The Nana Betty Counterpane Insurrection

Years ago a group of soldiers from Goroma were on a vacation at Byssal Sound. Reports show that after a light lunch they walked about the town to take in the architecture of the seaside town. A young woman named Merta Eeliss approached the men and said that her Nana Betty had just passed away and she was holding an estate sale. They followed the woman hoping to find something to bring home to their wives or other loved ones.
Nothing about the home was out of the ordinary, and each soldier recalls that the house had some interesting and beautiful trinkets including a lovely weave of material that neither man could make out. Cadet Orbliss was the first to see the counterpane in question.

Orbliss: It was a fine looking quilt. Blue and white, my lady's favorite color. I thought getting it would impress her. If I'd known the trouble it would cause....

Not wanting to take advantage of the Ms. Eeliss in her state of grief, Orbliss claims that he offered the woman a more than fair price for the family heirloom. Money exchanged hands and Orbliss became the owner of a beautifully quilted counterpane. The soldiers stayed one more night and made their trek to Goroma via Scallop Road. According to the soldiers none of them gave it a second thought.
Back in Byssal Sound, trouble was brewing. Nana Betty Eeliss apparently had a sizeable family. She had ten grown children, each one with a family of their own, and their reputation for squabbling and backbiting is well documented in the town of Byssal Sound.

Anonymous: You want to know about the Eelisses and that whole mess? Well let's just say they're an embarrassment and enjoy this stew instead, say?

According to some members of the family Nana Betty's counterpane was of great emotional importance to several family members, and that it was not up to Merta, the youngest sibling of the ten, to sell it.

Brenay Eeliss: She had no right and she knew it. At first she said the soldiers pushed their way into Nana Betty's house and stole some things. A couple of statues and a counterpane? Didn't take long for us to figure out that story was a bunch of shrimpshit.

A band of six Eeliss brothers and their eldest sons piled into a wagon with several bottles of liquor and made their way to Goroma to retrieve the quilt. Some citizens of Byssal Sound claim they heard one Eeliss brother say that they'd "burn the whole city down for Nana Betty's counterpane," but thought nothing of it. The four sisters that remained in Byssal Sound proceeded to fight on and off in public over the next week. Several blood fisticuffs were broken up by concerned townfolk before eventually they had enough.

Anonymous: I told my husband to just let them bitches go, you know? I just wanted it to end. Breaking it up was just dragging it out.

On a sunny day in Goroma a packed wagon of Eeliss spawn pulled up to the gates of the Goroman military complex.

Guard On-Duty: You could smell them coming down the road. I knew it was trouble. After a while, being on the job, you just get a feeling. They pull up and this guys gets out. Big sucker. And he starts yelling about how the counterpane thief needs to come on out or they're going to charge the gates. Now I've heard some bold claims, but this guy was drunk and I don't know what they were talking about. A counterpane? What?

With no way of understanding what the demands were, guards told the Eeliss brood to hop in their wagons continue back the way they came. Multiple soldiers confirm that this is when "things got ugly".

Guard On-Duty: So our shift captain tells these guys to ride off and sober up. They didn't like that at all. Then it was like we'd all stole the dumb quilt. He starts telling us that we should have known it was Nana Betty's quilt and that it belonged to family, and that we took advantage of their little sister. We were just baffled. And that's when the stones came.

Soldiers claim large stones where thrown from the wagon with surprising accuracy. knocking some soldiers unconscious. A melee ensued with the Eeliss men taking control of the guards, who were woefully caught off guard, turning them into hostages. Unable to find a key for the locked gate, they shouted towards the barracks with demands: Four guards for the counterpane.

Orbliss: I remember my bunkmate telling me to look outside, and I just knew. They all looked like their sister. And then I heard something about the quilt and I just got sick to my stomach. This couldn't be happening.

But it did happen. Orbliss quickly found his reporting officer and explained the situation. The quilt was returned to the Eeliss family and the guards were freed without further incident. Orbliss did not get his money back, saying that the trouble wasn't worth it.
The Eeliss men returned to Byssal Sound victorious with Nana Betty's counterpane, and paraded it around the town like a sacred war trophy. They referred to their "battle" as the Nana Betty Counterpane Insurrection, despite not knowing what 'insurrection' means. One local who knew them well said, "they just liked to use big words sometimes to sound smart, but they were dumber than clam shells" and others have echoed similar claims.
Tragically each member of the family met an untimely demise over the course of the next five years. The current location of Nana Betty's Counterpane is unknown.

Anonymous: The town is better off without them really. But sometimes I think to myself.. I think "it's just too damn quiet around here." Maybe every town needs a little bit Eeliss in it.