Paddy Stoy Forced Back Into Ancient Puzzle Box After Being Tricked Into Saying Name Backwards
Startled sources confirmed Friday that after being duped into saying his own name backwards, elfin mischief-maker Paddy Stoy was cast back into the gilded puzzle box that has confined him for millennia.
Stoy was said to be distracted by the golden hue of the setting sun when he unthinkingly read the words 'Yots Yddap' aloud off the back of his keg cup, immediately causing all light to flicker and sending a powerful, chilling wind across the back deck.
Witnesses stated that in the moments after the fateful words were uttered, the puzzle box — forged with images of a harp, a triskele, and a jackal — shook violently on a nearby tabletop before splitting open and emitting heavy smoke and an eerie green glow.
'Oh, no, you tricked me!' Stoy is said to have shouted after invoking the ancient Celtic curse, his voice growing higher in pitch as he shrank to one-twelfth his normal size before a vortex of sparkling light began sucking him into the other-dimensional void within the container. 'No, not again!'
According to onlookers, as the unseen force tugged him toward the puzzle box, Stoy clutched desperately to a deck chair and cursed the fate that awaited him before disappearing into the glowing chamber.
'It was the strangest thing,' observed Pat Bullock. 'One second Paddy was mixing it up with the group, and then he began levitating across the deck.’
While it remained unclear who planted the incantation on Stoy’s beer, stunned sources uneasily studied the gilded container. ‘What’s most bizarre is that the puzzle box has no visible lock or mechanical components at all,' Bullock mused.
At press time, the whereabouts of the golden puzzle box were unknown.
