Florenz Nightingale and the Sword of Layban

The opening scene presents Johnny Appleseed on his visit to preach Christ to the Tuscoraura elves. His gifts of appleseeds, blackflame, and the Bible stir up quite a commotion.

In the epilogue, we see how God is able to bring about a greater good from even the greatest of evils. The heroes prepare themselves to face the future armed with an unprecedented solidarity with and love for all the different races and peoples of Vinland.

Although the mystery antagonist has been defeated, Shentalpee City is about to collapse. A very unlikely hero steps forward to save the day with an extreme sports solution.

Armed with the right theology, the heroes fight back against the evils that assail them and bring about a great victory, but not without a great sacrifice.

This is where our heroes get all confused and are at a loss what to do before such powerful evil. Of all the peoples of middle earth, it is a legalistic dwarf who brings peace to their troubled minds.

The real villain behind the scenes steps out of the shadows, confident that evil will win in the end.

Enganyon's web of lies unravels and leads to the destruction of Shentalpee City.

The greatest courage is facing the truth.

Not with derring do nor with swift swords but with love are great evils conquered overwhelmingly.

Just as all seems lost, Johnny Appleseed comes up with a plan.

Just at her moment of triumph, Florenz receives orders from the Heresiarch that will ruin everything.

The last surviving High Inquisitor orders the Crusaders to burn Shentalpee City to ashes.

"You know this is fake, right?" Faking their way through the holy war, Benjamin Frankelyn and Florenz save the day.

Florenz engineers a solution to rid the world of Crusaders once and for all.

History repeats itself and so does epic literature. Amhirst finds himself sulking like Achilles and Benjamin Frankelyn aspires to be his Odysseus.

The Inquisition brings the Crusaders to Tuscoraura Mountain to fight heresy. They fight themselves struggling with entirely different demons than the ones they expected.

Dungaree Jeanne has run out of options. Some very unusual allies come to her aid, whether she wants them to or not.

Democracy allows the voice of the people to keep the powerful in check, but sometimes democracy has a mind of its own.

This is what it looks like when cleaning up a situation makes a bigger mess than anyone could have imagined.

Florenz has had a crash course in growing up and she's about to crash just about everything else.

A new age dawns on Tuscoraura Mountain. Nobody is sure if that's a good thing.

Benjamin Frankelyn's brilliant plan runs into a hitch. Sacagawea steps in to solve their problem, but at a price they're not so sure they can afford.

Armed with the Sword of Layban at last, Goldilocks stumbles deeper into darkness than its black flame.

In this overly dramatic finale for Act 3, Lynx and Zena reach their wildest dreams but find them shrouded in intrigue and betrayal.

Goldilocks needs to aquire seven habits if she's going to be successful in her quest for the Sword of Layban.

It's Christmans in April for the Tuscoraura elves, but Florenz gets handed a surprise that rocks her world.

Benjamin Frankelyn's team pulls of the heist of the century - sort of...

Florenz decides its time to level with the people of Shentalpee City, but finds out the Inquisition has slanted the playing field against her.

Benjamin Frankelyn devises a plan to recover the Sword of Layban before Goldilocks can get her hands on it, but his crew aren't the types to stick to a plan.

Florenz knows more than she lets on but keeps quiet for now. Her father's plans for her unroll but take a surprisingly scary turn.

If miracles grew on trees...boom! The whole cast of characters collide in one tremendous finale to Act 2.

Brother Umbert can't bring himself to go along with the goblins' pagan sacrifice ritual so the goblins decide he must die. Only a miracle can save him now!

Hare Gipper, as the elves call Mister Lynx, visits with Johnny Appleseed, who takes a shine to him and tries to give him sound advice. When that fails, he helps Lynx find what his heart desires most - deep trouble.

The baron of Amhirst reconciles with the people of Ithica - and gains a valuable new ally.

The Inquisitor saves the rangers' lives through a very bizarre round of negotiations.

Zena is sent to invite the only Aenglish speaking wood elf on Tuscoraura Mountain to visit with Johnny Appleseed, but this young elf is busy planning her heartbreak.

The Inquisitor is hot on the trail of Johnny Appleseed but the trail gets too hot for tender feet.

Back on Tuscoraura Mountain, Johnny Appleseed experiences the magic - and the intrigue - of high elf society.

The baron of Amhirst finds himself in desperate straits, but he brokers a deal to save his neck that might also alter the fate of Vinland.

With the increasing number of wendigoes lurking the forests around Tuscoraura Mountain, the goblin tribes have turned to human sacrifice rituals to obtain protection from their god, Poodoo. Florenz feels compelled to rescue the captives.

The baron of Amhirst's army lands in the Port of Ithica but receives a frigid welcome.

Johnny Appleseed delivers his sermon, winning some friends and making some enemies.

In this scene we meet the baron of Amhirst, after his recent conquest of Montroyal, and get a glimpse of his ambitions for Vinland.

Once upon a time, the fire elves of Tuscoraura Mountain invited the famous Christian druid Johnny Appleseed to deliver the opening speech for their extravagant New Year's Eve party to welcome in the year 1284. On a mission to end the hunger and bloodshed plaguing Vinland, Appleseed freely offers the elves the good spell of the Lord Jesus, the apple seed, and the secret to blackflame. But something is rotten in Vinland! Fearing the blackflame's potential as a weapon of mass destruction, the Inquisition launches a manhunt to haul in this ragamuffin preacher before his gifts fall into the wrong hands. With undead wendigos plaguing the forests around Tuscoraura Mountain, Gog, the war chief of the Magog goblins turns to human sacrifices in hopes that the goblin gods will protect them from the rampaging wendigos. Johnny Appleseed begins to suspect that the fire elves' umpire-in-chief, Kibbler Earnestson, might have dirty hands in all this. But Kibbler's daughter, Florenz, has a plan to make it right with the songs of nightingales until her father demands that she find for him the blackflaming Sword of Layban. Her heart is heavy and unsure whether or not she can trust her rich, charming, and cowardly boyfriend, Enganyon, with her secret as she sets out on epic adventures in this humorous alternate history of how medieval Vinland came to be modern Amerika.