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  Ah, a bunch of landlubbers, I can tell by the look of you all. Not to worry, you seem like a sturdy bunch and I can tell already that I'm going to like you.
  
  I've been informed here by these winged little ladies that you're trying to get to a place known as Obernewtyn and require the help of a sailor, such as myself, to help you on the next part of your journey.
  
  [act]laughs heartily[/act] Well, you've certainly come to the right guy, I'm glad to be of service!
  
  However, I do feel I should warn you thought that the journey you're asking to take can be quite perilous and to be honest, I'm not sure if I can ensure the safety of all of you. My main concern is how to navigate the straits just north east of the spot we stand now. Many experienced sailors have lost their ships to those waters and I don't know of many who have made it through.
  
  But hey - you lot seem like a bright bunch - perhaps we can help each other out eh? I've heard that you may be familiar with some maps of some sort that may actually help to navigate through those waters.
  
  Thus, your task for this week is as follows:
  
  On page 819 of 'The Stone Key (Penguin, Viking 2008 first edition) Elspeth is shown maps by Jakoby of the route to 'The Land of the Red Queen'. Explain how you think Elspeth will reach the Red Queen's shores.
  
  What's that - but you say we're travelling to Obernewtyn, how would determining how a girl gets to The Land of the Red Queen help? Well, it's about showing your 'out of the box' thinking! Also, I've heard that where you all come from, the waters and lands have shifted vastly to how I may remember them, so you may be able to provide a different insight.
  
  Not to worry - don't question just answer! We'll make it through yet :D With so many of us working together, I'm sure we'll be able to come up with a solution no worries!
  
  Please post your submissions in the thread below. You have until midnight AEST Saturday 9 October to complete this task.
  
  Hints: With this theory challenge, Elspeth does not necessarily have to travel by boat. She does not also necessarily have to travel alone. Feel free to explore a complete range of possibilities. Remember, it is your 'crew mates' who will decide on the winner of this round so being creative, witty and thoughtful is likely to see you get ahead!
   
• ticy

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  On page 819 of 'The Stone Key (Penguin, Viking 2008 first edition) Elspeth is shown maps by Jakoby of the route to 'The Land of the Red Queen'. Explain how you think Elspeth will reach the Red Queen's shores.
  
  I believe that Elspeth's journey to LotRQ will be made by nothing other than a train. Well you see, she will transverse the Blacklands and the Black Road first, she will reach the INES that caused the Great White, but since she hasn't yet got the key from Dragon she must go to LotRQ first and then come back. But this isn't as hard as it might sound because due to much shifting and re-arranging of the earth during the Great White, LotRQ is actually quite close to the Land by land. It's just not a popular way to use because you die long before you get anywhere.
  
  Not that this is a problem for our favorite Guildmistress because a) INES is going to heal her and b) she's going to catch the train long before the point where you'd normally die. See the different INESes were all connected by an intricate system of trains and such, and luckily for Elspeth this one leads straight to LotRQ. :nod:
  
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• Arwen

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  On page 819 of 'The Stone Key (Penguin, Viking 2008 first edition) Elspeth is shown maps by Jakoby of the route to 'The Land of the Red Queen'. Explain how you think Elspeth will reach the Red Queen's shores.
  
  The maps shown to Elspeth are entirely irrelevant, because she won’t be travelling by land or sea. We all know that she has been called back to Obernewtyn for her quest, which will involve walking on the darkroad. Couple this knowledge of this darkroad with Maruman, and even Rushton’s grandmother’s hatred of the moon and you get the picture. Elspeth will travel via space. She will of course need someone who knows how to fly and where to come back down, but what else is good ol’ Louis Larkin for if not that? He’ll fly her and Maruman (he hates the moon because he’s seen how they’ll travel) to the Red Queen’s land. Hence the journey on the dark road.
  
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  On page 819 of 'The Stone Key (Penguin, Viking 2008 first edition) Elspeth is shown maps by Jakoby of the route to 'The Land of the Red Queen'. Explain how you think Elspeth will reach the Red Queen's shores.
  
  Although it has been said that any journey to the LotRQ is extremely perilous, it is only because to get there you have to navigate through the dreamtrails. As made clear through the series, to even touch the dreamtrails your mind has to be extremely gifted.
  
  The maps Jakoby showed Elspeth only show a rough estimation of where people thought the LotRQ to be physically; what they haven't realised is that to traverse over the blacklands would be fatal, and the seas are a tumultuous maze of confusing currents.
  
  What will become clear is that the dreamtrails can be used to travel physically - which is how Ariel has been managing it. This is how Elspeth will reach the LotRQ. She cannot take anyone else - except Maruman, who has already perfected this mode of transport - but will need the power of several of her friends to manage the travel. Dream travel is very draining, so a person can only be at the other destination for a limited amount of time before their power springs them back to where they were originally. This is the only way she will be able to reach it without causing great harm to herself and others if trying to navigate there physically.
  
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  On page 819 of 'The Stone Key (Penguin, Viking 2008 first edition) Elspeth is shown maps by Jakoby of the route to 'The Land of the Red Queen'. Explain how you think Elspeth will reach the Red Queen's shores.
  
  The maps are shown to Elspeth while on a Sadorian ship; however, at the end of The Stone Key, Elspeth travels back to Obernewtyn. I believe that, once at Obernewtyn, Elspeth will not find herself again on a Sadorian ship until after she has already travelled to tLotRQ. I suspect that Atthis will send both Maruman and Galtha messages telling Elspeth to begin her journey across the Blacklands.
  
  With Galtha, a plast suit, a plast suit modified for Galtha, and plenty of provisions, Elspeth returns to the mountains behind Obernewtyn, heading in the general direction of the Agyllian Eyrie. In The Farseekers, it was on a plateau in these mountains that Elspeth and Galtha saw the breadth and expansion of the Blacklands. After journeying in the plast suits for nearly a week, and running low on provisions, the black earth slowly turns to reddish-brown sand. Confused, Elspeth and Galtha have exited the Blacklands and found themselves in a desert. They journey on, though they are almost out of water. They come to a small settlement of sorts, only to find that it is a last renegade outpost of those who oppose and rebel against the overthrown government and new dictatorship. The rebels who live here help Elspeth and Galtha recover from their unbelievable journey.
  
  When Elspeth finally asks where they are, a rebel answers, "Why, The Land once known, and still known to those who oppose the murderous king, as The Land of the Red Queen."
  
  So, to summarize, Elspeth and Galtha waltz right in because tLotRQ was on the same landmass as The Land, separated only by Blacklands.
  
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  On page 819 of 'The Stone Key (Penguin, Viking 2008 first edition) Elspeth is shown maps by Jakoby of the route to 'The Land of the Red Queen'. Explain how you think Elspeth will reach the Red Queen's shores.
  
  Having been shown the maps to the LotRQ, Elspeth assumes it will be a long and arduous sea voyage that will see her reach these shores.
  In part, she is correct.
  Those bound for the LotRQ will begin their journey on a ship, as intended. Accompanying Elspeth will ge Galtha, Maruman, Dragon, Jakoby, many Sadorians and sailers, and other Misfits, Rebels, etc.
  But, having passed Land's End, the ships will encounter a wild storm, which pushes them into the coasts to the north-east, rather than across the Endless Sea as they had hoped. These coasts will not be the hellish, deathly blacklands feared, but will be land reclaimed from taint through time. A small, temporary settlement will be built, to accomodate the group while repairs made to damage from the storm are undertaken.
  In scouting the surrounding area, one of the party will realise that just over the next hill lies a large land-mass, separated by only a narrow channel of water. Rafts will be built, and after a day's walk, the party will discover that they have reached the LotRQ, coming across the outer-most settlements. They will then journey into the city where Matthew is, and the story will move along from there....
  
  Thus, Elspeth will reach the LotRQ by boat, by walking, by raft. and most likely by riding Galtha for a bit (everyone knows he enjoys sharing the joy of the speed with her at times).
  
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  On page 819 of 'The Stone Key (Penguin, Viking 2008 first edition) Elspeth is shown maps by Jakoby of the route to 'The Land of the Red Queen'. Explain how you think Elspeth will reach the Red Queen's shores.
  
  I bekieve that Elspeth will not have any use for the maps. The maps will be used by those going on the sea voyage to tLotRQ. Elspeth will travel the blacklands in company with Gavyn and the wolves and other animals.
  
  After she does whatever is it she has to do in the city beyond, she will be taken by various Vlar-rei from landfall to landfall until she reaches tLotRQ.
   
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  On page 819 of 'The Stone Key (Penguin, Viking 2008 first edition) Elspeth is shown maps by Jakoby of the route to 'The Land of the Red Queen'. Explain how you think Elspeth will reach the Red Queen's shores.
  
  I believe that Elspeth will first travel by boat to LotRQ, but will become ship recked on tainted ground before she can get there. The Agyllian's shall then come in and rescue her, retrieveing her from the tainted ground in one of their nets, and depossiting her on one of the slavers ships heading to the LotRQ. She shall use this means to travel the rest of the way there, escaping upon reaching the land, and meeting back up with the others who have travelled to the LotRQ
  
  Bam from Dreamies :)