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Prologue

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BASIC FACTS
 
Involves 30 pilgrims.
 
They are traveling to St.Thomas A'Beckett's Shrine in Canterbury.
 
The setting was picked because it would have been the only time alll of society would have been together.
 
The pilgrims traveled from Tabard Inn.
 
Each pilgrim will tell two tales, one up and one back.
 
Whoever tells the best story will buy dinner when they return.
 
The tales told on the way back are never mentioned because Chaucer died before completing them.

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