How to Bind Your Dragon

# 407

Basic research on the staff has been concluded. Certainly , I could perform more studies on the staff but I believe that a simple test  of its power will speed up the research more swiftly.

The test subject is a bronze drake of a medium size range. Considerably thinner around the mid-section and its scales have less of a shine, which appears to be due to neglect. I've drawn it into a rune circle, which is essential for this ritual to complete quickly. I approximate the time of conversion to be an hour.

# 408

It has been past 3 hours, and the drake appears... well, not quite normal. Perhaps I need to revise the spell to account for anomalies in the behavior and mentality of the creature.

The drake appears quite chatty; perhaps I can acquire details of its mentality or other differentiated states and use this to adjust the spell.

# 409

As I suspected, the drake in question is abnormal in nature.

Subject is now acknowledged with the name Krazidormu, male, unknown of age. As with most bronze drakes, it seems mostly curious, and yet... strange. It appears to be delusional, confusing the identity of objects in the room, speaking to inexistent figures, sometimes believing itself to be various pastries. Despite the peculiarities that the bronze dragonflight often holds, I'll have to classify the subject as insane. It's clear now why control of its mentality is this difficult - it appears to be chaotic, unordered.

I have also observed flaws in the runework. A few  mistakes, which seem reasonable, considering the experimental nature of this spell, but I should have them corrected easily. The dragon seems to be docile at the moment, having considered itself a rock for the past hour.

# 410

SUCCESS!  It has taken a total of  2 hours this time with the revisions - still longer than expected, but a good start.  Tomorrow, I test its abilities and  the influence of this staff.

For now, I join the night.