I was reading a history book about Pohnpei called "Upon a Stone Altar" and it had a single page describing the four day purge they undertook before battle. It enthralled me so much I made this entire video based off that single page's prompt.

If you're disgusted, good! So was I. But it was still something worth thinking about, because war is stupid, but I think it's pretty safe to say so are we.

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