The Pumpkin Papers Vol 4: Decorations

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[!] You find a small newspaper folded up and tucked away into your mailbox. It smells somewhat moldy, as though it has already been there for a few too many days.

T'a Pumpkin Papers!

~A small gathering of halflings!~

 

Contents:

~Village has New Leadership!~

~Burrow Decorating Party!~
~Visitors from Yong Ping!~
~FREE FOOD in the Village, Visitors Welcome!~

 

~Village has New Leadership!~

~A scene from the transition to Rolladango's Thainhood!~

The mighty Thaindom of old, established by my long-dead father, Rollo Applefoot, has returned to us halflings! The last remaining Elder has appointed a relative of mine, Rolladango Applefoot, to the position of Thain. I have hopes that this new government will serve us well, although as of present nay much has been done with it. I'm still waiting to be appointed as an Elder, if ye are reading this right now Rolladango!

~Burrow Decorating Party!~

~A small gathering in Asphodel's burrow, preparing for a lovely group decorating party!~

Ol' Asphodel Chubb has moved out of her Inn room and obtained a proper burrow! We all decorated her new burrow as a group, transforming it from nuffin' more than an empty shell of wood covered with dirt to a cozy home worthy of the most proper of halflings! I myself am very fond of how it turned out, and as a result I keep on sendin' poor ol' Asphodel letters all of the time in congratulations(even though she ne'er sends any back)! Let's take a closer look at the new place...

[!] On this part of the newspaper, there is a small little sketch of the new interior. It appears to have taken some time to create. You wonder how someone could have created this without being inside of the burrow as reference... [!]

That's all I have to say about Asphodel's new burrow! Now time for even more interesting matters...

~Visitors from Yong Ping!~ 

~A trip to the library!~

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Strange bigguns who talk a bit funny came over to Bramblebury last year. They said they were from "Yong Ping" or something. They were rather nice fellows, and their kindness prompted us wee halflings to give them many gifts. A fair few spare books were handed over to the bigguns, and we marched them all over the village in single-file lines as we described all there was to see!

~Some supper 'fore ye leave!~

Of course, all the wanderin' around made us mighty hungry, so we went over to the Greenholm burrow to serve them a proper meal (Sorry for using your burrow without permission, Dandelion)! Soups, meats, fancy cider, apples, potatoes, and more were served to the bigguns. It was quite the occasion!

~A peculiar tavern~

Speakin' o' Yong Ping, I traveled over there a while ago as well! Just wanted to check out the place, and as a result o' me going there, I went and saw a bunch of the Yong Ping bigguns gathered in their tavern drinking and being merry! T'was a wedding, or something. This visit may have been what inspired all the bigguns to come over to our own village. I suppose they wanted to repay the apple I gave one of them as a gift, although that sort of backfired for them as they got even more gifts given to them!

~FREE FOOD in the Village, Visitors Welcome!~

~A bunch of free food on the free food cart!~

May we all prosper together, halflings and biggun friends! In order to keep all halflings and biggun visitors well fed, I have stocked up the free food cart full of hearty morsels! Enjoy them to your heart's content, as I am more than willing to re-stock the cart as much as needed! No longer shall bigguns new to Almaris almost starve on the way to Elven lands past the village, for they can pick up a snack over at Bramblebury thanks to this lovely li'l cart!

 

Live long an' Prosper! Glory ter t'a wee!

-Filibert Applefoot, resident halfling tavernkeep and newspaper writer.

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The Chubb in question opens her letterbox, a big bright smile passing over her face as she sees the typical Pumpkin Papers pages, folded neatly inside. Asphodel steps back inside her new-ish burrow and reads through the issue while seated in her library/sunroom. Between the bookcases any listening observers could hear her exclaim apologetically, "Oh, I'm sorry I haven't replied to your letters, Mr Filibert!" She begins, "I've been spending a lot of time inside, reading, writing and copying over our library books. I haven't had a chance to check my mailbox in quite a few days..." She resolves to write him a couple of letters that very moment as she finishes off reading the issue. She places the letters on a table somewhere, forgetting to go out and place them in Filibert's mailbox for quite a few days. However, they eventually find their way to his eyes.

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Masamune Fumi enjoyed the visit to the village, reminiscing about the many books given and the hearty feast the child army partook in.

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