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

omg lol

[facemyenemys]

She was trying, trying to see if this was it. The deer she was looking for. It looked right, but he wasn't responding to her. He seemed a bit shocked still and staring. Perhaps more soft words were needed. Last thing she wanted to do was to have to resort to snares.

Only... the yelling happened. Bambi seemed to jump stumbling backwards away from Kara more, and Kara stood, startled as well, eyes narrowed. What. The hell.

And there goes one of her numbers. And there goes a moose. "Jesus..." She said, stepping away and back still. She wished she had a trank-gun or something. To the deer though she raised a hand, palm out, calm. "Hey, hey, hey... it's alright. he wont hurt you. We want to hel--" And the light. A baby moose.

Kara's face turned darker, frowning at the guy as he came out. He looked like hell. What was he doing? Offering rectal exams to animals? No wonder he was blasted. "I thought we weren't trying to bring attention to ourselves." She said, only now being hit by the smell, the back of her hand covering her nose. Oh god.

You have to admit.. it's pretty hilarious XD

[magnus_bane]

Magnus attempted (poorly) to brush the sticks and brambles off of him as he did, actually pay attention to her concerns. Right. Attention. "I figured that was better than being mauled by a moose. I was tempted to stun him and just drag him back for dinner, but I don't really want to touch its insides all that much." Just the thought made him shudder. Maybe even want to be a vegetarian.

Then he stopped. Was that? Of course it was. That was his luck since he came to this god forsaken forest. Leveling a look at the cowering deer, he sighed. "I'm just fuming." He stated to the deer, rubbing the back of his neck slowly. It only served to stir up the smell more.

"So... we took your little... smelly... friend home. You should want to go home, too." Well, it seemed logical in his mind. And talking cute to animals was something he did in the privacy of his home not here. Well, or drunk. He did immensely crazy things while drunk. This time he looked to his team mate and bowed his head in apology.

"Forgive me, I seem to just be hated by all things in the wild." He swore he must have tore through some poison oak while running from the mad moose because he really itched... a lot.

I admit it, I'm stalking all your threads because of it...

[facemyenemys]

As he spoke about stunning a damn moose to take back to EAT her eyes went larger and her head tilted, not in the shocked or surprised kind of way, but in an expressive way of saying 'are you fucking kidding me right now, we're trying to convince a deer that we wont hurt it and here you are talking about moose meat meals.' But... thankfully she didn't have to actually say anything as he just saw the creature there and corrected himself. If you call 'fuming' a correction to a cartoon deer.

She rubbed at her nose as he spoke to the creature. She damn well hoped this was Bambi. Looked like it. It also looked too scared to talk to them. She moved to crouch down low again, holding her hand out to the deer, becoming it to come closer.

"He's all talk. Don't mind him." She gave him a side glance and smirk. "Tomato juice, by the way. They say the acid does the trick." And back to the deer, it seemed to step a few steps closer, but he was watching the man more. "You want to go home to your friends, right? We need to find your female friend too. Can you help?"