20210116 How to Undo HellCows?

Now we just need to undo the HellCows and prevent it from ever happening again. That's all.
 
We haven't uncovered the whole truth, but we got two half-truths. Now we just need to add them together.
 
First off, Topiary Rex does not do what you tell him to do for more than a few hours, sometimes minutes. He might be a member of the SNAFU Posse.
 
If a pollenating insect frequently shows better judgement than you do, you might be a member of the SNAFU Posse.
 
The Hesters told Princess and her in-law Lucky their theory that Lucky spent a week at Oatman Cavate with Evil Seed learning how to put little demons in cattle for the Ranchers to combat the grazing-proof killer crops which Evil Seed had made for the Farmers to protect their crops from being grazed by Ranchers. That's what we call, "playing both sides against each other", and is exactly what you expect from a person with, "Evil", literally right there in his name.
 
Lucky denied it, saying she had never been to Oatman Cavate, and a ranch hand named Coy could corroborate her alibi.
The Hesters wanted to string up Lucky right there. Princess only wants to string up Lucky if such betrayal turns out to be true.
Miro convinced them to just tie her up for now and give all the evidence to Scorpion, the gal who is the closest thing to the law around here, since Mayor Blaze can be counted out entirely.
I talked with Lucky while we both snacked on delicious cornbread muffins glazed with Mrs. Lawful's Lemony-Sweet Truth Serum, which, it turns out, works really well. Lucky knew a lot about Evil Seed, and Seed's Journal might have some answers about how to stop the cows. Miro has that journal, and is probably going to be searching it for Lightning Control magic spells whenever he remembers he has it. Also, Lucky gave us directions to Miss Melinda's secret laboratory in the hills outside of town. Miss Melinda also played the "both sides against each other" card, but might actually feel some remorse and might tell us something or give us something to undo the hell-bovines, when we see her again. Maybe "... IF we see her again".
 
If firing an arrow from a bow while standing still feels really weird because you usually do it from the roof of a runaway stagecoach, the back of an angry bull, or while you are hurtling through the air, you might be a member of the SNAFU Posse.
 
Of course, Evil Seed's #1 goal was to repel all demons out of our area permanently. I'm personally on board with that 100 percent. After having briefly met him and taken over his business after his sudden disintegration, I believe that, "Let's teach Lucky how to get livestock possessed by demons just so I have some practice-targets for learning how to smack them back out again," would definitely be a color of paint in Evil Seed's paint-box.
 
Padre wants to rewrite the town ordnance to include something about not summoning demons and not growing killer plants to attack your neighbors.
Another idea is, if everybody signed over their property to me, I would make every farm a ranch and every ranch a farm, and everybody would grow some crops especially for their livestock to eat and some food for two-legged people to eat and some to sell at market. It would be really easy.
 
There are so many distractions, I keep forgetting about that type of stone that fell from the sky and is either really magical or really NOT magical and sucks the magic out of magical things. We really shouldn't leave stuff like that just literally lying on the ground all over the place. Nobody around here seems to think much about it, but it could be really valuable for all the right or wrong reasons, and that is not something that lends well to keeping the balance of Nature gurgling along happily. Fortunately everybody else seems to be ignoring it for the most part.
 
So, the Hesters and Princess and Topiary Rex and I are going to that abandoned farm that Bruthasmus and I sort of adopted. I think it's called AyrShire Farm or something like that. We can have a spiritual retreat taking care of the animals and eating chicken eggs for one hopefully peaceful night. Maybe I'll plant my little potted fairy fan-flower shrub there.
 
The others will go to see Yiarra at Arjory Pond and see if she will take in yet several more refugees of Purgatory Gulch's great troubles. And maybe they will find Miss Melinda hasn't run off, or maybe will find she left some useful info before she ran off to nowhere.
 
Then we all meet up and head to Sarsaparilla Ranch, pick up the beer wagon, reunite Princess and Chica, perform the ritual in Evil Seed's Journal that kicks all the demons off of the property, plus do whatever Miss Melinda comes up with (if anything), then I can sign over the deed to them unless they are just totally fed up with ranching, which is pretty likely at this point. But they are totally going to have to promise to grow crops for the livestock to eat and don't let your cattle get possessed by demons again.
 
If a tumbleweed rolls past you, and you wonder if you should take advantage of your attack of opportunity, you might be a member of the SNAFU Posse.
 
If a cabbage rolls past you, and you are certain you should take advantage of your attack of opportunity, you are definitely a member of the SNAFU Posse.