AUGUST EVENT - BAMBI SQUAD

[central_librarymods]

It is a warm, fall day in one of the most beautiful areas of the North American Wilderness. Yellowstone National Park is renowned for its natural wonders and the majestic creatures that live on its protected lands. Unfortunately some of the wildlife that has found its way into Yellowstone are not native to the Park.

While exploring the Forest, Bambi, Thumper, and their woodland friends scampered into a new area to play. Excited by the chance to explore the group has decided to see what friends and adventures they can find. Friend Owl flies beside them, hooting warnings at the group. “These woods are not safe,” he warns, but the youngsters are too excited to listen.

Catching sight of a strange looking deer, Bambi and Faline bound off to find out why his antlers look different than the Great Prince of the Forest’s. Thumper and his bunny friends hop off to find a tasty bit of clover to nibble on. At first Flower stays near Friend Owl but soon he’s just as curious as the rest, exploring fallen logs and looking for potential dens.

While the group rambles and plays, the other creatures in the park are slowly beginning to notice the newcomers. The days are growing shorter and the weather is turning colder. It is time to prepare for winter and these young creatures might make a tasty meal. Along with the potentially dangerous wildlife to avoid, there are also tourists and park rangers to evade.

The Head Librarian has cloaked the woodland creatures so that they seem like the animals that the park rangers and tourists would expect but there are limits to these disguises. If an unsuspecting visitor chanced upon the animals, they might hear something unexpected. The Librarians would prefer that none of the locals have a conversation with Thumper but he is a chatty rabbit.

Your team will enter through the blue white portal and step out into one of the meadows in Yellowstone Park. Find the woodland creatures before they encounter a danger they cannot escape … catch them. Bring them back to safety and make sure that nothing or no one harms them.

[OOC: This is for Team: Bambi Squad only. You will play out tracking our woodland friends, collecting Bambi and the other creatures from the Forest, and returning them home. This is ONLY for team work and getting things done. If you have questions, you can call for Bob the Skull or The Cat to help you. Bob will be running communications. Once you finish the event (or at the same time if you will), patrons may use this time to use portals to enter Modern day Yellowstone National Park and visit the tourist areas, shops, lodges, and restaurants in a private log. But not in the team log.]

Update!  To help the event conclude, options are being provided to help organize the groups.  These can be tagged meme style to help give more structure to the tasks.  Current threads can be completed and new ones started. 

Options

1.  Finding Bambi and Faline!  Is it really that easy to tell two talking deer from the rest of the herd?  Now you get to find out!

2.  Wrangling the Woodland Friends!  Thumper, Flower, Friend Owl need to be gathered up so that they can return home.  Be careful that you don't frighten them away!

3.  Avoiding the Locals!  Please keep the park rangers and tourists from noticing the talking animals.  That's not as easy to explain away as some might think.

4.  Fending off the Wildlife!  Yellowstone has its share of carnivores.  Make sure the wolves, cougars, and other predators don't find a tasty storybook snack.

Comments

[magnus_bane]

"Hm. You do have a point, Ms. Grainger." He's not really gotten in tune with whatever magic there was between realities but she had a point. It felt different. This world felt pretty dull though in some ways. Strange. Like being in his own reality, but not.

Glancing at Owen and Ward, he arched a brow. Definitely soldier types. He'd simply not met them yet. A detail he would try to solve later when he wasn't stuck in the middle of nowhere hunting animals. "You are right about the traps... After all, the little creatures mom was shot by humans. They likely won't be happy to see us. As for locating them, I think our resident witch might have a better idea than I would... however, I would love to help." He grinned at Hermoine, sparing a moment to send a meaningful look for Alec before attempting to be an active help to this impromptu team.

[alec_lightwood]

"We have different kinds of magic. I'm assuming Ms. Granger's magic is different than Magnus'." Which meant that he had access to something else that might help as well. "My runes work here and they're not technically, magic. They can make it so that I can't be seen or heard."

As everyone tried to decide on a plan, Alec mulled over what they knew about the situation. It was like the story, right? Or the movie. He'd watched it with Izzy and... Okay, no thinking about his little brother right now. Shaking off those memories, he focused on the present. "We're probably going to have to use some kind of spell to be able to carry them out of here. They're going to panic when they're trapped and when they see us. Unless we can reason with them." It could be possible.

[facemyenemys]

She's been silent for most of this sticking with the group, her hands in her pockets. Her face was no longer scarred, as when they passed through her mask worked, thus she was pretty again, or she thought she was. Clear of burn marks, she studied everyone with two good eyes.

As they spoke she rested her hand at Ward's lower back, calmly staying by his side as they spoke. Some ideas were good. She liked the locator thing, and hunting like real hunters with harmless traps might work.

"Perhaps we should split up. Just a bit. Form small groups. Don't stray too far away from each other perhaps, but one massive group like this is only going to one, bring attention to ourselves, magic or not, and two, scare the creatures off faster."

And after a moment she added. "I also think it would help if we spoke to them. Call out Bambi or Flower or something. Thumper, was it? If a human knows their name, perhaps they will be curious enough to talk to us. If we can rope the main three in, maybe they can talk the others into returning home somewhere safe."

Sorry for the delay guys x_x

[theraptorsquad]

Owen let the other's have their say, glad that at least Ward seemed to be in the same mindset as him. And the other guy--Magnus. He seemed to be on the same page as well and Owen was about to comment on that when Kara piped up.

His gaze shifted to her and listened to what she had to say, nodding a bit at the suggestion of splitting up.

"That's not a bad idea. We can cover more ground and it may be less scary to the little guys if we aren't all in a large group?" he offered, giving Kara a bit of a smile and a nod.

Nice plan.

Re: Sorry for the delay guys x_x

[ingrantitude]

Ward smiled at Kara, his features melting into something like kindness, "...Thumper the rabbit? You never saw the movie?"

He looks to Owen all business, "Let's get to work. Pick your teams. Give me a minute and I'll show you how to set the non-lethal traps. One magician with each group." he hesitates, "Maybe."