Impeding Idyllwildry!

A most wizardly Wednesday to ye, mortals! This Friday, we still broadcast as e’er—but ‘twill be an especial BEHIND-THE-SCENES STREAM! For Summersbane & I journey back up the berg once more to the Idyllwild Renaissance Faire!

After a harrowing couple of weeks, we surely could use a wonderful weekend up in the mountain air! If ye join us, I prepared a few DO et NOT-DO items, as helpful reminders:

• HUZZAH to those who enter the faire ready to embrace strangeness, silliness, & singular hand-crafted entertainments!

• BOO, FIEND to those who enter the faire ready to harangue, harass, or be neo-Nazis.

• HUZZAH to those who carry hard cash in their purses! While faires offer many joys gratis—& many vendors now accept cybernetic payment—further delights await those who arm wisely with coin.

• BOO, FIEND to those who carry no coin, then explode with rage when they encounter an ale-stand or knife-stall who request coin, & become so angry that they must be teleported off of the faire-grounds. These sorts of fiends also happen often to be neo-Nazis, in my experience.

• HUZZAH to those who arrive at the faire dressed as they wish! Whether in fantasy costumes, or bevested as Spock, or in pyjamas, or in magnificent period garb from across the globe as may have been worn by thine ancestors—’tis a place for cosplay & comfort, with room for all. Or, almost all…

• BOO, FIEND to those who arrive at the faire dressed as neo-Nazis! It turns out that most of the worst fiends at faires, are neo-Nazis, Klansmen, MAGA cultists, & so forth. COINCIDENCE…? Nay.

• HUZZAH to those who bring characters & games of their own, growing the faire’s spirit & power with their creativity!

• HUZZAH to those who parlay with the guild-folk, learning of their world’s history, & filling their minds with the power of edu-tainment!

• HUZZAH to those who attend entertainments, allowing artisans to touch their souls, filling their ears with real art crafted in the moment!

• & finally, HUZZAH to those who consume plenty of water!

• & finally, BOO, FIEND to those who drink no water, & instead, consume an entire sphere of some horrid potion called “BUZZBALL BIGGIE,” clearly meant to be shared, containing lethal amounts of caffeine & alcohol, combined with an entire mushroom, rendering themselves both so incoherent yet so powerful that an entire team of paramedics must restrain them. That person was, at least, not a neo-Nazi.

Thank ye for reading, mortals! & thank ye to all who support our works here with coin!

The InstaGoblins shall publish our faire schedule Thursday via our social media accounts—the schedule is still, I am told, being worked upon. And, I shall write ye here in the Scriptorium on Saturday night with images & tales from the first day of Idyllwild! ’Til then, be safe, be well, & see ye on the mountain…

Cheers,
Amoenus Franco
Wizard, Writer, Excited