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St Dionysus Square, Konstantine, 9th of November, 2013
The Burning the Wicker Man... well as I remember was the beginning of the worst period in the Rodarion Theocratic section of History. The burning of the Wicker man would spark the worst Domestic terrorism and internal strife ever in Rodarion History. Thousands would die, as Socialist groups fight to the death to bring the Theocratic Government crashing down. This is the story of how one brilliant spectacle would bring the wrath of socialist cells onto a government so full of hatred. Well my story...
As I lay on my bed, in my penthouse with very little care of the world. As the cool, winter breeze blew through my window, I couldn’t help but hear the sound of a beating drum...
As I lifted my heavy, tired, exhausted body off my bed, I dragged myself towards the window, before me in St. Dionysus Square stood an 50 meter tall wicker man.... A work of modern art? I wondered, no not in the centre of the lunacy of the Theocratic Government.
But the beating continued and continued... then i realised what it was... hundreds of black uniformed soldiers marched in unison around the base of the wickerman. Men dressed in white amassed around the Statue of Sister Aphrodite. Cardinals of the most divine Government of the new Rodarion, please I’m a banker and I know what insanity is when I see it. Thousands of people lined the sides and galleys of the square, flashes of photographs sparked all around the edges as people tried their best to gain a section of this odd festival to madness. So it began, the Menarci and the Doci appeared on the podium and waved to the fervour mad crowd as they always did..
As the Black Guard, the most elite infantry unit in the Divine Army of Rodarion marched around the Wicker man in one column, the front of the column had six men marched just ahead wielding the national flag. Behind them the massive goose marching column, the sick symbol of the Rodarion culture. As their jack boots smashed against the marble floor of the square, the crowd sung out the Vespi Nici, the warrior’s prayer. The sheer image of the black uniformed men marching like that turns my stomach, surely we saw it all the time with Kadar, since he was a Fascist. But this was.. was different. I felt hate and pure anger with this parade, or festival to the warrior. As the band played the Irokon Sturma I knew what this was. This was a parade with meaning, it wasn’t for show or to keep Konstantine’s tourism pay check coming in, but this was planned and wanted.
Suddenly the wicker man was donned with light by the various spot lights along the columns of the square. It was colossal. And it was covered in Socialist flags, posters, pictures. In its hollow chest was the hammer and Sickle. At its base, red robbed men were chucking books and paintings, papers onto his feet. On the four corners of the man, stood white robbed men holding torches. The flames illuminating the troops as they marched passed him. As the world focused around my head, I saw the helicopters above, the draped flags around the square.
Then the old man himself began to speak, the Doci’s words of wisedom;
“My Children, Brothers and Sisters, before you stands the wicker man of Communism, Liaoism, Socialism, Ultra Leftism. The Very Ideologies that would see our light and our soul be chucked away to make us equal. No man is equal, we have our betters and our lesser, How as the children of the Holy Father supposed to evolve and progress without betters? Who will conduct a better music piece if he does not have something to beat. Socialism my children is the scourge of the world. It limit’s mans potential, it limits the rights of the Lord. We cannot allow this abomination exist within our lands. We are the embodiment of the father. Therefore we must destroy his enemies with pride and righteousness. So let the works and heresy before you burn. Burn it all, burn down the Socialist monolith till it is ashes before the man of God...”
the crowd roared with joy, as it did the four torches were thrown onto the pyre at the base of the wicker man. Exploding into a ball of fire and smoke, the works of artists, politicians, writers, poets, actors, authors, play writers went up in flames.
As the red snakes climbed up the legs of the wicker man, the flags of Socialism and major socialist powers ignited a large pillar of black smoke rose up from the wicker man, the Black Guard still marching around the burning effigy, the hammer and sickle in the chest ignited and again the zealous crowd roared as it crumbled to the fire below. In the head of the Wicker man was a portrait of Marx himself. When the frame smashed and his face ignited into flame, the crowd began to chant “Es Spiritus An Grankte” Old Rodarion for let your soul burn in hell.
I was Horrified, not even in Kadar’s time had this occurred, the Church had now declared war on Socialism within Rodarion.
“My Brothers and sisters, not only shall we purge Konstantine of Socialism, we shall purge Liberus, Arcadia, Vangeron, Vanstellen, Olympika, Vakorion of Socialism. We shall hunt down every left wing supporter until the their children cry out for mercy. We shall drench the graves of our ancestors with the blood of the Communist. We shall deal such a deadly blow that even the dead shall cry out in pain. The Holy father wants us to succeed, this is a test. We must pass so we can prove to him our devotion and love we have for him. It is the way to progress along the path to enlightenment. We must purge our blood of the socialist virus. Let us burn its heart at the pyres of old. Let us begin the war against the left within Rodarion. Let Konstantine cry out for revenge. Now shout, shout the order..” He raised his wrinkly hands, receiving a united response. “Burn the left to the ground” the Crowd roared aloud.
Across the square, the crowd ran down onto the square and ran out towards the city, the Black Guard halted and Stood to attention, turning towards Bacchus Park and saluted the Doci and marched out of the square.
The first step towards what would be called the winter of Blood, was the crowd converged on the Workers Social club just 20 minutes walk from St Dionysius Square, chanting death to Marxists, they picked up bricks from the near by building site and threw them at the windows of the club.
As the men inside came rushing out, the crowd charged and began to attack the men inside. My tall apartment block was tall enough for me to see all, I see the men who only wanted to be fair and equal and have the same as the rich, be beaten to death by over zealous morons. As the bodies of the dead were lifted up onto the crowd, the laughed and cheered as the club was set alight. But to avoid collateral damage the police arrived and dispersed the crowd. An ambulance and a fire engine arrived too, the bodies were taken away and the fire extinguished. But the Wicker Man still burned.
The square was empty... papers and leaflets fluttered along the floor as the wind flushed them up. The silence before the storm.
It was midnight when I walked down towards the remains of the scorched wicker man. The works of art and words were ashes. Some parts were recognisable but most was just black ash. Why... why can’t Rodarion accept what is best for it, why can’t respect the voice of the average worker. Since the fall, Socialism grew back as the worker needed more support during the economic boom, as the church tried to push forward production to quickly. But Socialism is evil and Heresy.
My name is Aurelius Kameron, I am the leader of the Rodarion Workers Liberation Force, and this is how the war began.


