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

CALLING THE LIBRARY

[queenofbooks]

Hermione was all about order, and this hodge podge mess was about as far from order as one could get. She watched and listened as the others did their thing, but to no avail. So she did what she did best and consulted her books, or in this case her library.

"Hello?"

Re: CALLING THE LIBRARY

[harrys_skull]

Bob answers after a long moment and his voice holds barely restrained laughter. "Hey there witchy girl...Bob here what can I help you with today."

Re: CALLING THE LIBRARY

[queenofbooks]

"Do you find something funny?" Hermione asked, an edge to her voice. She was watching all the groups. "Is there something we're missing here?"

Re: CALLING THE LIBRARY

[harrys_skull]

"Whoa...calm down," Bob says softly, "I didn't mean I was laughing at you. What do you need witchy girl," the skull says gently.

Re: CALLING THE LIBRARY

[queenofbooks]

Hermione took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down, the skull was right. It did no good to lose her cool now. She had made it through 7 years of Hogworts, and fought off an evil wizard.

She could do this.

"You're right, I'm sorry. Thanks for answering. I am just trying to figure out the best way to get them where they need to be with minimal damage to the integrity of the books.

[enlightenedfeline]

When he heard the conversation between Granger and Bob, the Cat moved to stretch out beside the skull so that they both would be in view through the bookmark. "The Woodland Creatures seem to be responding when patrons speak to them. If they do not act threatening. So far, Flower is in the process of being returned and the deer have been found."

[queenofbooks]

Hermione had to smile, because seeing the cat of the library made her think of Crookshanks. "Do they understand human speech?"

[enlightenedfeline]

"They do. They also understand intent and whether or not a being has negative feelings for them." Which might be why Bane had ended up being Flower's chew toy. "Kindness they will trust eventually but they have been taught to fear humans. And rightly so considering what happened in their world."

[queenofbooks]

So they are polite animals then. Good to know. I have had some experience talking with the animals in my world, although it's not the same thing I suppose?