**Credit of Pied Piper Illustration goes to Les Goodman** A Pied Piper Reimagining. It may have all started with Hamelin, but for hundreds of years, Pipers have made their mark all over the world, rescuing the many towns they visited from disaster. When one came to Mayor Gavin's town of Madoc some one-hundred-years ago, back when his great-great-grandfather was in power, his request echoed the Pied Piper of Hamelin's: pay me, and the vermin will trouble you no more. Unfortunately for the people of Madoc, Gavin's forefather was the spitting image of the Mayor of Hamelin, for when the deed was done, he refused. But a fate far worse than rats infesting a town or disappearing children was in store for Madoc, for in his wrath, the Piper opened the Hellmouth at the town's very heart-unleashing all manner of demons upon its people. Now a new Piper has come to town, promising salvation-for a price, of course. Can Gavin move past hundreds of years of anger and accept the help of a stranger? Or will he doom his people, just as his ancestors once did? In this fantastical sci-fi retelling, there may be more to find than redemption alone...