ee 2 ee OKOLE Contents Sunrise: Dragons in our Midst 12 Anat «Dragon Breed Morning: Was 18 The ale ofh nit NYoonday: Us 30 ‘The four screams of Mokolé, and the tale of their society | Afternoon: Dragon Making 48 Character creation, with Mokolé-specific Merits, laws and fetishes Evening: Dragon's Eye 78 Drag ic; the rites and Gifts of the werecrocodiles. Sunset: Dragon Lore 96 an elaborations on Moolé spi fa ight: Lizardskin 110 Roleplaying notes and Mokolé of interest I TY Wy o _. ontents‘These dragons grow dng big, and from th cast frh a mast pstlensial breath, like rao thick sm oke rising , ‘rom a fire. Ac their destined time they gather together, and developing wings they begin 10 raise themselves inuo the ir. Then bby God's good judgment, being too heavy they all nto acer river which springs from Paradise, and therein they perish wholly. | Allehose who dwell ound about atend the season of the dragons, ancl when they see tha one has fallen they yet wait seventy days ‘Then they godoun and discover the bare anes ofthe dragon, that they may take the carbuncle thats rootedin the forehead thereof Jordanus, The Wonders of the East Cail Theyfilled hismind’seyeasglasscrunched beneath his Pumas. How much glas, how many nights, how many cities! His head felt heavy ashe shook it, heavy with horns, and crests, heavy with the Was. Sun reddened the glass and steel of Sydney's skyscrapers as he paced along trying t0 rake up his mind. Should he take Jeffo and Morwangu’s offer? Would he sil be Peter ifhe did? He wasfull of time. Christmas dinner didn’t compare to the way ir bloated him. There were days when the mammalian heat of his own body felt wrong. He dreamed of jungle swamps older chan the Amazon. The fetish cellphone he carried was silent now, its technospirit an gered. He saw tropical plants in comporate lobbies, and felt a longing for the Why, Mother? Why? Dragon had calle him, with Jeff and Morwangu 25 His agents, and done more to Peter than. Nyi and Trees Dream could hope to. Dragon had steered him tothe agport, bags packed forhe knew not wher, half dazed In the Pacitic night he had shaken awake and realized that this was a flight to Australia. On a street comer two Aboriginal musicians had knownhisnae,tokdhim whyhe washere. Theyhad saidthat theyhad the answer, the wayhe should go, and had completed the aft oftheir Amazon cousins. Now the bequest was more than afloodof unwanted memories. wasche tainingmansl foranarmyofdeeams,theserprureforachurch milionsofyears od. Ie was the crcd of his deadliest enemies, Gorouhad fought Mokole for ten thousand years. Since before there were Glass Walkers, before there were even tribes all, packs had taught thei cubs to fear and hate the seatreptiles ln che Warsof Rage, Garouhad killed so many 13