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	Then, because the plot has already run out, another quest automatically begins. Thor is asked by some villagers to be their chief, but he declines until they offer him a virgin, whereupon he accepts. Ino doesn't mind having an open-relationship because they insist it has something to do with the laws of the village. Then a scout reports that 'a great army is nearing', which turns out to Gnut and 12 of his mimeartists. Fortunately Ino has a cunning plan to counter the attack. Unfortunately, the plan consists of the usual trip-wire and men-up-trees antics, coupled with a new but equally ineffective, old-men-as-decoys trick. The villagers are slaughtered, the heros are captured and Thor gets his eyes burnt out with a flaming stick. He is left to wander the land with his arms at full stretch, nearly falling over cliffs. That is, until Etna turns into a snake, allowing Thor to rub some moss and snake spittle into his eyes, which makes him see again. Thor, doing a fight with someone		Etna finally proves his worth as a magician and conjures up a strange creature, of which he proclaims; "many centuries from now it will be called a horse". Despite this, Thor is a little despondent at the fact that he has lost his axe and has had to go back to using clubs. So, after he tames the 'horse' (which provides no shortage of light-hearted mishaps), he goes for a ride and comes across the spot where he was born. He instinctively digs up the remains of his dad, and watches with delight as his father's old sword materialises before him. He returns to save the villagers, who are still being raped and tyrannised, and starts a fight with Gnut. Ino, who is now pregnant with Thor's child, goes into labour during the fight, and, in a grotesque phallic inversion of earlier events, gives birth at the exact moment that Thor rams his sword into Gnut and avenges his dad.
	"Many moons, times ten, have passed, the earth has changed, the giants of the long nose no longer prowl their jungle. Often and often the sun makes fecund the land, and the earth becomes the cosmic mother..." - Etna (setting the scene) "No Thor, she's not something to eat. Make her lie down, play with her! The female is stupid, have your way with her, take her, she's yours...don't treat the woman so gently! The female has to obey their masters, it is proven! She must fulfill you..." - Etna (explaining the facts of life)
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