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Melvina

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Those Are not Rocks!-LP LOG

Who is here:

Reva- Recruit in the jolly Long Patrol

Zolomon- Private First Class, Archer and top Runner in the Jolly Long patrol

Millie- Dibbun Rat-spoofed

Some other spoofed rats

Couple spoofed toads..

When:

Very early morning it starts and ends late at night...

Log:

It had been a week since they rescued the dibbun and seen the rat, since then no other problems, the whole trip from Redwall to the Western Shore had been 3 and a half weeks and they were almost...home. It was just an hour before sunrise when they woke, and decided to just start walking again.

Reva says, "So...wot like a day now? You think they will see us and like be ready to greet us, you can see a fairly long distance from the crater, even from the sentry area but the crater is like all around, course you have to move to a slightly different area of it to see another area but you can see the lands and the sea and the beach and some like trees or something in the distance, well sort of..I think it's trees, is it trees or maybe something else entirely, wot do ya think sur, huh?" Yes she was rambling, what was new?"

Zolomon sighs, "I..suppose. You can see like a days way down the beach both ways..so that's good"He looks around and frowns "But we should be a little...quiet right now, can't say this be the best area but it be a little too late to turn around now lass"

Reva frowns "Quiet, why be quiet? I dislike quiet and wot be wrong with this area aren't we like really close to the beach."She sniffs the air and sort of smiles "I mean...yeah its sort of gross here but ya can smell salt water and sort of see sand"She points forwards maybe a few hundred yards away"See"

Zolomon looks to where she points and nods "Yeah..that's good lass"He frowns as he looks around, it was quiet but for them.

Maybe too quiet as they likely should join the quiet and stop talking as what looked like a small light  came into view...a couple small lights came into view in fact, and soon the source of the small lights  came into view. Two very tall toads with spears and pitch forks.

Reva happen to turn "Wots de...light..what are those?" She was a little tense and worried, she looked to Zolomon as if to ask what to do"Sur?"

Zolomon frowns, normally he get out his weapon but he has heard stories of the toads and there was likely more than 2.He looked to the beach line a few hundred yards away and frowns as he took off his pack,"Take off the pack.....and run"He says calmly, there was not much in the pack, some supplies like food rations and water, flint and stone and a couple other things that could be replaced and the pack would slow them a little.

Reva slips off her pack "Run..why run, its 2 to 2..we can take the ugly things, right?" She has a dirk in paw .

The two toads came closer and one spook "Gahhhhhhkkkk...you comea nownow...gahhhhhhhkkkk..captives be.." But the toads were a bit..interrupted as one falls over, with some sort of knife in his back, the other looks spooked and tenses up as some sort of feathered dart is suddenly in his throat and a couple in his arm and he falls beside his ummm..friend.

Zolomon blinks unsure what to do as he draws his saber and looks around "Stay..jolly well close. I don't know what or who is..here"

Reva nods as she stays by his side "Maybe its Long Patrol on like a...ya know hike or something?" She hopes anyways."They did kill the toads, the toads are dead right?"

The question is answered as figures come, and nope not hares...more like cloaked beasts, the cloaks a sort of grayish sandy mixed color with hints of black and green and vines on the arms and hoods. The cloaked beasts are shorted than hares and fur shows they are not toads at least, a grayish black fur. The figures are...ok there is like 20 or more of them and they have surrounded the two hares silently as one of the cloaked beasts checks the toads and says something in some other language, they seem to drag off one toad and leave the other that's for sure dead. One taller cloaked beast points at the hares and says something, again in another language. Unseen are some cloaked beasts just slightly behind the others, but they have blowpipes and...darts, the only good thing is those darts are not meant to kill, but meant to make sure the hares take a nap. Another word or two is spoken by what seems like the one in charge and those darts fly at the hares.

Reva backs up "We run...or..."She yelps as a dart hits her arm and panic shows, "s..s..sur.."She whimpers as 3-4 other darts hit her arm and one in her shoulder as she sways and falls forwards.

Zolomon nods "Run be...REVA!!"He catches her after dropping his saber and glares at the cloaked beast. He picks up Reva and makes a run for it, tripping once and keeping his balance, he can run fast remember, he kicks at a couple of the cloaked beast in his way and trips almost again, 3 darts are in his shoulder, another in his leg as he feels the urge to pass out and does his best to fight it.

This causes the cloaked beasts surprise, two are kicked and the hare seems to of broke free, another few words and more darts are fired at him, this seems to be a first for theses cloaked beasts.

Reva is clearly unconscious in his arms and...yep she will be no help at all!

Zolomon grunts as he makes it to the sand only and tumble and roll a little ways and fall onto the sand, he lost his grip on Reva but at least the sand is soft. Sadly they are a ways away from the mountain still and just barely on the sandy shore, his vision dims as he frowns and looks at 3 more darts and then unconsciousness wins this round as he lays half on the sandy beach and half on the weeds and what ever else of the more muddy not so great land, but he did get a good few feet away from them.

The cloaked beasts surround them and take them captive, those darts will keep them in sleep land a couple couple hours, those Zolomon may well be out 3-4 hours since he got more darts in him.

This does not look good, not good at all..........................

==Time Passes==

Zolomon woke up, and he felt horrible as he tried to open his eyes and when he finally did he slowly focused on where he was and then the urge to, never mind too late as he threw up and coughed.

Reva frowns "Sur...sur...you ok? You got more of that stuff than me and Greenback." They were in a sort of cage made of thick tree limbs and vines, the bottom sort of metal though.

Zolomon frowns and sat up "Greenback?"Then he remembered the robed cloaked beasts and looked around "Ok...well clearly not the beach, Reva you ok?"

Greenback was a toad, and he was not a happy one and lucky he was in another cage other than the two hares.

Reva nods "Yeah...and Greenback is the toad's name, I asked and he finally told me. I told him it was rude to not say his name. And those cloaked beasts have us captive, not sure wot they plan sur but it can't be very well good"

Zolomon nods "How...nice fer de toad lass." He stands, if he can and looks around before clearing his throat "HEY.."He is not happy and wants to know what this is about as clearly whom ever dislikes the toads too.

Attention is clearly made as a couple cloaked beasts come forwards and say something to them, in a different language and studies the hares and the toad, something else is said and the captives, hares and the toad, are brought out but not before paws are tied behind their backs and they are brought before some sort of chair made from what looks like a tree maybe, huh that's sort of neat but they are still captives.

Reva frowns, but doesn't try and get loose as it could make it worse, she looks at Zolomon and then to whomever is in the tree chair.

Zolomon starts to kick and then thinks better of it and just goes with it, he looks at what he guesses is the leader of this group"Wot do ya want with us?"

The leader sits in his chair, and he can speak common "No others allowed on land, punishment for that is deep..."He smirks under his cloak and takes the hood off, as he does others do..they are rats, a grayish sort of black rat with white specks, slightly smaller than some rats one may see elsewhere."First the no fur....in go him" He motions for some of the rats to move aside some sort of large board, oh a pit with..what?

The pit has it it..seems nothing but some slightly dirty water and maybe rocks or...something on the bottom, the toad is dragged to the edge and dropped. There is a ramp to the pool of water and its easily seen...The toad makes a splash and all seems like, ok so he can swim it's not that...but the so called rocks come alive and have teeth, many many sharp teeth and go at the toad and attack him! The toad tries to get out but fails badly and in maybe 2-3 minutes of snapping of lots lots of of sharp tiny teeth, it slows and the water sort of calms and..oh look the so called rocks are still again and there is a skeleton of a toad and a bit of the loincloth he had on.

Reva eyes widen "Umm..I..I wanna go home now, can we go home...ummm"She looks at the rats and shivers a little, "I..ummm yeah so the toad, bad smelly beast huh, hee hee..long patrol hares are not like toads we are the good guys, not that you probably care....ummm we have a very tall badger with a large war hammer that will come and..and kick your butts if you try and like do that to us or make the..wot ever those are..do that!!

Zolomon one ear droops...ok not good."We can talk this out right?"

The leader shakes his head no but seems to want have fun with this. Like slowly lower them down. A paw is raised to drop them in as they sort of dangle above the water. Then a loud wail is heard and a scream as a small figure runs forwards, a slightly taller one following them as they speak "No No No..they helps me and Flip knows too.....no feed them to sharp tooth fishies...."

Reva whimpers as she is even afraid to speak right now, or move from fear of falling into the seemly calm pool, fish...those are fish?Since when do fish have teeth!

Zolomon closes his eyes, one they are both upside down so all the blood is going to his head, and two...he rather not see those fish, he will hate fish for the rest of his life..weather that's minutes long or seasons long is hard to tell right now.

The leader looks at the smaller rat, "Save life?" He looks at the hares and looks at the older child, "Flip..."The rest is in their language and the two talk as the smaller rat seems to stay upset and sniffs but stays where she is. Some sort of loud command is given and the ropes cut! But instead of falling to their doom, the board was replaced and they fall onto it "Makea free makeafree..."A squeal of happiness and the dibbun rat runs towards the hares.

Reva screams and then blinks and looks around..wait they were...pulled up and the board replaced, they are alive! And the rat she knows.."Millie?"

Zolomon tenses up and slowly opens his eyes and blinks "We are not..fish chow?" He is relived "I still hate fish now..after this I hate fish."

The two hares are brought away from the closed pit and the leader nods, "You save Millie, so I no feed you to fishes...you stay now, be guest..eat meal then go on way"

The food, is lucky not fish...but some sort of seaweed salad, eel and seagull meat and eggs, and some wild mushrooms, well the rats seem to enjoy it anyways.

Reva smiles "Hey..cool, so like we are allies now?" She looks at the so called food and frowns, for once she decides to not act like a hare and sort of sits there quietly.

Zolomon just sits quietly, yeah food can wait and it's not like there was much in the packs they had, what ever happen to those he isn't sure or even sure he cares really."Umm...thanks for...yeah" Not feeding us to your pets he almost said.

The leader speaks "Not say allies...say let go home...will let hares walk on lands..so long as just passing through..no staying, even on camping...just keep walking...will not harm any hares of patrol...and you no harm us..is deal?" He then speaks "And we send word if seeum anything out of place that not belong, or if no furs get brave and try go to beach...we goum beach at times,not often usually stay on edge of swamplands, is home..tribe small."The tribe is 30 some beasts looks like, maybe a couple more but no more than 35 or so of these black robed/cloaked rats. Swamp Rats they like to be called maybe.

Reva listens and stays quiet, besides she indeed wants to go home from here, its sort of gross and smelly here, she wants to speak but holds off, just to be safe.

Zolomon nods as he does speak"We may need hep to get to the dunes, can you...get us thar good sur? I know quicksand is in the swamp areas and if a toad sees us they might get us and then we would be here when you didn't want us to be here or maybe we just get lost or..die here on your lands."

The leader thinks and nods "Couple will escort you two hares to dunes, then you go away and no come back....you are thanked for saving Millie"He claps his paws and two rats with spears seem to be the escorts to the sand dunes.

Reva nods, still doing her best to stay quiet and from the looks of it, it is hard to do but she manages.

Zolomon nods, well he is ready when they are ready.

The cloaked rats didn't find the pack, seems the toads did but that's fine it was not much..food,drink, a map that got turned into mushy soup, the flint and stone was gone...maybe elsewhere? Also the small bit of rope is now lost to anyone.

The two hares are escorted back to the dunes and it takes a couple days of travel, least the rats had clean drinking water but not so much great food.

Reva was hungry and ended up trying some , what the rats called mushroom cakes...not to bad but she needed better food!

Zolomon sighs, he too ate a few of those cakes, hey it was the only thing the rats offered and he smiled when he seen the shore, the wonderful sand and did some cartwheels, rolled around and make a sand angle sort of thing on the beach.

The two rats look at each other and head back, yep those hares must be insane they seem to decide and quickly leave the hares alone.

Reva stumbles down a hill and blinks, she smiles "Ya sand, so glad to see sand and the sea and..yeah!!!" She looks at Zolomon "How close are we now?"

Zolomon sits up on the sand from laying down "Ummm...3/4 of a day I say, but we wont get there by nightfall now"He grins as he slips something from his pocket "I still have the flint and stone, we find some tumbleweed,driftwood we can start a fire on the beach. Maybe someone will see us"Hopefully a patrol of hares" And meet us, but either way not so keen on walking much..tried and sort of low energy."Then neither one of them likely ate much, water yeah but not much in the way of food last couple days.

Reva nods and sighs "Ok..so when do we make camp then?"

Zolomon slowly stands and "After an hour or so walk..ok Recruit, then we make camp as will be after sundown then"

They end up walking an hour and 15 minutes before stopping to rest. The camp is made...simple and small, with a nice fire that will surely draw attention of the mountain. They have water and...well they have water so that's good, a good meal can wait, hopefully some breakfast but who knows......time will tell as they decide to get some sleep taking turns on watch.

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My Alts since seems all post them......
Reva-My LP hare
Melvina-My healer rat maid,she lives in Ferravale and helps out the Mossflower Defenders sometimes so...goodish