The decaying stench of vegetables long past rotten wafts in and gradually grows more putrid as a dark shadow stretches over this coin. A heavy flap rattles the entire heap of treasure you hide within as this shadowy figure's wings fold up and settle behind the great beast's back.
*Thoom!*
A quick hiss, and the flickering fire is extinguished. A low scrape of an immense foot against rocks, and a hollow clatter of flammable wood rolls into some dark corner of the cave. Unable to contain your curiosity, you poke your head out from beneath this dragon-faced coin and are forced to bite your unsung scream back down your throat.
A black webbed paw lifts over your head, the clawed tips curve lightly inwards as they sail past to reveal the cracked scales of the legs they're attached to, deep green stripes run along the thigh that now stretches high over you. Horribly maintained yellow armor is what comes to mind when you see the discolored, revolting scales that run along the underside of this gargantuan creature's sweeping tail, make up its underbelly and come up to the rows of spikes which run along their skull. Bony horns curve and point straight forward as sickly yellow orbs glare out from this dragon's eye holes.
It seems as through you are now stuck in the lair of a black dragon. Filled with more than piss and vinegar, this characteristically foul-tempered chromatic dragon can spew forth an acid that would reduce you to less than a fizzling pile of primordial ooze! You whimper and skitter back under the coin, praying that this living landscape doesn't notice the little thief hiding in their treasure as it climbs onto the pile, coins fall off and clatter against the many strewn all over the floor until its full body is perched above the hoard you lie within. You can hear the hiss of this dragon's breath as it inhales just before...
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