Sherry the Mouse & Queen Dawn's Address

[Martyna Z'muir]

Note: This log has been scrubbed of idle chatter, spell casting and oddities.

[Sherry the Mouse]: *waves her tail*
[Sherry the Mouse]: Hello. Good to see you all here. How are you all doing?
[Sherry the Mouse]: Pretty good.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Writing another book.
[Sillhouette]: how do u write?
[Sillhouette]: you don't have hands
[Sherry the Mouse]: I have paws.
[Sillhouette]: ah
[Sherry the Mouse]: Very useful things.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Dip them right in the ink.
[Agilaz]: gross mouse feet
[Sherry the Mouse]: I will have you know that I always wash my feet.
[Sherry the Mouse]: They are very lovely for a mouse.
[Sherry the Mouse]: *holds up foot*
[Sherry the Mouse]: See.
[Sherry the Mouse]: The Queen is still meeting with various advisors, so I told her I would come and talk to you.
[Sherry the Mouse]: We're opening the Vault of Lord British tonight.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Isn't it exciting?
[Sherry the Mouse]: The rumor is that it contains a crystal that can fix Magincia.
[Martyna Z'muir]: Nothing bad could possibly come of that..
[Silverbrook]: *shakes her head*
[Sherry the Mouse]: Magincia is very broken.
[Sherry the Mouse]: When people try to rebuild...stuff crumbles down.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Some say it is a curse.
[Sherry the Mouse]: *nods sadly*
[Sherry the Mouse]: Very sad.
[Sherry the Mouse]: So many people are still without their homes, living in other cities.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Still, I will say I am a little pleased about the Vault.
[Sherry the Mouse]: I found it when I was exploring. It was an adventure!
[Sherry the Mouse]: *pretends she is digging through stone*
[Sherry the Mouse]: I wish there had been some bandits and maybe a love interest in my adventure.
[Sherry the Mouse]: But sadly, it was a very short adventure.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Of course, I wouldn't have found the Vault, but for a story.
[Galen]: Heh.....Fighting Casca and freeing Avery wasn't enough to sate you?
[Sherry the Mouse]: *laughs*
[Sherry the Mouse]: I was mostly the right mouse in the right spot for the Casca thing.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Bigger people did all the work there.
[Sherry the Mouse]: I mostly just passed on a few tales and such.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Though...
[Sherry the Mouse]: Stories are wonderful things, especially for small mice who can't travel that far.
[Sherry the Mouse]: And very powerful.
[Galen]: Ah well.....History I feel will show a greater role for you than that but that's for later.
[Sherry the Mouse]: I don't know the story of that shield.
[Sherry the Mouse]: It is sort of stuck there in the corner.
[Sherry the Mouse]: I think it is cursed to forever tempt people.
[DaKaren]: It was Anon's shield.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Oh...where was I? My story about the Vault...
[Sherry the Mouse]: I heard the story from Brave Avery.
[Sherry the Mouse]: He was the soldier framed for Casca's first murders
[Sherry the Mouse]: Avery heard the story from Ricardo and told it to me.
[Sherry the Mouse]: So after my adventure in the wall that was too short and finding something magical.
[Sherry the Mouse]: I just had to tell everyone else.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Queen Dawn and Avery and Dexter.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Then there was a lot of debating and deciding and imagining.
[Sherry the Mouse]: What do you think the decision was?
[Sherry the Mouse]: Of course, it was decided we should open the Vault.
[Galen]: I'm guessing to open the vault.
[Galen]: Since that's what we're doing.
[Sherry the Mouse]: So Queen Dawn asked a lot of people to go search for a way in.
[Sherry the Mouse]: *points her nose at the crowd*
[Sherry the Mouse]: And you all did excellent work!
[Sherry the Mouse]: She is very proud of you. We all are.
[Sherry the Mouse]: *stands on her hind legs and claps*
[Sherry the Mouse]: So what am I leaving out? Oh yes!
[Sherry the Mouse]: There was a spell - "An Sanct Grav Vas Ylem Nes Uus"
[Sherry the Mouse]: *pretends she is a mage waving her feet around a lot*
[Sherry the Mouse]: Which is confusingly complex. Dexter spent some time trying to figure that one out.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Unfortunately, the secret magic stuff requires one of three lost treasures.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Lord British's crown or mantle or scepter.
[Sherry the Mouse]: Which of course he brought with him when he whooshed away!
[Sherry the Mouse]: *waves her paws about*
[Rani]: sherry my death adder is hungry
[Sherry the Mouse]: *frowns at the snake*
[Sherry the Mouse]: *Guard moves in front of Sherry*
[Sherry the Mouse]: So that option wasn't going to work.
[Sherry the Mouse]: But the Queen is very clever.
[Sherry the Mouse]: She said "If a key won't work, you kick down the door!"
[Sherry the Mouse]: So that's what we're doing tonight...We're going to break into the Vault!
[Sherry the Mouse]: And recover the crystal!
[Sherry the Mouse]: Isn't that wonderful?
[Galen]: Umm.....
[Sherry the Mouse]: Well she's going to give a speech and stuff. I'm off to get a snack.
[DaKaren]: *sighs*
[Ra'Dian Fl'Gith]: Is breakin' int' a magically protected vault th' wisest o' decisions we could make?
[Galen]: Marty you know that bad feeling I have every week at the spy missions?
[Martyna Z'muir]: As I said, what could possibly go wrong?
[Silverbrook]: Most things are hidden with reason.
[Galen]: *shrugs*

Sherry the Mouse departs and soon after Queen Dawn addresses her people.

[Galen]: *drop sto one knee a moment, then rises*
[Galen]: Greetings, My Queen.
[Dawn]: Welcome, Citizens of Britannia, on this warm summer evening!
[Dawn]: Thank you all for coming.
[Dawn]: Lord British did not believe in the typical vestments of power.
[Dawn]: He knew that Britannia's authority and Virtue come from its people.
[Dawn]: The Cloak that protects Britannia is the Courage of its people.
[Dawn]: The Crown that ennobles Britannia is the Love of its people.
[Dawn]: The Scepter that guides Britannia is the Truth of its people.
[Dawn]: Together we will open the Vault and eventually restore Magincia!
[Dawn]: We will tear down this wall.
[Dawn]: *calls for the Royal Mining Expert*

The Royal Mining Expert arrives.

[The Royal Mining Expert]: Hail, your majesty!
[Dawn]: Hello.
[Dawn]: I'm sure you were informed of the task at hand.
[The Royal Mining Expert]: I shall set about it at once, ma'am!
[Dawn]: Thank you
[Dawn]: *yells down the tunnel*
[The Royal Mining Expert]: *digs*
[Dawn]: What do you see?
[The Royal Mining Expert]: 'tis all blackness thus far, milady
[Dawn]: Is there a problem?

<The mining expert says something, but is too far away to hear.>

[Dawn]: Very good. Please don't drop it.
[The Royal Mining Expert]: *brushes the dirt off the crystal*
[The Royal Mining Expert]: *bows*
[The Royal Mining Expert]: I have the honor of presenting you with this crystal, your majesty.
[The Royal Mining Expert]: *hands crystal to queen*
[Dawn]: *holds the crystal up*
[The Royal Mining Expert]: *starts the long walk home, to have a bath*
[Dawn]: I will have a display case built soon so you can all take a closer look.
[Silverbrook]: Uhm.
[Dawn]: Thank you all for coming! Please enjoy the Summer Festival!
[Dawn]: Perhaps for fun you should go to the Colored Canvas in Vesper
[Dawn]: And talk to the one who is out of place.
[Dawn]: It should brighten your Festival
[Dawn]: May the Virtues guide you!

Queen Dawn leaves the Throne Room, while many people remain concerned by the seemingly banal outcome.

[Galen]: *bows*
[Silverbrook]: I am from Magincia... and I cannot condone this. At all.
[Ra'Dian Fl'Gith]: What a curious eve.
[Martyna Z'muir]: Well that was.. anticlimactic.
[Galen]: Lucky us!
[neptune]: *shakes head*
[Silverbrook]: I am unsure if setting out such an item will be a wise decision.
[Galen]: Frankly I expected 40 paragon Harrowers to come crawling out of the vault.
[neptune]: *nods*
[DaKaren]: You'd rather be in little pieces?
[Ra'Dian Fl'Gith]: Well, let us pray she keeps it magically protected... else, aye, puttin' it out on display
[Galen]: *nods*
[Ra'Dian Fl'Gith]: after it bein' well guarded dinnae seem like a good idea.
[neptune]: Seems odd that it was that simple
[Martyna Z'muir]: *shrugs*
[Silverbrook]: Again, Pride will lead Magincia into possibly further chaos.
[Martyna Z'muir]: Nothing good will come of this..
[DaKaren]: Bite your tongue.
[neptune]: *nods*
[Galen]: Well....I was wrong about the 40 Paragon Harrowers...
[Galen]: Hopefully you're wrong about that.
[Galen]: I adore the Queen but sometimes, beteween us....
[Galen]: It shows how young she is.
[Martyna Z'muir]: Too young for you?
[Martyna Z'muir]: *winks*
[Galen]: *chuckles softly*
[Galen]: I'm taken twice over, librarian.
[Galen]: Sorry.
[Galen]: *winks back*
[Ra'Dian Fl'Gith]: Well, I s'pose I should get t' th' grove an' get set...
[Ra'Dian Fl'Gith]: *smiles at Silverbrook*
[Silverbrook]: Be well, Justicar.
[Ra'Dian Fl'Gith]: M'lady.
[Galen]: *leaning on the column*
[Galen]: Much better than the alternatives I can think of..
[neptune]: *nods*
[neptune]: true
[DaKaren]: Tiny pieces?
[Galen]: And besides, the Royal Spies can clean up any mess, eh?
[Galen]: *winks to all three*
[DaKaren]: Spies? What spies?
[Galen]: I mis spopke of course.
[DaKaren]: *nods*
[Galen]: I meant to say the completely non-clandestine volunteer staff o the Ministry of Security.
[DaKaren]: Ah.
[Martyna Z'muir]: *giggles*
[DaKaren]: Well, I must be off.. I believe I have a dinner waiting for me.. Good'eve all.
[Galen]: *nods*
[Galen]: Farewell, Chancellor.
[Martyna Z'muir]: *waves*