El Cid

**El Cid** is a book written by Chris the Cynic.

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Of the enemies that Forum City has faced historians generally agree that El Cid was the most humorous, yet little is known about El Cid's activities outside our borders. Some tracked him to the twin cities of ATS and BTS, but his time there ended abruptly. When the first attempts were made to track him, he appeared at the great metropolis of GS spewing a message of hate, but was soon forcibly removed.
Clearly there are large gaps in our understanding. Where did he come from? Where did he go between his infamous goodbye and his timely death at the hands of the Master of the Drunken Fist?
One theory, though not one widely accepted, is that he went to the mirror city. The fabled land of the banned, the disposed, the expulsed, the ostracized, the ousted, the shunned, the spurned, and the snubbed. In short, the expatriates. The ten thousand that had been forgotten until El Cid reminded us. Most believe this city doesn't exist, but all agree that if a city with such an abundance of "the"s existed, "El" Cid would fit right in.
After Cid was killed... well there were celebrations, but after the celebrations ended some people wondered just where he had been, and an expedition was sent to find the fabled mirror city. The expedition was largely uneventful, no one died and the psychological trauma was ironed out with just a few months of therapy. Were it not for the fact that they claimed to have found the 10,000, the expedition would have been forgotten.
It is said that they made their way into a great city that was a negative image of our own for all those that did not belong here wound up there, all ideas and practices that are not permitted here are encouraged there. It is said that they knew they were in the right place when they heard someone say, "You are being arrogant, I have provided proof that El Cid agreed with me? Have you provided proof?"
*It is said the Cidites are diverse and numerous, ranging from, "Verily I say that it is you, not I, who is partaking in arrogance," to, "No! J00 R Arogent!!111!" and all united in a hatred for us. The explorers were horrified to learn that El Cid had united them all with his "proofs", and turned what had been a mild distaste at being discouraged, and a common fear of DDL, into seething hatred, and had been ready to lead the attack when something happened, and he disappeared.*"

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2. These people's devotions to their own viewpoints and ability to ignore all other considerations (logic, reality, incoming missiles) combined with their numbers could make them a nigh unstoppable force if they were to work together.
3. These people's devotions to their own viewpoints and ability to ignore all other considerations makes it unlikely bordering on impossible for them to work together.
4. The time had come to get out of there.
5. They couldn't take much more of that.
6. They never wanted to go back.
One member of the expedition got fed up, killed several Cidites with a DTS and, while the others were explaining that no, the DTS could not possibly have prevailed against the heavy weapon armed Cidites, was dragged out of the city by his companion and has since stopped frothing at the mouth.
When the expedition returned they were not, in fact, committed. In spite of what Cid may have said, we do not ill treat those with other viewpoints. We roll our eyes. Unfortunately this practice of eye rolling has made it so that the claims of the mirror city were never investigated. There is no evidence for or against the great fortress of the Cidites. It is regarded as a modern myth and nothing more.
*Yet even those who maintain that there could not be such a city are at a loss to explain exactly where it was that El Cid went, or why his beliefs had been reaffirmed in the time he was gone.*"