Hannucano

            The residents of a small town have never particularly minded the oil company drilling illegally in the mountain range where they reside, but they also haven’t been aware of the companies practices, drilling a new hole each time one runs dry and never bothering to properly seal the previous holes.  They’re nine holes in when tectonic plates shift and one of the abandoned holes turns into a small volcano, spewing lava that wipes out power lines in the distant woods, cutting off power to the small town and presenting the parents to tell the allegorical story of how the Macabees survived eight days with nothing but candle oil.

            On day two workers go out to fix the power lines and are trapped when a second drill site ruptures.  By day three people want to leave town, but another volcano erupts blocking off roads into the city.  A town meeting is held and the people of the city realize that if this isn’t stopped, eventually the nearest site to the city will burst and destroy everything and probably everyone.  Of course the oil company, far away in the woods on another hole is completely oblivious to all of this.

            So the townspeople set out to find the oil company, and they decide that they must work together to build a pressurized bomb out of oil which they will then use to collapse an unoccupied area farther into the mountains, thus relieving pressure from the lava flow and saving their small town.  Time consuming as these tasks would already be, they are made more difficult as the townspeople must keep moving their base of operations to avoid newly erupted spurts of lava.