Interludium: The Legend of the Chocolate Dipped Strawberry.

Found this one on an ancient USB-stick.  Ancient!  From the days when you'd be nothing less than extatic about the 256MB storage you could buy for a mere 20 euros.  Wrote this story as I was talking to some people in Achaea, the MUD I played about 10 years ago.  So well, story time!

The story was told by my character, hence the conversational setup...

Marshmallows are evil. Marshmellows however, are flufflier and nicer and glow purple in the moonlight, also they're roast-on-a-stick-resistant.  Suits those marshmallows fine, getting roasted on a stick.  They once tought they could take over the world...  And so they tried to usurp the power held by the frangipanes and merengues.

However…

The Grand Frangipane, Highlord of Marsipan, Chocolate & Ye Generel

Goodies, found out their evil plot and condemned them.  He scattered them all around the world... making their body soft and vulnerable, so that people could put sticks in them... And so they are doomed to be roasted and devoured until the Queen of Vanilla Icecream arrives and the end of the world as we know it dawns on us.

The brave marhsmellows however never wanted to to have such power, because they know it would corrupt then... So they remained happy, and fluffly and purple glowing in the moonlight, singing and dancing and awaiting the arrival of the Chocolate Dipped Strawberry, but that's another story.

The Legend of the Chocolate Dipped Strawberry!

No one has ever seen It, but It is said to be the most magnificent strawberry that ever roamed this earth. Shiny red, with delicate yellow seeds and a beutiful emerald green crown of leaves... at night when the stars rose high It is said to appear randomly, dipped in pure white Chocolate.  It would sing to people then, ancient songs of times long forgotten... In which many of It's kindred roamed the lands, which were peacefully ruled by the Almighty Raspberry of Delight.

However, a calamity took place... wiping out the population of the Land of Delights.  Monstrous Leadgreen Fungi invaded the lands... causing a deadly fluffiness on whoever they touched.  They infested the lands and its inhabitants and all that was once good and sweet became sordid and rotten."

The Chocolate Dipped Strawberry was infected too... only a little spot, on It's side...  Also, the Almighty Raspberry of Delight was diminished to a brown, wrinkled being, covered in the deadly green hairs.  It fought brave against its pest, but at the end the Mean Leadgreen Fungi got It down, and the lands fell prey to plunder and death."

The Chocolate Dipped Strawberry dragged Its now lame and halfrotten body to the Rocks of Icing.  After days of hardship It reached the Rocks and thrusted Its body against the razorsharp Icing, cutting away the infested limbs.  Its delicate juices colored the Rocks of Icing in a soft hue of pink...

The Rocks of Icing are said to glow in pink light whenever the stars have the constellation of that dreary night when the Chocolate Dipped Strawberry sacrificed Its flesh on them.  Mutilated and maimed, yet also refreshed because of the removal of the pest, the Chocolate Dipped Strawberry returned to Its homeland."

All gloomy, brown and stinking it was... No Delight to be found anymore...The Strawberry sought out the leader of the Mean Leadgreen Fungi, the Ubervicious 'n Nasty Master Greenhair.  And It smithed the Fungus, thrusting its pure white Chocolate at the vilain, choking It to death…

 The Fungi, now deprived of their Leader quickly dimished, withering and waning as they went. But the Strawberry had lost too many of Its power... Once shiny and full It now was dull, most of its seeds were ripped off, Its once emerald green leaves now brown and withered, half of Its body being cut off and still, still seeped the sap from it...

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Those who survived the calamatity saw It die slowly... until the last drop of juice had flown from Its body.  The Chocolate Dipped Strawberry died that day, but many believe it isn't gone... It is seen throughout the lands, on nights deprived of moonlight.

Its body shiny as in Its days of glory, Its voice soft and sweet... And it is believed among Goodies that one day, one day, the Strawberry will return among them, and lead them away from the devouring hands and mouths of Evil...

And that was the Legend of the Chocolate Dipped Strawberry.

So, just look out for It on a moonless night...