Intro
This is the 66th story in the Smallville Series and tells the tale of an assortment of survivors of the outbreak of tornados that did wide-scale damage in year 52 SVT, from the meadows and moorlands in the northeast to O'Leary's Farm (story 41), to Springfield (story 23), and to Newport (story 12). These 8 families met on the moors and together they settled at the edge of the woodlands south of Misty Meadow (story 37). The story begins late in year 52 SVT.
The map seed # 2359929 One River, Small, Mild, Disasters Off, Easy 8 Families
Mods activated for this map and load order are:
Map Changing and Starting Mods: Banished UI Maps, Labor Window, RK Minimized Status, CC Light Rain, do Daylight Cycle, override Map, Settlers Deco, A8Japenese Trees, Kid Tree Replacer Deco, Kid Tree Replacer Fairy (vanilla pines & Kid birch), New Flora Edit, New Trees, Family Starts
Tweak Mods: Dried Mushrooms, Fishing Dock +25%, Hunting (TS), Increased CC, 1:1 Alternative (Voeille), Override Fairy Clothes, Rocks Respawn, Tiny Smoke
Major or Must Have Mods: An Empty Square, Nomads (Kid), Storage Crates, Jinxie Bitty Rabbit Hutch, Kid Abandoned Places, Kid Fairy Garden (new, testing), Kid Forest Deep, Kid Workplace Village, Mini Buildings (BL)
Supporting Mods: Deco Sunflower, Kid Deco Plants, Kid Deco Farm Animals, Kid Farmyard, Kid Forest Ponds, Kid Garden Shed II, Kid Ghost Flowers, Kid Market Carts, Kid Mist, Kid Wayshrine, Kid Work Shop, Money Bag (TS), Mushroom Crop, Shroom, Tiny Chopper
New Mod Note: Kid Fairy Garden mod is magical and seasonal. The porch railing on a nice house Kid made inspired the mod. It was made to match Kid Forest Deep for spring, Kid Fairy Tale for summer, and Kid Coven for autumn but matches other mods and the pieces can be used in any season. Although this story is for spring, I'll show a sample of the other seasons as well.
Welcome to Shamrock Glen, weary traveler. Being a human, there is much you need to know, especially about fairies, should you decide to settle here with us. We were a mixed group when we arrived, 5 families of elves, 2 of hobbits, and 1 human couple. It would have been a bit easier for the humans had we told them sooner what they needed to know. You've already had a run in with fairies if it was fairy lights that led you here. Come sit by the fire and I'll tell you about our experiences with fairies once upon a time.
Yes, weary traveler, there is much you need to know about fairies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8At8zfh_o3E
I love your video selection. Fantasia was the movie I chose for the first date of my life. I still remember the movie but the girl of my first date not so much.
This story is going to be fantastic.
:) It's funny what we remember and what we don't from the past. Disney is always memorable. I was very happy to find this video.
Chapter 1
The little ghost lights you saw were Will o' the Wisps that fairies often use to lead travelers astray, especially at night and in the forest. The wisps are most often seen in the swamps, marshes, and bogs but we've seen them on the moors too. Elves have been helped by fairies in the past and we can even summon them with magic spells. So when we saw the wisps we followed them.
My husband, Normann, and I came to the meadowlands from Crystal Canyon that spring with 4 other Elven families. We had just begun building a haven settlement when the tornado struck. All that we had done was completely destroyed. We knew there were other small settlements to the south, directly in the path of the storm, we had to check if there were survivors. We found 2 hobbit families and some pigs and 1 human couple and some sheep. We helped them salvaged what little there was and together we headed west towards the Woodlands. There may have been other survivors out there but we had to get off the open moors, there were several more severe rain and wind storm. It was rough going with 10 young children, the sheep, and the pigs. We came across a few other destroyed settlements but no more survivors. We took shelter briefly in an abandoned settlement where I gave birth to a baby girl in early autumn. We pushed on, sometimes traveling at night. It would soon be winter, we had to settle soon.
It was late autumn when we reached the end of the moorlands and came over a ridge to see the forest ahead of us, and a wide river. And that's when we saw the Will o' the Wisps. They appeared before us and seemed to be showing us a path through the forest. From the top of a small hill we could see they were leading us to a portal beside the river, yes, a portal, a magic portal. The hobbits understood magic but we had to convinced the humans to follow us through. It was a one-way portal, there'd be no turning back.
Chapter 2
We emerged from the portal exit on the other side of the river. The wisps were circling a stockpile and carts of supplies. We knew these supplies were meant for us and as soon as we approached the carts, the wisps dissipated, they had done their job of getting us here. The carts contained food, tools, and clothes. Fairy frocks to be exact, pretty colored linen clothes. Fairies liked pretty things. We were just glad to have a change of clean dry clothes, we were all pretty dirty and ragged after our ordeals.
We were in an area of the Woodlands know as Shamrock Woods, the secluded valley was known as the Glen of Shamrock Woods. It was just the sort of place fairies and leprechauns would prefer. Yes, leprechauns, they actually are a type of fairy but quite different. I am elven but have a bit of leprechaun blood, my name is Dariam, Dari for short. Leprechauns are the reason this area is called Shamrock Woods, the area itself is quite different, as different as our 8 families.
The low lying area where the river bends is a wetland forest where mushrooms grow in abundance. The 2 hobbit families wasted no time hollowing out 2 of the large mushrooms to live in. They would have plenty of mushrooms to eat and we all know how much hobbits like mushrooms. The pigs and piglets wasted no time burrowing into the soft damp soil. In spring the hobbits would plant some of the seeds and seedlings that they refused to leave their destroyed farms without.
We elves preferred the forest area on higher ground farther from the river. There was a hedgerow and plenty of wild foods to gather, a forest pond with a waterfall, and several herds of deer. We immediately built a hunter hideout, we had a few elven bows and enchanted arrows we salvaged after the storm. With the help of a little elven magic we soon had 5 houses built in the trees. We only had a few manna crystals with us so we would not be able to use much magic here. Only purebred elves can use magic.
There were several clearings in this forest and the human couple choose to built a nice house in the clearing by the stockpile and supply carts. They would tend the sheep and in spring they would try their hand at growing some of the seeds the hobbits gave them. They were young and did not have much experience, she had been a teacher and he a blacksmith. As I said, they had a lot to learn especially about fairies.
@Abandoned ;D ;D ;D A great start to a story. I am very happy that you have placed the Magic Portal Entrance - I have a question, can this Portal be a separate mod? - I really care about it, I need it for other fantastic stories. Maybe Master @ Kid1293 would make available as a separate mod ?????? I have one more idea - if we have a Portal, we can visit many different worlds - "Dark Matter" Philip Pullman comes to my mind and maybe bannies will land on some planet, who knows? What do you think about this idea? Cordial greetings
@taniu :) I knew you would like the magic portal. It is a nomad generator that has %s to choose or it can just be deco. If
@kid1293 make it separate, do you want only deco or nomads too?
My map only allows for settlements on this planet with water so I don't think I will be space traveling. Kid thinks some of my ideas are a little far-out the way it is :D but who knows what the future may hold or what Kid may choose to make. Thanks for idea.
;D Sorry
@taniu - I try to keep myself on the ground.
It can be tough with all the ideas
@Abandoned and I throw at each other.
Making a total conversion for Banished is too much for me!
Here you go
@taniu A Magic Portal. It is placed on the vanilla toolbar:services because of the nomads.
If you want no nomads you simply select the first portal (0 percent).
Chapter 3
By spring the hobbits were doing quite well in the mushroom grove. The area itself was very pretty, abloom with flowering plants and trees. The hobbits were warm and comfortable in their mushroom homes carved out of 2 of the half dozen large mushrooms in the area. They set up a tiny chopping stump to cut their own firewood.
The pigs and piglets were doing quite well in the muddy moorland soil of the grove. There were mushrooms to be picked and the hobbits planted an apple tree seedling to provide a little shade and apples for pigs and for themselves to eat. They built a fence of branches like they saw the humans build by their nice house.
The hobbits planted a spring garden with 2 pear tree seedlings, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, wild oats, mushrooms, berries, squash, and rose hips. We were not surprised when little fairies came out of the forest to help the hobbits. The fairies immediately began gathering fairy dust from a large purple flower to sprinkle on the spring garden to make it grow. It's said the little winged fairies, often called sprites, are spirits of nature and growth, that they actually are the link between sun, soil, and seeds, yes, somewhat like bees and butterflies.
@kid1293 ;D ;D ;D wow! thank you very much for fulfilling my request very quickly - I am very happy for this mod. You're wonderful. I know that some ideas cannot be realized but I like to dream a bit. You thought about adding Portal as a deco - great idea. As for Bannies in space - maybe someone will take up this topic - creator Luke? or another person? who knows that? Cheers
@Abandoned :D :D :DI really like the texture of the mushroom house - Great idea. You tell about the history of dwarves, fairies, hobbits - they are great and by the way we can see the wonderful mods that these stories present. There are a lot of stories and worlds like stars in the sky.Continue your story because I'm more curious how it will end.If I ask for something, I will write - @ Kid and you
@Abandoned you will either reject or agree to my project - who is it knows? If I can help somehow, I would like to join? just not moderating - I mean testing, or how the game goes, a modest donation etc. Cheers
There are no dwarves in this story
@taniu Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome and will be considered but they should be on another thread in the Suggestion section instead of in the stories. :) It is enough that you appreciate the mods and like the stories. :) Thank you for all the kind words :)
@Abandoned :-[ :( ;)Sorry for the confusion, I will not disturb the course of your current story - just 1 question -You wrote the stories The Forge (of Dwarves) - Story 65 This story is about dwarves, does my translator misinterpret? -
it's good that you have set up the Out of this World department and I'll be directing my questions and ideas there. You have to forgive me I'm old man - I have crazy ideas - I know this game is technically limited and in fact the moderators have made a miracle with the mods - I am very grateful for that. Abandoned Tale - Shamrock Glen - Story 66 - includes Hobitts, Fairies, and Gnomes - Fairies don't have Dwarves - you are right, I'm only - I argued that they already exist in other stories. - heartfelt Greetings ;D
Quote from: Abandoned on March 03, 2021, 08:47:39 AM
Chapter 3
By spring the hobbits were doing quite well in the mushroom grove. The area itself was very pretty, abloom with flowering plants and trees. The hobbits were warm and comfortable in their mushroom homes carved out of 2 of the half dozen large mushrooms in the area. They set up a tiny chopping stump to cut their own firewood.
The pigs and piglets were doing quite well in the muddy moorland soil of the grove. There were mushrooms to be picked and the hobbits planted an apple tree seedling to provide a little shade and apples for pigs and for themselves to eat. They built a fence of branches like they saw the humans build by their nice house.
The hobbits planted a spring garden with 2 pear tree seedlings, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, wild oats, mushrooms, berries, squash, and rose hips. We were not surprised when little fairies came out of the forest to help the hobbits. The fairies immediately began gathering fairy dust from a large purple flower to sprinkle on the spring garden to make it grow. It's said the little winged fairies, often called sprites, are spirits of nature and growth, that they actually are the link between sun, soil, and seeds, yes, somewhat like bees and butterflies.
Hi!
where does that beautiful mud in the pigsty come from?
thanks!
:)
@taniu It is okay, yes the previous story was indeed about dwarves, they are very down-to-earth kind of guys. Out of this World thread will be a good place for other ideas.
@assobanana76 The mud is part of the pig farmyard, it produces apples, mushrooms, pork, and leather. The pigs are one of the 18 farmyards in Kid Farmyard mod here: http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=589
The garden across from the pig farmyard is part of the new Kid Fairy Garden mod. :)
Chapter 4
Our elven forest area was very pretty in spring also, and our leafy evergreen tree houses were warm and comfortable. We gathered branches for firewood from the forest and the hedgerow. We also gathered apples, chestnuts, berries, and flax from that hedgerow and wild foods from the forest. Three of our 5 elven families lived close together by the hedgerow and small shed, 1 family lived closer to the hunter hideout, and Normann and I and our baby girl lived by the forest pond where Norm fished. He built a fence around the pond area so little Chimeredith didn't wander off if he took her to the pond with him. He said she looked just like one of the little fairies but without any wings. Only purebred fairies have wings.
We often saw the little fairies fluttering around the wildflowers and the forest pond. A few little birdhouses magically appeared here and there. Small chores were being done for us at night, inside and out. If dishes weren't washed or clothes put away, they were by morning. If a basket of gathered food wasn't stored in the shed it was by morning. If a pile of firewood was left by the stockpile, it was neatly stacked by morning. I'm not saying outright that it was fairies who did those things, but you know that is what I am saying. They want no acknowledgement or thanks, it is best to pretend you do not even see them. And it is very bad luck to tell what fairies have done for you. If you tell someone fairies did this or fairies did that, they will stop doing it. You may even become the target of tricks and pranks. Oh yes, really. I only wish we had warned the human couple, we assumed they were originally from around here and that they knew.
Forgive me for adding this here but I noticed two things in Misty Meadow - Story 37 which I missed.
* Kid WildlifeStarts and KidMist
Having found them it made me wonder what other little gems are hiding and not in mod downloads like the Kid MagicPortal in this story
Perhaps when time and energy permits Kid could group these and any other similar items together and add them to the mods downloads.
And while I am on a wish wish list a mod to harvest stone and iron similar to the one included in CC would be greatly appreciated.
Item two on my wish list would be a V2 of wildlife starts but with less grass and more flowers - ie more flowers than the original, but less flowers than in the meadow gatherer.
Keep up the good work
Forgiven @Glennn but this is not place for wish list. I am glad you found Wildlife Starts, it has a nice variety of starts, it will not be changed and no plan for another. Earlier today I mentioned to Kid that I was thinking of posting a thread with the location of Wildlife Starts and many of the other small mods posted in my stories and elsewhere. They will not be official downloads, most were made specifically for my stories, some have not been released, there were few if any comments. Here the magic portal was a special request granted, it will not be an official download, it is part of the featured mod. But there are quite a few little gems :) and I will post a list soon.
A brief summery to refocus on story so far : The elven, hobbit, and human tornado survivors followed the Will o' the Wisps through the magic portal. The hobbits settled in a mushroom grove raising pigs and planting a fairy garden. The elves have settled farther from the river in the forest and are living in fantastic tree houses that were made as a surprise for me. :) thanks
@kid1293 The elves hunt, gather, and fish in a beautiful forest pond. They are helped by fairies and wish they had told the human couple more about them.
Thank you, it will be interesting to see what other little extra mods I have missed.
Chapter 5
The human couple built a very nice house in the clearing near the stockpile. The house had a porch with a branch railing. The fences they built around the farmyard matched perfectly. Their son was 1 of the 6 infants born that 1st year. She had been a teacher and because one of the hobbit children would reach school age soon, she set up a mini outdoor classroom just like Smallville's school that taught survival. Her parents came from Smallville. Her husband, Ludwrighton, waited for that first student while she was busy with the newborn and the sheep and farmyard. She planted the potatoes and carrots that the hobbits thought would rot in the wetland soil of the mushroom grove. She also planted some wild oats. Ludwrighton found an anvil among the supplies on the main stockpile, he set up an anvil workplace next to the stockpile and would make tools as they were needed. The couple also built a mini Smallville town hall like her parents described to her.
The couple did a lot of work and they had no help. A fairy appeared in the farmyard and Yaritanya spoke to it, she thanked the fairy for the supplies in the carts. The fairy disappeared. The next morning Yaritanya woke up with her hair full of fairy locks, it took hours to untangle her hair. In the days and weeks that followed, small items in the house were either missing or misplaced, baskets and bowls were tipped over, the garden tools outside were not where she left them. We felt bad that we had not warned the couple about the fairies. I suppose we were lucky that the fairies did not take back the carts of supplies we found when we arrived.
It appeared that speaking to the fairy may not have been the only offence. When asked about their farmyard fence, Yaritanya said she saw the fence on a path in the forest and asked Ludwrighton to build one. Normann and I saw the fence in the forest too while we were looking for a tree stump to build a herb gatherer and healer, that's why we asked. The fenced path led to a sacred stone. The fairies were probably offended at having one of their fairy places invaded by humans.
We elves and the hobbits help the humans as much as we could. We made sure there was enough firewood on the main stockpile and a variety of foods in the carts.
Chapter 6
If the variety of food didn't improve our overall health hopefully the elven healing tree stump would. Warmer clothes for winter might help too. We built a frock maker tree where we could make linen clothes for the warmer months from flax gathered from the wild or our hedgerow. We could make warm clothes for the winter months with leather provided by our elven hunter's or the hobbit pig farmers and the human's wool. We built a storage tree nearby. We laid more wooden roads in our forest area and the hobbits laid more stone roads in the mushroom grove extending them into the human clearing as well. Less time would be spend out in the cold in winter. Spring was always welcomed when it arrived. Everything was again in bloom and the hobbits discovered a fairy ring in the mushroom grove. Normann and I watch fairies dancing in the morning mist not far from our tree house.
Not only did spring arrive in year 3 but so did 13 adult fairies with 3 children. They weren't survivors like us, they were already wearing fairy frocks. The human couple was concerned, they were still being harassed. We tried to reassure them that these were not the purebred tiny fairies that were here when we arrived, but these were a mixed group. Fairies come in all sizes and have been know to marry elves, hobbits, humans, and even dwarves. How do you tell which is which? Fairy men, known as fairy knights, wear green but so do those that are leprechauns and elven rangers. Female fairies are a little easier to recognize because like hobbits they are usually barefoot. Where they live and what they choose to do will give us some clues. Only time would tell how we all get along.
Chapter 7
We did not have long to wait for more information about the newly arrived fairy folk. We welcomed them and they welcomed us to Shamrock Glen. They had been here before, visiting the sacred stone, and they planned to return to settle here. They left to visit other sacred fairy places and saw us in the distance. The little fairies flew back to leave supplies for us and summoned the Will o' the Wisps to guide us to the portals. The little winged fairies don't need the portals, they are spirits of the air and can fly, although why fly when you can ride. They often hitch-hike on the backs of birds or dragonflies. With fairy dust they can make other creatures fly as well. The magic portals were no longer needed now that the fairy families had returned to settle, the portals disappeared.
As we thought, the arrivals were a mixed group of wood elf rangers and humans who married mixed breeds of fairies and leprechauns. Most originally came from the north woods or Crystal Canyon areas. One group of them settled in our north woods near the sacred stone. They found some large evergreen pines in which to make their homes. One family built a nice house to match those elven Fairy Tale houses in Crystal Canyon.
Another family, part human, built a nice house near to and to match our human couples house. By summer, they build a shed and planted a dust plant and a spring fairy garden with crops like the hobbit's in the mushroom grove. Two workplace houses and a larger storage unit were built just before winter. Two young singles carved out and moved into nearby mushroom houses. They helped the hobbits cut firewood and they gathered wild foods for the humans. It seemed as if we were all going to get along just fine.
Chapter 8
All did not go quite so well for our human couple that year. Image their horror that summer when they awoke to find a changling with very big elf ears instead of the adorable newborn they put to bed the night before. Yes, a fairy switched the babies. Fairies like pretty things including babies and the results of their mixed marriages are often not very pretty, their babies might be born with very big hobbit feet, elf ears, or dwarf beards. They will then switch their baby with one they think is pretty. It's not that they don't love their child, they just like pretty things. They will immediately switch back the pretty baby if it is made know that the victims of the switch plans to destroy the changling. The rumor spread and the babies were switch back and no questions were asked. Normann and I felt very lucky when our 2nd daughter was born in autumn with normal elf ears.
Other than that year 3 went well. The fairy folk in the evergreen pine forest harvested fairy dust in a small plot of 2 plants and a shed. Two workers could produce fairy dust at the plot but only one could work at the dust plant workplace. They would use the fairy dust on the summer fairy garden they planted with an apple tree, potatoes, peppers, squash, beans, cabbage,mushrooms, wild oats, and herbs. The would collected wild honey from the tree stump in the garden. The fairy dust made the garden cold weather tolerant and very productive year round. They built a hunter hideout not far from the forest pond where they would fish.
By autumn things returned to normal in the human's clearing. The fairy folk provided more food varieties and storage and a much needed extra stockpile. Our human couple had no problem with sharing the clothes and tools they made with everyone or teaching children from all families in the outdoor classroom. The students started their school day having fun helping the human couple find their misplaced garden tools. The school was full now, there were 5 student. One child already missed getting an education, another school was needed.
I love that fence - is it part of the new mod you are testing?
Yes, the fence is in Kid Fairy Garden, it actually was made to match the nice house porch railing which inspired the whole mod. I loved it the minute Kid showed me the nice house, I though it looked elven and asked if he could make a fence to match the railing. I love that fence too. :)
Yes, It's hard to imagine those gardens/ farming plots with one of the old fence mods - it would lose some of the magic
:) yes, I though of Kid Fairy Tale mod and magic when I saw that fence rail, magical.
Chapter 9
The next child to reach school age was in our elven forest. Since it would be a few years before another child would come of age, we built an outdoor classroom in our forest. Little fairies soon appeared, they liked the children and the children liked them. Our human couple understandably was not happy to see so many little fairies around. Yaritanya wanted to know if we could make bread from the oats she grew or the wild oats that were gathered. She was told that fairies did not like bread and she should carry some in her pocket and tuck some into her baby's blanket.
We could use more grain or grain products but it was true that fairies disliked bread. To them it was a symbol of homes and industries, they disliked mills and millers who they thought were trying to control the wind and nature. It's been rumored that angry fairies cause the twisting wind storms but no one can prove it. No, we would not build a windmill. Fairies do not like church bells either but even if we had one we would not use it. No, we would not anger them, their little tricks were annoying but harmless. The fairies were helping most of us and it was their glen that they led us to when we need help. The fairies were always busy sprinkling fairy dust on our gardens and planting wild flowers and flowering trees and shrubs to make the glen a beautiful place to live. In a scenic little clearing they turned a cliff rock into a small waterfall that we could use as a well. As soon as the area we choose for a town cemetery was walled in, a fairy appeared who began planting wild flowers before the snow began to fall.
One of the carts of supplies the fairies left for us was almost empty. We moved it out front of the frock maker to save travel distance fetching textiles in winter. The glen was a beautiful place to live even in winter. The snow on our leafy evergreen and pine tree houses further north was just beautiful.
Chapter 10
The temperature rose quickly in early spring of year 5 and the snow soon melted but it rained often that spring. Despite the lack of sunshine, the wild flowers in the glen and in the cemetery bloomed beautifully. There was however quite a bit of rain accumulating in the 2 remaining storage carts. We built a workplace storage unit next to the main stockpile and would empty the carts and store them in the storage unit until needed elsewhere. The main stockpile and others were again full, we placed several small stockpiles around the glen.
The fairies were busy that spring constructing a fence and path that led into the forest past the cemetery. At the end of the path was a pretty little clearing with a stone wayshrine. The shrine was lit by a Will o' the Wisp and the clearing and path were lit by dainty colorful fairy lights. More lights appeared around the glen throughout the summer and fall.
Year 6 was pretty much a repeat of the previous year, beginning with another cool rainy spring. The rain continued off and on through the summer but it did not affect the crops. Bees don't work in the rain or cold but the fairies and their fairy dust do. The fairies must have realized how much fairy dust was now in storage, they stopped gathering fairy dust at the dust plants and plot. One plant was more than enough for 2 fairy garden but there were 3 plants and 1 plot for only 3 gardens.
Without having to spend time working the dust plants, the fairies had a bit more time to play tricks on the human couple and to install more fairy lights around the glen. The lights looked very pretty in the snow and they cast a soft gentle light on the paths on dark winter nights.
Chapter 11
Year 7 was our lucky year and that day in late spring was our human families lucky day. It had been just another rainy spring day until the sun began to break through the clouds and there appeared the most beautiful rainbow any of us had ever seen. It spanned the river not far north of the stockpile and new workplace shed. It wasn't long before a magic portal appeared not far from the rainbow. This portal was more colorful than the one we came through. It was 4 adults with 1 child and 1 little leprechaun that emerged from the portal.
Now genuine leprechauns are fairies but unlike our tiny fairies here in the glen, leprechauns are usually solitary creatures so these companions dressed in fairy frocks might be family of the leprechaun and a mix of breeds. We assumed they were family of the fairy folk already living here as well. Like elves and fairies only purebred leprechauns know magic, some say leprechauns are actually little old elves, not fairies at all.
The leprechauns moved into 2 treehouses and a nice house that had a golden glow to it. We all know how much leprechauns like gold. I don't know who the little leprechaun was living with. There was a couple with a 2 year old that moved into the tallest treehouse and their 14 year old son moved into the shorter one. A 34 year old male moved into the nice house. Indeed it looked very nice when the trees began to change color that autumn. Their treehouses changed color too, they were seasonal treehouses not evergreen like the leafy or pine ones we elves were living in. The golden color of the seasonal treehouses remained all winter long.
Chapter 12
By spring of year 8, the leprechauns had a fall fairy garden planted, there was plenty of fairy dust in storage that they helped themselves to. The garden had a few dead trees to collect branches from for firewood. There was corn, pumpkins, Brussels sprouts, carrots, potatoes, and sunflowers that provided edible sun seeds. It was a very nice looking garden.
We were rather surprised at first to see a rabbit hutch next to the nice house. I have no idea where they got the rabbits from or why. I learned later from Yaritanaya that the little leprechaun was going to give her a lucky rabbit's foot to protect against the fairy's trickery. Now leprechauns are known to like a little fun but their mischief is more of a random practical joke now and then, not spiteful or revengeful like the little fairies. The little leprechaun seems to have taken a liking to our human, maybe it was just friendly helpfulness towards someone who was being picked on. We hoped there would not be trouble.
Later in the year the little leprechaun planted a shamrock patch near the human's house. Townfolk stopped to look for a lucky 4-leaf clover every time they passed by, it sure made them happy. The little leprechaun planted a few plants outside Yaitanaya's front door too, just for luck.
Chapter 13
By spring of year 8 our 2 outdoor classrooms were full, we build a schoolhouse near the cemetery. The humans thought it would be nice to have a small chapel by the cemetery as well. Since they had a rougher time here than the rest of us, we agreed. It had a cross on the steeple but there was no church bell to keep the fairies away. The leprechaun's lucky clovers and rabbit's foot seemed to be helping. A rowan tree planted by the house or a talisman made from its wood would also have helped but we had no rowan tree. We had no horseshoe to hang on the door either but the leprechaun's lucky charms seemed to have done the trick. Life inside the human's nice house returned to normal, only occasionally did a garden tool outside get misplaced.
The little fairies were busy adding more fairy lights to the walkways by the school and chapel and also by the new town hall that was completed by late autumn that year. It was so nice to have a complete set of records kept all together inside one building. We recorded the fact that Shamrock Glen had 62 citizens now, 36 adults, 14 students, and 12 young children who were all happy and healthy. We did not record the little fairies or Lucky the leprechaun as we now called him.
Chapter 14
The fairies were busy in early spring of year 9 clearing land near the cemetery. They planted another garden and a fairy dust plant. It was a very pretty plum patch with 2 plum trees. The fairy dust soon had the plants growing and producing. All the fairy gardens were doing well. There were 2 spring gardens, 1 in the center of town and 1 in the hobbit's mushroom grove. The spring gardens had pear trees, vegetables, mushrooms, and wild oats. There was the summer garden with a fairy dust plot in the evergreen pine forest, it had an apple tree and summer vegetables like beans, peppers, and potatoes. The fall fairy garden by the leprechaun's seasonal tree houses provided firewood, and included pumpkins and sun seeds from the beautiful sunny sunflowers.
The newly planted fairy plum patch had plums, wild honey, herbs, and flax for the fairy frock maker to use. The fairy gardens and new plum patch not only provided us all with a lot of food but they added so much natural beauty to Shamrock Glen.
Chapter 15
Over the years the fairy gardens provided us with a lot of food and a lot of variety but the rest of us did our share of providing too, without the help of fairy dust. The hobbit's farmyard gave us apples, mushrooms, pork, and leather. The human's farmyard gave us oats, potatoes, carrots, and wool and wool coats. There was leather and venison from our elven hunter hideouts and more leather and rabbit meat from the leprechaun's rabbit hutch. The hedgerow in our elven leafy green forest gave us apples, berries, and chestnuts. The 2 beautiful fishing ponds in the forest areas would provide us with even more fish since we only recently added a second fisherman to each.
We were sure lucky that the fairies guided us here to this glen in Shamrock Woods.
Chapter 16
But wait, what's going on over by the new fairy plum patch? Someone dropped a plum. What were they doing, trying to grow another plum tree? But no, they brought 4 pieces of wood and 12 units of fairy dust. The plum is getting bigger, and bigger. Oh my gosh, they must have used too much fairy dust, the plum is huge. But wait, there's more. They used the wood to make a door and a window, yes, a door and a window. They made a sugar plum shop. With plums and wild honey from the new plum patch they began making sugar plums. Can you believe that, weary traveler, sugar plums. Yes, they must be sugar plum fairies and sugar plum fairies do like sweet things.
Chapter 17
Yes, fairies like sweet things as much as leprechaun's like a good mug of ale. By early spring of year 11, Lucky the leprechaun was brewing apple ale at a workplace brewer barrel. And not only that but he place a pot at the end of the rainbow, yup that's right, filled with gold, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I can't tell you how much that gold was worth, we had no trading post, but let me tell you, that gold was priceless to our townfolk. Lucky set up a table by the ale barrel and would hide a piece of gold under one of the three nut shells he had. After their day of work, folks would stop at the shamrock patch to find a lucky 4-leaf clover then would stop for a mug of ale and take a chance at guessing which shell the gold was under. If they guessed right, Lucky gave them the piece of gold. Many folks now had a lucky gold coin along with a bit of fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfkaf70SYM
Mod note: Fairy garden cottages in 3 textures have been added to Fairy Garden mod.
Chapter 18
We all felt very lucky indeed that the fairies led us here to this beautiful glen and that the leprechauns joined us. We had more than enough of everything we needed.
At the beginning of year 12 we decided we need a few more homes. There were several young people living at home that were now of marriageable age. We were pleased when asked that they said they wanted nice small cottages because they only planned to have 1 child each. These couples would be combinations of elves, hobbits, and fairies. We hoped there would not be another changling incident. Two of the 6 needed homes were built by autumn, one near the river and one near the school. Two 15-year-old males moved in, one became a fisherman at the new mini pier and the other took over as school teacher.
They had barely gotten settled when there was an outbreak of dysentery which started slowly with one case and then spread to 4 others before we built a mini hospital not far from the mini town hall. When the hospital was finished the builders carved out another of the big mushrooms thinking the doctor would want to live near the hospital. By the end of the year all 5 patients were cured and both young men had taken brides.
Chapter 19
There would be more houses built and more couples starting families. Shamrock Glen had certainly grown since we came through the magic portal 13 years ago. The hobbits settled in the mushroom grove with their pigs and planted a spring garden. We elves settled into leafy evergreen tree houses and hunted, gathered, and fished in the forest pond. Our human couple settled in the center clearing with their sheep and farmyard crops. That area grew with half-human fairies who arrived shortly after we did. They planted a spring garden and later a plum patch and made sugar plum treats. Elven fairy folk settled in the north part of the glen in evergreen pine tree houses. They fished, hunted, and grew a summer fairy garden. Last to arrive was Lucky the leprechaun and his family. They settled in a nice house and seasonal tree houses. They planted a beautiful fall fairy garden and raised rabbits for meat and lucky rabbit's feet. There was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The seasonal tree houses changed color in late autumn and the snow began to fall.
Twenty-six of us came through that portal. In winter of year 13 Shamrock Glen had a population of 75, 44 adults, 17 students, and 14 young children.
Chapter 20
And then it was spring again in Shamrock Glen. The flowering trees began to bloom and the gardens began to grow. And as they did every year on the day of the spring equinox, the little fairies and will o' the wisps celebrated in the fairy ring, and at the wayshrine, and at the sacred stone. The first day of spring was a happy time in Shamrock Glen to be sure.
Happy first day of spring, weary traveler, may your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow and good luck follow you where ever you go.
The End
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@Abandoned A very colorful and happy story :)
I hope spring will come to you too.
I come with three small mods you used and thought they would be appropriate here.
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@kid1293 , a very pretty and fun mod to use :) It is a beautiful first day of spring here, I wish the same for you.
I will add link with small descriptions of the 3 mods to Kid Lost & Found later.
Link to Kid Fairy Garden download can be found here: http://worldofbanished.com/index.php?topic=3945.0
@Abandoned ;D ;D ;D Thank you for the beautiful musical insert - the tear in the eye is spinning - they remind me of the good old times, thanks for the great stories about fairies. I hope you will write a wonderful story and the dear master @ Kid will add wonderful buildings and surroundings? Greeting and bows
:) :) :) Thank you
@taniu. Some of those old songs are some of the best. :) Kid and I are working on a couple of other things but the new story starting today features angainor88's new mods. I think you will like it. :)