A Story of Destruction

[TakeMeT0TheFae 970]

~* A Story of Destruction *~
 

Age of Expansion

 

The creation of Knox allowed Billy Bob to enter another age of relaxation, turning his attention once again to his private affairs and hobbies.  As time went on he was able to take a more relaxed position in the world, travelling out less and less as the years went on.  This laidback behavior was what allowed the problem to spread so rapidly without being noticed.  Knox had been created to defend the Halflings; however, Knox was so good at his job that it in turn gave the wee-folk an unfair advantage in the world and allowed them to spread rapidly.  Halfling settlements eventually popped up all over as their population increased exponentially in a way that had never been seen before and has never been seen since.  Knox viciously defended these villages, eventually earning a reputation as a serial killer that many bigguns still associate with him to this day as he struck down bigguns with his scythe over and over again.  However, while the world outside these communities may have seen him as an evil creature bringing death wherever he went, the wee-folk of the world came to know him more and more as the protector of their people and way of life as he killed in defense of them.

 

The Halflings thrived during this age, multiple cultures and societies sprouting up all over.  However, in creating a guardian of the wee-folk Billy Bob had in turn created an unfair advantage.  Allowing the wee to spread unchecked was problematic, and many of the societies that were forming were not what he had in mind for them when he grew them all those years ago.  As rich and diverse as these cultures were, many Halflings were going against their nature in order to form them and were not living the life they were meant to.

 

A Discovery

 

It was on one of Billy Bob’s trips that he first started to notice this, coming across a city of Halflings who had grown into a nation that could rival it’s human counterparts.  Mina were being used, weapons of all kinds were being taken up, shoes were being worn, and worse of all they had shunned their traditional burrows in place for walled cities and biggun buildings.  Nothing about this place was what he had expected and it shocked him, realizing that gifting them Knox had allowed this to happen.  Returning home he spent weeks mulling over what to do, not wanting to simply take Knox away from them as it would cause the Halflings to be massacred in mass by the other races.  Instead, he opted to create a counterpart. 

 

A Creation

 

Once again Billy Bob found himself entering his personal gardens to grow something new for the first time in centuries.  Heading to the stream behind his cottage where he grew various water based plants he bent down and labored extensively to create something to one again fix the balance he had disrupted.  Using the roots of lily-pads he created 10 tentacles that stretched off into oblivion, from the river rocks he created a giant beak, and from the mud itself he created a head to which attach it all.  In doing so Billy Bob gave Arugula life, a giant squid with the power to destroy entire Halfling villages, settlements, and even cities and drag them into the ocean’s depths.  Which is exactly what it went on to do.  

 

Age of Destruction

 

For the next few years the Halfling population diminished as Arugula would show up at Halfling settlements that had lost their way and dragged them into the ocean depths to never be seen again.  Knox did his best to defend these places but as designed Arugula would show up and drag their homes away so quickly the deity would not have time to get there and defend them.  It seemed to the wee-folk at first that they were doomed; however, after a few years and the majority of the settlements that had gone against their original design had been wiped out these constant attacks by the squid came less and less as the remaining wee-folk returned to their life as simple farmers.  Eventually they all but stopped for the most part, the stories fading into legends told to children to get them to behave and not stray from properness. 

 

Thus ends this story of destruction, Knox still watching over the wee-folks while Arugula always lingers in the depths right out of sight, waiting to drag any Halflings who have strayed from their path into the murky depths below.

((Like my previous post this is just some more expanded religious lore for Halflings))

[rushork 128]

"'ey I-iris, Arugula won' com fer us in Honeh hill, r-righ'?? R-RIGH'"?

[HobbitForHire 215]

Elyse listens to the next part of the campfire story. "Oh, if onleh t'ere were a way o' tellin' people t' righ's an' wrongs an' 'ow t' live? Per'aps we could but 'em in a book. 'ave a way t' enforce it an' pull people up if t'ey break t' ways" she tuts. "Bu' wha' do I know? Gian' squid musta been easier"