Years ago, I belonged to several clubs which were grouped into the Redwall Online Community, or ROC for short. One way to gain rank in these clubs was to write missions; that is, you would choose an objective from a list and write a short story about how you completed that objective.
The stories featured here are the only extant missions from these clubs that I know of that I wrote. Five are written for a club called MoonShadow Island, one for Sampetra: Imperial Navy Serving Ublaz.
They all feature a family of evil vampire wolves known as the Windschreiener family.
I swear this predated the Twilight novels.
The stories are presented here in chronological order. There are holes in continuity, but recall that these were written for roleplaying clubs; the roleplays that went on were on GeoCities and Angelfire websites and InsideTheWeb Forums, which means much that went on between the stories is now permanently lost, but these stories did make sense to their original audiences.
King Nightskar, Xean, and Emperor Ublaz are © their players. Emperor Ublaz is based on the character from the book Pearls of Lutra by the late, great Brian Jacques.
So read them and enjoy what are among the oldest examples of my writing available online. I have edited them but little, allowing you to see what my writing was really like when I first began writing in earnest. I am fully aware how edgy
these come across as, but these were for vurmin—that is, villainous—clubs, so it kind of comes with the territory. And unlike other stories in my library, these are never getting a rewrite.
This is the first mission I wrote for a club called Moonshadow Island. King Nightskar wanted a certain cove, but it was inhabited by a colony of virtuous woodlanders. It was up to Loroch to rectify that problem.
This is the second mission I wrote for Moonshadow Island. Encouraged by Loroch’s success at the cove, King Nightskar sends Loroch and his family out to investigate a pair of ships sailing there.
In the third mission for Moonshadow Island, Eisenzahn has a run-in with a pike
This is the fourth mission I wrote for Moonshadow Island. Loroch and two of his sons return to the abandoned Fort Darkmist.
Incidently, Fort Darkmist was the first ROC club I ever joined. Its leaders, Ursus Pandion and Arctos Aponaphelma, are © their players—wherever they are.
This is the fifth and last mission I wrote for Moonshadow Island. While on a quest, Shtaragk claims his vampiric heritage.
This is the first (and ultimately only) mission I wrote for Empire of Sampetra: Imperial Navy Serving Ublaz (INSU for short), one of the biggest and most influential ROC roleplaying clubs. Loroch, Rolja, and Shtaragk deal with an infestation of lizards.