Parrot — ghostly parakeet. Played by Ron. Belonged to Red Shirt. Killed in action.
A translucent parakeet who carried a real dagger in one talon, spoke in a human voice, and could not stop quoting Shakespeare. The other birds had no idea he was a ghost. The humans knew about the Shakespeare.
Session 1 — Marley’s Bones
The most useful bird on the island and, in the end, the unluckiest.
He kept the bargain that got them all out of their cages: flew the length of the mess-hall cabinets until he found where Lloyd hung the dried sausages, and threw the whole lot down to the dog who had stolen the keys.
On the crab beach he hovered over a carpet of ten thousand crabs and negotiated safe passage with their king, offering sausage in tribute. Over the coconut palms he told six territorial fruit bats that crabs can be picked up and dropped on rocks, and sent them off to war. At the barracks he perched by a window, learned that a pirate would hang at dawn, and then threw a voice into a crowd of redcoats so precisely that one of them decked another.
He cut a crab in half in mid-air like a swordsman. He hamstrung the village jailer. He stood on a rum barrel and worked a crowd so his captain could walk out of a fort.
A musket ball took him out of the air over the jungle. He dropped the voice and the affectation for the first time all night and said: “I really do regret my life choices.” Then he burst — protoplasm, small pale bones, and spectral feathers drifting down through the trees.
The rest of the night was fought in his name.
Attendance Log
- Session 1: Marley’s Bones — September 19, 2026