I sent this on to our shard reporter but I think he has been out celebrating his Birthday... for a few days...and may not be feeling too well. So I decided it might be wise to go ahead and post it myself. Old people get grumpy when they don't feel good.
Happy Birthday Nicholas!!! *Blows whistles.. bangs on drums.. makes believe I'm Jimmy Hendrix playing the electric guitar.. really loud*
It was a very sad night last night. What should have been an evening of joy and simple fun turned into a nightmare.....
Our shards very own Elder EM Seppo, in another one of his apparently bi-polar moments told Girl Scouts Leona, Hilda and Edith that there was a new meeting house that was to be given to them if they could only find it. He said that they could have it because no one wanted it except for some young hot-shot mage who already had a castle and feeling sorry for the poor little girls who have to sell cookies to earn gold to buy food and the other basic necessities of life he thought they were more worthy instead. Or so he told the poor things.
So with only the knowledge that it was in a place called The Lost Lands and meeting a few people along the way who could point them towards the general direction off they skipped with pure joy and innocence, glowing in the moment of their soon to be found fortune. They traveled for a long time and ended up being very lost in a land they were not familiar with but the brave little girls carried on with the determination that can only be had by the young and the driven. As they progressed they met up with a fellow who went by the name of Dodger who was able to guide the girls closer to their new home. After many leagues they met a fellow traveler who called himself Cimmerian(SP) who knew of the great house that was soon to be the girls new meeting house.
They came to a small guard shack that gated the way and as they passed underneath the small troop was joined by the milkman. This was a sign of good luck to the travelers. What happened next was just a blur of horror, red and grey.
Out of nowhere men started attacking the party. Quickly Girl Scout Edith found a hiding spot and watched in horror as poor Leona's body was pierced by several arrows. There was just one man inside and he was attacking wildly and furiously. Dodger and Cimmerian quickly drew the man away and Edith and Leona quickly went inside the small tower and hid in a corner. The next half hour more of the man's friends started to arrive and still Dodger and Cimmerian battled on bravely defending the Girl Scouts rights to a new home but alas, they were vastly outnumbered. Even the Milkman that appeared to be so nice had now turned on the party. The Scouts were able to hold the tower for a half hour but the mage cast fields of cyanide poison which quickly extinguished the young girls lives.
After another half hour of brilliant battle on the part of Cimmerian and Dodger,
their bodies broken and and bloodied, they could no longer fight off the at least 75 friends of the poisoner mage who came to his defense. The poor scouts came to the realization that this was not going to be their home when they heard Seppo in the background laughing.
He didn't say a word... just laughed.....
Heartbroken, lost, their packs looted and their clothes stolen, Girl Scouts Leona and Edith wandered for hours trying to find their way back to Britain. They do not know where Girl Scout Hilda is as they were separated early on when Hilda tried to give cookies to the attackers hoping it would stop them.
She hasn't been seen since.
[Great fun! Hope you all enjoyed it too. And dang it Seppo!!! We would have won if you hadn't reminded them they needed to change the color the flag again!!!!! we held it for over a half hour didn't we?]