Walking Stick

## The Walking Stick

### Enemies

Black Jack, Matty, The Monster of the Mine, The Bull, Pack of Stray Dogs, The Cooking Pot

### Dead or Alive

Deceased †

The **Walking Stick** is the deuteragonist of The Discontented Cooking Pot. He and the cooking pot get tired of their monotonous and grey life and take off into the big world, and after some adventure, they accidentally become rich as a pot of golden coins come into their possession.

## Role in Story

The Walking Stick suggested that he and The Cooking Pot take a day trip to see the world after the pot said that he was bored of bubbling & boiling all day. The walking stick then carried the cooking pot and the two then began to explore the village that surrounded their abode, naive of what dangers could be roaming about. The pot was described as being "empty inside" and the walking stick was described as being "hardly famous for his wit", however, the start of their trip looked promising, they then ran into an angry bull, to which the pot was almost trampled on by. The walking stick then began to fight back and began to whack the bull soundly on its backside, while the walking stick walloped the bull, the pot jumped into the river, with the walking stick advising the pot to swim, the walking stick then too grew bored of whacking the bull so he plummeted into the river as well. The pot and the walking stick then ran into yet another danger, a pack of strays, who attempted to leap and ravage apart the pot and the walking stick as well, the pot pleaded that the walking stick wallop them as he did the bull, so he did, scaring the strays away. After that, they came across the terrifying the monster of the mine who was terrified of the sight of seeing a pot and a walking stick walking, so he ran away as they chased him, unknown of the hole in his sack which dropped valuable coins that the pot and walking stick began to retrieve, holding the coins inside of the empty pot. The pot was brimming with gold, no one dared to call him "empty-headed" anymore. The two began to read the most elaborate plans after gathering the coins, of visions of wealth and grandeur for their future together. The pot thought to himself, "I shall find someone, who will wrap in wire and make me immortal. They will cover me with wire, strong wire all over, that I may never crack or break" the pot continued to express his desired future life, "And once I have ensured my immortality, I will ensure myself a life of leisure and comfort. I will bribe the cook to make sure I am always brimming over with stuffed cabbage." For the pot simply adored stuffed cabbage. It was the Walking Stick's turn to add onto the idea of a perfect life, he started off by saying "From now on, I will be a great lord, and after I have split the riches with my friend, I will find a skilled blacksmith and have a golden button made for my head." The walking stick then thought for a moment, "If I had all the gold we found to myself, I wouldn't have to content myself with a mere button. I could have my entire head covered in gold. Heavens! It would be simply splendid. I would be the most beautiful walking stick in the country. Maybe even the king would notice, perhaps he would even want me to be his scepter. And why should I not have all the gold? Or am I not the stronger one?" The walking stick's head was teeming with cruel and murderous thoughts, and once the pot laid his head to sleep at night, the walking stick slithered to his side and delivered him a single, lethal whack that broke the pot into numerous fragments. And thus the pot's good fortune, turned out to be deadly misfortune. The pot's shattered fragments clattered and cried out: "Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!" but the walking stick barely acknowledged his cries and stuffed the coins in a sack and set off to find a blacksmith. He found a blacksmith and greeted him with a "God's blessings on you, good blacksmith!" the blacksmith then questions what the walking stick has brought him so he can do his work, to which the walking stick shows off his sack of golden coins, the walking stick was then questioned about where he got the golden coins and he lied about finding it on the side of the road, feigning a look of innocence. The blacksmith then asked whatever the walking stick could possibly do with all that money, with the walking stick asking him to make a golden knob, the blacksmith then made a golden knob out of the golden coins and soldered them onto the walking stick's head. "There you are! you may now set out to find yourself a wife" said the blacksmith. But the walking stick's golden head, itself a fruit of his cruel act, would bring him no joy, only misfortune. His path took him deep into the forest and Black Jack, the infamous bandit, and his accomplice, Matty, spotted him. The brigand spoke: "The knob on that walking stick is made of gold, if I am not mistaken. Look, Matty! Look how shiny it is! Let's chase him down, grab him, and take his golden knob!" The bandits then cried out "Stop! Stop!" towards the hopping walking stick, who continued hopping, the walking stick was gasping for breath until he reached the knob of the high hill, at the bottom of the tremendous chasm gaping below him flowed the waters of the mighty river, the walking stick had little choice but to jump from the cliff into the river, where he drowned to his death.