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central_librarymods ([personal profile] central_librarymods) wrote in [community profile] central_librarylogs2015-08-09 03:52 pm

AUGUST EVENT - BAMBI SQUAD


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.
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[personal profile] alec_lightwood 2015-08-10 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Alec was a hunter. He'd been trained since he was old enough to walk. Archery, sword fighting, hand to hand combat. All the skills needed for a demon hunter to protect the world. One of the things he hadn't been taught? How to hunt in the woods.

He figured that the concepts had to be the same. Except he knew the signs of demons in an area, not the ones for deer or rabbits. Or how to tell two talking deer from the others that lived in the park.

So this really wasn't as easy as it looked. Looking around the meadow, he momentarily wished he was back at the Library or even New York. At least there he was in his element. "Does anyone know how exactly we track talking animals?"
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He's just going to stand over here.....

[personal profile] dulcet_cellist 2015-08-15 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
First. The portal thing was very cool. Sebastian was tempted to go back just so he could step through it again. Because being capable of traveling into different worlds the way a person stepped through a door into another room was not something he'd get used to any time soon.

Jack would have loved this.

It wasn't the first time that thought had passed through his head since the very moment he'd found himself in the Library with a talking cat.

Second. Sebastian had never been camping. Visiting a park was very different from being in the wild. With dirt. And bugs. And no indoor plumbing. His mother had taken him to the park as often as she could when he was very young and he never had any interest in getting dirty with the other kids. He had always insisted on bringing books and reading on a blanket in the shade.

Third. He wanted to help. But wanting to help and knowing how to help were very different as well. So, while he was listening to everything, he wasn't sure he had anything to offer and had begun to wonder if maybe he was going to be more of a burden than an asset when everyone else clearly had something to offer.

It didn't help that he hadn't really taken any time to introduce himself to anyone. Jack had been the social one. He was okay once he started to get to know someone. It was the starting part he had trouble with. So he was just going to stand over here, out of the way, and see how things developed.
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[personal profile] alec_lightwood 2015-08-25 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Chasing after deer wasn't something that Alec assumed he'd be especially good at. Demons were something he knew how to hunt but deer were completely foreign to him. Now trying to convince small, cranky animals to trust him... that was a skill that he had. Or he had one that could possibly translate to a new situation. After years of dealing with the Institute's cat, Church, without losing a finger or two had taught him how to be non-threatening and when to judge when an animal was going to bite. So why not try to see if he could coax Thumper and the others to trust him so that he could take them back to their nice, quiet forest?
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[personal profile] facemyenemys 2015-08-26 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Kara has broken off with a small group now. It would be easier to look in smaller groups, right? She's drifted further away from who ever she was with, letting them talk or search on their own. While walking on soft careful steps, she looked, trying to track deer and animals. She wasn't a tracker, but she had enough experience with hunting to know signs.

Not that she would tell the animals that.

at a crack of a twig she stopped, hands down and out to the side, showing no weapons. She froze like a startled deer, eyes searching.

"Hello?" She said out loud, trying to decide if it was human, or animal. And IF it's animal, will it be the right one?

She took a few more steps but stopped as she saw a small deer not far ahead, she crouched down, hands still out and eyes watchful. God it was getting cold, and she wanted to get this job done. Maybe make someone proud of her. She wanted to be part of a team here. To fix things. To make right. A new form of Closure.

Softly she spoke to the deer that stared at her. "Bambi? Hey... is that you? We've been looking for you and your friends. I don't mean you any harm, so if you understand me, please, don't run. I just want to talk."

She felt dumb, talking to an animal, but she's done it before. And this one should talk back. "Can... you talk?" god, watch her be talking to something else. Like an idiot. Sure looked like Bambi though.
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Wild Card! Calling Bob!

[personal profile] magnus_bane 2015-08-28 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Pulling out the bookmark, he recalled the Librarians saying they could drop a line to both the Cat and Bob if needed. That was why he felt there was no time like the present to draw on Bob's knowledge. Watching the bookmark react to his desires, he waited for it to connect.

His nose wrinkled at his ridiculous stench and all of the branches still sticking out of his hair and leaves and was it normal for the scratches and skunk bites to itch? Why, he wondered again, did they send him here? Why? What cosmic deity did he piss off in such a way they would throw him into the wilderness?

Either way, he sighed. "Bob... I have a problem. Know how to get skunk spray off?"
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CALLING THE LIBRARY

[personal profile] queenofbooks 2015-08-28 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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?"
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[personal profile] ingrantitude 2015-08-31 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The best laid plans of mice and men as his grandmother would have said, but even Gramsy wouldn't have approved of this. He's pretty sure neither would Kara or any of his other ...compatriots.

That makes him angry. Angry enough that he had to take a moment before returning to his snare and the crying rabbit. The problem is his crying sounds human and it puts him in mind of so many things he'd like to forget but once he'd explained the rabbit had quieted, (well gosh Mr. you coulda just asked me!)

The problem was his broken foot. (Oh gosh oh golly that stings! That stings so bad!) and he finds himself worried about the library, about what the librarian will say, about all of it so after setting the foot he's got the baby rabbit tucked against his arm, stroking it's head as gently as he can humming to himself.

Really he feels awful.