As a lead-up to the release of the Cursed Isles, the 2008 Halloween events featured a riddle- and cryptogram-based puzzle. The solution to this puzzle eventually revealed that Vargas the Mad was plotting some spell that would destroy life on the oceans. Foiled by the pirates who solved his riddles, he instead turned to creating the cursed isles. All Cursed Isles battles are sinking. Everyone on board the ship must either have a bravery badge or be subscribed for the vessel to set sail.
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| - As a lead-up to the release of the Cursed Isles, the 2008 Halloween events featured a riddle- and cryptogram-based puzzle. The solution to this puzzle eventually revealed that Vargas the Mad was plotting some spell that would destroy life on the oceans. Foiled by the pirates who solved his riddles, he instead turned to creating the cursed isles. All Cursed Isles battles are sinking. Everyone on board the ship must either have a bravery badge or be subscribed for the vessel to set sail.
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| - *"Thou gleeful dung-flock! The BLADE of CHAOS is SINGING! SH'lugg Xeruth-mikkash!"
*"Oh sweet moon-LEAPER, shadow-SWEEPER, stab-DRINKER! G'laroth Bhin Cearow!"
*"Unleash the time-nibbler, raving G'rooth!"
*"slice-CUT, bash-SMASH! red RAIN RED rain red RAIN!"
*"Lorg-tamer, CH'arkkakk, wanton foulsmith of oat-grass!"
*"chthonic doombringer, singer of woe!"
*"razor-toothed gore-vine, bringer of Cth'arrag!"
*"ahahahahahahahaha! STAB stab STABBING!"
*"G'laroth shun-maruth! Cleave the gibbering dun-wasp!"
- *"spy ye afar... a ship wrecked on stones...
:the chaos priest cries out in ruinous tones..."
:"rending of timbers... clatter of bones...
:a gracefullness marred... a ruined hulk groans..."
:"Oh cacophony of gnashing teeth, oh symphony of moans!"
*"for blackened hearts and broken bones...
:we shape the world with blood and stones..."
:"we chant the lines from curs'd tomes...
:to give rise to zombie moans"
:"And spit forth foul and hulking drones!"
*"burnish ye may the lamp shining bright...
:its power shall not cut through the coming night"
:"though ye may feel the chaotic fright...
:it is only a glimpse of the master's full might"
:"Behold! Vargas be I, despair at my sight!"
*"the shipwright plies his clever craft... his hands make beauties float...
:sweet chaos on a craftless raft... the thick-tongued mockers gloat..."
:"a charred and meager puppet man upon an ashen boat...
:the flies they hover gleefully about his rawboned throat..."
:"A wee poppet for the queen of woe, upon him she shall dote!"
*"deep mistress ocean smiles up at the moon...
:both will dance the spiral with the coming of our doom..."
:"the weaver contrives on his prideful loom....
:his work shall be torn in the gathering gloom..."
:"Hark! Tis the Doom Clock! BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!"
*"why does the jungle glisten with bright morning dew...
:because the maggots hunger and are waiting for you..."
:"a hollow-eyed captain.... a ravening crew...
:the dim birds of ruin... the hag and the shrew..."
:"From among jolly company, this twisted tree grew!"
*"to bring your doom and prepare for war...
:by moonlit curse and cultist roar.."
:"we dance and chant and into this volcano pour...
:snakes and hate and blood and gore..."
:"And from the world's black belly flows our enlightened and grim lore!"
*"why does the sacred serpent slither...
:to bring the world's destruction hither..."
:"while wretched pirates cry and blither...
:their souls and crops do surely wither..."
:"Misery as strings upon a rib-bone zither!"
*"the heart of man is born in a black flood...
:a worm-ridden hell-clock, it ticks for blood..."
:"aswim in tangled nightmares, his lungs choked with mud...
:a world spinning blankly, a skull-crushing thud..."
:"Yer all food for the gloom-flower - tendril, thorn, and bud!"
*"we beat the drums of chaos, all hollow void-filled skulls...
:our innards squeal with ecstasy, we are the master's thralls..."
:"the noble sits aloof... in his high-born halls...
:his languid days are numbered... as the exquisite blood-rain falls..."
:"For awash in the ruddy torrent, Sister Night-Bloom calls!"
*"the heart of man is darkest coal...
:succumb to yer preordained role..."
:"ye prance like the youngest foal...
:yet the master will soon claim yer soul"
:"And I'll chuck ye a'wrigglin' down a dark charnal hole!"
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| - As a lead-up to the release of the Cursed Isles, the 2008 Halloween events featured a riddle- and cryptogram-based puzzle. The solution to this puzzle eventually revealed that Vargas the Mad was plotting some spell that would destroy life on the oceans. Foiled by the pirates who solved his riddles, he instead turned to creating the cursed isles. The Cursed Isles were released to production oceans on November 19th, 2008. Cursed Isles are a type of sea monster hunt, similar to Atlantis, albeit with some significant differences. For example, boarding battles are rumble instead of swordfighting, enemies are other ships rather than sea monsters, and the primary means of earning treasure is significantly different. Also, the board is designed to make it possible for small ships (sloops and cutters for example) to actively and successfully participate while simultaneously discouraging larger ships (baghlah and above). All Cursed Isles battles are sinking. Everyone on board the ship must either have a bravery badge or be subscribed for the vessel to set sail.
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