#sharpington

1. yes. being cursed (the pacts are medically filed under curses) would impact your deployment and station though. you can’t let a person steer who might suddenly turn the boat around or swim away out of nowhere. if they want to serve or assist on a mission they would have to give their death information to their superiors first.

2. the pact forms whether the parties involved like it or not. if someone stays for 11 days in a row, that’s a pact. you don’t have to be in the shell the whole time, but if you’re outside for more than 24 hours the timer resets.

3. the day the creature eats them is the day they would die. the pact times it so that you get there when you’re supposed to. distance doesn’t really make a difference, its just longer or shorter travel. if you’re super sick/disabled and the creature can’t get physically closer to you, the pact basically makes you well enough to go where you need to. so a late stage bedridden cancer patient would suddenly find themselves able to get up and go without exhaustion or pain. this will last until they get to the creature.

anon 1: they can take on more guests/pacts if they feel like it (they’ll always help someone, they might not feel right about multiple pacts depending on the creature though). they don’t need a ton of pacts to live. 

anon 2: new death is generated. you won’t know what the new death is but its coming.

they’re chill dragons. they’re more into maintaining their personal stuff and dealing with whats going on in their own lives than ruling over anyone. some might want power but they would be an oddity. loopholing the pact isn’t even something people really do because a large majority of the time it doesn’t work/they just don’t want to.

anon 1: nope they can form multiple pacts. they will call for help though if there are more people than they can handle. also keep in mind that the pact only starts after 11 days. i think people are gravely underestimating how much time it would take a creature to transport a visitor somewhere safer and drop them off if they asked. and they DO ask. do people feel compelled to make pacts? sure. sounds like a good deal to most. they might not even have time though. people got places to be. hanging with a fuzz house for almost 2 weeks isn’t something everyone can fit in their schedules.