As far as small towns went, on the surface New Rhodes was just like any other. Local restaurants and fast food coexisted as normally as you would expect. The high school’s long time champion football team was a point of local pride. There was a Walmart and stuff like that that surprisingly didn’t step on the toes of the local businesses. There was the usual park and the forest with a hiking trail and the town history museum built into the library…
But one day something different came to New Rhodes. In a town as small as this, news spreads like wildfire. A new church was constructed overnight, built on top of a hill not too far from city limits. No one knew where it came from or why it was there. All anyone could suspect was that it was probably going to be trouble. It called itself Luncheon Abbey, a peculiar title to be sure, but until the town could know for sure what it was about they decided not to act too rashly. After all, they did find building permits in the town hall files, so someone must have approved it.
The day after the Abbey appeared, new people started moving in. It wasn’t quite as sudden as the building’s overnight appearance, but for another reason it was no less strange. All of the new people moving into town that Sunday were rather fat women in strange hoods. They dressed in fairly revealing clothes that left their smooth, round, shimmering bellies exposed for all to see. Only a strapless bra, a hooded cape, a knee length skirt, and simple leather shoes. One townie inquired why they were dressed so scantily, to which one of the women were all too eager to explain.
“Ah, do you not know?” she said, “These are the religious vestments of our church. We must dress this way every Sunday without fail as part of our devotion to our Goddess. We are free to wear other clothes the rest of the week so long as we bear our fat tummies proudly.”
These strange fat women all belonged to this new church? Very unusual, possibly even dangerous! Of course, it was still too soon to judge, so they let it be for the time being.
Little did they know how much this new church, this Cult of O’bby’shx as they called themselves, would turn their town upside down.