nce upon a time, there
was a wicked troll named Klye. Klye was a bad tempered fellow, full of
vile and repugnant thoughts. Klye hated to see people having fun, or laughing
or enjoying themselves. He would snap and snarl to himself and then
try and ruin their fun by playing cruel and sadistic tricks.
One day a jolly band of picnicers made the mistake of deciding to have
their lunch on a lawn too near Klye's house. Klye was roused early in the
morning to the sounds of merriment above, after he'd had a hard night on
the piss. "Drat it", thought Klye as he sharpened his flensing knife
and tested the edge on the bloated corpse of his most recent victim, "I
was hoping to sleep the day away."
Klye crept out of his crypt and crawled carefully to the carousing
crowd. "Sod", he said, swearing silently. "There's 30 of them. So
much for the murder-suicide cult." he said, throwing away his special
cordial. Klye watched carefully as the merrymakers ran around
and talked nonsense to one another.
Some of the trespassers on Klye's domain were drinking cider from
the previous autumn, so Klye thought he could poison them. But not all
the people were drinking, so some would get away. Some of the loud
intruders were sitting around and playing truth or dare, so Klye
considered daring them to leap into the sea or kiss him, but not all
of them were picky.
Then Klye saw that some of the gallivanting interlopers were
gambling and gaming. "Aha", he thought. "I'll do them!" And Klye lept
up and ran into the hall where the games were going on. "I'm the
greatest gamer in the world!" he declared loudly. "And I seek a real
challenge."
Now, Klye did not know that these playful folk were aflicted
with a terrible curse - they could not let a challenge go by. So
Klye was drawn in and sat down by the warm fire. And Klye put forth
the rules of his challenge - if he loses then the people can stay
and make as much noise as they want. But if he wins, then he gets
to not only chase them away, but to keep their memories of the
the time they spent here.
The people were confidant, and so they laughed and agreed and
they named their game, a complex game of cards. And they placed
their memories on the table, and Klye placed his signed agreement
on the table and the cards were dealt.
Klye studied his cards carefully, and the people studied theirs
intently. And when he was sure they were all concentrating, he pulled
out an axe and chopped them all into pieces, violated the corpses,
set fire to the building and fled with their memories.
And that is why we don't have any real photos of the camp last March.
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