RP: The Quest for the Sword

[DanielofRedwall]

Joey wandered in. "Shellmara, we were just about to go off again! Where've you been? Oh, hello Tey. I thought I saw you in the library just a moment ago. Why are you here?"

[Tiria Wildlough]

'Oh, sorry. I'll come. I just found Tey curled up here,' Shellmara said, ''Bye, Tey. I'll be coming back when we find Martin's sword!'

[Lady_Gwalia]

Tey looked confusedly around her as Shellmara and Joey walked away. How on earth had she gotten here? Then as she gazed up at the tapestry, Martin's gaze seemingly fixed on her, she began to remember.  Tey rushed of to find the Abbess.
OOC~ Please don't leave the Abby till the Abbess and Tey have spoken! You can get as far as the gate, but then the Abbess will call you back.

[DanielofRedwall]

OOC~ of course, that's what I was planning.

[Gonff]

The Abbess spotted Tey looking for her. "Hello Tey, are you looking for something?" she inquired.

[Lady_Gwalia]

"I was looking for you actually, Abbess. I had a strange dream last night. I think it may have something to do with Martin's sword." Tey quickly related what she had seen. "I fell asleep over a book in the library, then I remember standing in front of the tapestry. Martin stepped out and spoke to me! It's quite a riddle, but I think it's sort of instructions for the beasts going questing.

[Gonff]

"I think that might be what it is!" exclaimed Abbess Rose "Martin has been known to instruct us in times of trouble. We must tell the party going to retrieve the sword about it!"

[DanielofRedwall]

"I'll tell them, mother!" Said Joey, enthusiastically, before he bounded off in the direction of the gates where the others were. He was very excited about the dream and the quest.

[Nightfire]

Streamblaze spotted Joey, and she halted.

[Gonff]

"Hello Joey, Trinn said, do you want us for some reason?"

[DanielofRedwall]

"Aye," Joey nodded. "And it's important. You see, Tey had this dream of Martin the Warrior, and it included many warnings and directions for us questers. Why, here's Tey right now, maybe she can tell us about it!"

[Nightfire]

Streamblaze looked at Tey. "Well, young 'un?"

[Lady_Gwalia]

Tey repeated the riddle:
Across the plains, far to the cold lands
A warrior queen waits with book in her hands
She lusts for a blade, with longing to see
But that blade belongs to me

Follow the creature cross arid land
To homes buried deep in the sand.
The sea in the woods to find
The engulfing earth to mind.

Beware the chanting foe,
The castle to bring you woe.
Fight for freedom, "Redwall!" cry,
Before the foe with sword does fly.


"I don't know what all of it means, but I think it's important. What do you think?"

OOC~ The poem interpretation is on the discussion page.

[Nightfire]

Streamblaze scratched her head and thumped her rudder down on the floor. "Don't know about most o' it, mate, but I kin guess at some. Soun's to me that we needs to travel north'ard, and at the same time, we needs to go to some kind o' desert. A right ol' puzz'ler to me!"

[Tiria Wildlough]

'That's funny,' Shellmara said. 'But it sounds like something we need to know.'