AUGUST EVENT - UNICORN STAMPEDE

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Welcome to the Wild West! The year is 1881 in a hot, desolate corner of the Arizona Territory. Soon it will become the site of one of the most infamous gunfights in history. But today, it’s not the Cowboys or the Earps that have the town buzzing with gossip. It’s the strange events that happened this morning.

Thanks to the Head Librarian’s efforts, the unicorns that invaded Tombstone seem like nothing more than herd of wild horses that have stampeded through town and decided to graze nearby. For some, this is merely a curiosity that adds to the local chatter but other see it as a moneymaking opportunity. Those pretty, white horses don’t seem to belong to any of the locals and even if they did, there’s a few horse thieves in town that will be tempted by the herd outside of town.

Your team will enter through the blue white portal and step out into the desert mining town of Tombstone. It is rough, wild place with few rules. There’s a feud brewing between the law and the Cowboys but these events cannot be changed without altering the history of many worlds. Although patrons can interact with the citizens of Tombstone, they must be careful. Strangers and drifters are expected in town but behavior that is beyond what is expected of normal might find themselves facing an angry mob or locked up in the local jail.

Although some might be tempted to meet Wyatt Earp and friends, and may see the famous lawmen, the Librarians discourage the kind of interactions that could lead to prison time.

Find the unicorns and bring them back while ensuring that the locals don’t notice anything unusual in town. Remember that the creatures are intelligent and wary of those who are not pure. Not all of our patrons may be seen as friendly by the ‘horses’. Do not hurt them or be offended it they seem to object to your life choices. Make sure that none of Tombstone’s citizens keeps any of the wild horses and make sure that no one learns of what will happen at the OK Corral.

 

 

[OOC: This is for Team: Unicorn Stampede only. You will play out rounding up the unicorns, 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 Tombstone, go shopping, or interact with the locals as long as they do not upset the events that are destined to occur. 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.   Distracting the locals - This could be keeping any curious residents from noticing anything strange about the 'wild horses' or it could be keeping any potential horse thieves from stealing a pretty pony or two.

2.  Bait! or Unicorn Roundup - Remember that unicorns are picky about who they want to befriend.  They may not like some people in the group.  This could be hinder the roundup or be used to help get the unicorns back home.

3.  Safety First! - The unicorns might not be as tranquil as expected.  That means that there is a possibility of injury to a patron or one of the residents of Tombstone.  Please make sure that no one important gets injured and history is rewritten!

Comments

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[overcomebywinter]

[1: Taking down a Horse Thief]
Once they learned that the virgin thing was true, Bucky wasn't going to bother rounding them up. Not only was he not a virgin, he wasn't really 'pure' in any way HE could think of. Maybe by the fact that his memories were a MESS made him pure and clean slate in some ways was one thing, but he personally felt that the instant he got near the unicorns would scatter. And they had, a few times.

That lead him to helping with keeping the towns folk out of this mess. No sense in someone getting hurt. So he actually... took this as a mission, blending in better than one might think of a brainwashed man with a metal arm. You can sometimes find him chatting with a local, or 'chatting' as in letting them talk to him and him nodding to things.

Or you can watch him as he... ah, yes, he just hogtied a man to the ground and is now doing that swagger step thing after another guy, with a twist of his wrist he caught the man with a lasso, yanking him off his horse. The man had roped himself a black horse, it's coat shiny and bright, a Black Beauty of the wild ponies the locals were watching. The Unicorn itself was stamping in a fit, trying to get free.

It took off running the moment Bucky yanked the man off his horse. The man didn't stay down long though. He was a big guy, getting up fast and shucking off the rope, charging Bucky. It's going to come down to a good old fist fight, if anyone is interested in joining. Either that or taking care of the poor guy who is yelling from the ground where his hands and boots are tied together...