Creative History

  The nomadic herders who live in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia call the creature Olgoi-Khorkoi and have known about its existence for generations.  Olgoi-Khorkhoi means “Intestine Worm” because of the cryptid’s blood red color.  It is said that the Olgoi-Khorkhoi can grow upwards of seven feet in length and that it rises from beneath the sands of the desert in a flash to spray its unsuspecting victims, both human and animal, with a corrosive acidic venom that kills them almost instantly and turns everything it touches the color yellow. For over a thousand years, until the twentieth century in fact, the existence of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi in the sands of the Gobi Desert was virtually unknown outside of Mongolia.  But a chance meeting between a famed American paleontologist named Roy Chapman Andrews and the Prime Minister of Mongolia in 1922 at a dinner party in the capital city of Ulaan-Bataar, while Andrews was visiting Mongolia for research on his groundbreaking book a...

  It is the 10th of May 1553 and famed English arctic explorer, diplomat and soldier Hugh Willoughby has been given command of three ships under the financing of a new joint stock venture called London’s Company of Merchant Adventurers of New Lands.  This joint stock company has been tasked with exploration to improve England’s foreign trade and was the brainchild of famed mariner and explorer Sebastian Cabot.  It is the hope of both Cabot and King Edward VI, who is very much personally invested in the joint stock venture, that the Merchant Adventurers of New Lands will discover the famed “Northeast Passage”--a sea route much quicker than sailing around the known world-- to India and the far east and that King Edward VI, Sebastian Cabot and all of England will become wealthy beyond their wildest imaginations in the process. But before he sets sail on this supposed voyage of exploration to the far east of Asia Hugh Willoughby has one tiny problem--he’s not even sure a so...