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Save Our Earth Mods ([personal profile] ourearth) wrote in [community profile] saveourearth2019-05-26 10:25 pm

Curiouser and curiouser [Mingle]

Date: May 26th-June 2nd
Characters:OPEN
Note: Like all welcome mingles, this is a SoL free-for-all mingle meant to get new characters involved by centering around something relevant to them. Without further ado, please welcome Rune Vollan!


The weather is beautiful, approaching twenty and mostly sunny, and it's just perfect for the literature festival that takes part in Mossgate every year. A full week - or rather, 8 days - fully packed of all kinds of literary activities and events awaits.

It starts on Sunday with festivities on the Greens that involve all kinds of local groups putting things on the stage set up near the bandstand - choirs, orchestras, theatre groups, dance groups, and more, both professional and high quality amateur productions. Food stalls are littered around the area, and various booths sell, inform about, or simply exhibit various literature related things. There's also a storytelling tent set up near the ruins catering to children during the day and to adults in the evening and half through the night.

Then all throughout the week there are all kinds of things offerend around Mossgate council. Local artists of all walks, ranging from paper artists to dollmakers, from painters to theatre groups and from singers to circus troupes have been offered all kinds of unusual places to bring literature to new backgrounds. There might be a Shakespearean play on the ruins, or an art exhibition on the pleasure pier, a concert in the zoo or a storytime in the Mayor's office (for all the little ones).

There are also Drag Queen Story Hours at the library, bars and pubs and bookstore offer readings of established as well as young up-and-coming authors, and Tarwich town hall has been turned into an interactive exhibition on Shakespeare.

The Manor House, of course, offers something very specifically themed on the Saturday of the festival. As it was the setting of the world famous book "Ann in the Curious Garden" and the sequel "Between the Mirrors", it always has an Ann-themed day during the literature festival. Every artist, no matter what their art be, who wishes to contribute is welcome and put up art or put on a performace in the Manor gardens or the open-to-the-public parts of the house itself. So there is a children's ballet performing in stork costumes, a magician performing themed tricks, there's many artworks ranging from small children's drawings to artful adult paintings hung up in the manor corridors, and much more. And, as every year, the hunt for the dodo is on: Somewhere in the grounds and public areas of the house, a stuffed dodo has been hidden. Whoever finds it will get a free years pass to the zoo.


[note: Ann in the Curious Garden is an expy of Alice in Wonderland. Think along the lines of storks instead of flamingos, and such. Just so different enough.]
faimommy: (:D)

Timeskip it is.

[personal profile] faimommy 2019-06-10 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
After the performance is over, Rune is chatting with his fellow troupe members, who all seemed to be having a good time and congratulating each other on another success. And when Rune can, he pulls himself away from the troupe, keeping an eye out for Walter. When he spots him, he tries to wave him down as he heads his way.

"Ey! Therrs mah guud luck charm! Did yuu ehnjoy th'show?"

(Hey! There's my good luck charm! Did you enjoy the show?) Rune looks positively thrilled at getting to hear his friend's feedback.
Edited (I forgot to add the translation, whoops!) 2019-06-10 00:29 (UTC)
iamnotgod: A man, smiling and holding a book. (When He Smiles.)

Thanks! <3

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-06-10 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Walter picks out the gesture easily, and makes his way through the thinning crowd, waving in return all the while.

"'Good luck charm' is debatable, but your show was wonderful," he replies cheekily.

"You really brought out the character dynamics, in this edition. Not everyone seeks to give the long-lasting characters depth."
faimommy: (:D)

Sorry it took me forever to get back to this. If you want to handwave, just let me know!

[personal profile] faimommy 2019-07-04 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Rune smiles brightly at the praise.

"Ah, yer ah fla'erer! But ahm greytful ahl theh sehm. Ii iis mah fevrit pleh, so ii gets ah bit ahf extreh attenshin frum meh. Ahll uupdeht ii frum time ti time."

(Ah, you're a flatterer! But I'm grateful all the same. It is my favourite play, so it gets a bit of extra attention from me. I'll update it from time to time.) Rune winks.

"Well, ahr yuu gon'na show ah guy aroond? Ah've nefer seen this fehst'val befir."

(Well, are you going to show a guy around? I've never seen this festival before.) Rune holds out his hand - he's not sure if Walter will or won't take it, but he definitely would like to be shown around by someone who knows the ropes here.