Medieval World!

[cityship]

Medieval World was one of the largest year-round renaissance faires in the multiverse.

Minstrels and bards wandered the streets, vendors sold ridiculously overpriced period clothing, jewelry, weapons, and turkey legs as big as a human's head, and the royal court mingled with the commoners. There were events everywhere: falconers, magicians, belly dancing, hypnotists, weapons competitions including swords, axes, maces, and bows, camel rides, Washing Well Wenches, fake jousting on wooden 'horses' suspended on ropes, and real jousting.

As was typical of these sorts of events, anachronicity was everywhere, as were patrons in all sorts of fantasy costumes.

Join in the fun!

[OOC: Add things if you want, and go for it!

Also, if anyone wants to win a flower for their lady from the Wenches, contact Shae for NPCing. >:3]

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Sword fighting

[stormfall-aqua.livejournal.com]

Aqua looked on the sword competition, impressed. Years of training had given her a good eye for technique. While the various styles she saw were different from what she had trained with and seen from her friends and Master, she could recognize the skill.

"They're pretty good," she said. "Wonder if I should enter."

It had been a long time since she'd taken up something other than her Keyblade and just had a fun competition.

Re: Sword fighting

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl had decided she would pop in here, turkey leg in her hand as she gnawed with reckless abandon. She knew it looked unseemly but damn it she was hungry, and hungry caused her to lose some of her more polite ways.

Sword fighting! Now there was something that was right up her alley! She swallowed hurriedly and tossed the remaining part aside, watching anxiously. Yup, there was no doubt where she was going now: the compulsion to do something like this was simply too much of a temptation.

"Sigh me up!"

Re: Sword fighting

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

Aqua vaguely recognized Hit Girl as one of Sasami's friends, and she knew that the girl was a fighter. But she hadn't expected this.

"Have you used a sword before?" she asked, genuinely surprised. "There aren't too many on the ship who have, I don't think."

Re: Sword fighting

[swordofdorn.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good for mortals, I suppose." Growls a gigantic figure, himself rather anachronistic in his power armor that is shaped to look like that of a medieval knight, even down to the black cross on his tabard, though the low hum of servomotors gives the lie to this being any sort of primitive plate armor.

He looks down at Aqua, Erhart's eyeslits burning and red as always, stance impassive. He suspect she is crew, but he really hasn't met her before.

Re: Sword fighting

[stormfall-aqua.livejournal.com]

Aqua wasn't the kind of person to let one rude comment get to her, so she calmly said, "Well, you can tell by their technique that they've done this before, with some kind of training. If they were self-taught, their style would be a little more ragged, but effective, and if they weren't used to it at all, it'd really show. Were you looking to join in?"

Re: Sword fighting

[kandrakar-heart.livejournal.com]

Will couldn't help but grin, moving over towards Aqua. "I'm sure you'd do pretty great, even if you don't use that giant key thing of yours."

Granted, Will couldn't really tell how good they were doing with the swords that she could see, since well, her only experience was on the side of "dodge and don't get cut in half", but Aqua was pretty strong and awesome, so she would probably do fine.

Re: Sword fighting

[stormfall-aqua.livejournal.com]

"Would you like to try?" Aqua asked. "It would be a good chance for you to learn, if you wanted to."

Wizarding Robe Shopping

[hisfathersstaff.livejournal.com]

His old one was trashed from the last battle.

Thus, Negi wanted a new one.

And finding out that there was a Medieval World made more sense. Maybe he could find a nice blue one this time?

Re: Wizarding Robe Shopping

[fanservicesnegi.livejournal.com]

"Hey, baka Negi!" Asuna suddenly exclaimed, arms crossed while eyeing the child-teacher with a faux-annoyed look.

"Don't tell me you forgot the promise you made before we got off the ship...!"

Re: Wizarding Robe Shopping

[hisfathersstaff.livejournal.com]

"Nope I didn't," chuckled Negi, turning towards Asuna. "Shall we get going?"

Wandering around, Nowhere in particular

[handpuppeeet.livejournal.com]

Well, on the plus side, he got to get off that stupid ship.

On the downside....where the heck was he.

Ankh had lived in Europe during a portion of the medieval period and this...What was this? Some of the clothing fit with what he remembered, although the women weren't quite so...abrasive back then, and from what he recalled there had not been street performers that pretended to do magic on the streets. They probably would've gotten killed, now that he thought about it.

And so Ankh shuffled around, watching the crowed and looking utterly perplexed by the anachronism stew.

[alastirra.livejournal.com]

Some things reminded her of Azeroth. The city of Stormwind in particular; humans were always so peculiar about things--only the night elves seemed more so.

Not that Alastirra would do anything but stand out in a crowd of humans, with the purple skin, hooves, and horns. Even if she was doing her best to pass, wearing her chainmail (save for the helmet, because horns and a helmet didn't mix well). She'd availed herself of a turkey leg and was gnawing on it while watching the costumed passersby.

"Not enjoying yourself?" she inquired of the human.

[handpuppeeet.livejournal.com]

Ankh had been watching some nearby street performers (and looking suitably confused) when he realized someone was addressing him. He turned to look at the voice calmly; and when he saw who it belonged to, he jumped a little in surprise. Was she part of this stupid attracted? He definitely didn't remember seeing anything like that before.

"What the hell..?! Just what are you supposed to be?" He's a liiiiittle too stuck on that to answer your question.

you can totally ignore this brah im serious

[greeedycat]

Okay, so Cazali was pretty confused and irritated about the...park. And he would have normally made fun of it and rattled up the employees.

But he had the biggest damn drumstick he had ever seen, and was walking about, trying to figure out how to go about eating it. It didn't matter that he couldn't taste- this was just something that had to be done.

Ye Olde Food-On-A-Stick Vendors

[bonnypiperlad]

Like with any festival, there are bound to be hungry people looking for something to eat, and of course, Medieval World has a wide variety of things to help satisfy their customers. While there are turkey legs and pork pockets a-plenty, of course, there's also some other highly portable foods for the discerning faire-goer to enjoy - namely, food on a stick. There was Steak on a Stake, Cheesecake on a Stick, caramel apples...basically, if some enterprising soul could come up with a way to plant a stick in something to eat, it was there for you to buy.

For once it's the sight of the costumes that have brought Jamie here - he can't remember the last time he's seen so many kilts about, even if most of them seem to be someone's more modern idea of a kilt without any distinctive clan tartan to speak of. And while a good chunk of the people wearing them seem to be inhabiting the pub next door, there's a few in line at a stand which is serving food that smells...well, exactly what he remembers a good chunk of his meals back home in Scotland smelling like. Neeps and tatties, and the unmistakable smell of meat, oats, onions, spices and a few other things simmered together in stock. What isn't familiar, though, is how it's served, and once he gets to the front of the line, Jamie boggles at the server.

"Ye must be having me on. Ye can't possibly have thought of a way to get haggis on a stick!"

Re: Ye Olde Food-On-A-Stick Vendors

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"...what's haggis?" Zouichi was mildly horrified by some of the things he'd seen here. Cheesecake? On a stick? What was wrong with normal, non-stick cheesecake? Hopefully, no one would ever, ever tell him about sausage pancakes on a stick (blueberry flavor) (http://jimmydean.com/products/blueberry-pancakes-sausage-on-a-stick.aspx).

Re: Ye Olde Food-On-A-Stick Vendors

[ron-factor.livejournal.com]

"Sheep guts boiled in it's own stomach." Ron said with a shudder.

Re: Ye Olde Food-On-A-Stick Vendors

[thatsveryhim.livejournal.com]

It really shouldn't be a surprise that on an amusement park planet the Doctor would gravitate somewhere like a Renaissance Faire. It's history so horribly misconstrued it's possible they might actually get some things right. And even if they don't, he always enjoys a good laugh at the inaccuracies.

He's only passing by the stand, nibbling on a chocolate-coated-banana-on-a-stick, but he can't help a detour when he spots Jaime in line. He makes it over to the man just about the time of his outburst. "Well, it's not that challenging, really. Sausage wrap?"

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, and then ye poke a hole in it and it falls apart," Jamie comments dryly. "Although I'll not argue about the idea having merit if ye could work around that part of things."

He grabs his purchase, ducking out of line so as not to slow anyone down. "At least it's a wee bit closer to how it's supposed to be then some of the outfits I've seen here. It's almost as if people can't make up their mind where they're supposed to be from. What brings ye by, Doctor?"

Washing Well Wenches! [Closed]

[governorkang]

Arguably, one of the funniest shows in Medieval World was the Washing Well Wenches. Most of the seats were full ten minutes before it was scheduled to start, a testament to its popularity, and the wenches themselves were on the prowl, scouting out potential victims in the crowd.

Various articles of clothing hung from lines, and on the sides of a large barrel full of water. One of the wenches had pulled a young alien girl from the front to pass out pieces of chocolate, telling her to go for the ones who offered the most money and shouting encouragements. When she ran out of chocolate, she was allowed to keep all the money, and shown the proper way to carry it: in her bra.

Kang found an empty bench and sat down, without a clue as to what the show entailed. All he, Goliath, and Elisa had heard was that it was hilarious, with no details; the short, furred man had worn an odd grin, when suggesting it, though.

Re: Washing Well Wenches! [Closed]

[not_the_philistine]

It seemed odd to Goliath that the young girl was storing her money in a place that, to his knowledge, humans did not often store money. But he had gotten into the habit of giving much of his away on Shore Leave, and he offered the child a hefty sum. The girl seemed like she wanted to object for a moment - but thought better of it and took the money, dashing off to the next customer and leaving them with plenty of chocolate.

Goliath offered some to Elisa. "I wonder if this is an entertainment I should be familiar with. If it is from my time, it did not seem to be the custom in Scotland."

Of course he had no idea what he was in for - he just knew that a Washing Well Wench show didn't sound like anything anyone would have gone to for entertainment in Prince Malcolm's court. Who would want to watch a show about laundry?

Washing Well Wenches - Open to Reactions

[punchedoutdestiny]

Simon was...unsure of what this spectacle was. He was rather unsure about this whole planet, as he'd never encountered a theme park before, and the way Billy had spoken of it made him wary.

This area, though, a lot of it reminded him of his days back in Giha village - simple technologies, if any, save for the rides, simple foods. Everything was rather simple.

He'd seen a lot of people gathering at this area for a ...show of some sort? He wasn't sure, but Yoko had suggested they check it out. Little did he know what waited in there - especially since he stuck out like a sore thumb with that coat...

[thebest-shot.livejournal.com]

Yoko was doing her best to see over the heads of the crowd, a little envious of Simon's height. It was busy, really busy, so it had to be interesting, right? Not that everything else in this place wasn't intriguing.

"C'mon. Maybe we can get a seat." She links her hand with his wrist and does her best to roughly push through everyone around her.

[linsha-majere.livejournal.com]

Linsha and Lord Bight were strolling around the Medieval World Renaissance fair. Linsha couldn't say she felt home here. Too many anachronisms.

"For me, it's as if they took pieces of real world - I mean, OUR real world - and mixed it with many unreal pieces", Linsha whispered to her husband. It was presumed she should have fun here, but she was too fresh in the ship and in all this multiverse to have fun with strange things. Strange, but only here she started to understand how attached she was to her own world. The world that stopped to exist by someone's whim.

There were, of course, a lot of merry shows, but the only interesting ones were sword competitions, and she simply didn't have any mood for this kind of play now.

So far, everything she wanted was to buy some clothes and perhaps some decent armor if there were any. But all the things were ridiculously overpriced and more like playthings than real things. There were, however, some stalls with decent pieces of clothes, there was even a red gown that would be quite good as a formal gown for Linsha, but...

"I haven't earned any money yet," Linsha whispered to Crucible after learning the price and turned to leave. She was regretting going here at all. It was just stupid to go to a fair without money. Certainly Lord Bight had some that she could borrow, but she simply didn't expect THESE prices. "Maybe we'll find another planet with a market with normal prices. So far, I can just go around in my tunic. Even next to your splendour."

[dragonlordbight]

Bight walked alongside her as they walked through the theme park that most resembled the times of Krynn itself. Compared to the other areas it was the least 'strange' on the world dedicated to a vast array entertainment.

"Indeed..it is but poor attempts at recreating a world not unlike our own, it is meant for the entertainment of those who walk it, I do not think accuracy was high on their agendas," He replied easily with a soft smile as he took her hand reassuringly, his attention more on his wife than on the show around them as they walked.

When they arrived at one of the stalls, one with that particular red gown he looked over the price, shaking his head lightly, "All crew members get some allowance for times such as these, and I will see that you do, for now though, wait here a moment, I shall have a word with the owner," He replied before gesturing for her to wait there a moment, a somewhat devious look on his face as he took the gown from its rack and walked over to the stalls owner and preceded to haggle the price the stall owner, of course few could understand the ways of words as a Governor of his experience and soon he returned to Linsha, gown in hand, "This, is yours, and a much more reasonable price. Remember though no matter what you wear though, you are magnificent Linsha,"