Dangerous Detour: The Old World

""True that. That affair with Essoc still makes me pretty thoughtful, but if we just bypass the city, nothing should happen", I answer. "You're kinda worrying too much, Jaryl. You'll always get so grumpy in doing so, I think that's dumb", Jin means, as he runs alongside me. "That's the way I am, I'm sorry", I answer with a shrug."

Describe Dangerous Detour the Old World here.

Well... okay. Dangerous Detour: The Old World is an original story, written by troper Jaryl. It's set in a fantasy-world populated by Petting Zoo People and is depicted through the eyes of Main Character Jaryl Garen, an anthropomorphic wolf.

The Story is still Work In Progress

 * German version: here.
 * English version: here and here.

According to Word of God, this could be considered as a Sequel to Dangerous Detour, though with him stating that he's not really happy how the currently written Dangerous Detour-chapters turned out to be, this should probably rather be called a Continuity Reboot.

In this preview, Jaryl and his adopted dragon-son Jin are traveling throughout the lands, a city named Essoc as their goal, as they are in possession of a weird, small plate in form of a dragon-head, which they try to sell to a curiousity-collector in said city. Not all seems to look nice and well, since it seems that the Dragons of this land are apparently out to start a war...

"Yeah, she came over to my room tonight, so what?"
 * Continuity Reboot: Very much implied to be one by the author, thanks to certain details being changed (such as Jins age and adoption) or missing entirely (Jaryls scars).
 * Did You Just Have Sex?: Right at the start of the Mood Whiplash-part, lampshaded by Jaryl:


 * Fantastic Racism: The dragons apparently hate all races which have fur (according to a comment from one dragon), so they are currently trying to Kill'Em All brutally.
 * Gosh Dang It to Heck: Averted.
 * Great Offscreen War: Jaryl references one which took place several years ago. It's currently unknown if he participated in it in any way.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Jin the Dragon.
 * Interspecies Adoption: Jaryl, an anthropomorphic wolf, adopted Jin, a (very humanlike) dragon.
 * Interspecies Romance: Shelly, a panther, and Jaryl, a wolf, have one going on.
 * Lighter and Softer -> Darker and Edgier: Starts off as pretty light, but takes a pretty harsh turn to the dark when Redfield is brutally attacked by Dragons and where the characters actually start to swear.
 * Mood Whiplash: The attack on Redfield.
 * Noodle Incident: Mentioned by Shelly, to which Jaryl dryly responded that this is only their business, which they swore should never talk about again.
 * Petting Zoo People: Played straight, of course.