Merry Men

And then it felt, to me at least, a little bit of a cheat to say, but everybody remembered what had happened so that everybody was going to have to then process it.

I'm like, why aren't we getting the processing? Because what if this episode had been like, you mentioned the Q episodes, the Merry Men episode where it's the Robin Hood fantasy.

We don't know how anybody's going to get, we don't know how they're going to get through that.

We don't know how they're going to solve that problem to escape this fantasy.

So plot-wise, effectively what happens is Robin and his, uh, uh, what? They called him Robin, right?

His merry men.

I'm not going crazy.

Yeah.

And it other, it also has a few other like gameplay modes.

I wouldn't say modes, but things that it does to, you know, spice things up a little bit beyond the standard point-and-click adventuring.

So for example, your Merry Men are...

There's, I mean, there's your standard guys who aren't going anywhere, you know, Friar Tuck and Little John and them.

but the king the king is good faltered the boy he had been taught to love and reverence the king the king would be a good king if he would stay at home and govern his people but he is off at war all the time and the nobles and officers he appoints grind the people as a miller grinds the wheat between his great millstones they rob them continually and the rich are growing richer and more greedy and the poor growing poorer and more miserable all the time When I am a man,' said the boy, Robin Hood, "'I will make the rich give up a portion of their wealth to the poor, and then all will be provided for.'" It was not strange, perhaps, considering the evils of the times, that this boy, Robin Hood, when he became a man, did do just what he said, and gathered a band of men about him in the forest, whose pledged purpose was to despoil the rich of ill-gotten wealth and lend a helping hand to the poor.

the normans called them highway robbers but the common people called them the merry men of greenwood and loved them for they were often helped out of trouble by them their robbing was certainly wrong according to our standards but robin hood did not think it was wrong he took from the rich what they had wrung unjustly from the poor to give it back to the poor and he thought that it was right Outlaw though he was, he stood ever for justice and fairness as he saw it.

He was loyal to the king, though he resisted the unjust exactions made in the king's name.

He was loyal to the church, and prayed most reverently for himself and his band.

to cool off, as he said.

Then Robin fought with him, but though they fought together with might and main for hours, neither could overcome the other, and so they ceased to fight and became friends, and Friar Tuck willingly consented to go with him and perform the marriage between Alan Adale and his fair Ellen, no matter what a father it raised.

So now Robin Hood and a score of his merry men set out to the wedding, which was to be held in Emmet Church.

Robin Hood was dressed as a strolling minstrel, and across his shoulders he had slung a harp.

So he stepped aside and cut for himself a staff of oak.

now said he we are equal we'll fight it out and whichever first knocks the other into the water shall be the victor the stranger was seven feet tall and though robin hood was expert in the use of the quarterstaff he found him more than a match after they had thumped each other for a while the stranger at last hit robin a blow which sent him into the brook he waited to the bank while the stranger stood and laughed at him then robin hood sounded his horn and his men came running from all sides when he told them how he had been served they wished to give the stranger a taste of the water too but robin hood was very much pleased with his strength and skill stopped them and asked the stranger if he would not be one of their merry men most willingly cried he and though my name is john little i hope you will find that i can do great things The merriman laughed when they heard the big stranger's name, and one of them said it should be changed from John Little to Little John, which was done, and he was ever after called that way.

Another time, as Robin Hood was walking through the greenwood, he found a fat friar sitting near a brook and thought he would have some sport with him.

So he said, "'Carry me over the brook, fat friar, or I will beat thee till thou art sore.' The friar, without a word, tucked up his gown and carried him over.

THE FRIAR AGAIN TOOK HIM ON HIS BACK, BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREAM HE THREW HIM IN THE WATER, SAYING, NOW, MY PRETTY YOUTH, LET US SEE IF THOU CANST SWIM.

THEN HE WENT LAUGHING ON HIS WAY, BUT ROBIN WAS ANGRY.

and ran after him and attacked him with his staff the friar defended himself and they fought for a long time without either getting the best of it finally when both were tired out robin hood told the friar who he was and asked him if he would not like to join his band and be their chaplain the friar was a jolly fellow and was quite willing to take robin's offer so he became one of the merry men and said the prayers for the band when it was necessary he could fight as well as the best of them and he got to be almost as famous as robin hood himself being known as friar tuck robin before he became an outlaw had been in love with a young maiden named marian but he had not seen her since her love for him did not die out however and finally her longing to see him became so great that she put on boy's clothes and went to seek him in the forest She met him at last, but he did not know her in her strange dress, and she would not at first tell him who she was, but drew her sword and dared him to fight.

He, of course, soon overcame her, so she took off her cap and let her beautiful hair fall over her shoulders, and then Robin Hood knew her.