared that he had reverted to his former persona within the blink of an eye.

“I’m glad you like my cloak, though. It took me a while. Thank you for that.”

Drawing away nonchalantly, the Infinite Dragon turned to regard the next questioner, sweeping past Baijiu without so much as a glance. Surprisingly, he didn’t seem as angry at this mention of indefinite confinement. Only about three-quarters as much.

“...Even if you did manage to bind me with such a... thing...” he breathed at last, lips pursed into a thin white line, “it would be nothing... compared to what I have already suffered.”

"You're welcome to try, though, if you want. It might be an... interesting diversion." The seething menace in his barely restrained voice was palpable. One could tell that he was only making a passing effort at seeming amused.

[Rain]

"You're being threatening when it's inappropriate. ¬_¬"

"ENUMA ELISH!"

[troydenite]

-One world-destroying attack later, and a whole lot of regenerations-

Rising out from the ashes, Long looked around at all and sundry, who as a whole seemed to have been inexplicably unharmed by the giant swirling vortex of destruction. His hood, knocked off his now rather-disheveled hair, hung forlornly behind his neck, and he put it back over his eyes with a small noise of annoyance.

Remarkably, it took him about five seconds to recompose himself. He folded his hands and smiled.

"...I don't suppose you have anything else you want to ask me?"