25 - So much for Norville Island Ales.
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There are a couple of breweries somehow still
operating past the old railroad tracks near the
inlet. And Del has been working at the worse one,
Norville Island Ales. That beer is so bad. But a
job is a job, and 3 weeks must be some kind of
record for Del, so that's great for them. The
brewery owner has a big heart and gives a hand up
to hard luck cases. Also she has started hiring
Olds sometimes too, dwarfs mainly or sometimes an
elf, which is interesting and unusual around these
parts, but I think it's really good. Some will
disagree with me on that, but this is the future
coming on.
I'm walking with Del on their way to their shift
the other morning. And when we get there, I see
the owner of the place has goblins out in the back
lot, stacking pallets or something. She's got
goblins working there now? Goblins. Come on, now
that is going too far.
So Del heads inside to start, and I just have to
hang back from the next lot and watch the goblin
jobs. Sure enough, after a little while they are
fighting instead of stacking, hitting each other
with the pallets. Then one chases the other up the
arm of some old cherry-picker truck parked in the
next lot. And somehow, I have no idea how, they
activate the hydraulics, and now the arm is going
up and down and spinning around. And those poor
little things are stuck up there, wailing while
the thing spins around. So I'm thinking can I
somehow help, or ...?
Don't even get to finish that thought, because out
of nowhere a yellow dragon appears in the sky,
attracted by the commotion or something, I don't
know how dragons think. But it swoops low and
grabs the cherry picker truck's arm with its
talons, and actually starts to fly off with it!
Except it ends up snagging it on a power line, and
dropping it onto the brewery building, which is
some old brick thing that collapses right
quick. The vats tip and bust open too, and soon
there is crappy beer spilling everywhere from the
ruins of it all. I guess that's the end of that
place, and Del's job. But like I say, Norville
Island beer was pretty bad anyways.
