Being dragons the monsters had this overwhelming instinct to be proud of their natural feral winged serpentine four footed
form so the brief fling at taking on a human shape
collapsed pretty quickly and soon the greedy jealous
nasties were back to lying coiled up on their hoard,sometimes
in caves and sometimes in the deeper depths of the basements
and cellars of the human habitations they had (usually )
seized from their human victims during the turbulent years
of the Human Apocalyptic Revolution during the 1950s
and 1960s.
So by 2019 all that natural pent up rebellious energy of
young dragons to take on a human shape and smash everything
around them to pieces had cooled down somewhat.
What really threw the "wrench into the gears" was that these
long haired stoned out -free love and egg laying dragons had
acquired a taste for collections of hoards that were not the
garden variety huge heap of cursed gold coins,gems and
rusty suits of armour.
These dragons had taken a interest in modern consumer goods
such as 33LP's ,eight track tape decks and all manner of
food processors and 120 Volt Alternating Current Blenders.
So there'd be some dragons lair deep in a haunted house or
castle and the dragon owner of a delightful stack of
boxes and boxes of every make of packaged blender in the
world had a habit of not doing the sanitary thing,which would
have been to remain in human form and wear rubber gloves
whilst handling their 'treasure' of blenders
but to revert to their natural scaly 3 taloned huge shape
as they either coiled lovingly over their hoards of slowly crushed
cardboard boxes or just plain old fashioned slithered a slimy forked tongue or a rough scaled forepaw over the
boxed blenders.
And since theres no such thing as a rubber glove to slip over
a long forked tongue or a wickedly sharp set of talons
the Dragon Curse the rebels smeared all over those boxed
blenders was just as real and contagious as if the hoard pile
had been
Cursed Gold,Cursed Gems and Cursed Rusty Suits of Armour.
And its a lot easier to slip a vlender back into human circulation
then a extremely rare Magna Carta gold seal.
So the Dragon Curse worked its horrors in the kitchens
workshops and warehouses of the Nation.....