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Winter 26, Year 2

To avoid legal issues coming back to Pelican Town; officially, Pierre took credit for Avalon Farm's produce. This avoided questions of ownership of the farm, Lewis fudged some tax forms (what else was new?), Marnie took credit for the animal goods that Beep made, Robin was the one finding and selling the material goods, and Clint was responsible for the mined resources. When Beep discovered kegs and preserves jars, Sophia and Andy took credit for the respective goods.

When Pierre tried to charge ten-times the value of the produce, word got back to Beep within the hour. Beep was already pissed about how Pierre blamed him for the missing product codes, and didn't even thank him for finding the list and returning it two months ago. (Caroline thanked Beep in Pierre's stead.) Beep was still getting base cost of the produce, while Pierre tried to maximise profits. He didn't even care about the money; it was about the immoral greed Pierre was shoving onto the townsfolk. With JojaMart shut down, Pelican Town had literally nowhere else to go shopping unless they wanted to drive to Zuzu City over an hour away. It became a case of "pay Pierre's insane cost, or starve", and Beep would not put up with that.

The townsfolk were still arguing with Pierre when Beep kicked the door open, unusual for the typically reserved deer. Even weirder was the lighting in the shop, the shadows falling heavy over Beep's eyes to obscure the blue completely so they appeared black, though nobody would mention it to anyone else for fear or sounding crazy. One thing everyone could later agree on, however, was the sounds that came from Beep were no normal deer vocalisations. It didn't matter they didn't understand what Beep was saying, if it was a language at all, but it was very clear Beep was cussing out Pierre. At least Pierre had the smarts to deflate and stammer about rolling back his "experimental business strategy", but the damage was done.

After stomping around town a few times, still hissing and clacking in his strange language, Beep calmed down enough to have a plan in mind. Susan had still been trapped up by the railroad when the deal was made with Pierre. She woed about missing out on the opportunity at the time, in a joking manner, but Beep still made the trek up to Emerald Farm. It took some time to express his intent, and then even longer to inform Lewis of the plan as well, but before the end of the year, Susan would be taking over selling the produce from Avalon Farm. Pelican Town still knew it was Beep's hard work at play, but should anything be sold out of town, Susan was credited for the deer's anonymity.

If this was how Pierre acted publicly, his mistreatment of his wife and 'daughter' a poorly kept secret, how bad did he act when nobody was around? (And that didn't even get into why Caroline didn't, or couldn't, leave him, even before seeking comfort elsewhere years ago and having Abigail.) If Pierre would wait until he became the sole food supplier in town to hike his prices up, what else did he intend to do?

Bastard.

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Things different from canon; (AU???)
Gramps never had an heir, or they never show/ed up.
Stardew Valley Expanded; new maps, new NPCs, new events, a LOT of new stuff.
The new “Farmer” is just a Weird Ass Deer. NPCs will respond/react accordingly.

This is my first time playing Stardew Valley Expanded. Please no spoilers if you play SVE.