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SCENE:  Ferravale Tavern.

CHARACTERS:  Martin O'Malley the male marten (who is now alliterated).  Nightbreath the male ermine.  Blisa the female cat; Ferdinand the male ferret; Clarissa the female rat.

LOG:
As the sun begins its lazy descent above Ferravale, activity in the tavern continues unabated. In a corner, a hooded figure--Nightbreath--lurks, hooded and cloaked, hunched over a glass of...water.

On the other side of the tavern is a pure white marten skillfully scratching out a tune on a old beat-up fiddle.

A petite female cat, white with black pathes on her face and jade green eyes, enters the tavern, followed immediately by a lean male ferret and a dangerous female rat who are both wearing Ferravale guard uniforms (with the addition of a white band around their upper arms). It's Blisa with Ferdinand and Clarissa. Spotting the ermine, the Chieftain heads over to him. "Have you heard about Leon?" She asks simply. Ferdinand smiles at the marten with the fiddle and nods to him in a friendly manner while he adjusts his sabre at his side. The rat sits beside the Seer, readjusting her bullwhip on her shoulder and making sure that all 13 of her throwing knives are still with her.

Nightbreath nods solemnly.  "Aye." He doesn't have any visible weapons other than his muscles and keen mind, but his dagger is concealed in his sleeve as a precaution against any incidents. He finishes his water and sets the empty glass down slowly. "To be honest, I was surprised."

The marten frowns confusedly at the beast he has never meet smiling at him and just gives a knowing nod.

Blisa looks askance at the Seer. "You were surprised?!" She asks in a shrill voice. "How in the world were YOU surprised about this?!" Ferdinand is just trying to be kind and friendly. But now he's looking at the ermine, eyebrow raised. "I even find that a little thocking." Clarissa scowls. "And here I thought that we had killed that stupid raven. But noooOOOooo, o' course we hadn't...."

Nightbreath shrugs. "I am not all-seeing. I only see some things hidden from other beasts. Not all. I would be quite mad if my head were filled with every last detail of the world."

The fiddling stops and all the beast in the tavern turn to look at their leader shouting at the seer, except, of course, for those beasts too drunk to even notice.

Blisa wasn't exactly shouting, but she was kinda loud.  Glaring at everyone, she waits until the activity of the tavern starts up again, then slumps into the seat next to the ermine.  "Well....yeah....phooey."  The Chieftain starts kicking the table leg.  "I'm sorry, Nightbreath.  I'm....yeah.  It was just so sudden.  I wish....I wish we could've done something to prevent it...."

Nightbreath nods slowly.  "I understand.  But some things there's no preventing...I know that all too well after all these seasons."

"Not the most well behaved is she?" Says a voice behind Ferdinand.

Ferdinand turns and stares at the beast who just said that. "You do realize that the'th the Chieftain, right?" Clarissa, who had heard this comment, looks up and adds, "Yeah, she is. Don't let her hear you say that, shipmate." Blisa, oblivious, rests her arms on the table and buries her face in them. "I know," comes her muffled reply to her Seer. "I just....I'm so sad for his family, and....he was my friend, too." She's not about to cry, she just has something in her eyes. OBVIOUSLY.

Nightbreath's eyes are clear of tears, but full of sorrow. He goes to rest a paw on Blisa's back. "I know," is all he says. Saying anything else at this point would be trite.

The white marten, who had made the early comment, raises an eyebrow at the sobbing chieftain and turn back to the ferret. "If she's the chief," say he in an amused tune, "Than that gives her less excuse for poor behaviour, now doesn't it?"

Blisa isn't sobbing.  She's actually managed to swallow her tears.  But she has yet to lift her head.  Ferdinand glares at the marten.  "I thuggetht you think about your next wordth VERY carefully.  You are being very rude.  You have no idea what hath been going on here."  Clarissa is also looking very sternly at the marten.  The Chieftain finally raises her head and looks at the marten.  "What's going on?"  She has recovered her composure pretty well.

"Pay it no mind," Nightbreath says mildly, although he catches Martin's gaze with a warning glare. "It's nothing of consequence."

"We were just have friendly chat about what qualities make a good leader, chieftain," Says the marten with only a faint smile, "that's all."

Blisa looks between the marten, her bodyguards, and the ermine, and decides that she may not want to know what they were talking about. "Well...okay, then. I must admit hat I'm not the best leader in the are, but I do try. Abbot Benar in Redwall seems to do a much better job." "Don't tear yerself down, Cap'n," Clarissa intercepts quickly. "You're doin' a fine job, 'specially seein' how young y'are. All you need is more experience." Ferdinand whispers to the marten, "Good cover, but do be more rethpectful next time, pleathe."

Nightbreath gazes at Martin a while longer, then turns away again, deciding not to waste any more time on the beast. He gets a refill of water and waits to see how the conversation plays out.

The marten smiles broadly. "I entirely forgot my manners," Says the marten. He bows deeply, "I am Martin O'Malley, minstrel and neophyte knight, at your service."

Blisa smiles at the marten.  "Charmed, I'm sure."  She then claps a paw to her forehead.  "Oh my goodness, I'm baking bread!  I've gotta go, I forgot it!  Please excuse me!"  And the  Chieftain, after standing and bowing to the minstrel, adds as she walks out the door, "Welcome to my city, Martin O'Malley!  I hope you're able to make some money.  Perhaps we can find a more permanent job for you soon!"  And then she's out the door, her bodyguards following her like shadows.

Nightbreath slips out as well, headed to his home for meditation.

"Thank you miss," Says O'Malley as the chieftain leaves. after she leaves, he quietly chuckles to himself, "She the strangest of etiquette, don't she?"

~*END*~

Blisa's having a moment.  (When is she not having a moment?)

Thanks for reading

So, I'm not sure when would be the best day for the funeral.  Perhaps Thursday, December 7th at 2 PM Central Time?  What do you guys think?

So, Bandit and I had a plot thing going where we had put our characters in the modern era.  Here are the logs we did, in order:
1) https://www.rwmuck.org/archive/content/ … es-rp.html
2) https://www.rwmuck.org/archive/content/ … ng-rp.html
3) https://www.rwmuck.org/archive/content/ … -day-.html
I think it'd be fun to continue this plotline (and spoof other things xD).  What do you guys think?

Some of us also started an alternate universe plotline thing: https://www.rwmuck.org/archive/content/ … -rp-t.html  That'd be fun to continue on, don't you think?

Also, there's an idea I've been toying with for quite a while now: I was thinking it'd be fun to retell some fairy tales.  I was thinking we could start out with Cinderella (I was going to volunteer LilyMoore to be Cinderella), and then do Snow White (with Blisa as the princess).  Cinderella would be more like the Disney movies, but Snow White would be much more like the original Grimm tale....y'know, where the Evil Queen was, at the end of the story, forced to dance in red hot iron shoes until she dropped down dead.  (THAT IS THE LEGIT ORIGINAL ENDING, YO.)  But I was thinking Snow White would just stab the Evil Queen with a red hot iron poker

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Do you guys have any OOC TP ideas?  Please only list your OOC TP ideas here; the discussion for which TP to do next needs to please go under here: http://forum.rwmuck.org/viewtopic.php?id=980 with the discussion of how to do the TP we all agree to do having its own topic.  But OOC TP ideas are welcome here   For IC TP ideas, please go here: http://forum.rwmuck.org/viewtopic.php?id=979

EDIT: Also, I had the discussion and ideas posts be each their own topics because I knew that if it was all one topic, the ideas would get lost in all the discussion responses because there would be so many of them.  We would never be able to find the ideas, and it would've been a pointless endeavour!  I mean, imagine it:  Someone would post their TP idea, and everyone would be discussing it and the other TP ideas, ad we'd get to like 5 pages, and then we'd have to be scrolling through aaaaallllll those responses, most of which would be discussion, in order to find the 1 or 2 that were TP ideas.  I figured it would probably be better to have the discussion be its own topic, and the TP ideas posts be their own topics, just to make it easier to find the ideas that have been posted.  This should help it be more organized, hopefully, and so make future TP planning easier.  And that's my sole goal.  And it'll be easier and faster to just make a new discussion topic than to sort through all the posts and copy over the TP ideas we haven't done into another new ideas-&-discussion post

So, I figured that it might be interesting to start a discussion about how we named our characters.  How did you come up with the names? 

With DoraRose, I named her after my kitty Dora and a kitten I once had who died.  Her name was Rose.  And then I chose Strongheart for her last name because she's so brave, and because she once saved a beast back in her homeland from drowning (it's part of her backstory).

I chose Lenore for my raven because I really like the poem /The Raven/ by Edgar Allen Poe, and I decided to name her after the woman he was talking about in there.

For Blisa.....well, that's actually a bit more complicated.  I'm not the first person to run her, and when I started running her after her original player had to leave ( :'( ), she was already her own char under the name of Blissa.  So I just dropped 1 S, and now I have my Blisa, whom I love playing.

And I wonder.....why Blissa?  Could this be it?

I had no idea that Barbie had a cat, much less what her name was, until I was over at a friend's house and was looking through her daughter's book.  So that's just an interesting theory of where my char's name first came from.  (If I can ever find out the title of that book, I'll post a link to it on, like, Amazon on here so I can avoid the copyright infringement stuff )

With LilyMoore, I named the char after DoraRose's little sister who has murdered, and I named that character after my kitten Rose's sister, Lily.  I don't remember why I added "Moore".  I guess maybe 'cause it sounded cool?

And Felicity is named after my cat Dora's sister.

How did you come up with the names of your characters?