and then there's that very small group who nobody even knows how many people are still alive in it with a couple who claim they are leaders - or not - depending on circumstances. this "tribe" is no longer even banded around their old firepit because the god of that area took all the sitting stumps away for continually failing to understand how proper worship is conducted.
anyway, that tribe - if it still even exists - sends a guy back and forth once a week (or maybe he just thought it was the thing to do) who says what he has always said. though he uses the words very cunningly so the less-evolved don't seem to notice:
"if only you could see how marvelous our fire is and all the exciting food we are cooking on it! it's exciting..."
(he picked up some of his lingo from a long-haul mastodon handler.) then:
"...it is all-pervasive!"
like cavemen want to hear THAT word now. last time he used it he was talking about cooling their food with some frigmerater when what they wanted to do was cook it.
"...and the wood we use will burn anywhere - as long as you use this monkey-sloth firestarter that miracoulously will not burn us though every other caveman that has tried to use it got burned very badly."
at this point, some cavemen get up and leave as to not have to remember some things he said on behalf of his tribe a couple years before, about mixing monkey-sloth concoctions in polite company.
"...and any day now - any day now - you will be able to see our chairs - er, fire burning - no matter how far away or where you stand or sit!"
-- whereupon a very ominous type with a very aggressive stance moves out of the shadows for the first time in months, pushes him aside, and growls, "but we won't let you see it! and unless we let you see it you don't really know what it is, so don't talk about it because you don't know. and if you are talking about it you obviously come from a dull-witted slothenly tribe that didn't hear what i said because i really didn't SAY that - i really said something else which if you were not pig-breeders you would have the sense to know!"
whereupon the other tribes go back to their fires knowing they are already a LOT better off with whichever type of wood they've chosen to burn, beacuse even if it gets pissed on at least it is able to burn. and even if most of the food is stale, at least it has some sustenance to it.
besides, they've heard some disquieting things about that weird tribe eating at least one of their own and leaving his wife and child in very bad straits. some even heard the screams, though many tried to deny it.
also, that weird tribe had promised them furs at least 10 moons ago that never DID show up.
whatsupwiddat?
