WHAT IT IS

What if one day, while walking through the woods, a few beasts from say BRockhall are walking through the woods when they hear noises. They head towards them, and see hundreds of beasts in purple clothing constructing an immense wooden fortress int he middle of mossflower. They would rush back to Brockhall and tell the leader (Lord Boar or whoever else could volunteer) of the community. THe lord decides to wait. A week later Redwall, Camp WIllow, Brockhall, and the Guosim receive a messenger in the same purple guard flanked by 10 guards, proclaiming the following: 'All the LAnd of MOssflower Territory is henceforth property of his majesty the Purple Emperor of the Wood. You are required to pay tribute to him or face his wrath.' SOme will accept, some will not. It is key to the plot that redwall doesn't accept. THey leave, and return the next day to the groups that refuse with a hundred purple warriors, and 50 purple archers. The purple armies defeat the groups, andmake them slaves. Important members of all the groups then meet near the Bandit's Mug Tavern and debate what to do. Thye decide to sleep on it, and a beast (pre-selected by otter) receives a dream from MArtin the Warrior, where MArtin tells him to journey to the aboandoned and (possibly haunted) Castle MArl with a trustworthy companion to find his sword. When everyone wakes up, he tells the leaders, picks his friend (a few will ICly volunteer, but one who isn't sure will be picked) and goes to recover MArtin's Sword. He meets many dangers, and back in Mossflower the situation deeply worsens, and a few (that volunteer, of course) will die. Then, one day, after facing a ghost that isn't a real ghost, the last MArlfox, and the great inland lake, this person returns with MArtin the Warrior's sword. He leads the combined forces of good into battle, and they beat back the oppressing armies. They then make a plan, storm the emperor's fortress, and win. But the emperor's body isn't found, so the forces of mossflower must be on constant guard. Then the guy who finds the sword becomes the Champion of Redwall (you can see why Otter would have to pick this if we want to prevent corruption), and then whoever otter is planning to make into the Abbot or Abbess of Redwall would become such if the order part of the purpose is fulfilled.

THE PURPOSE
The purpose of this is to promote roleplay in the MOssflower region, which, aside from Redwall, is obviously dying. I hope to bring back several group, promote new ones, and bring users to the muck with this. The order part of the purpose is to promote activity among the order and hopefully get some more Brothers and Sisters, enough for a new Abbot or Abbess to be named.

WHEN
This would have to happen over an entire summer when the majority of the muck can all be online most every day, not just weekends. This way we can ensure the kind of activity we need for it to work. Hopefully it will happen during summe rof '06, but it could be moved to '07.

WHO
HEre's a list of what we would need to make this happen:

BAD SIDE

SOmeone to paly Altahn, the Purple Emperor
People to play the 4 messengers
People to play the 8 Captains
People to play at least 40 zombie soldiers (The rest can be NPCs)
Someone to play the lst MArlfox
Someone to play the Purple Princeling

GOOD SIDE
Someone o play the LEader of BRockhall
PEople to play the residents of Brockhall
People to play the beasts from brockhall who first find the fortress
People to play the GUOSIM members
People to play miscellaneous Abbeybeasts and Camp Willowers
Someone to play the soon-to-be Champion (You will be told by otter if you are to make this character)
SOmeone to play the Champion's friend (See above in parentheses)
People to play the other residents of MOssflower