The Exile of Spiderman

In a time of great need in a land called Flakidzia there arose a mighty warrior to champion the cause of truth and reason.

The landscape of flakidzia and it citizenry revolved around the life of athletics. The land held many citizens, and many different sports to which each citizen was affiliated. Footballers, baseballers, basketballers and more; but this story focuses on the citizens who were best known as the grapplers. The Grapplers were a strong race of humans for whom hand to hand combat was a way of life. These humans were fascinated by a sport called wrestling, a sport where combatants attempted to subdue their opponenst by forcing their opponents shoulders to the ground. Grappling took place throughout the land of Flakidzia, and often the populace gathered to speak of what was going on in the land. For the most part everyone new everyone else and though there was much cheating, unscrupulous behavior, and other peculiar activities, the mischief went on unquestioned because no one dared speak out.

Then one day one of their own took it upon himself to make things right. He assumed a secret Identity and tagged himself the Spiderous. He used his secret position to fight for, expose and enlighten all things wrestling. He quickly became a thorn in the side of malicious behavior, unscrupulous activities, and superfluous abuses. He fought against logically flawed arguments, biased rankings, and exposed the nepotism that was poisoning the land. He would leave anonymous scrolls nailed to trees for everyone to read and for everyone to debate; often exposing the truth of a misdeed and bringing topics out into the open where the assailants could not so easily obscure the facts. Spiderous’s popularity quickly grew, and with it grew the gatherings of the populace, eager to read what he would write next.


The ruler of Flakidzia was a distinguished and well liked man named Larblustein. Larblustein however had a big kingdom to run, and so he found it necessary to deputize a man called Lawtonious. Lawtonious was an older grappler turned arbiter from the north, who moved south to Flakidzia seeking warmth and relief from the white powder which seasonally froze the northern lands. He was well informed and well versed in the events of Grappling in Flakidzia, and so he accepted Larblusteins appoint to be the Sheriff.

Once his appointment was assured, Lawtonious’s power grew, and with it grew his sense of self. He felt compelled to direct and establish what could or could not be said by the populace about grappling in Flakidzia. There were those that were undeterred by his despotic attention, and many paid the price, some deservedly so, but others not so much. Many were hunted down and reprimanded, and others were even stripped of their identities and then banished from Flakidzia. Spiderous did his best to remain within the constructs of the parameters Lawtonious had established; every once in a while pushing the boundaries a bit, yet ever respectfully withdrawing when Lawtonius made private contact to complain that some of the more powerful citizens were threatening legal action against him. Spiderous understood Lawtonious’s predicament, yet this was a free land, a land where freedom of expression was the right of every grappler.

Spiderous had been faithful to Flakidzia for a long time, but the pressure from the sheriff to curb his criticism of those that deserved it was becoming unbearable. The final straw came when the Lawtonious sought to end the Spiderous’s most recent campaign by withholding all the paper issued to grapplers. Spiderous was beside himself with the sheriff’s egregious disregard for the will of the people, and went on a self imposed hiatus. The Spiderman threatened to uproot himself after the many years of loyalty and start using his power to fight for another land. The arrogance of the sheriff went untethered, and he mocked the Spiderman with a public aphorism that read; “if a stream runs through the woods and no person is near enough to hear, is there any stream there at all? The Spiderous took this as an affront to his standing in the community and made his self imposed hiatus a permanent exile.

Spiderous moved himself to another land called Flakidzia originus, the father land of Flakidzia, where everything talked about in grappling had originally started, and where Spiderous himself was born. He let some of his faithful followers know of his move, and soon many were following him and moving back to the motherland. Enraged and likely even threatened by the quick following Spiderous had developed on Flakidzia Originus, Lawtonious went so far as to revoke Spiderous’s passport to assure that he could not cross over between lands ever again.

This does not end the end of the story of Spiderous and Lawtonious, it is likely only the beginning, stay tuned.




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