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"To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole."
-- Josef Pieper
"One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights."
-- Rajneesh
"The Unknown, Unpredictable Change"
Story Date: Saturday, September 26, 2015
Summary: Ansel visits a Renaissance Faire and helps find a missing girl.
Worth mentioning is that the variety is much wider in Terramagne-American faires than it is in Local-American faires, although the latter have diversified more in recent years. What we have here are mostly generic English Renaissance faires, with some medieval, some French or Highland events, and a few pirate or fantasy ones. T-America has Renaissance faires of many countries -- which means they spread over that whole time period, because the Renaissance arrived at different times in different places. Pirate faires are enormously popular, and fantasy ones are well known. Ethnic faires often network with Sankofa Clubs, such as the occasional African or Egyptian event.
Meadowsweet Faire in Shaker Pine, MN (mid-late summer)
Breton Faire in Onion City, WI (early-mid autumn)
Lyonesse Faire in River City, MO (late autumn)
(This used to be a spring faire.)
Midwinter Faire in Bluehill, MO (early winter)
Roustabout is an occupational term. Traditionally, it referred to a worker with broad-based, non-specific skills. In particular, it was used to describe show or circus workers who put up tents and booths on fairgrounds.
Quest Givers
Many faires in Terramagne-America have Quest Givers, generally dressed as wizards or fairies, who hand out small scrolls with instructions. Some are more challenging than others, either sorted by age/ability or by request. Often they involve small good deeds, such as finding a piece of trash and putting it in the nearest can. There are prizes for completing a quest, and small ones can be traded up for larger ones. People interested in questing as a hobby can get a page to be stamped with completed quests -- filling that whole page takes work, so the prizes for it are big. Other faire workers hide "treasures" around the faire, some meant to be kept and others meant to be redeemed. They're all either biodegradable (like the wooden coins) or environmentally safe (like the melted marbles). Merchants distributing redeemable tokens often have a basic free sample available to everyone, and a nicer free sample for people redeeming a token. This example of a quest scroll and some treasures is from the Sherwood Forest Faire, which in T-America is the Locksley Faire.
Quest Giver Treasures
Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck.
Blue Glass Jewels
Spiral Cage Pendants
"What I Choose to Become"
Story Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Summary: Turq learns about some proposals for what to do with the former Umsetzung Compound.
"To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole."
-- Josef Pieper
"One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights."
-- Rajneesh
"The Unknown, Unpredictable Change"
Story Date: Saturday, September 26, 2015
Summary: Ansel visits a Renaissance Faire and helps find a missing girl.
Worth mentioning is that the variety is much wider in Terramagne-American faires than it is in Local-American faires, although the latter have diversified more in recent years. What we have here are mostly generic English Renaissance faires, with some medieval, some French or Highland events, and a few pirate or fantasy ones. T-America has Renaissance faires of many countries -- which means they spread over that whole time period, because the Renaissance arrived at different times in different places. Pirate faires are enormously popular, and fantasy ones are well known. Ethnic faires often network with Sankofa Clubs, such as the occasional African or Egyptian event.
Meadowsweet Faire in Shaker Pine, MN (mid-late summer)
Breton Faire in Onion City, WI (early-mid autumn)
Lyonesse Faire in River City, MO (late autumn)
(This used to be a spring faire.)
Midwinter Faire in Bluehill, MO (early winter)
Roustabout is an occupational term. Traditionally, it referred to a worker with broad-based, non-specific skills. In particular, it was used to describe show or circus workers who put up tents and booths on fairgrounds.
Quest Givers
Many faires in Terramagne-America have Quest Givers, generally dressed as wizards or fairies, who hand out small scrolls with instructions. Some are more challenging than others, either sorted by age/ability or by request. Often they involve small good deeds, such as finding a piece of trash and putting it in the nearest can. There are prizes for completing a quest, and small ones can be traded up for larger ones. People interested in questing as a hobby can get a page to be stamped with completed quests -- filling that whole page takes work, so the prizes for it are big. Other faire workers hide "treasures" around the faire, some meant to be kept and others meant to be redeemed. They're all either biodegradable (like the wooden coins) or environmentally safe (like the melted marbles). Merchants distributing redeemable tokens often have a basic free sample available to everyone, and a nicer free sample for people redeeming a token. This example of a quest scroll and some treasures is from the Sherwood Forest Faire, which in T-America is the Locksley Faire.
Quest Giver Treasures
Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck.
Blue Glass Jewels
Spiral Cage Pendants
"What I Choose to Become"
Story Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Summary: Turq learns about some proposals for what to do with the former Umsetzung Compound.
