  Among the creatures that still endure is the /bThunder Bird/z, a close cousin of the Phoenix. Where the Phoenix is born of flame, the Thunder Bird is born of the storm, and it carries the sky's own fury in its wings.
<~><~>  It is seen only during /bthunderstorms/z, wheeling high through the black clouds, and it vanishes once the thunder has passed. Unlike its fiery cousin it keeps no interest in carrying letters or errands. It has no wish to serve as a courier.
<~><~>  Should you wish to win one over, offer it a /braw porkchop/z, for that is the food it favours above all. And keep watch during a storm, for it is said that when /redlightning/z strikes a common chicken, a Thunder Bird is what rises from the feathers.
