The Cruagh Island Affair

An island rising above the fog or smoke, with lightning striking one side. Below and offset to one side, a helmeted figure lurks in the smoke holding a gun. At the bottom of the image, a boy and girl stare out of the smoke. At the top of the image are the words "The Cruagh Island Affair"


She couldn’t move. Her heart pounded in time with the squeak of the trolley wheels as she struggled futilely against the straps that dug into her limbs and chest. The sharp smell of antiseptic assaulted her nostrils, growing ever stronger, and stronger, and-
“Feisty bitch, ain’t she?” somebody remarked. Her head twisted upwards and to the right, eyes locking onto the dwarf who leered at her, exposing teeth that were stained from smoking tea. Emblazoned on his right chest was that logo – that rounded vertical rectangle around those three letters.


A horror/military scifi-themed collection of the following short stories, centred around an unsanctioned dwarven laboratory off the coast of Ireland and two teenagers coming to terms with being experimented upon.

  1. A Nightmare – Siobhán, an escaped victim of the laboratory, grappling with PTSD and ruminating on her fellow escapee Diarmuid.
  2. Board Report – the Connacht Trading Company’s board of executives receives an unpleasant report of shenanigans on Cruagh Island.
  3. Interception of An Enciphered Message From Orc-held Territory – the British military consider it impossible for orcs to be capable of building a radio, and yet somebody is sending encrypted messages from their territory!
  4. Big Head Mode Is Not Conducive To Effective Scouting – banshees scouting out the area near Cruagh Island run into an amusing phenomenon.
  5. Infiltration – Fomorian raiders sneak onto Cruagh Island.
  6. Fomoritis Confirmed – Siobhán and Diarmuid learn that they have, in fact, been turned into orcs. They don’t take it well.
  7. The Dwarven Inquisition Are Expected – the dwarves want to know what happened.
  8. Fomorians in Their Own Words: “Mstr D” – Diarmuid puts his thoughts on the whole affair to paper.

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