LIMITED QUEST: THE MYSTERIOUS SKY ISLANDS

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You check the quest board one day to find something curious— Limited Quest: The Mysterious Sky Islands.

Limited quests like these are hard to come by and even harder to accept before other eagle-eyed explorers swoop in to claim one of the few slots available. Luckily for you, you can count yourself among that fortunate group today.

After accepting the quest, an NPC totters over to your side: a wisp of an old man who might very well topple under the pressures of a modest breeze. You hunch down to listen to his tale of misspent youth, dreams of taking flight long passed.

His days were spent perfecting the ultimate flying machine, a veritable tin can held together by scraps of metal and rusting bolts. His invention is finally complete, but at his advanced age, braving the skies is no easy task. That's why he's selected a small handful of intrepid adventurers to take to the skies in his stead and fly to an island that's always hung just out of his reach.

After listening to the old man's tale, you agree to board his rickety flying contraption and set sail to islands unknown... and if you're lucky, you'll manage to get there in one piece.

You're flying to the mysterious island with four others and each of you have been tasked with exploring a different part of the island. Unfortunately, your flying machine... explodes just above the island proper. The five of you are flung to different sections of the island and marooned there, but as it happens, what you find on your stretch of island correlates with the tasks handed to you by the npc. How very auspicious.

Take care as you go about your individual tasks: this island is incredibly windy. One misstep and you'll end up hurtling to the ground with your task incomplete and the old man relying on you sorely disappointed. Good luck, adventurers!

Comments

BUILD-A-GATE

[cccorp]

[After your less-than-secure flying machine blew to pieces and sent you flying, you sit yourself up to find yourself stranded on the southernmost section of the island. You feeling okay? That was a rough landing. Get up and take a look around to gather your bearings... but take care not to stumble over any of the bits and bobs strewn haphazardly around the area.]

A BRIDGE TOO FAR

[cccorp]

[After a painful crash landing, you right yourself and find that you're stranded on the centermost section of island with no way to move from point A to point B. That sucks, man. Sorry for your shit luck. It's just you and that curious pile of Stuff sitting in a neat little pile toughing it out on this windy stretch of land...]

PURELY OUT OF SPRITE

[cccorp]

[When you recover from the crash and sit yourself up in an effort to gather your bearings, you take a look around and realize you're stranded on the northernmost section of the island with no way to reach the adventurers you traveled here with. That's disconcerting enough on its own, not to mention the strange, quiet murmurs you hear between gusts of wind if you listen closely...]

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

[cccorp]

[The easternmost stretch of island is where you find yourself after recovering from that unfortunate crash landing, and boy, it sure is rocky here. You can't reach the others presently, but you may have more pressing matters on the mind when you hear muffled banging and shouting from within the many stone pillars littering your section of the island.]

CLOUDED JUDGMENT

[cccorp]

[Did you have a nice trip? No? That's too bad, but at least you aren't dead. When you take a look around, you realize that you're stranded on the Westernmost section of island all on your lonesome. How sad! What's more, this patch of island is so cloudy that you can't see the nose on the end of your face, much less anything else. Walking around under conditions like these is inadvisable... but hold on a second. What is that faint oinking you hear a few feet ahead...?]