Miasma of Death
From Create Your Own Story
Author’s Note: This is a Solomon Kane-sque Action Horror story. Solomon Kane was a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. Howard was better known for his character Conan. Solomon Kane was a 16-17 century Puritan Wanderer whose travels took him across parts of Europe and Africa. For status information about you character, I will be using MP as Madness Points which is a determination of the sanity of the character (100% is fine while 0% completely insane. While Level is to indicate Fear on a scale from 0-4. Zero (0) will indicate you sense no fear while 4 is uncontrollable terror. Prolonged exposure to Fear will deplete MP.
It is late December in the year of our Lord 1620. You stand on the deck of the two mast Portuguese ship O radiance. Your gloved hands grip the handles of both your Spanish rapier and English double-wheellock pistol with anticipation as you stare out across the dark fog covered water. You haven’t set foot upon solid ground since Portugal, many weeks ago. The rest of the crew appears anxious as the sea’s depth’s shallows yet no sign of land can be seen through the veil of gray mist the surrounds the ship.
From the crow’s nest a sailor cries, “Land Ho!” You take a small step forward as the ship lurches a bit to slow even more as the thick mist is parted by the black land of the Dark Continent. You have reached the French Colony of Marais d’Tarascon.
You pull your dark cape closer to your body you step off the dock ship. The air is both damply cool and unnervely still. None of the colonists have been witnessed by you nor any of the crew. The strange silence causes the sailors to cast concerned glances at each other. You stand on the dock straining your eyes to pierce through the fog. You see a mighty black stone lighthouse on a spit of land that jets into the dark sea. Atop it there is no fire burning and the arrow slit windows that spiral up its sides are darkened. At the end of the dock is a large wooden structure, perhaps a warehouse used for storage of shipped good in and out of the colony. Beyond the warehouse runs a muddy road that likely leads into the colony.
Do you:
| Status | ||
| Health | 100% | Equipment:
Rapier, Pistol |
| MP | 100% | |
| Level | 0 | |
