Heskonia
10-08-2005, 06:46
Social Upheaval in Heskonia.
Herzedia Times
Now Controlled by the Few only 75% of the Time!
"Earl of the Height Roswald Putterdam is off his rocking horse!" exclaimed an exasperated Chief Butler of the House. He was summarily sacked.
Three hundred years of tradition was turned out with yesterday's garbage at the Putterdam estate yesterday*. The Young Earl assumed the throne of the kingdom last March after the appropriate mourning period for his father ended. Dispensing with weeks of pomp and circumstance and bull races through the streets of the capital Herzedia, he entered the Chamber of Parliament carrying the throne, planted it on the carpeted dais, sat in it and said:"I am here. I am the Earl. What is today's business, gentlemen?"
Thirty members of the House Staff were transferred to other departments, some on the Estate grounds others to businesses the royal family has controlling interest in.
Hathorne Gamble, the Earl's secretary, read the following statement to the press:"It is time for Heskonia to join the new millenium. We cannot grow strong as a nation if we follow outdated customs. This is not the age of dictators and silk gloved courtiers. It is the age of computers and corporations."
Mr. Gamble was sent to a hospital in the north country. The change his lord implemented has made him quite unstable. The aformentioned press release was written in red and orange crayon.
Two former servants in the royal house agreed to speak off the record. "His Lordship fired two servants when they attempted to fulfill their sacred duties by buttoning up his riding jacket. They've been with the Putterdams since birth. As had their fathers and grandfathers."
Lady Gray, the Earl's mother, responded to inquiries:"The boy is wilfull. He is very modern. If he wasn't educated at Eton, this wouldn't have happened."
The Kingdom braces for further changes coming from the Royal family and the Chamber of Parliament. Will Heskonia grow strong? Or will it be swept off the face of the earth? Only time will tell.
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*=The reporter who wrote the article has been sacked for using the word yesterday twice in one sentence.
Herzedia Times
Now Controlled by the Few only 75% of the Time!
"Earl of the Height Roswald Putterdam is off his rocking horse!" exclaimed an exasperated Chief Butler of the House. He was summarily sacked.
Three hundred years of tradition was turned out with yesterday's garbage at the Putterdam estate yesterday*. The Young Earl assumed the throne of the kingdom last March after the appropriate mourning period for his father ended. Dispensing with weeks of pomp and circumstance and bull races through the streets of the capital Herzedia, he entered the Chamber of Parliament carrying the throne, planted it on the carpeted dais, sat in it and said:"I am here. I am the Earl. What is today's business, gentlemen?"
Thirty members of the House Staff were transferred to other departments, some on the Estate grounds others to businesses the royal family has controlling interest in.
Hathorne Gamble, the Earl's secretary, read the following statement to the press:"It is time for Heskonia to join the new millenium. We cannot grow strong as a nation if we follow outdated customs. This is not the age of dictators and silk gloved courtiers. It is the age of computers and corporations."
Mr. Gamble was sent to a hospital in the north country. The change his lord implemented has made him quite unstable. The aformentioned press release was written in red and orange crayon.
Two former servants in the royal house agreed to speak off the record. "His Lordship fired two servants when they attempted to fulfill their sacred duties by buttoning up his riding jacket. They've been with the Putterdams since birth. As had their fathers and grandfathers."
Lady Gray, the Earl's mother, responded to inquiries:"The boy is wilfull. He is very modern. If he wasn't educated at Eton, this wouldn't have happened."
The Kingdom braces for further changes coming from the Royal family and the Chamber of Parliament. Will Heskonia grow strong? Or will it be swept off the face of the earth? Only time will tell.
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*=The reporter who wrote the article has been sacked for using the word yesterday twice in one sentence.