*Above is a picture of the badge of Elephant Island's Un-Odd Committee
We start in a meeting room on Elephant Island, the city of Capital, where government officials are sitting around a large table and talking, including the Chairpersons of the MOVING COMMITTEE and the UN-ODD COMMITTEE. The PRESIDENT is standing and pacing.
CHAIRPERSON OF MOVING COMMITTEE: But sir, we can't move people to that island! Have you seen all the odd things there?
PRESIDENT: You are the Chairperson of the Moving Committee, you were the one who suggested that we move as many people as possible off this tiny little island. If you have any better ideas, then share them!
MOVING CHAIRPERSON: Sir, I know that if we don't move people somewhere else fast then we'll barely be able to drive on the streets without running into people, but our policies strictly say that we will not force people to move anywhere with one speck of odd in it, and that island...
PRESIDENT: We have been over this before, I know how much odd there is on that island! I wish there were other options, but there are no other islands anywhere close to here that are big enough that don't already have people on them!
CHAIRPERSON OF UN-ODD COMMITTEE: Actually, there is another option, and it may be the most obvious.
PRESIDENT stops pacing.
PRESIDENT: I'm sorry, who are you again?
UN-ODD CHAIRPERSON stands up and shows a wooden shield-shaped Un-Odd Committee badge. The badge is composed of a golden emblem made of the bottom half of a circle, which has two parallel lines of equal length from each other as well as the top and bottom of the semicircle going through it. The words "Un-Odd Committee" border the bottom of the emblem.
UN-ODD CHAIRPERSON: Chairperson of the Un-Odd Committee, committed to making sure that Elephant Island stays pure of any odd whatsoever.
PRESIDENT: Go on...
UN-ODD CHAIRPERSON: My proposal is that we, the Un-Odd Committee, go to the island, find all the odd there...
There is a dramatic pause.
UN-ODD CHAIRPERSON: ...and destroy it.
PRESIDENT: All of the odd? On the entire island??
UN-ODD CHAIRPERSON: I know it will take a long time, but just think about it this way. It won't just be for us, it will be for the whole world!
PRESIDENT: The whole world?
UN-ODD CHAIRPERSON: The world would be better off without a place with that much odd in it, am I right?
PRESIDENT: Hmm.......... Fine. I, as President of Elephant Island, give you permission to go on a boat west to the island and destroy all of the odd found on it.
UN-ODD CHAIRPERSON: Thank you, sir. We'll get right to it.
He leaves.
PRESIDENT: The odd on that island better watch out. Knowing him, he'll do his job very thoroughly.
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1.1: Escape from the Island of Un-Odd
HumorElephant Island has had a long history of despising all things odd. However, they have always done this somewhat peacefully. But when their hate begins to be directed towards a neighboring island, conflict is bound to arise. And it does, in the form...
