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Tales From The Bird Islands
by Various Authors
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You know little of these lands other than that they lie some way off the southern coast of Far Analand. You set sail, the irrepressible lure of adventure in your veins, and the entire archipelago before you. Where are you bound next? |
978 references
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Below Zero Point
by Robert Douglas
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Only a week ago the Globesphere made disconcerting news. Details were sketchy, but New Scientist made an educated speculation surrounding its sonorous name: it had to be a doomsday weapon of some kind. YOU are Sean Calibre, renowned Private Investigator. It is your mission to secure this stolen experiment and return it to Federation custody before terrorists can implement its awful vengeance. |
380 references, medium difficulty
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Tales From The Bird Islands - Isle Of The Cyclops
by Andrew Wright
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"Row, wretch!" howled an obese Man-Orc taskmaster, lashing your back with a blow from his spiked whip. Days passed and the welts on your back grew longer, as your slave-ship, the Blood Auk, headed southwards. Captained by a furious red-faced man called Kullion the Crab, the ship was sailing for the Blood Islands, for it was part of the fleet of the Chaos Pirates, who flock to those shores like seabirds to the carcass of a whale. |
50 references
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Tales From The Bird Islands - Hummingbirds Island
by Alessandro Viola
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The sea is misty and you couldn't spot any island where you could get some fresh water, until, finally, here it is: high cliff all around, green forest on the top (usually a sign of abundance of fresh water) and even a nice waterfall visible on the side! Avoiding the reef is easy, so you immediately land and refill all your water skins.
Safety, at last? Well, you turn around and your boat is no more in sight!
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77 references
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Tales From The Bird Islands - Papagayo Island
by Gaetano Abbondanza
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"My father mentioned this place, only once," he says slowly, his face pinched in concentration at the recollection of a distant memory. "He mentioned a village, and something about... the 'bird people'. I tried to find out more, as he was always eager to pass on stories of his travels, but he for some reason he was very tight lipped about this place," he shrugs.
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85 references
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Tales From The Bird Islands - Albatross Atoll
by Alessandro Viola
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The inhabitants approach paddling on long canoes. At first you are a bit scared, as they clearly outnumber you and they are very broadly built warriors, but you soon realize that they are greeting you! They throw flowers and fresh fruit into your ship, chanting and cheering you up. These people look very nice, with muscular bodies, often covered in exotic tattoos, and broad smiles. |
111 references
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Any Port In A Storm
by Robert Douglas
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A raging tempest transforms the ocean into seven foot waves. You can barely see anything through the relentless spray, struggle to keep your feet on the turbulent deck - yet somehow keep afloat in this maelstrom. Now, even in this foul night of slashing rain, you can barely make out the familiar shape of a lighthouse. Yet the sheer relief of reaching salvation blinds you to the unnatural eerie glow from its beacon... |
101 references, medium difficulty
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Tales From The Bird Islands - The Sleeping Dragon
by Tammy Badowski
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Large white owl-like creatures burst from the trees and attack your party, tearing their flesh to bits with their talons. Blood splashes through the air and all that is heard by the fire are garbled screams and squawking birds. They do not attack you and rather than stick around you run as hard as you can through the trees. You do not know how long you have been running for but you just cannot run any further... |
100 references
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Escape Neuburg Keep
by Tammy Badowski
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You wake up from a dream in which you were being eaten by a ghoul. All you can recall from this nightmare was its teeth biting into your forearm, your blood leaking out on the floor, and your muscles being gnawed on desperately. The sound of the ghoul biting down onto your forearm bone was what woke you up. The crunch... the gurgling... the hissing delight of laughter... |
30 references, fairly easy
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A Shadow In The North
by Richard Evans
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King Ragnar's meddling destroyed the northern World-Flame, and the North began to descend into anarchy. Innshelm's former enemies cared not, struggling instead over the wreckage of its Empire. Only one, the city-state of Talras, sent aid. YOU are the one they sent, a warrior trained in the sword, the bow and the art of magic. It is your mission to travel through the dangers of Innshelm and relight the World-Flame. |
700 references, fairly easy
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Tales From The Bird Islands - The Beast Of Skull Rock
by Richard Evans
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For the past week the ship has thrummed with rumours of the dread island you approach; How a hundred wrecked ships adorn its strand, how no craft can reach it save in the midnight hour of every seventh day, how none that do return alive. They think any who linger here are fools, or worse... |
80 references
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Tales From The Bird Islands - Nen-Tai
by Richard Evans
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You glance down through water of such brilliant blue it veers on white, and glimpse the shell of a passing sea turtle, the sinuous patrol of sharks, the streak of dolphin pods that leap alongside the boat as if racing it, hoping for - and receiving - many a thrown morsel from the crew. At last your lookout sights the village of Aolei and you lay anchor outside a narrow inlet through the reef. |
70 references
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Tales From The Bird Islands - Sapphire Atoll
by Ulysses Ai
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Pinch... pinch... little flickers of pain slowly goad you back into awareness. You taste first the salt in your throat, and then feel the sun beating down on your back. Pinch! With sudden horror, you realise something is eating you alive! |
47 references
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