Writing Prompt How to fight a space dragon

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You are an archmage tasked by the kingdom to slay a dragon, but there is a catch. The dragon is falling around the earth in low orbit, at such a speed that it is always directly above the city you reside in, it is durable enough to resist this while remaining conscious and in control. You are given the entire military force of the kingdom at your disposal to accomplish this. How would you go about slaying a dragon in outer space?

The spells you know are equal to a 20th level mage in DnD, so you can use 9th circle and below spells from that media, or things of similar nature. The kingdom has the same capabilities as a modern military of a regional power, albeit more magical. This dragon is as big as a mountain and can breathe fire twice its size.
 
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You are an archmage tasked by the kingdom to slay a dragon, but there is a catch. The dragon is falling around the earth in low orbit, at such a speed that it is always directly above the city you reside in, it is durable enough to resist this while remaining conscious and in control. You are given the entire military force of the kingdom at your disposal to accomplish this. How would you go about slaying a dragon in outer space?

The spells you know are equal to a 20th level mage in DnD, so you can use 9th circle and below spells from that media, or things of similar nature. The kingdom has the same capabilities as a modern military of a regional power, albeit more magical. This dragon is as big as a mountain and can breathe fire twice its size.
Banish that fucker. Pretty easy. Or hell, polymorphism it into something harmless. Or turn it ethereal. You can also wish it away. Think somone mentioned that.

Me? I wouldn't bother. I would let everyone die. But I wont let everyone die UNMOLESTED. Some of them are getting raped before they get murdered by a giant space dragon.

If anything, I'd rape and pillage to my heart's content and just teleporting out.
 

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God dammit, did you multiclass into a bard or something? How is that even supposed to work, the thing's schlong is the size of a skyscraper!
That's the fun part, convert her to a dragon girl and get yourself a lovely wife or husband ~

In cased you insist that is not an option, well we have a wet cave to explore and tease from inside out or a long noodle for the kingdom's military force to polish and stimulate ~
 

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Banish that fucker. Pretty easy. Or hell, polymorphism it into something harmless. Or turn it ethereal. You can also wish it away. Think somone mentioned that.
Ah yeah, I forgot legendary resistance only worked against things with a saving throw. You'll probably cripple yourself using wish that way though.
That's the fun part, convert her to a dragon girl and get yourself a lovely wife or husband ~

In cased you insist that is not an option, well we have a wet cave to explore and tease from inside out or a long noodle for the kingdom's military force to polish and stimulate ~
Now we're talking! Will it be fine if the dragon happens to be a himedere and spends all your money on expensive shoes?
 

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Honestly, this seems like a case where you should just remove the city from the dragon's path. Just, yeet the city into another plane and let the dragon have that world. Maybe prod some other big nasty on your way out so it fights the dragon. Tarasque? Why not.
 

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Now we're talking! Will it be fine if the dragon happens to be a himedere and spends all your money on expensive shoes?
A Himedere for the love interest, now that would be pretty rare occurrence amongst the modern lns. Well as long as she is not too overbearing...

I mean, by the very fact that I am the sole reason the dragon is currently settling for expensive shoes and not, y'know, the usual city nuking, I am the most powerful person in that kingdom now.

Which means I just got promoted to the throne, in which case may my dear dragon behave as the queen she always was ~
Even if I do not go for the throne, the explicit standing of mine means I pretty much have the key to the treasury, so the dragon can buy all the stuff she loves ~

Infact if the dragon is really a big spender, I am sure a small government dept would be opened for the explicit purpose of compensating whatever the dragon fancies - the dragon would just have to say, "I want that" ~
 

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God dammit, did you multiclass into a bard or something? How is that even supposed to work, the thing's schlong is the size of a skyscraper!

Legendary resistance says hi
I do it again
Banish that fucker. Pretty easy. Or hell, polymorphism it into something harmless. Or turn it ethereal. You can also wish it away. Think somone mentioned that.

Me? I wouldn't bother. I would let everyone die. But I wont let everyone die UNMOLESTED. Some of them are getting raped before they get murdered by a giant space dragon.

If anything, I'd rape and pillage to my heart's content and just teleporting out.
I agree with all points made.
A Himedere for the love interest, now that would be pretty rare occurrence amongst the modern lns. Well as long as she is not too overbearing...

I mean, by the very fact that I am the sole reason the dragon is currently settling for expensive shoes and not, y'know, the usual city nuking, I am the most powerful person in that kingdom now.

Which means I just got promoted to the throne, in which case may my dear dragon behave as the queen she always was ~
Even if I do not go for the throne, the explicit standing of mine means I pretty much have the key to the treasury, so the dragon can buy all the stuff she loves ~

Infact if the dragon is really a big spender, I am sure a small government dept would be opened for the explicit purpose of compensating whatever the dragon fancies - the dragon would just have to say, "I want that" ~
what if dragon says "i want that" while pointing to another guy/girl, implying sex?
 

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You are an archmage tasked by the kingdom to slay a dragon, but there is a catch. The dragon is falling around the earth in low orbit, at such a speed that it is always directly above the city you reside in, it is durable enough to resist this while remaining conscious and in control. You are given the entire military force of the kingdom at your disposal to accomplish this. How would you go about slaying a dragon in outer space?

The spells you know are equal to a 20th level mage in DnD, so you can use 9th circle and below spells from that media, or things of similar nature. The kingdom has the same capabilities as a modern military of a regional power, albeit more magical. This dragon is as big as a mountain and can breathe fire twice its size.
use teleport scroll to send it back to space
 

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You are an archmage tasked by the kingdom to slay a dragon, but there is a catch. The dragon is falling around the earth in low orbit, at such a speed that it is always directly above the city you reside in, it is durable enough to resist this while remaining conscious and in control. You are given the entire military force of the kingdom at your disposal to accomplish this. How would you go about slaying a dragon in outer space?

The spells you know are equal to a 20th level mage in DnD, so you can use 9th circle and below spells from that media, or things of similar nature. The kingdom has the same capabilities as a modern military of a regional power, albeit more magical. This dragon is as big as a mountain and can breathe fire twice its size.
If you are an archmage, why not go for complicated epic? Use your budgets and your research.

Get your apprentices, some volunteer hero-wannabes, and some soldiers to help you draw 72 layer of defense spells that can block attack and attack anything that penetrate through the 1st 5 defense wards. Those defense wards must be linked to your mana source or your mage army to activate against the space dragon.

Then have another team usually Engineers cooperate with the Alchemists and etc. to help you build a magic cannon or rocket to shoot down the dragon with anti-dragon & anti-magic attack. Or to shoot yourself out to the outer space.

prepare all your necessary elements to draw water and air out from outer space without using spirits, but with gods or other type of mana like chi. Internal energy fight. Then you can go provoke the dragon while wearing an air bubble helmet and duke it out far from earth on probably 3rd planet away from your place?
 

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You are an archmage tasked by the kingdom to slay a dragon, but there is a catch. The dragon is falling around the earth in low orbit, at such a speed that it is always directly above the city you reside in, it is durable enough to resist this while remaining conscious and in control. You are given the entire military force of the kingdom at your disposal to accomplish this. How would you go about slaying a dragon in outer space?

The spells you know are equal to a 20th level mage in DnD, so you can use 9th circle and below spells from that media, or things of similar nature. The kingdom has the same capabilities as a modern military of a regional power, albeit more magical. This dragon is as big as a mountain and can breathe fire twice its size.
Question: What is the element of the maze? Time, space, gravity, and void would be the best.
Time: Eternal time loop: (Dormamu, I have come to bargain.)
Space: Teleport to a distance place.
Gravity: Use meteorite to bombard and pull it to a star to make lizard fry.
Void: Again, some kind of internal prison.

The common four elements, along with thunder and metal, would be hard. But there is a way.
If your civilization's magic research is deep enough, then they might have something like 'star destroying ray.' (For the balance of power, it's better to design it in such a way that it would need a huge amount of magic crystal/energy). Also, you could use a magic power spaceship, load with a magic crystal bomb, and use it to do kamikaze attack, to wound the wings/ contain it/ or take it off the earth's orbit.
Hence, it might crash down on earth. However, remember, a mountain-sized meteorite wiped out all the dinosaurs. So you have to use a combination spell of earth and water to make a wide-area spell so that it could absorb most of the impact. Then it would be bombarded with all types of magical spells.
However, it would be nowhere near strong enough to kill a dragon. To do that, you need to use a dragon slayer weapon, i.e. a weapon made of another dragon core or a dimensional weapon. And use that weapon to attack the reverse scale of the dragon. It is a good place to have a tear-jerking sacrifice.

But the most important thing you need to do is to find a way to counter all the attacks of the dragon.

P.S. Do the space dragon only breathe fire? If it is yes, then it is a fire dragon that can survive in space, not a space dragon.
 

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Intercept the space dragon with another summoned space dragon. If the summoned space dragon proves to be a problem in the future, summon and use another space dragon.
 
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Just put a few spheres of Annihilation in the dragon's path. Dragon falls right into the sphere minefield, problem solved.

Even if the dragon has sufficient levels in "knowledge Arcana" to control the spheres, it's falling speed will render it completely unable to move the things fast enough to get them out of it's path since it has to be within 60 feet to control them and they only move at a rate of 10 feet per minute and in order to stay in geo-synchronous orbit it would have to be falling at a rate where it would cover 60 feet in less than a tenth of a second.

(Yeah, I'm THAT kind of D&D player.)
 
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wish that mf'er out of existence
Wish has high recoil for feats that can't be done with 8th level or lower spells. You would also be wishing yourself out of existence, at the very least. Most likely you would die, and the dragon would come through relatively unscathed.
Ah yeah, I forgot legendary resistance only worked against things with a saving throw. You'll probably cripple yourself using wish that way though.
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Let's see here... Meteor swarm on a mountain sized target would deal 4 * 40d6's of damage. So that's nice. Probably most of it would be resisted though, so you should probably use other spells to make the damage ignore resistance and damage reduction, first.

If you're confident in your spell save DC, you can bait it into using legendary resilience a few times, and then True Polymorph or Imprisonment it into something you can easily carry. Then take said object, plane shift somewhere nasty, and 'THROW IT INTO THE FIRE, ISILDUR!' Or give it to your favorite deity as a present(with full knowledge of what it is, of course.) Frankly, if you can overpower it with your saving throw spells, anything works. Feeblemind and disintegrate being good choices.

Prismatic wall will buy you time, or even completely stump it if it isn't capable of breaking through one or more layers.

Other than those, you basically have to get creative. Other people have mentioned some things already, like Epic spells, advanced magitech, and Godzilla style let them fight moments. If those means aren't available, the last resort is https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KillItThroughItsStomach
 

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You'll probably cripple yourself using wish that way though.

Wish has high recoil for feats that can't be done with 8th level or lower spells. You would also be wishing yourself out of existence, at the very least. Most likely you would die, and the dragon would come through relatively unscathed.
the downsides to wish aren't all that unmanageble. the biggest wildcard there is the whole taking the wish litrely but there should be time to workshop the wording
 

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the downsides to wish aren't all that unmanageble. the biggest wildcard there is the whole taking the wish litrely but there should be time to workshop the wording
The DM has great latitude in ruling what occurs in such an instance, the greater the wish, the greater the likelihood that something goes wrong. This spell might simply fail, the Effect you desire might only be partly achieved, or you might suffer some unforeseen consequence as a result of how you worded the wish.

The Stress of casting this spell to produce any Effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. --- Finally, there is a 33 percent chance that you are unable to cast wish ever again if you suffer this Stress.
The DM is not your friend in RL, like in the game. A huge wish like this will always be a catastrophic failure. A literal wish backfiring is just one of the possible fail conditions. The spell just won't work, the same as if you tried to wish an entire city or a god out of existence. Too many fates are tied into it, and it's too strong.

Though if you did survive, this may be one of the few cases where losing the ability to ever cast Wish again might be worth it.
 

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*seduces and lays the dragon*
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