The story of gold - part
3

Now that gold had some kind of value - one Yellow is worth one banana, two coconuts and 42 peas the people thought about what else one could do with those shiny stones. Hoorrk the Flat was the one who had to store the Yellows, keeping an eye on them so nothing gets lost.

And he had one or two problems to store the Yellows properly - they were rolling around in his house and it was quite difficult for him to stack them away. One day Hoorrk the Flat had had enough of these (bad word here) shiny, yellow stones rolling around, which he desperatly tried to stack neatly. He angrily picked up one of this disobidient stones and threw it to his favourite stone wall.

The Yellow fell down to the floor and - surprise, surprise - didn't roll away. Hoorrk took a closer look to find out why it wasn't rolling anymore. His insight was astonishing for the time he lived in: Yellows are afraid of his stone wall and become flat on one side. One side flattend made it difficult for the Yellows to roll around. What if all sides were flat? Long story short: Hoorrk the Flat invented the gold bar, back then known as the hoorrked Yellow. Finally the Yellows could be stored away properly. What a relief.

When the currently ruling Queenking went out for one of his swap deals he was pretty surprised that he was offered one banana, three coconuts and 42 peas for his Yellow. This must have had something to do with the Yellow looking bigger now. He, his new banana, three coconuts and 42 peas went home to give Hoorrk an order: Hoorrk the Flat flatten it flatter!

So did Hoorrk. Everybody can imagine what happend when the Queenking did the next of his swaps: The flatter the Yellow the more he gets in return. This realization led to the Queenking becoming a little bit greedy.

Hoorrk did his best to make the flatest of all Yellows - unfortunately he dropped his special rounded stone onto the pretty flat Yellow, accidently. This transformed his beautyful flat Yellow into a bowly bowl. He showed it to the Queenking trying to apologize for his big, big mistake. But the Queenking unlike expected was quite amazed by the bowly bowl. He puts it on his head immediatly looking around like a proud peacock yelling: Look at me, me and my wonderful clown.

It should be noted that on the day Hoorrk invented the crown, jewlery and of course the bowler hat, it also turned out the Queenking had a little speech impediment. Clowns were invented decades later - as you might know.

Anyway, our fancy 'clowned' Queenking did his best to get more and more in return for his peoples Yellows - swapping ultra flat Yellows and little versions of his crown to the civilizations next door. If he had had a computer he could have used GoldPriceOne to check the current and historic values of shiny yellow - now flat - stones. But then one day something strange happened and it happens in part four of the story of gold...