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03/03/2005: "The Pied Piper of Hamactor – Conclusion: The Great Rat Session"

One day the children woke up, and their parents were all gone. “Where are they!” they cried as one. “They’ve left for the sunny land of Floree, duh!” said Owl. “They got sick of the rats and the axes, and decided to let you deal with them!” And everywhere the children looked, there were rats – in the storeroom, in the armory, in the gardens, in the workshop, in the alchemy lab, in the schoolhouse. “Where are we ever going to get the axes we need to kill these rats?” And so it happened that Stocmun’s curse came true. The children hated their parents for the blight they had imposed on their lives. “How could they have done this to us!” they said. “What were they thinking?” Town councils were held that were so exclusively focused on the rat problem that they came to be called Rat Sessions. The children grew increasingly angry with each new Rat Session, until during the Great Rat Session the children resolved to invade Floree to get axes from their parents. The former townspeople of Hamactor were pulled from the lives of leisure, and as a sign of humiliation were forced to endlessly repeat the ancient, cryptic chant of servitude, “Yew-Won-Fur-Eyes-Wiz-At?” And gone from their lives forever was Laugher, the Pied Piper of Hamactor.