[ IP ] The City of Palaquin

`` They built a city on your butt, North.'' 
 
 `` Shut up!'' 
 
 Even with their stone limbs frozen in servitude, the Four Golems of Palaquin conversed with the same freedom as their human masters. There was little else to do to pass the time. 
 
 `` Come on. There is no denying that they built a district of the city *on your butt*.'' 
 
 `` Yeah - well - that financial district on your gut makes you look fat!'' 
 
 `` Gentlemen! We're forgetting the real dilemma here.'' 
 
 `` Oh, you mean why they did n't build anything on your skinny ass, West?'' 
 
 `` No, I mean, with the flood receded, why have n't they let us put this blasted chunk of rock down? Their city will be fine on the ground.'' 
 
 `` It's obvious! If we put the city down, North's butt will move and collapse his district. And East's gut rolls will crush the financial district.'' 
 
 `` Hey!!'' 
 
 `` It's true. We're stuck here until they abandon the place.'' 
 
 `` Easy for you to say, South. You get to wear your district like a backpack.'' 
 
 `` I know, is n't it cool?'' 
 
 `` I think it looks like a hump. A big, ugly hump.'' 
 
 `` You've never seen it, North. They built it after we raised the capitol. How would you know what it looks like?'' 
 
 `` I just know.'' 
 
 `` Sure, Building Butt. Whatever makes you feel better.'' 
 
 `` *Aa-CHOO! *'' 
 
 `` Excuse you, East.'' 
 
 `` Sorry, a bird flew up my nose.'' 
 
... and so carried on the Four Golems of Palaquin, the noble and dignified guardians of the city, whose great feat of strength had saved it from ruin so long ago. 
 
 
 

