How it all started ...

A long time ago though not really as long as centuries or as short as yesterday... Perhaps more like a middle time ago, two little boys, brothers, found themselves on board a pirate ship.  They were surrounded by very dirty, ugly, nasty and honestly, quite smelly pirates. Don’t ask how they did it for they swore they would never tell just in case their mother might hear the tale and send them to their rooms. The pirates, on the other hand, never knew the boys were there.

While on this ship, a very terrible and hugely horrible storm blew up and as it tossed and turned all around them, the ship tossed and turned a bit and the dirty, ugly, nasty, smelly pirates lost their way.  They ended up on a small uncharted island in the middle of nowhere and yet just around the corner from everywhere.

When the pirates left the ship to go and explore the island, the boys snuck onto the island too. What they found was amazing. Tucked into a clearing right in the middle of the island was a beautiful waterfall. As the water fell, a substance was mixing with the water and churning into the water below. It was a variety of colors and it smelled oddly fruity. The boys wondered what it was and when they took a step closer, they discovered a very strange texture under their feet. It was smooth and pliable and left deep footprints wherever the boys stepped. When they scooped it up, they discovered that they could mold it into all sorts of shapes. This, they thought, was much fun! They could take it back home with them and share it with everyone they knew and it would be great fun.

Just as they were figuring out how to get the sticky fun substance back to the ship they noticed a very very horrible smell and knew that the pirates were coming.