Isles of Illyria

in #dinosaur2 years ago
Authored by @Liam Flanagin

On an island far from the mainland, a good 500 miles off, an interesting creature stirs awake, a creature weighing 80 tons. A large dreadnaughtus gets up and starts to reach its 30-foot-long neck toward the trees. Its giant, beam-like legs hold up its body and let it stand up on its hind legs and eat off the top of the massive tree. Its deadly tail sways as it yanks down a large branch with its trunk.

Only a mile away from our titan there is a large lake surrounded by creatures also starting their day. Greg stumbles out from his cave behind the waterfall. Everyone fears him, he always wondered why, he's only a little bit bigger than the other Oxalaia, and he only has a couple more eyes that the rest. He walks through the waterfall and begins to drink while diverting a giant waterfall in the middle with his armored sail. The other creatures took a step back seeing the bioluminescent creature but went back to drinking once they saw he wasn't aggressive, he rarely was as he mostly ate fish, but better safe than sorry when dealing with a 20-ton monster.

about 10 miles north, at the cliffs on the side of the island geostenbergia dive into the sea to catch fish and feed their young, their long wings making them look graceful as they dive into the depths. They are brilliant swimmers and snatch up countless fish to feed all their babies. There are several on the surface watching for predators, as there are way larger creatures than them here that will find them a good meal.

A small little critter known as the jakapil perches in a tree with its back to the sun, he and a few others do this every morning. The treetops are safer than the ground. This island is brutal and nowhere is safe as long as predators exist. On the ground, a celophysis hunts fish at the nearby river with its tail high in the air to show that there is food here for other celophysis. The flock sees this and hops over to the river and starts fishing, but there are dangers everywhere no matter what, and this river holds one of these dangers. Suddenly a massive purrosaurus jumps out and snags a nearby olorotitan, and also grabs the celophysis on its back.

Hello everyone! I have started development on a game about surviving as a dinosaur! There are several more critters, and more will be revealed in more stories if you want to see the creature's models check this discord server: https://discord.gg/hUyNJymw
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so it turns out GREG weighs more than 20 tons...

Screenshot from 2022-12-12 20-23-55.png
Here is his model compared to the other oxalaias' on the island (they haven't been modeled but most creatures' sizes are accurate.)

Nice! I look forward to helping you keep these posts up as well as getting the game going. You might want to slow down on some of the tags though. Too many and they stop being useful.

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