Summer of Our Regret

Summer of Our Regret is the first installment of The Ballad of Plumpy. It was produced over the summer of 2018 and released on Aug. 7th 2018.

Synopsis

We are first shown a map of the land, which is divided up into five kingdoms. The Human Kingdom, Cow Kingdom, Mercenary Kingdom, Plumpy Kingdom and one that is later revealed as the Forgotten Kingdom. Each given to a son of Mckayacus, who once ruled all the land, but was killed by The Dragon.

The Cow and Human Kings are half brothers are having a war because the humans hate grass and eat beef. They are stopped by a messenger who has a letter from Plumpy, their mutual full brother. In the letter, Plumpy tells them that they should stop fighting and that they should come to his funeral because he had been stabbed. As the Cow and Human kings head off to the funeral, they decide that they don't want to be enemies. Unbeknownst to them, they are being followed by a man in a black jumpsuit.

At the funeral, the preacher reads an obituary written by Plumpy. As they listen to a song also written by Plumpy the Cow and Human King spar. They stop and Plumpy says that he was killed by someone with more than one side. The Cow King quickly deduces that it must mean the dragon and sets off to fight it. After he confronts it he hides in a bush out of fear. The Human King after a while decides that it must be the dragon who killed Plumpy and likewise heads off but runs away in terror. Upon running into each other, both kings decide that it must have been the other that killed Plumpy and head off to war again.

As the Cow and Human Kings blame each other for the death of Plumpy, the messenger kills a human and reveals that he was anonymously hired to kill Plumpy and that he is the king of the Mercenary Kingdom. As the Human King starts fighting the Mercenary King, they are stopped by the man in the black jumpsuit. He reveals that Plumpy faked his own death by hiring a double from the local Plumpycon. He also reveals that he is the king of the Forgotten Kingdom. The Human and Cow kings once again get over their differences and leave to search for Plumpy.

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