“Why should I help you? You have been making this awful racket- ruining my concentration, you’ve been chasing these undesirables into my realm. My experiments have suffered. My great work. Do you know what that means? Do you even care? No, you do not understand, you are beyond comprehension, all of ...

“Hoooooeuuuuuuuch. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhyakkk. Hyuck. Thank ‘ee lads, thank ‘ee thank ‘ee thank ‘ee thought I was a goner there, so I did! Any chance of a wee drop to wet the throat? Ah! Thankye most kindly! What’ve ye done w’it? By Tip, give me another drink will you? Never thought I’d have a run in with...

"Tell me! Tell me NOW, you shiggin barbarian! Tell me WHY?" Fluid spattered all around as the frantic stranger's heel drove down onto old Shanachee's throat. Pus-filled blood (or was it bloody pus?) from the missing hand hissed and crackled as it hit the cold ground. "Why! By! The! Tr...

Where the mountains begin, there lies Ristra’s plateau. It rises about a thousand metres above the plain. Its sides aren’t sheer, but steep and treacherous with loose rock and shale – avalanches are common. Safe routes exist to reach the top, but they are not signposted and the bare rock does not re...

So, you like oul Shanachee’s stories, do you? I like telling ‘em n’all, but my throat’s far too dry to be telling another, so it is. Why, thank you kindly – that might just do the trick. Ah! So, did you ever hear about the run-in Ristra had with those three demons? Ha! That was something, I’m tellin...

So Ristra’s up there in his tower, and he’s got all these little bottles (smallest bottles you ever saw) lined up in front of him, and he’s pouring one into another and dripping that one into a third and there’s explosions and bubblings and the most vile smells you can imagine. He’s mixing this with...

Is that the last of the kids off to bed? Did you hear what happened, up on the plateau? Damnit I shouldn’t laugh but, by the Tree, it’s funny! Funny when it’s someone else, so it is! One of those bandit-types found himself a way up there, looking to get up to no good, as they do. So, he was skulking...

Legend says The Kochu, fleeing from The Evil, stumbled upon Ristra’s arid plateau by chance. But The Kochu were wanderers, surely they would have known of that place with its spiteful, vengeful god? Legend says that they ate their fill of Ristra’s fruit because they were starving, knowing not what t...

[Syl] wrote:I move into my new place on the 17th. Everything should be settled down enough for a Jan. 1 start.

How about opening up a forum for some tall tales before then?

[Syl] wrote:

Ristra wrote:Ristra, totem The Chilli Pepper

As long as you don't name your high priest Flea or Keatus.

Of course not. But my shrine may be under the bridge....

Ristra, totem The Chilli Pepper