Ok, don’t shoot the messenger on this.

 I’ve begun to notice some things about faire that worry me.

 1)      We’ve become too comfortable with each other.

2)      We’re forgetting “The Show” at times

3)      We’ve become too complacent

4)      We’ve become comfortable doing things OOC.

Let’s look at this one line at a time:

1)      We’ve become too comfortable with each other.  Basically, we’ve created the best damned friendship and family network in the world.  We know each other, we love each other.  Unfortunately, that means we tend to be TOO familiar with each other.  I KNOW

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2)      We’re forgetting “The Show” at times.  I cannot count the number of times I see nobles without servants or escorts.  This is across the board.  Middles alone or with a partner/husband is fine, peasants are everywhere and often underfoot, but to see a wall of velvets with no servants ruins the effect.  Also, seeing one or two noble ladies without an escort or a servant actually gives me heebie jeebies.  I don't even know why, and I want to escort them back home as a middle class woman.  I feel weird having them loose on the streets.  This also applies to people doing things, or asking others to do things COMPLETELY out of character.  (Finish line crap)  Why didn’t they grab a peasant, like

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3)      We’ve become too complacent.  We’ve come to expect to treat each other in a certain way from the friendliness we have, and we forget that we CAN’T act that way, yet we do it and get use to doing it, and can’t figure out how to stop. This ties into the OOC thing

4)      We’ve become comfortable doing things OOC (out of character for you non gamers).  I keep reading about finding Ladies in the Bell, I keep finding peasants sitting near the queen, I keep finding just weird things that feel out of sorts for me and sometimes I can’t place my finger on it.

If we become too complacent, the quality of our show degrades.  Customers see us as pretty with no depth (I hope not, but I could see it happening)

If I am WAY off base, tell me here.  I’m really worried about this, because I love my family and don’t want to lose it.

Ok-

This weekend, The Older Brother (tm) is coming up. He's gatelisting with poor

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 for both weekends (I thkink Derek the dumbass discussed it with him for both).  He's gonna be either in Talisen's old costume or in Derek's oldies (you know, the original set).


Anyway, we're a treat for the poor boy. He spends all YEAR talking about how he's going to get to come up and "do faire". He's a bit stuck in the middle of nowhere (he lives in the true ass end of space in the desert) so we're kinda the highlight of his year.

Saturday is his 35th birthday.  He will basically be surgically grafted to Derek's hip in the privateer's hijinks.

Please, please, please feel free to torment the hell out of him.  He's getting language crash course from Collin, Derek and I for three days, and we're teaching him the reverances, stuff like that.  I may force him to dance up at Ives if peregrinjohn is willing to get us a dance set with Marsha.

Here he is in costume so you can recognize him, even if you don't see Derek...