Sheer Necessity

Where the two rivers met, a small town had risen up, just out of sheer necessity. You needed to have people with the skills and equipment to fix boats in emergency situations. A boat gets stuck in the middle of one busy river, that's bad enough. Block two of them? You can count the money lost every second.

But you have people like that living somewhere, you need people to feed and clothe and sleep with them. Sheer necessity begats sheer necessity.

So it made sense the town was called Necessity.

Until the bar owner became mayor and renamed it.