The tale of Felix the Frippo - Atysmas Storytelling Assembly in Jena Year 2600 (2018-12-28)
There are lots of Atysmas stories about yubos and gingos and even the Kinitch, but tonight I will tell you a tale about a little frippo who almost ruined Atysmas.
Many, many, years ago Felix the frippo was frolicking through the forest. Sometimes he would stop to graze on the wildflowers, but mostly he just bounded along from place to place. He was in the middle of one bound when something hit his head.
*bonk*
"Ow!" Felix looked up and saw a big tree with shining lights and ornaments, big ornaments, like the one that had just hit his head.
Well, that was an attack, and he knew what to do, so he used his special talent and sucked all the sap out of the tree.
As he did so, it got smaller, and the ornaments got smaller and then the lights went out.
"Hah! So much for that one," said Felix. "But if there is one, there are usually others, and I should make sure they cannot harm my brothers and sisters."
So Felix went throughout the forest and wherever he saw one of the dangerous magical trees he drained it of sap and it went dark.
As he was passing by Avalae on his way back to his home he heard homins talking about the trees and saying, "At least the trees in the other three lands are still lit. Atysmas will still come."
There were trees in other lands! They must be drained as well. Felix knew it must be his duty. Whatever this "Atysmas" was, the trees were a danger to frippos everywhere.
So Felix travelled through Hidden Source to the Burning Desert and to Thesos and Pyr and then across the Outback to the Witherings, and to the Cities of Intuition, and crossed the Trench of Trials and scurried through Bounty Beaches to the lands of Aeden Aqueous.
Everywhere he went, he drained and darkened the Atysmas trees as he travelled. It was the day before Atysmas when he arrived in Fairhaven.
Now it is a little known fact that on the day before Atysmas, in the evening, beasts and homins can speak to each other.
Thus it was that as Felix was draining the Atysmas tree in front of Fairhaven, a little red-headed Tryker child named Ba’Hoolie Sindie came up and said, "Stop that! You’re ruining Atysmas!" Felix stopped and looked at her in surprise.
"A tree like this one attacked me and I am keeping them from attacking other frippos," Felix said. "What is Atysmas?" he asked, because he had never heard of it.
"Atysmas is the time when everyone gives presents to each other and Father Atysmas rides through the sky and gives presents to everyone! It only happens once every five years, and it is a time of joy and peace."
"An Atysmas tree would never have attacked you. You must have just run into it with your bounding. Like this, see?" She hit an ornament on the tree with her little fist and it went: *bonk* with just the same sound that Felix had heard in the forest.
Felix thought and thought and thought and realized that he might have made a mistake. "Am I really ruining Atysmas?" he asked.
Sindie said, "Oy, because if the Atysmas trees are not lit, then Father Atysmas cannot find our villages to leave his presents, and tonight is the night he is supposed to come!"
Felix was very sad because he now realized that in his rush to protect his people from a danger that didn’t really exist, he had done something very bad for the homins.
He had stopped draining the tree, but when he tried to put the sap back nothing happened. "What can I do? I can’t put the sap back into the trees."
"I don’t know" said Sindie "but I bet Mr. Snow can help. He’s just a little bit away in Lakenisle. Follow me!" Felix followed her and they swam to Lakenisle and found Mr Snow standing by an oven.
"Ho, Ho!" said Mr Snow. "We need a special magic to solve this problem. I’ll bake a special cookie!"
"But, Mr. Snow, your cookies are only good for making new snow people!" said Sindie.
"Do you think I give out all my recipes to homins? I have lots of them! Let’s see, a little of this, a spoonful of sugar, a dash of spice, toast it in the oven, and there it is, practically perfect in every way."
"Little frippo, eat this cookie and for the rest of the night you will be able to push sap into things as easily as you normally drain sap."
"But Mr. Snow, how will we be able to do that before Father Atysmas comes?"
"I will give you these pacts and you will carry the frippo to all the towns in the New Lands, so he can do it fast. Start in Fairhaven, and I have given you an extra pact for that town so you can come home."
So Felix ate the cookie and Sindie picked up Felix and first they went to Fairhaven where Felix filled up the Atysmas tree and it glowed so much that there were flows of light up the branches in addition to the regular lights.
Then they went to the Cities of Intuition, and to Thesos and Dyron and Pyr, and to the cities and towns in the Majestic Garden, and in each place Felix re-filled the trees he had drained and gave them a bit extra.
Finally, in Avalae, Sindie put Felix down and said, "Goodbye, Mister Felix. You made everything better again, so this is a truly Felix Atysmas!"
Then Felix said, "Sindie Ba’Hoolie, you have shown me the true meaning of Atysmas." Then they each went to their own homes, and Father Atysmas delivered gifts not just to the homins in the New Lands, but also special treats to all the frippos in the forest.
And from that day to this, Atysmas Trees have spirals of extra sap that run around their branches.
There are lots of Atysmas stories about yubos and gingos and even the Kinitch, but tonight I will tell you a tale about a little frippo who almost ruined Atysmas.
Many, many, years ago Felix the frippo was frolicking through the forest. Sometimes he would stop to graze on the wildflowers, but mostly he just bounded along from place to place. He was in the middle of one bound when something hit his head.
*bonk*
"Ow!" Felix looked up and saw a big tree with shining lights and ornaments, big ornaments, like the one that had just hit his head.
Well, that was an attack, and he knew what to do, so he used his special talent and sucked all the sap out of the tree.
As he did so, it got smaller, and the ornaments got smaller and then the lights went out.
"Hah! So much for that one," said Felix. "But if there is one, there are usually others, and I should make sure they cannot harm my brothers and sisters."
So Felix went throughout the forest and wherever he saw one of the dangerous magical trees he drained it of sap and it went dark.
As he was passing by Avalae on his way back to his home he heard homins talking about the trees and saying, "At least the trees in the other three lands are still lit. Atysmas will still come."
There were trees in other lands! They must be drained as well. Felix knew it must be his duty. Whatever this "Atysmas" was, the trees were a danger to frippos everywhere.
So Felix travelled through Hidden Source to the Burning Desert and to Thesos and Pyr and then across the Outback to the Witherings, and to the Cities of Intuition, and crossed the Trench of Trials and scurried through Bounty Beaches to the lands of Aeden Aqueous.
Everywhere he went, he drained and darkened the Atysmas trees as he travelled. It was the day before Atysmas when he arrived in Fairhaven.
Now it is a little known fact that on the day before Atysmas, in the evening, beasts and homins can speak to each other.
Thus it was that as Felix was draining the Atysmas tree in front of Fairhaven, a little red-headed Tryker child named Ba’Hoolie Sindie came up and said, "Stop that! You’re ruining Atysmas!" Felix stopped and looked at her in surprise.
"A tree like this one attacked me and I am keeping them from attacking other frippos," Felix said. "What is Atysmas?" he asked, because he had never heard of it.
"Atysmas is the time when everyone gives presents to each other and Father Atysmas rides through the sky and gives presents to everyone! It only happens once every five years, and it is a time of joy and peace."
"An Atysmas tree would never have attacked you. You must have just run into it with your bounding. Like this, see?" She hit an ornament on the tree with her little fist and it went: *bonk* with just the same sound that Felix had heard in the forest.
Felix thought and thought and thought and realized that he might have made a mistake. "Am I really ruining Atysmas?" he asked.
Sindie said, "Oy, because if the Atysmas trees are not lit, then Father Atysmas cannot find our villages to leave his presents, and tonight is the night he is supposed to come!"
Felix was very sad because he now realized that in his rush to protect his people from a danger that didn’t really exist, he had done something very bad for the homins.
He had stopped draining the tree, but when he tried to put the sap back nothing happened. "What can I do? I can’t put the sap back into the trees."
"I don’t know" said Sindie "but I bet Mr. Snow can help. He’s just a little bit away in Lakenisle. Follow me!" Felix followed her and they swam to Lakenisle and found Mr Snow standing by an oven.
"Ho, Ho!" said Mr Snow. "We need a special magic to solve this problem. I’ll bake a special cookie!"
"But, Mr. Snow, your cookies are only good for making new snow people!" said Sindie.
"Do you think I give out all my recipes to homins? I have lots of them! Let’s see, a little of this, a spoonful of sugar, a dash of spice, toast it in the oven, and there it is, practically perfect in every way."
"Little frippo, eat this cookie and for the rest of the night you will be able to push sap into things as easily as you normally drain sap."
"But Mr. Snow, how will we be able to do that before Father Atysmas comes?"
"I will give you these pacts and you will carry the frippo to all the towns in the New Lands, so he can do it fast. Start in Fairhaven, and I have given you an extra pact for that town so you can come home."
So Felix ate the cookie and Sindie picked up Felix and first they went to Fairhaven where Felix filled up the Atysmas tree and it glowed so much that there were flows of light up the branches in addition to the regular lights.
Then they went to the Cities of Intuition, and to Thesos and Dyron and Pyr, and to the cities and towns in the Majestic Garden, and in each place Felix re-filled the trees he had drained and gave them a bit extra.
Finally, in Avalae, Sindie put Felix down and said, "Goodbye, Mister Felix. You made everything better again, so this is a truly Felix Atysmas!"
Then Felix said, "Sindie Ba’Hoolie, you have shown me the true meaning of Atysmas." Then they each went to their own homes, and Father Atysmas delivered gifts not just to the homins in the New Lands, but also special treats to all the frippos in the forest.
And from that day to this, Atysmas Trees have spirals of extra sap that run around their branches.