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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.]
dragoonrouge: (Sadie Excited)

[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2019-06-22 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadie looks over at Rune, a wide, triumphant smile on her face at having been granted petting privileges by the cat, "Mocha! What a lovely name for such a handsome cat!" She exclaims and starts to expertly scratch Mocha's ears.

"Ah, I'll admit I haven't looked yet, I was distracted by this one," Sadie admits sheepishly, "That's very kind of you though. Is Mocha yours?"
Edited 2019-06-22 13:25 (UTC)
faimommy: (la lala!)

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 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Mocha purrs as loud as a motorboat and flops over onto the counter, begging for more pets. It's the good life for a cat.

Rune's grin widens, as he glances at the stock, making sure there's plenty of each for the displays.

"Mocha iis th'troupe's mascat! He belungs t'eferbuddy, but ah am th'one that ushely tehkes him home aht th'end uf th'dey."

(Mocha is the troupe's mascat! He belongs to everybody, but I am the one that usually takes him home at the end of the day.)

A beat and Rune chuckles.

"Mehbe ah shuud make fehri pluushies uf Mocha. Think they wuud sell?"

(Maybe I should make faerie plushies of Mocha. Think they would sell?)