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| Action Id: 4097 | Crisis: | Participants: Riagnon, Maeve, Petal, Thrond, Rhea, Kastelon(RIP), Bellamy and Rawen | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: May 18, 2020, 9:43 p.m. | Public: True | GM: Apostate |
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Action by Riagnon
Having been granted authority from the Highlord and his Voices to try and improve upon the Teddy Bear's forest --err, the Bear Forest.. Riagnon will return to the area that he visited with Prince Artur and Marquessa Arcadia(RIP). The three were told that any potential cleansing would take 'immense power,' or 'decades.' Whelp, Riagnon doesn't HAVE immense power. He DOES have time. So, uh.. here's to playing the long game!
Riagnon will introduce himself to local leadership, ingratiate himself where possible, and set into motion a campaign to decrease the unnecessary loss of life -where the forest is concerned- on a long term basis.
"There are just too many large, predatory animals thriving in there," Riagnon will say, "Before we --not you!-- can go in and properly address that, precautions MUST be taken." Unless better alternatives are presented, Riagnon intends to observe the forest, and take action based on if and where large predatory animals come and go from its boundaries. Leaving a few strategic entry points open for continued human use, he'll invest in the construction of naturalistic borders laid out elsewhere along the perimeter to dissuade unassuming innocents from conveniently venturing in, and impeding certain animals from venturing out. (Fallen trees, large boulders, dense thorny-and-thicketing shrubbery, etc.) Buying up breeding stock of big and small game to release into the woods, and yummy-in-your-tummy fish to populate any bodies of water that might be easily accessible from outside the woods, he'll commission the forest be flooded with a wealth of prey as a means of satiating any ..bears.. who might otherwise travel elsewhere for.. a picnic!
Spirits willing, he wants to at least try and achieve this without a significant negative impact on anyone relying upon the forest for their livelihood ...if anyone is actually crazy enough to do that! (Have they considered an alternate career in cautionary sign making? There's a market, now!) And obviously, he'll try to hire locally to set up and sustain the elements of this project.
Sure, this approach is mundane and not magical in nature. Riagnon naively holds out hope that over the course of months or years, these efforts will succeed in undermining some of the malevolence in those woods and assist even the smallest seed of 'sanctuary' to germinate once more.
Action by Maeve
So, there is this plan to release a plethora of animals into the forest. Well, this got Maeve to thinking. If there is an increase of prey animals being released, then there will need to be a plethora of food for them as well! In order to keep the animals fed, Maeve is going to take two approaches. The first approach is to feed them a diet rich in seeds. This way when they run into the forest, their droppings will not only fertilize the forest floor, but also seed the forest as well! Then, there are other sorts of seeds that easily stick to fur! These creatures will be sprinkled with a variety of fur-clinging seeds that will eventually drop and seed throughout the forest. This is all in hopes to not only seeding the forest with nutrient-rich plants, but also to help beautify the forest as well!
Action by Rawen
Princess Rawen is going to help out however she can with aiding in organizing where all the prey should be set to go free.
Action by Petal
Petal is going to join this project and attempt to help. She will be following Lord Riagnon's lead, will report to him any info she finds and follow any orders from him. She will focus on her skills with plants. She is going to attempt to grow thorny, thick and tall growing plants in a circle like barrier or frame around the area. She will transplate from other places to help with such. If anything starts to seem odd or questionable she will consult with Lord Ria. She also is going to take her white flowers that she grows at the lodge, the special ones and she will attempt to transplate them so they growin a ring around the area. she will watch closely for anything going a amiss and keep communicating.
Action by Bellamy
Bellamy is here to provide worms. Why worms? Well, you see. Bears are predators that hunt prey animals. Most prey animals eat vegetation. Vegetation is grown in soil. And worms? Worms make for excellent fertilizers. Well, really, what they leave behind makes excellent fertilizer. So Bellamy will take a clew of her best, most beloved Red Wrigglers.
(She has named each and every one of them. It's somewhat hard to tell them apart when they're all wriggling together but they all do, in fact, have names. Sir Baywormther is the oldest and most dashing of the worms, he managed to somehow get a scar across his, erh, head? Princess Wormrain is the youngest but the fattest. She's spoilt. Then there's Duke Worment who once nosed up to a bumble bee that landed on the compost pile. Lastly there's Inquisitor Wormka who is, well, surly to the say the least.)
So she will take the clew of her red wrigglers and she will take them up to the Bear Forest. There she will, with an escort to keep her from getting eaten, place them in strategic places around the perimeter of the forces. In places where Petal will be planting flowers and thorny plants, Bellamy will provide red wrigglers and their composted, erh, byproducts to help fertilize that soil.
The clew will be split up and released into the wild (good bye Sir Baywormer!, goodbye Prince Wormson! ... So sad) to help with soil quality in the hopes that they will provide clean, purified soil for vegetation to grow out of, to feed prey animals, to feed predators.
You are what you eat, after all!
Action by Kastelon(RIP)
Kastelon does his part to catch live game for the sanctuary, using his Keaton huntsman wood-wiles. He coordinates with Maeve to ensure these live game are stocked with seeds in their guts and their fur before being released.
Action by Thrond
Thrond is going to help with Riagnons efforts acting as a wildnerness expert and guide, he's going to track the animals and highlight paths the animals use, territories of predetors and how best to corral the wild creatures and create a good working buffer between people wandering through and any harmful creatures who might dwell there.
Action by Rhea
Rhea, knowing in her heart of hearts that she is Riagnon's TRUE favorite sister, has promised her brother nothing less than an EXPERT ARTIST contributing PROFESSIONAL, QUALITY signs. Specifically, CAUTIONARY SIGNS. There's a market for that, you know! Very lucrative! She will personally work VERY HARD on the design with the artist. Because really, Riagnon deserves nothing less than the best. The signs will also boast ADDITIONAL SECURITY FEATURES, like sloped roofs to keep the elements from damaging them and thin wire cages to dissuade wildlife from chewing on them without obscuring the message.
A delightful bear painted with a dapper hat will advise passerbys of the estimated danger level at six different times of day, while also reminding them unauthorized campers, hunters, arsonists, etc may be subjected to fines.
Rhea herself will make sure people in the Northlands know how House Redrain appointed the Sword of Aviaron's Peak as steward of the forest and just how VITAL his work is (without mentioning monster bears). She'll tell the shamans that it could be an important site for the spirits in the future! She'll tell the priests about how House Acheron honors Petrichor's teachings! She'll tell the Peerage about future economic benefits! And why, she'll tell the commoners that MAYBE ONE DAY, they could have a teddy bear picnic without being mauled to death (but really that's a long time off, please don't go there right now).
Result
A year of planting and working on this actually does help. The amount of suspicious disappearances has dropped at least by... an anecdotal percent since no one really knows, but most people claim it's safer! The perimeter does help, and draws some loud complaints by random hunters annoyed at the trivial inconvenience who do their level best to convince Riagnon that it would be in everyone's best interest if they are eaten, but ultimately it is for their own good and it does seem to work. Ish? It's kind of hard to tell.