Who's the more foolish? The fool or fool that plays after the fool?
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And so it came to pass that three cities arose in the northern part of the Table. And the people that there dwelt called themselves the Loofians. The Loofians sought answers and the people turned to the Great Loof and asked what they should do.
He spake thus to them: Build thyselves another city.
And the workers did toil and did raise a city. And there was much rejoicing and not a little making merry. But they neglected the fields and there came a Drought. And the people cried out for wisdom and guidance and the Great Loof said unto them “Don’t worry, it won’t happen again.”
And the people turned away and did mutter “we’ve heard that one before” and traded goods and worked on another city. A glorious fifth city of the Loofians. And then came the Second Drought and the people looked askance at the Great Loof, who proclaimed unto them “Well I suppose I’d better teach you something them.”
The people learn to Irrigate and their crops did grow bountifully.
But the people began to hear of another tribe in the southern reaches of the Table. They too had learned the secrets of irrigation though they had but 4 cities. But these tribes did meet and one of them had a little bit of a sniffle and all said unto him that they hoped he felt better soon.
The next week half of Loofia was sickened and the place was awash with tissues and chicken soup.
It turned out the Great Loof did not know much about the healing arts, so to make it up to them, he made them a nice dinner and sent them a get well soon card. On the back of the card were some gardening tips, which some clever Loofians adopted in their own gardens and a great tradition of Agriculture was born.
The Southern tribe gathered many goods and did learn the healing arts much to the embarrassment of the Great Loof. Then the Loofians got sick again and the Southern Tribe did offer to sell them insurance and the oil of a snake.
But the Great Loof drove out these foul men and the snake oil salesmen too. And so pleased were the people that they made a special effort to raise a Temple to his Loofishness. And the Great Loof was sore embarrassed but also quite pleased.
The Southern Tribes worked out the secret of piling up rocks in clever ways and their Empress did dream of mighty towers and maybe a nice pyramid. But her people had formed of a Union and would not come to work except to build a Step Pyramid as that was not too much trouble. So the Empress traded on the Exchange with a great fury, gathering goods of all types. Her Quarries did work and her people made Coins of acceptable amounts of gold.
The Loofians had decided they would like an extra nice dinner and glorious was their feast but voluminous were the leftovers. And they said unto each other it would be a shame to waste this good food. And thus was created the Tupperware to preserve the deliciousness, even if it did taste a bit funny after a spell.
The Great Loof commanded his people to raise a Great Wall to keep out interlopers and riff-raff and the people did toil on its construction, though bits did keep falling over, for they were not as clever with the rock piling business as the other lot.
Such was the success of the Tupperware that the Great Loof sought to make a buck or two on it and started selling it on the Home Granary Network. He thought it might be nice to have his face on the coins too, but the people said they could not fit it all on, so made a coin with just the top of his head on it. All seemed to be well and the work toward a great trading empire was near complete.
But lo! For the Southern Tribes came over all Religious and cried that the End of the World was nigh! And the Loofians did scoff out loud, but then thought that, just in case, they would make a special effort so that the Historians would like the people of Loofia better and be much impressed with their works and collected recipes. And so many coins were traded and an Empire formed, though that wall never did get finished.
And so in the Great Accounting at the end of the Bronze Age, the many achievements of the Empress (and her Holy Step Pyramid) did rate a 31, while the Loofians, who had fewer achievements though a might Empire and were prone to bouts of sickness, were only given a 29.
And all bowed to the Empress and were much impressed, while She stuck out her tongue in the traditional manner of her people.
And thus did the Age end.
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