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

[enlightenedfeline]

Tracking everything that is going on in the different worlds and among the various patrons is a difficult task even for a Librarian. Especially when the Cat was taking on more of the Library's responsibilities so that the Head Librarian can rest. That was why he didn't foresee this particular accident, but he does watch Ward carefully to see how he reacts to Thumper's injury. It is something the Cat would do with any of the patrons, waiting to see if their judgements of each patron was correct.

And this particular patron exceeded the Cat's expectations although it wasn't Ward's fault that the feline was distrustful of humans. Years of seeing the horrors of worlds and what is done to 'dumb animals' made the Cat protective of certain individuals.

He set the bookmark to send to Ward's, looking sympathetic despite his feline features. His voice is uncharacteristically gentle when he spoke. "Grant, Thumper will be all right. I can heal him once you return him to the Library. He won't even remember the injury."

[ingrantitude]

"I promised Kara I wouldn't hurt anyone." His voice is tight, "I don't want to hurt anyone I...Especially him."

Especially an animal, "animals aren't people. They're not cruel or malicious, they're just made that way by the stupid shit that we do."

He stroked the rabbit's ear as gently as he could.

"I told him not to struggle."

[enlightenedfeline]

"I'm certain that Kara will understand that you did not hurt Thumper. It was an accident not a malicious act." If it had been, then the Cat would not be reacting with patience or kindness.

"You are very wise, Grant. Most people don't see animals in that way. They think they're as dangerous a sentient beings can be." Sighing, the Cat kneaded his paws against the wood beneath him. "He was in a strange place and reacted irrationally. That is not your fault. You were trying to protect him. Kara will understand that as well."

[ingrantitude]

"Do we wait for the owl and the deer and the rest of them?" Ward watched the baby rabbit blink sleepily before he began to hum again, "I have to protect him. For Buddy's sake."

The dog would have wanted him to.

[enlightenedfeline]

"If there are patrons nearby to protect the other Woodland Creatures, then it is best to return Thumper to the Library. That way I can heal him without his friends seeing that he was hurt." That might make the others fear their human rescuers.

The Cat began to ask about Buddy then thought better of it. Reminding Ward of the past might not be the best idea.

[ingrantitude]

"...Can I send him on without me? Or do I need to go?"

[enlightenedfeline]

He considered the rules of the Library for a moment. Ward had found Thumper so a Librarian would not be meddling with problems that only a patron should resolve. "Yes, you can send him on his own. The closer to the portal you are, the easier it will be for me to return him to the Library."