The Oxfords

With the coming of the new family, the Oxfords, came distress and something the people of Chilton were not used to, anger. Up until now, Chilton had always been a carefree, peaceful community striving on the sharing of resources and services among one another. This began to change when the Oxfords arrived. At first, Chilton welcomed them, providing them with the required resources to settle in. But after some time passed, the townsfolk grew tired of providing the Oxfords with goods for nothing in return. The Oxfords had taken advantage of the town’s kindness. This was not the Chilton way. Every family was to contribute equally. A meeting was held in the church to determine what to do about the newly acquired problem. Meetings were rarely held in Chilton, because there was never really any reason to hold one. As the meetig adjourned, the townsfolk decided if the Oxfords could not pull their own weight in supporting Chilton, then they would have to leave. Days went by with no change. These days turned into weeks and weeks turned to months. The townsfolk grew very angry with the Oxfords and began cutting them out of the trade loop. Without the basic necessities required to live, the Oxfords resorted to something no one in Chilton had ever done before. They began stealing from their own. Resources began to disappear. Villagers were irate, but they knew the source of their anger. This could not go on. The town of Chilton was not built on dishonesty and they were not to start accepting it now. The townsfolk turned on the outsiders and banished them from the once peaceful town of Chilton. This turned out to be a grave mistake by the town’s members. For what they did not know, was the Oxford wife was in fact a witch. When her family was accused of stealing and forced out of the town, she cast a horrible sickness among the small town of Chilton. A curse, which would slowly destroy the peaceful town, causing them to turn on each other, one by one. Chilton was about to break apart, each family splitting off into their own individual group, allocating their resources for strictly themselves.