"Aerial, do you have a swimsuit of any sort?" Hikari asks.
"Technically no, but my undergarments are hydrophobic, so they should work." She responds.
"Big words for a self proclaimed bird brain." Iskandor laughs.
"Let's put on our swim suits, I want to see how good that hotspring really is!" Lar says, shaving swimsuits into everyone's hands.
"I said I'm not wearing this! it makes speedos look modest!" Iskandor yells, burning it.
"Hey, that was a couple silver!" Lar yells.
"It's basically a string bikini!" Iskandor yells back, stripping down into the nude. As he mentioned earlier nothing shows due to unique biology.
"You weren't lying..." Hikari says, embarrassed as she emerges from behind a rock wearing a one-peice that suits her well and is oddly appealing with It's indigo shade of blue.
Serena also appears from behind a rock, wearing a bikini perfectly matching her blue eyes.
"Why would he lie about that? You would find out sooner or later." Lar says, emerging from the tent, wearing a black bikini.
"I didn't realize how awkward this would be, I guess my movements will be a bit... rigid... for a while." Iskandor says, trying to play it off calmly. "Can't believe mating season is just around the corner..."
*10 points for being nude in the presence of each member of your harem, 10 addition points for being nude infront of them all at once (1 time thing per person)
-40 points total-*
'I might as well get this out of the way, increased natural armor and eventuality of flight make a decent trade off for a stronger mating season... Get the next teir of draconic bloodline...' Iskandor mentally sighs, knowing that if he didn't it would just prolong the inevitable.
"Looks like you have a very pure draconic bloodline, at least 50%, you probably are a half dragon." Aerial states from nowhere, looking at Iskandor's pronounced shoulderblades and noticing the subtle difference with the scales in that region compared to everywhere else.
"How do you know that?" Iskandor asked, slightly suspicious now.
"Can't say." She says, realizing she screwed up, however she won't get cursed by the Styx as she didn't say anything, non verbal or otherwise about the aquintance of Daedalus.
"I know you can't answer but I assume this aquintance is the author of the books I own and a dragon at that. It would explain why you seemed to recognize the books, know more than Lar and I about my bloodline purity and such." Iskandor says, as if listing evidence, but immediately shrugs it off. "I'll stop asking now, or at least things I know you can't speak about, but when I do meet the requirements to allow you to share I would like to hear everything.
"Come on, let's hurry up, we don't have all day!" Lar says, dragging everyone to the hotspring and shoving them in.
"I think I smell traces of sulfur, I can use that to make gunpowder when we are ready to do so." Iskandor observes.
"You speak of black powder?" Aerial asks.
"Yup, just a different name, I know how to produce it. Magic can outclass it many times over from my observation, however magic isn't always available." Iskandor answers.
"What do you know of magic?" Aerial asks.
"What I found out from the book and self experimentation, do you know much?" Iskandor then asked in return.
"As you've pieced together that the aquintance of Daedalus is the auther I can tell you this, I was there when the book was written and helped with many experiments." Aerial answered.
"Looks like I've got a teacher for magic." Iskandor says, happily looking to the sky and letting the hotsprings sooth all tensions.
"Aerial as Iskandor said, mating season is round the corner, perhaps you should take a short vacation while it's in effect." Lar says.
"Good idea, I don't want to do anything, unprofessional..." Iskandor agrees.
"I'll do that then, I wonder what all is going on in the world anyway." Aerial agrees.
"The myths say these hotsprings have mystical properties, namely increasing longevity and such, how much of this is true?" Lar then asks, changing the subject.
"These hotsprings do indeed help with longevity, they may also help with beauty and removing impurities within the body." Aerial answers.
At this everyone relaxes even harder, trying to maximize the short term benifits of the hotspring. The size of the pool is actually quite remarkable as the peak of the plateau seems much larger than it should be. The hotsprings have a collective area of nearly 60,000 square feet. Towards the enterance and exit lies a cavern that is just as large and vetween the two and all around the hotsprings is plenty of open space.
"Aerial, is it me or does the plateau seem a bit larger up here than it should be?" Lar asks.
"Daedalus was one of the few confirmed cases of weilding spacial magic, so it isn't abnormal for him to use and abuse it." Aerial responds, drifting by on the surface of the water.
"How should we prepare for mating season?" Iskandor suddenly asks, "Becauae I'm already starting to feel something a little off, I think we're safe for now though."
"Do you want to go through it all or try to wait it out so that you are level headed during the act?" Lar asks.
"I would prefer the latter, but I'm not sure what would happen within those 25 days..." Iskandor answers.
"Should we start sooner?" Lar asks, slowly bringing Serena towards him.
"Well... I'll be level-headed but it isn't quite as natural as I would have hoped, what do you guys think?" Iskandor says.
"... gentle...please..." Hikari barely manages to get out, her blush covering nearly all of her exposed skin.
"It would make sense to get it all over with, right Serena?" Lar asks, teasingly.
"I- I suppose so..." She answers, embarrassed.