After a lengthy, and unexpected, delay Part 2 is now ready for your viewing pleasure! Don't forget to go to the illustrations thread and submit your own related artwork! Part 2 The Chase
In the mountain top snow the Game softly shivered.
It knew not it's name, and with fear the Game quivered.
It knew not it's purpose for coming up here,
Now don't you feel sorry for this little dear?
Then a very great voice spoke in it's head,
It said "I am ROM, be filled not with dread.
You are a New Game, one just freshly born,
but soon you'll grow up to a game that's well worn.
At the hands of the King, you'll be all you can be!
I promise you this! Just you wait and see!"
Now on the South shore the King stared at his crew.
He gave forth a lecture, while the Maid stirred a stew.
He said "There's a clue hidden round here.
But just where it is, I know not I fear."
So he assigned each a place to look for the clue,
then he dispersed, his quite motley crew,
They searched hi and lo, in shoals and in wells.
They searched the food bin, and the mild ocean swells.
They searched Berry bushes, covered in fruit,
They even took time, to search in the loot.
Under the Statue, and in the old Temple square.
Up in the grave yard, but no clue was in there.
Then Jazzo the wizard, talked to the GC
to see if he knew just where it might be?
The GC knew not, but then had a thought!
Had they searched in the Cave? Jazzo thought not.
So the GC and Jazzo walked to the cave.
Rolled back the boulder, and called forth a knave.
A knavette named Harry, did answer their call,
and brought also Williamani, a knave yet quite small.
At the advice of the GC and with a spell to protect,
they entered the cave, and looked in a sack,
against the far wall, and quite out of sight,
They found there a clue, that filled them with fright!
It said down a waterfall the King now must go,
and take his fair Queen, if they wanted to know,
where to find the new game, that Rom carefully hid,
but it would not be easy...Yet that's what they did!
The King and his Queen then entered the cave,
but first the kind Queen thanked the young knaves.
Then hand in hand they searched for the way they must go,
they walked hand in hand, so the way they could know.
They slipped through some vines, and quickly they fell!
Down a steep waterfall, but they landed quite well.
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Now Gamey the Knight, grew quite concerned.
He said to the Crew, "This cave must be churned ,
from front to back till the King we can find!
I fear for the Queen if we are not in time!"
But Houjun, and Havoria had other plans.
They spoke to the Knight, and took hold of his hands.
"Fear not now Sir Gamey," they both softly said,
"We know where they went and will go there instead."
So they spoke to the Beastmaster, to bring up her steeds,
and transport them to the place, where the King & Queen be.
AR rallied the troops, of this Motley Crew,
and had them all mount, after eating their stew.
The Maiden and Damsel, made sure all was prepared,
then all swiftly mounted, and in a whirl, disappeared,
in a thick veil of dust, from out of the sight,
of the South Village Tribe, as if it were night!
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Over on the West Shore, the King and his bride,
dragged themselves from a pool, and in the sun quickly dried.
They looked all around to see where they be.
The Queen softly spoke, "I think we're in the home of VV
Lost Children, my Love. Now what do you think?"
The King gazed around, and at his Queen gently winked.
"I think you are right, Queen Carla my Dear.
I think on the West Shore, is where we've appeared.
I think that o'er here, we'll find a new clue.
But where do you suppose, is our quite Motley Crew?"
Then they felt the wind stir, and a dust cloud did form,
and from out of it's mist, the Motley Crew formed,
So being the King, Arthur did then, give forth with a lecture,
but did so with a grin.
The crew again searched this place hi and lo,
they searched in the pool, and where the vines grow.
They searched research tables, and in some fine shacks.
They searched in some fields, but avoided most sacks.
They searched Coconut groves, and pools wide and deep,
But of the New Game, there wasn't a peep.
Then a Gong loudly sounded, and the King gave a clasp!
The Queen quickly giggled, but the Motley Crew gasped!
"Behind the Great Gong, a path is well hid!
'Tis there we most go, in the Beastmasters glow!
She'll light up our way through this passage so dark,
and then we'll come out in a great Village park!"
"There'll be in the path no place for the steeds,
so by ship they must go, with the greatest of speeds.
The whole Motley Crew, say for those whom I call,
will go with the beasts, to keep them in their stall."
With the help of the tribe, and especially Dodo,
a ship quickly formed, Captained by young Frodo.
His mate, on this crew was a Red Headed Lad,
though few knew his name, and of this he was glad.
For back in his youth, Young Opie, our friend,
had gone on secret trips, again and again.
So the King then called out, for fair Damsel Xay,
for Gamey the knight, to go on his foray.
Lysaria, transformed to the Beastmaster again,
And the rest went to the ships, where their journey begins.
The Queen went on board, to lead the fair Motley Crew,
And Maid Sammy remembered to bring lots of stew.
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Into the passage, and onto the Sea,
they went on their way, quickly as could be.
For days they did journey, and then found their way,
to a place that was ancient, so the Elders do say.
Up to the North Shore, is where they all went,
for this the King felt is where they were sent.
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Meanwhile in the Snow on the great mountain top,
Rom conversed with the Game, they talked quite nonstop.
He revealed to the Game that the King would soon come,
and help it to learn, what it would soon become.
He then said a spell, to send the new game,
to a place that was safe, till the King and Queen came.
To ferry it home, to a place far away, called California, or so the tribes say.
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In the Great Northern Tribe, where magic is hid,
and factions once torn, are together again,
Where Nature and Magic, exist in sweet harmony,
is where we next go on this lively journey.
to be continued...