NAN sat smugly at his desk, in arguably the biggest house in all of Jaystowne. This wasn't an uncommon thing for him to do...he was an arrogant fella.
It's so amazing being me he thought.
Then he heard something rustling in a room down the hall.
Ugh. Must be that damned dog again.
"Sprinkle! Get out of the pantry! You know better!"
Sprinkle came running to NAN, tongue-waving, tail-wagging.
"That's a good girl! Give daddy kisses!"
The dog stood on its hind legs and gave NAN some big, sloppy mouth kisses. While this was going on, Sprinkle's ears perked up and he ran off back in the direction of where the noise had been coming from.
"Sprinkle! Get back here!"
NAN ran after the dog. (which might be one of the simplest sentences I've written since grade school.)
As he went into his pantry, he was hit from behind by something blunt and had a hood put over his head. He was then dragged out of his house, down a path, and into the woods.
"Well, NAN..." a voice began, "too long have you lived. Too long has your affluence and avarice plagued this land. We had thought that once our work had begun, you would try harder for this village...but...you haven't."
Another voice chimed in. "Yesssss....now your time is up, NAN. We have had about as much as we can take and your fate will be like many others before you. However, you will not be remembered as anything but a stepping stone in our path to glory."
NAN never saw the glimmer of the sword in the moonlight that would be his final demise.
After the sword had fallen, the strangers continued into the woods...
"STOP RIGHT THERE!"
The strangers stopped, and looked around for the source of the voice.
"I see you have found us. I'm not surprised that it's taken you this long. You never were one for...hasty...problem solving."
"KA..."
"Your efforts are fruitless, you know. You will never stop us."
"ME..."
"Try all you might, it's come too far to turn back now."
"HA..."
"Wait...what...what are you doing?"
"ME..."
"Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii...."
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Light burst from the OTHER stranger's hands and collided with one of the hooded strangers...
5 villagers remain.
9. the wicked child
11. Corvidae
12. wallflower
15. MikeEnIke
16. dagny
Village, you have until midnight. It takes 3 to
slay.