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Febuary 3rd, 2016
6pm FST
Hosted by Aine Sidhe and Isnelx
What do you get when you twist normality, mock the system and mix in a dash of magic?...
The Festival of Freaks!
The festival has been designed for all to enjoy as people in masks and costumes will fill the streets in celebration of a different reality. Twisting the very concept of normality and expectations! This is also a grand opportunity for supernaturals of the city to come out and play as their true selves. To mix and mingle with the mundane freely in their true forms (much like Halloween.) It is a day where that distinguished line between the two worlds fades within the borders of the festival as all appear to be the same.
The evening will be host to many shenanigans and tomfoolery as the nominated King or Queen begins the festival by leading a parade of floats made by local businesses from the city through the streets. The King/Queen will be given beaded necklaces and doubloons to throw to the crowd around them, participants are advised to keep these treasures close as they will come in handy later.
During the festival there will be catered food provided by The Crimson Dagger, Petite Sucre, The Chop Shop and other various local shops. While music and people will fill the streets, there will be several small events taking place. One such event will be hosted by Ameline DuBois as she performs a live fire show for the freaks and fools who have come to gather. Cabinet of Curiosities will also be providing tarot readings as an entertainment venue. As the evening carries on there will a special event that will require the beads and doubloons that were tossed around earlier during the parade.
Costumes and/or masks are required for this festival!
Festival Registration and Activities
Please read the information below and make sure to follow the guidelines before registering for the event.
This forum will be locked and all registrations must be done by January 31st.
All nominations and float registrations will be done through replies to this forum.
Please read the information below and make sure to follow the guidelines before registering for the event.
This forum will be locked and all registrations must be done by January 31st.
All nominations and float registrations will be done through replies to this forum.
Nominating the King/Queen
All nominations will be tracked and updated below, please remember that all nominees must be available during the duration of the event. Feel free to nominate your own characters or someone else, just remember that if you're nominating another person to consult them first to make sure they will be able to attend the event.
If for some reason the nominated King or Queen cannot attend the event, the runner up will take the throne on the first float!
The King/Queen nominations will be voted upon by junior staff who will get 2 votes each.
King/ Queen Nominees
Aiden ta Aesin
Danalise
Noah
Mahntis
Ameline
Pookah
Flirting
Logan / Paxton
Adney Hack
Parade Floats
Locals, friends and business owners, get your 'Krewe' together! Get together and create a float for the 'King or Queen' so they may arrive in style for the festival! The floats should be decorative and reflect some kind of theme (Food, monsters, music, nature, etc.)
The ruling King/Queen of the festival will be allowed to choose their favorite float and will ride it first through the parade! During the event players that attend will be allowed to post an introduction for their float if they choose to, following the first float and introduction of the King/Queen.
Float Registrations should include...
â—‹ Character attending / participating
â—‹ Company / Theme
â—‹ Brief description of the float. (Images optional)
Fire Station Float
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Logan , Richerd, Raphyaul, and others from the department.
â—‹ Company / Theme
New Versailles Fire Department
â—‹ Brief description of the float. (Images optional)
Led by the chief's vehicle in front, the fire department's "float" is a company fire engine, strung up in lights, and a banner on each side representing Station 34. With Richerd, Raphayul, and the rest of the probies, looking like they've just stepped out of a firefighter's calendar. Possibly dancing.
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Logan , Richerd, Raphyaul, and others from the department.
â—‹ Company / Theme
New Versailles Fire Department
â—‹ Brief description of the float. (Images optional)
Led by the chief's vehicle in front, the fire department's "float" is a company fire engine, strung up in lights, and a banner on each side representing Station 34. With Richerd, Raphayul, and the rest of the probies, looking like they've just stepped out of a firefighter's calendar. Possibly dancing.
Ferry's Float
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Adney Hack/Paxton/Greg (npced), other peoples if they wanna join
â—‹ Company / Theme
Ferry 'Cross the Mersey
â—‹ Brief description of the float.
Totally done by hand; crude, but the kickin' music and the band makes up for that, right?? The float's either on the band's old graffiti schoolbus-turned-tourbus, or some other junker that they nabbed from god-knows-where. In any case, it looks like everything's been pieced together with music-related things: parts of instruments, amps, cords, music stands, speakers, etc. Most of it thrown-away stuff from schools or other places, so it's already a little used, and it won't matter if it gets thrown around a bit.
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Adney Hack/Paxton/Greg (npced), other peoples if they wanna join
â—‹ Company / Theme
Ferry 'Cross the Mersey
â—‹ Brief description of the float.
Totally done by hand; crude, but the kickin' music and the band makes up for that, right?? The float's either on the band's old graffiti schoolbus-turned-tourbus, or some other junker that they nabbed from god-knows-where. In any case, it looks like everything's been pieced together with music-related things: parts of instruments, amps, cords, music stands, speakers, etc. Most of it thrown-away stuff from schools or other places, so it's already a little used, and it won't matter if it gets thrown around a bit.
The Chop Shop Float
Witiko, Cordovan, Paranoid Floyd (Possibly Treble Cleff/Hack)
The Chop Shop's Bayou of Plenty
Exotic creatures of the Bayou = Good Noms
The gang at the Chop Shop will be announcing the winner of the New Sandwich Contest and handing out samples of it to the crowd along with shots of espresso. The float itself will be a giant retrofitted pontoon boat dragged on a trailer and decked out with paper mache, spanish moss, scores of gold and green bead necklaces, and leaves to form massive willow and cypress trees looming over a swamp's shoreline. Half of the boat's platform will be cut and lowered and fitted with a giant tub holding alcoholic jungle juice (swamp water) with frozen fruit fish, ice frogs made from green and brown dyed water, giant gummy snakes, beef jerky cattails, and cheese straw reeds. A bear and gator will be warring on the half in and half out of the water while same game birds hide in bushes, a wild board seems to be sniffing for truffles, a family of rabbits hide peek out of their warren, an owl lurks, deer drink from the water, and neon green lightning bugs made from LED lights twinkle off and on. Between the bear and gator there will be a nylon woven chair with a fishing pole and cooler of beer in case the King/Queen picks the float.
All animals will be made from sugar glass in geometric 3D shapes and within you'll see a heart also made of sugar but there will be lights within that pulse at the same heart rate that said animals do. Colors will rotate and no two animals will have the same heart color at once.
Chop Shop Employees will wear the same sort of designs as masks on their heads representing either their favorite animal or favorite... flavor of animal.
Witiko, Cordovan, Paranoid Floyd (Possibly Treble Cleff/Hack)
The Chop Shop's Bayou of Plenty
Exotic creatures of the Bayou = Good Noms
The gang at the Chop Shop will be announcing the winner of the New Sandwich Contest and handing out samples of it to the crowd along with shots of espresso. The float itself will be a giant retrofitted pontoon boat dragged on a trailer and decked out with paper mache, spanish moss, scores of gold and green bead necklaces, and leaves to form massive willow and cypress trees looming over a swamp's shoreline. Half of the boat's platform will be cut and lowered and fitted with a giant tub holding alcoholic jungle juice (swamp water) with frozen fruit fish, ice frogs made from green and brown dyed water, giant gummy snakes, beef jerky cattails, and cheese straw reeds. A bear and gator will be warring on the half in and half out of the water while same game birds hide in bushes, a wild board seems to be sniffing for truffles, a family of rabbits hide peek out of their warren, an owl lurks, deer drink from the water, and neon green lightning bugs made from LED lights twinkle off and on. Between the bear and gator there will be a nylon woven chair with a fishing pole and cooler of beer in case the King/Queen picks the float.
All animals will be made from sugar glass in geometric 3D shapes and within you'll see a heart also made of sugar but there will be lights within that pulse at the same heart rate that said animals do. Colors will rotate and no two animals will have the same heart color at once.
Chop Shop Employees will wear the same sort of designs as masks on their heads representing either their favorite animal or favorite... flavor of animal.
Film Float
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Rennae, Rooks, Hanson (volunteers?)
â—‹ Company / Theme
Cinema Fantasie / Hollywood
â—‹ Brief description of the float.
Everyone on the float will be dressed in an exaggeration of Red Carpet's best (suits, unique gowns), with the addition of masks.
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Rennae, Rooks, Hanson (volunteers?)
â—‹ Company / Theme
Cinema Fantasie / Hollywood
â—‹ Brief description of the float.
Everyone on the float will be dressed in an exaggeration of Red Carpet's best (suits, unique gowns), with the addition of masks.
Surprise Event
Participants will be approached by a chaotic group of creatures who can only be warded off by offerings of the treasures from the parade that were tossed from the floats. Dice will be rolled by those approached to determine if their offerings are sufficient. If the creatures are satisfied you will be spared by their curse, however if the offerings are refused dice shall be rolled again to determine the effect of the curse placed upon the player.
When approached players must offer the creatures a treasure from the parade and roll 1d2 to determine if their offering will be accepted.
1 - Spared
2 - Cursed
If the player rolls 2 they must then roll 1d4 to determine which curse they will instantly suffer from.
(Each curse lasts only an hour.)
1 - You have the sudden desire to kiss the first stranger you see. Try as you might, resistance is futile.
2 - You begin to change into the very thing you're dressed up as! (Humans effected by this curse will not remember the transition once returned to normal.)
3 - Your lips cannot resist and you suddenly find yourself publicly confess something embarrassing.
4 - You cannot lie and find yourself speaking the blunt truth during your conversations.
Attendees
Expect to see the following faces in attendance:
You might also see the following faces there:
Event Comments
- Yesss!!! Thank you guys and gals for coming out! We had such an amazing turn out that we might just make this annual thing! In fact I'm 90% sure we will, lol. Big thank you to the parade participants, our King the performers and the caterers! Most of all though, thank you to all the amazing community members that showed up for this event and participated in all of the shenanigans!
Of course I have to give major props to Aine for coming up with the idea behind the heart of the festival! You make beautiful brain babies!
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I want to give a HUGE shout out to everyone who participated! I could not believe the numbers, both who showed up and joined in! You all were amazing. From Torin and Mathers, Roxx to Mahntis, Treb to Kel, Ame, Kir, Enise and so so many more (Including the awesome Inselx!) Thank ya'll for making this such a spectacular event.
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Don't forget Ferry's float!
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Come onnnn I work both jobs that day boooo
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Floats have been registered! Nominations are listed!
We'd like to thank everyone for your participation and we'll see you all at the Festival! -
Nominations are Closed! Thank you all for tossing out all these awesome nominees our way! Now...to wait while the Judges make their choice!
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Liebe will attend - She can't promise to come as her human self, but she will go.
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The final hours are approaching! Get in any final nominations and event floats!
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FLOAT REGISTRATION
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Rennae, Rooks, Hanson (volunteers?)
â—‹ Company / Theme
Cinema Fantasie / Hollywood
â—‹ Brief description of the float.
Everyone on the float will be dressed in an exaggeration of Red Carpet's best (suits, unique gowns), with the addition of masks. -
(Grumbles about comment length)
Anyways, some pictures for reference.
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Witiko, Cordovan, Paranoid Floyd (Possibly Treble Cleff/Hack)
The Chop Shop's Bayou of Plenty
Exotic creatures of the Bayou = Good Noms
The gang at the Chop Shop will be announcing the winner of the New Sandwich Contest and handing out samples of it to the crowd along with shots of espresso. The float itself will be a giant retrofitted pontoon boat dragged on a trailer and decked out with paper mache, spanish moss, scores of gold and green bead necklaces, and leaves to form massive willow and cypress trees looming over a swamp's shoreline. Half of the boat's platform will be cut and lowered and fitted with a giant tub holding alcoholic jungle juice (swamp water) with frozen fruit fish, ice frogs made from green and brown dyed water, giant gummy snakes, beef jerky cattails, and cheese straw reeds. A bear and gator will be warring on the half in and half out of the water while same game birds hide in bushes, a wild board seems to be sniffing for truffles, a family of rabbits hide peek out of their warren, an owl lurks, deer drink from the water, and neon green lightning bugs made from LED lights twinkle off and on. Between the bear and gator there will be a nylon woven chair with a fishing pole and cooler of beer in case the King/Queen picks the float.
All animals will be made from sugar glass in geometric 3D shapes and within you'll see a heart also made of sugar but there will be lights within that pulse at the same heart rate that said animals do. Colors will rotate and no two animals will have the same heart color at once.
Chop Shop Employees will wear the same sort of designs as masks on their heads representing either their favorite animal or favorite... flavor of animal. -
FLOAT REGISTRATION:
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Adney Hack/Paxton/Greg (npced), other peoples if they wanna join
â—‹ Company / Theme
Ferry 'Cross the Mersey
â—‹ Brief description of the float. (Images optional)
Totally done by hand; crude, but the kickin' music and the band makes up for that, right?? The float's either on the band's old graffitied schoolbus-turned-tourbus, or some other junker that they nabbed from god-knows-where. In any case, it looks like everything's been pieced together with music-related things: parts of instruments, amps, cords, music stands, speakers, etc. Most of it thrown-away stuff from schools or other places, so it's already a little used, and it won't matter if it gets thrown around a bit. -
May as well do it the proper way:
FLOAT REGISTRATION:
â—‹ Character attending / participating
Logan , Richerd, Raphyaul, and others from the department.
â—‹ Company / Theme
New Versailles Fire Department
â—‹ Brief description of the float. (Images optional)
Led by the chief's vehicle in front, the fire department's "float" is a company fire engine, strung up in lights, and a banner on each side representing Station 34. With Richerd, Raphayul, and the rest of the probies, looking like they've just stepped out of a firefighter's calendar. Possibly dancing. -
Also: The Fire Department is going to submit a float. Based around one of the engines, decorated with New Versailles 'colors or some shit, and the banner of the department.
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Well if Hack is going to nominate Pax, I revoke my nomination to nominate Hack!
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My last post was a joke by the way, not for real nomination~
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I nominate the
GrinchAdney Hack. -
Ah! If it works like this, I nominate Pax too xD
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Updated!
ONLY THREE DAYS LEFT BEFORE NOMINATIONS AND REGISTRATIONS CLOSE!
We're still highly encouraging people to register floats for the parade! -
If you can nominate your own character, I nominate Paxton.
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Isnelx
February 3rd 2016
10:09pm