Team Track Tuesday: Slugfest
Before you can understand what's happening at the Everett Team Track, you’ll need to understand what's been happening up the line in Packsaddle (Pinery) Narrows.
Shortly after Valley Energy began experimenting with its new plasma energy generator, locals started reporting all manner of oddities. Strange sounds, unusual smells, and odd creatures to name a few. But, until last week, the rest of the Valley dismissed the reports as nonsense from a bunch of backwood bumpkins.
What changed? Well, some of that backwood's nonsense managed to escape the Narrows. It came by way of a rickety old freight car on its way to the scrap yard. A brief stop in Everett was just long enough for a few unusually slimy stowaways to ooze into the lives of the upstanding citizens of Everett.
Some in Everett tried to ignore the problem.
Others tried to intimidate the problem with fancy credentials and big words.
Law enforcement tried to strong arm the beasts.
A few kind folks even tried to domesticate the creatures.
Over the weekend, the level of engagement escalated. Men from Jaite, fearing the slugs could soon make their way across the river, came to Everett with plans to hack up the gooey invertebrates.
Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work.
That brings us to Team Track Tuesday. In a last-ditch effort to save their town from the slimy slugs, Everett trustees ordered two emergency carloads of Salt from the Morton mines in Rittman.
And here, at the team track, our long story meets a quick, sizzling and rather disgusting end. Using the sounds of sticks beating against galvanized garbage can lids as a distraction, residents heaved piles of premium salt at the critters, thus ending slugfest 2017.
As for the strange happenings up in Packsaddle Narrows, we’ll just have to save that for another day.
