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More on "S" story from Bree

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*** Newsflash *** {May 16 Noon}
BLACKMAILERS THREATEN "S"

BREE - Shirrif Mayberry has recieved a ransom demand from the persons who stole the big LED "S" from the Butterburr Cheese Factory. "Ransomers have demanded that Butterburr Cheese pay them a dragon's horde of gold and jewels for the safe return of the big LED 'S'," he said. "It goes on to tell the Butterburrs that if the ransom isn't paid by sunset tonight, they will destroy their 'S'."

*** Newsflash *** {May 17 Evening}
SHIRRIFS GRAB 'S'!
HAND CHEESE'S 'S' BACK TO THEM

BREE - Bree shirrifs have recovered the big LED "S" that was stolen from the Butterburr Cheese Factory construction site. In a surprise turn of events, Shirrif Mayberry announced that a task force led by him tracked down the whereabouts of the big LED "S". "We followed the instructions in the ransom note and placed the map to the ransom in a secluded spot along the western edge of the Old Forest. However, instead of going out to dinner as the ransom note suggested, we instead headed to our decoy dragon's horde up above Combe and waited for the dastards to show up. And show up they finally did! There were three of them in cloaks - they were short, but didn't appear to be hobbits. Unfortunately, one of my hobbits belched and gave us away."

"The three ran off. We followed them down to near that barrow wight hangout near the Old Forest along the Great East Road. Nasty place. Gives me the creeps. Anyway we lost them around there. But as we spread out to look for them, Shirrif Fifeblower slipped and fell into a hole in the ground. He was yelling, but we could barely hear him. His voice was kind of muffled-like, but it sounded like he was yelling something about an 'S hole'".

"Well, we looked around until we found that 'S' hole. We looked down and were surprised when we realized that there were two 'S'es'! One was a smaller metal-looking 's' about half the size of the one we were looking for; the other was the Butterburr's 's'. Poor Fifeblower. It turned out that when he had fallen, he had gotten his head stuck in the big LED 'S'. So we grabbed ahold of his legs and pulled. That was one tight 'S', but we finally pulled his head of out his 'S' by bracing ourselves against the smaller 's'."

"Once we had gotten him free, we called for a couple wagons. While we were waiting, we noticed that the 'S'-hole had been freshly-dug; I'd say it was less than a week old. Anyway, the wagons finally arrived and we then hauled 'S'es' back to the factory."