The dark clouds linger over the sprawling river delta as the sun sets over the water. During the night a fleet of smugglers will carry stolen treasures across the straights to land on the shores of the island nation ruled by trolls.  The long shoreline and rocky jagged coast gave plenty of cover for small dories to remain hidden until the moon was dark and the deal had been done.  The troll king had forbidden the population to sing and dance, which lead to a mass depression in the troll population.  They were required to spend the entire workday grumbling and making false accusations.  The opportunities for advancement were few, and depended on nepotism and corruption.  Most of the nation was enslaved for the sole purpose of making the world a darker place.  After years of this oppression they found ways to slip away across the water into the land of big industry.  Over there, singing and dancing were not outlawed, and neither was heavy drug use by employers on their slaves.  They gave them meth every day to make them more productive in the factories and on the job sites.  At night they took sleeping pills to get some rest after a day all jazzed up at the factory.  Most of them took 5 or 6 other drugs, but they did not know why they had been prescribed.   They were all addicted to pills, and were all desperately unhappy.

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