[Steppes] Artisan considerations.(long)

[Jessica Smith]

Those all sound really neat to me. What all would it take to encourage the
right people at the right time under the right phase of jupiter's moon?
*grins* no seriously. How do we get something like this started back up in
the Steppes?
Yours,
Adelina


On 4/25/07, willowjonbardc at juno.com <willowjonbardc at juno.com> wrote:
>
> Because in those  days we didn't think in official and unofficial
> events those little events were just as much of "an event" as Warlord.
> The barony would help us with funds. Most of the time they made money.
> We had people come from all over the place for them. Usually they were
> paid for by the crew that did them. The sponsoring group was anywhere
> from 6 to 10 People. Joycelin really liked doing everything herself.
> The rest of us would hang around and when she needed more people jump
> in.
> I worked on a lot of those events. I remember buying chickens and
> stuff out of my weekly food budget. We would all pitch in some money
> and even if the event lost money we would get part of our money back.
> This was wonderful. It was like an income tax return.
>
> One of my favorite event like that was a 150 person Saint Crispin
> feast put on by Mistress Aurelian and Mistress Branywn. It had  some
> other people in charge, but I am sorry to say I have forgotten them.
> There were 12 courses based on the signs of the Zodiac. I was Libra. I
> was also in charge of serving. I had 8 servers and we could serve the
> 150 in 10 minutes. We also changed the color of our tabards for each
> course. The food was great. Ragnar was a centaur. He looked real.
> Mistress Branywn had made the horse part.  I missed most of the signs
> because I was busy changing tabards.
>
> I would be willing to work on your event if we could get enough people
> to support it. Your event sound like fun. Maybe we could start small
> and had a fete in someones backyard.
>
> I would like to see a plague party or a Banned by the church party. We
> did an Aesop fable masque in someone backyard in Elfsea and it was
> fun. I might be inspired to do a couple of wall hangings for that. We
> did a faerie court a couple of times and that was also fun. We tried a
> Japanese Moon viewing, but that was too Zen for me because the night
> we tried there was no moon. We drank sake and wrote poems. We thought
> they were great. I think because of the sake
> I always wanted to do a Lamas day party with a bread tasting. Of
> course that is the same day as Lugh, but we could have on some other
> weekend then Aug. the first. I think we had an Irish cehida(can't find
> proper spelling-- an Irish Party)  somewhere that I have lived  and it
> was fun. It  had a dead body and we all made fantastic toast to the
> fictional person. I was at another little event at a persons house
> were we moved all the furniture out and turned off all the lights we
> had Irish stew and bread on wooden bowls and sat on pillows and
> benches and hay?? and told Irish stories. The person running the event
> welcomed us to his small home. He spoke with a really thick Irish
> accent and explained that normally with guests everyone would be naked
> but because we were foreigner that they would not do that unless we
> wanted to. We had a man running from a lord, who we hid and the lords
> men busting through the room. It was lots of fun. We had receptions
> for visiting nobility and at one sponsored by Viscountess Megan a
> plague rat was found and we all ran out of the building. It was funny
> to watch Mistress Megan face. We did a late period gambling den. With
> cards games and dice and a fight between ladies of the evening. I had
> to come in my latter period persona ( Mary Katherine Anna Louise
> Sullivan Caldal Barrnet)  because I (willow de wisp) did not have
> costume for event.
>
> Someone was going to have a feast in a bathhouse, but I didn't get
> invited to that. I think they thought I was too stuffy. I am pretty
> sure that didn't happen unless the Valar did it.
>
> All of these, except St. Crispin, happen in someone house or backyard
> and the gambling den happened in an Apt. We did do a Crusader Tavern
> in a club house of an Apt. building.
>
> willow
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