It was the summer of nineteen-hundred-and-ninety-nine. Mossflower country...

Needed some serious help.

In the Beginning, the Lady Mistpaw did create the Oak and Alder Inn using her illustrious coding skills. And she said, Hark! Allow there to be a message board created solely for the purpose of complaining, for without complaining, there can be no Life. Thus, the Gripe Board was brought forth unto the Internet, and the scene was set for the Many Changes that would befall the online community in the year following.

It was a fairly warm day when The Five Knights Templar first began to discuss What To Do. For they had noticed that the online followers of the Great Novels of Redwall were becoming Idiots. Consensus was reached that these Blasphemers and Heretics must be Smited... They must be Smited horribly, so that they could come to their senses, and so that they might reach enlightenment.

Many Obstacles and Idiots were to be overcome. In the Early Years, the Crusaders did actively smite the idiots, and it was good. However, it could not continue forever as such, for the Idiots were not becoming Enlightened. They instead actively opposed the CASM and all its goodness. And so, it was decreed that the Idiots should remain Idiots if they wished, but if they truly wanted to be Better, they would approach the CASM, and recieve help. So the smiting was quitted, and it was still good.