Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The Adventures of Jim: the Town of Aegytorr - Prologue

When Jim the Adventurous happened upon this strange compass half buried in Elub Shore, he thought it was a mere trinket that had stopped working. After all, it didn't point north, and it didn't seem attracted to the suit of armor he was wearing. However, weeks of hunting in the Isles eventually wore down his spirit, and he set off towards the mainland. As he was oiling a particularly squeaky elbow joint aboard the S.S. Huntington, his trained eyes caught a glimpse of the compass' needle - it was moving!

Holding the golden instrument of navigation in his hand, he watched as its ruby needle consistently kept pointing towards a general direction. That was when his adventurous spirit kicked itself back into his system. Smiling as he gazed at his newly acquired treasure, he flipped it over and gave it a thorough cleaning. It was only after a few applications of Dust-B-Gone that the engraved letters appeared: AEGYTORR...