Daydreamer

Once upon a time, there was a giant mountain whose peak stretched far above the clouds. Around the base of the mountain were two villages, known as Encesci and Ionrelig, who both knew the giant mountain as Mount Toryhis.

Now it came to pass that both villages were extremely curious as to what was on top of the mountain, so they sent their best and brightest to explore.

The village of Ionrelig sent a trio of their wisest, each representing a different faction within the village. The oldest claimed to be 34 years old, but looked by all accounts to be about 25, and had a head and beard of thick curly black hair, claimiing a friend by the name of Sesom gave him insite as to the best way to climb the mountain.

The next claimed to be 20 years old, but looked to be somewhere bewteen 18.5 and 19.5, and had a thin beard and shoulder length hair, both a light brown. He claimed his friend Susej had told him the best way to climb the mountain.

The third was about 13 years old, but already had a thick curly beard, and the top of his head was covered by a white turban. He claimed his friend Demmahom had told him the best way to climb the mountain.

Each set out to climb the mountain separately, searching for the secret passage their respective friends had told them about. Instead, however, each of the three, all by themselves, discovered the same shortcut, and claimed it validated their friend's information.

The 25 year old reached a saddleback where his shourtcut dead-ended, and sat to ponder what to do next. Not to long afterwards the 19 year old and the 13 year old reached the same saddleback, and the three began to fight. They all agreed that there was no way for them to climb any farther, but they disagreed as to what was above them. The first claimed his friend and informant, Sesom, as well as a guy named Hewhay was above, the second Sesuj and Havohej, the third Demmahom and Halla.

Now the other village, the Village of Encesci, also sent their wisest to explore the mountain, one at a time. However, unlike the Village of Ionrelig, these villagers shunned shortcuts that may or may not take them where they wanted to go - instead they decided to do things the hard way and climb the mountain.

Now because of the size of the mountain, and the difficulty of the climb, the villagers were unable to complete the climb on their first tries. However, these villagers had an odd habit - they would record their journey carefully and pass it on to other villagers when they returned from a failed trip. Some extremely intellegent villagers even invented new tools with which to climb the mountain, or found new paths up the mountain that were easier than those recorded before them.

In this way, though it was slow going, a villager from Encesci eventually found a way to where the three men from Ionrelig sat arguing, and called it The Saddleback of Gibgnab. The villager listened to their stories and theories, but found none of them were very convincing. The villager dutifully recorded all that was seen and heard anyways, and brought it back down to his home town. Some villagers agreed with the trio, and stopped caring about exploring the mountain. A few intrepid, dauntless villagers, however, continued to try. These few were continuously heckled by the trio on the Saddleback of Gibgnab for trying the impossible.

Eventually in a burst of both luck and genius, after many tries and many false starts, a member of the Village of Encesci found a way beyond the saddleback through using the best of his knowledge and the best of his tools - both developed in his friend's previous, invaluable climbs. After a short climb, the villager began his long trek back to his home with his new knowledge, pausing only long enough to give the villagers from Ionrelig on the saddleback a quick smile and hello.

The trio, however, were too busy bickering to notice.
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Comments?
Anything unclear?
Like my (albeit lame) anagrams?

scigirl

Your anagrams are showing, Daydreamer.

I like it, very nice story. Now. . .write one for E/C!

scigirl

Daydreamer

Yea, I tried to balance a nice sounding result with ease of figuring out the base word - probably went too far in the latter direction. Not too horrible, given that its the second or third attept at creative writing by a natural science major.

As for EC ... hmm intresting idea. *starts brainstorming*

Veil of Fire

Gibgnab?

One of the last sane

Gabbing?

Mike Rosoft

>Gibgnab?

BigBang! (It also took me a while to find out.)


Mike Rosoft

philechat

I like the dating of the men's age. Very meaningful--so each "year" of the man implies each century.

AdamWho

Did you ever think about having a village where they just sat around meditating about the path to the top?

Tinman

Daydreamer,

Nice parable. I think you gave away too much with the names however, I'd hate to have someone catch on and derail a train of logic under full steam.

I think parables might be worth a try to help some of the "naturalistically challenged" to align their thinking with everyday experience.
Sort of an old form of Stealth technology. Its time the "other" side gave them a try.

Any others, anybody?

Tinman