HIGHBORN – A Text-Based Adventure – [Journey Inland]

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    You wake up slowly to the sound of ocean waves crashing against the shoreline and seagulls cawing in the morning breeze. Currently, you are laying upwards on a beach that you do not recognize. The entirety of the previous night is all a blur to you—the last thing you remember is being on a ship before a massive storm threw you overboard. Not only that, you have forgotten who you are, where you were going, and what kind of ship you were sailing. A throbbing pain shoots through the back of your skull as all of these thoughts hit you at once. Perhaps it would be easier to focus on one at a time. What was your name, again?

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Raymundo Rocket’s the name and being lame is my game

bang head on rock to stop pain

your name is Nigel Scrungleguntfordshire the third

your name is Nigel Scrungleguntfordshire the third
Your mission is to become the one true king of this island.

the names bond.... james bond....

your name is Nigel Scrungleguntfordshire the third
the names bond.... james bond....
Raymundo Rocket’s the name and being lame is my game
   Your memories begin fading back. A few names cross your thoughts. For now, the name James Nigel Raymundo will have to do. The name does nothing to help your splitting migraine, but at least you have some semblance of thinking going. You sit up and take a glance at your surroundings. The beach appears to be barren apart from coral rocks and seashells scattered wildly across the sand.
bang head on rock to stop pain
Your mission is to become the one true king of this island.
   As much as you would love to end your life right now, it appears that the cause of the pain in the first place was indeed banging your head on a rock. On accident. When you fell off of the ship. Right now, you need to come up with a purpose, and nothing sounds better than exploring this island and making it your home, your castle, even. You could be a king! Unfortunately, a dead king is not a happy king, and right now blood is trickling down the back of your skull.

What should you do now?

drink your blood and gain its powers

eat the sand to gain its grain powers


Apply pressure to the wound

9 replies in and no "jack off" replies? Suprising

eat the sand to gain its grain powers
drink your blood and gain its powers
    As you feel the back of your head underneath your hair, blood drips slowly onto your fingers, which are already wet and coated in grainy sand. In a dazed confusion, you decide that the next logical step would be to try and gain powers to assert your dominance over the island. You feel a strange sense of disappointment as you stick your fingers into your mouth only to find that no such powers exist. Instead, you are left with the taste of copper and grains of sand floating in your saliva, which there is very little of. You are absolutely parched. It feels like years since you've had a drink.
    Your thoughts stray over a different solution to the problem as you glance around, searching for any materials to use as a bandage. There are no trees around. Where the coast meets the land there is only a grassy field stretching beyond you. For now, a piece of clothing will have to do. You tear off one of your sleeves,
 wrapping it around your hand and pressing it firmly to your wound, sending a sharp pain through your skull. At least it distracts away from the copper taste.

    You stumble like a drunkard as you stand up, your vision blurred and your movements slow and sluggish. You begin making your way along the coast, hoping that by some chance your ship will be somewhere along it looking for you. That's when you see it. The sun reflects brightly off of the shiny metal surface of the boat washed up in the distance. Even with your blurred vision, the sight jogs your memory. It's the ship you were sailing on. As you approach closer, you can just make out the name of the vessel...

U.S.S. __________________

    Name or not, you still have a long walk ahead of you if you deem the ship worth exploring.

plunder the ship for any delicious sand or anything that can help you find out what happened

are you wearing clothes, do you have any items and what time of day is it?