The Slaying of Imenia and the Freeing of Nepenthe

The heroes have returned for a triumphal entry through crowd thronged..er..dirt roads…But you're heroes! And loved by all of the philistines of Ashdown. :-D

Hoozzah! The life giving waters of Nepenthe flow once more via the loving attention of the pixie of the same name. The crops are watered! The herds drink and are refreshed! Buel can wash the stinking carrion from his armor! It's wonderful!

The crowds shout as one,

"Imenia is dead! Nepenthe flows again! Long live the heroes!"

A boy of 14 summers pushes through the crowd and drops a soap box on the ground at the crowd's center. A part forms among the happy townspeople and the mayor, thumbing her badge, walks through the large gathering and steps up onto the box. She smiles and winks at the boy. "Thank you Billy". The boy smiles sheepishly.

With a smile the mayor looks around meeting the eyes of her happy constituents. Raising a finger in exaggerated officiatude, she loudly proclaims the following:

"Look-a-here, yall! We have some cattle and some wine. Lets have ourselves a 3 day ho-down! Let no work be done er nothin!"

Crowd: Yeehaa! Yippy ky-yo ky-yay! Woot! Woot! Free Bird!

"We'll mark this here day every year to remember our great trib-uh-lation and those fine folk what delivered us. This here is gonna be a county wide holiday from now til doomsday or mega-agriculture buys up all our lands and makes everybody grow that G.E. shit!"

Crowd: Boooo…!

"As your mayor this is my proclamation. I'm the decider!"

The mayor raised her right fist up over her head and then continued with a happy and excited voice:

Mayor: "Hail to Buel of Tynbrooke!"

Crowd: "Hail to Buel of Tynbrooke!"

Mayor: "Hail to Eve of..em..umm…uhh.."

Crowd: "to Eve!"

Mayor: "Right..Yes.. Um... Hail to Eve!"

Crowd: "Hail to Eve!"

Mayor: "And hail to Echo!"

Crowd: "Hail to Echo! Echo! Echo! Echo!"

Mayor: "And all hail our beloved Nepenthe which flows from the womb of Erde bringing life to all of the valley!"

Crowd: "Haaaiiil yeeaa!"

And much drinking, eating, smoking of cannibus and unrepressed sexual debauchery with farm animals ensued.