"A New Journey" (based on Watership Down)

Myrkin · **Reply #200 on:** November 20, 2010, 10:23:30 AM

"Your plan is bold, Mayberry, but not very practical I'm afraid," Arvens said diplomatically to white doe "If this weasel sees us going to attack it, it will probably run away a bit, but can return later to follow us. If it will fight us, we may kill it, but at the same time we would become injured and the blood will attract other elils. I have to agree with Cinankhen on this: avoiding fight is a better solution."

"I think we should go away," Neltita spoke. She seemed to gaze into nothing, as if her vision was blurred "Go to the east, towards the rising sun, towards the dangers and towards the promised land," she said slowly, almost monotonously. After a second her eyes looked normally around. Arvens raised his head to pinpoint the position of sun at the sky and then looked back at other rabbits.

"It seems we have our heading,' he stated. East was opposite to place weasel's hiding in, so it was a good direction "Maybe when weasel sees us all in the open, it will look for mpre easy prey. If not, we can march and run faster than it, so we will leave it behind eventually."

Campion1 · **Reply #201 on:** November 26, 2010, 04:00:21 AM

"Promised land?" Rankin thought "What would that mean...?"

Rankin pointed towards their east than started to hop in that direction

"Alright then, let's go!" Rankin said encouragingly

Malte279 · **Reply #202 on:** November 27, 2010, 07:02:22 PM

Cinankhen cast a look after Rankin but didn't set in motion himself while nobody else did. Instead he approached Neltita and asked very quietly: "He called you a seer. Is that what just happened? Did you actually see something? Do you know what I mean?"

Myrkin · **Reply #203 on:** November 30, 2010, 08:27:41 AM

Neltita looked at Cinankhen and nodded "I suppose you could say that I am. I saw a way we should go to reach a place where we can live safely or at least I saw part of it. Most of it was... not clear."

"Alright, we are moving out," Arvens said "Rankin and Thyme, you take point. Me and Mayberry will guard the rear, in case this weasel decides to follow us. Just remember, you all: stay close to each other and be vigilant."

Thyme left the ditch and joined Rankin.

Malte279 · **Reply #204 on:** November 30, 2010, 11:22:16 AM

Cinankhen cast a rather unhappy look at the edge of the ditch muttering something to himself that nobody else could understand before ascending the bank of the ditch. "Could you tell the direction the weasel scent was coming from?" he asked Arvens. "We should rather be on the side of the ditch on which that weasel is not."
He rose his head slightly trying to make out if there was any breeze which would indicate from which direction a scent would have been carried, but there wasn't even a slight movement of the air around.

Campion1 · **Reply #205 on:** December 02, 2010, 09:35:08 PM

Rankin was already ahead of them as he jumped over the ditch, and scented ahead. He kept his ears down

I don't smell anything he thought. He continued, knowing Thyme would be close in a matter of moments

Myrkin · **Reply #206 on:** December 17, 2010, 07:27:20 PM

"I smelled that weasel's scent coming from over there," Arvens pointed to bushes in opposite direction to one they were going towards "Now, lets go."

Neltita got out of the ditch and followed Rankin and Thyme.

Malte279 · **Reply #207 on:** December 17, 2010, 07:35:06 PM

Cinankhen kept up with the group staying close to Neltita but always maintaining some distance between himself and every other member of the group. While running his eyes seemed to be in nearly constant motion scanning the surroundings in every direction his eyes could capture without him having to turn his head.

Campion1 · **Reply #208 on:** December 30, 2010, 01:28:07 PM

Rankin continued his lead and looked behind to Thyme to speak

"I don't think we have much of a destination.." He said, huffing softly as he they traveled cautiously

ooc: sorry for the delay. Holiday rush

Malte279 · **Reply #209 on:** December 31, 2010, 01:26:12 PM

Cinankhen who walked close enough beside Thyme to have heard the remark made an odd motion that looked like he was shrugging while not changing his pace. "What is it that you expect from your destination? Knowing about the what will help to decide about the where unless..." he put on a musing face "...different rabbits come up with different expectations for their destinations."

Myrkin · **Reply #210 on:** January 28, 2011, 09:36:06 AM

Whitetail watched intently as the rabbits left the ditch and started hopping towards rising sun. There were quite a few of them, which meant more prey for him to eat, but it also meant that he will have a hard time trying to stalk them without them noticing. It will be difficult, but not impossible. Weasel followed rabbits, using trees and bushes as cover.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #211 on:** January 28, 2011, 12:19:07 PM

Mayberry kept her place in the group, and she could just feel that their group was indeed being followed, but as much as he wanted to turn around and face this threat head on, she knew that getting to safety was higher on the others agenda so she simply kept pace with the others and kept quiet.

Campion1 · **Reply #212 on:** January 28, 2011, 08:14:50 PM

Rankin slowed down his pacing, making sure to stay with the group, Listening to Cinankhen

"Well in that case, we'll have to dig our own warren or something..."

Malte279 · **Reply #213 on:** January 28, 2011, 08:22:54 PM

"In which case?" asked Cinankhen without slowing down.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #214 on:** January 30, 2011, 10:29:54 PM

Mayberry sighed aloud as she replied, "In which case means, we'll have to get our paws dirty! That's what. Now can we please keep focused so I don't have to protect all of us."

Malte279 · **Reply #215 on:** February 01, 2011, 09:54:40 AM

In a rather un-rabitlike expression Cinankhen raised one eyebrow turned his head to Mayberry who was running a few paces behind. "Focu..."
But whatever he had meant to say he never finished. One of his forelegs suddenly sunk into the soft soil having broken through the ceiling of some kind of underground hollowing.
With a little yelp and an all but comical looking leap Cinankhen avoided breaking into the newly created hollow. But he flipped over completely and came to rest a few steps on all covered with wet soil.

Myrkin · **Reply #216 on:** February 01, 2011, 06:22:22 PM

Thyme turned back quickly to see what caused all this commotion he had heard just a moment before. He saw Cinankhen, lying on the ground, with his fur full of wet soil. Thyme tried not to show any signs of amusement, but it was very difficult not to smile at that sight and he eventually failed at keeping straight face:

"Well... What happened there, Cinankhen? Did you suddenly decide to become a rabbit-of-the-earth-and-dirt?" grey buck asked in jocking manner.

Malte279 · **Reply #217 on:** February 08, 2011, 06:47:25 PM

Little seemed Cinankhen to care about his dignity. He made some random waving gesture that could mean just about anything but otherwise didn't respond.
"The ground..." he muttered half to himself half to the others while turning his head to the spot where his leg had sunken in, "...it is not solid."

Myrkin · **Reply #218 on:** February 08, 2011, 07:51:23 PM

Neltita glanced at that spot then around. She had a feeling that the ground was not solid in more places about them than just one.

"We should be more careful. I anyone of stesp into another hollow like that, then he may drown in it," Neltita said. Thyme groaned in frustration.

"That's just wonderful!" he said "It's barely a morning and we already may be killed by that weasel Arvens smelled earlier or by drowning in the swamp. Do you get the feeling that Black Rabbit of Inle is following us?"

Malte279 · **Reply #219 on:** February 08, 2011, 08:43:14 PM

Cinankhen shook his head. "That is not a swamp. I think I may have broken somebody's ceiling."