Elves play pipes while the goblins sing

[cyrano]

For those creative lot among you....
Players in my 7th Sea game are being sent on a quest to allow them to enter the Summer Country, home of the fairies and piskies.
I'm looking for an appropriate quest, and turn to those of you who are not in my game and perhaps have a mean streak in you to offer me suggestions.
My two main qualifications:
It should sound like something you would encounter in a fairy tale of some stripe.
If it would benefit a pragmatic, somewhat otherworldly Scottish family who is setting the quest, that would be especially good.
My players are warned--clicking on comments may reveal spoilers.

Comments

[wilson-lizard.livejournal.com]

This probably has nothing to do with anything, but the synchronisity made me do it. :) The following was posted by cadmus, just a few after yours. :) Who knows, maybe it will spark something.


From William Blake via Ken MacLeod:

1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities:
Felt their Nerves change into Marrow
And hardening Bones began
In swift diseases and torments,
In throbbings & shootings & grindings
Thro' all the coasts; till weaken'd
The Senses inward rush'd shrinking,
Beneath the dark net of infection.

....

7. The remaining sons of Urizen
Beheld their brethren shrink together
Beneath the Net of Urizen;
Perswasion was in vain;
For the ears of the inhabitants,
Were wither'd, & deafen'd, & cold:
And their eyes could not discern,
Their brethren of other cities.

8. So Fuzon call'd all together
The remaining children of Urizen:
And they left the pendulous earth:
They called it Egypt, & left it.

9. And the salt ocean rolled englob'd.
-- William Blake, The Book of Urizen, Chapter IX.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Blake is a big freak and I want whatever drugs he had. (: