{"id":2900,"date":"2016-12-17T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2016-12-12T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:32:12","slug":"trfs-twelve-days-of-christmas-day-4-terror-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"TRF\u2019s Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 4, Terror Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">On the Fourth\u00a0Day of Christmas<br \/>\nMy GM gave to me,<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Four Terror Birds,<br \/>\nThree planetvores,<br \/>\nTwo orks choppin&#8217;,<br \/>\nAnd dread Cthulhu dreaming &#8216;neath the sea.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/terror.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"466\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?attachment_id=466\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/terror.png?fit=682%2C385&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"682,385\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"terror bird\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Taken from the Ninth World Bestiary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/terror.png?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/terror.png?fit=640%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-466\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/terror.png?resize=640%2C361\" alt=\"A bird with a huge beak lunging toward the viewer\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/terror.png?w=682&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/terror.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of cool and weird beasts in the Ninth World, but I really love the Terror Birds. What\u2019s crazy is that these beasts have root in our own (First World\u2019s?) history. Terror Birds, or Phorusrhacids, were a clade of huge, carnivorous birds that could be 3 meters tall. The party only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=462\">fought them off once<\/a> in my Numenera campaign, but as luck has it they found a clutch of eggs and they tried to raise them to terrifying adulthood while saving the Ninth World.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?tag=12-days-of-christmas\">TRF\u2019s Twelve\u00a0Days of Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Fourth\u00a0Day of Christmas My GM gave to me, Four Terror Birds, Three planetvores, Two orks choppin&#8217;, And dread Cthulhu dreaming &#8216;neath the sea. There are a lot of cool and weird beasts in the Ninth World, but I really love the Terror Birds. What\u2019s crazy is that these beasts have root in our&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=2900\">Continue Reading TRF\u2019s Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 4, Terror Birds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[123,15,14],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-12-days-of-christmas","tag-aser","tag-megan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5r9Oo-KM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2936,"url":"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=2936","url_meta":{"origin":2900,"position":0},"title":"TRF\u2019s Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 9, Shoggoths","author":"Megan","date":"December 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"On the Ninth\u00a0Day of Christmas My GM gave to me, Nine\u00a0monstrous shoggoths, Eight ghosts a-haunting, Seven mi-go's buzzing, Six vampires drinking, Five meepin' ghouls! 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