Prehistoric Times

Lo Quality Era(LQE): Year -1

The great plague was passing. For untold millenia, or maybe like, a year or so, the inhabitants of the Port burrowed in their homes, forming isolated ant farms with no glass to see. Eventually, the inoculation came.

The Jester finally left home, traveling weekly to a musical locale he remembered from the dim past. The establishment was a place of little note, named for a film from the bygone, mythic era referred to as “The Nineties.” There, years before, he had met a mischievous Vizier skilled in all manners of musical craft, and exchanged pleasant conversation. His shock was great when, upon returning, the Jester found that the wily Vizier now ran the musical gatherings there, and the scene was filled with all manner of strange characters. In his subsequent returns to the establishment, the Jester caroused with many an odd being, but the most important for the purposes of our story was the Space Ghost, an ethereal bass being hailing from the distant planet of Minneapol, in the cold depths of the Orion arm.

For many moons the Jester was a mainstay at the musicians’ gathering, until one dreary winter morning he awoke with the plague. In spite of his inoculation, he was out of commission for 2 weeks, and missed his usual musical gallivants. When he at last returned, a new character had marched on to the stage; The Emperor.

To Be Continued…