The Dern Report: Are Hennan refugees poisoning the water supply?

[Capsavian Hopewell]

Are Hennan refugees poisoning the water supply? Fort Wrought, Aidern 1500 BCE "The Hennans are trying to poison us!" Cries of protest such as this have become common around the mead halls of Fort Wrought.  The truth depends on who you talk to, however. Fort Wrought is the mountain village inhabiting the nexus of the Chisel Mountain Range (separating Aidern and Scotland), and the Wrought Ridge separating the Midlands from the Central Drylands. The mining settlement is also at the source of the River Wrought. The controversy comes from the surge in Hennan refugees fleeing war in the south.  When they arrived at the obscure town, the population doubled overnight, and then doubled again when gold was discovered along the border with Scotland only a few years later.  The divergence of ethnic groups was a recipe for strife, and the formula did not disappoint. Fast forward to the present.  A group of Hennan workers were found "doing their business" closer to the River Wrought than what the good citizens of Fort Wrought would have liked.  Immediately, demands for justice were cited, and a lynch mob was formed by local radicals.  "Hennans shit where we drink" became a rallying cry amongst the bigots and self-proclaimed "True Derns".  The local governor, Bey RodgTurnstone, has attempted to diffuse the situation by pointing out that, in fact, the local water supply comes upstream from the source of pollution, and that "if anyone should be concerned about defecation, it should be the Pirates" as the river flows into Campeche. When asked for his input during a break in negotiations at Dunharrow, Vali Capsavian Hopewell replied, notably exasperated: "Gods dammit!  Am I am dealing with little children?" The Vali pledged that if the locals at Fort Wrought didn't find a peaceful solution, he would personally arrive and "place everybody in time-out."

[da_Vinci]

OOC: ... Looks like a cholera epidemic to me 

dV

And what ancient tech gives  you photography, anyway?

[Capsavian Hopewell]

And what ancient tech gives  you photography, anyway?

OOC:  it's actually a clay tablet impression of the events.  We have extraordinarily talented scribes.

It's also what allows us to publish a newspaper, well before the printing press.  Guess we go through a lot of clay around here.

[oyzar]

<Amazing things you can do with pottery... Ourselves we are limited to digital images made of though...>