Chapter One
Chapter One
In the coming years a small measure of order was restored to the streets of Boomtown as town officials succeeded in washing away the sins that had depraved their town for so long. Most of the rebels were driven out, the town cleaned up; and an annual town fair was set up in the hopes that it would unite and solidify the community. Grim reminders of Boomtowns dark history still lurked around every street corner but things were definitely looking up.
Travelling musicians and wandering minstrels caught news of the fair and came from far and wide, bringing joyful music into the streets. As well as farmers from neighbouring villages and towns selling their produce came peddlers of exotic food and fine clothes from across the seas. The townsfolk had never experienced such an array of colour and sound tantalising every sense. Still more folk flooded in from the four corners of the country as they heard news of the merry gathering. The resident’s hearts and minds were lifted as they danced the night away – little did they know of the impending calamity about to unfold.
The very week following the fair the unthinkable happened – the gold ran out. Old Fred Anderson swung his pickaxe for the very last time. His eyes only glimpsed the last remaining gold nugget before his fellow miners murdered him for that last grain of wealth. Panic and violence set in once more and the streets descended into anarchy. The golden days of Boomtown were seemingly over.
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