Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Bartering Gone Awry

Village Archives

The economy in the Village of Shouldice is being strangled by the new and absurd taxes put in place by Merlin. With so much money going towards taxes, there seems to be little money left for buying goods. Merlin says the tax money is going back into the Village, but so far he has only used the money to build a small statue of himself in the centre of town and to repaint his fence with a colour he feels better represents his personality.

To make matters worse, the town shop keeps have been at a severe bartering disadvantage. The violent citizens have been using their sharp and dangerous looking garden tools to barter and buy goods at ridiculously low prices. Some rumours have been circulating about cases where the shop keeps have actually been persuaded to pay their patrons to take the goods. The Merchants Guild is in a quick race to arm all the shop keeps with their own dangerous looking gardening tools.

It should also be mentioned that some of the children in the local school have started eating grass, sometimes spending their entire recess breaks grazing in the field beside the school.

2 comments:

  1. Vielen Dank für den Kommentar

    That website might help increase our traffic, but what's the point. We are already completely swamp with views. I mean really, I think we get like 123,000 views a day now. The only problem is none of them stick around, but that will be fixed once we make a fancy dancy background image to garner their attention.

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  2. This news source is simply nonsense. You're like fox news; spreading slander and filth in my town. This is not a misuse of money; any intellegent peasant would know that it is not a statue you're building, but a demon ward. The changing of colours on my fence is futher protection against witches and demons, and others with gold encrusted fences will have paint availible to them.
    Please, people.. believe me when I say that I do not enjoy this arms race any more than the next diabolical, chaotic evil wizard.

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