Wednesday, October 12, 2005

THE GILLY HAMMER TROLLS AND THE SHADOW LAND

There were people that lived in Berd. They were called Berds. The ground was muddy and the village was older. The people there were discontent with their insane life and thier unjust government. They revolted. They destroyed the government and moved to the Warm River, which was near the coast of the Great Sea. And they crossed it, for Hashmodar supported their feet. And they crossed the billowing lands of the sea monsters, and no monster, no squid or toram, neither shark nor sea dragon, touched the people of the village and they crossed in peace, and the dolphins accompanied them. And they came to the sunny lands where everything was wondrous. They crossed the beach gratefully and cut down all the trees, ate all the animals, and mined all the gold. They made soldiers and killed each other till not one man was left. The island became the land of shadow or the Shadow Land.
There was an bearded exile from a pearling ship from Bangel. Everyone one of the crew had hated him because he was a literal Babuna and he said annoying things and made everybody mad and he had bad breath. They marooned him on the Shadow Land and he explored them in growing dismay, for there was nothing to eat. Only bones and tree stumps. Eventually he died of the elements and starvation and he became a wandering shadow.
Many years later the men of the earth, the gilly hammer trolls, decided to dig under the ocean. And they continued to dig and suddenly they stepped out into the dust dimmed sunlight of the Shadow Land and that night they were tormented by the Shadow Man himself and became crazy and insane. They built a ship and they decided to return from the Shadow lands. In the wake of the shadow, they went home insane and unpredictable. They made port, but only a few of them had survived and there had been cannibalism. They immediately attacked and bit the first people they came across. They were apprehended and thrown in the dungeon where they remained until they were interrogated. The interrogator asked them some very pertainent questions but they only foamed and squirmed and bit him on the knee. He threw them back into their cells and there they lived for the rest of their natural lives. They died one by one and they were buried, but the Shadow Man had gotten home by means of their ship. He terrorized the entire countryside and ate large numbers of horses. The other gilly hammer trolls one day were digging away and bumped into the graves of the insane gilly hammer trolls. They decided it was a pitty they had died so they took them to the shadow man to bring them back to life. This he did, but he ate all of those gilly hammer trolls in the process.

1 Comments:

Blogger Brock said...

It sounds like you have recently visited the shadow land. How was the trip?

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