The Story of Mr Glad
The story of Mr Glad is longer than some, so you might want to get more comfortable than you are.
So, Mr. Glad - or, as he was known back then, Arcturus Sporen (a very odd name, I know, but I'll get to that in a moment) - was born in a very low position. A small town on a planet that has not been heard of. Way in the back country. His parents were unknown to him, but he got along fairly well.
One day, something fairly momentous happened. A priest was making his usual runabout of the little town, trying to convert people with little success, when a little boy comes running down the road being chased by a troop of soldiers. Arcturus ran at the soldiers and was skewered by a sword.
As you can see, his life should have ended then and there, but somehow, he got up two weeks later in a different village. He dredged the story from the priest that had been meandering around the village, apparently, the priest took compassion on him and hurried him to One known only to a few. This One healed his wound and slowly raised Arcturus back from death.
However, there was a price. (Getting a bit cliché here, I know.) One told the priest to deliver a message to Arcturus, he said (in very ancient form), "Thou hast been safeguarded from thine heavy misfortune, nevertheless, thou must live the remainder of thine life in immortality. Foreasmuch as thou art sustained by thine basic supplements, thou shalt be delivered from all thine ailments. Furthermore, thou shalt forever hence be known as Mister Glad."
So, that is how Arcturus became Mr. Glad. He talked to the priest afterward, and the priest had no recollection of this speech.
Don't ask about the tail, you really do not want to know.
So, Mr. Glad - or, as he was known back then, Arcturus Sporen (a very odd name, I know, but I'll get to that in a moment) - was born in a very low position. A small town on a planet that has not been heard of. Way in the back country. His parents were unknown to him, but he got along fairly well.
One day, something fairly momentous happened. A priest was making his usual runabout of the little town, trying to convert people with little success, when a little boy comes running down the road being chased by a troop of soldiers. Arcturus ran at the soldiers and was skewered by a sword.
As you can see, his life should have ended then and there, but somehow, he got up two weeks later in a different village. He dredged the story from the priest that had been meandering around the village, apparently, the priest took compassion on him and hurried him to One known only to a few. This One healed his wound and slowly raised Arcturus back from death.
However, there was a price. (Getting a bit cliché here, I know.) One told the priest to deliver a message to Arcturus, he said (in very ancient form), "Thou hast been safeguarded from thine heavy misfortune, nevertheless, thou must live the remainder of thine life in immortality. Foreasmuch as thou art sustained by thine basic supplements, thou shalt be delivered from all thine ailments. Furthermore, thou shalt forever hence be known as Mister Glad."
So, that is how Arcturus became Mr. Glad. He talked to the priest afterward, and the priest had no recollection of this speech.
Don't ask about the tail, you really do not want to know.
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