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Dibbuns Awaken On The Crimson Tide-Dibbun Slavers TP

====I say this happen later in the day on the 9th or early morning on 10th ICLY===

WHO:

Ciana-Dibbun Hare

A bunch of other dibbuns and their DAB leader Squirrelbabe.

Leigh-Shrew Healer

Isa-Dibbun Cat

Mistclaw- Leader of Slavers

LOG:
   

Isa was starting to wonder if she would get used to the feeling of waking up after being drugged. On the one hand waking up stopped the crazy nightmares but on the other, it just brought back the nightmare of still being chained up in a ship. She didn't bother to try and getting up yet, her eyes were half open as she was waiting for her headache to stop and the room to stop moving. She'd take a little while to remember they've moved ships. Not that it mattered much inside in the gloom. She hadn't yet realized that the room wasn't going to stop moving because of the waves outside now they were on the sea.   

Ciana whimpers as she is awake and looks around, this was not the same place " Where..we?" There is some new dibbuns, 5 otters and a couple of other dibbuns also.   

   
Squirrelbabe has been awake for a little bit longer than everyone else. She was so busy trying to help the Redwall leveret stop crying that she didn't eat as much as the others, so she didn't get as much of the drug in her system as they did. So she's been wandering around, stumbling as the ship keeps moving, trying to figure out if there's a way to escape. She still has the 3 nails she found, but she was wanting Isa to be able to pick the locks, too, and you kind of need 2 nails to be able to do that. So the Ringleader is looking for another nail.   
This ship is bereft of loose nails lying around, and the chains are bigger and better quality than the ones on the previous boat. This ship may be a professional slaver's vessel...   

The other Dibbuns are starting to wake up, and there are whimpers and crying as they all have headaches, and some have upsets tummies, but whether that's from the knockout drugs or from seasickness is hard to tell.
   
Isa has been quiet and seemed to have given up since Burfy the mole dibbun was killed. Changing ship hadn't changed that so she was just lying there silently. It wasn't until more of the dibbuns woke up and started to be noisy that she finally moved to cover her ears and rolled over. Some of the newest dibbuns hadn't been on the previous ship and had the chance to get used to waking up in chains in a ship, some of them were panicking.   

Ciana frowns " I feel....sick..wanna go home, are we going home now?"   

Squirrelbabe stumbles again as the ship rocks. Heading over to the panicking Dibbuns, she says, "Hey, it gonna be okay. We all togevvew. We gotsa be bwave! We gonna be saveded soon." She goes to pat Ciana on the head. "We no goin' home /yet/, but we will soon! Mawtin said we needta be bwave 'cause we gonna get wescued!" Heading over to the kitten, the squirrel leans over and whispers, "Isa? I need you he'p. I can't amke 'em be bwave all 'lone. Please?" She doesn't understand fully why the kitten is still upset. All she knows is that Squirrelbabe is freaking out and needs some emotional support.   

Isa's tail twitches irritably at Caian's question and she nears snaps back with the truth but luckily Squirrelbabe gets there first with reassuring lies instead. Her fur bristles when the squirrel gets close but relaxes again as she lets the anger go for now with a big sigh "It don't matter, we're all goin' t'die here" she says quietly back.   

Ciana blinks " Die?" She whimpers " I not wannna get dead!!!!" And tears and sobbing.
   
Squirrelbabe rolls her eyes, trying to keep her own temper in check. "No, we not! Mawtin da Wawwiow /said/ we gonna get wescued! We gotsa keep hopin'!" As the hare and many of the other Dibbuns start to cry, the Ringleader has to resist the urge to kick the cat. "Isa! We gotsa keep on hopin'," she then leans down and adds, "an' you not helpin' keep 'em calm! We don't wants 'em comin' down hewe an' yellin' at us t'keep quiet!" The ferret Dibbun is wailing particularly loudly.   

Isa sighs louder as Ciana starts crying and everyone picks it up. At least Isa had been trying to be quiet with her depression. Her fur bristles again when she's told she wasn't helping. She wasn't trying to help! She was trying to be left alone but fine. Fine then. She turns a look of tiny fury on Squirrelbabe "Fine" before she gets up and stomps towards the other "Shut up!" she points at particularly loud beasts like the ferret "Shutit" and Ciana "Shutit" and then folders her arms to glare around the room "Fine. We're all goin' t'be fine and sail home soon, if y'all quiet so y'don't bring the vermin back down" there. Helping. Angry, angry, helping.   

Squirrelbabe's paws clench into fists. "ISA!" She stomps over to the cat. Most of the Dibbuns have been frightened into silence. The ferret shrinks back, still crying (although not as loudly) and whimpers, "I no a vermin....why beasts hate me???" The Ringleader gets in front of the cat, glaring angrily. "What da mattew wif you?! Why you beain' so mean? Huh, an' you say /I/ mean!" She did used to be mean. This whole trip has changed her dramatically. "Mawtin say we get wescued soon, but we no be fine if /you/ stawt bein' mean! He say I needta be nice, an' I fink he'd say da same t'you!"   

Isa rolls her eyes to the ceiling when Squirrelbabe first yells her name before her attention fixes on the ferret. She's a cat, she's part of the vermin thing, she gets that "I didn't mean you" she says more quietly before Squirrelbabe is in front of her and she frowns back "You wanted them t'be quiet! Wha' do you want from me?"   

Ciana sniffs as she calms down a little and looks around " we not in..same place..I scared"
   
Squirrelbabe scowls. "We needsta be makin' 'em /feel/ bettew, not /yellin'/ at 'em! Jus'....we needsta be tweatin' 'em da way /we'd/ want ta be tweated! Jus' like da grown ups always yell at me to." She turns away and goes to give Ciana a hug, trying to calm down. "I scawed, too. But we gotsa be bwave -- DwowaWose an' 'Tildy an' /alll/ o' dem will come gets us /soon/. We can'ts gives up! An' we gotsa be /nice/ to eachuvver so's we no be /enemies/." That's obviously directed to the cat, even though she doesn't look at her. The ferret rubs his eyes. "Beasts always mean me when dey say vermin..."   

Isa frowns back at Squirrelbabe "I wanted t'be left alone" she says irritably. That's how she wanted to be treated and she was doing a perfectly good job of doing that to everyone else until Squirrelbabe came alone and insisted she had to be positive. She shakes her head and leaves Squirrelbabe to console the hare as she heads for the ferret instead "I meant the evil vermin wha' caught us, tha's not you is it?" she doesn't comment on the idea that they're going to be rescued soon because she doesn't believe it anymore but saying that's just going to cause her more trouble.    iana just looks back and forth between them.   

Squirrelbabe scowls at the cat but can't figure out how to say what she means. Instead she moves on to other Dibbuns, comforting them and encouraging them with what Martin the Warrior told her in her dream. The ferret glances up at the cat and shakes his head. "N...n....no....I wanna join Redwall an' be in the Order...."   

Isa nods firmly to the ferret "Then y'not a vermin and if anyone calls y'one y'can tell 'em you're a Redwaller instead. Lots f'our species are jerks and we look like 'em so y'just have to correct beasts"   

The ferret sniffles and wipes the rest of his tears away. "Yeah.....yeah, okies..." Squirrelbabe is busy checking on a mole whose collar has rubbed a raw spot through his fur, but she really wants to comment on why the cat yelled at everyone if that's the advice she has to give to her fellow 'vermin.' Maybe she can later. A nearby mouse sniffles. "I want Muvver Krisha." This sends up a murmur of names of who the Dibbuns want to see.   

Ciana ends up crying herself o sleep.

Isa helped someone. She's calmed down a little bit. She focuses on the mouse when Krisha is mentioned and she pauses...but she can't do it and she looks away. She can't spread hope when she's lost hers. She gives her chain a little tug but it's clearly not going anywhere. She glances around the room but there's no escape to be seen. Her expression just sinks in to sadness "What do slaves do?" she asks quietly.   
As Ciana cries herself to sleep, Squirrelbabe sighs. She's feeling dispirited, and her facade of strength and courage is slipping. It's been getting worse and worse ever since Burfy was killed. At the kitten's question, the ferret starts sniffling again. "Slaves work wif only a likkle food, an' we gets beaten just 'cause, an' we get killed if dey wants to." Tears start pouring down his cheeks again as the other Dibbuns start crying, although quietly this time. "I was a slave before an' I don't wanna be a slave again!"
   
Isa looks back at the ferret and the description...well it doesn't seem to scare her "Sounds kind of like 'ome" she mutters sadly. Home with dad anyway. The idea of that scares her less now he's dead and it was at least something she was familiar with. She goes to pat the ferret on the shoulder as he's crying "It'll be ok"   

The ferret shakes his head. "Blisa saveded me last time, an' I dunno if she's gonna be here /this/ time, an'.....an'.....an' I really scared!" The other Dibbuns are crying, too. Squirrelbabe seems to be losing energy as she goes from Dibbun to Dibbun, reassuring them that Martin will send Matilda and DoraRose to save them. But the Ringleader is secretly about to give up, and she's not sure how much longer she can go on like this.   

Isa mentally sighs this time but for the ferret at least she feels like she might be able to fake some reassurance so she may as well do it for everyone "We're gonna be ok" she says to the ferret before raising her voice a little to tell everyone else "We're gonna be ok. The grown ups will come an' we'll get t'go home...but we should try t'be ready t'elp 'em...So everyone check yer chains, see if any ah y'can squeeze out of the collars...an' ah..." she looks at Squirrelbabe, raising her eyebrows. Help? She needs things for them to do to distract everyone.   

Squirrelbabe catches that look. Oh, she can come up with ideas! After all, she's the Ringleader of the Dibbuns Against Bedtime. "An' keeps a look out foh /nails/ ow /scwews/, and twy t'steal a spoon or somethin'. An' look foh whewe da chainsies might bweak -- dey be good whipons, too!" The other Dibbuns, though still sniffling and crying a little, start doing as the cat and the squirrel suggest. Squirrelbabe comes over and tries to take Isa aside, whispering in her ear, "See? We da leadews, you an' me. Dey follow us. We needsta /look/ stwong an' bwave, even when we feel bad. Dey gonna do what we do."   

Mistclaw has decided to check on the dibbuns, she is the one in charge still and is heard argueing with, well someone...sounds like a lizard and as the door opens to go below, a lizard hiss is indeed heard.   

Isa is relieved when Squirrelbabe comes up with more ideas and gets everyone doing stuff. She steps to the side with the squirrel as the dibbuns quiet down in their search around the hold "...Tha's gonna be hard" Isa whispers back to Squirrelbabe before her attention snap to the door opening "They can't know we're lookin' for stuff" she whispers back fast to Squirrelbabe before she suddenly marches towards the door as Mistclaw is appearing "'ey!" she yells, being an angry distraction "Y'made us sleep again!"   

Squirrelbabe nods, but before she can say anything, the door opens. She frantically waves the other Dibbuns into a a huddle around the ferret, and once they're all sort of huddled (and have thankfully stopped searching, having been frightened into alacrity), she turns on the vixen. Oh. Yeah. She's a fox. The squirrel swallows, obviously way more scared of the vixen than she ever was of Kurgan. But she hides her trembling paws by marching over to the cat's side and shaking a fist at the adult. "Yeah, why you do that? You a meanie shtoopidface!!" She basically just answered her own question, but, hey.   

Mistclaw keeps her distance as she looks at the dibbun and clears her thoat "We are at sea now....your so called heros failed, oh and one is dead"She smirks, "So 1 less hero"   

Isa stops at the end of her chain and glares at the fox. She immediately assumes the fox is right, they're dead and that's it but with her new attempts to try and reassure the other dibbuns she pauses, thinking...then yells at Mistclaw again "Y're a liar!"   

Squirrelbabe pauses, then shakes her fist, her yells joining with those of the cat to drown out the whimpering of the other Dibbuns. "You a liaw! You a --" and she lets loose with some very colourful profanity, some of which she still isn't using correctly. Oh, well. It's the thought that counts The Ringleader also is at the end of her chain, but she continues to show her defiance. "You jus' wait! Dey come finds us an' choppa you up inta soup!!"   

Mistclaw snorts "Kurgan shot the badger with one of his poisoned cross bolts, trust me brats he died!!" She smiles "Oh and Kurgan took the badger cub with him to who cares where"She doesnt know how Kurgan is just a wee bit dead now and oz and Xander are fine..well alive anyways."Likely next time you see that wailing brat he will be a full grown badger.....and evil so there ya brats!!" She storms back up and slams the door shut   

Isa's go back, not for Xander, she doesn't really know him but the word that Oz is no longer on the ship alarms her. She growls quietly, her fur bristling as the fox leaves "She's a liar...she has t'be" she doesn't sound that sure though.   

Squirrelbabe falters, and when the vixen leaves, she collapses to all fours, shaking. "No....no, she has to be lying.....no, baby Ozzy..." Tears form in her eyes, the closest anyone from Redwall has ever seen her to crying, ever. The other Dibbuns watch, stunned. Then the ferret stands to his feet and says, "Like Isa said, some vermins are bad. She gotta by lyin'! I bets Matildy an' Dora an' dem all /saveded/ baby Oz!" Squirrelbabe doesn't even seem to be hearing him, she's too shocked. A tear splashes from her nose to the wood planks beneath her.
   
Isa looks back quickly when the ferret speaks before she gives him a small smile and a firm nod "That's right. They're fine...an' they're goin' t'be on a ship right behind us" she goes to kneel down by Squirrelbabe and place a paw on her shoulder as she whispers angrily "And if Oz ain't with them we'll find 'im ourselves" sounds like she's willing to fight slavers again.   

Some of the Dibbuns cheer, and with the ferret leading them they return to their search. Squirrelbabe sniffles, looking the most defeated anyone has ever seen her, ever. "But you heawd Kuwgan -- he was gonna make Ozzy into a whipon! Whot if we can'ts finds him 'til he alweady /evil/?" She has started to cry, so it's probably a really good thing that the other Dibbuns are pretty well distracted looking for ways to escape.   

Isa snorts as if the idea was always ridiculous "He can't do tha', Oz is a badger. Have y'ever heard of a badger wha' didn't fight the vermin? His idea was always stupid. 'e's stupid"
   
Leigh groans, ok so the knock out herbs ...little too much but she finally is awake and looks around confused.   

Squirrelbabe sniffles, still not sure the cat is right. "I.....I 'opes you's right, Isa..." When the shrew wakes up, she stumbles to her feet and walks over to her, trying to wipe away all her tears. "Leigh? You's awakes now?" The other Dibbuns continue to look for ways to escape, although some of them are starting to yawn and curl up on the floor, still tired from the knock out drugs.   

Isa is stubbornly sure this time, she's forcing herself to be confident "We'll find 'im" she says firmly before she also notices Leigh's awake and wanders as close as the chain allows "We're on another boat"   

Leigh blinks and smiles "Oh ...you dibbuns are ok.I am..am so glad"She coughs a little and frowns "A large...ship with..."She notes other dibbuns and frowns "Oh...."   

Squirrelbabe nods. "Da shtoopid foxie say we at /sea/, but I no know what dat means." She sits, looking completely defeated. "She say Kuwgan tooked baby Ozzy an' killeded Xandew. Isa say we find Ozzy someday if 'Tildy an' DwowaWose don't has 'im." She doesn't seem to have much hope of that, but she's trying to seem optimistic.   

Isa follows Leighs look to the new dibbuns and she frowns "They've taken lots of dibbuns from everywhere...Maybe it's not just the adults from the abbey followin' us now"   

Leigh frowns, at the mention of oz she does her best to hold back tears, she doesn't know what to say as she doesnt wish to make matters worse than they are.   

Squirrelbabe sniffles. "Yeah....I bets dey has lotsa a gwon ups chasin' 'em now. An'....an' Mawtin'll tell 'em whewe t'go t'find us....wight?" She notices the shrew's tears, but doesn't know what to say. She holds out her paws for a hug. They can meet in the middle since their chains only go so far.   

Leigh does hug the squirrel and sniffs "It wil be ok, our friends will never stop looking for us...never."She frowns, she knows where Oz is or least was , she saw Kurgan kicked off the ship and the take the cub but seemed to not take her and that's all fine and good"We will see them again..and Oz too, Martin will keep us all, all of us..safe"
   
Isa doesn't offer any hug herself, she's being stubborn and angry, it's not a hugging mood "Maybe..." she says to Squirrelbabe's question "...they might 'ave their own ghost to show 'em"   

Squirrelbabe never allowed any of the Redwall people to hug her, ever. They would try, but she would scratch and kick and bite, until almost everyone just gave up. So the shrew doesn't know just how lucky she is right now. She nods and buries her face in the adult's tunic, then gives the cat a strange look. "But Mawtin da Spiwit o' Wedwall. Why dey need anovver ghost?"
   
Leigh listens, she knows of Martin threw stories "I am sure Martin is ...somehow leading the way to us..just wish knew where we were going...a Gorax was mentioned, who ever that is"   

Isa shrugs at Squirrelbabe and points at some of the new dibbuns in the group "Some of 'em aren't from Redwall. If their parents are searchin' for them from somewhere else why would they have Redwall's ghost?" she looks back at Leigh and frowns "We're goin' somewhere bad"   

Squirrelbabe is still unconvinced. "But don't Mawtin sometimes help beasts who awen't fwom Wedwall?" She has actually heard some of the stories since they're bedtimes stories, too, and not just taught in Abbeyschool (which she staunchly avoids). Her frown deepens. "Yeah, we doin' somewhewes bads. I scawed." Most of the Dibbuns have fallen back to sleep, and those that haven't are settling down since it's hard to search for things when you have a bunch of people in your way.   
   
Leigh nods "I..I know its ok to be scared, it is we all get scared sometimes but I am here."   

Isa frowns at Squirrelbabe as if it should be common sense "Maybe but they could 'ave their own warrior and stuff t'follow. Martin doesn't have to be the only one" the thoughts are at least distracting her from their surroundings but she does still look worried when Squirrelbabe says she's scared and she looks around at all the trapped dibbuns.   

Squirrelbabe sniffles and cuddles closer to the shrew, getting comfort she hasn't allowed anyone to give her since her parents and grandparents were killed. Peering at the cat, she thinks for a moment, then nods. "You wight...I jus' fin Mawtin will lead 'em to us, is all." She looks around at the other Dibbuns. The 2 of them and the ferret are the only Dibbuns left awake. He looks over at them, obviously worried and scared too. Clambering over the sleepers, he comes over and joins the trio of females. "I scared. We gonna be okies, right, Leigh?" he asks, looking at her full of trust.   

Leigh takes a deep breath " I don't think these...slavers will hurt us, they need us alive"Yeah to be slaves, she frowns a little " I trust we will be found and rescued I just don't know when"She smiles "The simple fact Mistclaw mentioned them means they are doing what they can to find us, I have faith will will be rescued somehow and they will get some sort of help, maybe..."She hopes so anyways "Maybe they will ask the Long Patrol, they are on the western shores..somewhere"She isn't sure where just that they are there.   

Isa frowns at Leigh's words. She opens her mouth but stops herself before she can point out they killed Burfy the mole dibbun already. She glances between the ferret and squirrel and after a long pause she backs off "I'm goin' t'look around for anythin' useful" she mutters before wandering off.   

Squirrelbabe frowns and voices the thoughts she shares with the cat. "But Kuwgan killeded Burfy alweady. Burfy jus' wanted t'be Foremole, an' now he /can't/." The ferret sniffles and states, "I no wanna be a slave agin...do you fink we'll be found soon, Leigh?"   

Leigh says, "I...I don't know i honestly don't but friends don't stop trying...."She smiles "And neither will Oswald"
   
Squirrelbabe thinks for a minute. "Fwiends don't give up on eachuvver.....wight?" The ferret wrinkles his nose in confusion. "Who Oswald?" They never met him at Redwall, so they have no clue.
   
Leigh smiles "Oswald is a fellow GUOSIM sherw and I..."She blinks a little before she stops at what she just almost said,but she still smiles.   
"What? What? An' you what?" Squirrelbabe and the ferret both ask this eagerly, suddenly seeming just like normal children wanting to know a secret. Instead of traumatized children forced into slavery.   

Leigh chuckles, odd to find something to be happy about in this sort of place, but happynes is good, it keeps ones hopes alive and stops one from being deopressed and loseing hope, she smiles "I love him, I love Oswald..."She smiles, "We should get some rest, this is gonna be a long trip I Think"She has not been on the sea before but has heard of tales of places, and taking a long time to get there, weeeks in fact.   

"Eeeeew!" Squirrelbabe and the ferret say, then giggle. They listen to what the shrew says and get some rest, having been cheered up some by her positivity and strength. Now if only our intrepid heroes would save them soon....

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I play:
Oz-  Badger-young adult-Wanderer