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The Story Pt. 1 King Richard in Holy Land
Our story begins in 1191 with King Richard rallying his countrymen to join him on the Crusade to the Holly Land.
Robin of Loxley is amongst the first to join up!
In the King's absence, under the auspices of Prince John, corruption spreads throughout the land. In Nottingham the Sheriff, with the help of the evil witch Morgana, signs his soul away to the Devil in return for power and wealth. He is not perturbed by Morgana's portent of a troublesome hooded man.Struggling to survive under the Sheriff's taxes, dissention mounts amongst the citizens of Nottingham and while standing up for the towns folk in a confrontation with the Sheriff, the Earl of Loxley, Robin's father, is taken prisoner together with Marion who is both Robin's betrothed and the subject of the Sheriff's lecherous designs.
Robin senses all is not well in Nottingham and decides to return home from the Holy Land.
In Sherwood he meets Little John, the leader of a growing rabble of outlaws, who have to run from the Sheriff's reign of terror, to the relative safety of the forest. They mock the aristocratic posturing of Robin and his call for a militant stand against the Sheriff ; but after loosing a fight with him, Little John sees that this is the one man who can galvanize his men into an Army. Now he tries to convince them.
Outside the Sheriff's castle, Robin calls Marion to the window of the room, where she is imprisoned, and speak of their love and the plight of her and his father. She throws down her hooded cloak, to help disguise himself as he escapes the attention of the guards. Guy of Gisbourne, the Sheriff's right hand man, sees the hooded man.
The Sheriff is again warned by Morgana, the soothsayer witch, to expect trouble from a "hooded man", and Guy of Gisbourne tells the Sheriff that he saw such a man at Marion's window. This time she also tells of a priest - a man of the cloth, of whom he must beware.
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