[Heliotrope] The Green Stamp Man

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One upon there was a mighty defender of the forest, the Green Man, who lived for thousands of years, challenging evil rulers from the Romans, to knights of Camelot to French nobility and even pretentious five year olds in WWI.  But all things must come to an end, and at one point the copse of trees that he drew his power from was chopped down.  These trees were made into pulp and eventually converted into paper for the miraculous program known as green stamps.

So the Green Man did what he had always done, defend the forest, though in this case the forest consisted of collectable prizes.  So if you got the right prize, the Green Man would deliver it to you in person and make sure you got it, and that no one took it from you.  The Dover Incdent of 1955, involved a pair of dogs that tried too keep Timmy (age 10) from getting the Radio that he had saved up for for the better part of 5 months.  The dogs were unharmed but found in a yard of a kind old lady 500 miles north in Northern Scotland.  No one had any explanation as to how they got there, but they were very reluctant to leave.

In another incident, a thief who stole 6000 green stamps from Little Old Miss Eyeonherfinger was found strung upside down in a series of vines outside the local constabulary station babbling about repentance and the need to be a better man.  It is often thought that the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Green (Stamp) Man are similar mythological figures but while they are both fat, large, green and white, that is where the comparison ends.

Green stamps went out of style btu there are still enough of them around that the Green Stamp man is still bound to and draws from their power.  According to rumor, he is shifting himself to a click per pay site on the interwebs.  But he hasn't been able to constuct enough tubes yet.