New: Shiver My Timber (free, open-ended, www, human, fantasy, rpg, abstract)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:06:00 +0000

Name:		Shiver My Timber
Costs:		none
Frequency:		no limit, frequent posting
Email:		crew zat therogue.net
URL:		http://shiver.therogue.net
Type:		Historical fantasy set in the 1640s, piracy & supernatural
Last-Update:		2006Jun20
Keywords: free, open-ended, www, human, fantasy, rpg, abstract

Description:

The year is 1643.

Far from England, in the colonies of the New World, English men and women
are rattled by the news of a war between the King and Parliament. But for
the residents of the Caribbean island of St. Erasmus, the war back home is
the last thing on their minds.

For years now, the Caribbean has been plagued with rumors of a ghost ship
haunting her waters. The H.M.S. Euryale was a proud schooner in His
Majesty's Navy until she was betrayed in a treacherous deal with the Devil
and was doomed to sail the Spanish Main forever, a pirate ship of the most
merciless kind.

Throughout most of the Caribbean, the Euryale is thought of as nothing
more than a ghost story. She is said to vanish in broad daylight, to
navigate treacherous waters in the dead of night, to attack with a fury
that is both unnatural and inhuman. No real vessel can accomplish such
feats. No true ship sails under a flag dyed red with blood.

But the people of St. Erasmus know better.

They've seen the Euryale sail past the harbor on moon-lit nights. They
know the Wild Hunt rides at midnight on All Hallow's Eve. They've met
ghosts, battled monsters, seen the dead rise from their graves. They stay
out of the forest at night and take care never to offend the Fair Folk.

They've witnessed the Devil when he's come for their souls. They know all
too well what happens when a foolish traveller adds a name to his Black
Book.

To a newcomer to this fair island, these tales seem little more than folk
legend. It is easy to take them as the imaginings of a superstitious
people, far from home.

But sometimes stories can be more real than you think.

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