Queen Mary's Peak

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Queen Mary and Her Pikers: An Historical Timeline

 

14^th December 1712: Mary is born in Bath, England, to her parents Thomas and Jane Finnegan.

 

May 17^th 1716: 3-year-old Mary, her scientist Father and pregnant Mother set out on an exploration expedition to Tristan da Cunha, aiming to introduce the Western, modern forms of farming and agriculture to the natives of Tristan da Cunha.

 

July 12^th 1716: After nearly two months at sea, Mary’s Mother gives birth to a baby boy, whom they name William. He would become one of Mary’s most vocal supporters.

 

July 21^st 1716: They dock in a port on the North side of the island, on the border between Willocia and Wisteria.

 

July 30^th 1716: After meeting with the ‘locals’ and attempting to persuade them of their ways, the expedition makes plans to learn the language more.

 

September 10^th 1716: The expedition gives up hope on colonising Tristan da Cunha for Britain due to the fact that the states are all in a warring period between each other, and have been in war for two or three centuries, and instead makes plans to give up and turn home. However, Mary’s Father and Mother are elected to stay behind in order to continue the work.

 

November 1^st 1716: The expedition departs Tristan da Cunha for Britain, leaving the Finnegan’s behind.

 

November 2^nd 1716: The Finnegan’s set up home on the peak of no-man’s land between the 4 states, an unnamed mountain of no significance yet.

 

December 14^th 1716: By her birthday, the Finnegan’s have begun to pick up bits and pieces of Cunhan, but make sure to teach their children the proper ways of the English

 

December 19^th 1716: Unbeknownst to the Finnegan’s, the ship holding the rest of the members of the expedition is hit by a storm off the coast of Africa, and shipwrecked, none survived. It was assumed by the British government that the Finnegan’s were among the missing dead. Therefore, no plans were made to rescue them off TdC.

 

December 25^th 1716: The Finnegan’s spread the Christian faith through Patriae in hopes of convincing them to convert to it, and celebrate Christmas.

 

January 12^th 1717: William is beginning to speak solely Cunhan, and his first word is ‘Mary’.

 

January 30^th 1717: Mary begins to play with the ‘natives’ of Willocia, a thing that her parents are disgusted about, but are happy to know that they could be one step closer to ‘modernising’ and uniting the Cunhanians.

 

July 26^th 1720: Mary has started greczia (Cunhan school) and the family are fluent in Cunhan. They are beginning to wonder if anyone will ever come and get them.

 

1721: Mary begins teaching a select few of her closest Willocian friends the way of the British.

 

1^st January 1725: At the tender age of 12, Mary and 8-year-old William experience the death of their Father, Thomas from unknown causes. They bury him next to their house. Mary becomes the sole breadwinner of the family, while William continues with greczia in Willocia. Their Mother begins showing symptoms of depression.

 

13^th February 1725: Their Mother is so stricken with grief and depressed that she commits suicide, drowning herself in the heart-shaped lake atop the anonymous peak they called their home. William comes home from greczia to find her gone, but Mary is the one who finds her in the lake.

 

14^th February 1725: William and Mary set fire to their Mother, and sprinkle her ashes under their house, next to their Father’s headstone.

 

15^th February 1725: Feeling hostile towards the uncivilised ways of the Cunhans, Mary and William make a plan to continue the work of the expeditioners, in memory of their beloved parents.

 

March 1725: Mary and William return to greczia, and begin rallying support. However, the friends who decide to follow them don’t know about the plan Mary has made yet.

 

April 1725: Manipulating the loyalty of Cunhanians (specifically the Willocians), the two Finnegan children make a pact with their separate friend groups, making them promise to do what they say no matter what, and citing the tradition of a Cunhan vow.

 

May 1725 - December 1728: Mary and William slowly leak out some of their information, bit by bit, and overpower their friend groups into thinking and believing that what they were doing was right, no matter how they would achieve it.

 

January 1729: As the new year dawned upon them, Mary and William convinced their friends to come with them as they moved around from village to village in Willocia, holding secret meetings so as to fly under the radar of the Willocian rulers.

 

January 1730: As Mary prepared for her 18^th Birthday, her and William climbed into No-man’s territory with her ‘Piker’s’ (the name given to supporters of Mary) and attacked through the vulnerable area there into Wisteria. There, they continued their work of convincing the Willocians they had previously picked up, but made no effort to enlist any Wisterians to their cause, the reasons for this were not explained to the Pikers, but kept to Mary and William.

 

February 1730: Mary and William, in the remote areas of Wisteria, pitched their plan to the Pikers. By now, there was no going back for them, for they had made a vow. Whether any wanted to object to the plan was unknown, but historians believe those that did were either so brainwashed that Mary and William had no trouble pitching it to them, or so afraid of the sibling’s wrath they dared not speak out. But to most this probably would have sounded exciting and adventurous. Something they would be remembered for. The plan laid out was this: To conquer each and every state slowly, capturing all the people and besieging them within their respective castles. They would then go in and slay half of them, the stronger ones so that a war would not be started again. Then, a quarter of people would be distributed within their own state, and the other ¾ evenly throughout the other three states. The idea was unity, and from there Mary, William and their Pikers would govern from no-man’s land, enforcing British custom and tradition.

 

March-April 1730: The plan began to swing into effect. The Pikers would mount silent attacks upon small Wisterian villages that were near No-man’s land in the middle of the night. Because these villages were each so remote, news of the attacking and enslaving of these Wisterians didn’t travel very far. By the time they reached the capital, the army was so huge (Wisterians had been forced to participate on fear of death) that they took it with ease. They barricaded all the Wisterians into a castle, and slew all the young men and women, leaving the children, middle-aged and elderly. They forgot about the royal family, who were hiding in the basement Wisteria had been seized by the Pikers, and some of them were left behind to guard the castle, though the doors and gates had been sealed with iron. These Pikers didn’t seem to think they were missing out either, for every Willocian, Wisterian, Patriaen and Callumbiasen had been taught to despise every other state and its respective people, and the Pikers would gladly have grabbed at the chance to be the ones on top.

 

May 1730: The remaining Pikers retired for a month to regroup and train in no-man’s land.

 

June-July 1730: Mary and William led the Pikers down through the hills and into Patriae, where, as it was in Wisteria, surprise ensured their victory. Finally, they arrived in Lambing Flat, and barricaded the Patriaens into Plekoff castle, where again the young women and men were all slaughtered. Like in Wisteria, the royals were forgotten about, cowering in the basement. However, unbeknownst to the Pikers, a few of those young men and women escaped, and fled to Callumbias, where they gave notice of the horrors that had happened in Patriae. Since the states were all at war, the Callumbiasen ruler of that period believed they were setting a trap, and had 9 of the 12 men and 5 of the 12 women imprisoned on account of war crimes. He then had the remaining 5 men and 8 women work on infrastructure projects near the border with Willocia.

 

August-November 1730: The Pikers were put through intensive training back in no-man’s land. While they were busy doing so, the Callumbiasen King sent several spies to see whether the claims of the Patriaens were true, since there hadn’t been any rifts from that direction for a couple of weeks. When the spies came back, they confirmed that the Patriaens had been telling the truth. Consequently, the King of Callumbias (methetha (pronounced met-hetha) turkid) sent an army to free the Patriaens. After successfully freeing them, and killing the Pikers guarding them, they sent spies to Willocia and Wisteria, to see if the Pikers had invaded there yet. They found that the Wisterians were trapped and without food, whereas the Willocians were alive and well. So the Patriae-Callumbias army marched into Wisteria, killing the Piker guards there and freeing the Wisterians. Without any idea of where the Pikers and their Queen were, Patriae and Wisteria went into a week of mourning (see article on National, Stational and Personal mourning practices), while Callumbiasens paid their respects from across the borders. Among all the confusion of the late events, the royals of the three states had forgotten to notify Willocia of the dangers and existence of the Pikers, and the Pikers knew it, for they too had a complex network of spies.

 

December 1730-February 1731: The Pikers decided to go into hiding in order to train, and recruit new Willocians (who did not know of the destruction that lay in the Piker’s wake and were thus vulnerable). Mary finds out she is pregnant with one of the dead Piker’s babies, but still insists on continuing in combat.  Meanwhile, in Patriae, the 24 young men and women who notified the Callumbiasens of the Pikers were awarded the lacquered and preserved camellia laurels. The three states (Wisteria, Patriae and Callumbias) prepare for war, making traditional war costumes and training the remaining soldiers for inevitable combat with the Pikers. They also discover that her name is Mary, and she has a brother William. They (the three states) name her Queen Mary, because she is English and the Pikers’ leader. They have still forgotten to tell Willocia.

 

March-April 1731: Mary, William and her new and improved Pikers move down into Willocia, and overthrow the King and Queen there, locking them up as well as the other Willocians. She believes it too risky to kill anyone. News does not reach any of the other three states about Willocia’s taking.

 

May-June 1731: The Pikers continue to mount surprise attacks, retaking Wisteria and Patriae because they are weak and grief-stricken.

 

July 12^th 1731: On William’s 15^th birthday, Mary’s baby boy is born. She names him Tristan-Pika Finnegan, spelt in English.

 

July 17^th-August 2^nd 1731: Mary mounts an attack on the Callumbiasen capital, besieging it for several weeks before the Callumbiasens are finally forced to surrender.

 

September-October 1731: Mary rounds up all the Cunhanians, and distributes a quarter of people from each state into each of the 4 states in an attempt to achieve unity. She assigns the Pikers to security, dividing them up between each state as well, but saving a few for herself, William and Tristan-Pika so they could rule from the peak in no-man’s land. It works for a while without rebellion.

 

November-December 1731: The Cunhanians plot against Queen Mary and her Pikers, so as to achieve independence and to reside once again their own states. As Tristan-Pika gets older, Mary begins to tell him her story.

 

January 1732: Spies are sent to find Queen Mary and the rest of her Pikers, discovering she also has a brother, William, and a baby, Tristan-Pika. They discover her hiding place deep within the crater of no-man’s land’s peak. They call it Queen Mary’s Peak as a way of telling everyone where she is.

 

February 1732: The Cunhanians begin their attacks, starting in Willocia, capturing the Piker guards there, and sending them into exile on the Inaccessible Island. This was the same in Callumbias.

 

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